acramento once was a vibrant city of music. You could go to just about any place in downtown Sacramento and be entertained. $5 at the door got you a night of hanging out with friends and enough music to please the joyful soul.
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With bands that delivered music, not as a tool to make money, but as a deliverance that was up to you to take and feel what that band or musician was giving you.
What happened? Why can we not see that anymore? There are still a few places left that have stayed with these old ways of attracting people.
off. While some of the impatient fans were doing donuts in the parking lot kicking up dust anticipating that night’s show. The Cattle Club was that one
We were given that light at the end of the tunnel every weekend and pretty much throughout the Art Galleries, coffee shops, and just about every entire week. Seven days a week of excellent, talpark, or better yet, on a street corner there was a ented and caring musicians wanting to share that musician of some sort. You could not go anywhere one song they felt could change the world. It did, without hearing music,. The man standing on the but not in the direction we would think. corner of J street playing his guitar and singing with Who are you here to see? was most likely the his old ass dog giving you that look as you walked questioned you were asked when walking through by. Sometimes I wondered if he trained his dog to the doors of one of Sacramento's most legendary give people that look, you know that look of, your venues, The Cattle Club. The doorman would ass better drop some change. make a mark on his dusty clipboard after wiping it
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