There are still places that feel quaint and charming. But, downtown is a bit too fun fair-like these days. The good places are in the surrounding neighborhoods.
I was born in St. Thomas hospital, Nashville TN in '53. Nashville was really an all round nice place. I had dreams of returning but there are so many implants and big city stuff there I may as well stay in corrupt FL The expense of Nashville is as bad as Florida or anywhere else.
@@wildmustangart1577 our Uber driver (a Boston transplant) explained the ‘15 year plan’ for artists/ musicians to ‘make it ‘ in Nashville. We visited the east side of Nashville. There was a section of town that was very cool and laidback. It was kind of refreshing as opposed to Downtown Nashville. But overall we really enjoyed our visit to Nashville.
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I’d suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes.
@@temmyolarewaju9371 That's actually quite impressive, I could use some Info on your FA, I am looking to make a change on my finances this year as well
@@temmyolarewaju9371 The crazy part is that those advisors are probably outperforming the market and raising good returns but some are charging fees over fees that drain your portfolio. Is this the case with yours too?
I was just in Vegas this weekend. Freemont street. Crazy party and live music. I just want some great luve music in Nashville. I would rather find local spots.
Im a keyboard player and considering moving to Nashville from Northern Michigan. The winters here are brutal. Id like to persue my music career. This is a cool video to get a feel for things! Thank You:)
Results may vary. Nah just kidding, what style music do you play? Do you fully understand the relationship between your talent and booze? Yea it hit me hard at first.
I was in Nashville about 15-20 years ago and had a wonderful time, polite people, mellow moments with some mindbendingly good music, and a real unique flavor for a mid-sized city. I’ve talked it up ever since. I guess I can stop doing that now!
It's not unless you like live old music. If that's your thing, it's amazing. I am from LA and grew up on Hip Hop and I felt like I was transported in a time machine 60 years back. It's OK. The bands are really good and talented. But it's the same thing every bar you go into. Give me a DJ and a couple MCs and I am good. Live bands are not my thing.
I grew up in Nashville. Was never a hardcore country fan, but there was something about going downtown and hearing real authentic music being played by people who had some musical lineage in the city. One word - steel guitar. You don’t hear it anymore being played on lower broad. You could also get a PBR for a buck. That was cheap beer then! You could pay 30 bucks for two beers now. There were really talented musicians playing on the street. Old Crowe used to come play on second Ave way back when. It is really quite a different place. I moved a couple hours away but still come back to visit friends. It’s got a great greenway, the Arcade area is a neat place few people know about, little five points is super cool area, Nashville is a very interesting and cool city but it is not lower Broadway. That area is a total tourist trap. You’ll spend a fortune on nothing but a cheap facade of what California thinks Nashville looks like. It’s gross.
Definitely, there is an entire city outside of lower Broadway. I'm ok with the tourists staying down there but yeah, 4 blocks of one street in Downtown don't exactly define the city.
spent half of my life a few minutes East of there. You just reminded me of many things of downtown Nashburgh that I miss... ...and, also, reminded me of all-that-trash in the streeta that I never liked and won't miss Thanks !
Couple notes as a resident of Nashville and occasional visitor to Lower Broadway: Blanco is a great Mexican restaurant (at beginning of video). Also, the people watching is amazing, it’s just so formulaic, so little originality among the folks wandering around…you will always see bachelorettes, the ladies in funky wigs, bros, and country bumpkins who are just checking out the big city. The music scene, while also kind of formulaic, is really pretty impressive.
Do you still live there? I'm looking for the music. Truly local spots are more my kind of spot. If you know of any, I would appreciate some names. I'm staying about 10 minutes' drive east to downtown. Thanks
In the 70's I worked on 2nd Ave North in a warehouse. 2nd Avenue was all warehouses back then. Lower Broadway, the area you just walked through consisted of pawn shops and XXX bookstores. The closest place to get a hot sandwich at lunch was Tootsies grill. I rode the bus in from Hermitage to work because the parking lots charged $2.00 a day. Expensive at the time. I have watched it all gradually change over the years. Some good stuff no doubt but the charm that we used to have in Nashville is gone. Enjoyed watching this.
I live in Memphis and from this video, Nashville looks awesome and sounds amazing. I love Memphis and all it's Rock N Roll history but Nashville truly is the beat of Tennessee, the heart of the south and hands down, the musical mecca of America.
Appreciate you showing this - I live in Mt Juliet TN which is about 20 minutes from Nashville and I have never been on Broadway - probably never will - but cool to see whats going on there!
Nashville is AMAZING! I have lived here all my life and I love it BUT my how things have changed. Downtown Nashville is like a little NYC on the weekends. I love it but it sure ain’t the little country town I once knew
Do you recommend anywhere else in US that’s got the country bars but maybe not as touristy. We came from Scotland to Nashville 14 years ago as I love country music but it looks very different now and much busier.
