Which would you try first: Hootie and the Blowfish or a dive bar?

[KamaAina]

[av8rdave]

1. My daughter, through an internship she was doing, got me free Hootie tickets last year

The show was surprisingly a lot of fun. They performed in a Texas honky tonk of all places. But if you really listen to their stuff, a lot of it comes dangerously close to country music.

That being said, I've had some fun in dive bars too, so it would be a toss up for me.

[taterguy]

2. Lasted about 15 minutes when I saw Hootie at a dive bar in 1994

I was mostly there for the opening act.

[astral]

3. I like their hold my hand song. That's all I know.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. All the musicians in my band had a special place in our hearts for dive bars.

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Our dream -- never ever realized... but really really CLOSE sometimes -- was to
play a bar SO dive-y that we'd need chicken wire across the front of it for our
protection (a la Blues Brothers).
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We had 8 people in the band -- and the beginning of the first set in most dives
was played to no more than several people in the audience (though there might be
hundreds shoulder-to-shoulder later on). My favorite line at that point was "We
just LOVE playing to a crowd this small... because if you get ugly, we can kick
your ass."
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