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| - Overall the place was a pretty good establishment but there were a few things that take it down a few notches in my opinion:
1. The band (The Instant Classics) - while they were pretty decent they kept calling attention to the fact that they were doing more and more shots. I'm sure that this was to encourage patrons to drink but it was pretty noticeable that they were getting a bit out of hand with their booze.
2. The crowd - obviously the bar and band can't do much about this but when people yell "freebird" after every song, the band makes fun of them, it only encourages it to continue and takes away from the music.
3. The service - I understand that any time you have live music or a club scene, its going to be loud and thus hard for servers to hear. That being said, when you ask for a water and they bring you a Pumpkin Beer and then charge you for it, that's just bad service. On top of that when asking for my bill (included my girlfriend, the others in the group weren't ready to leave yet), the first time the server brought me a bill that was completely incorrect, as in not one of the drinks was one that my girlfriend or I had. The second trip she brought every ones bill EXCEPT for mine. Apparently the third time was the charm (although it did have a beer on there that wasn't ours which the server acknowledged and removed before running the card).
Lastly, I am not a huge fan of the lack of parking downtown. They treat downtown Phoenix as if it were San Diego or Chicago with the parking in that its all garages and any little event going on down there gives garages the balls to charge $12 for parking.
Overall the music was good, drinks were decent and okay on price, service left a lot to be desired and the location (downtown) isn't my favorite.
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