People having fun without hurting anyone. We have three towns up here on Long Island with lots of music, restaurants, and fun on the weekends. Different vibe and sound, but also diverse and upbeat.
Traffic congestion, decreased parking, panhandling, street crime, inadequate mass transit. The city isn't keeping its infrastructure up with the population growth.
I can 100% relate. I was born and raised in Nashville, and still live here. I’m 40 years old and I can tell you 20 years ago downtown Nashville was a fun place to go to. It’s not anymore.
I happened to see the thumbnail of this video saying it's in Nashville and i got interested. Truly what a night life but looks like there's no fighting just so many people enjoying the night in the bars . True to what the definition of Nashville. The US musical City . If i could get the opportunity to be there, i would love to go see and experience the life in Nashville.
I lived in Nashville from 1998 to 2003. It was smaller crowds but very much a tourist haven. The line dancing at the Wild Horse Saloon was the place to be. Lotta local talent. Nashville still had a small town vibe. Very little crime or homelessness. Only Second avenue was closed off to vehicle traffic on Saturday night back then. Now its much more commercial, huge crowds, Second and part of Broad are closed off to accommodate the crowds. A lotta things have changed in 20 years. Some good, some not so great. 🤠
I was born and raised here. In the 70's and 80's downtown wasn't anywhere you'd want to be. The old Ryman Auditorium closed and the Grand Ol Opry was built in 1974 at Opryland and the old honky tonks like Tootsies Orchid Lounge and Ernest Tubb Record Shop fell on hard times. It was still an industrial area and Acme Feed and Seed was actually an agriculture supply store. There were a few cool spots down there like Ace of Clubs on 2nd Ave though. Most of the music was scattered around town like Exit Inn and 12th & Porter. The Wildhorse Saloon really kindof made Lower Broad area a destination again in the 90's. Then Bridgestone Arena was built in 1996 followed shortly by Adelphia Coliseum and the Titans in 1999 and downtown has been getting crazier ever since. Nashville has changed so much in the last 20 years it is unrecognizable from what it was. Downtown is almost purely for tourists and sports fans, now. By the way, locals here don't wear shorts with cowboy boots and NASHVILLE WAS NEVER KNOWN FOR DAMN HOT CHICKEN!!!!
💯 same here. I live about 15 min. from downtown. I used to love going down there on weekends, but I haven't gone at night in years cause it's so trash now. Hell, the entire Mid TN area has been ruined, just in different ways.
I wish I could have seen it before people ruined it the first time I went there around 4-5 years ago it was fun but every time I go back it seems more crowded so sad tourism is ruining it.
I'm from there in east Nashville, now I live about 20 mins or so from there...I used to go clubing down on broad st and on 2nd Ave in my early 20's. So much has and hasn't changed downtown Nashville..
I'm in Nashville right now. I haven't made it downtown yet. I been hanging at the Famous 5 Spot. I am in heaven. I've seen 9 bands in 4 days. Even the BBQ joint I went to Drifters had live music. After seeing this I might just stay on the East side. Hahaha I got put on the list at the Blue Bird for Sunday. This looks like Vegas on steroids. Lamo
@JohnnyAzariaTV this week some time for sure. I got into the blue bird yesterday. I met a cat at the 5 spot and he put me on the list. Yup the list. I have to admit I felt special. I could see moving here.
I played hundreds of gigs down there back in the 2010 -14 time frame and it’s all the same songs, except that Tyler Childers that was ending as you walked up. It was interesting , almost like a time portal from the times I walked around that lower broadway area. Thanks for doing the work 🤘🤘
Nashville is great city as a whole, great people. Broadway is really on for drinking tourists, concerts and hockey games. If its not your thing, then its not for you…
Exellent video in that you get a good idea what the bands & clubs are like. I thought the family putting up the "looser" hand sign was funny. They may have been offended by someone shooting a video of them, and didn't realize they would be on RUclips for eternity for doing so, lol.
@@JohnnyAzariaTV Its a long video, it would take quite a while to find it. Skip through until you get to the part where the camera goes down a vacant path. Camera guy is on the right side of the road, and the street has construction equipment making the path narrow. You first see a young girl, pointing her phone, recording the person recording the family. As the camera passes the family you first see the young girl holding up the "L" to her forehead, and then the mom and dad hold the "L" up to their forehead as well.
I use to go downtown a lot back in the late 80’s it wasn’t near as crowded and lots of nice restaurants now to me it’s just tourist stuff and way to crowed. This doesn’t even look like a Saturday night crowd. Many Saturday nights you can hardly move and forget trying to drive through unless you got a hour to go a couple blocks. So many pedestrians and many keep crossing the streets after the light changes and most as you would imagine are drunk. No doubt it’s fun for those who enjoy that kind of stuff but I never go there these days.
