{"id":1627,"date":"2008-08-14T00:07:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T04:07:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-14T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T13:34:20","slug":"dugout-chatter-music-for-hotel-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dugout-chatter-music-for-hotel-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"Dugout Chatter: Music for Hotel Functions Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I recently spent a long, productive weekend (that has not seemed to end as of Wednesday evening) working a large function in a very nice hotel in Boston. While working extremely long days, I spent very little time in my hotel room and, therefore, was at the mercy of whatever canned music was playing in the hotel’s meeting, lobby, and other public spaces. The AV producer in the main meeting room was someone I’d worked with before. He’s a major Beatles head and a great guy, so he’s always got good transition music ready to go in the main meeting room of our events: Beatles, early Stones, and he plays a lot of ’70s, funky New Orleans-style stuff, like Dr. John’s “Right Place, Wrong Time”, Robert Palmer’s version of “Sneaking Sally Through the Alley”, and Little Feat’s “Sailing Shoes”, all of which are pretty good in small doses when trapped in a large hotel meeting room. He does not, however, control the music pumped into the dining area, the lobby, and the bathrooms, so some of the following queries cannot be attributed to the music my man had programmed. After that long set up, don’t forget that your gut responses to the following questions are requested. Here we go!<\/em>
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\nWhat was the best song I heard at breakfast on Saturday morning?
\na) “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now”
\nb) “Psychedelic Shack”
\nc) “Roller Coaster of Love”
\nd) Some Earth, Wind & Fire song<\/p>\n

Do you miss old-fashioned Muzak? I don’t notice it anymore when I’m in an elevator while traveling for work.<\/p>\n

What song by a band that I’m not by any means a fan of sounded best when pumped through the lobby?
\na) Chicago, “25 or 6 to 4”
\nb) Kansas, “Dust in the Wind”
\nc) The Eagles, “Hotel California”
\nd) Boston, “More Than a Feeling”<\/p>\n

Is The Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” ever appropriate for transitional music during a large business meeting?<\/p>\n

What style of music is most likely playing in the men’s room across from the hotel’s large meeting room?
\na) Classical
\nb) Jazz fusion
\nc) Country
\nd) New Age<\/p>\n

What’s your favorite Muzak moment?<\/p>\n

I look forward to your responses.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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