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ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
edited January 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Anyone else here completely baffled by the appeal of these money-spinning wank-joints that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with music, let alone 'hard rock' music?
I sat across the road from a new one that has just opened here in Seoul, and It occured to me that I wouldn't grace the place with my presence if they paid me.

Seriously, what's the deal? Am I missing something? :confused:
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  • chiquimonkeychiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    beats me. i have never been in one. closest i got was the hard rock casino in vegas
  • LedbetterusLedbetterus Posts: 592
    The last time I was in one was probably 10 years ago, maybe longer. The museum aspect of them is okay I suppose, I remember looking around at everything, as I was and still am very interested in music. However the food was extremely overpriced and not even good.
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  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    what are you TALKING about???? that place has some good food, great music videos and PEARL JAM stuff!!! me and some frenz from here went to the HR in san diego recently and a few minutes after we sat down, they showed the jeremy video! all the waiters and waitresses were serving people and singing along. it was awesome. i dig hard rock cafes!
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  • V VV V Posts: 5,191
    yep I'm with you just a pile of crap !
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    I like to have a look at the memorabilia in those places, but the food is just very average to poor tex-mex and also very expensive for what it is. Only ever went to a Hard Rock once with kids who were hassling me to go - not worth a second visit. Big money making corporation playing on the passion of fans (coming to eat there just to be able to see Jimi's guitar or Lennon's jacket...
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I was dragged to one in London by a girl about 5 years ago and I remember that the price of a bottle - no draught - beer was extortionate. I also remember the staff hussling us out of the place as soon as we'd finished our food so that they could ferry in some more customers. It was one of the most soulless money grubbing corporate whorehouses I've ever been unfortunate enough to have set foot in.
    Hard rock my ass. More like hard cock!
  • HinnyHinny Posts: 1,610
    Mediocre American barbeque food easily matched by my local BBQ joint, which does a delivery to my front door for no charge and charges less for the food.

    The only one worth visiting is the one at Hyde Park Corner in London, and only because it's the original and has the Clapton-Townshend story behind it.

    Unless if it was part of some big gathering organised by a friend, I'd never step inside one of these again.
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    Byrnzie wrote:
    More like hard cock!

    ooOOoo... hard cock.....

    **runs away from the thread hanging her head in shame**
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    redrock wrote:
    I like to have a look at the memorabilia in those places, but the food is just very average to poor tex-mex and also very expensive for what it is. Only ever went to a Hard Rock once with kids who were hassling me to go - not worth a second visit. Big money making corporation playing on the passion of fans (coming to eat there just to be able to see Jimi's guitar or Lennon's jacket...

    They don't interest me in the slightest. However, I would pay to go to Chris Cornells restaurant. I expect the food is A LOT better. That's my idea of a Hard Rock cafe, erm, restaurant.
  • stateoflove79stateoflove79 Posts: 2,845
    The one in NYC is pretty cool. I took my wife (then just girlfriend) there a couple summers ago.
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  • SongburstSongburst Posts: 1,195
    My godfather used to own the Hard Rocks in Toronto (maybe Canada - I'm not sure). When I was 12 I stood in Elton John's silver boots and played with Angus Young's guitar in one of his storage rooms early one morning while the police were on their way over because I tripped the silent alarm.
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  • xscorchoxscorcho Posts: 409
    SENROCK! wrote:
    what are you TALKING about???? that place has some good food, great music videos and PEARL JAM stuff!!! me and some frenz from here went to the HR in san diego recently and a few minutes after we sat down, they showed the jeremy video! all the waiters and waitresses were serving people and singing along. it was awesome. i dig hard rock cafes!

    you shoulda went to Hodads in San Diego instead.... way way better.
  • adam42381adam42381 Posts: 2,505
    I enjoy them. Sure the food's not the greatest quality but I like the memorabilia. I've been to the ones in New York, Cozumel, Myrtle Beach, Key West, Maui and Las Vegas.
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  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    xscorcho wrote:
    you shoulda went to Hodads in San Diego instead.... way way better.
    hmmm nexxxt time i may have to try that place! hard rock isnt a big deal as in 'oooh lets get dressed up and have a night out at hard rock!' no. its more like dude im starving and wanna drink, theres hard rock lets go! :D
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    I would pay to go to Chris Cornells restaurant.
    Friends went... over-rated and over-expensive too, though a bit better than the Hard Rocks. If you are in Paris, there are hundreds of restaurants waaaaay better than BC with incredibly wonderful 'proper' food and a lot cheaper too. BC is just another fad. If Cornell's name wasn't associated with this restaurant, it wouldn't have much of a clientele.
  • monster95monster95 Posts: 127
    the price of the place in paris/france....fecking shocking!!!!!
    although biggest rack of ribs i ever did see...swore they just skinned a pig and threw it on the plate...hah.
    I plan to live forever.so far so good !
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Hard Rock Cafe...I agree. I've had a few beers in the Cardiff one, but the music they play is awful, to be fair the beer is no more expensive than any other bar in the city, and they have a Pearl Jam disc on the wall I like to gaze at..... But it occurred to me last year when I went past the HRC in Barcelona, and I felt no urge to go in, that I have also walked past the branches in Dublin and Madrid...and not felt the urge to go in those either.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    i went to the Hard Cock Cafe in Hamburg once... it wasnt what i expected but i did get a lapdance from this guy who claimed he was called Helga... he said he would pay me £30 to clean his jerry helmet.


