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Concert talkers should just stay in the back, next to the bar, or out in the smoking patio. Why do these chatty wankers insist on being right up front?
When they're up front, or in the thick of things, it turns into shouttalking so THE WHOLE WORLD CAN HEAR MY STUPID STORY.
Honestly, I'm at Gary Clark Jr., real close to the stage, with a guy and his friend beside me, and all I get to listen to for 10 minutes straight is this guy yelling at his buddy how he is a better guitar player than Gary is (he even keeps pointing up at the stage while saying "Gary"). He keeps screaming at his friend that he "can play this stuff all day," "it's easy," "I just need some big boobied girls in my band" and then we'll be a hit.
I left after that.
Talkers of all varieties ruin shows for me all the time, the chatters and the shouttalkers. I have honestly been considering stopping going to shows so much because of having to deal with so much obnoxious and rude behavior (pushers, shovers, drunken idiots who can't maintain, yada yada).
I'm running out of patience for it and I feel like it's getting worst and venues and festivals should start making it more of an issue so that good fans and the artists can feel respected. What artist wants to be on a stage and hear a loud din of talking coming back to them? I wish more artists would do what Ray did, maybe things would start changing so that I could keep enjoying my shows without feeling like a babysitter shushing people or something or having to be mindful of the next idiot who may come pushing into me.
Hell yes, wannaberoo'ing. Shout talkers are horrible. Its usually people drunker or younger than you who think their lives are the shit. They are common at concerts, late night trains, family parties, weddings, and bars.
The funny thing about my Gary story is that the dude screaming beside me was, I'd imagine, in his late 40's, hell even 50's. It was like 5 in the evening and the festival was just getting going too. He already seemed a little too lit up.
But, yeah, a lot of times, it is the youngins who seem to know maybe one or two songs and scream at each other the rest of the time.
maybe things would start changing so that I could keep enjoying my shows without feeling like a babysitter shushing people
Thisssss. I do not WANT to glare at you disapprovingly, or straight out ask you to shut up, it's not fun for me. Just shut up.
LOL, you should have seen the looks I was shooting "MR. I Can Play Better Than Gary" guy. I should have been able to drop him with my death stare. He was imperviously ignorant.
Also, the tone of this article was pretty whack. Concert talkers are the worst.
Yea.....the reviewer took it personally against the artist. Honestly...if someone is talking a lot during a show (I don't mind a quick "Oh I love this song" or something) then I side with the artists to get annoyed. You can have an amazing concert experience if everyone in the audience is one and sharing a moment during a quiet song by silently watching the stage. I've gotten goosebumps at shows that allow for complete silence during a song.
Is this something Ray Lamontagne is known to do? My brother saw him a while back, I think he was opening act at that point, and he did the same thing and walked off stage. I agree with him to an point. Some chatter is expected, but have some respect for the artist and the people around you, especially if it's at a paid event. Those people must have been talking pretty loud if he got THAT angry about it.
Post by umphlovecincy on Jul 24, 2014 18:31:56 GMT -5
I just hate it when people go to a show and don't give a fuck about the show! Why are you here?! So you can have cool pictures to put on facebook or some shit? Agree with everything that has been said about talkers too. Go to the back if you don't give a shit about the show. Some of us are here for the MUSIC!
I was at a Henry Rollins spoken word and he politely asked unknown persons to "Shut the F up or leave" after having already commented on a certain beer brand making people want to speak louder to make sure everyone hears. Obviously spoken word is different but I was glad an artist pointed this out.
One one hand people pay up to hundreds and even thousands of dollars to go to concerts and to listen to the music of an artist they really like and might not get to see that often and on the other hand, you really want to tell the people next to you about the time you went to the venue where the concert is being held a few years back and you saw Robert Randolph making out with a girl in JNCO jeans.
"SO THE LAST TIME I WAS AT ALPINE VALLEY WAS PHISH 99, AND EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY WAS TAKING THE SAME ACID. EVEN THE BAND, EVERYBODY IN THE BAND WAS ON THE SAME ACID AS EVERYBODY IN THE CROWD."
