Pure. Metal.

Rest assured, piano bar skeptics, we’ve been told that there will be metal. Piano bar metal.

“Yeah, hell yeah. I’m from Texas,” Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar owner Corey Urbach said. “There will be a picture of Vinnie Paul up on the wall. As a matter of fact, there’s a very good picture of Vinnie with with (Dimebag) Darrell that we have when they were on stage together. We had Gwen Stefani’s band up. They just rolled in and performed. They’re not going to do that at New York-New York.”

Pete’s opens at Town Square on Friday. We stopped in last week when the pianos were still in cardboard boxes (Pianos come in boxes? Who knew?) to try to figure out just how this place would be different from other piano bars that tend to skew a little, how do we put this? Billy Joel-y? Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone