New York Strip Clubs: In Defense of Small Shows: a Rebuttal
One must remember that Green Day started playing house shows before arenas. Bob Dylan played coffee shops before Woodstock, Nirvana played basements before the played on MTV. Bruce Springsteen is famous for the years he and the E Street Band spent on the road playing small clubs (and I would not be surprised if they did a house show in there some where). The Jackson 5 spent five years touring small dance halls and bars before they had a hit on Motown. Michael had been touring for 24 years before Thriller. And most famously The Beatles used to play teen dance halls, not to mention German strip clubs, before they were on Ed Sullivan.
My argument here would be that all the years these artists spent playing small shows are what made them great. It is when they flushed out both their technical ability and refined their artistic style. In the same way no quarterback’s first football game will ever be th …