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| From | "Don Stroud \(Nocean\)" <info@noceanstudios.com> |
| Subject | Idiots at clubs (was 'the bats') |
| Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:26:36 -0800 |
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From: "Swim Taxi"
> it amazes me that people come to a concert then treat the band like they
> were background music. at least they can tell all their hipster
> friends/rivals that they were at the Guillomots show before everyone liked
> them...
>
I saw A Flock Of Seagulls at the Viper Room last week, and I was a victim of
this self-same thing, times 1000. You wouldn't believe how many people were
on their frigging cellphones, trying to talk/yell over the bands! Or just
talking to each other, and never ONCE looked at the stage. Amazing.
I think these days a lot of live music is just something to do, a place to
go, for most people. The core fans, the ones who really love the bands, get
shafted by all the dead wood that just wants to hang out.
I do think that my Seagulls show had two extra things going for it that made
the experience so much worse:
1) The Viper Room. It's hip. People go there just to go, or to be seen.
Doesn't matter who's playing: it's the Viper Room.
2) A band like AFOS tends to bring out a lot of people due to the nostalgia
factor, not necessarily because they're fans. The woman behind me in line
asked me when the last time I listened to their music was, and I told her
"Today. I've got all their songs loaded on my iPod." (Which is absolutely
true.) She looked at me like I had a badger growing out of my forehead. And
the six 20-somethings in front of me half-turned, then snickered under their
breath. And inside the club, these two drunk jerks monopolized most of the
middle of the floor in front of the stage, high-fiving each other and
screaming "I RUN! I RUN!".
Enough complaining. The show kicked ass, even though it's just Mike Score
now. They did some DEEP, DEEP cuts, Side-B-of-the-album stuff that only a
fan would know. Many many times, it dawned on me that I was the *only*
person I could see singing along with "Quicksand", "The Traveler", "Remember
David", and others. It actually made me laugh.
Don
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