Maybe others will remember some more of Rick's comments on bar music.

One practical bit of advice Rick had was, have something handy to jam the one-arm-bandit - chewing gum, super-glue...
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Isn't one of the functions of having live music in such settings as a way of drowning out the kind of loudmouths JeremyC mentioned? And the air-conditioning. What it sounds like is secondary.