show etiquette

teeth mountain were the judge judy dead cat people, right?

Is it me or does anyone else want to deck people who spend entire shows screaming out the title of one song over and over in hopes the band plays it.

I once read an interview with JAMC's Jim Reid complaining about how there was always some drunken idiot at Glasgow gigs shouting for "Vegetable Fuckin Man!" between songs. A few weeks later I was that drunken idiot :(

Um, Jim Reid? That was you, that was...

last week this one freakin tiny girl pushed her way to the front at some show, in an small club, to take pictures of the band with her freakin IPAD

prob one of the most ridiculous things I've seen so far

I hate the worthless fucking life-failures who record an entire show on their little digital camera. They usually have to hold it up like a foot above their heads, so if you're standing behind them, you have to look at a little TV screen the entire show. I've seriously considered just slapping it from their hands and when they turn around just staring them down.

so not cool

I've seriously considered just slapping it from their hands and when they turn around just going http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

whiney imagine that but with an ipad

like there were people standing around recording the show on their iphones all weirded out by it

yeah but sometimes it's fun to see your show on youtube the next day.

I would not feel the least bit guilty after "accidentally" knocking it out of her hands and stepping on it a few times.

i rely on these ppl so i can see shows i was at on youtube the next day

i roll my eyes at people who pay more attention to capturing the show on their phone than to the show itself but i'll take a thousand of them over the loud talkers (and for that matter over the tall, oblivious people who stand in front of you just as you thought you;d found a nice sightline)

man, i hate people

gonna bring my macbook & use the isight camera next time i go to a show

hahah

Only if you livestream it for us markers!

i got ur back www.ustream.tv

I'm just going to bring a full length mirror to the show

wait what band are we doing this for

well its like, i dont really care that these people dont know how to enjoy a show. like i can enjoy it and then be like, omg this new song they did was so good to my friend alicia and make her watch youtube videos the next day. everybody wins. except for like the people who miss the show because they were filming it and the people who couldnt get tickets because it was sold out and the band who have to look at a row of cameras. and i guess my friend alicia.

I'm just going to bring my desk, chair, laptop, and snacks to my next live show so I can sit just like how I would when I watch it on youtube the next day.

pretty much everyone at shows i go to are cool. this one time a girl asked me to stop smoking a joint at an acid mothers temple show. that was probably the worst, but she had asthma so i couldn't not do it, i just gestured at the stage and threw my hands up in exasperation like are you even AWARE of where we ARE right now

someone took a video of me playing a show a while ago & watching it was v instructive actually, made me realize what a dork i look like when i play shows

I don't really care about ppl who film things or take pictures, I'm tall and will help you take a pic if you're short, I don't really have a uniform viewpoint on show etiquette really, but I try to act less like the dick I know I've been when I was younger

(and for that matter over the tall, oblivious people who stand in front of you just as you thought you;d found a nice sightline)

we're often not being oblivious so much as cruel

oh god people who blow fag smoke in your face >>>>:(

wat

Two whammies. The first was at a rare US show by the Bats. I was so excited to see them. So was the dude behind me, who decided to do one of those crazy loud finger whistles about a foot from my ear. Without even thinking, I whipped around and angrily yelled at him to shut the fuck up. He was just a little dude (like me) who clearly didn't consider that someone might like the sound of the band more than his loud whistle. He meekly apologized and didn't do it again.

The other one was better, one of my all-time favorite anecdotes. I went to see Kathleen Edwards at a smallish club. I was standing in the back. This dude and his friends were talking near me.

Girl: So, did you bring your harmonica?
Dude: Nah, not tonight.
Other dude: What harmonica?
Girl: Oh, you don't know? Dude's jammed with Dylan, Dave Matthews, Blues Traveler...

I started eyeing this alleged all-star harmonica jammer when it the gist of their conversation suddenly struck me: this asshat brings his harmonica to shows and plays along in the crowd! I can't imagine anything more hellish, and that includes seeing Blues Traveler and DMB.

idk im making an effort to not be annoyed by everyone and everything i guess

anybody who holds a $500 device in front of me at a show is already making pretty bad life decisions imo

There are $500 harmonicas?

u need to spend the big bucks to jam with the big stars

actually there are $500 harmonicas! but that wasnt my intended ref

it is interesting how people feel like they have an inalienable right to document shows, no matter how intrusive they are or whether the performer(s) express the desire for them not to ... or not to do so in certain ways.

i like to believe i have a live-and-let-live attitude about these sort of things but if that harmonica guy eventually got stomped i would not http://struckbyenlightning.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/crying-indian1.jpg because that is all-time douchebaggery

on the other hand the kind of shows you'd go to in order to play harmonica in the crowd probably wouldn't involve audiences quick to anger

i mean that harmonica guy is probably unbearable but its kindof easier to laugh at him than to get cross with him.

<3 u plax but some of us are rageballs by nature

plz note: i have documented the fate of a harmonica play along guy on a different ilx thread and it doesnt end well

how could you not laugh at the harmonica guy? i mean, really

anyone who BRINGS AN INSTRUMENT to a show when they're not in the band is in the "first against the wall" category imo

They would probably bring their own rifle along to that tbh

i remember the most frustrating experience was seeing live music in spain where everybody claps (?) along all the time. its like all you hear is clapping. its p confusing at first and then you start thinking about how much the ticket cost.

i used to enjoy going to shows and then i started getting paid to do it four or five nights a week for three or four years and now i am happy to have my rocking chair and a cup of tea and a nice blanket

i think after nine or ten years of going to shows four or five night a week you develop a zen-like attitude -- at least that was my experience

thats probably hearing loss

Think how good you would be on harmonica by now if you had taken it along to each of those gigs.

possibly - people are often less annoying when what they're saying is less intelligible

Some dude put two beers on the floor next to where I was sitting and then proceeded to jump into the mosh pit. People proceed to walk through the area where dude placed his beer.
He came back fifteen minutes later and only found one of his beers then looked at me and asked "where's the other one?"
You're on your own, fuckface.