RTP-area local music and culture

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i wonder if brentwood towing's rapacious, insidious, avaricious, 
abusive towing work had a hand in the demise of the brewery. on nights 
when there was a big show at the brewery they would swarm around with 
several tow trucks, stealing cars out of unmarked parking lots. i got 
towed from a Grover show in summer of 94 and swore i would never go 
back to the brewery. and i never did. i can't be the only one who made 
that decision. bb




Quoting grady AT ibiblio.org:

> Kenny had an invisible for-sale sign on the Brewery off and on for
> the 
> past 8 years or so. Dave does a good job in the N&O piece in covering
> 
> the basics--Hillsborough Street just isn't really a destination for 
> those of us who aren't NCSU students anymore, certainly not nearly as
> 
> much as it was 10 years ago. King's has a liquor license, is a wee
> bit 
> larger & can thus draw a slightly wider range of touring acts, and
> Kings 
> has gone out of its way to establish non-rock nights where it's open
> for 
> drinking and various other activities, which in the midst of the
> general 
>   live-music slump is fairly necessary.
> 
> The Brewery was a great live-music room--I saw some absolutely
> amazing 
> shows there, many of which involved Backsliders and/or Six String
> Drag, 
> and the amazing pre-fame Whiskeytown shows, where Ryan would change
> up 
> the entire set, altering the tempo and mood and arrangement of nearly
> 
> every song, every time they played; but also some absurd (and 
> underattended) national acts, none of which I can remember this early
> in 
> the AM, as well as the infamous Laso Halo/Lemmons the Shiny Clown
> show 
> which involved a baby made of meat that slowly cooked from the inside
> 
> out over the course of the evening.
> 
> But it's not the sort of place where you'd go to hang out if there 
> wasn't a band playing, and at the moment at least, those kinds of
> clubs 
> are having a tougher time staying open, unless they're Cat's Cradle.
> 
> Ross
> 
> G Neal wrote:
> 
> > n e 1 no y the brewery closed?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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