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Over 100 with live music, not DJs. Not including the rest of the city here.
Just to give you a perspective, there are 53 live music venues in Tribeca neighborhood alone.
Everyone knows New York is huge thus having a lot of everything. The only problem I see is I'm talking about packed to over capacity in venues where people aren't sitting at all for 4 hours. This is not an intimate 50 person crowd lol. People aren't sitting around tables with candles. Every single show is packed with over 1,000+ people dancing wall to wall. Use youtube.com, it will show you all you need to know. By the way, D.C. has many jazz clubs as well as multiple other forms of music.
Here are all the clubs/venues in and around D.C. that host bands on any given night 7 days a week for every age group. Some shows are even all ages welcome and others are 21 and over. Many GoGo bands perform at pools a few times during the summer. If a city can match this, I would like to see the facts:
are you serious man? You are being pretty liberal in your "venues" haha... credibility going down hill big time. I got tired of referencing them...there are many more bogus venues. Have you ever left the DC Metro and seen what else the U.S. has to offer..
Uhh yeah, I'd say other cities can match that LMAO.
Hold up while I get the list of Chicago Boys and Girls Club, the senior center, a few high schools, local swimming pools and suburban hotels out by the airport.
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Everyone knows New York is huge thus having a lot of everything. The only problem I see is I'm talking about packed to over capacity in venues where people aren't sitting at all for 4 hours. This is not an intimate 50 person crowd lol. People aren't sitting around tables with candles. Every single show is packed with over 1,000+ people dancing wall to wall. Use youtube.com, it will show you all you need to know. By the way, D.C. has many jazz clubs as well as multiple other forms of music.
Yeah man that Best Western is freaking over capacity!!! Better hurry up there is a buffet full of all the biscuits you can eat, free with 5 dollar admission. Line out the door!
Also better wait before the Girls Tennis team clears out at that high school before your band drops!
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Use youtube.com, it will show you all you need to know. .
*shudder* Houston, I think we have found the problem. Basing things off youtube voyeurism!
They really don't have a clue. I will never forget when Method Man the rapper came on the radio in D.C. and said "Everyone knows about D.C., if it's not GoGo it's got to go!" But artists have learned that the best way to gain popularity in D.C. is to play live shows with the bands. The list of rappers that do live shows with GoGo bands in D.C. is a long one.
What is really annoying is that you guys are talking about how "no one has a clue about DC"...but at the same time you're totally unwilling to consider cities like New York may have a better live scene than yours.
You questioned whether Brooklyn has 400 different live options on any given night...do you realize there are about 2,500,000 people in Brooklyn? Roughly 50% of your entire metro population lives in an area of 70 square miles. Chances are they have a good amount of venues. Also take into account that Brooklyn is widely known for a large artist/musician population.
I'm not saying DC doesn't have a good scene. But while you DCers are annoyed people don't "get DC", the rest of us are annoyed you're unwilling to consider anyone else.
P.S. it should also be noted that while you're listing community pools, BBQ buffets, and Best Westerns as "club & concert venues" you question the validity of bars & clubs in BK by saying they're probably just spinning CDs. I'm sure some of those places are just CD-spinning DJs, but 40% of your places are serving continental breakfasts and swimming lessons for elementary school kids...as Grapico said, your credibility is dropping fast.
So basically you are saying either a) GoGo is D.C.'s only music scene, so other cities aren't allowed to have multiple scene.
or b) Which city has the better GoGo scene...
BTW DC has/had other music scenes thankfully.
so maybe you should reframe your question...
"Does any other city have a single genre live music scene, as big as D.C.'s GoGo scene"
This is it right here. This is something OP has not addressed. No one's arguing that GoGo is bigger in KC or Edmonton. However, the title of the thread is "Can any U.S. city match D.C. for live music?", and the answer is YES.
Everyone knows New York is huge thus having a lot of everything. The only problem I see is I'm talking about packed to over capacity in venues where people aren't sitting at all for 4 hours. This is not an intimate 50 person crowd lol. People aren't sitting around tables with candles. Every single show is packed with over 1,000+ people dancing wall to wall. Use youtube.com, it will show you all you need to know. By the way, D.C. has many jazz clubs as well as multiple other forms of music.
Its New York mate, don't really have to worry about not getting crowds of people here.
About jazz clubs, I heard somewhere that NYC has more jazz clubs than Texas + California combined. I think Louisiana is the only state in America that has an equivalent jazz scene. Chicago might be pretty good there too.
are you serious man? You are being pretty liberal in your "venues" haha... credibility going down hill big time. I got tired of referencing them...there are many more bogus venues. Have you ever left the DC Metro and seen what else the U.S. has to offer..
Uhh yeah, I'd say other cities can match that LMAO.
Hold up while I get the list of Chicago Boys and Girls Club, the senior center, a few high schools, local swimming pools and suburban hotels out by the airport.
Don't forget to include any nearby Tee-Ball fields and the actual airports themselves because I hear that's how they get down in Chicago. Others just don't understand how it is out there.
Its New York mate, don't really have to worry about not getting crowds of people here.
About jazz clubs, I heard somewhere that NYC has more jazz clubs than Texas + California combined. I think Louisiana is the only state in America that has an equivalent jazz scene. Chicago might be pretty good there too.
Yes Chicago and New Orleans have the other two major jazz festivals in the U.S. outside of NYC... The other BIG one in North America is Montreal... I know Boston is trying to get one going also that is getting bigger. SF has a good one too, but again not as big, long running, prominent. The best are New Orleans and Montreux, have been to both.
you even listed places in Baltimore, completely different scene.
Also Go-Go is not nearly as ubiquitous in DC as you make it sound. Its big in parts of the black community, but in NW DC and most of the suburbs its pretty rare. I lived in DC for 30 years, went to hundreds of concerts in town and saw go-go maybe once or twice.
All white crowd in Bangor Maine knows how to party to GoGo! Get it get it.....!!! I love to see people in other areas have fun to GoGo. Let loose on em....
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Houston, I think we have found the problem. Basing things off youtube voyeurism!
