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Having fun at a bar, DT style
« on: January 03, 2010, 10:13:40 PM »
Do you go to bars, only to be annoyed by dance music or whatever crap people decide to play?  Well, I took revenge for all of you.  I went to a bar with some friends over holiday break, and the bar had one of those internet jukeboxes.  For $5, I created the following setlist (songs chosen for their length only):

Octavarium
Learning To Live
In The Name of God
The Glass Prison
The Count of Tuscany

The procession of sluts leaving was legendary, I wish I would have thought to take a video.  The great part was that I got to catch up with old friends I haven't seen in 10+ years while enjoying great music, and I didn't have to shout to have a conversation.

The great part is that since DT songs tend to be longer, you get more bang for your buck than most people  :biggrin:
     

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2010, 10:15:10 PM »
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2010, 10:18:09 PM »
I've never heard of/seen an Internet jukebox before, but that's pretty sick!
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2010, 11:32:34 PM »
The procession of sluts leaving was legendary, I wish I would have thought to take a video.

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2010, 02:22:02 AM »
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Seriously, internet jukeboxes are a great idea!
Surely one day they'll work out it would be simpler and far more legal just to suckle on each others' teats in a kind of wonderful 69 of eternal calcium goodness.

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2010, 04:36:44 AM »
Enjoy the fail that is my local:

If songs like that are put on, the people behind the bar mute the jukebox and put CDs on.

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2010, 04:59:05 AM »
The guy who does karaoke at the bar I usually go to is a DT fan. Every week he plays at least one song for him and I to enjoy.  

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2010, 06:25:28 AM »
This is awesome. I wish I had been there. There should be some sort of communal bar where DT fans can go meet every week and just rock out to awesome music. :D
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2010, 06:35:26 AM »
I once played home at a bar.  I forgot how awkward the middle section is.

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2010, 08:47:11 AM »
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2010, 08:51:43 AM »
I do this occasionally at our Thursday Happy Hour place.  I've routinely played their cover of Love Lies Bleeding, but have been known to play Under a Glass Moon and Metropolis as well.

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2010, 08:56:11 AM »
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2010, 09:00:32 AM »
The procession of sluts leaving was legendary
Something tells me you're doing this whole "bar" thing wrong.
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2010, 09:52:17 AM »
My SU bar used to have Wither and Hollow Years on the jukebox. I was dead impressed. Used to mix it with a bit of Muse and APC for a good twenty minutes of music.

Then they changed it to a shitty one which only has R&B and epileptic visuals of girls shooting each other. Apparently it was a better deal. Gutted. :(

They also got smaller pool tables. Booo!

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2010, 10:05:02 AM »

They also got smaller pool tables.

I thought they were standard size?

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2010, 11:14:09 AM »
Do you go to bars, only to be annoyed by dance music or whatever crap people decide to play?  Well, I took revenge for all of you.  I went to a bar with some friends over holiday break, and the bar had one of those internet jukeboxes.  For $5, I created the following setlist (songs chosen for their length only):

Octavarium
Learning To Live
In The Name of God
The Glass Prison
The Count of Tuscany

The procession of sluts leaving was legendary, I wish I would have thought to take a video.  The great part was that I got to catch up with old friends I haven't seen in 10+ years while enjoying great music, and I didn't have to shout to have a conversation.

The great part is that since DT songs tend to be longer, you get more bang for your buck than most people  :biggrin:

ive done this as well, thankfully it was at a bar that people mainly listened to rock at, and they didnt shut off the jukebox.  i went to a local show at a bar here and was amazed to hear 6:00 being played between bands tearing down and setting up.
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2010, 11:21:09 AM »

They also got smaller pool tables.

I thought they were standard size?
Not these ones. Tiny little buggers.

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2010, 04:58:15 PM »
You wanted to chase away the sluts? :lol
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2010, 05:08:40 PM »
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2010, 05:39:26 PM »
The procession of sluts leaving was legendary
Something tells me you're doing this whole "bar" thing wrong.

Jeeze, thank you. Even as someone who doesn't like bar sluts, I mean, let's consider this for a moment.