I was in Nashville last May 2023. We did some clubbing. Our hotel was a former high fidelity recording studio for Country Musicians now rented out. However many of the bands were semi-pros from the amateur circle coming to Nashville to play and get noticed. So the music acts are much more social with the clubbers, and I got to know a few. The Grand ole Opry is worth a visit and the Country Hall of fame, or maybe it was the museum, also worth it. Parking was expensive, very hot in May and June. It's a university town, lots of students and young people. Many active and former music studios, many music industry ppl in town-- always. I would recommend it as a very unique and worthwhile US city to visit.
Went to Nashville last December. Saw 2awesome Christmas concerts (Matthew West/Tommee Profitt), stopped in a few restaurants z(although we had a friend who lives there show us all the best places). The Bluebird was awesome. Grand ol’ Opry…..downtown…..great musicians everywhere. Loved it.
Just wanted to give you all a shout out from capital records here in Nashville l wanted to say thanks to all of Johnny Cashes crew it was nice loading his luggage to American Air lines and to meet him in person on my break,
Good evening everyone 5 o'clock trying to beat the 🌧 drops on this 80 degree Sunday trying to get this chicken wings deep fried for everyone here at capital records here on music row, and don't forget the Miller lite
You'd love Nashville. I met plenty of British tourists when I worked downtown, and we'd love to have a Liverpudlian visit. I'm a huge fan of Northern comics, especially from the 1970's: Bernard Manning, Ken Goodwin, and,of course, Charlie Williams, my all time favorite.
I used to park my truck at the downtown TA truck stop and catch a cab to Tootsies Orchard Lounge, a truly legendary bar. It was always during the week, I never saw crowds like this.i think that probably would have ruined the experience for me
Tootsies is the laughing stock of the locals. The bartenders are rude and a money pit for tourists. The music ( if you want to call it that) is not traditional. I’ve been to Nashville about 100 times in the last fifteen years. I darken the doors of Tooties 3 times and tried around and walked out. Layla’s and Robert’s are about the only country places still down there.
This looks like the best place in the U.S.A. to be if you like a lot of people and bands playing in a bar on every corner. It looks like most bars have no cover charge.
Were they celebrating any festival these days? Or are weekends like that in Nashville? I would like to go soon and I hope to be able to coincide with some musical festival.
I'm so glad you showed the New Nashville. My Dad always took us to Nashville in the 60's and 70's. And God, what memories I have. That was when country music was true country. Standing in line, waiting to get into the Grand Ole Ryman auditorium for a Friday and Saturday show that would play until sometimes 1-2 am. Whoever showed up to play that night got their turn on stage. Good clean entertainment. My Dad always got Row 5 center seats 1thru5. Old hard ass church benches. I thought I would love to go back just to sit one more time and listen to a show at the Ryman before I pass. But after seeing how it's turned into a Sodom and Gomorrah.😢 Hell, I could go to New Orleans on Burbon Street during Madi Gras and see the same thing. Guess that's the reason I don't watch the CMA awards anymore or listen to this NEW COUNTY B.S. Can you imagine Roy Acuff or Hank Williams Sr. presenting Jelly Belly or Jelly Roll an award!! So I'll just keep my good memories of the old Nashville.
Such history, a better time. You recollect a piece a history that was truly a better time, the 'real' life and spirit of what used to be country🤔!! Thank You!! The country music scene/industry, now, is a commercialized pimp with a bunch of music whores🤑(i.e. Taylor Swift)🤨. Sad, but True😢.
A terry Dawson 8371 l read your opinion our city is not what it once was time has gone into the future we only can remember the way it once was. Saturdays I would be at the races at the fairground Speedway I remember when you could go to the mall shopping not no more I feel people quit living life 15 years ago malls closing down . Ect everyone carrying guns in stead of bibles I remember when I worked for Allegheny airlines how friendly it once was. Now people are fighting with crew members Stewart's and so on so much for the present. Good luck with life Danny Malliard
@@danmalliard280 As long as there are people who remember these 'once great' cities the way they should be, then maybe an appreciation can be found from the 'responsible' youth, and cities like Nashville can become more family oriented, however unlikely, We must hope!!😐🙏
@@terrydawson8371 downtown from my youth was to stay way from downtown. We hung out at fountain square Hearthrob and Priest Lake, or maybe one of the Malls. Downtown was peep shows, books stores and abandoned printing companies. I worked on Deaderick for FANB in the mid90s when Bredensen started the cleanup.
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Nashville used to have a lot of charm…turning it into Las Vegas over the last 17 years that killed that.
There are still places that feel quaint and charming. But, downtown is a bit too fun fair-like these days. The good places are in the surrounding neighborhoods.
