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With the summer music season in full swing, I was discussing with my friends what our favorite venues were. Our discussion ran the gamut from stadiums to amphitheaters to small clubs, with everyone chiming in on what they liked and why.

I figured that I would share a few of my favorites and have you share a few of yours. To give this some sort of build up I decided to do it top five style here were the previous four:

5) The House of Blues (Hollywood)
4) Wiltern Theatre
3) Water Street Music Hall

and now for number 2..

My Favorite Southern California Venue- Santa Barbara Bowl

Um, look at the view…

Santa Barbara might be one of the best looking cities on the face of the earth, sitting right next to the Ocean, the city is a mixture of the upper crust and college town. Plus it has my favorite bar in California, Old Kings Road, which used to have the best jukebox ever until it was replaced with a digital downloading one. (I don’t know if I can emotionally recover from that.)

The bowl is surrounded by residential housing, so the concerts don’t run late and you have to be very mindful of how you act around the venue. My best advice is to park downtown and take a cab to and from the venue, then go out after the concert and enjoy their Spanish style downtown.

I really like the atmosphere at the venue, it just feels relaxing, when you add the view in, you just feel so removed from your everyday life. The acoustics are good, the people are friendly, the only real negative is getting in and out of the venue, which can be tedious at times.

Thier concert season is rather eclectic this year, with a smattering of different genres, click here for their 2007 schedule.

What is your favorite city to see a concert in?

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