Via Blog-Bud Andy...
As I said at Andy's place:
This one bears watching several times on a number of levels. The music is great, the woman singing is better, and the bar gestalt is right-frickin'-on. I've seen a lot of music videos set in bars but this one is the best, ever. I'm stealing it, too.
One of these days I'm gonna write a post about the two bars we had in Westby, Montana (the comments to that post are very interesting)... population 250. They were located one across the street from the other... one was The Old Man's Bar and the second was the young folks hang out. Both places were much as you see in the video above; almost EXACTLY, actually. Sundays in either bar were especially interesting as Montana had no blue laws whereas Saskatchewan and NoDak DID. We had every drunk within a 50-mile radius of Westby (on the NoDak/Sask. sides, anyhoo) invade us on Sunday afternoons/evenings/nights... it could get pretty wild from time to time.
Seventh Grade in Scobey. Yeah.
ReplyDeleteWe had three bars and the Vets Club. If memory serves me correctly. It was 66-67.
You went to the bar in seventh grade, Glenn? My hat is OFF...
ReplyDeleteThanks for that, Buck. I'm wandering down my Reader, and haven't gotten to S-Andy's joint yet.
ReplyDeleteI'll be sure and thank him, too.
I JUST noticed that in the shot of the vid that sits there before you hit play, there's a sign in the background that says 'HOCKEY."
ReplyDeleteSerendipitous.
You JUST noticed that? That was the first thing I saw.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I ain't no hockey fan.
Mjustsayin'...
I saw it on my second or third time through. I've watched this vid a LOT this weekend. It's that good.
ReplyDeleteIt is good. Though I never was much of a barfly...probably only been in half a dozen (I do my drankin' at home), the set up of the video is classic.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a joint outside Durango that I once went in. I went in to talk to an alcoholic Indian whose wife begged me to. She was afraid to go in there, because...well, it's a loooooong story.
Regardless, that video is a keeper.
Durango, Colorado? The wife of a drunken Indian? Andy, you gots sto-ries, methinks.
ReplyDeleteYeah Buck, I lived on the Southern Ute Rez outside DGO for four years.
ReplyDeleteBTW, it was "The Billy Goat" bar. Appropriate.
Red River has two bars across the street from each other. When the band takes a break in one bar, everyone heads across the street - back and forth. But the bar in this video reminds me of the Whiskey Road to Ruin in Logan, NM.
ReplyDeleteLou: The bars in Westby never competed with each other where music was concerned. It was pretty rare to have ANY sort of music other than the jukebox, actually. But it did happen occasionally.
ReplyDeleteIn 1981, my sister lived in Westby, Montana. Her son was born there! Wow.
ReplyDeleteI missed your sister by three years, Jewel. I left Westby in 1978. Small world, eh?
ReplyDeleteIt really is, and nothing is smaller than Westby in a Big state.
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