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Forum guest
Jun-12-2011, 18:16 GMT
Unknown
 | Why is it do you think that audiences have become louder over the years in terms of singing and clapping etc?
I´m not moaning although personally i´m not a fan of somebody singing out of tune right behind me but i´d never be one to spoil their fun. It´s just interesting to see concerts such as Live Rhymin when you can´t hear a pin drop on ´Homeward Bound´ etc.
What does everybody think about the ´singing´ at concerts and do you think audiences ´respect´ (probably the wrong word) for concerts has decreased over the years?
Just something i´ve been thinking recently haha.
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Mike
Jun-12-2011, 20:15 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | I agree with you on that. I prefer to hear the artist singing, but I also like it when certain artists interact with an audience. Folk singers such as Pete Seeger or PP&M were the kind of performers that encouraged people to sing along during choruses, so that´s the only situation in which I like to hear the audience singing along.
The only exception I see to the idea of audiences being louder or more disrespectful now is when you hear the concert footage from the sixties of groups such as The Beatles, in which girls are screaming during an ENTIRE performance, and neither you nor the performers can hear the music. Of course in the extreme past, it was common for audiences to yell out during plays and performances, so I suppose it´s all a matter of the social norm of the time period.
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Bodo
Jun-12-2011, 23:38 GMT
Austria
 | Every story has it 2 sides.
One guy singin alone into your ears at a Paul Simon concert might be a desaster.
10.000 people singin one song and making the band stopping to sing. Incredible.I just have one example for you - I think that band is relatively unknown in the USA those days. Anyway. I went to a Roxette show last week. What a live act...and Marie is so great today (sad story).
This was from the show I went
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGse8B0dq4&fea
ture=related
I have to admit, it was really thrilling, the live experience singin a song together with thousands of other people - wonderful. You know everyone knows every line of the songs you admire.
This one is even better (another song), people in South-America are unstoppable at live concerts - they just sing so loud that the musicians stop doin anything. And I think it is great for that moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4XeOJZczQw
Thats not happening at Paul Simon shows a lot...beside one ´call me Al´ and the lie la lie together with Paul - and I guess thats why so many people Love ´The Boxer´
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Phil
Jun-13-2011, 02:38 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I think there is a discernible difference on this tour between the theater and club shows. Club show - everybody is singing along. These are fans who know ALL the songs, not there for just the oldies. I did toronto both shows. At the club people were singing the new songs!!! |
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Ian
Jun-13-2011, 07:03 GMT
Australia
 | I think it´s just people trying to prove to other audience goers that they´re real fans. ´Listen to me sing this new or obscure song,I´m a REAL fan´. |
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Ans
Jun-13-2011, 07:11 GMT
Netherlands
 | Once a friend asked us if we wanted to take her with us to a concert from Bob Dylan, she kept talking to us during the whole show, that was very annoying. I don´t mind the singing along, more annoying is when someone nearby keeps shouting during the songs. I think nowadays the artists like it very much when there is a lot of respons from the audience, it means that people like the show a lot. Paul likes it when people get up and dance and also when they sing along. Live concerts are an experience to share with each other, in these days that is very important because people socialize less, everyone is busy with texting on their own Iphone, taking calls in the middle of conversations etc.
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Ian
Jun-13-2011, 09:02 GMT
Australia
| Yes,that is very frustrating Ans,talking during the performance I mean. Some people have little respect for the artist or the audience sometimes. At the Brisbane Born At The Right Time concert in 91,I was a little upset that people would leave to buy popcorn etc,when they know the show is going to start any minute. They then had to push past you in the dark to get to their seats,just as the clatter of drums at the start of The Obvious Child is beginning. If a concert is to start at 8pm,why would anyone leave to get a drink at 7:55 or 8:03? It´s a little silly and disrespectful. These are the types who are only there to hear SOS,or Mrs Robinson probably:-( |
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Carol
Jun-13-2011, 13:04 GMT
Unknown
| Singing along is part of the experience to me, along with dancing, clapping, and stomping your feet. It´s only rude if you´re asked not to, or if no one else is doing it and you´re trying to show off. It´s part of human nature -- most of human history, almost everyone was a musician. I do this in church every week, and God doesn´t think it´s disrespectful.
However going out to get beer and popcorn during the show is a little strange. My daught asked why so many people were leaving -- she thought they didn´t like the show! |
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Forum guest
Jun-13-2011, 14:01 GMT
United Kingdom
 | Some good views from everyone and I agree I think it depends entirely on the artist and sometimes with the whole crowd singing along it can be brilliant!
One thing that I cannot stand though is when for example Paul is doing a solo acoustic ´Sound of Silence´ and the crowd start clapping along. It frustrates me so much because I think, wouldn´t they just want to hear just Paul and his guitar?
I saw a video recently of the late Rick Danko doing an acoustic, ´It Makes No Difference´ and the crowd start clapping along, maybe it´s the audience thinking they´re contributing to the song in some sort of way but I think it totally ruins it! I can understand though if it´s to Cecilia or something like that... |
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Cher
Jun-15-2011, 14:36 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Who can afford concerts anymore? I´m broke from seeing Paul and I see the new Paul M. Yankee stadium concert also gives
American Express first choice on tickets. I wasn´t expecting
that. Bodo you were sure right about it, it all should be
illegal. |
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