Live music is an industry that mostly survives on delusion. 90% of the time a band in a bar is providing negative net value.
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What!? *leans in while splash cymbals continue to ring way too loud* -smiles and nods
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People shitting on live music is like people shitting on podcasts. They can't do either
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So often I've been tempted to tip with the specific request that the band stop singing.
Instrumentals are fine but, please, stop your caterwailing
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Normalize a standup bass and violin and that’s it
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Local music forms a decentralized culture node and protects against rule by bland corporate hegemony. Let a hundred garage bands bloom
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That’s the macro good but on the micro level it’s almost always a negative. These kinds of goods rarely survive.
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Idk Jersey Shore live music guy did a mash-up of Shaggy’s “Wasn’t me” and “Hakuna Matata”
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