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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">The Bottom Line</span></h1>
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<p><b>Bottom Line</b> war ein <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New Yorker</a> Veranstaltungsort, der von 1974 bis 2004 bestand.
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<p>Der im Februar 1974 von Allan Pepper und Stanley Snadowsky eröffnete Club <i>Bottom Line</i> befand sich in Manhattans Viertel <a href="Greenwich_Village" title="Greenwich Village">Greenwich Village</a> (15 West 4th Street)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>; dort traten Rock-, Jazz-, Fusion-, <a href="Blues" title="Blues">Blues</a>- und auch Folkmusiker und -bands auf, darunter <a href="Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed">Lou Reed</a> (<i><a href="Live%3A_Take_No_Prisoners" title="Live: Take No Prisoners">Live: Take No Prisoners</a></i>, 1978), <a href="Little_Feat" title="Little Feat">Little Feat</a>, <a href="Tom_Waits" title="Tom Waits">Tom Waits</a> (mit der Schauspielerin <a href="Bette_Midler" title="Bette Midler">Bette Midler</a> als Besucherin im Publikum),<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Pete_Seeger" title="Pete Seeger">Pete Seeger</a>, <a href="Roger_McGuinn" title="Roger McGuinn">Roger McGuinn</a>, <a href="Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a>, <a href="Bruce_Springsteen" title="Bruce Springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a>, <a href="Prince" title="Prince">Prince</a> und <a href="Johnny_Winter" title="Johnny Winter">Johnny Winter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mitschnitte der Auftritte von <a href="Gato_Barbieri" title="Gato Barbieri">Gato Barbieri</a> (<i>Chapter Four/Alive in New York</i> (Impulse!), u. a. mit <a href="Howard_Johnson" title="Howard Johnson">Howard Johnson</a> und <a href="Ron_Carter" title="Ron Carter">Ron Carter</a>) sowie von <a href="Randy_Brecker" title="Randy Brecker">Randy</a> und <a href="Michael_Brecker" title="Michael Brecker">Michael Brecker</a> (<i>The Bottom Line Archive</i>, 1975), <a href="Blood%2C_Sweat_%26_Tears" title="Blood, Sweat & Tears">Blood, Sweat & Tears</a> (<i>Live at the Bottom Line, New York, 1977</i>), <a href="George_Duke" title="George Duke">George Duke</a>, <a href="Gil_Scott-Heron" title="Gil Scott-Heron">Gil Scott-Heron</a> & Brian Jackson, <a href="Meat_Loaf" title="Meat Loaf">Meat Loaf</a>, <a href="Chuck_Mangione" title="Chuck Mangione">Chuck Mangione</a>, <a href="Yusef_Lateef" title="Yusef Lateef">Yusef Lateef</a>, <a href="Larry_Coryell" title="Larry Coryell">Larry Coryell</a>, <a href="Billy_Cobham" title="Billy Cobham">Billy Cobham</a>, <a href="Paul_Winter_(Saxophonist)" title="Paul Winter (Saxophonist)">Paul Winter</a>, <a href="Gary_Burton" title="Gary Burton">Gary Burton</a>, <a href="Pat_Metheny" title="Pat Metheny">Pat Metheny</a>, <a href="Spyro_Gyra" title="Spyro Gyra">Spyro Gyra</a>, <a href="Tom_Scott_(Musiker)" title="Tom Scott (Musiker)">Tom Scott</a>, <a href="Mingus_Dynasty_(Band)" title="Mingus Dynasty (Band)">Mingus Dynasty</a>, <a href="Bob_James" title="Bob James">Bob James</a>, <a href="Betty_Carter" title="Betty Carter">Betty Carter</a>, <a href="Bill_Bruford" title="Bill Bruford">Bill Bruford</a>, <a href="Al_Kooper" title="Al Kooper">Al Kooper</a> und noch 1999 von <a href="Kazumi_Watanabe_(Musiker)" title="Kazumi Watanabe (Musiker)">Kazumi Watanabe</a> erschienen auf Tonträger.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Im Januar 2004 musste der Club schließen.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
Das Gebäude ist inzwischen Teil der <a href="New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>.
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bottomlinearchive.com/">The Bottom Line Archive</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">New York Magazine 26. Oktober 1976</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Tom_Waits" title="Tom Waits">Tom Waits</a>: <i>Ein Leben am Straßenrand</i>. Biographie über den Musiker Tom Waits von Musikjournalist Barney Hoskyns, aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Stephan Glietsch, <a href="Heyne_Verlag" title="Heyne Verlag">Heyne Verlag</a>, <a href="M%C3%BCnchen" title="München">München</a>, 2009, S. 167</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">N.Y.'s famous Bottom Line gets reprieve [online]. USA Today, 2003-10-23, [cit. 2015-12-17]</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">New York Magazine 16. Januar 1995</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Tom_Lord" title="Tom Lord">Tom Lord</a>: <i>Jazz Discography</i> (online)</span>
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