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Sophia Eris: You are part of history every time you step in this venue.
Craig Finn: It's the location where I fell in love with rock and roll. I just couldn't get enough.
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Dan Corrigan: It opened up as a discotheque.
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Kevin Cole: It's amazing seeing all these artifacts and all this cool stuff.
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P.O.S: Playing at First Avenue was the only goal I had in my life as a young musician.
PaviElle: To share this same musical history and lineage with these people, that's absolutely amazing.
I'm right around the corner from the icon! Prince and PaviElle! That's what's up! [laughs]
Tony Oliveri: So cool. Just a total walk down memory lane.
Dayna Frank: It's pretty amazing that a little club in Minnesota has gotten to 50 years.
Slug: This is still the venue in this city.
Lori Barbero: Without First Avenue, forget about it. We'd have to go to Chicago. We'd have to go to maybe even Iowa.
[laughs] God.
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