We could do with more of this in the US.

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2FarGone

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This is a good article about Japanese “Kissas”, quiet pub-type establishments where the focus is listening to music - on vinyl. The linked article is on Apple News, and was originally on National Geographic, which is unfortunately behind a paywall. Hopefully, some resourceful individual can offer a more accessible link to it.

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Mastering the art of deep listening in Japan — National Geographic

In the warm glow of the country’s jazz cafés, a subculture of vinyl aficionados is preserving a communal form of music appreciation—and cultivating the kind of deep sensory experiences that our noisy world has forgotten. Legendary jazz club owners like Shoji “Swifty” Sugawara popularized the...
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Dizzie said:
Yea, all just great until a fight breaks out fighting for the sweet spot.
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You may be right. It’s entirely possible that insufficient civility remains in this culture for something like that to work. Ah, well… it was a nice thought.
 
The build on Japan is this. You have all seen Japanese people wearing masks?

They are wearing them to keep from infecting others - protecting others.

In the rest of the world, people wear masks to keep from being infected - protecting themselves.
 
I used to live in a college town and there was a popular bar, the owner didn't have a jukebox he has a stereo set up. He had the gear behind the bar so he could play what he wanted or requested. Sometimes it was just the college radio station. This was like the late 80's.
 
Mr Peabody said:
I used to live in a college town and there was a popular bar, the owner didn't have a jukebox he has a stereo set up. He had the gear behind the bar so he could play what he wanted or requested. Sometimes it was just the college radio station. This was like the late 80's.
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We had something similar in Ann Arbor right around that same time. The owner had his cassette player and hundreds of tapes behind the bar, and he would play whatever he felt like playing at the moment. Good thing he had good taste in music!
 
I went to one in Austin and it was very nice. I learned about some jazz I hadn't heard before. It was a very laid back place and the music player and the bar staff were very sociable. We have at least one, but I think more, up in Denver, which I haven't yet been to.
 
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