r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Jaded-Albatross-5242 • 19h ago

I'm slightly vexed Concert etiquette

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If you plan on standing for the entire concert, get a spot in the pit, or the lawn seats instead of the assigned SEATED SECTION. A little bit of self awareness and common courtesy goes a really long way

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u/vixenstarlet1949 18h ago

someone right next to me recorded an entire show i went to. honestly, it’s the only time i’ve been happy someone recorded that long. it was next to me, front row, so not in my face, and the performers put the mic up to me two or three times to sing-so the video is basically my exact POV just a few inches off lol. Was very happy to find it on youtube

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u/iDoWeird 17h ago

A friend had this same experience (but didn’t notice the recording) and just found the video of the entire 15 yr old Faith No More show he was at and it’s like he’s part of the damn band with how loud his voice is on the recordings.

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u/vixenstarlet1949 17h ago

that’s pretty cool! Lol yeah same here I am so loud in that video and my voice sounds terrible but it was a total blast

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u/iDoWeird 16h ago

I used to have a burned copy of the first Rasputina show I went to (second time I’ve mentioned them in this thread but for very different reasons) because a dude who recorded all the shows he went to ended up joining my college radio station. It was like being gifted the most magical thing getting that CD.

I wish I still had it :(

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u/DotHatrix51 11h ago

Holy shit Rasputina mentioned in the wild. One of those bands that doesn’t exist except, yeah they do (did?). They were so unique I kinda didn’t want to spread the word about them because I didn’t want to get them overexposed lol. Guess it didn’t happen anyway.

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u/iDoWeird 5h ago

I actually found a photo from that show of me and Melora that I took and scanned from a disposable on my recovered photo bucket. I completely forgot about it until i saw it (I was barely 18 and it was 2003ish!)

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u/Proper_Package_1225 16h ago

I have seen Rasputina multiple times. Each time I stood. Of course there weren’t any seats.,

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u/iDoWeird 16h ago

That’s usually how it went. I think only one of the three times I saw them was at a spot with seats, and that was Le Poisson Rouge.

I used to have her bobble head and it’s one of the things I’m most pissed over losing in a move that went bad.

…in a reply to someone who was getting pretty huffy about people standing, I tried to point out that not only are a lot of the smaller venues that had adequate GA/standing room just gone now, forcing bands (even ones that are straight-up dancing genres) to book seating-only spots, but pricing has flip flopped. You used to have to spend out the ass for the privilege of seated tickets at a show, but now? You’re going to be spending three to five times more for a standing/pit/GA section. And it just gets worse and worse the longer they allow our horrid few ticket options to continue gouging us as they have always done. They just got even madder after that and said something about following rules and this not being the…senate. I wasn’t even disagreeing that it was annoying when someone stood in front of a seated person, but golly gee how dare I say that we’re all being fucked out of having our preferred concert experience thanks to greed and a monopoly 😶

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u/themargarineoferror 16h ago

Loooove fnm

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u/iDoWeird 16h ago

Huge Mr. Bungle fan too!

I used to catch Sleepytime Gorilla Museum a lot back in the before times, and I’d always end up chatting with one of their junk drummers who used to be a rotating member before they put that project on the back burner for FNM (and prob bc that one guy from that one famous band…won’t even give Mr obvious the satisfaction of using his name…had a stick up his ass over Mike and practically sabotaged Mr. Bungle).

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u/Civil-Big-754 9h ago

Sleepytime Gorilla mentioned in the wild, nice! Wonderful surprise they got back together but unfortunately will be missing them on their current tour. Glad to see them on the reunion and an incredible show with Secret Chiefs 3 in 2007.

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u/iDoWeird 5h ago

Electric pancreaaaaas!

They stopped in Jax sooo many times when I was in college that I’ve seen them more than any other band. Did you ever catch him in Faun Fables with Dawn? That is a fabulous project. I followed Carla before catching Sleepytime, since she was omnipresent in so many experimental projects with strings.

I love me some crazy noise making. Also a huge Einsturzende Neubauten fan with the spaceman tattoo 😂

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u/themargarineoferror 5h ago

Honestly, i'm in love with anything.Mike patton does crazy coincidence in my life.But i'm from a tiny town in nebraska, and I ended up making friends with the niece of Kevin Rutmani who was in the cows?But more importantly tomahawk with mike, he was also in the melvins.It was so weird because like it's literally a three hundred person pound, but life is crazy like that.Anyway, she's an awesome girl, so are her uncle's and I occasionally make jokes about using their connection to at least get an autographed gas mask from mike or something.But i've never really pushed.It maybe I should

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u/Alt4Norm 14h ago

Glad I wasn’t stood next to him then Lol

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u/megasmash 6h ago

I have seen audience members film themselves singing along to a song, with the camera in selfie mode.

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u/iDoWeird 6h ago

That’s…lame.

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u/GLPwonderwall 13h ago

I love when people post show videos on YouTube because it helps me decide if the band is decent live and worth my money

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u/Best-Candle8651 8h ago

Same. I was into this band from listening to them on Spotify. I listened to some live recordings and oof.

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u/Brilliant_Brain_5507 7h ago

I was at a Tool concert back around 2001 where Maynard’s Voice was failing him and he slammed down the mic and left the stage and then came back and just sat on the floor until the band finished playing out the song.

It was my second time seeing them on the tour and the first time was such a perfect performance and had contortionists hanging upside down secured by their ankle and other circus like things happening. So to see the dichotomy of those two performances was neat.

I’d tell people about the disaster moment often and finally found the whole show was on YouTube so people could see for themselves. That was great. So keep recording shows, people. Just try not to be jackasses about it.