GA Aggression?

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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,047
    Tone wrote:
    josevolution wrote:
    Was very surprised at how quiet and sedated the crowd was. I expected a lot more enthusiasm .

    this above quote is from someone at last night's show it's only one person but still ...peoples perceptions are so random form one to another ..

    As much as I love my homeland... crowds in Australia are nowhere near the crowds over here (or Europe, for that matter, judging from what I've heard, although I've never experienced PJ in Europe).

    Ok i hope to some day see them in Europe allready saw them in South America ... :)
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  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    josevolution wrote:
    Tone wrote:
    josevolution wrote:
    Was very surprised at how quiet and sedated the crowd was. I expected a lot more enthusiasm .

    this above quote is from someone at last night's show it's only one person but still ...peoples perceptions are so random form one to another ..

    As much as I love my homeland... crowds in Australia are nowhere near the crowds over here (or Europe, for that matter, judging from what I've heard, although I've never experienced PJ in Europe).

    Ok i hope to some day see them in Europe allready saw them in South America ... :)

    I hope to see them in both South America AND Europe :D
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  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,255
    get to an Italian show ;)
  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    Would love to! Dimitris and I have also decided they're going to play Santorini ;)
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Jeff Murray wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    Jeff Murray wrote:
    Okay, let's say your statement is true for example's sake. Can you give an example where the band gave a sub-par show due to lack of crowd energy?

    can you give me an example where the band played a great show for a dead/bored crowd?

    Sure, per Ed, the Seattle shows had a dead crowd, but I thought the shows were great.

    the reviews on that one were mixed. i'm glad you had a good time, but plenty of people seemed to think they were good but nothing special.
  • Jeff Murray
    Jeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    "the reviews on that one were mixed. i'm glad you had a good time, but plenty of people seemed to think they were good but nothing special."

    I can understand some of the reviews due to them playing heavily on the new album and some not being all too familiar with Backspacer yet. I think some didn't know what to expect so it was kind of hard to participate as we were taking it all in. It was as if Seattle were the Guinea Pigs for the new material. By the time they hit other towns fans were able to give the cd/vinyl some more spins and form their opinions on the new songs.

    But then again I could be easy to please! If I could just find a woman like that... ;)
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Tone wrote:
    Would love to! Dimitris and I have also decided they're going to play Santorini ;)
    yep 8-)
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  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,255
    Jeff Murray wrote:
    "the reviews on that one were mixed. i'm glad you had a good time, but plenty of people seemed to think they were good but nothing special."

    I can understand some of the reviews due to them playing heavily on the new album and some not being all too familiar with Backspacer yet. I think some didn't know what to expect so it was kind of hard to participate as we were taking it all in. It was as if Seattle were the Guinea Pigs for the new material. By the time they hit other towns fans were able to give the cd/vinyl some more spins and form their opinions on the new songs.

    But then again I could be easy to please! If I could just find a woman like that... ;)
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,939
    I saw 3 shows this summer. Calgary and both of the Seattle shows. Calgary had the most energy, actually it had alot of energy.

    The thing of GA is you end up with alot more people in front of the stage, and usually the most energetic ones, because it takes some serious stamina to be at the front.

    When I was younger I was a bigger fan of GA, as I didn't mind squishing my way to the front, the odds of ever being that close with a seated ticket were rare. Now in my 30's I seem to prefer to stand back about 15 ft or so just to be out the more dense part of the pit :)

    Alot of people want to be at the front, so at a GA show you get that constant struggle of that many people wanting to be at the front, but there only being so much space. Not much you can do about that really.

    But the calgary show did remind me how much energy the band gets from a giant GA audience. I think the last GA outdoor show i'd seen for PJ before that was seattle II '98, and that was quite the clusterf**k too :)
  • Jelmot
    Jelmot Posts: 19
    Just interested to hear how the GA areas went at the remaining Aus shows???
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Jelmot wrote:
    Just interested to hear how the GA areas went at the remaining Aus shows???

    Perth - fight broke out
    Adelaide - minor fight in front of me
    Melbourne - bit of trouble, almost a fight
    Sydney - well behaved fun crowd
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  • Random_Wookie
    Random_Wookie Posts: 1,099
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Jelmot wrote:
    Just interested to hear how the GA areas went at the remaining Aus shows???

    Perth - fight broke out
    Adelaide - minor fight in front of me
    Melbourne - bit of trouble, almost a fight
    Sydney - well behaved fun crowd

    i was about to start a fight on friday night with someone who had pushed through a bunch of people a finally got to me. turned arround and the guy ran off.
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  • climb_high_nz
    climb_high_nz Posts: 564
    Random_Wookie wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Jelmot wrote:
    Just interested to hear how the GA areas went at the remaining Aus shows???

    Perth - fight broke out
    Adelaide - minor fight in front of me
    Melbourne - bit of trouble, almost a fight
    Sydney - well behaved fun crowd

    i was about to start a fight on friday night with someone who had pushed through a bunch of people a finally got to me. turned arround and the guy ran off.
    Was he screaming as he ran off?....That would be funny as shit to have that effect on someone :lol:
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  • doompony
    doompony Wellington, NZ Posts: 4,501
    i have that effect.. oh wait.. :x :cry:
  • Random_Wookie
    Random_Wookie Posts: 1,099
    doompony wrote:
    i have that effect.. oh wait.. :x :cry:

    usually only when i am naked do i have that effect
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  • climb_high_nz
    climb_high_nz Posts: 564
    Random_Wookie wrote:
    doompony wrote:
    i have that effect.. oh wait.. :x :cry:

    usually only when i am naked do i have that effect
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  • doompony
    doompony Wellington, NZ Posts: 4,501
    Random_Wookie wrote:
    doompony wrote:
    i have that effect.. oh wait.. :x :cry:

    usually only when i am naked do i have that effect


    maybe i'm jumping to conclusions here - but why were you naked in the mosh pit?
  • Random_Wookie
    Random_Wookie Posts: 1,099
    doompony wrote:
    Random_Wookie wrote:
    doompony wrote:
    i have that effect.. oh wait.. :x :cry:

    usually only when i am naked do i have that effect


    maybe i'm jumping to conclusions here - but why were you naked in the mosh pit?

    i mosh that hard my clothes fall off :o:lol:
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  • doompony
    doompony Wellington, NZ Posts: 4,501
    Random_Wookie wrote:
    doompony wrote:


    maybe i'm jumping to conclusions here - but why were you naked in the mosh pit?

    i mosh that hard my clothes fall off :o:lol:

    good gravy!! i hope that doesn't happen to us in auckland! might get frost bite.
  • climb_high_nz
    climb_high_nz Posts: 564
    doompony wrote:
    Random_Wookie wrote:
    doompony wrote:


    maybe i'm jumping to conclusions here - but why were you naked in the mosh pit?

    i mosh that hard my clothes fall off :o:lol:

    good gravy!! i hope that doesn't happen to us in auckland! might get frost bite.
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