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Originally Posted by applesoffh
I must agree with Dr. Boogie. My husband played in various bands in NYC for 40 years - classic rock, southern rock, acoustic material, trios, duos, 4 and 5 piece bands. His bands opened for The Gregg Allman Band, Zebra (huge in the City and L.I.), Mountain...anyway, we looked forward to the live bands when we moved down here, not because we dance (we don't) but we love most music genres. We've stopped going to any of the Squares. Too many times we were enticed by the captions of "exciting duo" or "fun singer" in Section D of The Sun. Invariably, it was a singer with canned music, and we'd leave. DJs are fine if you dance. Give me a real band any day. The advertising of "Live Music" every evening is a joke.
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The nightly music here on the squares is free, unlike admission and drinks to ANY venue in NYC or anywhere else. To us what's a "joke"--a really bad joke--is the cost of a night out in NYC, and the lack of personal safety to walk around at night as we have here in TV.
The merchants and developers are our hosts at these nightly town square gatherings. A host should be treated with respect and a gracious thank-you, not public trashing and condescension.