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Rant - Have people forgotten live gig etiquette?
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eclecticsynergy
Friend of Leo's
omahaaudio
Friend of Leo's
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Wound_Up
Tele-Afflicted
What's worse is when the event is being recorded professionally and sold as a pre-order at the event. They still hold their phones up the entire time. It happened when I saw Kenny Wayne Shepherd this past February. I paid for a Blu ray so I sat there and enjoyed the show. Yes, I took my phone out and took 1 or 2 pics at the beginning of a few songs. And I recorded 1 song specifically. But other than that, my phone was in my pocket.
The blu ray beat anything I could've recorded. It's an incredible show.
Fiesta Red
Doctor of Teleocity
If we are getting a lot of requests or suggestions. I will usually make this announcement:
“We will accept any request written on a $20 bill. We will *play* that request if it’s written on a $50 bill. We will play it *right* if it’s written on a $100 bill.”
If/when the audience laughs (they usually do), I add, “We are not joking.”
It usually weeds out the idiots.
I’ve politely told people to get away from the stage when they approach drunk or “talky”—usually the second time.
If they insist on interrupting, I’ll just turn my guitar up louder and mime, “I can’t hear you!”
“We will accept any request written on a $20 bill. We will *play* that request if it’s written on a $50 bill. We will play it *right* if it’s written on a $100 bill.”
If/when the audience laughs (they usually do), I add, “We are not joking.”
It usually weeds out the idiots.
I’ve politely told people to get away from the stage when they approach drunk or “talky”—usually the second time.
If they insist on interrupting, I’ll just turn my guitar up louder and mime, “I can’t hear you!”
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
Dunno. Pandemic or not, I never got no respect.
But — YouTubes during a show? Yikes!
But — YouTubes during a show? Yikes!
Matt Sarad
Friend of Leo's
to quote my son:
"Hell is other people"
"Hell is other people"
sixstringbastard
Friend of Leo's
"...our lead singer's laptop on stage..."
You lost me there.
You lost me there.
THX1123
Tele-Afflicted
THX1123
Tele-Afflicted
I applaud your constraint.
I would have got my band banned from the club, and enjoyed it.
I would have got my band banned from the club, and enjoyed it.
A long story short...
I played my last gig about a year ago. We played to a half empty bar where the patrons neither listened to us nor spoke to one another. They all simply stood there thumbing through their iphones. It was like a scene from the Twilight Zone.
After 40 years of gigging, I decided that night was my last.
I played my last gig about a year ago. We played to a half empty bar where the patrons neither listened to us nor spoke to one another. They all simply stood there thumbing through their iphones. It was like a scene from the Twilight Zone.
After 40 years of gigging, I decided that night was my last.
Maybe some have forgotten, but many never knew to begin with.
The "standing dancers" in the audience are the worst, just for the record.
The "standing dancers" in the audience are the worst, just for the record.
If you’re getting paid, it’s a job. Sorry lady but this is my job and you cannot interrupt my job.
Matt Sarad
Friend of Leo's
I knew he got it somewhere.
I experienced all of this well before the pando. At a bar where we used to be the house band, we went for a drink and put some music on the jukebox (which you do with an app) and someone 'over voted' our song (or whatever) so, we were like 'what?' and we discovered that we could (through finance) control the jukebox. I basically played what I wanted for about 40 minutes then we left.
We walked by the same place on a sunday and a band was trying to play, but kept getting interrupted DURING songs. We stayed 3 songs. The band was not great either, but maybe they were spooked.
I found this very loony singer songwriter that I may do a band with, just to see how it all goes... but, the world changed and it ain't coming back.
We walked by the same place on a sunday and a band was trying to play, but kept getting interrupted DURING songs. We stayed 3 songs. The band was not great either, but maybe they were spooked.
I found this very loony singer songwriter that I may do a band with, just to see how it all goes... but, the world changed and it ain't coming back.
backporchmusic
Poster Extraordinaire
How many TDPRI'ers does it take to change a light bulb?
1000. One to change the bulb and 999 to talk about how good the old one was.
1000. One to change the bulb and 999 to talk about how good the old one was.
Alex W
Friend of Leo's
I think you were treated rudely and are correct to be upset.
what kind of bulb?
I think it's smartphones much more than the pandemic. Concert behavior has been a disaster since then, in both attention and those that are paying attention are idiots recording a video that no one will ever care to look at, including themselves. We face the same issues at gigs as you describe, including venues keeping TVs on, even one's right behind the band. I literally see people watching shopping shows with no sound while a good band (not necessarily us, lol) is playing.
In a nutshell, active listening is a lost skill. Screen addiction.
Someone is always listening though, play for them.
In a nutshell, active listening is a lost skill. Screen addiction.
Someone is always listening though, play for them.
cyclopean
Poster Extraordinaire
What’s wrong with that?
I prefer to run backing tracks off something smaller and less expensive/easy to break, though.
