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House of Blues
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4640 Highway 17 SNorth Myrtle Beach, SC 29582
(843) 272-3000
- Price Range:
-
$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
7 reviews for House of Blues
LOVE this place!
I stayed in N.Myrtle right behind the HOB for a week this summer. IN Barefoot.
Lets just say, I MET the Doobie brothers, went to a Hanson Concert, AND saw Bob Marleys son...STEPHEN marley in concert, and that was awesome!
Bartenders are pretty cool and the setup is sweet...if you eat dinner there, save your recipt and you get to butt in line at the concert and get right up on the stage!
love love love HOB MB SC!!!
Came out from San Francisco to visit the folks at Myrtle Beach. We ate out ate out a lot and it was obvious that I wasn't in SF anymore. The HOB was one of two really good places we visited for dinner (Carolina Roadhouse was the other). I can't comment on the entertainment but the food was really good. I had a salad with grilled shrimp and an amazing bread pudding for dessert. My mom got some really good shrimp and grits and my dad got the special which was like a hot link rice and bean dish. Everything was great except for the special which nobody liked very much. The best part is that they give Barefoot residents a 25% discount! You can't beat that.
Now for the bad news: service was not too great. Bartenders had never heard of a Daiquiri without fruit in it. Waiter was pushing expensive things on us that we didn't want, rushed us to put in an order, came at the worst possible times and added things to our bill that we didn't order. HOB can thank their poorly trained service staff for my 3 star review. There is potential for improvement here though.
This venue is commercial, tries not to be, still is, but I still kinda like it. You want to hate it, but it's designed fairly well so there isn't really a bad seat and that's something.
The Myrtle Beach House of Blues has a special place in my heart because I have met two of the artists I went to see here by happenstance! I saw Ben Harper here and one of my friends started talking to the sound engineer, and he arranged for us to meet Ben. Ben told me I had the softest hands he'd ever felt. The very hands I am using to type this story! I sort of swooned.
Another time in college, I went to see Dashboard Confessional (I know, but it was 2002, so cut me some slack, 'kay?) and Chris was hanging out in the bar watching the opening band. A male friend and I said hi to him, and told him we were big fans, and he was so nice. During the concert, he dedicated a song to his "new friends in the balcony." The song was romantic, which was awkward, because the guy and I didn't have anything going on like that, but it was still such a sweet sentiment.
Hooray for House of Blues for making those possible, despite serving beer in plastic bottles!
What a great place to see a show! I have been hesitant about House of Blues for a while, given it's a national chain and they get a lot of crappy bands. However, interspersed throughout the lineups are the occasional awesome group, such as the Flaming Lips, Clutch, Ben Harper and yes, even Daughtry (HA!).
HOB has more of a cool theatre vibe than a hopping club. There's a great balcony and views from pretty much all over the venue. It is what you might call an "intimate setting" and you can bet any band with a good stage show is going to light the place up. I have seen several acts here and have not been disappointed yet.
It only rates 4 stars because its not in Charleston. I have to drive 2 hours and therefore the rating suffers. Still a great place to see a show. Actually, the trip and making a whole evening of it is part of the fun.
I don't know exactly why I'm not giving this venue five stars . . . maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's a national chain? Anyway, the one in N. Myrtle Beach is awesome. The theme is religious folk art, and they even have 1 or 2 (maybe more) Howard Finster pieces scattered around (that crazed found-art prophet from Georgia, see http://www.finster.com).
What really made my latest experience here so stellar, though, was the act I saw: The Flaming Lips. This show was so incredible, it makes me want to come up with a new curse word with which to emphasize the experience. All the usual ones just don't do it justice. It was simply fucktaculous.
To begin with, costume-clad volunteers walked around the auditorium about 20 minutes before the show with big boxes of something wrapped in plastic. Assuming this to be candy, I grabbed two fistfuls, only to discover I now had possession of oh-so-many laser pointers. They passed out LASER POINTERS to the entire place. This made for a pretty annoying setup for the stagehands. But it also totally engrossed a restless crowd, including my pewful of misfits, who (thanks to me) had enough lasers to perform minor surgery. Besides being a helluva pre-show distraction, the Lips used the laser pointers to great effect during the concert, directing us all to aim them at a giant mirrored plate and later a giant balloon in a good ol' fashioned cooperative light show.
Am I gushing (yet)? I've always loved their music, and their documentary is top-notch (http://www.fearlessfre...), but their concerts really must be experienced to be believed.
Highlights include:
A solid 5 minutes of orange confetti blinding the audience. . .
Dozens and dozens of giant yellow balloons bouncing all around the crowd and stage. . .
7-foot long streamers shot from plastic guns at various intervals throughout the show. . .
The whole thing was magical. I felt, and probably looked, like one of those preteen audience members caught on film at a Beatles concert: borderline hysteria. For the first 15 minutes I smiled until my face hurt.
Adding greatly to my enjoyment, no doubt, was the fact that we were treated to seats in the balcony. You usually have to pay to sit in the pews upstairs, which are probably well worth the additional cost, but a kindly usher took pity on us, so we got the perfect view (and no sore feet) for free. Shockingly, staying seated for most of the show did not interfere with our collective Rocking Out at any point.
The Flaming Lips don't come around these parts too often, but The House of Blues is a straight shot up 17-N from Charleston, so bow down to Ticketmaster and get thee to another show sometime soon. And if you are ever around when the Lips are playing, please don't hesitate to go.
I went here to watch my high school's jazz band perform while we were in Myrtle Beach for our annual band trip and adjudication (at that time I was a junior in High School and was an active member of the symphonic band). I wasn't too thrilled with the lunch buffet they put out for us, but the Myrtle Beach HOB is a nice venue for shows and would recommend it to anyone who happens to be in the Myrtle Beach area. Also, it's always really cool to see people's reactions when I tell them I saw my high school's jazz band perform at the House of Blues!
Not good, not terrible. The epitome of a commercial joint but at this point in your life, you have to know what you're getting into with places like Hard Rock, Planet Hollywood and HOB. So, we sit outside for a few drinks and listen to the local band, watching a handful of blonde 5 year old girls dance with their buzzed/smoker moms, a good people watching experience. The clincher? We sit down for dinner and by drink 2, our waiter is telling us how he moved to Myrtle with his fiance, only to meet another "broad" that had also just recently moved to Myrtle with her fiance. You know the rest, they dumped the significants and now they're living la vida loca. Oh, but it gets better! Seconds later he tells us that he's having a hell of a night. Why? Because he's finally convinced the hostess to go home with him that night to make out with his new girlfriend and how she is very excited and so is he...but he's trying to find a way to convince the hostess that HER boyfriend doesn't need to come with her to his place. I kid you not. Class act that Myrtle Beach.