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| - This place is pretty cool. When I first walked in I thought it was going to be lame because it's in a stripmall and frankly, a concert venue that wasn't originally built to be one won't always have the best sound quality no matter how much eggcrate you glue to the walls. I'm also a huge snot about this kind of thing because I grew up in Los Angeles and have been to pretty much every small venue in the entire city (Roxy, el Rey, those kinds of places) and I think I know it all. (By the way, as soon as I hit thirty I woke up that morning, the day of my birthday, and instantly knew that I do not know it all. But I digress...)
I saw Peaches and MEN last night and it was awesome. It's easy to get in, it's easy to move around once you're in there, it's an all-ages venue, drinks are average-priced and pretty strong, and the sound was fantastic. Plus, the bartenders are nice and serve you in the order that you approach the bar (meaning they didn't let giant tattooed tits dictate how long you must wait for your drink). In fact, everyone I encounted who works there is pretty nice too, from the bouncers to the ticket guy. I didn't see any fights last night and while I thought some of the random sections roped-off with yellow "caution" tape was kind of ... weird, I still think this is a decent enough place to see a show that not every MTV doof in town is going to show up at.
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