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How do you guys handle the loud music at pool halls?
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If someone is playing gangsta rap over and over i will throw on the weird al parodies. White and nerdy, amish paradise etc. If i am especially annoyed at the crowd i will play richard cheese. Richard covers popular music, but a lounge singer.
Steel panther is another goto for offensive music to one up the crowd.
I like polka idea. Time to throw that on next.
I am good with pretty much anything, but as soon as it is highly offensive lyrics, i will one up the little twerps playing it.
Steel panther is another goto for offensive music to one up the crowd.
I like polka idea. Time to throw that on next.
I am good with pretty much anything, but as soon as it is highly offensive lyrics, i will one up the little twerps playing it.
I leave and let them know I don't like it loud like that. I've seen one customer allowed to dominate places like that and it end in fights.
People in pool rooms in fights can end in shootings. Not somewhere I want to be.
Then who should choose the music? You? The business manager? The government?
Just trying to figure out where you were going with this. How many customers would they if they retain if they played things that nobody wants to hear... Like elevator music? Or Roseanne Barr singing the national anthem?
Guess y'all will have to find where Ames is these days...if a room wants to stay open and make something of it these days, they'll need to offer food, drinks and people going out for a fun night will want music playing.
That having been said, there can be a happy medium regarding volume. There won't be a setting that will make everyone happy. For the "out for a night out" crowd, they will want it at least to a medium volume. I agree that too loud is, well, too loud. But that is often a moving target.
As for the stuff that is played on the jukeboxes, I wonder if there is a way to have todays jukeboxes edit what is available to be played. As someone pointed out, the jukeboxes are owned by outside concerns, not the room owners. Most are online and also able to controlled via a smartphone app, so far as selections are concerned. And yes, you can pay extra to have your songs moved up to the front of the que.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the gangsta rap or death metal, but i can deal with most anything that gets played. The most annoying to me is one night when one particular league team played there and loaded the box up with extended Grateful Dead/Dave Mathews/Phish jams....a little of that is enough for me, heh heh. And when those songs go 10 to 15 minutes, it wears on me. Still, its not enough to drive me out. The volume at our room is likely too loud for many of you, given your comments, but its not so loud that we can't have conversations around the table and at the seats nearby. I feel its actually controlled pretty well.
And the room makes money, its busy every night.
That having been said, there can be a happy medium regarding volume. There won't be a setting that will make everyone happy. For the "out for a night out" crowd, they will want it at least to a medium volume. I agree that too loud is, well, too loud. But that is often a moving target.
As for the stuff that is played on the jukeboxes, I wonder if there is a way to have todays jukeboxes edit what is available to be played. As someone pointed out, the jukeboxes are owned by outside concerns, not the room owners. Most are online and also able to controlled via a smartphone app, so far as selections are concerned. And yes, you can pay extra to have your songs moved up to the front of the que.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the gangsta rap or death metal, but i can deal with most anything that gets played. The most annoying to me is one night when one particular league team played there and loaded the box up with extended Grateful Dead/Dave Mathews/Phish jams....a little of that is enough for me, heh heh. And when those songs go 10 to 15 minutes, it wears on me. Still, its not enough to drive me out. The volume at our room is likely too loud for many of you, given your comments, but its not so loud that we can't have conversations around the table and at the seats nearby. I feel its actually controlled pretty well.
And the room makes money, its busy every night.
On the AMI jukeboxes that are in a couple of rooms I play at -- the ones that have the remote app -- the room owner has the ability to block songs at certain times. I don't know if it is common for rooms to do that. I think the ultimate authority has to rest with the room owner for which songs get played.Then who should choose the music? You? The business manager? The government?
Just trying to figure out where you were going with this. How many customers would they if they retain if they played things that nobody wants to hear... Like elevator music? Or Roseanne Barr singing the national anthem?
I know one room that has its own free playlist because the owner does not want to be at the mercy of obnoxious sounds.
It's a knife edge. On one hand, the manager doesn't want to offend anyone by blocking their music. On the other, they dont want to offend the ones that dont like it. You can never please everyone.
Being " one customer ( or manager) force all the others to have to listen to what they like", as Maha put it, is a knife's edge. Even though I agree the the owner/manager has the right to make that decision. But he/she alone has to live or die by that decision.
If i dont like the way a business is run, i vote with my feet. At that point, its no skin off my arse.
On the app I use, I think it's not immediately apparent that a song is blocked. It just doesn't appear on searches.
I can tolerate almost any kind of music if it is not too loud. Too lod being when you cant talk to the person next to you or even 2 people away. I dont get these places or people that want the music so loud that you cannot converse. I have always been under the impression that "going to the bar" was more or less a social activity. What is social about having the music so loud that you cant hear each other??? As far as playing pool with loud music I dont notice the music when I am shooting. In fact just the other night someone had to tell me 3 times that I missed a ball. I shot a ball down the rail that was headed for center pocket, after I saw it was headed in the correct direction my attention was drawn to the cue ball because shape was very important. What I didnt notice was that the object ball I was shooting didnt fall, it apparently hit a piece of chalk then the nipple. I was lining up my next shot before I finally heard someone tell me I missed. 
tomatoshooter
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That and they are digital, with access to many, many songs. The best thing about the mechanical jukeboxes is that the bar can have a theme. A local music venue had a lot of local bands on their jukebox. The British pub had only British bands.
tomatoshooter
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I'd shoot better if they drugged my drink.
Yes. They can set the newer internet boxes many ways. Block certain songs, block explicit versions of certain songs etc. One of the places I am regular at they have a remote that can interrupt a song if they choose too. It is rarely used but there was one regular who would play two songs over and over.....at least twice an hour.
Bob Seger "Turn the page" and Meatloaf "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)"
He was asked nicely more than once to not do it and he refused so they started interrupting those songs if it was getting out of hand.
We as a group when we saw him coming up the walk would also frequently load up the box to slow him down some too.
I had rather hear Meatloaf a thousand times in a row over three hardcore rap songs in a row.