    i did it for £20 and some Knockwurst :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • HinnyHinny Posts: 1,610
    redrock wrote:
    Friends went... over-rated and over-expensive too, though a bit better than the Hard Rocks. If you are in Paris, there are hundreds of restaurants waaaaay better than BC with incredibly wonderful 'proper' food and a lot cheaper too. BC is just another fad. If Cornell's name wasn't associated with this restaurant, it wouldn't have much of a clientele.
    Why would anyone go to these places in Paris when there's all that brilliant French food around?
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  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    redrock wrote:
    Friends went... over-rated and over-expensive too, though a bit better than the Hard Rocks. If you are in Paris, there are hundreds of restaurants waaaaay better than BC with incredibly wonderful 'proper' food and a lot cheaper too. BC is just another fad. If Cornell's name wasn't associated with this restaurant, it wouldn't have much of a clientele.

    What a shame to hear that. I'd still try it though.
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    When I was in Hong Kong we were stumbling home one night..late...and as we were walking past the Hard Rock Cafe, for whatever reason, one of us pulled on the door and it was open! :eek: But it was closed. We wandered around laughing, all drunk...poured ourselves a drink and left. lol

    Mediocre food at best.
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  • luxpjamerluxpjamer Posts: 837
    Do be honest I like it. Maybe it's because we do not have HRC in my country. The food is better than McDonald or Burger King. I love the Hamburger with the guiness bread !!!! I remember that in paris there was a guitar from Soundgarden (or was it in Munich?).
    Even if it is commercial, it's funny, what's funnier than to drink some beers, eating a Burger while singing along to some Rock music. And it's way better than Planet Hollywood.
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  • luxpjamerluxpjamer Posts: 837
    TrixieCat wrote:
    When I was in Hong Kong we were stumbling home one night..late...and as we were walking past the Hard Rock Cafe, for whatever reason, one of us pulled on the door and it was open! :eek: But it was closed. We wandered around laughing, all drunk...poured ourselves a drink and left. lol

    Mediocre food at best.

    Seems that you had a great night!!!
    :)
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    TrixieCat wrote:
    When I was in Hong Kong we were stumbling home one night..late...and as we were walking past the Hard Rock Cafe, for whatever reason, one of us pulled on the door and it was open! :eek: But it was closed. We wandered around laughing, all drunk...poured ourselves a drink and left. lol


    A drink!!! singular... are you kidding me? :confused:

    p.s. thieving fuckers ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    TrixieCat wrote:
    When I was in Hong Kong we were stumbling home one night..late...and as we were walking past the Hard Rock Cafe, for whatever reason, one of us pulled on the door and it was open! :eek: But it was closed. We wandered around laughing, all drunk...poured ourselves a drink and left. lol

    Mediocre food at best.

    Just a drink?

    Damn! I would have cleaned the place out - of booze, if nothing else. I'd have at least grabbed a few bottles of Jack or Jim from behind the bar.
    I remember going to a house party in a small village in Hertfordshire once and a few of us walked down to the local village shop at about 3am or something for reasons unknown. It turned out that the shop door was unlocked so we went inside and had a blast. I remember carrying boxes of ice-creams back to the party.
    Those were the days.
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    dunkman wrote:
    A drink!!! singular... are you kidding me? :confused:

    p.s. thieving fuckers ;)
    We were already drunk.
    Why be obnoxious about it.
    And I didn't need to be sent to the Chinese equivilent of Sing Sing. :eek:

    It wasn't about looting the place. Just having it to ourselves. :)
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Just a drink?

    Damn! I would have cleaned the place out - of booze, if nothing else. .
    I would have walked out with memorabilia... forget about booze! Well.. OK, maybe a bottle or two as well.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    TrixieCat wrote:
    We were already drunk.
    Why be obnoxious about it.
    And I didn't need to be sent to the Chinese equivilent of Sing Sing. :eek:

    It wasn't about looting the place. Just having it to ourselves. :)

    Lightweight!

    ;)
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Lightweight!

    ;)
    :o Just not good at being a thief.
    I think it was more along the lines of "Whoa! Someone forgot to lock the door!
    Let's have a drink!"

    You have to be careful in Hong Kong. There are roadsigns telling you to stay back from the curb or they will run you over! :eek:
    This was a while back too...about 6 days before it was handed back to the Chinese...not as many English milling around, busting up the joint.
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  • NOCODE#1NOCODE#1 Posts: 1,477
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Anyone else here completely baffled by the appeal of these money-spinning wank-joints that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with music, let alone 'hard rock' music?
    I sat across the road from a new one that has just opened here in Seoul, and It occured to me that I wouldn't grace the place with my presence if they paid me.

    Seriously, what's the deal? Am I missing something? :confused:
    some great pj stuff in the one in NY (but that was 14 years ago on a field trip)
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