Listening Report #2
...that’s pretty much where everyone goes to dance. When you walk in the front door, the bar is to your right and runs about 30 or 40 feet down the wall. At the end of the bar is the doorway to the bathrooms and the Mexican restaurant, called Los Limas. After that is the D.J.’s booth, which sits about 31/2 feet off the floor. In front of the D.J.’s booth is the dance floor. They have a pretty good light show and a decent sound system. Along the wall opposite the bar, there are 5 or 6 video games. They have a racing game that has 4 machines tied together; this way up to 4 people can race each other at the same time. At the back of the bar, there are 4 pool tables, a couple nights a week they have leagues and sometimes on Saturday they have tournaments. The back wall has 2 golf simulators. You actually bring in your own clubs and hit a golf ball into a canvas screen. Any one of about 50 different golf courses can be projected onto the screen. You can play Pebble Beach, or even Mauna Lai Bay in Hawaii. The graphics are so good on these machines that it’s almost like you are right there. Outside, in front of the bar is an eighteen hole miniature golf course. The course has a pirate theme, it was pretty cool but it was closed for the season. I believe this is the reason for the name Piggy’s Play-A-Round; they have the whole golf thing going. The band, ButtonHead, played a lot of music from the 70’s and 80’s. There were 8 musicians in the band; a bass player, a drummer, 2 guitar players, a keyboardist, and 3 guys with horns; trumpet, trombone, and a sax. They played a wide variety of music, most of which I knew. They were a very upbeat, high energy group, and the dance floor was packed all night. They played 4 sets, each about 45 minutes long. Between sets, D.J. Frank played more current music, and kept the people dancing. I sat at the bar most of the night because the bartenders, Brian and Woody, were so much fun. The longer the night went and the m...