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« on: April 18, 2005, 09:47:17 pm »
What are your top 3 favorite venues that you\'ve been to?  Let\'s go with Breakfast venues, and overall.  Also, seperate categories for indoor and outdoor.

Wolfy\'s 3 Favorite Breakfast Venues
INDOOR
1. Butterfield
2. Webster Theater
3. Toad\'s (post-fence era)

OUTDOOR
1. Chittendon Park
2. Baker Quad
3. Branstock

Overall Favorite Venues
INDOOR
1. Radio City, NYC
2. Great American Music Hall, San Fran
3. Calvin Theater, Northampton

OUTDOOR
1. Red Rocks
2. Deer Creek
3. Butternut Basin (Berkfest)

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« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2005, 10:51:38 pm »
Breakfast Venues
INDOOR
1. Puppet House (except when locked in)
2. Toad\'s
3. tie: The Call/Cafe Nine/Porters
4. Pickle Barrel, Killington (didnt see PB there but know they have played there once, cool spot in my opinion)
1,000,000. The Living Room

OUTDOOR
No basis for judgement that I can recall besides greens of New Haven and Guilford.

Overall Favorite Venues
INDOOR
1. Pepsi Arena, Albany
2. New Haven Coliseum (don\'t ask)
3. Electric Factory, Philly
1,000,000. Tie: Fleetcenter & The Palladium

OUTDOOR
1. Post Gazette Pavilion @ Star Lake, Burgettstown, PA
2. Meadows (see New Haven)
3. Red Rocks (never been but it looks phenomenal)
1,000,000. Tweeter Center, NJ and MA
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« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2005, 10:59:45 pm »
only seen the Breakfast at High Sierra and in Columbus (Little Brother\'s) sooo overall:

OUTDOOR
1.Red Rocks
2.Mishawaka
3.Big Meadow Stage @ H.S.M.F.
honorable mention: Alpine Valley

INDOOR
1.any venue at H.S.M.F. (esp. Funk \'N Jam House)
2.House of Blues Chicago
3.Cervante\'s Masterpiece (Denver)
honorable mention: Fillmore (Denver)
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« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2005, 11:07:15 pm »
indoor=porters, toads
outdoors=lots
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« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2005, 11:15:07 pm »
Breakfast Indoor

Toad\'s
Puppet House
Butterfield


Breakfast Outdoor

Maine
Chittendon
New Haven Green

Overall Indoor

The Fabulous Fox Theater (Atlanta)
Radio City Music Hall
Hammerstein Ballroom

Overall Outdoor

Red Rocks
Alpine Valley
Pompano Beach Amphitheater
Switching peeping observing and licking
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« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2005, 11:17:34 pm »
indoor: (Breakfast)
1.Funk Box
2.Pickle Barrel
3.Le Bar Bat. New York City .cute place, check out the pics
4. Knitting Factory

these top 4 because they all have real cool walkways along the top where you can look right down on the band birds eye/ or( run around dancin)

Outdoor:
1.Guilford Green
2. Baja Bash
3. extrava***** stage (amherst)

woodbury ski and...nevermind
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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2005, 12:37:10 am »
Stephengencs 3 Favorite Breakfast Venues
INDOOR
1. Callahans
2. Sully\'
3. UAC
3. Porters

OUTDOOR
1. Wah\'s Jack and Jill
2. Branstock
3. Wah\'s Jack and Jill

Overall Favorite Venues
INDOOR
1. Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale
2. Pepsi Arena, Albany
3. Radio City, NYC

OUTDOOR
1. Keyspan Park, WOOKLYN
2. SPAC, Saratoga Springs
3. The Meadows, Hartford
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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2005, 08:22:17 am »
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2. SPAC, Saratoga Springs


Ooohhh, that\'s a good one.  You can play Frisbee all day on lush grass in the Greek gardens and hear the show perfectly, all without a ticket.

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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2005, 08:46:42 am »
The Mishawaka would be a great place for these guys to play.  i love it there...

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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2005, 05:20:40 pm »
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The Mishawaka would be a great place for these guys to play.  i love it there...


amen.. was driving through the Poudre about a week ago and thought about it a few times.
The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sagethicket. "Vamanos amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintscraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.  --Eli Cash