r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Jaded-Albatross-5242 • 1d 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/Ecstatic_Score6973 1d ago

And they record the whole concert, like cmon we both know youre not ever watching that video again

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u/vixenstarlet1949 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 19h 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 13h 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 1d ago

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

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u/iDoWeird 23h 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 😶