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If so do people in the crowd whine if you get up to groove to the stanky jams playing before them.
Sit down shows are a waste of time, money, and a joke and actually is insulting the band by making them think that your bored.
Please if this is one of your favorite bands then why don’t you let them know that by rocking out and dancing to the stank grooves filling your soul.
I will be really annoyed if I have to sit at my show Sunday. I mean what is the problem. How come people aren’t getting up or atleast standing. Is it a bunch of old yuppies in the crowd sipping their wine or what.
Perhaps you ought to complain to BH’s agent for booking such venues?
Where I went:
Berklee Performance Center: Very small, intimate. Not a lot of room for booty-shaking to the stank. However, many a punter was yelling out a request.
The Egg: Not much space up front, a bit of room at the sides, not too much. A few dorky people got up to jig off-time spasmodically late in the show…but again with the vocal crowd.
However, I will say that I was witness to the Spring Dance Party Insurrection ’09 at Foxwoods (lotsa room up front, complete with ushers vainly trying to repress the jiggly masses) and the Lowell SummerStage Groove Invasion To Fill The Stage ’08.
I do believe it might truly (I truly understand?) have to do with the size of the venue. And the time o’ the season. At least in the N.E. You know, as understated and stoic as we are reputed to be. 🙄 Especially in a venue where there’s no room to dance.
Oh well. 🙄
T
I forgot to add — good luck with your venue and “dancing.”
http://www.carnegieconcerts.com/eventpe … asp?evt=13
I could be wrong — wouldn’t be the first time — but this place doesn’t appear to be a mega version of Twister crossed with Dance Fever.
I mean, seriously, the Carnegie Library Music Hall? Which book did you check out before the show? 😆
Be sure to git yer groove on, Guinness. Just remember — sshhhhhh! You ARE in a library! Named after the Carnegies, no less!
BTW, check out that description of BH — “former Grateful Dead accordion player.”
I guess they forgot about that big black and white flat thing on the stage that BH would occasionally sit in front of… 🙄T
Bruce talked about this at the Richmond show… the show was sold out and a total party atmosphere. He said he’d like to come back again without the seats next time. Of course, everyone was standing for the last third of the show anyway.
Hey T,
Honestly I don’t think it has anything to do with size of venue, because you could just get up and stand infront of your seat area to groove out. The seats are just assigned areas where some of the lucky ones have a better view and then some may have better sound.
I thought I had front row for this show but I actually have second row. I have the same seat I had last year when I was here for Bob Weir & Ratdog which was front row, but for some reason they added another row upfront for this show. Last year row B was front now its row A.
Yeah this venue was rocking last year when I seen Ratdog so the small venue thing shouldn’t matter. Its the unbalanced fan levels and very diverse crowd that Bruce has. The casual fans seem to out weigh the die-hards thats for sure and really strange.BTW, the Carnegie Music Hall is actually a pretty cool venue. The sound is horrible if you’re in the balcony but down front its great. To buy beer you actually have to walk outside of the front of the venue and walk in through another door to another room, its actually pretty funny. They let you in and out anytime you want.
G —
Well, I guess you told me! 😆
In my very subjective view, the Berklee Perf C and the Egg were not very conducive to gittin’ yer groove on. Also, the chosen setlists tended to be a bit more introspective and sedate, with one venue (the former) being very intimate and the other (the latter) being more ‘theaterish,’ despite BH stating at that show (what Kat had previously said) sarcastically “So I guess you guys want to hear the hits?” with many a person saying “no.”
Foxwoods, even with theater seating, had plenty of room for peeps to bum rush the stage, and had the added attraction of BH enticing/inciting the dancing masses: “Hey security, let the people dance” or some such. Lowell was general admiss. and so was only subject to the grumpy townies and their lawnchairs
Have fun, and bust a move for all of us who were/are repressed,
T
My experience in general is that the indoor audiences are sitters. But, it seems that those of us who NEED to dance, can always find a way, over to the side or in the back. I’m always very conscious about disturbing my neighbors, but people usually don’t have a problem with dancing if you can stay out of their way. I can respect that some people are there to watch the genius on stage as much as hear it.
It’s just the nature of the indoor show (usually). If I want to stay in a seat with an awesome sight line, I sit. I most likely am bouncing and swaying in my seat….but I sit. Sitting STILL at a show is an impossibility for me. And when I HAVE to dance, I just get out of everyone else’s way.
I think a lot of times the reason there are so many sitters is that no one wants to be the first one up. That, or a lot of folks have forgotten how good it feels to be free and dance like no one is watching.
Kat
I guess they forgot about that big black and white flat thing on the stage that BH would occasionally sit in front of… 🙄
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