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| - "Welcome to the land of hire
"I hope you brought the right attire,
"The crippled man is waiting at the door"
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Quick Review:
Booking the best artists today out of all other venues in the valley.
No major faults or areas of weakness.
Best chicken.
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Alright. At the door will be an able-bodied jester imploring passers-by to come on in to the "World Famous Brooklyn Bowl." Honestly, I've been to Brooklyn, NY for shows and had never insomuch as heard of Brooklyn Bowl until it opened the outpost (BBLV) here in Las Vegas. In any case, their jesters are entertaining, as is requisite in their job description.
The box -- both regular (which is outside) and will call/guest list (inside) -- are staffed by competent and friendly professionals. And, that shall be a recurring theme with BBLV: nearly every area has the utmost professional staff in terms of hospitality for a music venue. Only other venue that even comes to mind that surpasses is MSG and every one knows that the Garden just happens to be the Platinum Standard when it comes to professionals.
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Once inside -- whether grasping a ticket or otherwise* -- you should have three choices on any given night: bowl, eat, or listen to live music. If Jack White or My Morning Jacket are playing, you won't be bowling, you jerkface. You really shouldn't bowl if anyone is performing, out of respect, however, you purchased the lane so do whatever the hell you want. Lanes during shows vary depending on the artist. It's not really my thing to do; however, I have had a lane during a show and we simply left it abandoned with purses from our party when the artist went on.
*There are unticketed, free shows every once in a while.
Pro Tip: The security won't watch your lane even if you have the first two ones which are located right next to where he is posted. No biggie.
Like most venues of its size -- think the original The Joint or House of Blues -- there is the wood floor pit and an elevated second level that surrounds the floor area where there are bars and vertically challenged concert-goers. Additionally, this may be the spot for you that simply wishes not to be jostled about in the mosh pit, if at a show where one develops. Beware of the chatty people who attend shows every so often to have the live music serve as background to their philistine conversations about nothing.
Pro Tip: Wear hearing protection. The good kind cuts off the highs (most harmful), thus silencing the talkers, and making the music sound better as well.
Unlike other venues of its size, they are actually booking artists who simply would not stop in Vegas if it were not for BBLV, or do so a lot less often. I can't think of a time when MMJ would've stopped in Vegas and I wouldn't fathom a two-night stint from the badass rockers if it were not for BBLV.
Pro Tip: My Morning Jacket's two sets in two nights was shekel for shekel the best several hours of music in years in this valley. One has to go back to Leonard Cohen's seven hours at Colosseum or the B/S eight-set mini residencies to capture that magic. If you don't know what I am talking (writing) about, you need to get out more.
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I won't expound too much on bowling (who cares?) or the food (probably ... nay: for sure the best out of any music venue) because who comes to a concert venue for that? The bowling is bowling. The fried chicken is phenomenal. I don't remember which dessert I got but that was probably on account of all the cannabis smoke in the air during The Wailers.
Pro Tip: They are not lenient when it comes to smoking in here. Security will take it for "safekeeping." Burning Man this is not.
Lastly, they might have the best house photographer on Earth with the handiwork of the versatile Erik Kabik behind the 1D X.
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Rating: Five-stars, "Woohoo! As good as it gets!"
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