BUD wrote:
It's unfortunate to see the Mezz go. It seems the Concert Pub among others were already taking over for awhile, at least on Thur through Sat, the nights we play. I hope everyone was happy elsewhere before the closing.
The Mezz lost their Tuesday night team a couple of years ago for several reasons. First, they scheduled a live trivia game smack in the middle of Showdown, which diverted core players SLOTEK, D MOB, and HUNTER. Then for some reason the wait staff decided that even on evenings when those of us whAo stuck with NTN/BT were the only customers in the upstairs bar, they should put the jukebox on full blast right in front of us so communication became impossible. Given that SRO OT was COOGS's home bar, that we literally drove by it every time we went to Mezz, and that Tim/Dingo and Mike/MIKEEE who we knew from Catbirds and Cosmos were already playing there, we joined them the first night of a McCarthy Cup and just never went back to Mezz on Tuesdays. The others moved to Concert Pub or stopped playing. Mezz did however keep a Wednesday night team until the end, although some weeks the players did live trivia elsewhere instead.
Concert Pub doesn't really play on Wednesdays. COOGS and I used to be at Coaches Pub every Wednesday, but then they got rid of karaoke, so if we want to do that as well as play, we go to JB's for trivia (shows up still as Mike's Place) and then down the road to a karaoke show put on by a KJ we met many years ago at Mezzanine.
Brooke/AARDVK