I’m not a fan of bands in bars. For one it’s always, always, always, too loud and sounds terrible. Rock music too loud makes me crazy as the highs commit an all out assault on my ear drums. I prefer any other kind of music in a bar. Folk, piano, a juke-box playing “tequila.” I don’t see the need for bands in bars. Then again there are a number of venues specifically for local bands to play shows around here, so I just assume the people who like that sort of thing go there.
There is that “performance vibe” bands bring that DJ’s never will be able to. And I guess a lot of people like it. Probably the same way I like going to clubs and just watching n listening to the DJ. But a bar doesn’t seem like the right place for either IMO. Unless it’s built upon the foundation of live music. In which case I hold it to a different standard and don’t really consider it “just a bar.”
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