Jarrod's Place Sports Bar & Grill

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Holy Christ what a shithole this place is!  My band actually played something like 3 shows a couple of years ago here.  

The place looks like it was built for WWIII.  From the outside it looks like an outhouse in a parking lot.  Anyway, you go in and walk down stairs into a place that would be ideal for a laser-tag kind of setup.  It's a really big open space and all underground.  We could never get more than 8 to 10 people to come out to this place for a show which made for a pretty empty place.  The acts we played with here were all over the shit map.  Think O'Briens in Allston pre-renovation, but maybe a notch lower.  One dude who's band played a show with us came up to us afterwards and said "Were you guys singing harmony?!?!  I haven't heard harmony in a club in fuckin' 20 years!!!"  Another band's drummer was playing with full-sized hammers!  

The bartenders were often not attentive and watching TV or making out with townie chicks behind the bar.  One of my friends asked for a Sam Adams and he said it tasted literally like piss.  The bartender said "Maybe it's not Sam Adams hooked up to that tap.  You sure it's bad?"  My friend said "You sure you don't have a keg of piss hooked up?"  

The sound guy you can't help but be entertained by, though.  He's definitely an interesting character who told us about getting head to various Beatles songs.  As for the sound, though, first of all in that huge space it's pretty hard to make anything sound worth a shit, but anyway, they try with TONS of amplification and lighting and smoke effects. This place is definitely in the "LOUD AS FUCK" category.  Anyway, we did have fun playing there,  but more in the "Fuck Shit Up!" kind of way.  

Anyway, it's kind of a right of passage to play in places like this, so here's to you Jarrod's!