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Other bands would call it dangerous, but I preferred to call it "adventurous." | Other bands would call it dangerous, but I preferred to call it "adventurous." | ||
If you were a drummer, you were sequestered in | If you were a drummer, you were sequestered in the very back corner of the bar area behind the band, house amplifiers, and the pool table (added in the mid 1990s) and had you had to move your equipment just to get out from behind your drum set. | ||
If you had a buddy who was a keyboardist, he would complain because he would actually have to set his or her equipment up ''in the food serving area.'' Everybody knows that keyboardists are distant snobs though, so nobody listened to them. | If you had a buddy who was a keyboardist, he would complain because he would actually have to set his or her equipment up ''in the food serving area.'' Everybody knows that keyboardists are distant snobs though, so nobody listened to them. | ||
Revision as of 03:33, 3 June 2022
Bernie's Bagels & Deli, formerly known as Bernie's Bagels and Distillery, was a dive bar located near the campus of the Ohio State University. The hole-in-the-wall bar and restaurant shuttered it's doors after 40 years in 2015. For some reason, after 7 years of being gone, the place still has a website.[1] The owners sold the building to a development company who subsequently tore the whole block down and rebuilt.[2]
Currently, the address of Bernie's Bagels & Deli is a CVS pharmacy.
Anecdotal Evidence
I've actually played at Bernie's. The stage had a hole in it for several years. The hole was carpeted over by some genius who also left some screws sticking up. It was big enough to swallow your foot up to the ankle, if you were dumb enough to not see it.
Other bands would call it dangerous, but I preferred to call it "adventurous."
If you were a drummer, you were sequestered in the very back corner of the bar area behind the band, house amplifiers, and the pool table (added in the mid 1990s) and had you had to move your equipment just to get out from behind your drum set.
If you had a buddy who was a keyboardist, he would complain because he would actually have to set his or her equipment up in the food serving area. Everybody knows that keyboardists are distant snobs though, so nobody listened to them.
Finally, the bassist would usually set up on the right side of the stage and sit on a couple of stacked milk crates and play his instrument in the dankest, darkest part of the venue. This is normal bassist behavior.
It was fucking great.
Then, finally, the sound guy is always late.
Testimonials
From the sound guy:
I was the sound guy there, which came with challenges and opportunities, I guess you could say, because every day was crisis mode. There'd be days you would come in and the entire sound system would be gone, and it was like, 'OK, what do I do?' Everyone did their best, but the budget was non-existent, so a lot of it was stuff people left there. 'Oh, I need cables.' Well, fortunately cables were left here. I'll just get my soldering gun.[3] 
Just going to say it straight, everybody hated the sound guy.
Other times, the destruction was more widespread. The owner once recalled the morning he walked into the men's room to clean the toilet, only to find it missing. He later found it stashed in a back hallway.
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