How Do You Deal With "bad" Audience?, share the experience |
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Feb 18 2008, 01:00 AM
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Many of you have experienced on some gigs a "bad" audience night. It means that the crowd can be rood, uninterested, or maybe even throwing things at you etc.. if you've had those experiences what did you do? How did you deal with those and how do you think players should deal when something similar occurs.
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Feb 18 2008, 01:13 AM
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We always go to a gig to do our thing - even though our thing may be is covers it's our way. If people don't like it we have fun anyway and our vocalist is a real funny guy he'll make it worth while.
I mean, if the audience is uninterested he'd say somehting like "You're the best audience we've ever faced!". If they cheer they havn't got a clue. If they don't react they confess to suck so what can they do  It's only happened twice so far once at a party with lots of teenagers, only "Song2" flew really well. Second was at pa party for an IT company where 3/4'th of the ppl went to another room to talk about work, 1/4'th who were a great audience stayed. And the IT nerds in the other room even complained we played too loud. Haha, such geeks.  So, we're doing our thing, have free beer, food and lately even got paid and we're a bunch of guys having a lot of fun together. We're not aiming for the stars so we can laugh at a setback like that. We don't care. This post has been edited by MickeM: Feb 18 2008, 09:49 AM -------------------- My bands homepage
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Feb 18 2008, 09:38 AM
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I believe it's important to understand the nature of the gig,are you there because of the crowd
or the crowd is there because of you. In both situations player has to enjoy,here's why.  You are invited to play on private party,so crowd has to enjoy the music. But if player has a bad time enjoying it,the crowd will notice it and everything will go pretty bad. And now,you have your solo concert,crowd came because of you. Since it's your solo concert you are enjoying it 100% percents, crowd is there to adjust,they knew what it was about. And if someone throw a bottle on you...well,it's incident.
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Feb 18 2008, 09:49 AM
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Muris, I'm sure no never had a bad gig so you can't speak from own experience.
Wow, imagine that to be able to say - I don't know, I never had a bad gig
This post has been edited by MickeM: Feb 18 2008, 09:53 AM -------------------- My bands homepage
All time favourites: B. Streisand - Woman in Love, M. Hopkin - Those were the days, L. Richie - Hello |
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Feb 18 2008, 09:51 AM
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QUOTE (blindwillie @ Feb 18 2008, 09:10 AM)  Hahaha! Stupid IT people  *cough*heh yeah, and I meant to say that 3/4'th left to talk about work an complained about the volume. I just couldn't type it right... guess my occupation
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All time favourites: B. Streisand - Woman in Love, M. Hopkin - Those were the days, L. Richie - Hello |
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It involves a human function and lobbing of said human item. I'm very friendly |
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Feb 18 2008, 12:44 PM
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There are good gigs and bad gigs, no rules there when and why, specially before the gig I at least don't know.What it is important to try to participate the audience needs if playing a festival. But bad audience can appear on solo night as well, so dealing with those nights is a thing to focus on too. In general the players should always give their 100% off course, but when the crowd is too rood, it can be very inconvenient for players, so in those situations the band should really stay focused on the playing and a show, instead of the crowd's behavior, while maintaining positive communication with the crowd.
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Feb 18 2008, 01:45 PM
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I would like to add that type of music you play is filtering the audience a lot.
It's hard to see a carpenter(those are fine hard workers btw) at classical music concert etc.
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Feb 18 2008, 04:41 PM
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Player should not respond to individual crowd members that don't like the band and feed them by acknowledging their presence there..There will be individual/group crowd members that don't like the band (and a lot more that do like it) but if whole crowd is against the band then the band is playing in a wrong place..Just focusing on giving a good show/performance and ignoring (fools) is the key
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Feb 18 2008, 05:50 PM
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Jim was the rockman!
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Feb 18 2008, 05:55 PM
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yeah that kind of people wisit this world only one time.....
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Feb 18 2008, 06:47 PM
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QUOTE (mattacuk @ Feb 18 2008, 05:32 PM) If all else fails, just put your guitar down and break out into a robot dance !! That works all the time and maybe some nunchucks stuff..
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