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| - I've been to various piano bars. They all do the same standard crap. But the halfway decent ones know how to read the crowd and adapt. The performers, on a Saturday night mind you, were totally out to lunch unless someone was waving a $20 bill or more in their face.
They did the whole standard dueling piano thing at one point. Yeah, playing 10 second clips from various songs back and forth... funny for about 2 minutes. But when the crowd starts chanting, "Music, music!" for God's sake STOP! That means we are getting bored. But no, they just kept going.
The crowd was a little strange for a Saturday night. Lots of grandmas and grandpas. I think that freaked out the performers, because they insisted on playing the greatest hits from the 40s and 50s, no matter what the crowd requested, until about 10:30pm. Meanwhile, a bunch of drunk jerks went around trying to hump grandma and grandpa from behind. Like I said... strange.
Towards 11pm, the older folks left and the drunken assholes took to accosting various women around the bar. The servers were very obviously doing shots with the patrons and quite drunk, so they were completely useless. Bouncers were completely non-existent.
Maybe if you've never been to a piano bar, you might find it amusing. But chances are, you will not enjoy being assaulted by complete strangers. If you want to go to a piano bar in Vegas, do yourself a favor and go to the one at New York, New York. This one just sucks.
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