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Post by Auf Kiltre on Nov 19, 2023 13:08:47 GMT -5
Not another country song. I've been a little indifferent about putting Nashville on my bucket list because I've gone through the Austin experience and pretty much hated it. But this trip was sprung on us for my wife's birthday so I complied.
First, you start hemorrhaging money the minute you walk out the door. Trust me, I don't need to provide examples, everything is expensive. 2nd, the downtown area is a human zoo. There were a couple of times I wondered if I was close to having a seizure. You could have a Bachelorette party posing for a pic with a homeless person defecation aside the garbage can right behind. Lots of extremes.
We found a couple joints, Layla's specifically where we chose to camp for one evening. The band was really, really good. Great female vocalist with beautiful pitch, a female fiddle player with mad skills. Really, really enjoyable. The talent is thick, and door to door. Saw a really good but ultimately sleepy performance at the Station Inn in the gulch district.
I'll qualify Nashville a bucket list item with an asterisk if you're a musician. I got maybe one more trip here in me with my brother and sister in law, only because it's a favorite of theirs and they're more "age appropriate" than our son and his girlfriend. But I can also call it one and done. I hate crowds.
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Nov 19, 2023 13:19:09 GMT -5
I read "three nights in Nashville" to the tune of "One night in Bangkok".
I spent a week there some years ago scouting for work. One thing that surprised me is how much it just felt like a regular city that you'd find anywhere on the continent with a financial district, tall buildings, and so on. It made me wonder how far from out of town they had to drive in the decorative hay bales for the stages. The only obvious difference was that any coffee shop or whatever had a stage area. Seemed like an okay place, but I didn't feel too sad that I never moved there, especially seeing how cost of living has gone up and up since then.
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Nov 19, 2023 13:56:34 GMT -5
I haven't been there since the 70s and really have not contemplated a return. I prefer my rose colored rememberances of a city of music and talent with southern charm. The parthenon and a Vanderbilt memory of a charming city that seems to turn into the Vegas of Tennessee.
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Post by rok-a-bill-e on Nov 19, 2023 15:26:21 GMT -5
We were there forty years. Loved the first 37 or so. Had to bail, too crowded too expensive too crazy. Used to be an overgrown small town with a cool vibe---no more.
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Post by Vman on Nov 19, 2023 17:56:19 GMT -5
Been there a few times. Always seemed to end up on Printers Alley at the Bourbon Street Blues & Boogie Bar. www.bourbonstreetbluesandboogiebar.com/I see Stacey Mitchart is still gigging there. He's really good! |
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Post by LTB on Nov 19, 2023 22:04:29 GMT -5
Haven’t been there since the late 70’s. Cool back then but things are not the same now.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Nov 19, 2023 22:51:37 GMT -5
I did get a chance to visit Gruhn Guitars. Lots of beautiful Martins.
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Post by rok-a-bill-e on Nov 20, 2023 10:28:33 GMT -5
Bourbon St. was our Sunday regular spot. Hit brunch at Make Ready with bloody marys then walk to BSB&B for beers and blues, then back home for a nap!
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Post by Bopper on Nov 20, 2023 11:12:50 GMT -5
Back in late '01 we went down to see a concert. The van driver from the airport to the hotel had been a roadie for The Band in their heyday ("Levon's full of..." he said). At the concert (Bob Dylan at the Municipal Auditorium) we sat close to Emmylou Harris and Buddy and Julie Miller, just in regular seats.
That was different.
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Post by Mike the marksman on Nov 21, 2023 8:20:08 GMT -5
I went some years ago, wasn't my thing. It's like Vegas without the gambling for bachelorettes and suburban midwesterners that like to dress up as country folk.
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Post by ninworks on Nov 21, 2023 18:01:47 GMT -5
Larry, the next time you're going to be anywhere near Nashville let me know. It would be fun to get together.
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Post by Laker on Nov 21, 2023 20:03:38 GMT -5
Haven’t been there since the late 70’s. Cool back then but things are not the same now. A good friend was an ‘A” list studio guy for 30 years in Nashville and got out because the music scene has changed there. Hopefully I’ll be playing a show with him this summer. Hell of a great musician! |
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Post by mikem on Nov 26, 2023 8:14:11 GMT -5
The wife and I spent three nights in Nashville 1.5 years ago; toured the Jack Daniel's distillery (good tour), went to the Country Music hall-of-fame, caught a show at the Opry (I thought is was going to be a "twang-fest" but the show was actually quite good...), and, after checking out the local bar scene we always ended up at Tootsie's (2nd bar/band inside).
The trip was was two-fold: We'd never been, and there was a solo musician (John Brazile, that had played [local to us] on Block Island for many years) that had moved to Nashville........ We wanted to see him perform. It was great talking-island with him.
We did not, however, visit the studios (which would have be interesting).
We went in April and the weather was pretty good.
I'd go again...
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