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at what age you stopped going to the night club?
When did you realized you were the old chick or old dude at the club lol Sep 14 13 09:30 am Link i stopped going after college. my biggest complaint was that often you can't talk in those places because the music is too loud. but maybe people aren't there for talk :-; Sep 14 13 09:32 am Link A-M-P wrote: 49 - still go. But as you get older you go for different reasons. Sep 14 13 09:37 am Link After my ex left me when I was 37 because 1.She was the 3rd straight disaster met at a club 2.I was close to becoming "that guy" 3.Long haired rocker dude in a ladder theory meat market environment where its gold digger/status symbol heaven means I do not fit in I go now to see bands I like,and generally because I am for the most part not interested in rocker chicks I just go to see good music,take pics ,and go home Sep 14 13 09:44 am Link I never started Sep 14 13 09:56 am Link After college. I Really didn't like them much in college and I liked them even less after. Sep 14 13 10:06 am Link They'll probably have to have wheelchair access to the cages and platforns for me in a few years... Sep 14 13 10:54 am Link I stopped going in my late 20s but when I go on occasion now I go for different reasons... To recruit new nude models  No seriously I hate night clubs now and all the drunken stupidity that goes on. I stay away from that mess. Sep 14 13 11:05 am Link Anna Adrielle wrote: +1 Sep 14 13 11:10 am Link at about 23 yo. too loud, too smoky (back then), bad music, etc. never liked them. clubs were always lowest common denominator meat markets. regular hotel bars, or city bars had--and still have--a far more interesting clientele. clubs are for poseurs and low self esteem types. Sep 14 13 11:10 am Link I stopped when a much younger man approached me at the bar and said "Pardon me Sir, do you have the time?" Sep 14 13 11:18 am Link I've never been.  Sep 14 13 11:24 am Link Around 35. Why did I stop going? No specific reason. I'd had reasonable success with relationships and one-night stands. Just lost the urge to keep doing that. You might say I aged out. Sep 14 13 12:19 pm Link I never really started going. Just not my thing. Sep 14 13 12:19 pm Link I still go, and some friends still go, mostly house music now. As long as I have DJ friends I'll more than likely go to something. Andrew Thomas Evans www.andrewthomasevans.com Sep 14 13 12:22 pm Link You can only go out floundering for floozies for so long, and then you just don't want to do that any more. Sep 14 13 12:28 pm Link 19. It was really never a place for me, and the music/lifestyle/culture was not to my tastes. I would never have gone, actually, had my friends at the time not had birthdays there and what not. So pretty much, I've always gone out of courtesy. I only go to small clubs nowadays for underground shows. Sep 14 13 12:52 pm Link A-M-P wrote: I've never stopped... still not the oldest dude either. We've got way too many funtime clubs around here to ever stop partyin... Sep 14 13 12:56 pm Link A-M-P wrote: When I got broke! Sep 14 13 01:23 pm Link Eurocat wrote: No! Sep 14 13 01:24 pm Link I went to a couple of clubs with the Spring Breakers in Acapulco. Had a lot of fun!  Sep 14 13 01:27 pm Link In my late twenties. I pretty much stopped going to them after I worked at one (bouncer and bartender). I was pretty disgusted with the human species for a while after that. Sep 14 13 01:38 pm Link Most of my friends stopped going at around 23. I'm turning 31 in a few weeks, and still enjoy it, even though I can no longer find anyone to go out dancing with me, because everyone fancies themselves "too old" for it now. For the past seven years, I've mostly just gone out alone, if I wanted to go out, found a spot by the speaker, danced my ass off for 3 hours, and gone home when I'm tired. At this point, my life doesn't facilitate much in the way of dance-time anyway, and I live out in the suburbs. Sep 14 13 01:44 pm Link I imagine I'll stop when they throw dirt on my coffin Sep 14 13 01:46 pm Link I don't go to night clubs  I think the main reason is to hook up with people, I don't need that at the momentSep 14 13 01:48 pm Link Jeez, it's been almost 30 years, since the Starck Club in Dallas was at its peak. Saw some great period shows there (Chris and Cosey and SPK were particularly memorable ones) but mostly it was for the DJs and the... um... spectacular rolling. But the Twilite Room had punk bands playing around the same time and it was kind of fun to go to both. Eventually the Starck was raided and collapsed but the Deep Ellum scene was in full bloom, and I had my radio show to do, so clubs kinda became a thing of the past for me since so much awesome music was happening all around. The wife and I still go to gigs occasionally and it doesn't feel weird at all because there are other older people at gigs as well. There's a whole generation of folks who grew up going to gigs and they aren't going to stop enjoying live bands just 'cuz they're old. Sep 14 13 01:52 pm Link Anna Adrielle wrote: +3 Sep 14 13 01:57 pm Link 32... because I moved away from Dallas to a place that didn't have anywhere to go. Gawd I miss Dallas. Sep 14 13 01:57 pm Link Those places bore me to tears. I've avoided them all my life. Sometimes I get dragged there against my will. To me, it's a silly environment of people getting drunk, looking at each other and being stupid. It basically exasperates me. On the other hand, it depends on what you mean my "night club." All my life I've been going out to meet people socially. It often starts around dinnertime. Sep 14 13 02:18 pm Link I'm pleasantly surprised to see I'm not the only one who never started going. My sister insisted I go with her once. I was about 30. I couldn't hear myself think. After we left, I reminded myself to never go back. I haven't. Sep 14 13 02:23 pm Link Never, and I'm 22. I have no desire to, either. It's not my scene-- I don't see the appeal of dancing with a bunch of sweaty, hygiene-disabled strangers only to be hit on by some 19 year old looking for a one night stand. Or worse, you get hit on by this guy:  PASS. Haha Sep 14 13 02:33 pm Link Um, 16 with my fake ID? Clubs suck and play usually terrible music. I would however would love to go to a club where they played 70's music or select dance tunes, nothing with a whistle and droned deep bass thanks! Sep 14 13 02:40 pm Link To correct the record, I rarely went to "clubs," although I did go to one or two during the disco era. Mostly, I went to dive bars in SoHo and Tribeca. You danced around the pool table, and there was sawdust on the floor to sop up the spilled beer. In a way, they were more like country & western bars, except that the music had more variety. Sep 14 13 02:43 pm Link Vivus Hussein Denuo wrote: Tell me you went to CBGB&OMFUG at some point. It doesn't have to be true. Just lie to me and tell me you saw The Ramones or Talking Heads or Television in the prime of their ascent. Sep 14 13 02:46 pm Link when i hit 30 Sep 14 13 02:47 pm Link Jules NYC wrote: I'll go with you! Sep 14 13 02:49 pm Link London Fog wrote: Let's man! Sep 14 13 02:51 pm Link Only went back couple times and thought they were dumb as hell and all huge waste of time and money. Sep 14 13 02:54 pm Link kickfight wrote: For some reason, I don't think of those establishments as 'clubs'. Sep 14 13 02:55 pm Link Jules NYC wrote: The club I worked at thirty-plus years ago had live music at least four nights a week. Robert Cray, Ronnie Montrose, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Junior Walker and the All-Stars, Albert Collins, Queen Ida (zydeco), Eek-a-Mouse (reggae), Nicolette Larson, just off the top of my head. Sep 14 13 02:56 pm Link |
