Great intimate venue for seeing live music...not a bad seat in the house (although you will probably end up standing, if you purchase general admission to a ticketed show). Good service at the bar, drink prices seemed reasonable, and I love that this spot is non-smoking. They don't sell food, but they will let you carry in take-out from one of the neighboring restaurants. Next time I see a show here, I will definitely purchase my tickets in advance and spring for the "VIP" seating, which scores you a reserved table for only a little more. In any event, I would be excited to return to this spot.
Review Source:Without a doubt, the best live music venue in the DFW area. Â The layout makes you feel like you are sitting onstage with the performers. Â Drinks are reasonably priced as well. Â The owner is usually there and the bar staff has not changed much in the last ten years that this place has been open. Â Truly a gem in Denton!
Review Source:To understand just how cool Dan's is, you need to go to a show there and hang out with Dan (and have a few drinks with him while you're at it). He is, without a doubt, the coolest, sweetest club owner I've ever met.
He understands what works and what doesn't. He understands the performer's perspective, which is all too rare in this business. He takes care of his staff as well as his customers.
As for some of the other reviews - if you find this place scary, then you're too easily scared and need to stay away (go hang in Uptown Dallas with the other douche bags - where you belong).
If the price ain't right, then you're a cheap bastard - stay away and continue to bitch and not support a local business and local music.
If you can find cheaper drinks, then good for you - drink up and then come to Dan's for a great show.
If it's too loud, then go talk to Jimmy - he'll have some words of wisdom for you.
Wonderful mix of people and a great mix of artists. It is simply the coolest hang for music that you could wish for.
I like Dan's. Â They host great music, have the best sound system I've heard in Denton, and the beer prices are okay. Â Most of the times I've gone, there has been an older crowd (25+), but that's one of the main reasons I like this place.
It's chill, and it's a good place to hang out, listen to some good music and enjoy a drink without have some dude-brah holler at your girl.
Forgive the prologue, but I'll get to why it's relevant, promise.
So during the summer between my senior year of high school and my first year of college (you know, during the Truman administration), I spent some time as a board operator for what was then a pretty small Houston talk radio station (which has since gone on to much bigger and better things).
They were based at the time in Tomball, northwest of Houston, and had taken over the former space of a AOR station (radio format talk for Album Oriented Rock, or what is now often called 'classic rock' format). Talk format stations are pretty slow business if you're listening to anything other than drive time, and I was running overnights from midnight to six AM. This meant that come about three or four o'clock in the morning, there would be some tax show on, and the entire building smelled like old equipment cleaner, and I had to fight falling asleep at the controls. Enter all the old vinyl they had on the shelves, and I'd sneak into the recording booth sometimes for thirty minutes at a time and listen to Steely Dan records, which beat the hell out of tax talk.
Fast forward to this week in Denton, where I finally made a maiden voyage to check out Dan's, a longstanding paragon of hip, where, as luck would have it, an elaborate ten piece band called Naked Lunch was belting out Steely Dan covers so strikingly accurate you'd swear if you closed your eyes that Fagen and Becker themselves were in there working some magic. So I have a soft spot for that material, and I would have loved that band if they were playing in a condemned parking lot.
But that doesn't really tell all of the story about why Dan's Silverleaf is flat amazing.
I've kept a keen eye on the shows that they book here, and this is clearly a room where a town full of music lovers congregate. That certainly was the case with the most counter-culture cover show I've about ever seen, but it's also the case with any of the up and coming indie acts that pass through this way, and they'll be home to a number of top shows happening during 35 Denton. If you love music and can get there, do it - the room plays shallow but somewhat wide, so even on crowded nights it's hard not to feel close to the stage. Bartenders were quick with a pour, and I mentioned they book like a champ. What else, really, is not to love?
Dan's silver leaf is a Gem of Denton.
It is a great place to discover new talents, support local musicians or musicians on tour from all over the country.
Dan's might not be trendy enough for some, but, in my opinion, is a fun and laid-back hanging out spot for many locals and visitors.
The silver has tarnished!
This weekend I took a road trip of sorts to see a concert with a friend at a small college friendly bar. After proving that my friend's iPhone navigation was useless, I pulled out my droid and found the place.
What we saw when we arrived was a long line. Why the line? Well it wasn't to buy tickets, we bought the tickets online. It was so the guy at the front counter could sign everyone into their "club" so we could buy drinks. This was a painfully slow process, compounded by the fact that my friend lost her driver's license and had to use her passport.
From the musty smell as you enter you know that Dan's Silver Leaf is not gonna exactly be a posh place. This old factory looked like it hasn't been cleaned in since it was a factory. It's a good thing the lights were very dimly lit, I am afraid of what I would find. The crowning achievement was on my trip to the bathroom. I was welcomed by the distinct aroma of urine permeating throughout. It seemed as if they mopped the floor with urine instead of Pinesol. I have had to go in some of the worse truck stops in West Texas and this place was still worse.
The few tables available were taken up by the first 20 people who arrived. The sound and the stage was pretty good for up close and personal concert viewing. There also is a patio out back that looked okay. The saving grace of the entire place was the cheap drinks ($3 for a regular and $5 for a double) and the two cute and efficient girls at the bar or else this place would have gotten the dreaded 1 star.
Bring a Hazmat Suit!
