redcolours
06-27-2004, 07:54 AM
MOST middle-age white people dont know how to party or enjoy a GREAT concert. :rolleyes:
theyre worse than japanese audiences. theyre not even polite like the japanese. they just sit there at the best parts, not even nodding their head to the beat. just "intently" looking on.
this is in reference to my Eric Clapton concert i went to last night. sure enough a lot of people went, and a big majority are middle-age white people. a smattering of younger people are there, but you can tell theyre with their parents. people my age are much fewer. i dont mind - its really the generation that grew up with slowhand's music in the 60's, 70's and 80's that were mostly there. but its their reaction to the great music being played that is truly pathetic.
they will stand and clap only at the very very end of the song. most of the time they will just clap. WHATS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!?! its a g*dd@mn blues/rock concert, fer cryin out loud! get up and party!
i say stay home and watch PBS if you prefer to sit down and be quiet in concerts like this. this is a time to celebrate music at its best, live and LOUD, and brimming with fire and energy. let that music wash over you and take a hold of you and lift you up your seats, and move your body to the beat. ENJOY IT!
but i guess the way most of these older middle-age white people know how to enjoy it is to sit and "casually" listen to it. but again i guess i cant blame them - maybe theyve been worn down from too much hard work all those years and decades, and burdened by too much worries, that they forgot how to be young and wild and able to enjoy and have fun again, even just for an hour or two. all they can do now is sit and have someone play music for them. maybe its the arthritis having set in long ago, i dont know. still, i think thats pathetic and pitiful....
notice though i mentioned MOST middle-aged white people. thats cuz quite a few were also like me - standing up, and clapping, and cheering, and moving in their seats, and raising our collective voices with the songs. in the glow of the stage lights i can see the beaming happy smiling faces of those who truly are enjoying the concert. they know theyre in the presence of a legend, playing some of the truly blistering hot rock and blues riffs in the most beautiful songs. they know (WE know) that we're being graced by a performance that is very rare, and we know the significance of it all. the feeling was great! i know im not the only one who feels the same way about it...
in the end, the crowd made up for it, as they all stayed standing up and cheering on, for what seemed to be 4, maybe 5 songs til the end. i thought, "FINALLY!" and had this bigass grin on my face. :)
theyre worse than japanese audiences. theyre not even polite like the japanese. they just sit there at the best parts, not even nodding their head to the beat. just "intently" looking on.
this is in reference to my Eric Clapton concert i went to last night. sure enough a lot of people went, and a big majority are middle-age white people. a smattering of younger people are there, but you can tell theyre with their parents. people my age are much fewer. i dont mind - its really the generation that grew up with slowhand's music in the 60's, 70's and 80's that were mostly there. but its their reaction to the great music being played that is truly pathetic.
they will stand and clap only at the very very end of the song. most of the time they will just clap. WHATS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!?! its a g*dd@mn blues/rock concert, fer cryin out loud! get up and party!
i say stay home and watch PBS if you prefer to sit down and be quiet in concerts like this. this is a time to celebrate music at its best, live and LOUD, and brimming with fire and energy. let that music wash over you and take a hold of you and lift you up your seats, and move your body to the beat. ENJOY IT!
but i guess the way most of these older middle-age white people know how to enjoy it is to sit and "casually" listen to it. but again i guess i cant blame them - maybe theyve been worn down from too much hard work all those years and decades, and burdened by too much worries, that they forgot how to be young and wild and able to enjoy and have fun again, even just for an hour or two. all they can do now is sit and have someone play music for them. maybe its the arthritis having set in long ago, i dont know. still, i think thats pathetic and pitiful....
notice though i mentioned MOST middle-aged white people. thats cuz quite a few were also like me - standing up, and clapping, and cheering, and moving in their seats, and raising our collective voices with the songs. in the glow of the stage lights i can see the beaming happy smiling faces of those who truly are enjoying the concert. they know theyre in the presence of a legend, playing some of the truly blistering hot rock and blues riffs in the most beautiful songs. they know (WE know) that we're being graced by a performance that is very rare, and we know the significance of it all. the feeling was great! i know im not the only one who feels the same way about it...
in the end, the crowd made up for it, as they all stayed standing up and cheering on, for what seemed to be 4, maybe 5 songs til the end. i thought, "FINALLY!" and had this bigass grin on my face. :)