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Old 02-18-2011, 05:42 AM
 
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sad to see them go, liked that Jazz listening and martini sipping room. This does open up an opp for someone wanting to open up a martini bar in the Vista as there is now a void as replacement is going a diff direction with it
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If you’ve listened to much radio in Columbia over the past 50 years, chances are you have heard Woody Windham.
Starting March 2, you can party with him, too.
The 70-year-old DJ will open “The Woody,” a new club in the Vista at 808 Lady St. (And, yes, that means the current occupant, the Blue Martini, is going out of business next week after a decade in that spot. But more on that later.)
“It’s going to be like a tribute to my 50-year radio career,” Windham said, adding he will decorate the walls with memorabilia from the past half-century, including awards he has won and newspaper articles about him.
Windham said he proudly will display them all, including the multiple articles detailing a run-in with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department in the early 1970s in which he said deputies found marijuana growing in his garden. He finally pleaded guilty after a year of fighting the charge.
The club will open at 5 p.m. daily with a happy hour, and Windham will start charging admission at 7 p.m., when he starts spinning discs from genres that span his career. That would be Top 40; rhythm and blues; country; rock; progressive rock; disco; beach, boogie and blues; and oldies. In that order.
Windham will go soft for the first couple of hours and then will bring in a younger DJ, Robert Elwood, for the late-night crowd about 9 or 10 each night.
“In the Vista, they don’t even put the lipstick on until 11,” he said. Windham, meanwhile, still will be getting up early for his gig as a morning show host on Magic 98.5.
Windham’s daughters, MacKenzie, 31, and Jennifer, 32, will run the club. It also will serve some food, including a “Beach Billy” burger, named after one of Windham’s radio characters. And of course, it will have a beer and liquor license.
But mainly, Windham said, the club will be about dancing.
Bob Percival, who has run the Blue Martini for the past two years out of its decade of operation with his girlfriend Michelle Forrest, said he thinks Windham will be successful in the spot.
“Whether you are spinning records or you are doing live music, it’s just a neat little place for music,” Percival said. The jazz club holds about 125 people.
Percival said he sold the club because the catering business he runs with his father, Dupre, has become more demanding in recent months.
“We would have loved to have hung on to it. But it required more attention than we were able to give it.”
If he had had time, Percival said, he would have tried to sell it to someone who would have kept the jazz theme. But operating a jazz club at a profit is tricky business, he said, even when it attracts national and international acts like the Blue Martini did.
“It would have taken more time than we had,” he said.
You can check out the Blue Martini’s farewell show at 9 tonight and Saturday night, featuring Pulsar, and a final Blues Jam at 8:30 p.m. Thursday
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Old 02-18-2011, 06:43 AM
 
Location: Lexington, SC
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Interesting concept for that location. I'll be curious to see how he does there. Woody is a legend but can he attract the young crowd that makes the Vista rock?
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Old 02-18-2011, 08:29 AM
 
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Say it aint soooo... I used to like the Blue.. It was never crowded..which is probably why it went under but it was why I liked it. The music was nice to. It was also an alley bar.. which isnt the best location in the world for alley averse cities. I took a friend there one time.. it took me several minutes to convince her that it was actually OK to walk down this alley in Columbia....
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Old 02-18-2011, 07:32 PM
 
Location: Lexington, SC
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Is this the same DJ who makes the ads on his show sound like two good old boys/friends chatting thus making you believe he has known and trusted the advertiser all his life?
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