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Thank you so much for talking non stop during the performance. Especially you, group who stood behind me. I don't know what I would have done if I had actually been able to listen to the show uninterrupted! I really enjoyed hearing about your awesome glow bracelets, and that you were super psyched for Girl Talk later on. I just hate it when I actually hear music. I much more prefer to hear you talking above it. This goes double for you, obviously drunk girl who loves the sound of her own voice! Boy, you were so entertaining! Much more that that guy on stage. That's why I go to shows, really. To hear other people's conversations! I just love listening to people talk! I know you guys do!
So thank you, group behind me. You really made that show extra special for me!
Post by nitetimeritetime on Aug 13, 2009 16:30:55 GMT -5
Hey, those people were directly in front of me at Phish Sunday night. But it's ok, I can understand why they were yelling at the top of their lungs, because we were pretty close to the front, and the music WAS pretty loud up there. Not so loud you couldn't shout over it though, thank goodness.
How close were you? I was about 10 rows back and there was some dumb girl talking a lot but it was a few rows back so i could ignore it and still zone in on my favorite Roo show.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
Post by Jello Biafra on Aug 14, 2009 13:10:31 GMT -5
Dear guy standing in front of me at David Byrne show,
Thanks alot for ruining my chill session with my bros. We're sitting there trying to have a conversation about our heady glowsticks and you keep turning around and eyeing us. Whoa, excuse me if I wanted to discuss the finer parts of glow sticks with my brosefs. I thought it was a free country. Next time you want to listen to music, stay in your room and put your headphones on.
Signed, Broskey standing behind you at David Bryne
Post by gatheringking on Aug 14, 2009 23:53:29 GMT -5
I know it sucks but, at a festy, I've come to almost always expect this kind of behavior. Too many people are there just for the vacation aspect and ONLY that. They don't seem to undestand that other people may actually be there to see and hear the bands. At least one show per fest tends to be ruined by those people.
Dear guy standing in front of me at David Byrne show,
Thanks alot for ruining my chill session with my bros. We're sitting there trying to have a conversation about our heady glowsticks and you keep turning around and eyeing us. Whoa, excuse me if I wanted to discuss the finer parts of glow sticks with my brosefs. I thought it was a free country. Next time you want to listen to music, stay in your room and put your headphones on.
Signed, Broskey standing behind you at David Bryne
awwww...poor guy! Your constant need for social enmeshment is really really, well...needy. And the free country excuse is lame. Use the other 79 and a half acres to get closer with your bros. Thats what's important, right?
Post by crazykittensmile on Aug 15, 2009 10:42:13 GMT -5
there's something to be said for suuuuuper hammered people singing along off key at the top of their lungs too. it really adds something to any concert going experience. especially during the more mellow sets. ;D
Dear guy standing in front of me at David Byrne show,
Thanks alot for ruining my chill session with my bros. We're sitting there trying to have a conversation about our heady glowsticks and you keep turning around and eyeing us. Whoa, excuse me if I wanted to discuss the finer parts of glow sticks with my brosefs. I thought it was a free country. Next time you want to listen to music, stay in your room and put your headphones on.
Signed, Broskey standing behind you at David Bryne
awwww...poor guy! Your constant need for social enmeshment is really really, well...needy. And the free country excuse is lame. Use the other 79 and a half acres to get closer with your bros. Thats what's important, right?
awwww...poor guy! Your constant need for social enmeshment is really really, well...needy. And the free country excuse is lame. Use the other 79 and a half acres to get closer with your bros. Thats what's important, right?
Post by ☮ superbek ☮ on Aug 16, 2009 12:30:44 GMT -5
^^ well Iguess I can never be sure but I detected the humor and sarcasm in it! I know the guy can be a DB but sometimes I think we're too sensitive around here. I mean, just look at this thread, know what I mean? I mean all he did was try to bring up the opposing view in a comical fashion... after all the people terrapin is annoyed by were just trying to get the most out of there experience too. I don't think burton response was near as rude as th op (sorry terrapin).
I also think we provoke people like burton because we retaliate by getting frustrated or smiting them which I think is a really pretentious thing to do.
Post by nodepression on Aug 16, 2009 13:03:29 GMT -5
Is it that hard for people not to talk during shows? I paid money to see and hear the band, not to listen to people talk around me. It's one of my biggest pet peeves at shows, that and pushing me to get a better spot.
Post by nitetimeritetime on Aug 16, 2009 13:30:11 GMT -5
It's one thing to talk during a show. Everybody does that. It's a completely different thing to yell over the music for the entire fucking show. And it's an order of douchebagitude higher to do that near the stage at a crowded show when there are thousands of people who would love to be as close as you so they could actually enjoy the show.
Post by nodepression on Aug 16, 2009 13:39:02 GMT -5
Yea I should clarify, I don't mind talking between songs, or talking about the music that's going on stage. However I really do not need to hear how much beer you've had, or what shows you're going to see later when the music is playing
Yea I should clarify, I don't mind talking between songs, or talking about the music that's going on stage. However I really do not need to hear how much beer you've had, or what shows you're going to see later when the music is playing
Which is what these people around terrapin were doing. There's a difference between enjoying the music with the people around you and having a full-out conversation as loud as possible about how wasted you are.
But it's bonnaroo, and some things are out of our control. I've learned to let it go and move if the people are too obnoxious.
Post by strumntheguitar on Aug 17, 2009 0:24:20 GMT -5
At a Ryan Adams show at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach there were some people up near the bar talking in conversation to each other with their backs turned to the stage. Ryan Adams stopped playing just to b*tch them out and then proceeded to write an impromptu song on the piano about how much those people sucked and how he wished they would go f*ck off to a sports bar instead. It was quite possibly one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed at a show.
So... sometimes that talking can end up being a good thing in the long run!
Post by nodepression on Aug 17, 2009 1:00:12 GMT -5
Ryan Adams consistently amazes me with his awesomeness. At the show I saw in Syracuse there were a bunch of people talking and yelling out Summer of 69 but he didn't let it phase him, I think he's grown up a lot in the past couple of years. Although I would've enjoyed being there during his Whiskeytown/Early solo days.
Post by hibouxdufromage on Aug 19, 2009 19:43:27 GMT -5
*while speeding up clap even more, finds the most crowded part of the audience, weasels his way to the middle of it, answers his cell phone in his most boomingest voice, and then lets a huge stinky fart go... but a silent one. He doesn't want to ruin anyone's show with a loud fart.*
I found the audience at David Byrne to be the most distracting. But to be fair, I think it had to do with the up and down energy the set list brought. People would go crazy during the better known songs and then totally tune out the new stuff. And my guess with a guy like David Byrne, you're going to have an inevitable disconnect in the audience between fans of his music and fans of Talking Heads music.
A fart? Come on, man, this is Bonnaroo. A light rain makes the whole farm smell like a fart.
I forgot to mention, I fart right when someone's trying to light a cigar, effectively setting 4 wooks on fire. Also singing my ass hairs a bit, but it's totally worth it.
But seeeeeeriously, folks. The girls I saw Radiohead with complained about these people right behind us not shutting up and it "ruining their show". I didn't even notice them, because: a) I'm at a festival and don't expect other people to psychically tailor their behavior or voice volume to my personal preferences, and b) I was paying more attention to who was on stage than who was around me.
