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So, Friday night I got to see The Pogues (http://www.pogues.com/) in concert. It was truly amazing. I'm still in awe. (You should all be jealous. :p)

But I must be getting old and grumpy, because some of the crowd was seriously pissing me off. The behavior of audiences at concerts is the intended subject of the thread.

For example, WTF is the deal with throwing cups of beer at other members of the audience? It is both a waste of beer and damned annoying. I've done my share of moshing in times past, but we never threw beer at each other and didn't try to inflict mosh pit conditions on the rest of the audience.

Deal with it, gramps.

So, Friday night I got to see The Pogues (http://www.pogues.com/) in concert. It was truly amazing. I'm still in awe. (You should all be jealous. :p)

But I must be getting old and grumpy, because some of the crowd was seriously pissing me off. The behavior of audiences at concerts is the intended subject of the thread.

For example, WTF is the deal with throwing cups of beer at other members of the audience? It is both a waste of beer and damned annoying. I've done my share of moshing in times past, but we never threw beer at each other and didn't try to inflict mosh pit conditions on the rest of the audience.

I'm feeling very tempted to try to find a Supreme Court case that allows people to tick you off at concerts.

But I won't. I feel your pain; it seems like it is inevitable that with any audience of sufficient size, where the tickets are below a certain limit in price, there will be at least three people who will become hated by everyone else, and make the event only half as good as it should be.
My suggestion? Create a Potemkin concert, and when you see those three people, lock them up. Eventually, we will catch them all.

I'm feeling very tempted to try to find a Supreme Court case that allows people to tick you off at concerts.

:D:p:D

But I won't. I feel your pain; it seems like it is inevitable that with any audience of sufficient size, where the tickets are below a certain limit in price, there will be at least three people who will become hated by everyone else, and make the event only half as good as it should be.
My suggestion? Create a Potemkin concert, and when you see those three people, lock them up. Eventually, we will catch them all.

I have to admit your suggestion has a certain appeal. ;)

What surprised was this was a fairly expensive concert and there were nonetheless a significant portion of the audience that were there to be drunken troublemakers. (Man, I do sound old.)

Deal with it, gramps.

I guess I will. :D

I thought the tickets were expensive enough to weed out the unworthy. :eek:

Idiocy does not limit itself to those of few means.

Idiocy does not limit itself to those of few means.

Good point. I guess it was not just the price, but the quality of the band that made me expect more from the audience. I mean moshing is one thing, but throwing beer?

I guess I will. :D

I thought the tickets were expensive enough to weed out the unworthy. :eek:

You must always account for ill-behaved rich kids.

as a drunk i must decry this practice of thowing beer in mosh pits as an afront to dog and all his creation. and also to me, since dog's creation amounts to shit and i value beer way above dog. stupid dog.

Idiocy does not limit itself to those of few means.

I didn't mean that. But economically, it makes sense that people who are only going to a concert to get drunk would pay less, because their behavior shows they clearly aren't as into the actual music as others, and price may be an incentive for them to not buy tickets. An analogy: if I sell chocolates for 5 dollars a bar, only those who really want a chocolate bar are likely to buy one. Everyone else isn't going to bother. If I wanted to sort out the chocolate lovers from the rest, a high price would be an effective way of doing so.

It's depressing to realize you've made the transition from, "What's with those old guys in the back with their arms folded?" to being that old guy in the back with his arms folded.

Right now I'm that old guy who wants to smash the speakers of my neighbors to stop their unceunce music that is playing so loud that it's shaking shit in my apartment.

Dammit.

So, Friday night I got to see The Pogues (http://www.pogues.com/) in concert. It was truly amazing. I'm still in awe. (You should all be jealous. :p)

But I must be getting old and grumpy, because some of the crowd was seriously pissing me off. The behavior of audiences at concerts is the intended subject of the thread.

For example, WTF is the deal with throwing cups of beer at other members of the audience? It is both a waste of beer and damned annoying. I've done my share of moshing in times past, but we never threw beer at each other and didn't try to inflict mosh pit conditions on the rest of the audience.
I am SOOO jealous. Damn you, Cat-Tribe, for seeing the Pogues when I didn't. Damn you to a beer-soaked hell. ;)

On the other hand, at least I'm not beer-soaked -- at least not in the incredibly stupid way you describe. Personally, I've always believed the Pogues were one of those bands best seen in some shitty little dive where the gin is poured out of 10 gallon jugs. People who throw beer in such places get the living crap beat out of them in the back alley, so it tends not to be a problem.