I was born in St. Thomas hospital, Nashville TN in '53. Nashville was really an all round nice place. I had dreams of returning but there are so many implants and big city stuff there I may as well stay in corrupt FL The expense of Nashville is as bad as Florida or anywhere else.
@@tamaraquintero7815 The people in Nashville are definitely cool and friendly. Very nice people there.
@@wildmustangart1577 our Uber driver (a Boston transplant) explained the ‘15 year plan’ for artists/ musicians to ‘make it ‘ in Nashville. We visited the east side of Nashville. There was a section of town that was very cool and laidback. It was kind of refreshing as opposed to Downtown Nashville. But overall we really enjoyed our visit to Nashville.
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I’d suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes.
@@temmyolarewaju9371 That's actually quite impressive, I could use some Info on your FA, I am looking to make a change on my finances this year as well
@@BrianEscobar-90 My advisor is VICTORIA CARMEN SANTAELLA;
You can look her up online
@@temmyolarewaju9371 The crazy part is that those advisors are probably outperforming the market and raising good returns but some are charging fees over fees that drain your portfolio. Is this the case with yours too?
Good people having a good time. - and music everywhere.
Fantastic and bold videography provided an enlightening experience of a city I've never seen. Thanks
thank you for watching , glad you enjoyed 😀
thanks for sharing this- had no idea it was so loud and flashy out there. reminds me of vegas.
thank you for watching , glad you enjoyed
I was just in Vegas this weekend. Freemont street. Crazy party and live music. I just want some great luve music in Nashville. I would rather find local spots.
Live bands on every block! Jeez! This is one happening neighborhood! I can't wait to visit the place someday.
Thank you for reminding me how lucky I am to live in the woods far from the maddening crowd.
Looks like another one of America's shit hole cities
Sister fcking too!
@@Buckseed keepin it in the family 💋
Great camera work, you captured the mood of the people, having a good time.
thank you so much , yes Nashville is great
Im a keyboard player and considering moving to Nashville from Northern Michigan. The winters here are brutal. Id like to persue my music career. This is a cool video to get a feel for things! Thank You:)
@@PresidentofTheInternet1111 Nashville is amazing , thank you for watching
Results may vary.
Nah just kidding, what style music do you play?
Do you fully understand the relationship between your talent and booze? Yea it hit me hard at first.
I was in Nashville about 15-20 years ago and had a wonderful time, polite people, mellow moments with some mindbendingly good music, and a real unique flavor for a mid-sized city. I’ve talked it up ever since.
I guess I can stop doing that now!
im from canada this place looks amazing , wish to visit one day.
@@wraith9166 thank you for watching , Nashville is amazing you would love it there
It's not unless you like live old music. If that's your thing, it's amazing. I am from LA and grew up on Hip Hop and I felt like I was transported in a time machine 60 years back. It's OK. The bands are really good and talented. But it's the same thing every bar you go into. Give me a DJ and a couple MCs and I am good. Live bands are not my thing.
I grew up in Nashville. Was never a hardcore country fan, but there was something about going downtown and hearing real authentic music being played by people who had some musical lineage in the city. One word - steel guitar. You don’t hear it anymore being played on lower broad. You could also get a PBR for a buck. That was cheap beer then! You could pay 30 bucks for two beers now. There were really talented musicians playing on the street. Old Crowe used to come play on second Ave way back when. It is really quite a different place. I moved a couple hours away but still come back to visit friends. It’s got a great greenway, the Arcade area is a neat place few people know about, little five points is super cool area, Nashville is a very interesting and cool city but it is not lower Broadway. That area is a total tourist trap. You’ll spend a fortune on nothing but a cheap facade of what California thinks Nashville looks like. It’s gross.
Yes, the bands that play there are amazingly talented. I was surprised at the level of talent across the bands. Super talented people no doubt.
Definitely, there is an entire city outside of lower Broadway. I'm ok with the tourists staying down there but yeah, 4 blocks of one street in Downtown don't exactly define the city.
Never a dull moment there is always something going on in the ville.
Im from Nashville, Tennessee, born and raised 54 now still loving downtown
@@VickieMcKnight Nashville is amazing 😀
It's very unique. No doubt. I just wish they would vary the music. No everyone likes old music and live bands.
Make your own fun don't depend on anyone else
Interesting video! That band at 8:50 rocks! Awesome footage!❤
thank you for watching 😀
spent half of my life a few minutes East of there.
You just reminded me of many things of downtown Nashburgh that I miss...
...and, also, reminded me of all-that-trash in the streeta that I never liked and won't miss
Thanks !
Couple notes as a resident of Nashville and occasional visitor to Lower Broadway: Blanco is a great Mexican restaurant (at beginning of video). Also, the people watching is amazing, it’s just so formulaic, so little originality among the folks wandering around…you will always see bachelorettes, the ladies in funky wigs, bros, and country bumpkins who are just checking out the big city. The music scene, while also kind of formulaic, is really pretty impressive.
