When I actually have enough money AND enough time AND enough money AND childcare to go see a band, all I want to do is hear the band.
I get irritated (and potentially homicidal, depending on the band/musician) when people holler anything during a piece. This includes the drunken or over-enthusiastic "WOOHOOOOO" right in the middle of a soft or "unplugged" number.
Further, Nakia and I assume that a band has created a particular set list for a particular reason. We don't request songs unless the group says, "So, what do Y'ALL wanna hear?" which has happened only...twice?...that I can recall.
At gvdub's gigs I meet people who figure, hey, since I'm married to the guy, I must hate to hear him play and would much rather listen to random drunks tell me how much they like Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Hey... I've always wondered, and never had a gig-playing musician (or related person) to ask: How DO musicians feel when they start some emotionally and musically powerful soft number and some drunken audience member hollers, "Woooooooo!" right in the middle of it?
I try and take it in the spirit in which it's intended. I'd rather that than have nobody showing any appreciation whatsoever. For me, it shows that we're doing at least some small thing right to get a powerful positive reaction. Of course, the drunker the person is, the easier it tends to be, so the size of the grain of salt increase proportionally with the amount of alcohol that's been consumed.
Especially for a band like Gruppo Subconscious, where it's almost totally improv and the more feedback we get from the audience the deeper we tend to dive, positive reaction from the listeners is A Good Thing(TM).
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People do this sh&^?
When I actually have enough money AND enough time AND enough money AND childcare to go see a band, all I want to do is hear the band.
I get irritated (and potentially homicidal, depending on the band/musician) when people holler anything during a piece. This includes the drunken or over-enthusiastic "WOOHOOOOO" right in the middle of a soft or "unplugged" number.
Further, Nakia and I assume that a band has created a particular set list for a particular reason. We don't request songs unless the group says, "So, what do Y'ALL wanna hear?" which has happened only...twice?...that I can recall.
Yeah...wow.
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At gvdub's gigs I meet people who figure, hey, since I'm married to the guy, I must hate to hear him play and would much rather listen to random drunks tell me how much they like Stevie Ray Vaughn.
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Hey... I've always wondered, and never had a gig-playing musician (or related person) to ask: How DO musicians feel when they start some emotionally and musically powerful soft number and some drunken audience member hollers, "Woooooooo!" right in the middle of it?
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Especially for a band like Gruppo Subconscious, where it's almost totally improv and the more feedback we get from the audience the deeper we tend to dive, positive reaction from the listeners is A Good Thing(TM).
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