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pooch |
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Where's a great place to hear some live music? CLub? Small music hall that will hold about 2,000? any outdoor venue? arena?
"things don't ever get better, unless you make them better" - Tom Murray, Roots
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vbmom2x |
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Besides Austin - the Live Music Capitol of the World?! Any city with an airport that has live music throughout gets my vote. |
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Nashville. You go from one bar with a stage to the next to the next to the next. Awesome!
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SettaMama |
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Pooch - if you mean in this area - Stubbs & The Backyard are nice outdoor spots. My fave is the tree behind Nutty Brown Cafe....but I don't think it
would hold 2,000.
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Phaedrus |
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Man, the Backyard. I hadn't heard about that in a while, saw Bela Fleck and Sarah McLachlan there. I truly miss Austin.
I saw Eric Johnson at the Steamboat. Townes Van Zant and Shawn Colvin at the Texas Union. Now I'm depressed. |
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SettaMama |
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Wow...Steamboat - that takes me back. Don't laugh....I saw Christopher Cross there
Anyone remember "Kandy Kicker" and "progressive country" KOKE-FM? |
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Phaedrus |
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Does Threadgills still have music? I never went there for music. I went there a lot for the spinich souffle though.
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SettaMama |
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Not like they did when Janis was there.....
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Phaedrus |
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SettaMama wrote: Not that you saw her there...much too young for that.
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pooch |
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I was talking about any place really. I've not been, but I hear that Red Rocks in Colorado is pretty cool. I like the Granada Theater in Dallas and Sons of
Hermann Hall too.
"things don't ever get better, unless you make them better" - Tom Murray, Roots
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Phaedrus |
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Red Rocks is awesome. The view is spectacular and if you have the right act going on the atmosphere is positively ethereal. I saw Renaissance there
(1970's and 1980's progressive band) very orchestral and it was amazing. Also saw The Clash there. Not so great.
The Fox Theater in St. Louis is pretty amazing too. Art Deco movie theater. Very ornate and the sound is very good. |
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PirateVBFan |
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Iowa State's Student Union has a small pub called the Maintenance Shop. When I was a student there there was a PBS series called "Jazz at the
Maintenance Shop" (later there was a follow-on series called "Blues at the Maintenance Shop") where they brought in top acts from around the
world [Pat Matheny, Charlie Byrd, Dixie Dregs, Jeff Lorber Fusion, Arlo Guthrie, Firesign Theatre, Leo Kottke, Taj Mahal, Muddy Waters, Son Seals {several
times each year}]. The M-Shop sat 200 if they REALLY liked each other. Typical setup for a show was about 80-120, on the lower end for the PBS tapings. As you
might expect, tickets were very hard to come by.
I only got tickets once, but it was for my all-time favorite jazz artist, Jean-Luc Ponty. It was an incredible show. You were literally close enough to feel the sweat fly from his forehead. I saw him a few years later at the Moore Theater in Seattle and had front row center seats, but it was nothing like that night at the Maintenance Shop. They still have shows at the M-Shop but I must admit I have not heard of any of the recent artists. Doesn't mean that others wouldn't have, though. p.s. Janis Joplin was my Mom's 2nd Cousin. Can't remember what that makes me, is that a 3rd cousin or it one of those "once removed" nonsenses? She was, to put it lightly, the black sheep of the family. My great-grandmother basically refused to let anyone bring up her name.
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07/24/08 4:58 PM.
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SettaMama |
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That sounds a lot like the situation where KLRU (PBS) filmed Austin City Limits in a big rusty building on the Texas campus - great acts, so personal, IF you
could get tickets. I dated a friend of the producer's for awhile- so we got in for EmmyLou Harris, Jimmy Buffet, Asleep at the Wheel, Neil Young, and I
think Aaron Neville - those were great times and the atmosphere is one, like your Maintenance shop, that just can't be duplicated in a regular concert
hall.
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Torami |
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Phaedrus wrote: "Sonny came home to her favorite room..." Love her, but have never had the chance to see her live.
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calivbmom |
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Liberty Lunch was an awesome place in Austin and I will always love Emo's. There's a new place on the Eastside...can't remember the name. The Santa
Barbara Bowl in...Santa Barbara, The Greek Theater or John Anson Ford Theater in Los Angeles come to mind.
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Phaedrus |
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Oooh, Emo's had Johnny Cash play there during SXSW one year. Kind of cool seeing the man in black with a bunch of tattooed and pierced fans.
La Zona Rosa was always good too. It was also the site of one of my favorite events: Spamarama!!! |
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I LOVED Liberty Lunch - can't believe they tore it down to put up an office building.
Yeah - I like La Zona Rosa, too. Would you believe Spamarama is cancelled this year? Hormel didn't get back to the new owners in time regarding the amount of their monetary support - it was much lower than in years past & there wasn't enough time to line up new sponsors. I was sort of afraid that with the new owners it wouldn't be the same anyway. |
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Ditto Red Rocks....if you are ever in the Denver area and somebody's playing you like....it is so worth it!
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