The 100 Greatest American Music Venues

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
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[i got bugs]

Festival pier at penns landing got boned big time

How is red rocks not #1??

[Norah]

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/04/the-100-greatest-american-music-venues/

They ranked Great Scott in Allston, MA as #8 out of 100. That's one of the stupidest fucking things I've heard, or ever will hear, in my entire life.
It's a perfectly cromulant dive bar, and I'll give them credit for generally having good sound. But is that all it takes? Shit, the Sanders Theater in Cambridge is miles better than Great Scott, and it's just a few miles away.

yeah that's absurd

[Norah]

I'd put the paradise or even brighton music hall (formerly harper's ferry) over great scott.

[i got bugs]

I like the e factory n all but it's way higher than I thought

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[matt reeder]

I've been to seven of these and they are the ones I would expect. I'm surprised they ranked the Metro so high, but it's a great place to see a show.

[PHATJ]

First Ave. 4-Eva!

[McParadigm]

Half of each entry is about who you'll see there or a single defining trait that makes it stand out.

The best music venue I ever knew was a piece of shit bar in Sioux Falls. Half the big bands that I would do local crew work for would pop by there after the show to fuck around. Tom Petty played an hour of only 60's covers. Aerosmith played blues so loose and frayed you'd never know it was them. Members of Dylan's Love and Theft-era band joined locals to jam. It wasn't a special place or a center for a scene. The sound was just accidentally great. Remarkably so. But it was in SF so who the fuck even knew and then it was demolished.

TL;DR version: lists of venues are dumb.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

Does that rude emo bitch still do sound at the Middle East?

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

Does that rude emo bitch still do sound at the Middle East?

No idea, but the crew there has always been very prickly.

I miss being screamed at by big black security guys to hurry up and pack up my instruments and get the fuck out two minutes after the show ends. That's normal procedure everywhere, isn't it?

[i got bugs]

I was at a place called penns peak in Northeast pa last night.. local place.. mainly get tribute, classic rock, jam bands, n some famous bands here n there

There's no way whoever wrote this even heard of it bec it would be criminal to leave it off this list.. it's fantastic there

[MattA75]

Not sure what they find so special about Lupo's...place is ok but nothing great...if they were going to go somewhere in New England outside of Boston metro, at least to me, Hampton Beach Casino should be on there long before Lupos

[BurtReynolds]

Mohawk
Stubb's
Crystal Ballroom
The Observatory
Preservation Hall
Tipitina's

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

I was at a place called penns peak in Northeast pa last night.. local place.. mainly get tribute, classic rock, jam bands, n some famous bands here n there

There's no way whoever wrote this even heard of it bec it would be criminal to leave it off this list.. it's fantastic there

I live about 10 miles down the road. Nice place, but they aren't exactly known for high caliber acts. I believe that one of Scott Wieland's last performances was there (and nobody came).

[i got bugs]

Yea.. I was gonna go but didnt wanna pay 40 to hear 8 stp songs.. I'll pretty much always regret that

Saw the black crowes there, prob the biggest name I can think of.. that said I love that place.. the atmosphere, sound quality..

[i got bugs]

The get the led out and dark star orchestra shows 2x a year are always great.. as is bruce in the usa