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December 21, 2007
One of the tensions in liberalism is that increasing liberty erodes the value of closed technological loops such as nationalism. I was in California this week doing a round of meetings and introductions so I didn't have much time for photography. However on Tuesday night we managed to visit several restaurants and bars; ending in this Karaoke bar in San Mateo.
The karaoke bar sang as much Spanish as it did English. In fact the guy that stole the night did so with a Spanish rendition of "I did it my way" in a wonderfully powerful voice. No one cared. Fun was being had. Drinks were being sold. Liberalism won the night.
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Cam,
so what has happened to the live music? It--the look of the photo makes it to be something like a honkey tonk bar place that the original Flying Burrotto Brothers would have played their songs from the Gilded Palace of Sin; or the early Band when they were The Hawks and backing Ronnie Hawkins; or the barroom style Rolling Stones of Exile on Main Street.
All that was many years ago---60s. I guess those places died. Or did they?