People who talk non stop at concerts

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  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,618
    I know people do it but I rarely notice it. It's probably because I’m close to the front and I also am able to block out background noice pretty well. I know some people that can’t do this. 
  • halv
    halv Posts: 716
    I've encountered this more times than I want to remember, but the worst was the last time we saw Tom Petty. We had to move due to the drunken idiots behind us who would not shut up. But it worked out as we found seats side stage and had a great time. 
  • BF25394
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    One of the real benefits of the fan club for Pearl Jam shows is that, in the Ten Club sections, you generally are going to be among people who are paying attention to the show. They may be singing along, but they will not be talking over the music. Singing along tends to blend in and get drowned out by the sound from the P.A. (or at least that's what I tell myself as I'm singing every word from the first song to the last).
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  • mattcoz
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    evenflow82 said:
    elvistheking44 said:
    It’s not a movie, it’s a rock concert. I paid my money, if I’m hanging with friends I haven’t seen for a while I’m gonna have a conversation and some laughs with them. It’s not a movie or a play. 
    Grab a bite to eat or a drink before/after the show to catch up and discuss the music.
    Or talk to them between songs when you don't have to yell so loud that they and everyone else can hear you over the music. Unless Eddie's talking, then shut the fuck up. Just because you paid money doesn't give you the right to disrupt the experience of other people who paid money too.
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  • JimmyV
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    Seattle 2 2018

    Dianne Feinstein guy and his drunken Canadian friend

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  • kaw753
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    It is getting really bad out there.

    My "favourite" was 6 or 7 years ago when I went to see Springsteen on The River tour. When he played the song The River, the guy behind me spent the whole song explaining to his date what the song was about. 

    At NOS Alive in 2016, a dude was trying his best to talk loud enough so his friend could hear him over Alice in Chains. For many songs. I did tell him to STFU.
  • BF25394
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    kaw753 said:
    It is getting really bad out there.

    My "favourite" was 6 or 7 years ago when I went to see Springsteen on The River tour. When he played the song The River, the guy behind me spent the whole song explaining to his date what the song was about. 

    At NOS Alive in 2016, a dude was trying his best to talk loud enough so his friend could hear him over Alice in Chains. For many songs. I did tell him to STFU.
    That's especially funny given that the song is a very straightforward narrative:

    "So this song is about a guy who comes from down in the valley where they bring you up to work in your father's field of employment..."
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  • pledgeagrievance
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    There’s been many but the one I remember is still from like 2000. Neil young Silver and gold tour. He’s playing Silver and Gold, which back then and I still believe, is one of his best songs, and the guy behind me is having a full blown conversation with his friend. I turned and said Can you keep it down, I really want to hear this. And he did. Never been sure why that worked. 
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,958
    I also hate when its quiet and some tool shouts out some utter embarrassing bullshit and literally everyone except that guy thinks . Fuck off mate


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  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    Another reason to wear ear plugs at shows. If you wear soft ear plugs and put them in half way, you can hear the show fine and tune out the riff raff around you.
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    Malroth said:
    Beware the dangers of the mosh pit A look back Dangerous Minds
    i get it, but after 20 yrs of doing this at concerts, it makes me chuckle a bit.
    Just saw the Dropkick Murphys on St. Patrick’s Day by Fenway Park and saw a MoshPit and crowd surfing for the first time in years.
  • mattcoz
    mattcoz Chicago Posts: 2,243
    lastexitlondon said:
    I also hate when its quiet and some tool shouts out some utter embarrassing bullshit and literally everyone except that guy thinks . Fuck off mate
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  • Go Beavers
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    lastexitlondon said:
    I also hate when its quiet and some tool shouts out some utter embarrassing bullshit and literally everyone except that guy thinks . Fuck off mate
    The worst one of these I witnessed was at a Ben Harper show. After he finishes Don’t Take that Attitude to your Grave, some jag-off yells “No more cover songs”. Ben had to tell him that was one of his. Hopefully the guy hid in the back the rest of the show
  • Pgarvey104
    Pgarvey104 Posts: 61
    When we were at the Hartford 2013 show the dudes in front of us were occasionally talking but what was wild was…
    one of them had his smart phone held up to his ear listening to PEARL JAM MUSIC VIDEOS. I did 657 double takes. Anyhow they were smoking and my wife was convinced because it smelled like a smoke she never smelled before, to this day says they were smoking crack. 
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  • deb1211
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    Happened to me in Austin
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  • TheMookster
    TheMookster Posts: 101
    edited March 2024
    Definitely sympathize with a lot of comments in this thread. Just don't understand paying for live music only to not listen to the music (although agree with one of the comments that it seems now for some people to be about being seen on social media to have been there).

