Providence Shooting Stars
May 2, 2018
Skip Chernov was a scene maker in Providence, Rhode Island during the early 1970’s. He promoted shows by Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Janis Joplin and others. He landed the New England closed circuit broadcast rights to the 1971 Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier heavyweight title fight. The 20-something hustler owned a nightclub downtown called “The Incredible Organ” and posed nude in Providence’s alt weekly The Point. After a 1977 bid of dubious sincerity to bring the NBA to Providence, Chernov bought an expansion franchise in the Eastern Basketball Association a few months later for the rather more reasonable price of around $3,000. Read more…
