RTP-area local music and culture

[grady AT ibiblio.org]

Well, sometime in the mid-90s, NCSU built a parking deck down at the end 
of the dead-end street next to the Brewery, and every time I went after 
the deck opened, it was open at night for free parking for anybody.

But I'm sure there are plenty of folks who enjoyed your anti-Brentwood 
rant. Tim Flaherty could tell you some horror stories about dealing with 
them when he ran the Garage, that's for sure. They'd tow his patrons out 
of his *own* parking lot on a regular basis.

Ross

burton AT email.unc.edu wrote:

> 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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