I don’t exactly remember how or why, but those old “Nashville nights” popped up in conversation not too long ago, and it instantly took me back about 10 years to when the gang would meet up at WoW Cafe & Wingery in Providence out in Mount Juliet on a Friday night, and then who knows where the night would take us? Late nights on Broadway before Broadway became the shit show it is today – filing into Big Bang and taking shots. Moseying on down to Demonbreun and tearing up the dance floor at the Red Rooster. Man, those were the days.
But, it’s like a lot of things – your memory’s paint a picture of fondness that erases all the negative stuff. And, believe me – we had some negative shit on those nights out. That’s why I chuckled when I saw the video I’m writing about here…because it instantly brought back memories of those things that my brain blocks out in remembering the early 2010s in Nashville.
— Chaotic Nightclub Photos (@ClubPhotos_) June 24, 2022
Man, we’ll get to spinny boi here in a second, but I want to start with that M. Night Shyamalan twist at the end of this clip. That was always a reason to keep your head on a swivel at these Nashville bars. You never knew who was going to vomit. Like….once 1AM passed, you better start paying attention to who is losing it because it could just come out of nowhere like it did in this clip. At least homeboy made it TO the bathroom. As for spinny boi, buddy you are just asking for it. The last thing you need to be doing in that situation is spinning around on your own two feet. That’s how the room is going to be feeling later on when you try to lie down and go to sleep.
Bathrooms were always one of the weirdest components of a big night out, though – most nights, it was a nice, quiet break from the pandemonium out on the dance floor. But, every now and then, you’d walk in to some shit like this and not know if it was safe to laugh or if you needed to get your hands up and prepare to defend yourself.
So, yeah – I remember being in my 20s, going out on a Friday or Saturday night, getting home at 3AM, and thinking, “I’m going to do this FOREVER!” That was the life back then, but my oh my, how things have changed. I just turned 36 on Wednesday, and folks, I can confidently say that this shit is behind me (as soon as I type that, it’ll happen this weekend and you’ll see a clip of me puking over the side of Luke Bryan’s rooftop bar onto innocent bystanders on Broadway at 4AM).
Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley
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