Do you still live there?
I'm looking for the music. Truly local spots are more my kind of spot. If you know of any, I would appreciate some names. I'm staying about 10 minutes' drive east to downtown. Thanks
In the 70's I worked on 2nd Ave North in a warehouse. 2nd Avenue was all warehouses back then. Lower Broadway, the area you just walked through consisted of pawn shops and XXX bookstores. The closest place to get a hot sandwich at lunch was Tootsies grill. I rode the bus in from Hermitage to work because the parking lots charged $2.00 a day. Expensive at the time. I have watched it all gradually change over the years. Some good stuff no doubt but the charm that we used to have in Nashville is gone. Enjoyed watching this.
good times , thank you for watching 😀
I live in Memphis and from this video, Nashville looks awesome and sounds amazing. I love Memphis and all it's Rock N Roll history but Nashville truly is the beat of Tennessee, the heart of the south and hands down, the musical mecca of America.
Nashville is amazing , i would love to visit Memphis , thank you for watching
I was put on the list for the Blue Bird last night. Unbelievable place with wonderful history.
Wow used to go to Nashville year after year haven't gone for this reason lately what a mess.
Same way in Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge soo crowded and expensive!! Enjoy some of the trip but it’s like being on a Vegas strip 😞
yea I was in pigeon forge I know east your saying , thank you for watching 😀
Appreciate you showing this - I live in Mt Juliet TN which is about 20 minutes from Nashville and I have never been on Broadway - probably never will - but cool to see whats going on there!
@@Dragonfly-5252 my pleasure , thank you for watching 😀
Go!
Thank you, dear admin, for capturing and sharing these video here so we can also see and enjoy them. I really enjoyed it. Thank you from Iran.🍻
thank you so much for watching , iam glad you enjoyed 😀
Nashville is AMAZING! I have lived here all my life and I love it BUT my how things have changed. Downtown Nashville is like a little NYC on the weekends. I love it but it sure ain’t the little country town I once knew
You mean like the tourist in NYC because this is nothing like a NYC street
@@laceybanter5937 Well no shit lol 😂- just saying “it’s like” not stating there are as many people here as there are in NYC. But cool 👍
Do you recommend anywhere else in US that’s got the country bars but maybe not as touristy. We came from Scotland to Nashville 14 years ago as I love country music but it looks very different now and much busier.
@@thetattooedguy1413 I was not referring to number of people. People are very diverse in NYC. Nashville not so much
@@laceybanter5937 Now that I will definitely agree with lol 😂
People having fun without hurting anyone. We have three towns up here on Long Island with lots of music, restaurants, and fun on the weekends. Different vibe and sound, but also diverse and upbeat.
Death on Music Row. A truth lyrics sang by two of the most respected country music entertainers.
Well, South Broadway and Music Row are two different parts of Nashville. What you’re looking at is South Broadway.
It was called “Murder on Music Row.”
Roberts Western World still has top notch talent and decent audiences..Burgers are good too.
I lived there for 27 years, was in the music biz. Left 3 years ago for the NC mountains and never looked back. It's become a zoo.
How. Please explain
Traffic congestion, decreased parking, panhandling, street crime, inadequate mass transit. The city isn't keeping its infrastructure up with the population growth.
I can 100% relate. I was born and raised in Nashville, and still live here. I’m 40 years old and I can tell you 20 years ago downtown Nashville was a fun place to go to. It’s not anymore.
such an unusual video, I LOVED it, thanks
thank you for watching , glad you enjoyed 😀
I happened to see the thumbnail of this video saying it's in Nashville and i got interested. Truly what a night life but looks like there's no fighting just so many people enjoying the night in the bars . True to what the definition of Nashville. The US musical City . If i could get the opportunity to be there, i would love to go see and experience the life in Nashville.
As a Nashville native there are definitely fights to be honest this looks like a slow night 😂
@@deandreray3500 Oh, well, that's pretty normal.
For the most part it's safer than other places like New Orleans in the French Quarter, but the fights happen on those side streets in Nashville
I lived in Nashville from 1998 to 2003. It was smaller crowds but very much a tourist haven. The line dancing at the Wild Horse Saloon was the place to be. Lotta local talent. Nashville still had a small town vibe. Very little crime or homelessness. Only Second avenue was closed off to vehicle traffic on Saturday night back then. Now its much more commercial, huge crowds, Second and part of Broad are closed off to accommodate the crowds. A lotta things have changed in 20 years. Some good, some not so great. 🤠
This was was brilliant walk around 👍👌
thank you for watching 😀
Wow! Joints jumpin'! Looks like wild nights!!
It happens 7 days a week here
To the ol timers, curious how the original Nashville compared to this now?