    EV at Hammeramith Apollo in 2017 and Ed starts talking about his friendship with Chris and I think first time publically about Chris' death and how it effected him, Ed clearly emotional and finding it difficult, and some people in the crowd shouting at Eddie to get on with the show and other stuff interrupting him so he had to stop and start what he was saying- I was stunned. 

    Also Glen Hansard at the 100 Club, tiny room, acoustic songs, couple talking loudly as if they were in their local pub on a Friday night so the whole room only heard them not him (they were standing 2m from the stage and not even facing it). Have to admit to losing my s**t and asking them to STFU or go outside  
    (Keeping it PJ-related, Glen did a great cover of Present Tense that night, fortunately after the couple decided to STFU).

    I guess different things for different people, but I really have a hard time understanding what they get out of being there if it's not to actually hear/see the artist  Hanging out, chatting could surely be done anywhere else without a live show that you're paying for and interrupting. Weird to me.
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  • washed in black
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    On a related note, when we were seeing U2 at Sphere a couple weeks ago, the woman sitting in front of us was streaming video of herself at the show for much of the night instead of watching the show. I could see my husband and me in the background on her phone. I couldn't believe that someone would spend that much $$ (face value for those seats was $500, and many were purchased for much more as resales) and not pay attention to the show.
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  • BF25394
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    TheMookster said:
    Definitely sympathize with a lot of comments in this thread. Just don't understand paying for live music only to not listen to the music (although agree with one of the comments that it seems now for some people to be about being seen on social media to have been there).

    EV at Hammeramith Apollo in 2017 and Ed starts talking about his friendship with Chris and I think first time publically about Chris' death and how it effected him, Ed clearly emotional and finding it difficult, and some people in the crowd shouting at Eddie to get on with the show and other stuff interrupting him so he had to stop and start what he was saying- I was stunned. 

    Also Glen Hansard at the 100 Club, tiny room, acoustic songs, couple talking loudly as if they were in their local pub on a Friday night so the whole room only heard them not him (they were standing 2m from the stage and not even facing it). Have to admit to losing my s**t and asking them to STFU or go outside  
    (Keeping it PJ-related, Glen did a great cover of Present Tense that night, fortunately after the couple decided to STFU).

    I guess different things for different people, but I really have a hard time understanding what they get out of being there if it's not to actually hear/see the artist  Hanging out, chatting could surely be done anywhere else without a live show that you're paying for and interrupting. Weird to me.
    Echoing the thought alluded to above: For a lot of people in the social-media age, documenting the experience is more important than the experience itself. They get more excitement of out posting an Instagram video of whatever the event is than they do by experiencing the event. Whenever I see people at, say, a basketball game watching the closing moments of an exciting game through their phones instead of with their eyes, I think, "Don't they realize this is on TV and there will be plenty of video of it for them to relive it later if they want to?" But it's not about that. It's about showing their social-media connections, "Look where I am!"
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  • marra2312
    marra2312 Posts: 60
    I have no problem with photos/video, unless it is right blocking my eyeline. I've taken enough mementos over the decades like that which I do go back and look at to remind me of some happy times.

    But the talking one is just plain rude. There's easier and cheaper ways to have a conversation that don't require you to shout yourself hoarse and annoy everyone around you.

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