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I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

— John Lee Hooker

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

— John Boehner

I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

— Sinbad

I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.

— Bernie Worrell

My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

— Dean Winters

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

— Jonathan Frid

Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar.

— Jam Master Jay

My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.

— Johnny Van Zant

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

— Tommy Chong

✗Opposing Perspectives

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

— George Gobel

I worked in this bar called the Raincheck Room in the '60s; it used to be over on Santa Monica Boulevard, and, y'know, it was a pretty hip place. Lots of actors hung out there.

— Alex Rocco