I always get talked in to coming here by a friend and always regret it. First off, paying a cover in Denton just always feels quite lame to me. There are enough no cover places where you can catch a good show that it feels like you are paying for the pretentiousness of this bar. Hipsters flock to this place for the live shows and I will admit I have seen a few good ones here, but most nights it sounds like a band recreating the mating calls of whales on stage. If you are gonna play in front of people at least try not to suck. The drinks are way too overpriced here as compared to other places in town. You can't smoke inside, but I don't mind that I guess. On most nights it is too loud to have a conversation with anyone around and the acoustics are terrible!
Review Source:Dan's is alright with me. Â I tend to shy away from it because their drink prices are far higher than most in Denton and the crowd, depending on the day/night, tends to be quite a bit older than myself and I'm pushing 30. Â I also avoid shows there because the cover is usually high and until recently, no one ever played that I wanted to see. Â Maybe I just hate singer/songwriters and acoustic guitars.
Review Source:Having just moved from Dallas to Denton I was heartbroken by the dominance of sports bars and over-priced music venues in this city. I was dragged to a show here one night and it was like stepping into a once lively Deep Ellum-esque bar (pre-2000). The place had quirky art on the walls, book shelves with paperbacks (I do wonder if anyone reads these), cheap drinks, and a spacious patio with its own bar and television screen so that you can watch the show from the outside.
Besides my experience there (which was wonderful!), I often see some impressive acts scheduled to play here. I cannot wait to return for more. If anything negative to say it is that the venue seems quite small and I wonder how the experience will be for a bigger act as the one I saw was quite intimate.
Note also that next door is a Fuzzy's Tacos... some good pre-gaming food before a night out.
There is no better place in Denton to grab a cold beer. Dan has a great ear for music too and is always booking top notch performers. Check out there musical calendar at <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danssilverleaf.com&s=61aabaef8a46154abef6a4ec5d5671aed4b77b41db6ef6de2dff32006700fcb7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.danssilverlea…</a> if your favorite band is playing at Dan's, I'm sure it will be special.
Review Source:Dan's has always been the premier venue for live music especially of the singer-songwriter, folk, country (real country), Texas swing variety but is also well versed in the rock and the roll not to mention an eclectic lineup of weekly residencies. You may hear a Mariachi band, fusion electric wankery, electronic, indie rock and hip hop all in the same week! And maybe even catch a freaky side show, poetry reading and theatrical play in between. Yes the have it all and the sound is usually great albeit a little loud at times.
But what would Dan's be without the bar? Ah yes the bar. The concrete turquoise springboard of good times that I've come to love. Recently they've introduced the daily special. Two Dollar Guinness on Mondays for instance, and domestic beer and a cuervo for 3 or 4 bucks on Tuesdays so now, as my friend Joe likes to say, you can't afford not to.
Well, alls I can say is see you at Dan's! (Now with less poles)
I really appreciate Dan's and have seen both Andrew WK and the Decemberists here. Â So clearly, some really good local and national artists choose to play Dan's, thank god. Â I think Dan's is second only to Rubber Gloves in the caliber of bands that play Denton, and it's a very close second.
The venue is almost hidden and doesnt have any signage out (you'll miss it if you blink) but look for the marquee sign and teal exterior walls. Â Inside you'll find a friendly staff, cheap beer, nice stage and good soundsystem. Â And a nice big patio for those humid summer nights. Â The crowd is a very chill mix of people and everyone is made to feel welcome.
This is a laid back, grungy college bar without being a typical grungy, college bar. Not once did I smell patchouli. Collage kids go here, but so do people in there 30s. Â
They have a lot of live music at Dan's and the bands that I've seen here have been really good. The beer is cheap and the bartenders are friendly and attentive. I also happened to go here this past spring when they had their Crawfish Boil: and they did the annual Mud-Bug Boil proper. The crawdaddies were good and spicy, and they also had Cajun sausage, potatoes, and corn. Everything was fantastic, but the corm was really hot, so you have officially been warned.
They also have a big patio area if you feel like sitting inside, and the inside is spacious. The only drawback to Dan's is that it can be a little hard to find. Make sure you go with a friend who's been there before, or get really directions.
Dan's is a great place to catch a show and on balmy days/evenings, they have a nice patio. You never know what kind of act will appear, mostly local acts perform but acts from outside the area regularly perform here. If you are the type to be persuaded by the opinions of journalists, the New York Times gave a high rating to Dan's.
Review Source:I've only been here once to see Petty Theft. Â But it was definitely a great place to catch a show. Â It's not the biggest place in the world, but really, it doesn't matter. Â There are a number of tables in front of the stage, but you'd definitely have to get there early to score one.
The patio outside was very spacious and had plenty of places to sit, there were even TV's outside so you could "watch" the band from the patio. Â There was definitely a mix of people when I went -- from college kids to boomers -- but that didn't matter because we were all there to have a good time.
The drinks were well made and the bartenders were friendly. Â The next time you know of a band playing at Dan's or even if you just go to check out some good live music, get some friends together and go have some fun at Dan's Silver Leaf!
The best dive bar/venue in Denton. Dan's draws better bands than any one venue in Dallas, and it has more kinds of music than most venues as well, western swing, rock, blues, jazz, soul, bluegrass, rockabilly, and on and on. Decent drink prices, great waitstaff. If you go on a night when no one is playing, Dan's fits the standard dive bar image, grizzled regulars lined up at the bar, a haze of cigarette smoke, rag tag decorations adorn the walls. On nights with bands (most nights) the crowd fits the show, with two stepping in front  of the stage, or standing room only, or all tables. Oh, and Kate is the best bartender in town.
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