Happy Dog," says Watterson, pointing behind the bar to a picture of the Replacements, Kilbane's favorite band.

There are other changes.

The new configuration has bands playing at the south end of the club, with their backs facing Euclid Avenue. It was a decision based on sound and acoustics made by Jason Tarulli. The studio engineer and Black Keys soundman handled the sound set-up and designed the stage, which is higher up and more spacious than any the Euc has had in the past.

"The stage had to be moved -- it was almost the entire depth of the room and the p.a. was aimed at the wall instead of the audience," says Tarulli. "We also wanted the place to be band-friendly and now we have a door behind the stagethat goes out to the street, so bands don't have to carry gear through the audience like before."

Tarulli spent much of the summer in and out of the club working on the sound system amid a team of construction workers.

"I started going to the Euclid Tavern back in the late-1990s," he adds. "I know some people are going to be nostalgic for how the stage and place was all set up, but it's set up better now."

The version Tarulli remembers was stocked with scruffy rock hounds and Rolling Rock guzzlers -- until it closed in 2001. It sat shuttered for years, until reopening in 2008. Not the same Euc, it had undergone a makeover in 2008 that included steak and Japanese noodles on the menu.

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