Nashville Last Night

[shar-vell Dan]

...... but jay isbell has a dumble & a 59 LP.

 

[VonBonfire]

There is no scene. Enjoy Austin. Hopefully they won't kill that place like they always do.

Lol, too late. Most of the musicians I know no longer live inside Austin city limits unless they are connected or have money. It's too expensive. There are still a lot of gigs there though, and many different areas with a booming night life scene. Many of the gigs are pretty poor paying, which is what I discovered living in Nashville in '06. The better paying gigs and bigger tippers are down south in New Braunfels but that is also a scene sort of ruled by local, native Texan musicians. San Antonio has a lot of rock gigs but they don't pay jack either and you'll be playing some strip mall sports bar. We just hunt for decent quality gigs these days and avoid the trash.

 

[SBlue]

Talent is still here but as was posted it's all in decline now, it's a shell of what it used to be. Music Row is a ghost town. Back in the day you could walk the row and bump into a country star walking beside you. My first real job was working at a EMI publishing converting tape to DAT lol. I used to grab lunch with Trisha Yearwood and her first husband who was my boss. Whom she promptly left once her debut album went through the roof.

Late 80's this place was busting with country and rock. Even had area's where each had their own little scene. 90's and early to mid 2000's is was still kicking. Country joints, Rock clubs - Nashville had it all. Then the realtors took over and everyone wanted to move here to experience it.

Now, most of the great places are gone for tourist bullshit or another high rise. They've sucked the Nashville right out of this place and it's just another overcrowded city now with a highway system 30 years out of date.

But hey, we're getting a new football stadium for a shitty football team and shopping district, whoopee.

That's exactly what happens to any place after you over populate it.

There is no scene. Enjoy Austin. Hopefully they won't kill that place like they always do.

I really thought Nashville could stand strong and keep their identity but it's over. I was just out on what we call Elliston Place, was basically a whole block of shops, eateries, live venues etc... Used to be packed. Even back around the mid 2000's it was still popping. You could play The Exit/In or The End, grab beers and food at the Gold Rush or any number of eateries, it was great. Sit down and eat and drink at the Gold Rush with Butch Walker or the guys in Lit, and they'd walk across the street and play the Exit/In. For us local bands, we had to put people in The End before the Exit/In would consider you. Then you had great clubs like 12th and Porter, The Rutledge etc... so many places gone.

I'm old now, glad I got to experience and partake in what Nashville used to be and glad I'm too old to even try to be a young musician now looking for gigs. There's some new places that popped up but there is no vibe here for music anymore best I can tell. Maybe @SBlue has a different take on it.

Nope. I do not.
But just like I've said in my first post, there are still more talented musicians in this city than pretty much anywhere else in the US, maybe even in the world. I didn't mention anything about the music scene, which by the way, it's constant decline and shitty everywhere and for the last 20 years. And I don't foresee it ever coming back. I mean rock, and any rock sub-genre, music scene.