-Real story I heard a grown ass man telling his friends at AV 09.
to iterate i was totally into this girl beside me at american aquarium tonight until she kept pulling her phone out and staring at it. forget your f(cking phone for a minute and enjoy the music. phone people are almost as bad as mid song woo'ers
to iterate i was totally into this girl beside me at american aquarium tonight until she kept pulling her phone out and staring at it. forget your f(cking phone for a minute and enjoy the music. phone people are almost as bad as mid song woo'ers
Post by Whereispassionpit on Jul 25, 2014 8:30:48 GMT -5
Honestly, if it bothers try to politely tell the person to be quiet. I was towards the back of Frank Ocean at Roo (an already quiet show) and this guy I borrowed a light from that was next to me would not stop talking to me. I didn't want to be rude so I kept quietly giving one word answers to all his questions hoping he would shut up. Then the guy in front of us said "Hey guys this is my favorite song, can you stop talking I can't really hear it" and he just apologized and didn't talk again. It can be pretty easy like that.
to iterate i was totally into this girl beside me at american aquarium tonight until she kept pulling her phone out and staring at it. forget your f(cking phone for a minute and enjoy the music. phone people are almost as bad as mid song woo'ers
Honestly, if it bothers try to politely tell the person to be quiet. I was towards the back of Frank Ocean at Roo (an already quiet show) and this guy I borrowed a light from that was next to me would not stop talking to me. I didn't want to be rude so I kept quietly giving one word answers to all his questions hoping he would shut up. Then the guy in front of us said "Hey guys this is my favorite song, can you stop talking I can't really hear it" and he just apologized and didn't talk again. It can be pretty easy like that.
Hahaha totally reminds me of an encounter I had at Roo during the Trucks SJ. This very intoxicated, almost-certainly-underage kid comes up to me and just starts asking me lots of questions. I try to be friendly to people, and would have humored him much more if it was in between sets, but this was in the middle of the fucking show, and he's blabbing his mouth off about the set he just came from and who he's looking forward to and whatnot, asking questions throughout so that my engagement is expected. At this point I'm not making eye contact and giving short, curt answers through near-gritted teeth, when he asks me something along the lines of "What do you like best about Roo?" or something like that. I tell him my favorite part is actually listening to the music, and he loudly goes "Oh, I see it how it is." I'm just thinking YES! That is EXACTLY how it is, but I opt to not respond. He then gives me sideways dirty looks for a little bit so I'm a little concerned that he's going to start shit, but eventually he just starts talking to the person next to him. Christ, people like that drive me crazy.
Post by wannaberoo'ing on Jul 25, 2014 9:26:31 GMT -5
I wish the "politely ask them to be quiet approach" would work for me, but alas, I just usually get some hostile reactions back.
My favorite is the grinning drunk guy somewhere in front of me who keeps turning away from the stage to face the crowd. It usually involves swaying, hands up in the air, and weird awkward unintentional eye contact. Sometimes, the drunk guy faces toward me and holds his cellphone up too, apparently tryin' to be a beacon for some long lost friends.
The worst concert talkers I've encountered were Roger Waters in Boston about four years ago. I was pretty broke and could only afford nosebleed seats, so I ended up directly in front of two hammered middle-aged guys who saw it as a bar with a $50 cover charge. They did not shut up the entire time (ironically, most of their conversation was about how good the band sounded). Thankfully I have seen him since, sans talkers. Although I do have a soft spot for all those live bootlegs peppered with a minute or two of banter about how Dave's just gone to the bathroom and will be right back, and no, I don't know where you left your hoodie but I'm sure it will turn up - what does it look like?
The biggest names always seem to attract people who don't generally go to concerts and therefore don't know the etiquette. When I saw Paul McCartney last year, a woman tried to convince everyone in the first fifteen rows to sit down. Madam, I commend you for the effort.
They tell us "Rock'n'roll is the devil's music." Well, let's say we know that rock is the devil's music, and we know that it is, for sure … At least he fuckin' jams! If it's a choice between eternal Hell and good tunes, and eternal Heaven and New Kids on the fuckin' Block … I'm gonna be surfin' on the lake of fire, rockin' out.
