Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

[MatticusMania]

Haha, fair enough Bert. 50% Royalties, and cigars!

[MatticusMania]

On another note... I think they will eventually be some turn-around in the mindsets of bar goers.
More people are turning 21 everyday, and with them comes a whole generation of people who never knew the joys of smoking inside of bars.
Granted some older folks still need to die out, but it wont be long before the average bar goer never knew people were allowed to.

[Floyd Eye]

Hate playing non smoking bars.

[pedro]

As far as I know ALL the bars around town are non-smoking.

[Jazz Ad]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

More people are turning 21 everyday, and with them comes a whole generation of people who never knew the joys of smoking inside of bars.

They don't know the joy of going to bars at all.

[MatticusMania]

The game has changed. Maybe their joy comes from those jukebox's that can play any song you want?

[VitalSigns]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

On another note... I think they will eventually be some turn-around in the mindsets of bar goers.
More people are turning 21 everyday, and with them comes a whole generation of people who never knew the joys of smoking inside of bars.
Granted some older folks still need to die out, but it wont be long before the average bar goer never knew people were allowed to.

I agree. I'm 17. Every time I go down south or on the Indian Reservation, I see people just sitting in a booth at a restaurant smoking its just the weirdest thing.

[drummer5359]

I gig regularly with two bands, all of us are non-smokers. I play about half smoking and half non-smoking gigs. To me it doesn't matter as I'm a non-smoker, not anti-smoker. The frontman of the one band really hates smoking bars as his wife refuses to come to the gigs.

[oniman7]

I really like the smell of years old cigarette smoke. It becomes sweet almost like incense. Reminds me of some of my aunts and distant relatives I haven't seen since I was 5 years or so. New smoke, however, I can't stand.

I don't know if it's a Florida thing, but about half the places we play allow smoking. They're not bars, but targeted live music venues. One place in Gainesville my dad had me ask one of the guys running it if he was allowed to smoke a cigar and he said "You can smoke whatever you want in here as long as you keep it away from me."

[jonas_24112]

I'm a smoker and prefer the non-smoking bars. I don't mind going outside on breaks. At the end of the night, I smell halfway decent and no smoke hangover in the morning. Off you miss the ambience of a smoke filled bar, just run a fog machine.

[jmac]

I'm a non smoker who hates smoking bars. However, I hate even more the government telling people how to behave.

This decision should be up to the the bar owners and society.

[jgroh]

One place we play on a regular basis allows smoking and the air quality is so bad its rigoddamndiculous...but it is always packed and the people really love us there. Its a trade off and I hate that my gear stinks for weeks no matter what I do to it.

I said it before but, if I was in a smoking bar and started spraying spray paint into the air for 10 minutes straight, every 11 minutes, I would be thrown out because its bothering other people/hazardous. Yet the smokers defend their "rights" vehemently, though Im sure its tied into the addiction aspect of smoking more than anything.

[john m]

I remember the days of my van full of equipment reeking on Sunday morning.

I don't miss the smokey venues. I'm sure 3 of my non-smoking musician buddies don't either.

Unfortunately I can't ask them. 3 cases of lung cancer from otherwise healthy-non smokers.

[bassbully]

Originally Posted by Bert Slide

I just started touring with a new roots country act and was stoked to find out that the venue we are playing in Memphis tomorrow night is a smoking establishment. Wow what a breath of fresh air! It will be like being back in America again. I love the smoky barrooms and honkytonks and their contribution to so much of the great music and culture of Americana.

You know I can agree with you here. I miss that also since I'm older and remember the old smoky clubs and everybody listening to bands years ago.

I don't really miss the smell but it was a part of it and being a Americana/roots band also its just part of the scene.

I played in a country band who lost 50% of the bands bookings when our state passed the smoking ban. They played allot of Animals clubs who's memberships dropped when longtime members were told they could not smoke.

[bassbully]

Cigar with DB? Awesome...must see pic!

[armywalaby]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

Those venue/bar owners should start thinking in terms of enclosed/roofed smoking patios and heaters.

Some of the language in the ordinances that were placed to ban smoking inside of public establishments say that an exterior structure used for smoking cannot be connected to the building at all, or may have to be so many feet from it. other language says that they can only have so many walls, using only certain construction techniques.....pretty lame. I know it is that way in Illinois, and most of the other bars where I am were managed poorly before the ban.

[pklima]

Originally Posted by Grateful

Mmmm. Meat bass....

Cured not smoked, but...

[tomydacat]

NICE>>>HAHA.... I have played both smoking or not and even though i dont like smelling like smoke i think the old days are gone..it was fun to play the smokey joints...

[xgator4u]

Originally Posted by pklima

Cured not smoked, but...

MMMMMMMMMMMM

Are those tuning keys Onion Rings ?

Yeah playing the smoky old joints WAS a lot of fun, but then again everything used to be a lot more fun, with less hassle.

[pklima]

Onion rings? Nah. That's a European bass. They're straight up raw pork fat.