Learning to Listen, in a Los Angeles Cafe Built for Vinyl

Re:Learning to Listen, in a Los Angeles Cafe Built for Vinyl by shams93 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:32AM (#20112104)

Vinyl is kind of silly compared to supporting actual live music especially I'm a city like LA with such a tremendously rich variety of live music acts. Not to knock vinyl but it's like why build a cafe for vinyl in la where there are so many tremendous live talents lacking space to perform?

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Re:Learning to Listen, in a Los Angeles Cafe Built for Vinyl by rwmj on Thursday June 06, 2019 @03:52AM (#20112441)

Are vinyl cafes crowding out live music venues? If not then they're two different things, like asking why open a noodle bar when there's so many good cakes around.

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Re:Learning to Listen, in a Los Angeles Cafe Built for Vinyl by wgj on Thursday June 06, 2019 @11:35AM (#20115531)

One reason is because it invites an entirely different relationship with ASCAP that many cafe and bar owners aren't ready to deal with. You'll be required to pay licensing for playing pre-recorded music as well, but the rules and the amount of money are easier.

A second reason for many shops is that they don't have the space or layout to accommodate live performers, or their lease forbids it.

A third reason for bars (probably not cafes, unless they also sell wine/beer) is that in most states live music requires a different liquor license, and switching licenses can mean going through the whole approval process from scratch, or it may be a license you can't qualify for at all.

Lastly, somebody will have to act as booking agent, because those performers won't hire and schedule themselves. This also costs time and money.

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Re:Learning to Listen, in a Los Angeles Cafe Built for Vinyl by locklock on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:38AM (#20112671)

You can ignore a record spinning on a turntable while you're having a drink, it's a bit harder to ignore a live band playing in the same room

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Re:Learning to Listen, in a Los Angeles Cafe Built for Vinyl by granshaw on Thursday June 06, 2019 @09:13AM (#20114209)

Right, it’s a completely different vibe - the live experience is like no other, but the audio quality is often too loud and harsh and crap, whereas listening in the vinyl cafe would be at the other end of the spectrum

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