NBC: Los Angeles’ Best Venue: Spaceland? Or Troubadour?
By Ryan - Tuesday May 12th 2009 |
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Anybody who reads this site with any sort of regularity no doubt knows my passion for pointless surveys and user-generated polls (more examples here, if you must). As such, it thrills me to no end to now direct you to our colleagues over at NBC Los Angeles who, in a new (presumably and hopefully recurring) feature titled “The Golden Local”, ask their readers which of the following rock venues deserves the title Best Local Venue: Spaceland? Or Doug Weston’s Troubadour? You have but 14 hours left to cast your vote at press time; get over there and be heard right now, and don’t forget to list the reason why you’re voting for who you’re voting for. One of our recent favorites:
SMOKE SAYS
The Troub will sell me smokes, but Spaceland will let me Smoke my Smokes inside; as a Smoker, I appreciate being surrounded by Smoke and increasing to the overall Smokiness of the Smoked Air.
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I saw one wild T.S.O.L. show at the Troubadour. The band members took a passed out girl and tossed her in the crowd by arms and legs….troubadour wins
Glad to see this item raised. NBC is so proud of this dumb survey they even ran a TV spot for it during Poker After Dark. But the question is inherently flawed because the two venues are too vastly different aethetically and culturally to be directly compared. This is really not a question of “Best” but a question of “favorite”. (Which would be the Troub for me.)
Troub does have corn dogs at the Soul Kitchen… Spaceland has formidable cheap Big Beers on tap!… troub has parking… spaceland has no phone signal thus no pointless hassles during the gig… troub has balconies… spaceland has glass-cased smokeony…
spaceland has an edge with smoking (oops!) and cheap beer. parking sucks at both.
Does Spaceland give free ice water like the Troub? Hardly any interesting non-local acts come to Spaceland anymore now that the Echo/Echoplex monopoly is hogging them. Troubadour is hurting too, but they still get more epic shows.
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Troubador is far better. Spaceland is not even in the same league. The sound is much better at the troubador. You can’t even hear the whole band at Spaceland because they have the bass up so loud it mutes everything else out. They are on different sides of town and I live in between them, but if I was on the east side I would just go to the echo.