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The Garage
A bar/pub just like your parent's garage! | |
To take you back to the carefree days of hanging out with your hoodlum friends, it would have all the proper details:
- Cement floor with lots of oil stains
- Unfinished walls (with visible studs, no insulation)
- One whole wall would be a working garage door (only to be used in case
of emergency mass exit)
- Tons of old junk in the corners and hanging on the walls (gardening tools, auto parts, paint cans...)
- Ratty old couches and other abandoned furniture for seating
- Uncovered hanging light bulb on a chain type lighting
- The bartender (liquor license optional) resembles your drunk uncle and serves only cheep beer in cans from a cooler
- The bathrooms would resemble a moonlit patch of bushes outside and around the corner
- For music, there are two options
1) An old boom-box playing classic rock tapes
OR
2) A garage band. And by this I mean a group of no more than three people, preferably all playing guitar, who have practiced together at MOST 3 times. Acceptable song requests for this band should include Stairway to Heaven, Freebird, and Layla among others. The band is not obligated to play entire songs, just the solos – anything more is bonus entertainment. If any band playing in said Garage is able to play 75% or more of the songs on their setlist from start to finish, that band will not be allowed back (it is time for them to move onto a real gig). And out of a setlist that consists of 10 songs, there shall be a maximum of 6 unique songs (i.e. 4 of the songs must be repeats).
Well, I did the initial creative thinking here. I’ll just wait for one of you to pony up the investment money and get this place on its feet…
The Cavern
http://www.strawber...com/cavernclub.html
[po, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
garage party
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[thejini, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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baked. anyone's garage :) |
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I agree po, but I think what luecke thought about here is that we all come to an age where you rather ruin somebody else's house... even if it's the garage. |
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Its our racing paddock ... just with partygoers |
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Very true, Pericles. I was really focusing more on the music aspect though... |
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My original idea was to have a bar that only allows garage bands to perform. Though if you think about it, a band really ceases to be a “garage band” once they get to be good enough to play bars. So I was stuck in a bit of a catch 22. I decided that the only place a garage band really can play (obviously) is in a garage and for this “bar” to exist, it would have to be in that form. |
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reminds me for some reason of the beatles. |
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GM Place in Vancouver is nicknamed The Garage, so does that bake the idea? Any band that could pack that building (19,000 plus) would certainly exceed your requirements, though. |
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This actually wouldn't be that hard to make into a profitable bar... |
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You could have some kegs that you have to pump yourself. You could sell cups for $10 and give them a wristband with it, anyone filling a cup without a band gets the boot.
Everyone loves cheap beer, and this would help fill up the place. |
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Most of the money would come from the actual bar. You could have a crappy plywood bar, but they'd serve any drink at normal cheap bar prices. |
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You could light marijuana scented incense to add to the atmosphere. |
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You'd only really need two employees. They could roll out another keg when one gets tapped and bartend in between. |
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The idea of live music is excellent. You'd just hire local bands for peanuts. You could even have a monthly battle of the bands. |
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The outside would just be a garage door with some graffiti on it and a side door with a bare light bulb over it and some graffiti on the door that says "the garage". People would check it out because of curiosity and through word of mouth. |
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