For 11 years, the Know stood as Portland's premier bastion of noise, filling its calendar with all manner of punk, metal and garage rock. Its floors were sticky with spilled PBR, and the bathrooms would give veterans of CBGB's heyday flashbacks. One such vet, the Modern Lovers' Jonathan Richman, was so enamored of the place when he stopped in before an appearance at the staid Aladdin Theater that he returned twice to play a series of multi-night stands on its shin-high stage.