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I know SC has a specific issue,

May 15, 2024, 9:33 AM

but I've also read about the rapid closure of many small live music venues in UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/11/british-nightlife-taylor-swift-venues-artists

I have to wonder if it's specifically the confluence of three things---IMO, in this order:

1. Isolation. People just do not go out for entertainment anymore. It used to be enough to have a space with a bar with a band, 4 domestic beer selections, a trough to pee in, and maybe some hot wings. Going to a ballpark to watch a weekend game with hotdogs, peanuts, and beer was all you expected. But now both of these have to sit within a centralized entertainment district to draw a crowd, full of escape rooms, paint & sip experiences, and craft popcorn stalls. It's just too much time, effort, and $$ to go now, and choose to splurge on Uber Eats & catch the highlights on YouTube instead.

2. The death of rock music, and rock radio stations. I love rock music, but take a look a the current top-40. Back when I was in my 20's, everybody knew the top-10. But I'd bet that if you took a poll of Clemson students today, less than 10% would have listened to a single song on this list. How many of these have you even heard? These bands would tour and get heavy promotion from radio stations, which have a fraction of the audience, today. Now, it's a fringe genre with no cohesive, mainstream audience.

https://www.iheart.com/playlist/rock-top-40-312064750-NJCTNpPvjHrjdW92uGvRBG/

3. Inflation. Rents, cost of goods, and the cost of owning & operating these venues, to your point, have gone through the roof. It's not a coincidence that that's happening while real estate prices in SC are through the roof---it's by design.

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absolutely correct that the liability insurance has gotten out of hand here, and that's what the SC Venue Crisi group is working to resolve.

https://scvenuecrisis.org/

It's a little easier for a restaurant that serves a lot of food and has longer hours to meet that insurance premium, but for a pure music venue...not so much. Of course, the bulk of those that host live music usually stick with local artists and don't have to pay very much for entertainment. An independent venue that hosts regional or national acts, opens the doors at 7pm, and doesn't really serve much in the way of food just can't survive in this state. I see this as a big reason you'll start seeing less independent restaurants that might have had some form of live music and more Applebee's, O'Charley's, Longhorn Steakhouses, etc. taking their place because the corporate joints can more afford the insurance. That replacement will be slower in tourist areas, but it will KILL independents in parts of the state that don't have that tourist draw.

Another one bites the dust.

My buddy and I were driving down Clemson Blvd in summer 2003

Re: My buddy and I were driving down Clemson Blvd in summer 2003

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so you said no to ta hoe.***

Turned down her invite to the southern ball thing and sold my tickets to the

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Clemson in 2003 was the place to be

Re: Besides my educational failures, McLovin be like

Jimmy was walkin' round with an afro and BDE.***

Since you keep receipts for everything,

I'll share you ones similar to the ones you shared of

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Nah, that's somebody I currently associate with and call a friend,

Here's what I can do

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I know SC has a specific issue,

Those things definitely contribute.

I dunno about #2 so much.

Also, SC's problem isn't as much skyrocketing rent prices or any of the other

I think that's what ATLOrange meant by SC having a unique problem, but you're

We keep voting for the politicians that set these stupid laws

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