I was born and raised here. In the 70's and 80's downtown wasn't anywhere you'd want to be. The old Ryman Auditorium closed and the Grand Ol Opry was built in 1974 at Opryland and the old honky tonks like Tootsies Orchid Lounge and Ernest Tubb Record Shop fell on hard times. It was still an industrial area and Acme Feed and Seed was actually an agriculture supply store. There were a few cool spots down there like Ace of Clubs on 2nd Ave though. Most of the music was scattered around town like Exit Inn and 12th & Porter. The Wildhorse Saloon really kindof made Lower Broad area a destination again in the 90's. Then Bridgestone Arena was built in 1996 followed shortly by Adelphia Coliseum and the Titans in 1999 and downtown has been getting crazier ever since. Nashville has changed so much in the last 20 years it is unrecognizable from what it was. Downtown is almost purely for tourists and sports fans, now. By the way, locals here don't wear shorts with cowboy boots and NASHVILLE WAS NEVER KNOWN FOR DAMN HOT CHICKEN!!!!
BIG BIG👍 Thank you for posting , I have always wanted to go there , so different from where I live in Ireland ☘️☘️
🎸🎶🎸.....Victor👍👍👍
We live 20 minutes away and can’t stomach lower Broad. They’ve ruined our once beautiful city.
💯 same here. I live about 15 min. from downtown. I used to love going down there on weekends, but I haven't gone at night in years cause it's so trash now. Hell, the entire Mid TN area has been ruined, just in different ways.
I wish I could have seen it before people ruined it the first time I went there around 4-5 years ago it was fun but every time I go back it seems more crowded so sad tourism is ruining it.
We can blame a lot of the fake country for this bs too
The world most have not got the memo that it was “your” city.
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Wish i could be in Nashville having fun
Thanks for stopping by and seeing my band at Rippys!
hey how are you brother , that was cool , great band you have , good luck with everything 😀
This...ladies and gentlemen...is what passes for 'culture' in America.
What is the name of the metal band @9:32 in Nudies bar?
hi thank you for watching , they are a great band , their name is , no weak links 😀
Thanks Brother!@@JohnnyAzariaTV
@@localj9369 thank you 😀
We were there last summer. We had a great time and we’re getting as well.
I'm from Cali, so far Tennessee got the warmest, GOOFIEST people in all of USA 😂 They tell you how it is, AND they treat you like Family ❤️
You’re not talking about the locals, we don’t like you.
These aren't Nashville folks these are tourists.
enjoyed that performance that started at 10 mins!!!
that is a great band , that is what Nashville is all about , great live music
Great vid! People jus enjoyin' a good time.. whats the problem?!
There's much more to do there besides the bars. Great placefor agent away. Great visei!
Hadn't been to Nashville for 20 years . Wow
thank you for watching
Nice and relaxed atmosphere! I'd love to go there, but it's 4670 miles away :)
Nice, I'll be in Nashville in Sept !!
@@VJWIDEVISION you will love it 😀
awesome video
thank you for watching , glad you enjoyed 😀
LOOKS LIKE A PARTY TO ME!!! What a place to spend a Saturday night....
great and fun place to be at , thank you for watching 😀
Very fun and nice video of Nashville. Thank you. Its alive, not dead.😅
@@jalqassar thank you for watching 😀
Looks like fun to me. Great video
it is , Nashville is very fun , thank you for watching
I'm from there in east Nashville, now I live about 20 mins or so from there...I used to go clubing down on broad st and on 2nd Ave in my early 20's. So much has and hasn't changed downtown Nashville..
I'm in Nashville right now. I haven't made it downtown yet. I been hanging at the Famous 5 Spot. I am in heaven. I've seen 9 bands in 4 days. Even the BBQ joint I went to Drifters had live music. After seeing this I might just stay on the East side. Hahaha
I got put on the list at the Blue Bird for Sunday. This looks like Vegas on steroids. Lamo
@@tonyvalle794 go to downtown you will love it
@JohnnyAzariaTV this week some time for sure. I got into the blue bird yesterday. I met a cat at the 5 spot and he put me on the list. Yup the list. I have to admit I felt special. I could see moving here.
@@tonyvalle794 its amazing
Wonderful video. I’m still trying to visit there after Oshkosh. Surprised not hear many female solo artists.
How bout Miwaukee, a great city!!
How bout Milwaukee, a great city!!!
i miss the old Nashville.
I played hundreds of gigs down there back in the 2010 -14 time frame and it’s all the same songs, except that Tyler Childers that was ending as you walked up. It was interesting , almost like a time portal from the times I walked around that lower broadway area. Thanks for doing the work 🤘🤘
I am heading there soon, Love the video! thanks
Don't waste your time or money, place is a smelly shit hole
What did you love about it? 12 years ago, yes. But now, a dump!
