Survey: Rock Strip-Club or Pop Strip-Club?

Since no strip club is gonna play what I like anyhow, I would have to vote for the variety. Now if I am getting laid, all bets are off.

I would go to the one with the best dancers and dances.

They have music?

I know of one club in Tampa that regulates their music to only rock. Class Act way up on north Florida Avenue. They have very few dancers and even fewer customers. From what the manager has told me (the nothing but rock edict comes from the owner), there are very few customers who comment on liking the strictly rock approach but quite a few who bitch and moan about the lack of popular hip hop.

He verifies my theory, though, in that the best customers, as a couple here have pointed out, don't even worry about the music. They are looking for hot dancers. The point being that a club is not going to get very many dancers playing music that, sadly, lost its mainstream appeal almost twenty years ago.

And, sure, the guys that are whining and bitching about the music look like ghetto boys but, really, they've always been there. It's just that ten years ago, they were shiny shirt-wearing ravers. Twenty years ago, they were long-haired rocker wannabes. Thirty-five years ago, they were disco king wannabes. Forty years ago, they were hippies.

They've always been there... The little boys who don't have any money but make it so the room doesn't look dead when we walk in with money to spend.

I would choose the rock only club.

Definitely rock.

Last night,I was in a S.C. Sitting next to this 19 y.o. stipper-due onstage next. This weird techno pop shit started coming through the speakers. Stripper get his weird look. I asked her if she had picked this. She said "Hell no." She went to the dj to compain. It turned out that someone had blended a techno pop beat to a thirty year old easy listening song.

All other things being equal, ROCK!

And the harder the better!

Thanks for your input. More needed, please. Thanxxx

rock

Would prefer the pop music to be honest. And I would consider myself a pretty decent spender and all that too, but music is somewhat important to the overall club vibe IMO.

I like rap and hip hop music the best during LDs. You really need that bass and heavy, syncopated beat.

While I enjoy listening to rap, it's not my favorite genre. Inside the clubs it is, though.

I really want the DJ to play what the girl really likes, if the girl likes the music she dances better to it... that being said, to me, while it's not the music I normally listen to on my IPOD, nothing says strip club like porn star girl friend (the video is pretty damn hot as well!) and candy shop...

Great input. Thanks. I'm doing research for a friend/club owner. More more more opinions please. Thanks again, DJ Geo

DJ Geo,

Rock songs with a beat to consider:

Twilight Zone by Golden Earring

Turbo Lover, Living After Midnight, and other Judas Priest songs.

Keep on Rocking in the Free World-Neil Young

I Was Made for Loving You-Kiss

Drop Dead Legs, Pretty Woman by Van Halen

I Can't Wait-Stevie Nicks

Dirty Deeds, I Hate Myself for Loving You, I Love Rock n Roll, Cherry Bomb by Joan Jett

Amphetamine (from the Bandslam sound track)

I was into country for waaay too long....it started in the Waylon & Willie days so I've sort of got an excuse, but it took a long time for me to escape. My step-daughter got me a ZZ Top CD (greatest hits)for Christmas in the late 90's. She admits it's kind of old stuff, but it's better than what I was listening to. So she puts it in the player, and I'm very familiar with almost every song...from strip clubs. I had to be careful not to sprout wood!

I used to have a lot of trouble accepting the idea that rap...hip-hop...whatever... is even a valid music form, then I downloaded eminem and Rihanna's Love The Way You Lie video with Megan Fox. Can't say much for the others, but Megan Fox sure is nice to watch. Then I saw a "vintage hip-hop" band in concert recently, and I'm beginning to appreciate it as an art form, and not just a rhythm to lap dance to. Actually, I have appreciated KC's own Tech Nine for a few years since they were getting some play at my fav club.

Sorry to get so long there...rock is my favorite s-c music, techno is crap, and I can accept hip-hop now.

I absolutely would prefer a club that only played rock music to one that was pop-oriented, but I would think after a while, that would get old, so it doesn't really matter to me. If they play enough rock songs, that's fine by me.

Long ago I realized that I would never hear my kind of music in a SC anywhere on this planet - classical, blues, 60s rock and roll, progressive jazz. As long as the dancers' performances keep my attention I can easily let my mind ignore the crappy music.

The sole time I brought a dancer to my home for a sexy weekend finally gave me a chance to have my music accompanying the bedroom frivolities. At one point the girl commented that she could do a really nasty dance to the music I had playing. That particular piece of music was Ravel's 'Bolero'.

You guys are great! Thanks for your input. More needed, please. My goal is to help my friend create a club that you'd like more than any other. Supposing both clubs had many beautiful ladies that could make any song look good, would you rather go to the ultimate rock strip-club or the ultimate pop strip-club? Bonus question: What was the last song or cd you bought or listened to? Thanks again for your help here. Much appreciated - Geo

Rock club, fine. Pop club, fine. Hip hop club, not if I can help it. It's about the crowd, IMHO. I've seen too many dumbass wiggers and gangstas acting like fools when rap songs are played. The wiggers who dance next to the stage creep me out.

I'd prefer the rock club. I'd like a club that plays FFDP, Godsmack, Breaking Benjamin, Saliva, PM5K, etc. Pop music generally works for strip clubs: Ke$ha, Katy Perry, etc. Playing too much hip hop brings in guys with straight-billed ball caps. Club or house music is not as popular here as in Europe.

"Supposing both clubs had many beautiful ladies that could make any song look good, would you rather go to the ultimate rock strip-club or the ultimate pop strip-club?"

That's a big supposition. In the late 90s, I watched quite a few clubs clinging to rock music die as dancers refused to work there if they had to dance to rock music.

I'd say it's not about forcing them to dance to rock. It's about refusing to let them dance to hard core rap.

You can not avoid rap/hip hop. It is today's pop music whether you like it or not. The key is discretion. Just as much as you'd avoid death metal in a SC, you'd want to avoid gangsta-rap too.

One club I frequent has a rule that the song has to be at least 50% actual singing vs. rapping. Because, let's face it, even the most poppy artists will through in the rapper cameo for thirty seconds to get "street cred" and sell more CDs/downloads. See Katy Perry's California Girls and ET, featuring raps by Snoop Dogg and Kanye West, respectively, for no logical reason other than to get little hip-hopper wannabes to maybe listen.

FWIW, if your club is the only game in town, by all means, make them dance to rock. It will make the right demographics, customer-wise, happy.

However if there is a lot of competition and you're the only game in town trying to rock it out, you'll die a painful death as you struggle to get strippers to work there.

A quick unscientific word search on this topic showed these results, ROCK - 24, and POP - 9. Of course I excluded the original question and topic heading.

Big thanks everybody. I'm going to send this along to my friend. Have a great weekend! - Geo

I think it's important to adapt to your customers. Sure, all the girls mostly want to dance to R&B and hip-hop, but that's just crazy in the afternoon when the club has nothing but gray haired dudes on Social Security. Some clubs get it right. Classic rock in the afternoon, gradually changing to some R&B and pop in the evening and finishing with hardcore rap and metal in the wee hours.

But also the key is to mix it up a bit. I'm a rocker (see my pic) but I don't mind some R&B - just not every song. I love it when the DJ throws in some AC/DC or Nuge when you least expect it.

Music try playing porn soundtracks

nothing better than some moaning to watch a girl shake her ass to