Grex Music2 Conference

Item 137: rock!

Entered by a2 on Sat Jul 25 06:23:18 1998:

hi all. i am crazy about rock music. i wish could hear great rock and
roll bands live. but i am here in india. so i can't do anything.
11 responses total.
#1 of 11 by krj on Sat Jul 25 06:34:30 1998:

Hi amit!  Welcome to the music conference.  I'm surprised to hear 
that the big rock bands don't tour India, since they seem to 
have a sizable audience there.
 
I finally decided that most live rock concerts were experiences
I could do without.  I came to this realization at a Peter 
Gabriel concert in the early 1980s, about the time that the 
fellow five seats to my right began throwing up, because 
he had been drinking too much.

#2 of 11 by raven on Sat Jul 25 15:36:45 1998:

True seeing rock acts at big venues can be nasty.  Some of my facvorite
music listening experiences have been seeing rock acts at clubs, seeing
the Throwing Muses 2 years ago in Pontiac comes to mind.

#3 of 11 by anderyn on Sat Jul 25 17:51:17 1998:

I have been to exactly (one) rock concet, and I didn't like it.

#4 of 11 by scott on Sat Jul 25 18:45:14 1998:

Live music does not scale to large venues that well, unless spectacle is part
of the show.  There have been a few bands, mainly from the 70's, that really
made arena shows work (The Who, Led Zepplin, etc).  I could see early Pearl
Jam as a passable arena act, and I worked a Queensryche show a few years ago
that fit well in a big venue.

#5 of 11 by anderyn on Sat Jul 25 21:02:01 1998:

I do like very small venues, since I'm most used to the Ark. It's exactly the
size that would make everyone comfortable and able to see/hear the show.

#6 of 11 by krj on Sun Jul 26 03:02:30 1998:

Twila: what was the one rock concert you went to?

#7 of 11 by anderyn on Sun Jul 26 17:49:31 1998:

You won't believe this , but it was Jon Bon Jovi and Skid Row. Quite
the experience, however!

#8 of 11 by raven on Sun Jul 26 19:06:22 1998:

re #7 No wonder you don't like rock music.  I hope you are aware there
is more talented music in the rock genre.

#9 of 11 by anderyn on Mon Jul 27 01:48:10 1998:

I didn't buy the ticket myself, a friend wanted to treat me to a rock
concert since I'd never been.

#10 of 11 by cloud on Wed Jul 29 16:09:06 1998:

Hmn.   I've been to two concerts.  The first was an Ashley MacIssac concert
in St. Andrews hall in Detroit, and that was completely awsome.  The second
was a Beck concert at Pine Nob I attened.  I mostly went because Bens Folds
Five was also playing, and enjoyed the concert, but felt that the crowd (with
the exception of my freinds and me) was kind of dead.  I felt that there
needed to be more people dancing maniacly instead of just squinting at the
blury screen.
        Oh yeah, I ushered at the Indigo Girls concert here in A2 when they
came to hill, but I completely screwed up the seating in my section and was
so increadably embarresed by the experience that I took flight as soon as we
got it straightened out.  I pretty much left at about the same time the Indego
Girls started.  And let me just say that if any of you were the people I
misseated, I humbly apologise (god, I shudder with the memory of that
ordeal...)

#11 of 11 by senna on Thu Aug 13 15:36:10 1998:

different bands are appropriate to different venues.  The Rolling Stones are
extremely well adapted to playing huge, gaping stadiums.  The Newsboys and
Tool, on the other hand, are geared for more intimate, close knit audiences.
Arenas, however, don't seem to do it for anything, since they're something
of a compromise size-wise.

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