A concert at Reno’s The Underground…
Experience date: 4/2/2009
stars ~ .5
My second time at The Underground in Reno, was to see a show by an underground hip hop group Matt liked called Swollen Members. According to their website, show was starting at 7:30, doors at 7. Naturally, we hung out at Matt’s until about 9ish eating some fantastic Papa Murphy’s pizza dinner and having you know just a couple Coors Lights. My roommate/cousin Holly was joining us tonight and we were all pretty excited it was almost the weekend and we had something fun to do on a Thursday evening.
Anyway, getting back to the review. I remembered why I don’t go to The Underground. Its lame. We paid 20 bucks to see the show, arrived purposefully late and the show still didn’t start for a couple more hours. (Why do some venues promote obnoxiously early start times?) We could only hang out and enjoy a beer in the half of the establishment that allowed 21+ to drink (the other half–where the show actually happens–had some sort of restriction, though it had a huge bar fully stocked with no people and empty bar stools). We did find some entertainment in Holly and I switching I.D.’s and still making it past the door guy between rooms.
Swollen Members was pretty good, but by the time they came on I was a couple deep (seeing as how we were segregated to hours of drinking in a room with no live music, forcing us to slam beers and go back to check on the show status several times, wondering if we were missing it). After so much waiting around I was less interested in bopping around than I normally would be at a show, and didn’t enjoy having to deal with avoiding fights started by punk little white boys.
Entertaining OURSELVES at The Underground
Over it before the band ended, we took off and hit McD’s on the way home. But that’s another review. I’m giving The Underground .5 stars.
.5, and that is taking in to account the first time I was there and the owner bought me a shot. Sorry Underground, I’m not coming back.
