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Tom Servo
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 04:33 PM UTC #
Always something of a fine line on the crowd bit. It's like porn, you know it when you see it. I don't think anyone expects complete reverent silence all the time, the spontaneity of the crowd can be half the fun.

It's one thing to make a comment to your friend during a song and another to carry on a complete and unrelated conversation as if that were the radio you were listening to. I think the rudeness comes from people wanting to have it both ways. If you want to talk with a friend or are just there for some background music, that's cool, go to the back or downstairs. If you want to enjoy the music, get in the crowd and enjoy the music. Just don't spend half the song screaming to your friend, "this is such an awesome song!!!"
ggw
Joined: December 16, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:00 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Arlette:
9:30 mandates that their own staff do it. They do a count in, have inventory sheets, do a count out with the band merch person, etc. It's a big sum of money, they take it seriously. Lots of clubs this size do.
The Club would make more money if they got a merch person with a little more hustle. The guy who usually staffs the booth moves slower than my grandmother. On more than one occasion I've opted to leave rather than wait for him.
kosmo
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:13 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Tom Servo:
Just don't spend half the song screaming to your friend, "this is such an awesome song!!!"
Had this happen when I saw Paul McCartney… It only got better, when the drunk on half a beer women started having a conversation during "Vanilla Sky" about how they rented the movie to watch during some cookie baking party. The truly defining moment for this group was the "what flag is that?" comment when Paul brought out the District of Columbia flag during the encores. Dim people…
vansmack
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:14 PM UTC #
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
loads of generalizations are made about baseball hat wearers, etc.
When I was over in London back in the mid-90's, I walked past this club that was packed with guys wearing baseball caps. Curiosity got to me so I asked what was going on - the bouncer said some yank band and was in town and it looks like 400 Americans came out to see them. It was Blues Traveler, and not one Brit who didn't work there was in the place.
xneverwherex
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:24 PM UTC #
a bunch of people asked about the song during the encore: its the b-side to chocolate (or maybe run).. post punk progression. each time i hear that song it gets better. i did learn on the b-side its MUCH slower. so now i need to find myself a live copy of that track :)

liked the show overall. gary seemed more comfortable on stage here than he did in new york. talked a bit more, joked around. they had a longer set in new york, with playing a sampling off the earlier albums and the new stuff.

the show was very enjoyable minus the people who insisted on talking so loud throughout the show. i was towards the front, on the right side directly in front of the bar (near the water). some girls near me thought it'd be great to talk throughout the entire show, and not quietly either. i know some guy asked her if she could either go to the back to talk or just be quiet, to which her response was "fuck you or fuck off".. so mature :)
jkeisenh
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:35 PM UTC #
funny, i found the show to be boring and predictable. i was standing near the merch table, tho', so i may have missed stuff, being so far back.

let's just say i'm glad i had my sparks before the show.
Fico
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:36 PM UTC #
Originally posted by xneverwherex:
finally when they ventured up closer to the band, i could dance during post punk progression.. happy in the long run :)
You call that dancing?? :)
bags
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:42 PM UTC #
Originally posted by han:
but jesus, i've never seen the 930 club so quiet in my life. the crowd looked like a bunch of zombies. maybe it's just the music, not something you can dance to, i guess.
Have you been to many 9:30 Club shows? This was an energetic crowd – nearly everyone around me was dancing or singing – you must have been in some designated quiet section. Folks upstairs along the bar were even dancing. That doesn't happen much at all…
El Tee
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:44 PM UTC #
no side chatter at ryan adams the other night. very refreshing.
bags
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:49 PM UTC #
Originally posted by chancegardener:
but for now, they are this year's Travis.
No f'ing way.

PS, I found Athlete pretty awful as well. They have the uncanny ability to put in one or two things into every song to really turn me off, be it a nursery-rhymey keyboard affect or an odd chorus (not odd as in interesting, odd as in "that sounds like a song by Mr. Greenjeans").
brennser
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:49 PM UTC #
thanks for letting us little people know what its like on stage Mr Rock Star!

you continue to completely miss the point on this thread - no-one has the slightest problem with the things you are describing below….its when folks take it to extremes that its a problem

'll prolly get bashed for saying this but sometimes you guys act like the angry black guy who is just waiting for the white person to look his way or say something he doesn't like to get his hissyfit done…I wear baseball caps, i've taken pictures with cameraphones, I've turned to the person next to me to comment..I don't see how that takes away from the concert experience…and here is something you may not know..when bands are onstage 95% you don't get to see the crowd cos it's dark as hell…and while you are playing you don't really hear the crowd..and when you are using in-ear-monitors (as most bands nowaday do) you don't hear anything from the crowd pretty much…
bags
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 05:52 PM UTC #
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
at the secret machine show at the black cat some guy had his phone up in the air for the entire set which distracted me from otherwise enjoying the show.
That's what I'm talkin' about Fico – the folks who watch the ENTIRE show through their camera phones or digital cameras. Hello, there's a band there, why don't you watch them?!

