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Some pictures must speak for themselves. Whoever made the threateningly aura’d bathroom that Star Theater’s manager, Jonesey, calls the “Stairway to Hell,” they are far in the past. “It’s a red-lit 10 steps up to the toilet,” Jonesey says. “You’re literally on the throne, in a wild bathroom with an old ’60s toilet.” From the basement green room for the century-old former burlesque house, touring bands can walk the lonely steps up a narrow hallway to find relief atop a lofty and spartan perch that’s crests directly beneath the Old Town music venue’s stage. This apparently makes for head-ringing bass when a band is playing. The toilet is now also immortalized in song. When Norwegian black metal icon Mortiis recorded a double album of “dungeon synth” at the Enchanted Forest and Star Theater in 2023, the dungeon pictured on the album’s back cover was in fact the Star Theater bathroom.
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