Dude I love that town the kids there love music nowadays. They've kept talking about us for a long time. We still get messages from people who say my friend saw you in Poactello.

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Originally posted by RacerX:
"Metric shit pounds"?

Think in kilograms for metric, dood.

You would know that, commie! you fell right into my trap to expose you! I guess my ignorance of the metric system just means I have to much freedom for you to handle, huh?

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You would know that, commie! you fell right into my trap to expose you! I guess my ignorance of the metric system just means I have to much freedom for you to handle, huh?

Haha, well, unfortunatly the metric system actualy makes a hell-of-alot more sense. Just thought I would add that. Your not really a commie are you Racer?

Oh man, RacerX is as commie as they come. Have a conversation with him. Dude's always, "Workers this and proletariat that," and he's got more cats in his house than televisions in, so you know how THOSE kind of people are.

Yep. I'd have moved to Cuba long ago if it weren't for the dodgy electricity.

Viva Castro!

Up the Irons!!

Powerchords for the Proletariat!!!

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Originally posted by Levi Eleven:
wow, yeah. that looks a shit-ton better than our crawl. a dedicated website? with a music player? a cd compilation? three outdoor stages? A line to get into downtown? more venues? and that city is only one bigger than us in largest us cities. also, 8 is a much more reasonable start time. You could almost walk to el paso and phoenix from there...

let's all move there.

it gets better! they even have an unofficial anti-crawl every year. We played it this year and it was tons of fun. Apparently the club crawl is not liked by alot of the local musicians as everyone in attendance hated it in a similar way to albuquerque folks. They had the same things to say "too many jocks, too many cops."

Heres a few more to add to the list… I wouldn’t say “Sketchy Tour Venues” But they might help if looking for a place to play out of ALBQ.

Modified Arts – Phoenix, AZ a cool all ages art gallery, Stage and PA but no bar however good crowd and decent merch sales. Look them up on myspace.

Neverland – St. George UT another cool all ages! Its an old school gym with good stage workable PA, again no bar. Great crowd, great merch sales. Again on myspace

House of Rock n Roll – El Paso, TX ok, venue. Cool stage and PA and bar! We played on an unprompted Tuesday night, so who knows… I’m sure with some decent promoting it could be decent. Plus they also give you an STD pay by the hour motel room for free! So at least it’s a place to stay if needed.

The Bean – Las Cruces, NM Small coffee shop – No Stage, No PA, No Bar (I know it doesn’t sound promising) But we had an awesome crowd and lots of merch sales. Best to book with a decent local Las Cruces band, so they can bring a PA. lol

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Originally posted by Don't Make Me KILL You:
The Bean – Las Cruces, NM

The Bean closed down last summer. I know b/c I'm friends with the guy who used to book it.

Now the cool Las Cruces venue is The Farm.
Chris Mason books it. He's formerly of The Answer Lies and is currently in Shangalang. Good people.

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I wouldn’t say “Sketchy Tour Venues”

Totally. This thread is misnamed.

I'll throw "Q-Time" in Las Cruces in there as a cool tour venue. PJ was cool as shit to us when we went down there. Money would have been better but we played RIGHT before ... err... maybe it was Warped Tour?.... I don't remember. So the crowd was slightly lackluster.

Great place though. And he's been doing massive improvements on it. The name just changed though.... and I'll be damned if I remember what the new one is.

Hey I've heard of places in farmington, Socorro(not the college but a bar of some sort), and Alamagordo. Anybody know what they are and has anyone played there.

I just thought since its that time of year when bands hit the road, that I'd pull this thread out from under the troll shit and shake the dust off of it.

What's the word on venues? We're working on a thing after our CD release in May. So far we got a few places, but in a lot of the towns we're hitting, venues don't want to book anything if its during the week; they only do weekends.

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Originally posted by Skreech:
Hey I've heard of places in farmington, Socorro(not the college but a bar of some sort), and Alamagordo. Anybody know what they are and has anyone played there.

I've heard good things about Gator's in Farmington, good pay.

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Originally posted by boomhead:
Anyone have any luck in Tucson?

We have played the surley wench and that went okay. We've also played a few warehouse type places but I have no idea how you'd book them. Our friends out there set everything up.

Also played vaudeville and that was cool. It was pretty slow on sunday or monday but I think a weekend show would do well.

The best place to play is probably club congress but I think you need to be bigger to play there.

I have a huge list of good and bad tour venues. No time to post it right now though. Maybe later.

In tucson we've played the Plush and a punk space named Boardwalk Basement or something like that.

The place in Socorro is called the Capitol Bar, no PA but those college kids down there are bored as fuck, and treat you like rock-stars. We played there with Scenester and Kimo. I little way into Kimo's set I heard an old cowboy say: "little guy sure has a good voice". Walking in it was a little bit like the shit-kicker bar scene in The Blues Brothers. But we didn't get into any fights.

Harry / U7d

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Originally posted by unit7drain:
Walking in it was a little bit like the shit-kicker bar scene in The Blues Brothers. But we didn't get into any fights.

Harry / U7d

We leave the fighting to the customers, and it happens. Thanks for the Socorro tip. Got any contact info?

Yeah:

Capitol Bar
110 Plaza St
Socorro, NM 87801
(575) 835-1193

Harry / U7d

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vaudeville

we played there for the spring crawl in tucson and they have an amazing PA for such a small venue!