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Post by iron maiden on Nov 14, 2019 1:29:35 GMT
Last night a couple gf's and I went to see Fleetwood Mac. I have waited years to see them as I wanted Christine McVie to be touring with them. So it's the first few songs and we were in the last section and there was no one beside us so we moved over to dance (still in a row) so we didn't block the view of the older people behind us. Next thing you know I'm being asked for my ticket. I told the broad my friend had it on her phone and she told me we had to go back to our seats and sit down as the people behind us were complaining. We apologized to them and they said 'for what' so we told them what the chick said and they said 'we didn't complain. You weren't in our way'. Then I see them telling other people to sit down, but of course not everyone. I posted about this on Facebook and I found out other people at different venues in different cities have had the same experience. Some saying it was the venues' policy and others saying it was because of other concert goers.
I went to see Def Leppard and Poison and we were asked by the people behind us to sit down. I get it, but like WTF is the point of going to a concert if you aren't going to participate? Stay home and watch it on video or listen to it on Spotify, let the rest of us enjoy it how we want. Maybe it's a legalities thing on the venues part but my gf's and I are 40+ (heavy on the plus) and weren't drinking. If there was no one beside us or behind us, what is the issue? There were others on the end where we were and they didn't ask them to sit down. Utter bullshit.
I waited YEARS to see Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks share the same stage again and while I still managed to have a good time, that really tainted my experience.
I have been to quite a few concerts over the years and I don't remember this being an issue until the last few years? Is the concert going experience changing to suit this whole 'everyone's offended' thing we have going on in society now?
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Post by @admin on Nov 14, 2019 1:57:26 GMT
It sounds like the security here was being over the top, but I could do definitely do without people standing in the seating section at arena shows honestly. If you want to dance buy a ticket on the floor.
I saw Fleetwood Mac a few months ago IM! I think Christine's voice isn't quite as strong these days but Stevie was just amazing. They've been touring the world forever recently - pretty amazing at their age.
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Post by iron maiden on Nov 14, 2019 2:12:13 GMT
I'm 5'2". A ticket on the floor unless it's the first couple rows doesn't work for me.
I noticed the same thing @admin about Christine but then again she is 76 years old. Stevie was incredible. Gold Dust Woman...still fantastic!!! She also sang Free Falling as a tribute to Tom Petty. That is my daughter's favorite song and to have Stevie Nicks sing it, well my night was made.
I thought Neil Finn did a great job. I didn't miss Lindsay Buckingham at all.
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Post by thereallt on Nov 14, 2019 2:40:22 GMT
Sorry but I don't go to rock concerts to sit. It ain't the London Philharmonic, get live or go home.
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Post by iNCY on Nov 14, 2019 5:06:27 GMT
I don't like people in front of me standing at a gig... Sit up the back or get floor seats if you want to stand... Sorry! Agree on all the Stevie Nicks love.
I think the fact they hated each other makes the song amazing... I love the passion. Rumors is still one of the best albums of all time.
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Post by CM Punk'd on Nov 14, 2019 5:21:54 GMT
Sorry but I don't go to rock concerts to sit. It ain't the London Philharmonic, get live or go home. Damn straight. I went to see Rush seven years ago, and I never sat once during the three hour plus show.
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Post by Emperor on Nov 14, 2019 7:12:30 GMT
Most of the shows I go to are standing only, but I don't mind sitting if I'm allocated a seat. I'm not a dancer or a mover, I just like to watch the band play, so it doesn't really matter if I'm standing or sitting. In my experience, if people stand in a seating section, then everyone else in that section will stand. Happened when I saw Iron Maiden at an arena.
My biggest pet peeve at gigs is people who stand at the back, then shove their way to the front when the band hits the stage, effectively pushing in front of the people who got there early and patiently waited at the front for a long time.
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Post by System on Mar 8, 2024 1:23:51 GMT
Saw the band Sanguisugabogg last night (+ 3 openers) in a very intimate venue, enjoyed the music but never going to this type of gig again.
Room would have been lucky to hold 100 people packed in like sardines and everyone at the front was doing that slam dancing, helicopter stuff.
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Which I know is popular for hardcore bands even if I don’t get it. Odd for death metal but anyway early in the night one of these guys repeatedly smacks into someone then a huge brawl broke out. Thankfully the security there were tanks and got rid of them quickly.
But the whole night the older guys like myself who just wanted to “chill” and maybe mosh a bit were crammed in the back to get away from these idiots who kept getting pushed by said guys back to the front for repeatedly smacking into people.
Also got asked if I had any bags because I reportedly look like I did 3 lines. Hardest I go is energy drinks :lol:
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Post by Neo Zeed on Mar 23, 2024 21:17:02 GMT
I took a girl to a Miranda Lambert concert at Billy Bobs Texas in Ft Worth a few years ago and it was honestly horrible, seated at a table with our back to the stage with strangers also at the same table with us, with a pole blocking our view of right where she stood for her mic. And then security was right on top of anybody dancing forcing them to sit down. I thought it was the lamest concert I ever seen and truly felt sorry that the girl had paid so much for the tickets. But the venue itself(the bar area and bull riding arena connected to it, separate from where the concert was in the back) was worth the price of admission on it's own, awesome place I would highly recommend taking your lady to at least once.
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Post by Neo Zeed on Mar 23, 2024 21:24:37 GMT
I fell head over heels in love with the newer cali-reggae style concerts/tours/fests. I had no idea what to expect when I went to Houston to see Slightly Stoopid with Tribal Seeds(the band I wanted to see), absolutely the coolest funnest most chill group of fans you could ever be surrounded by, all love and respect, nobody pushing up on you everybody just gives each other space, and the banter in between bands is the best. I honestly didn't like Slightly Stoopid the band but the fans of theirs have to be the coolest people on Earth I've seen them 3 times now and was kind of adopted by those people.
I would have to say the rudest encounter to me was the Tash Sultana concert in Dallas 2019, I smoked up all my joints and a big blunt that I saved for Tash that I burned with a lesbian couple that was next to me. I smoked the blunt a little early before Tash took the stage and was out of weed for her set entirely, it kinda sucked(to be totally out of weed for such an amazing set). But the couple next to me sparked one up and didn't pass it my way. It was like damn haha. Not THAT big of a deal I was toasted anyway I sure wasn't going to acknowledge it but did think that was pretty bad concert etiquette.
My first concert Metallica/Kid Rock/Korn at Texas Stadium in 2000 was a day to remember for the bad etiquette all over that place, after watching all the docus that came out a while back it hit me that was basically Woodstock 99 the tour
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