Music or Silence?

First of all, as they say now, "what Double D said!' The music should fit the clientele, not the staff, both in volume and in selection. The staff gets paid to put up with other people's tastes.

Second, many of the people who say that they prefer music to silence are like people who say they don't like oysters but have never eaten one. Often they have never been in a pool room that had no music.

Third, one of my favorite memories of pool goes back to a six-table room in the late Sixties, located in a residential/industrial neighborhood. The owner encouraged serious play. He had a jukebox. When he had a money matchabout to start, the players would each chip in so he got about ten bucks and then the jukebox would be "broken" for the night. When the owner closed up the room at the end of the night, he would fire a lot of quarters into the slot and let the machine play while nobody was there to make up for the loss so the jukebox company guys didn't complain. Pool was great in those days! Imagine a proprietor like that now!

I think what matters a lot is what kind of music you choose to play. I think you should play only the music that they played in the serious rooms of the old days, like McGirr's.
 
I guess I am the only one who really doesn't care lol. Maybe because I am so used to play in so many different pool halls, some are silent some are loud, some have good music, some have bad, some is rap, some is country. It really doesnt matter. Im there to play pool and that's it. If I am hanging out at the pool room I might play in a few tunes myself. Only thing that kinda bothers (and I think its because I notice it right away) when multiple people play the same song over and over and over again every hour. I might wear headphones sometimes but usually im not even listening to music, its just so I dont have to be rude to people because if Im in a match a lot of times some of the people watching just wont stop trying to talk to me; that way I can ignore them and pretend im not listening lol.
 
Headphones. So I choose what I hear. Works for all occasions. They even make this wonderful feature called noise canceling if you really do want silence & block out any background distractions. I also recommend bluetooth so there's no cord.
 
Background noise is good but some consistency would be nice... jukebox at one place we play has mostly decent music (plus the occasionally distracting what the hell is that song) but when no one puts money in you get to hear the TVs which are generally tuned to sports. Now, if I'm stuck waiting and trying to watch sports I want to hear it. So just make up your mind and pick one.

The other place we play has that same problem PLUS Thursday night is Karaoke night. I can play through some pretty bad stuff but there are a few cat stranglers out there that I defy anyone to play through. We have had teams ask us to move our match because of this. Still I do appreciate the fact that the Karaoke crowd fills out the bar (with a younger crowd to boot) and they are mostly out of our way (and vice versa) but they need some form of buzzer to stop the truly awful people from subjecting the rest of us to a full length song.

I like playing with headphones but since tournaments don't allow it I don't wear them regularly.

Craig
 
I like both, dependent upon how I feel at the given time. I love the pool hall I go to but they play a lot of pop garbage. So most of the time I'm there (and only if I am shooting alone) I stick in the headphones and listen to non-vocal trance. I don't listen to vocal trance anyways, but I feel like music with words is too distracting when I'm trying to practice.
 
I play in two different places each week. One has a jukebox, but it usually isn't used on the night's that I go to practice. On league nights it gets played some. On weekends there is live music.

The other place has it going non-stop.

When I'm practicing, I don't mind it being quiet, cuz there isn't anyone talking to distract me. When I'm playing league, i prefer music. When there a lot of people around, all talking, it is quite distracting to me.

I don't care what kind of music, either, for the most part. I've played so much music over the years, both as a musician and as a DJ that I don't really mind much any more. The really heavy crunch metal, or the really heavy rap stuff.... I can do without. Anything inbetween, pop, country, rock, oldies, easy listening, jazz....whatever.
 
Something! Anything!

Please play something, anything! I despise a place that has no music on, and can't take it!

No music for me =

- I get tired and want to go home...
- I have to talk to too many people who I do not want to talk to (seriously, leave me alone and get away from me buddy...)
- Makes me feel like I'm in a retirement home
- I want to shoot my face off (with a gun, not a cue, lol)
- a library. I hated going to the library as a kid..
- Makes me feel like the people who call us 'pool dorks' might have a good point

I don't care what it is, just play something....
 
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