How do you conduct yourselves at concerts ?

[toys2cool]

sorry but if I know the songs I sing along

[Meule]

I go nuts at concerts. Most concerts I go to are metal bands, so just standing there not shouting and headbanging kinda makes you stand out in the crowd I don't do moshpits as much as used to tho. Last moshpit I ot into was at a Metallica concert 2 weeks ago, but before that it was years ago. I'm getting too old for that crap

[Meule]

Maybe we'll team up with Paul and Larry and have a Mego Metal Meet this summer ?

Dude, if this happens I'm so there
I've seen November's Doom play live here in Belgium and Holland a couple of times already, but I look forward to seeing 'em more

[Bill]

The Pogues show the other week was the first time I actually sat in the balcony instead of toughing it out on the floor.
Stood the whole time, sang the whole time, drank the whole time.

[Mikey]

The thing that bugged me about my last concert .....
Put yourself in my place for a second, then reevaluate your answers....

Ok, I'm at Roger Waters 2000 : In The Flesh .....
The concert is held in an art centre stadium/theatre ...
Basically it's set up like a huge Broadway theatre - including the seating ... which is like movie theatre seating.

Beside doing some Floyd songs, he's mostly doing Final Cut songs which are slow.

For some odd reason, about 5% of the audience stands ups down front.
This inturn makes the people behind them stand up too (in order to see) ...
This goes on like a wave until the whole theatre is standing throughout the whole 2 hour show.

That's part 1

Part 2
Why do people feel the need to yell CONSTANTLY at even slower and more intense songs like Southhampton Dock and the Gunner's Dream ?
It's just one non-stop yell for 2 hours straight.

That's just the start of it.

[toys2cool]

The thing that bugged me about my last concert .....
Put yourself in my place for a second, then reevaluate your answers....

Ok, I'm at Roger Waters 2000 : In The Flesh .....
The concert is held in an art centre stadium/theatre ...
Basically it's set up like a huge Broadway theatre - including the seating ... which is like movie theatre seating.

Beside doing some Floyd songs, he's mostly doing Final Cut songs which are slow.

For some odd reason, about 5% of the audience stands ups down front.
This inturn makes the people behind them stand up too (in order to see) ...
This goes on like a wave until the whole theatre is standing throughout the whole 2 hour show.

That's part 1

Part 2
Why do people feel the need to yell CONSTANTLY at even slower and more intense songs like Southhampton Dock and the Gunner's Dream ?
It's just one non-stop yell for 2 hours straight.

That's just the start of it.

I do hate when you're sitting and the people in front of you stand up,that bugs the hell out of me

[Bill]

[Mikey]

............. Putz

[fallensaviour]

Than stay home and listen to the cd.

That's funny as hell,Not very sensitive mind you but funny as hell!!!

[tay666]

I get mad at people who don't participate at concerts.
They sit there like lumps and just take up space.
If you want to do that, then listen to the CD, or sit in the back, and watch the screens.

Then again, I go to hard rock / heavy metal shows.
MUSIC

Just got tickets for me and my daughter for Disturbed next month.
General admission on the floor for Music as a Weapon 4.
Gonna be a blast!

[Mikey]

I hate people that think the audience wants to hear their lousy voices singing and watching them shake their fat asssess.

Sing along and shake your asssses AT HOME in private listening to a CD.

[JPkempo]

Last 12 or more concerts I saw have all been Aerosmith - Loud enough that you can't hear your self sing never mind the guy next to you.

[Cosmicman]

I'm in a hard rock band and reading posts like Wrath's bring out
the worst in me----I can't stand when concerts get out of hand----
---I find nothing fun about fearing injury or worse because
fellow concertgoers (or audiences at my own shows) feel that
violence is part of the equation at any show

I guess, again, it's just all about opinion of what's considered "too much".

That was me from ages 13-23. I was one of those rude kids at the metal shows that would jump into the crowds and "slam dance" into other kids at shows. It was like the in thing back then.
As I got older (and a couple of car accidents and kids later). I grew out of it and I get ****ed off when kids slam into me at concerts. Not sure why I was ever like that to began with. Must have been the over energized testosterone levels in my growing body.
Seriously, I didn't start growing until my twenties. I am a giant now. 6'5" 250 some lbs. If I would've had that mass as I kid I would have gotten out of a lot of concert scuffles.

[huedell]

That was me from ages 13-23. I was one of those rude kids at the metal shows that would jump into the crowds and "slam dance" into other kids at shows. It was like the in thing back then.
As I got older (and a couple of car accidents and kids later). I grew out of it and I get ****ed off when kids slam into me at concerts. Not sure why I was ever like that to began with. Must have been the over energized testosterone levels in my growing body.

I guess it's just in some people's blood.

My thing is --not only do I find it tough to deal with "now"----
I've ALWAYS been that way---even at my "physical prime".
I just never understood that mentality.
It's, like, "scary" to me---and that's why I'm so
vociferous about it.

Problem is, I've been in bands for years so these scenarios have been
unavoidable many times.

That's the price I pay to do what I love, I guess.

Seriously, I didn't start growing until my twenties. I am a giant now. 6'5" 250 some lbs. If I would've had that mass as I kid I would have gotten out of a lot of concert scuffles.

Sounds like an unusual case study of growing. Pretty neat.
Height is a great advantage to have---not only at concerts,
but in general, I'd say.

[HardyGirl]

That's all part of the concert experience. Seeing a performer live is not so much about the singing, (since we all know they sound different from the albums b/c you're not listening to a tweaked recorded version), as it is about seeing your favorite performers live, and the joy and excitement that brings. Yeah, folks are gonna sing, dance, scream, stand up, wave lighters, throw things on stage, that is unless of course you're going to a classical music concert. It's an event, and it's only natural that fans get into the spirit of the thing. I'm sure if you asked any performer, they'd tell you it would be a very dull concert indeed if all the fans ever did was sit quietly in their seats and clap between numbers.