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Originally Posted by LngPrmsdRd
There are a few of you, aren't there??
GET UP AND DANCE!!! 
LOL sorry...maybe I'm spoiled after 2 standing room only shows last week...maybe I'm just getting antsy because tonight is my last show and it's my hometown one so I'd love to close on a fantastic note... Maybe I'm just bitter because nobody in Hamilton last night stood AT ALL, not even for GYOW... Well, actually, some people did down on the opposite side of the stage from me. Everyone on my side...sat in their seats the whole night, did not cheer and gave me dirty looks for cheering, and clapped like they were at a golf tournament. Lindsey was on my side for the beginning of the GYOW solo, and although no-one had stood the whole time, I guess he figured some people would've gotten up for that...had his eyes closed, bent down a bit...then opened his eyes and looked around confused: no-one was even standing, let alone rushing the stage! Even Brett commented on it during the band intros, he went, "It's reeeeeeaaaaaallllllll silent out there...."
So yes...the show was *fantastic*, the crowd...was ridiculous. I know not everyone wants to stand the whole night, to new songs, slow songs, etcetera. But honestly...from World Turning, or at least I'm So Afraid, onwards? And for Tusk, and I Know I'm Not Wrong...the rockers everybody knows... get up and dance!!! Cheer, applaud...scream for Johnny Stew like that guy in Cleveland...the band *wants you to*. They like to know that people are having a good time, they want to see that people are excited and want to be there. Lindsey plays off the crowd and enjoys audience interaction more than any other artist I've ever seen...so do something!
...Ahem. That felt good to say.  I was so close to screaming it out at the crowd last night...God knows I would've been heard, between songs you could hear a pin drop! So if you hear some chick yell "STAND UP!" tonight...yup, hi, that's me.  /end rant. |
Oh ****, I know, right? Hamilton Place is always embarrassingly conservative, no matter who's playing. Not a lot of people even got up off their asses for Cyndi Lauper a few years ago.
She was literally pulling people out of their chairs.
Were you on the left side? I was on the right (row 4 right on the aisle), but I saw people standing up over there. Poor Lindsey. And Brett.
But for the record, I was making a lot of noise too (especially for his non-Mac songs - I felt like too many people just went to hear him do Mac stuff. I yelled out for Holiday Road, and I was glad when someone else said Countdown and Play in the Rain. Just so he knows we're there.
) So no dirty looks from me!