Myth

Free parking is awesome, but make sure you budget how much you're spending on drinks here, because a mixed drink and a soda were $9! I do like that the joint is air-conditioned, can't catch a cool breeze at First Ave unless it's winter.

Hands down, the worst experience that I have ever had at a music venue. I have been going to shows for the better part of the past 15 years of my life, seeing as I went to college for music business and got to work for a lot of artists over the years. I had an old friend in town last night who recently was hired to play guitar for Ke$ha's band. We have been friends for 13 of those years, and this was a very big deal for him.He had given myself, and 3 friends-tickets and backstage sticky passes.

We are all in our 30's, young professional, polite women. We have never been treated so poorly by venue staff and security in our entire lives. I do not want this review to come off as someone entitled, or that we deserved special treatment, as we had these passes. We are human beings, and should not be cursed out, shoved, or disrespected by staff for not doing anything wrong. We do not find ourselves important, but we definitely demand respect-as any human being does.

Upon arrival, we bought drinks, which like everyone has been saying, are extremely over priced and go in very tiny plastic cups, that you run the risk of getting date raped by having to place your drink on the outside of the bathroom on a table since you are not allowed to bring drinks into the restroom.

The security guards there all are extremely rude, disrespectful, egomaniacs with clearly something to prove. Not one security guard was polite, or knew anything about the rules of VIP vs. backstage passes, etc. Not one person could answer a question about where we had access to, would tell us we could stand somewhere and then 5 minutes later be removed from the area. Not one security guard knew how to handle a crowd, or drunk and sloppy patrons.

There were SEVERAL extremely intoxicated patrons there-that were still being served alcohol. In particular, before the opening band even played, there was a girl who could not stand upright, and instead her back was curved and her head was leaning back. Her friend was trying to hold her up and walk her to a table.... at which point the girl knocked over several other patrons drinks. There were 2 security guards in viewpoint that did not say or do anything. I asked one of them if they were aware of this issue, and they said they had "cut them off". At ANY other venue in town, being cut off means your wrist band is removed, you are sat down near an exit with a bottle or glass of water. I have even seen clubs put patrons in cabs to get them home safely. There was yet another incident where a young girl was leaning up at the bar holding herself up, and was still served a beverage. At which point she walked away from the bar, and stumbled the entire way outside.

A patron had to alert a security guard during the concert that not only were kids crowding a sight-line to the stage, but it was also at the top of the stair case-which was a fire hazard. The patron knew this, and told the security guard that he needed to move these guests out of this spot. In my opinion, a patron should not know more about the rules of safety than the actual staff.

At the end of the night when fans were exiting the building, security guards were not allowing patrons to pass through the side exit with clearly illuminated exit signs. Kids still were slamming through the doors and exiting. Security wanted all patrons to exit through the main doors-which only 2 were open. This seems like a bigger hazard than it does to allow the fans to exit through several doors just to the right of the main entrance. Security guards were slamming doors in the crowds faces after they first stood there and allowed 20 kids to exit, then slam it on the rest of the crowd and tell them to exit out the front. This went on for roughly 15 mins... .allowing kids to exit, slamming doors in others faces.

I was disgusted by the treatment of myself and my friends, we were yelled at by several security guards, when asking a question we were simply ignored, or denied an answer. When we were escorted to an area by a tour manager where we could actually watch our friend play the show, a security guard cursed out the tour manager and physically SHOVED us back into an unmoving crowd. Mind you, we are all 5 ft tall and roughly 110lbs. In my opinion a male should not physically touch a woman in that way-especially when we were being polite and did nothing wrong-we were being escorted by someone on the tour to a place where we could see.

**If you are someone in the music business, a band, tour manager, radio personnel or a photographer, I DO NOT recommend this venue. If you have friends that are there to see your band, they won't see you-they will be hassled and harassed. If you have a pass, you will not get access to photograph, interview a band, etc. If you are a musician on tour-you will have nowhere to go after the club closes-there are barely enough restaurant options or places to do your banking, laundry, get toiletries, etc.

I will never return.

Thinking of other venues that I love around town made me remember everything i don't love about Myth and how it would take Whitney Houston herself resurrected from the grave and performing a private concert for only me and my friends for me to return.

Firstly, it's in Maplewood.  Where is that you ask?  I have no idea.   There's nothing else to bring me out here, so why are we driving out here to see a show?

Also, this place has a serious identity crisis.  It reminds me of the big nightclubs that I thought were exciting when I was in Mexico when I was 18.  Oooh, exciting, I can legally drink here and listen to the Venga Boys!  Flashbacks abounded when I came here for a show.

I don't know who the people were who think that there isn't a bad seat here.  After walking around trying to find a place to see the stage, let alone hear the music over all the bass, we just jumped ship and abandoned this concert.  Overpriced tickets and all...

Just for the heck of it, I took a spin to see who else would be playing here soon to see if I would ever convince myself venture out here again in the distant future, even if it couldn't be Miss Whitney.  Nope.  Not even Wale (who I actually really really like) can get me to drive out here and pay $75 to see him.