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Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
- Thread starter Bert Slide
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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.
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.
The game has changed. Maybe their joy comes from those jukebox's that can play any song you want?
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.
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.
This decision should be up to the the bar owners and society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
