 Randall Schiller installed the latest EAW Loudspeaker system in the I-Beam as he was the first to introduce EAW to the Bay Area asa a long time dealer for the product.The crème de la crème of new wave, punk, industrial, and indie bands played the I-Beam from 1981 to 1992.Many well known groups played at the I-Beam such as The Birthday Party , A Certain Ratio, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, Gun Club, The Chameleons UK, Clan of Xymox, Dead or Alive, Billy Bragg, Tones on Tail, The Pursuit of Happiness, Duran Duran, Nina Hagen, The Damned, The Church, The Fall, Pylon, Faith No More, The Fuzztones, Gene Loves Jezebel, Flesh For Lulu, New Order, The Legendary Pink Dots, The Lemonheads, Meat Beat Manifesto, Alien Boys, Ministry, Motörhead, Big Black, the Butthole Surfers, 10,000 Maniacs, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Firehose, Soundgarden, Trouble Funk, Alice in Chains, Counting Crows, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Soul Asylum, Camper Van Beethoven, Gwar, Henry Rollins Band, Jane's Addiction, X, Specimen, Primus, The Slits, Sugarcubes, A House, Bush Tetras, The Bangles, Fear, Flipper, The Wipers, Translator, Wilma, Tackhead, The Mermen, Meat Puppets, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, Psychic TV, Manufacture, The Rosemary's, Alice Donut, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Primitive Painters, T.S.O.L., Curve, Social Distortion, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Lloyds, Buck Naked and the Bare-Bottom Boys, and Chris Isaak.