Beer garden

So just some various fun games for them to entertain throughout the day.

And then lastly here, live music will be played at the Beer Garden, which opens at 5 p.m. Tell us about the live music as well as the Beer Garden.

Yes.

Yeah, we're honored to have Big Smitty out of the Joplin area to come up here to perform.

It is a free concert, so no admission fee.

You're just more than welcome to bring your lawn chair and come and set up on our park as it transitions into our evening event.

The concert starts at 5.30, and the beer garden will open at 5 p.m.

And I'm sure that is 21 plus for the beer garden?

Oktoberfest was the first major festival to feature a groundbreaking technology.

Back in 1896, Munich's Beer Garden was the largest building to have light provided by electricity.

The guy screwing in all those bulbs was a 17-year-old working for his family utility company.

His name? Albert Einstein.

And yeah, Mikey's absolutely nailed it.

So now we're in the iconic beer garden.

Yes.

It's known to many people.

Because it's a fucking nightmare.

I think

while, you know, you're listening to what people want and you're yeah you know you've got something for people that want to come watch bands you've got you know cash deals for cheap drinks you've got this different space upstairs you've got the raging disco parties you know on the decks later on at night the beer garden's always pumping you can sit out the front you know there's karaoke whatever you're adapting to what works but you're also giving people what they want without losing any of your authenticity like

when we first started i remember saying i would never do karaoke i remember saying i'd never do djs never have djs

But it's continuing to pop up all over the press.

Oktoberfest at Beer Garden.

Mr. Eric Allen has been at Walt Disney World this past week.

Yeah.

I gotta go.

Yeah, you might have to go without me.

Over at Epcot, Germany's Beer Garden is getting into the Oktoberfest spirit with seasonal decorations and atmosphere.

Germany, to me, is one of those World Showcase pavilions where Where you don't really need to change much ever.

Yeah?

Drove out to a little joint in Manchester, beer garden.

He went in alone.

When we got back downtown, he had the stuff.

A check with RNI showed that his true name was Eddie Hartsook and that he'd had several prior arrests for possession of narcotics and one arrest on the ABC Act.

Unlike Jennings, he broke almost just immediately.

He wouldn't confess to being a pusher, but he did admit that he was an addict and that he was supplied by a Jules Zimmerman, the owner of a German beer garden out on Manchester Avenue.

He told us he'd met Zimmerman through a mutual friend who was now doing time in Folsom for robbery.

We gotta come up with a time that we're heading out there.

I'm not sure when that's going to be, but we'll be out there, uh, at the Biergarten in China Basin.

Uh, I'm gonna have to go over to Mission Rock, grab some German food.

I gotta grab a pretzel and some, uh, German beer.

It was like the big Valley Jamboree of rock and roll.

So it was huge acts and we were asked if we could do a 45-minute opening slot in the beer gardens, and we had three songs.

So we had three weeks to get a set together.

We just wrote every day, every minute, sat on the driveway, sat in the basement, sat in the backyard, cobbled together a bunch of songs and, uh, that was kinda my first real taste of what it was like to like formulate intentional hooky choruses and s- and things like that, and I wasn't singing in the band yet.

It'd be like, you know, the Nickelbacks and stuff of the world.

And, and, uh, when we played that contest, there was somebody in the crowd, this guy named Corey Popjak, who later became our manager.

He was booking for the Beer Gardens at Stage 13 and, uh, he was like, "Hey, that was great.

I love you guys.

Yep.

All right, next up is gonna be Biergarten, and this is one of our favorites.

It's in the Germany pavilion over at Epcot.

Um, very Oktoberfest-like setup, and they have this live polka entertainment.

Uh, you can get those giant, like, steins of beer, and it's just a really fabulous buffet.

Interesting.

So this is number 26 is Biergarten.

I really enjoy Biergarten, so I'm interested to see what the, what the other things they, uh, they have put in, or they recommend, uh, ahead-