Read: Spaceland Is the Place - The influential mecca of the "Silver Lake scene" turns 15

In the long history of nightclub openings, Spaceland's introduction to Los Angeles in 1995 stands out as particularly troubled. In the pouring rain, Mitchell Frank — then a 33-year-old musician, DJ and promoter — moved his sound system into the venue, where he acted as booker, doorman and soundman.

"That first day was so chaotic," Frank says 15 years later, sitting in the comfort of the downtown offices of his Spaceland Productions and remembering the wet March evening when the Silver Lake institution first opened its doors.

On that first night, L.A. music writer (and L.A. Weekly contributor) Jeff Miller was just 16, and he almost didn't get in because he was underage. "There was that biblical, torrential rainfall, and we were sitting at some restaurant across the street just waiting to get in. Rob Zabrecky [the singer of Possum Dixon] had called me earlier and left a message saying, 'Come see the show tonight, we're opening for Beck and some band called the Foo Foo Fighters.'  " Read the article by Drew Tewksbury, LA Weekly HERE