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Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:23 pm
Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:23 pm
GSB... What's the best pub hangout in Athens for an older than college aged (30-40-50 year olds) clientele? Highwire? Foundry? 5? Beauregard's? Also, I used to play the Athens bar/frat scene in late 80s/early 90s and might start playing some places doing acoustic covers with one of my old band mates. Building the set list now. Ideas??? (No Five Finger Death Punch LOL).
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 9:34 pm to Brick67
What instrument do you play?
Also, didn't you make this same post a year ago, then abandon it.
Also, didn't you make this same post a year ago, then abandon it.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:02 pm to Brick67
The coolest places for people that age are places that don't have bands.
We don't want to hear another rendition of She Talks to Angels or an acoustic take on Rock the Casbah.
We want to drink our top shelf liquor in peace and get back home in time to send the babysitter home before her boyfriend shows up to frick her on my new leather sofa.
We don't want to hear another rendition of She Talks to Angels or an acoustic take on Rock the Casbah.
We want to drink our top shelf liquor in peace and get back home in time to send the babysitter home before her boyfriend shows up to frick her on my new leather sofa.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:10 pm to Jefferson Dawg
Guitar/vocal. Getting a little more serious now. Thought I'd cast another net.
Don't recall what the suggested watering holes were.
Don't recall what the suggested watering holes were.
This post was edited on 4/15/17 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:13 pm to deeprig9
LOL...Well played. Not a full band, just something in the background.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:13 pm to deeprig9
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 10:19 pm to Brick67
Word of advice.... bars don't pay bands anymore in Athens. Clubs do, based on ticket sales. But people our age don't go to clubs.
I enjoy a good Goo Goo Dolls song on the PA system during happy hour while I read the flagpole, but I don't want to feel compelled to clap when it's over.
Love Tractor is a great toe-tapper, when Widespread Panic plays it. The sad duo in the corner trying to pull it off without a rhythm section is just an Onion article waiting to happen.
I enjoy a good Goo Goo Dolls song on the PA system during happy hour while I read the flagpole, but I don't want to feel compelled to clap when it's over.
Love Tractor is a great toe-tapper, when Widespread Panic plays it. The sad duo in the corner trying to pull it off without a rhythm section is just an Onion article waiting to happen.
Posted on 4/16/17 at 5:58 am to Brick67
Want to play background music for an older crowd?
Start with someone like Gordon Lightfoot - if people like his songs, they'll pay attention; if they don't, his stuff is pleasantly ignorable.
Start with someone like Gordon Lightfoot - if people like his songs, they'll pay attention; if they don't, his stuff is pleasantly ignorable.
Posted on 4/16/17 at 6:40 am to FaCubeItches
Meh... We're thinking Chris Stapleton, Toby Keith, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, America, Squeeze, early REM, maybe Buffet, Men At Work, etc...
Posted on 4/16/17 at 8:04 am to Brick67
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We're thinking Chris Stapleton, Toby Keith, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, America, Squeeze, early REM, maybe Buffet, Men At Work, etc...
Im as old as white dog shite and playing anything by Men at Work will make us old folks bust your geetar.
Posted on 4/16/17 at 8:49 am to GtownDawg
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Im as old as white dog shite and playing anything by Men at Work will make us old folks bust your geetar
...Slayer it is then! Overkill by them is pretty good. Come on now. On a different note, Chris Stapleton's cover of Tennessee Whiskey is incredible. Dude's got chops! Wouldn't hurt to cover some country drinking tunes like that. He's bringing back some old style C&W and making it new again.
I think some Bob Seger would be good. Anything obscure that would be interesting flipped to an acoustic version? Just trying to think outside the box to mix something fresh with some of the same old expected covers like Brown Eyed Girl. We used to cover a ton of Pink Floyd.
Posted on 4/16/17 at 9:23 am to Brick67
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Beauregard's?
Yeah go ahead and book that one
Posted on 4/16/17 at 12:53 pm to Brick67
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Beauregard's
Know how I know you're old as shite?
Posted on 4/16/17 at 3:48 pm to Brick67
Try Hendershots
Posted on 4/16/17 at 8:23 pm to DirtyDawg
Should just go ahead and play an impromptu set at Bourbon and get rock bottom over with
Posted on 4/17/17 at 6:43 am to tylerdurden24
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play an impromptu set at Bourbon and get rock bottom over with
...that place was named #5 college bar in America??Posted on 4/17/17 at 7:30 am to Brick67
its not for its music I can tell you that
Posted on 4/17/17 at 9:28 am to Brick67
Let's just say Bourbon is the bastion of rap music, pop country, and picking up freshmen girls.
Not exactly a place of finer things.
Not exactly a place of finer things.
Posted on 4/17/17 at 12:06 pm to DirtyDawg
You're a bad boy.... hanging out at bourbon like a mac daddy... you know all the tricks...
Posted on 4/17/17 at 1:29 pm to deeprig9
Nah ever since the great whale hunt of '15 I've retired from the creeping scene
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