I like to request music, but I like to be sure it's appropriate for the atmosphere. Fortunately, that means I can get some Rush and Metallica in there, but I've never felt the need to request something flat out ridiculous like Master of Puppets. Why? Because then I'm that guy who's just killing the atmosphere. Why are you proud of bring that guy???
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #23 on: January 04, 2010, 05:45:46 PM »
that's a pretty cool idea.
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #24 on: January 04, 2010, 06:07:32 PM »
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #25 on: January 04, 2010, 10:26:24 PM »
You wanted to chase away the sluts? :lol

I was sort of thinking the same thing.  Sure those girls aren't my type at all, but at least a good amount of them are pretty to look at (please do not kill me awesome female members of DTF).  Whenever I try to sneak some prog in, I try and make sure its something softer (like Hollow Years or Wither), a song everyone seems to know (A Favor House Atlantic, Roundabout, Tom Sawyer), or awesome and commercially accessible, even if its little-known (Kayleigh, Trains), that way everybody sorta wins.  Putting on ludicrously long songs just seems very snobbish and to lots of people there, you are now a dick in their minds for ruining their nice time, even though they probably just went to the other bar across the street and got smashed while you seemed to have a nice time.
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #26 on: January 04, 2010, 10:34:35 PM »
I've never heard of/seen an Internet jukebox before, but that's pretty sick!
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #27 on: January 04, 2010, 11:48:19 PM »
Dick move.

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2010, 02:43:17 AM »
Tbf, if those bars are anything like the bars I go to - and I'd assume they are, given that they have a jukebox - everyone just puts on their own stuff anyway. That's kind of the whole point. It'll go from Toploader to Pantera to Tupac to Alice Cooper to Slayer in the blink of an eye, there is no unified atmosphere. People might sing along if they're drunk enough when a song they know (or requested!) comes on, and then resume drinking and enjoying their time.

Heck, what's wrong with Dream Theater anyway? Put on the Residents if you want to clear the room, but DT play pretty palatable rock music for the most part. I very much doubt that the string of girls leaving had anything to do with the music that was on. Sure, Octavarium's a bit slow for eight minutes or so, but if you put on A Change of Seasons I doubt anyone's gonna be listening intently enough to realise that it's been the same song playing for the last twenty minutes. They're just going to hear "some rock song that they don't know" five times over - wow, you've sure ruined their pub atmosphere!

Seriously it's not like he put on some kind of avant-garde drone symphony. He felt like a bit of DT so he put it on. Bit abusive inasmuch as he got an hour's worth of music for the same price as what would usually constitute about 20 minutes' worth, but other than that I don't get why everyone's being so dicky about it. It's a bit of a laugh and he put some rockin' songs on. Fair play I say.

I mean don't get me wrong, the "URRRR get rid of the HATEFUL SINFUL PEEPLES" attitude to social interaction is completely baffling and a little bit Gollum if he's being serious (which I very much doubt), but it's not like he set off a chemical weapon. Give the guy a break.



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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #29 on: January 05, 2010, 06:02:36 AM »
One of the bars in Stornoway has Hocus Pocus by Focus on the jukebox :metal

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2010, 10:01:16 AM »
If some asshole can play that reggaeton crap for an hour that has the same beat in ever song, I don't see what's wrong with this.

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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #31 on: January 05, 2010, 10:01:31 AM »
The procession of sluts leaving was legendary
Something tells me you're doing this whole "bar" thing wrong.

:lol

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I mean, don't get me wrong, I love internet jukeboxes and I very often use them to play less known songs or more obscure bands or whatever, but generally I try to at least pick out stuff that other people wouldn't mind listening to.  I think it gets pretty obnoxious when people put on stuff that clearly does not fit in with the bar setting.  I mean, if I wanna listen to that, I can just go home and do it myself.

But then again, I did once find an internet jukebox that had everything from "Score" available on it, and I couldn't resist playing Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, since the entire song was on there as a single track :).  But generally speaking I do try to steer clear of being "that guy".

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« Reply #32 on: January 05, 2010, 09:39:36 PM »
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #33 on: January 06, 2010, 07:18:10 AM »
Do you go to bars, only to be annoyed by dance music or whatever crap people decide to play?  Well, I took revenge for all of you.  I went to a bar with some friends over holiday break, and the bar had one of those internet jukeboxes.  For $5, I created the following setlist (songs chosen for their length only):

Octavarium
Learning To Live
In The Name of God
The Glass Prison
The Count of Tuscany

The procession of sluts leaving was legendary, I wish I would have thought to take a video.  The great part was that I got to catch up with old friends I haven't seen in 10+ years while enjoying great music, and I didn't have to shout to have a conversation.

The great part is that since DT songs tend to be longer, you get more bang for your buck than most people  :biggrin:

You are godly. Last time I played songs on an internet jukebox they skipped it... [Rule 5'ed].
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Re: Having fun at a bar, DT style
« Reply #34 on: January 06, 2010, 07:29:01 AM »
I know you've only been here for 3 months, but I think that should be a sufficient amount of time to read the rules at least once.

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