Where: Hillwood Strike & Spare
When: Sunday, December 30, 2012 8:03 pm
If you’re a musician who has played a Sunday night gig in Nashville and wondered where the hell everybody is, you probably don’t want to hear about the venue on the west side that is totally packed.
I’m not talking about the Bluebird. I’m talking about the Hillwood Strike & Spare, the 42-lane bowling alley off Charlotte near the Nashville West shopping center.
When I try to reserve a bowling lane for the Bad Idea Friends, the guy behind the counter tells me I’m fourth on the waiting list.
“There’s a waiting list?” I ask incredulously. What is this, Studio 54?
I’m only slightly annoyed, partly because we already got a pitcher of beer from the bar, but mostly because we didn’t really come here for bowling tonight. We came to check out one of the most epic aural, visual — and, in most cases, olfactory — adventures that a child of the ‘80s could have experienced.
We are here to see The Rock-afire Explosion, the subject of this week's Scene cover story.
