Concerts where the audience is silent

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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Sigur Ros

    amazing live. quite an experience.
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  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    lou reed
    ani difranco (for the most part)

    those are two that ive seen where the audience was very respectful and quiet.
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  • Fender_Man
    Fender_Man Posts: 408
    I went to a classical gig at the Royal Festival Hall in London many years ago. During the performance you could here a pin drop and even between pieces there was only a polite ripple of applause, this was really weird for me coming from a rock background. But fuck me! when the gig was over the audience took the roof off the place. I've never heard anything like it (and that includes gigs by Zeppelin and The Who), the ovation must have lasted over 10 minutes and never let up for a moment. All these guys in penguin suits and ladies in evening dresses, totally kicking up a storm. It was a riot!
    I'm all for singing, cheering and raising the roof at a rock show, but I can't stand the morons shouting out rubbish between songs and during the quiet bits. It's always worse, when it's known beforehand that the show is being recorded, then the fame seekers tend to go for it in a big way.
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    cutback wrote:
    agree!!! couldn't have said it better myself
    It was fresh in my mind....had frat boys behind us and drunk girls in front of us at the Plant/Krauss show 2 weeks ago...:rolleyes:
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  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    audiodave wrote:
    Saw Damien Rice last year, and the audience was silent. It was awesome, but a very different concert experience than the ones i'm used to.

    Saw him aswell last year and the crowd was pretty quite. Also saw Ray Lamontagne and the crowd was silent ... think we didn't want to scare him away he looks so uncomfortable on stage ... but sounds so amazing.

    ... and for those that have mentioned them I cannot wait to experience Sigur Ros live :)
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  • searchlightsoul
    searchlightsoul Posts: 583
    Soundgarden at the "Garden of souls", 94'. Japanese crowds are very polite.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,289
    I saw a free Jack Johnson concert at Lou's Records in Encinitas a few years back. The lot was packed, but everyone was pretty quite and considerate during the performance.
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  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    only shows ive been to that had silent crowds were

    Antony & The Johnsons
    Australian Pink Floyd
    The Eels
    The Pale
    Sigur Ros

    and when i saw Bob Dylan few years back the crowd was close to silent...i was at the front with all these die-hards so maybe wasnt as quiet further back :)
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Fender_Man wrote:
    I went to a classical gig at the Royal Festival Hall in London many years ago. During the performance you could here a pin drop and even between pieces there was only a polite ripple of applause, this was really weird for me coming from a rock background. But fuck me! when the gig was over the audience took the roof off the place. I've never heard anything like it (and that includes gigs by Zeppelin and The Who), the ovation must have lasted over 10 minutes and never let up for a moment. All these guys in penguin suits and ladies in evening dresses, totally kicking up a storm. It was a riot!
    I'm all for singing, cheering and raising the roof at a rock show, but I can't stand the morons shouting out rubbish between songs and during the quiet bits. It's always worse, when it's known beforehand that the show is being recorded, then the fame seekers tend to go for it in a big way.

    Exactly! STFU and let the artist do their thing, then make noise aftewards!

    I've seen it - at Springsteen on the Devils and Dust tour. He basically laid down the law before the show, said he didn't want to hear any of that 'bruuuce' crap and that people needed to be quiet during the songs. They were, believe me. He totally owns an audience and is in control of whatever show he's putting on at the time.
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  • lephty
    lephty Posts: 770
    Sigur Ros is probably the quietest shows i have been to. i've seen them twice and both were amazing. of course, like JaneNY mentioned, at the first show there was some jerk-off screaming like a maniac during dead silence. he was really annoying and was only a few rows behind me. people (including myself) were telling him to shut the hell up and he played the "What?! i am just really into the music" bit. meanwhile people from across Radio City were also yelling at him.

    the next Sigur Ros show had no fools like this. it was amazingly quiet. i mean... during that song where they stop playing, it was unbelievably quiet. i seriously think that if someone dropped a pin, you could probably hear it.
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,237
    Years ago, I saw John McLaughlin and the Mahavisnu Orchestra. He came out and asked for silence....

    silence.....silence.....silence.....then some drunk yells "Let's boogie!!!!!!!!" Sad, but true.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • panthergirl
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    who's_pearljam? wrote:
    Not many any more. Radiohead at the Tower Theater a couple of years ago, they were playing Nude and it was so delicate and beautiful that people were sitting on the edge of their seats paying rapt attention. So rare any more. Then they played Exit Music and it was beautiful and of course someone had to announce their love right in the middle,,,,,, "RADIOHEADDDDDDDDDDDDD!"
    Well I actually knew it was Radiohead we were seeing, but thankfully he reminded me! ;)


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    YES! we saw Radiohead a few nights ago at West Palm and I must say, I was shocked to experience such *rapt attention* during some of the really quiet songs. It may have been different further back but we were dead center about 20 rows back and it was just soooo gorgeous and moving and just BEAUTIFUL to actually get SO into the music without distraction.
    just breathtakingly gorgeous...
    between the lights and the soaring music and vocals - one of the most beautiful shows I've seen in 20 years :)
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  • gleemonex
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    The crowd for Clapton was very quiet during the songs.
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  • Brainofdz
    Brainofdz Posts: 1,617
    I saw Van Morrison last spring in NYC and it was too quiet, both the music and the audience, it had the feel of a Broadway show.
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  • catefrances
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    Brainofdz wrote:
    I saw Van Morrison last spring in NYC and it was too quiet, both the music and the audience, it had the feel of a Broadway show.

    must have been all those old people falling asleep. :p:)
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  • augustwest
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    gordon lightfoot

    ray charles

    also gotta comment that it still drives me kinda crazy to hear the boss shush everyone...
  • et21
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    Fender_Man wrote:
    It's always worse, when it's known beforehand that the show is being recorded, then the fame seekers tend to go for it in a big way.

    I'm guilty of doing this, actually. But I felt like an idiot right after. One of those "Man, that was retarded of me" moments. I was in the non-fan club seats, though. I won't ever do that again.
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  • Jeremy1012
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    The last gig I attended, a band which includes two of my friends, was silent apart from me and a few friends cheering. Everyone else was utterly bemused by hardcore punk songs about Neighbours and Wrestling. They have actually cleared rooms before.


    As far as well-known artists go, when I saw the jazz drummer Billy Cobham live he played a drum solo which started off with him tapping his cymbals with his fingernails as lightly as possible for 3 minutes. You could hear people breathing.
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  • thecory
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    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

    I've been studying Jim Jones. He had good techniques in crowd control.


    i assume you're talking about the jim jones who sings 'we fly high, no lie, you know that we BALLIN'!'

    i believe the other jim jones killed thousands of people
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    When I saw Raine Maida on his solo tour this winter, it was eerily quiet on some of the softer songs. The whole show was acoustic guitar, piano and cello, but some of the quieter songs just demanded silence. I was glad people were respecting the music, as his solo work is a far cry from Our Lady Peace. It borders on coffeehouse spoken word poetry most of the time and everyone singing along would ruin the effect. Also, in between the opening band and Raine's set, he invited Jared Paul up to do spoken word/slam poetry with no backing music and everyone was dead silent, totally into it. It was quite beautiful.
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