Nashville is great city as a whole, great people. Broadway is really on for drinking tourists, concerts and hockey games. If its not your thing, then its not for you…
Love all the live music. But why are there so many TV's in the bars?
I've been to a lot of cities. The people in Nashville are some of the nicest.
@@4thlord51 very good people 😀
100% i just got back from there. Super friendly
@@dunkmasterflexx Nashville is awesome 😀
You’re insane
The people are definitely very cool. No doubt.
Yep,I gotta go to Nashville!
Damn...left Nashvegas in 2009 and downtown wasn't that busy!
Nashville is ruined.
Seems a lot of ‘get off my lawn’ folks are commenting. And I’m old😎
There’s also museums, record stores, and other places to see. Stay away from the zoo.
Some guy said that around 150 bands work a day on Broadway. They do shifts from 10am to closing. That's a lot of musicians in one place.
I'm grateful I lived in and experienced Nashville in the 90's. Cant stand the city now.
It reminds me of Bourbon St. Only without the charm.
Good music but I can't and cannot do big cities anymore. I'll stay in the woods of TN. Great video though.
@@19K7635 thank you for watching 😀
Exellent video in that you get a good idea what the bands & clubs are like. I thought the family putting up the "looser" hand sign was funny. They may have been offended by someone shooting a video of them, and didn't realize they would be on RUclips for eternity for doing so, lol.
thank you I’m glad you enjoyed , where in the video is that I would like to watch it
@@JohnnyAzariaTV Its a long video, it would take quite a while to find it. Skip through until you get to the part where the camera goes down a vacant path. Camera guy is on the right side of the road, and the street has construction equipment making the path narrow. You first see a young girl, pointing her phone, recording the person recording the family. As the camera passes the family you first see the young girl holding up the "L" to her forehead, and then the mom and dad hold the "L" up to their forehead as well.
@@TimKaseyMythHealergood way to save time and money
HAWK TUAH ! spit on that thang
@@welshhibby lol
Love that town. My Dad and I built it back in the 70's.
Very motivated to sell that stadium if anyone wants to buy it.
I use to go downtown a lot back in the late 80’s it wasn’t near as crowded and lots of nice restaurants now to me it’s just tourist stuff and way to crowed. This doesn’t even look like a Saturday night crowd. Many Saturday nights you can hardly move and forget trying to drive through unless you got a hour to go a couple blocks. So many pedestrians and many keep crossing the streets after the light changes and most as you would imagine are drunk. No doubt it’s fun for those who enjoy that kind of stuff but I never go there these days.
Yep I don't like places that are too packed
The best youtube video on Nashville
thank you so much 😀
I was in Nashville last May 2023. We did some clubbing. Our hotel was a former high fidelity recording studio for Country Musicians now rented out. However many of the bands were semi-pros from the amateur circle coming to Nashville to play and get noticed. So the music acts are much more social with the clubbers, and I got to know a few. The Grand ole Opry is worth a visit and the Country Hall of fame, or maybe it was the museum, also worth it. Parking was expensive, very hot in May and June. It's a university town, lots of students and young people. Many active and former music studios, many music industry ppl in town-- always. I would recommend it as a very unique and worthwhile US city to visit.
Went to Nashville last December.
Saw 2awesome Christmas concerts (Matthew West/Tommee Profitt), stopped in a few restaurants z(although we had a friend who lives there show us all the best places).
The Bluebird was awesome.
Grand ol’ Opry…..downtown…..great musicians everywhere.
Loved it.
@@kevinwatkins3856 sounds awesome , thank you for watching
Just wanted to give you all a shout out from capital records here in Nashville l wanted to say thanks to all of Johnny Cashes crew it was nice loading his luggage to American Air lines and to meet him in person on my break,
Good evening everyone 5 o'clock trying to beat the 🌧 drops on this 80 degree Sunday trying to get this chicken wings deep fried for everyone here at capital records here on music row, and don't forget the Miller lite
I'm from liverpool never been to America. Nashville looks like a good party town. May consider there instead of a boxing match a m
@@jackcunningham2404 Nashville is amazing you should go there if you can , thank you for watching 😀
You will love it
It's worth going once, for the spectacle.
You'd love Nashville. I met plenty of British tourists when I worked downtown, and we'd love to have a Liverpudlian visit. I'm a huge fan of Northern comics, especially from the 1970's: Bernard Manning, Ken Goodwin, and,of course, Charlie Williams, my all time favorite.
It's sad to not see enough country music which Nashville known for. It's obvious by Nudies bar band that it's all about the beer and whiskey sales.
I just came here for the Hawk Thua girl. Greetings from southern Europe.
How is that 5-second meme drawing attention to a whole city??
"Head" is a powerful thing 😂😂
I liked the band at Nudies. The streets are too crowded for my liking, but it's been that way for years.
