Need feedback from Houston players about the possibility of Houston Club!!!
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Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
Ought to be a way to have tv and music if parties present agree. Otherwise, whole lotta clicking going on.
many people that come in regularly in a room come for the social aspect of it as well as just shooting pool. and to enjoy new faces walking around and not having to come in to justify the expense. and many pool rooms have a monthly rate that no private club can compete with.
if the club was the answer then home tables would disappear or club players would just get a home table if they had room for it.
a club has to be a social lifestyle to be successful not just a place to be to practice.
and since there are very few private clubs that says a lot for their chances.
if the club was the answer then home tables would disappear or club players would just get a home table if they had room for it.
a club has to be a social lifestyle to be successful not just a place to be to practice.
and since there are very few private clubs that says a lot for their chances.
I posted a survey tried to get people to share it on social media. The biggest Facebook group declined to share it. Of the 16 responses I received none indicated they could spend what it would take to keep it afloat. So I let this idea die quietly in the night.
SBC did that during Covid, the other room in the area undercut his already cheap prices and since pool players are so cheap....you know what happened.
No loyalty whatsoever, if another person did the same thing for $5/month cheaper even if the room wasnt as nice they would leave this minute.
No loyalty whatsoever, if another person did the same thing for $5/month cheaper even if the room wasnt as nice they would leave this minute.
Clicking is way better than hip hop or rap.
Country has to be the worst, Id rather hit myself in the mouth with a hammer than listen to that crap. The Jean shorts and cowboy boots on the girls is another thing entirely
I am not the biggest fan of country, but the WORST country music is a thousand times BETTER than ANY hip hop or rap music.
I like country and rock&roll. I think they both died decades ago though. One friend was part of the Texas sound long before Waylon and Willie. He opted to make a good life for his family, became a school teacher and principal. Was well liked. I visited him well after he retired and past students still came running up to tell him hello.
Another friend was a studio musician for the Louisiana Hayride back in the fifties and early sixties. I didn't know him then but he backed everybody one time or another, they often didn't travel with their bands. He backed pretty much all the legends of country. Said Jim Reeves was his favorite to back up, never did ask him why. He had a gang of hangers on, was once considered the head of organized crime in the area. Fenced evidence for the state police, still acted as middleman between police and criminals sometimes. Back to music, he still had a guitar and a godawful polyester leisure suit with huge musical notes all over it that looked familiar. Still wrote a few songs and made a trip to Nashville a few times a year. Tender Mercys with Robert Duvall had enough in common with his life to make me wonder. Another had one of the original TCOB rings from Elvis, got it first hand and it wasn't for sale. I wondered what it was worth even back in the eighties.
Still another guy in the group was an old roadie, babysat Hank Jr when Hank and Audrey were both on stage. Audrey wanted to perform but couldn't carry a tune in a bucket from what I heard. Hank Jr was big at the time when CJ said something about babysitting Hank Jr. I mentioned it to his son, CJ never had! When his son asked him about it CJ said, "Son, one dirty diaper is just like another."
I knew some local rock musicians including Les Wallace, who was a very good guitar player. His band was opening for Fleetwood Mac and classic movie style, their guitar player had something happen at the last minute and after Les led I believe Pot Liquor, he performed with Fleetwood Mac. He thought he would impress them so he went to the local music store and bought an electric guitar he paid over a thousand for, on credit. The guitar left town with Fleetwood Mac and they never gave it back. Les was pissed and never performed on stage again! Studio sessions from then on. Les was a true guitarzan and didn't understand why people would get upset when he woke up in the middle of the night with an idea and fired up the concert amps in a one or two bedroom apartment at two or three in the morning. He got kicked out of a lot of apartments!
Bill Ball was one of those guys that could play anything from guitar to bagpipes. His band opened for David Allen Coe, oncet! Bill was highly intelligent but his mind was out in left field that night. They decided to impress Coe and his band with their fan status and did a full set of Coe songs right before Coe came on. Coe and his band huddled up when he came on stage. "What are we gonna play?" "I don't know, those son of a bitches just played every song we know!"
With two older siblings still alive there was a piano and a handful of guitars and drums and such around the house when I was growing up. I was born tone deaf and had zero talent with any instrument and couldn't carry a tune in a bucket myself!
