What would you do with an empty church?

[Rev. Rye]

Turn it into a recording studio or jazz club ... Or both, if it's one of those huge Catholic affairs.

YES! Doing something like that to my old church has been one of my dreams for years. At least since I watched The Muppet Movie where apparently the Electric Mayhem were in the process of doing it to an old church. "It'll be so fine and laid back and mellow and profitable" indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWx_RNMB10

Learning that Aqualung was apparently recorded in a newly-repurposed Church made the desire all the more strong. And visiting the Ryman (which started off life as a church and ended up as one of the premiere music venues in Music City) in 2014 only made the desire stronger. Hopefully, at some point, they'd collapse under their own weight and I'd have enough money to turn it into a club.

And given how many albums have been recorded at the Village Vanguard, a club with a capacity of 123 people, I see no reason recording studio and jazz club need to be so discreet a set of categories. Shit, perhaps turn the Holiest of Holies into a small recording studio as a small wing like the Ryman had when I visited (and would you believe that my old Church actually stored some of their PA gear there?).