Now the Kingston Trio was a great band. Why don't kids listen to them anymore?

3/8/2013 10:51:17 AM

vinylbandit would hate my father-in-law

Live music is the only thing he thinks about when he tries to pick a place for dinner. If the restaurant's website says "live music" that is where he wants to go.

He lives in Florida. Don't tell me you want to go to Tir Na Nog just because they have live music. Their food is shit. No live band in the world is going to make that garbage taste better.

We've tried to take him to a bunch of different restaurants in Raleigh but each one is a hardsell if they don't have live music.

3/8/2013 10:52:37 AM

man i've been the 49th post a lot lately

Quote :

" Let's go to ****, they have a band that i'll pay more attention to than the people i'm with"

3/8/2013 10:52:53 AM

I think thats the reason that my FIL likes live music so much...he doesn't have to pay attention to his family

3/8/2013 10:56:54 AM

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""TAKE SOME PRIDE IN ENTERTAINING YOURSELVES""

Quote :

"we take pride in our shit while others use it as background noise"

holy crap, you're so cool!

3/8/2013 10:59:57 AM

i enjoy a place with a live band more than a DJ or stock jukebox any day. And I try to at least find out who is playing and what their style is before choosing to go to that bar/restaurant/gin joint.

but i'm not going to a concert. the music will always be the sideshow to the company i am with.

3/8/2013 11:02:30 AM

I enjoy Humble Pie with Peter Lamb and the Wolves.

3/8/2013 11:46:44 AM

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"Do you consider The Grateful Dead a jam band?"

Live, absolutely. Often garbage.

They have some good records, though.

3/8/2013 12:20:27 PM

how many Dead shows did you go to? I went to one. I don't remember a whole lot about it. I got lost from my group the minute we got there, and I wondered around aimlessly during the entire show, only to run into my group after the show (this was back before cell phones, of course). then we hitch-hiked back to the hotel in a VW van. It was quite an experience.

3/8/2013 12:39:06 PM

I don't get the OP in this instance.

3/8/2013 12:43:31 PM

Lets go to hopscotch they have live music

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3/8/2013 12:56:30 PM

The cool thing about playing metal, is that out of the 5 people who ever go to a doom metal show in raleigh, all 5 of them are there for the show even if its just so they can argue about why one of the bands sucks. Not many people wander into Cough at slims which is a shame because Cough is the fucking shit

Doom metal forever



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3/8/2013 1:00:50 PM

Don't write shitty music then you don't have to worry about shitty people thinking its for them

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[Edited on March 8, 2013 at 1:47 PM. Reason : #based]

3/8/2013 1:46:47 PM

3/8/2013 2:04:18 PM

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"All I'm saying is that the simple idea of any live band being a satisfactory entertainment option is a silly thing."

When you say this, do you mean live music in general? Or.... what do you mean?

3/8/2013 2:23:11 PM

I mean the kind of person who thinks any live music is good music. The kind of person who would go see the worst cover band ever because they're a "live band," even if the world's best DJ was on at the bar next door.

[Edited on March 8, 2013 at 2:24 PM. Reason : 33]

3/8/2013 2:24:05 PM

white guy with an acoustic guitar doing 90's and/or current hip hop covers

they are a plague

3/8/2013 2:25:00 PM

it's insane the amount of chicks who still fall for that gimmick

3/8/2013 2:26:08 PM

^^^, ^^ this is something those common people will never understand

^ Its not really a gimmick.

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[Edited on March 8, 2013 at 2:26 PM. Reason : ]

3/8/2013 2:26:25 PM

Ok, well I get that.

3/8/2013 2:26:34 PM

Who's the "world's best dj"? What makes them the best?

3/8/2013 2:28:21 PM

it's not a gimmick when a guy learns guitar to play nothing but duncan sheik covers at a college dive bar?

3/8/2013 2:29:01 PM

^^Invisible scratch pickle?


^yeah I mean I don't think he's fooling anyone. Pretty sure girls know whats up.

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3/8/2013 2:29:41 PM

I will say that one of the funnest nights I ever had out was when Ruckus had a 90's party & cover band

3/8/2013 2:30:20 PM

tell us more about what music you think we should like

we care

3/8/2013 2:32:43 PM

Nothing wrong with a good party band.

But the concept of a cover band is not indiscriminately better than a great DJ.

^ Look, someone who cares so little, they took the time to post about it. Quaint!

[Edited on March 8, 2013 at 2:33 PM. Reason : 3]

3/8/2013 2:33:01 PM

I'm serious, what do you mean "great dj"?

3/8/2013 2:34:24 PM

A DJ who is ruling it. Playing great record after great record, nonstop for hours. An unimpeachable selector.

3/8/2013 2:36:25 PM

^^^what does me posting have to do with you trying to be the end-all-be-all of what good music is?

[Edited on March 8, 2013 at 2:37 PM. Reason : .]

3/8/2013 2:37:29 PM

I'm not trying to be the end-all of good music. I'm trying to be the end-all of bad music.

3/8/2013 2:38:24 PM

Let's go to Rum Runners.

3/8/2013 2:41:05 PM

never pay cover if DJ Supa Skip is playing. worst DJ in Charlotte.

3/8/2013 2:42:50 PM

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"A DJ who is ruling it. Playing great record after great record, nonstop for hours. An unimpeachable selector."

really? isn't this totally subjective? i find this amusing.

3/8/2013 2:42:52 PM

Of course it's totally subjective. But some people think that a live band is always better than a DJ, even if the live band sucks and the DJ is awesome.

3/8/2013 2:43:38 PM

"But all he's doin is hittin play."

-Garner resident

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3/8/2013 2:44:51 PM

Sorry, now I'm sounding like an arrogant elitists, but people who call themselves "DJs" really trip me out. Cool, you have lots or records.

3/8/2013 2:47:27 PM

You can think what you want. There are plenty of guys making $50k a night because they "have lots of records."

3/8/2013 2:49:22 PM

it's not about owning the records, it's about sequencing them

3/8/2013 2:49:35 PM

^^Yeah, I know. And Kim Kardashian is a multi-millionaire and millions enjoy Lizard Lick Towing.


[Edited on March 8, 2013 at 2:52 PM. Reason : ^i took pride in doing that well on mixed cds]

3/8/2013 2:50:57 PM

So you're telling me you've never been somewhere and been impressed by/enjoyed the sequencing/selection of a DJ?

3/8/2013 2:52:30 PM

iPad DJs are a dime a dozen. the true art of crowd control is hard to find these days

3/8/2013 2:52:41 PM

exactly where I was gonna go next

I can't tell you how many times I've been in a bar and thought to myself "holy fuck they are absolutely killing it right now"

the OP is responsible for a pretty good chunk of those times

[Edited on March 8, 2013 at 2:54 PM. Reason : ^ a good DJ always knows the room they're in]

3/8/2013 2:54:18 PM

^^^of course i have. i'm in agreement with your general premise. but i understand why some people would rather hear live music than records when they go out on the town, and i ain't gonna hate them just for that.

3/8/2013 2:56:29 PM

I understand the desire for live music. I just don't understand the lack of discrimination. ANY live music shouldn't be something to shoot for.

3/8/2013 2:58:14 PM

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"TAKE SOME PRIDE IN ENTERTAINING YOURSELVES"

You are probably wearing cargo shorts right now, aren't you?

3/8/2013 3:15:11 PM

Men shouldn't wear shorts.

3/8/2013 3:18:35 PM

One night, many years ago, I went to this place called Jackpot near the IHOP on Hillsborough St. Man, that night the DJ was really ruling it! He was playing great record after great record, nonstop for hours. I was incredibly impressed by and really enjoyed the sequencing and selections.

3/8/2013 3:42:42 PM

At the end of the day, your best entertainment option is always Spider Bags.

3/8/2013 3:46:04 PM

^^i think i was there that night! but then they played the Police, and I was like "I'm Doug, and I'm outta here".

3/8/2013 3:51:43 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1oZnDaksZw

3/8/2013 4:02:35 PM