{"id":215,"date":"2007-05-18T08:50:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T08:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2007\/05\/18\/austin_music_ha\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T08:50:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T08:50:44","slug":"austin_music_ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2007\/05\/18\/austin_music_ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Music Hall might actually live up to its name now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/content\/business\/stories\/other\/05\/18\/18austininc.html\">Statesperson is reporting<\/a> (registration required or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/\">not<\/a>) the Austin Music Hall is being torn down and renovated to the tune of $5 million. The renovations will expand capacity to 4,000 and add a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Thank diety. I&#8217;ve been to exactly three shows at Austin Music Hall, and I&#8217;ve hated every one.<\/p>\n<p>The first show was the Community Service Tour in 1999, featuring the likes of Crystal Method and the Orb. I didn&#8217;t know what to expect, so imagine my bemusement at being packed like cattle into a warehouse. The sound was awful, and the view of the stage wasn&#8217;t much of a view. The second show was Weezer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terribly-happy.com\/\">OmarG<\/a> had an extra ticket, and I wanted to see what the whole Weezer fuss was about. A frat boy made me spill my beer on me, and he had the nerve to tell me to watch it. Also, I ended up not liking Weezer. The third show was the Smashing Pumpkins. It wasn&#8217;t a bad experience, but I enjoyed seeing them at Pink&#8217;s Garage in Honolulu ca. 1992 way, way more.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Music Hall was just a bad idea. Plop a stage in a warehouse, call it a music hall and stash as many bodies into the pit till it&#8217;s a fire hazard. Uh, no.<\/p>\n<p>Bands I like don&#8217;t tend to play at the Music Hall, so avoiding the place hasn&#8217;t been much of an issue. Even if I did like a band, their booking at the Music Hall would be the dealbreaker. &quot;Yeah, I like you, but not that much &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>So, good riddance, Austin Music Hall of Olde. When the renovations are finished, perhaps then I can enjoy a show there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Music Hall is being torn down and renovated to the tune of $5 million. The renovations will add seating for 4,000 and a restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-of-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-3t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}