User:Randy Blankenship/sandbox

Randy is best known as a professional event promoter, producer. He is also an actor and DJ. Randy has always been recognized as a creative think tank.and has vast experience in the music industry.

He previously co-owned several large music venues, record store and has produced and co-produced music and multi-media events and concerts both nationally and globally.

Silver Dollar 1990

His early days of promotions started in Phoenix AZ, when he and several partners opened the famous Silver Dollar Club in downtown Phoenix. One of his partners owned a huge warehouse building in the shady produce district of downtown Phoenix. The original Silver Dollar actually opened in the building in 1947 and had served as a skid row lounge where produce workers would cash their paychecks and then spend their earning throwing down whiskey's and beers. The bar was made famous in the 70's movie "The Gauntlet" when Clint Eastwood and Sandra Locke left the bar while being chased by the Phoenix PD.

The warehouse district had been relocated as downtown was being re gentrified and this only left the bar license and a lot of open raw industrial warehouse space with an area in the back that Blankenship knew could hold 3000 plus fans. Randy being from Houston and used to downtowns as being club meccas, he immediately saw the potential to capitalize on something that would re-vitalize the Phoenix scene as most of the party crowds kept to Tempe and close to ASU.

Subcultural Art Center

Smart Drugs

Randy was one of the first people in the US to introduce Smart Drugs. The drinks known as Blast, Xcellerator, Love Tea were a colorful neon concoction of legal vitamin and super herb derivatives that supercharged the brain and provided enhanced dopamine and serotonin levels that tricked the brain and produced feelings of euphoria and many said they experienced an aphrodisiac effect. It quickly made headlines and he was featured on Fox 10 News Special .He saw these as a safe alternative to drug use and it quickly caught on.