Pirate Ship - Davis

Location

Once 616 Anderson Road; before that, 748 Mulberry Lane

Capacity

Under 200

Former residents

Rob Roy, Lisa Davis, Joe Finkel, Dan Glendening, VickieWilk, and Griffin Walker

Website

http://www.piratesofthepentagram.org/ Archive.org

The Pirate Ship (aka The Pirate House) was known for its amazing theme parties (e.g. James Bond, Michael Jackson) and gained notoriety for hosting a number of musical acts.

It was originally located at 748 Mulberry Ln. and went by the name the Filthy Whore. The Filthy Whore has now become the SOS ski house and goes by Crashpad. Unfortunately, after a number of noise violations and graduating housemates, the Filthy Whore was forced to hoist its anchor and move to a new location in 2005. This new locale was at 616 Anderson Rd. (not too far from their old location). The ship's new location featured a swimming pool and other high-class luxuries (such as an outdoor bar) only afforded to high society playboys like the pirates.

This second location had been a show house in the late '80s (under different ownership, of course), and bands such as the Replacements, Violent Femmes, Meat Puppets, Camper Van Beethoven, Savage Republic, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, and local bands like Thin White Rope, Game Theory, the Avengers, and the Popealopes played there. Thus, the pirates of 2005 started hosting music acts at the house. Unfortunately, the landlord gotten word of the pirates' show website and had heard from the neighbors that the residents were "operating a night club." This resulted in an ultimatum from the landlord and the pirates hence had to agree to no longer host shows or parties. They broke the agreement only on a rare occasion, as a pirate's word is held very highly.

The Pirate Ship as an entity at 616 Anderson closed up shop during moving day, late August 2005. Rob Roy and Lisa Davis, former pirates, then moved to 720 Anderson, home of the famous Bomb Shelter. Despite this fact, 720 is not commonly regarded as a "new" Pirate Ship.

Parties

• Pirate Ship Party: Amy and Sharon's Birthday — This was actually the only 'true' party at the 616 Anderson location in 2005. All other events that year were shows.

• The house hosted the Expired Ice Cream-Eating Contest.

• The house held an 11-hour extravaganza featuring 13+ music acts.