Disaster Button said:
I was wondering whether my fellow Esacplians have ever endured anything.. unpleasent at a concert, and what was it?
I'll try to keep this list short. I could go on for many pages.
As an audience member:
* Lost a shoe and a watch in the mosh at a Nirvana concert. Tried to get out of the mosh before I got completely destroyed but dumbasses kept pushing me back in because they thought I was just moshing as opposed to trying to get the hell out of there so I got pretty bruised. Most annoying thing of all is Nirvana weren't even that good live, to anyone reading this going "wow you got to see Nirvana" - don't be envious, you didn't miss much. To make matters worse, the singer in the (far superior) support band also dived from the stage and fell right on top of me, taking us both the the floor. That fucking hurt. Not a good night.
* At a Joe Satriani concert I felt a massive weight on my back, moved to the side and some guy who was drunk and/or high who had been leaning on me without me realising hit the floor face first. Ambulance guys them came and took him away. This was before Joe even came on.
* At an outdoor festival concert watching Fun-Da-Mental, who were the sole "energetic" band among a line up of hideously crap new-agey "world music" garbage. The portion of the pent-up crowd who had been waiting all day to see the only good band there erupted in a mosh, and the security venue had no contingency plan for this as they weren't expecting such a reaction and hadn't come prepared. I guess they weren't aware of the nature of the band they had booked. I watched on in dismay as several very young kids who were up the front got taken away in ambulances, the ambulance vehicles actually drove right into the pit at the front of the stage to pick them up.
* Some twit at some concert (can't remember which one) grabbed my legs mid-song and tried to get me involved in crowd surfing without my consent. Never mind that my pockets were filled with money, cameras, personal items etc and I would have lost all that shit. I turned around and told him to fuck off, he looked at me like I was some kind of party pooper.
As a performer:
* Lots of drunken abuse, all types imaginable (combine the content of every banned poster's last post here over the last few months and you're getting warm). Don't know why they bother as I have a microphone and am always sober on stage so can make them look stupid easily.
* People spitting beer at me, this is very common and very annoying. Strangely, I don't like smelling like stale beer mixed with your saliva.
* Having to dodge various projectiles. If you live in Australia as I do you'll know that our 50c piece is not something you want chucked at you at high velocity, even if you are poor.
* Venue security not realising that I'm in the fucking band and trying to physically stop me from getting on the stage, even if I have an artist pass
* Other people grabbing the microphone and singing, this is also very common and very annoying. We didn't spend weeks rehearsing this shit just so some drunken bum can sing the songs instead. If we want you to sing, we'll let you know. In the meantime, get your own band. Also, don't bump the mic stand while we're singing, a mic in the teeth hurts and we'll let you in on that special feeling if we have to.
* At one show the crowd got violent and started chucking furniture on stage. We threw it back at them. At the end of the show we were so fucked off by it all that we got our instruments, wandered into the audience and started beating people in the head with them. Later on that night a guy came up to us with blood streaming down his face and told us he loved it and it was the best show ever. Go figure.
* Backstage adventures with girls sound glamorous and fun but
not when it's with someone you wouldn't want to be in the same room with in a million years, which is the case more often than not. I'll let your imagination fill in the blanks.
They're the main ones, and I haven't even scratched the surface of the "performer" ones really.
. Thanks.