There were a half-dozen country stores in a small area belonging to people on my mom's side of the family and she had a department store in a prosperous farm town herself before marriage. All the country stores had one pool table and a juke box. I hit the ground listening to country and black music before and during mo-town. The jukeboxes were a nickel a play or six or seven songs for a quarter. The supplier came and reloaded the jukeboxes once every two weeks but the really hot records might be worn out in three or four days which didn't stop them being played constantly until they melted to the point they wouldn't play at all.
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Another friend was a studio musician for the Louisiana Hayride back in the fifties and early sixties. I didn't know him then but he backed everybody one time or another, they often didn't travel with their bands. He backed pretty much all the legends of country. Said Jim Reeves was his favorite to back up, never did ask him why. He had a gang of hangers on, was once considered the head of organized crime in the area. Fenced evidence for the state police, still acted as middleman between police and criminals sometimes. Back to music, he still had a guitar and a godawful polyester leisure suit with huge musical notes all over it that looked familiar. Still wrote a few songs and made a trip to Nashville a few times a year. Tender Mercys with Robert Duvall had enough in common with his life to make me wonder. Another had one of the original TCOB rings from Elvis, got it first hand and it wasn't for sale. I wondered what it was worth even back in the eighties.
Still another guy in the group was an old roadie, babysat Hank Jr when Hank and Audrey were both on stage. Audrey wanted to perform but couldn't carry a tune in a bucket from what I heard. Hank Jr was big at the time when CJ said something about babysitting Hank Jr. I mentioned it to his son, CJ never had! When his son asked him about it CJ said, "Son, one dirty diaper is just like another."
I knew some local rock musicians including Les Wallace, who was a very good guitar player. His band was opening for Fleetwood Mac and classic movie style, their guitar player had something happen at the last minute and after Les led I believe Pot Liquor, he performed with Fleetwood Mac. He thought he would impress them so he went to the local music store and bought an electric guitar he paid over a thousand for, on credit. The guitar left town with Fleetwood Mac and they never gave it back. Les was pissed and never performed on stage again! Studio sessions from then on. Les was a true guitarzan and didn't understand why people would get upset when he woke up in the middle of the night with an idea and fired up the concert amps in a one or two bedroom apartment at two or three in the morning. He got kicked out of a lot of apartments!
Bill Ball was one of those guys that could play anything from guitar to bagpipes. His band opened for David Allen Coe, oncet! Bill was highly intelligent but his mind was out in left field that night. They decided to impress Coe and his band with their fan status and did a full set of Coe songs right before Coe came on. Coe and his band huddled up when he came on stage. "What are we gonna play?" "I don't know, those son of a bitches just played every song we know!"
With two older siblings still alive there was a piano and a handful of guitars and drums and such around the house when I was growing up. I was born tone deaf and had zero talent with any instrument and couldn't carry a tune in a bucket myself!
There were a half-dozen country stores in a small area belonging to people on my mom's side of the family and she had a department store in a prosperous farm town herself before marriage. All the country stores had one pool table and a juke box. I hit the ground listening to country and black music before and during mo-town. The jukeboxes were a nickel a play or six or seven songs for a quarter. The supplier came and reloaded the jukeboxes once every two weeks but the really hot records might be worn out in three or four days which didn't stop them being played constantly until they melted to the point they wouldn't play at all.
Hu
Here's one that Floyd Tolston wrote and performed. Came within a gnat's ass of going national. He wrote some serious songs too. Somebody else that opened for some big acts but this was after retirement and the agents told him he was great but not marketable! He made two or three CD's before they went out of style. He still has a roomful of one CD pressed just before streaming took over!
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You put this thing in SW Houston I’m in. North, East or far South I’m out.
Houston is fairly poolroom-rich as well. Quite a few places to play there. I could see a member-only co-op deal in a smaller 'pool desert' area but in a big city with plenty of spots not so much. And you're dead on about the drive, H'town is one spread out place. I'll drive more in two days there than i do in a month at home. Crazy traffic.
Yep and if you hadn’t been down here in a while traffic has gotten much worse in the last few years if you can believe that.