 HolyMoly wrote:
Evolver wrote:
stegor wrote:
I'm a rare Phish fan who loves their albums (well, some of them) but can't stand their concerts. I like the live albums but I saw them once and I was so annoyed by the crowd of Deadhead wannabes I left before it was over. I guess it's the fans I don't like. |
This. i used to go see them in a club in Boston before they were well known. It was very enjoyable. After they became the new dead, the cowds were unbearable. On show, I had promo tickets, and the crowd of ticket baggars clogged the 4-lane highway for miles, hours before the show. Over an hour into the show, I was still sitting in my car, a couple of miles from the venue. I sold the tickets to a Fishhead for well over face value, and I'm sure the guy missed most of the show, if not all of it. |
I didn't mind the Deadhead wannabes per se, but I stopped going to see them after about 1998, which is when they started playing amphitheaters instead of small to medium sized theater venues. That, plus I was nearly 30 by then, and starting to feel old at those shows, which had mostly college kids in the audience. It became a less personal kind of concert experience. Seeing them up close in the early days was really the way to see them. They don't look particularly exciting from a distance, and a lot of the enjoyment of their improvisational segments came out of seeing them really push themselves on stage - an effect that's kind of lost when you're 75 yards away. |
I'm already over 30 and I wouldn't let age be a factor for not going to a concert I'd like to attend.
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