Call it youthful exuberance, but I got to Turner Hall a little too early on Friday.
Along with the two friends who joined me so I could review the Brian Jonestown Massacre show, we were so excited that we arrived just after the doors opened. Obviously, it was a long time before the band went on stage.
Three guys standing around in a concert venue before any music is played is, well, boring. So we walked around the block to Mader's for a beer.
Mader's is a funny place to grab a pre-game beer. The historic Milwaukee German restaurant is over 100 years old, but I don't hear a whole lot of people talking about it as a bar.
Which for our purposes, was great. So close to Turner Hall, yet barely crowded, we grabbed a seat at the bar, drank one fancy German beer in a boot, then headed back to the venue just in time. This is a tradition I can sink my teeth into.
Where, if at all, do you pre-game? For Brewers games, it's usually Fourth Base. For a show at Cactus Club, it's probably at Palomino or Club Garibaldi. At the Pabst Theater, it's the Newsroom Pub. Beyond that, I don't really have any hard-and-fast pre-gaming rules.
But I bet you do. Chime in using the Talkback feature below.
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.
Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.
