Colonel Panic wrote:Yeah, the layout of that place is not great. But it'd be an okay venue for dance music.

are you saying we make dance music?

wow has this tread derailed. I think it's time for the FUNCLUB.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0i4l1UyRII













LOL

John George Peppers wrote:wow has this tread derailed. I think it's time for the FUNCLUB.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVjS4Qox-_k

fuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkk
oh my god that's from a few days ago, they actually exist
holy fucking jesus

wait a second I looked at their myspace page and I come across this:

Aug 11 2007 8:00P
Abbey Pub Chicago, Illinois

what in the fucking cock hell ass sperm are they smoking at the fucking abbey pub?

Let the audience pitch movie ideas to you between songs and you will fill the Elbo Room.

Flaneur wrote:Let the audience pitch movie ideas to you between songs and you will fill the Elbo Room.

I'll save that for Quenchers the next month, more and better whiskey available to really get the ideas flowing

Mandroid2.0 wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:I like when a bunch of friends actually show up, they then proceed to yap and talk to each other ...

This is one of the reasons that I hate seeing shows in Chicago.

I have never seen this happen with such regularity as with Chicago shows. Neither in D.C. nor here in the Bay Area have people been so inattentive to the actual performance. I used to drive 4.5 hours to see bands playing in Chicago and the scenester jerk-off fest ruined the experience for me 75% of the time.

This is true and maddening and one of the reasons I am less inclined to go to shows unless they are bands I really want to see. The endless yammering is even more annoying to me because so many venues have a separate bar area (Beat Kitchen, Bottle, upstairs at Subt, Schuba's) in which you could freely get your yam on without interrupting a performance.

I like seeing my people, catching up, talking about your cute new boyfriend, etc., as much as the next chooch, but Jesus fuck, shut yer yammering yap while people are playing musics.

This reservation aside, I am pretty good about seeing things on even a small nod of encouragement. Live music is important nourishment and even if one show out of four is FUNCLUB, but one is fucking great, the good sticks with you for days.

H-GM wrote:I do honestly believe, my friend, that among the crap there's much goodness to experience. So much that the occasional night out behooves us all.

I agree, but just seeing the bands of those I know and kinda know amounts to more than enough nights out for me. Also, seeing friends' bands means that I invariably see new bands opening for my friends (or vice-versa).

Stick with me and I'll throw you a bone.

Say what?

itchy mcgoo wrote:

Mandroid2.0 wrote:I have never seen this happen with such regularity as with Chicago shows. Neither in D.C. nor here in the Bay Area have people been so inattentive to the actual performance. I used to drive 4.5 hours to see bands playing in Chicago and the scenester jerk-off fest ruined the experience for me 75% of the time.

This is true and maddening and one of the reasons I am less inclined to go to shows unless they are bands I really want to see. The endless yammering is even more annoying to me because so many venues have a separate bar area (Beat Kitchen, Bottle, upstairs at Subt, Schuba's) in which you could freely get your yam on without interrupting a performance.

June 20, 2007, Metro. "Eff Cancer" Benefit. The Mountain Goats are playing. I don't think i've heard so many people yell "Shut the fuck up!" and have it NOT be directed at the band. The quieter songs were barely audible over the room filled with oblivious douchebags.

The moment when the singer walked away from the mic, walked toward the crowd, and sung directly at them, in the process somehow managing to make his non-mic'd voice carry over all the side conversations, was pretty goddamn enthralling.

I realize the wussy folk musician struggling to be heard over the conversation is a pretty common cliche, trope, what have you, but fucksake. You're not at a coffee shop, people. You're at a music venue intended for seeing live music. Maybe some people here actually want to, you know, hear it?

It got even more ridiculous when the family of the guy who the benefit was for (the guy that had cancer and died like three weeks before the show) came on stage to talk about their brother and how the show came about and what they were doing with the money, and people still wouldn't shut up. GUYS! They're talking about a family member who DIED OF CANCER! Come ON!

OK, end rant.

itchy mcgoo wrote:you could freely get your yam on

Hey! You know about the yams?!?

I thought that was a secret!

Just to clarify, I don't stand totally motionless when a band is playing. If there's a groove, I move. Mostly just a little, like one leg moving back and forth a little, or nodding my head a little, stuff like that.

And I also don't think it's a bad thing when people are "chin scratching", which to me means listening super-intently, seeing what the music has to offer. Actually listening intently. To the music. And not ignoring it and talking up a storm.

Sure, Chicago crowds do that, too. And sure, Chicago crowds jump around and shit. The last three mosh-type crowds I've been in were the STNNNG show in Chicago, the Big Black and Shellac sets during T&G25 here in Chicago, and the Hidden Hand/Darkest Hour show in DC. All of these shows were in Chicago or DC. So?

My point was that both DC and Chicago crowds can do that thing where people stand there and pay lots of attention. I don't see that being a bad thing. And I don't see any difference between the nominal DC crowd and the nominal Chicago crowd, based on years of living in each town. That's all I meant. Nothing even close to saying that one or both of these towns is *bad* because nobody moves around.