In re the topic, I think people act obnoxious at concerts because they're obnoxious little attention junkies who can't stand that someone else is looking at the band instead of at them. Maybe it's subconscious (like most of their thoughts). So they decide, "Yeah! Let's be part of the show!!" Yeah, charming -- not.

But to hell with the topic. I'm JEALOUS!!!

And anyway, why are you complaining about getting beer-soaked at a Pogues concert? Don't you listen to their lyrics? To be completely appropriate, you should have walked out of there beer-soaked, heroin-addicted, bum-fucked, and with a broken heart full of memories of The Troubles.

Waste of good beer. Throw pies. :)

I know a bakery that will sell me one-day-gone(one day past the expiration date) pies 5 for $1

They come in quite handy for special occasions. :)

No wall of death...?

When I went to see Collective Soul (www.collectivesoul.com) on friday the crowd was quite nice, though it was getting compressed at the FRONT ROW. :D

this show was also awesome, and i got to meet everybody from the band after and take pix with them and stuff.

The crowd there did not throw any beer that I know of. Mainly everyone was just super excited about seeing CS. :D

So, Friday night I got to see The Pogues (http://www.pogues.com/) in concert. It was truly amazing. I'm still in awe. (You should all be jealous. :p)

Not I, I saw them at the Manchester Apollo a few years back and they were awesome. Absolutley the best live gig I've ever been to.

The following year they were at the MEN. Still good, but I prefer a smaller venue.

But I must be getting old and grumpy, because some of the crowd was seriously pissing me off. The behavior of audiences at concerts is the intended subject of the thread.

Something that amazed me when I went was the shear range in ages of the audience. And it wasn't just a few outliers. A sizable amount of people were quite old and "respectable," and there were a fair few very young people too.

Not saying your old btw, don't know how old you are

For example, WTF is the deal with throwing cups of beer at other members of the audience? It is both a waste of beer and damned annoying. I've done my share of moshing in times past, but we never threw beer at each other and didn't try to inflict mosh pit conditions on the rest of the audience.

I never got that either. I can only assume people get off on being anti-social.

So, Friday night I got to see The Pogues (http://www.pogues.com/) in concert. It was truly amazing. I'm still in awe. (You should all be jealous. :p)

But I must be getting old and grumpy, because some of the crowd was seriously pissing me off. The behavior of audiences at concerts is the intended subject of the thread.

For example, WTF is the deal with throwing cups of beer at other members of the audience? It is both a waste of beer and damned annoying. I've done my share of moshing in times past, but we never threw beer at each other and didn't try to inflict mosh pit conditions on the rest of the audience.


You always can go to Tom Jones. That's more suited for your age.

His fans don’t throw beer but underwear.

You always can go to Tom Jones. That's more suited for your age.

His fans don’t throw beer but underwear.

:eek::D

For the record, I'm not that old. I'm 12 years younger than Shane MacGowan, so I doubt I'm too old for The Pogues.

I am SOOO jealous. Damn you, Cat-Tribe, for seeing the Pogues when I didn't. Damn you to a beer-soaked hell. ;)

But to hell with the topic. I'm JEALOUS!!!

:D This was the response I was not so secretly looking for. Ahh, delicious jealousy!

And anyway, why are you complaining about getting beer-soaked at a Pogues concert? Don't you listen to their lyrics? To be completely appropriate, you should have walked out of there beer-soaked, heroin-addicted, bum-fucked, and with a broken heart full of memories of The Troubles.

You have a point, there. If Shane had thrown beer on me, I'd still be cheering.

:D This was the response I was not so secretly looking for. Ahh, delicious jealousy!



You have a point, there. If Shane had thrown beer on me, I'd still be cheering.

Shane MacGowan is the ugliest man I would ever consider having sex with, just because he is so goddamned talented. Instead, I'll have be content with listening to that gorgeous, barroom-floor and old cigarettes voice. *cranks up the volume*