Same with talking. I make comments to my friends too (just ask Markie…), but there are those who hold full-on, full-volume conversations in the middle of the headliners set. Go to the f'ing Back Bar or lounge area in the back…
markie
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 06:00 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Bags:
I make comments to my friends too (just ask Markie…),
Yeah, and when the band is playing I tell you to shut up! But as no one can understand me, you just nod your head and then keep talking. I bet you thought I said something really deep, or cool?
bags
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 06:08 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
Originally posted by Bags:
I make comments to my friends too (just ask Markie…),
Yeah, and when the band is playing I tell you to shut up! But as no one can understand me, you just nod your head and then keep talking. I bet you thought I said something really deep, or cool?
But it's not me talking, it's my friend! Though you are on the spot as to my response to you – a nod, as if I heard you, and assumption you either said something deep and cool or it was a beer-induced muttering…

I am very reverent during shows, I'll have you know.

-edit-

I've been thinking. I'm not always so reverent during openers. I should be better. I'll try to progress as a person and a concert-goer…
Fico
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 06:10 PM UTC #
I am not saying all the things mentioned here don't happen..they do, and to a degree they take away from the experience…to me its just weird that going to the same shows I don't have those same complaints on such numerous occasions..some people at the floor will complain about jocks in baseball caps in the balcony..they're tools..yet you must leave and let live..when I get annoyed I move from my space..yet it seems the modus operandi is to claim your ground, get aggravated and bitch about it here the next day…it's unfortunate but some battles are not worth fighting…
HoyaSaxa03
Joined: March 22, 2004 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 06:20 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Bags:
– the folks who watch the ENTIRE show through their camera phones or digital cameras.
or the couples who take 5 self-portraits of themselves with the flash on (blinding the entire crowd behind them each time), checking to see if the last shot came out well, then repeating over and over

love them!
kosmo
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 06:27 PM UTC #
but complaining about it is half the fun :p
han
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Re: snow patrol May 25, 2005 at 10:03 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Bags:
Originally posted by han:
but jesus, i've never seen the 930 club so quiet in my life. the crowd looked like a bunch of zombies. maybe it's just the music, not something you can dance to, i guess.
Have you been to many 9:30 Club shows? This was an energetic crowd – nearly everyone around me was dancing or singing – you must have been in some designated quiet section. Folks upstairs along the bar were even dancing. That doesn't happen much at all…
i've probably seen 15 shows at the 930 club in the last year. i always stand downstairs, at the back, to the left, near the bar. so, i know it's not going to be as lively as up front, but at least i get the same perspective every time. this was by far the quietest crowd i've ever seen.
HoyaSaxa03
Joined: March 22, 2004 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: snow patrol May 26, 2005 at 08:49 PM UTC #
Originally posted by kled:
Drat, I was hoping for a "sausage fest" this evening. But it will probably be all shrieking spray-tanned Virginia girls taking pictures with their damn camera phones and stampeding over me in their rush to make it back to the metro/safety/virginia before midnight. What's a single Snow Patrol lovin' chick to do?
sounds like a fun crowd :D

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You can't grind to Snow Patrol. - w4m - 23
Reply to: anon-75241646@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-05-25, 10:18AM EDT

You tried to get it on with the girl in the black on whom you clearly had a giant crush. It was obvious that you were trying to impress her by screaming at the band, "YOU CRAZY, MOTHER F*CKER!" You took off when your guy friend made a move on your crush. (Which turned out to be a good move, because BOY did they go at it.) My roommate and I figured you might be slitting your wrists in the bathroom. Were you? If not, you're probably looking for a rebound, huh?
I'm the girl who melted when you turned to me and said, "OH NO HE DI'INT!"

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Snow Patrol at 930 last night - m4w - 29
Reply to: anon-75237009@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-05-25, 9:48AM EDT

We met up at the credit card bar and you asked if you could put your beers on my tab. You were wearing a white shirt and as you left you pinched my butt. Don't I get to pinch back?
bags
Joined: October 30, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: snow patrol May 26, 2005 at 09:01 PM UTC #
Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
I'm the girl who melted when you turned to me and said, "OH NO HE DI'INT!"
That always makes me melt….

We met up at the credit card bar and you asked if you could put your beers on my tab. You were wearing a white shirt and as you left you pinched my butt. Don't I get to pinch back?
Depends, did you pay for his drinks?!?!?

I am so happy to have missed all those goings-on.
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