Music Industry Discussion

I have been thinking for quite some time about opening my own club.
(someone please just shoot me now)
I feel like if I were to design a club based on musical entertainment.
With a couples or small group clientel focus that it would do well.
A gated and fenced secure parking area. A stage front and center for the bands / musicians, rotate genre through out the month. A dance floor in front but slightly below the stage. Surrounded by teraced seating arranged at different elevations around the parimeter of the dance floor.
A couple of pool tables and a snack bar in the back. Collard shirt no jeans dress code, for the gents and dresses or business attire for the ladies.
What do yall think, Have I lost my mind or maybe It'll work.

It wouldn't work here, sans.

We had one. Perfect place, really.

In one corner, there was a 1/4 round raised stage, w/speakers facing out, & monitors built in, both on the floor & up top with the lights. Everything snaked out to the front of the bar, where there was a built-in sound board. The owner was a great sound man, but you could use your own, too. Dance floor right in front of the stage. The rest of the place was carpetted. Great long bar down one side.

All a musician needed to bring was his axe & amp & drum kit, all of which could be miced.

Great place...they required a dress code to keep out the lowlifes. Got really good acts.

They crashed & burned financially. I think ppl around here weren't up for the high end music scene.

Careful where you dump your dollars, sans. I'd be very very careful.

Thats why I thought I'd bounce it off of you guys. Lots of varied musical exp from around the globe ya know. Just wondering though, did that place function only at night or was It open for food and stuff around lunch.
lots of places draw big lunch crowds down here.

I don't honestly know. It's been awhile, & I never even checked that out.

My concern about opening new musical venues, though, is that ppl just don't seem to go out like they used to, not to dinner or dancing or movies or anything at all much, really.

That's not to say they won't, if you build it they may come. I just don't think I'd bet my retirement on it, ya know? Don't forget the floor shows!

Might work. I wish we had something like that around here.

I'd do a buncha research 1st...that's a tough one for me.

The country music singer Bobby Mackey opened up his club, for the same reasons you want to - to play music your way all the time.

Problem was, his club was haunted.

Hey you already play the harp! I guess there is a deep seated desire to play my own. But also I miss being able to go and relax and enjoy live music in a "clean" atmospere. There is nothing like that here. As well being a nurse gets more and more difficult to provide adiqate care for folks in the hospitals. Not near enough staff. The nurse patient ratio is insane. and my desire to provide the best possable nursing to the people for whom I am responsable has me stopping outside praying for help and asking my Father if I should go in or run like hell. If that scares you IT SHOULD.

If you had a band of studio musicians that could play any style or any thing, you could have 'live karaoke' nights.
People get to play performer/rock star/country star, or whatever, with a real live band.
Judging by how many bars have karaoke nights, I'm almost certain it would be wildly popular for a time.

Not really a practical answer for you, but someone else might want to run with it.

(Thank me or curse me later)

If I could afford to build a club it would be ORIGINAL MUSIC SHOWCASE ONLY. I'd hire four 300 pound bouncers and one of their jobs would be to bodily remove any band or musician who plays a cover tune. Later...

I detest Karioke so much I cant even spell it. But yes the idea would be mutifaceted entertainment, all kinds of mucic, commedy acts even a magic act as long as it,s my night off Like a sandwich and chili bar by day and cocktails at night. And Bob I have three very large and very talented fighters who are close friends / brothers left over from my preveous life. They are also gentlemen raised appropriatly by their family.
Two of them I have been involved in their training since they were kids!
My wife thinks I,ve twisted off. (again)

Zip, I sat in with some musicians in Rehobeth Beach, Del., that ran an "open mic by invitation only"

These guys were WAY over my head, but I played bass with 'em one night...ppl came in w/sheet music for the group (I don't sight-read) & sang whatever they chose...there was music ranging from the Stones to Billy Holliday...WOW!

So I stood next to the keyboard player, & he told me the chord patterns...it worked out unbelievably well

I felt like I was doing stuff that the truly big guys do, like on Leno or Letterman, ya know?

Then thier regular bass guy went in for like two songs, & he SUCKED!!!!

Made me feel good, man, cuz I fit in pretty well...they even asked when I could come back...but it's like 5 hrs from me...maybe this summer, if they're still doing it

That is a really good idea I'll add that one to the list

There's a club in Hamden, CT, which I've played at a few times.
It's called "The Space," and they only allow original songs.
The audience is mostly college-age, but it's made up of all ages.
A all styles of music are played, but mostly folk, blues, and light rock.
There's some real good talent showing up there . . . .

We have something kind of novel here in Salt Lake City called The Tavernacle" (take-off on the Mormon "Tabernacle"). It's a dueling pianos bar, with two facing grand pianos where they hire players to take requests from the audience all night. It sounds silly but this thing really took off and is now in it's sixth or seventh year of business. I went there a couple of times, it's a real hoot. Almost always packed.

One of my favorite movie stars,"Morgan Freeman", opened up a blues club called "Ground Zero Blues Club" in Clarksdale Mississippi. That's his hometown and the haunt of blues legends John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, AND Ike Turner! Gotta be awesome.

Howlin'

Irminsul: I attempted to down load a song off of my 13yr old sons CD
of Orcestra UIL. They only got two's but to listen to them they dont sound like a bunch of kiddies. Alas I think the CD was incoded somehow and I seem only to be able to play the damn thing. Violin ? My Kid ? YEAP!