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Gas Monkey Live was an American
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in Dallas, Texas, owned by Richard Rawlings, star of American television program Fast N' Loud and owner of both Gas Monkey Garage and
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History

On October 11, 2014, Rawlings, Alex Mendonsa (who ran the House of Blues Las Vegas), talent buyer Peter Ore (former Vice President of Talent
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Denver) in addition to brothers Mike and Dan Flaherty of United Commercial Realty, started Gas Monkey Live at the location where the former Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill was established in Northwest Dallas. With a footprint of , the facility is used predominantly for live music and can hold up to 3000 people. American punk rock band Social Distortion performed at the location on opening day. Midway through their "
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started in November by working with
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for a free show named "Dodge Rocks Gas Monkey", which was restricted to only owners of Dodge Charger,
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and Viper vehicles. At the performance, Dodge presented the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat as well as the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. In May 2020, the venue closed.


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* Music venues in Dallas {{Music-venue-stub