Pretty fun place, apparently. A great diversity of people. These bars are really cool too, live bands, and good musicians.
Nashville done gone and turned into Atlanta. I cut around all that mess and head straight to Laylas!
It looks like Vegas. I was just there
Now I remember why I NEVER go downtown Nashville anymore.
Do you know of any local music spots. I'm staying 2 blocks from 5 Points.
@@tonyvalle794 The Basement East 917 Woodland St, Nashville,
I've never been there, looks like a lot of night life for young folks.
Curious what camera you used to video this.
it's my dream to visit Nashville
good luck , you will love it , Nashville is amazing
You would benefit from raising your standards. I live 20 miles from the shithole which is downtown TRASHVILLE.
Even after seeing this?
I used to park my truck at the downtown TA truck stop and catch a cab to Tootsies Orchard Lounge, a truly legendary bar. It was always during the week, I never saw crowds like this.i think that probably would have ruined the experience for me
Tootsies is the laughing stock of the locals. The bartenders are rude and a money pit for tourists. The music ( if you want to call it that) is not traditional. I’ve been to Nashville about 100 times in the last fifteen years. I darken the doors of Tooties 3 times and tried around and walked out. Layla’s and Robert’s are about the only country places still down there.
This looks like the best place in the U.S.A. to be if you like a lot of people and bands playing in a bar on every corner. It looks like most bars have no cover charge.
it is your very right , it was very busy because of nascar the next day but to be going in bar to bar with live music is great
I thought Ernest Tubbs' Record Shop was supposed to be closing down last year.
Didn’t hear much real country music while watching this ! Sad😉😎
I was thinking the same thing, the wife and I were planning to go next summer but not now
What is Nashville Lower Broadway like on a Wednesday night in January right after new years.
it’s great 😀
Much more manageable.
that town looks tired and the people looked worked over, give us some Hank damn it
Last legit music bar in Nashville is the the Bluebird Cafe and it's far outside downtown.
When walking on the sidewalks, watch out for falling chairs!
Were they celebrating any festival these days? Or are weekends like that in Nashville? I would like to go soon and I hope to be able to coincide with some musical festival.
CMA Fest is coming up on June, Alot of stars are in town then!!
I'm so glad you showed the New Nashville. My Dad always took us to Nashville in the 60's and 70's. And God, what memories I have. That was when country music was true country. Standing in line, waiting to get into the Grand Ole Ryman auditorium for a Friday and Saturday show that would play until sometimes 1-2 am. Whoever showed up to play that night got their turn on stage. Good clean entertainment. My Dad always got Row 5 center seats 1thru5. Old hard ass church benches. I thought I would love to go back just to sit one more time and listen to a show at the Ryman before I pass. But after seeing how it's turned into a Sodom and Gomorrah.😢 Hell, I could go to New Orleans on Burbon Street during Madi Gras and see the same thing. Guess that's the reason I don't watch the CMA awards anymore or listen to this NEW COUNTY B.S. Can you imagine Roy Acuff or Hank Williams Sr. presenting Jelly Belly or Jelly Roll an award!!
So I'll just keep my good memories of the old Nashville.
Such history, a better time. You recollect a piece a history that was truly a better time, the 'real' life and spirit of what used to be country🤔!! Thank You!! The country music scene/industry, now, is a commercialized pimp with a bunch of music whores🤑(i.e. Taylor Swift)🤨. Sad, but True😢.
A terry Dawson 8371 l read your opinion our city is not what it once was time has gone into the future we only can remember the way it once was. Saturdays I would be at the races at the fairground Speedway I remember when you could go to the mall shopping not no more I feel people quit living life 15 years ago malls closing down . Ect everyone carrying guns in stead of bibles I remember when I worked for Allegheny airlines how friendly it once was. Now people are fighting with crew members Stewart's and so on so much for the present. Good luck with life Danny Malliard
@@danmalliard280 As long as there are people who remember these 'once great' cities the way they should be, then maybe an appreciation can be found from the 'responsible' youth, and cities like Nashville can become more family oriented, however unlikely, We must hope!!😐🙏
@@terrydawson8371 downtown from my youth was to stay way from downtown. We hung out at fountain square Hearthrob and Priest Lake, or maybe one of the Malls. Downtown was peep shows, books stores and abandoned printing companies. I worked on Deaderick for FANB in the mid90s when Bredensen started the cleanup.
One of the biggest Guitar pawn shops is there..from all the musicians who dreamed of making it big in country music
Know the name? Sounds interesting. Almost sad too . Headed for Nashville in a few weeks
@@kennyb4748 it starts with a G
Its on the boulevard of broken dreams
And I thought you had to be very talented to get any gig in those bars. Sounds like I was very wrong.
I was there once. The talent i saw was good, in this video eh