Nobody was laughing. He never said anything like that to the audience. People were talking loudly and moving around ordering drinks during the set. He did ask some noisey people to shut the **** up. That was totally uncalled for. Very unprofessional on his part. It put a huge damper on the rest of the night.
The real problem was the place had a very bar type atmosphere more so than other entertainment venues he was probably use to playing. Half the crowd on any given night wasn't there to see the entertainment, no matter who performed. The rowdiness of the crowd was not directed at the energy of the show. LB can respond well to that type of activity. The activity in the place that night came off as a display of audience inattention. Anyone could tell it was a huge distraction for him.
The words "lounge act" were probaby ringing loudly in his ears the whole night. It didn't help matters when some drunks yelled out, "where's Stevie?" He didn't take that well. Fifteen years later the same thing happened in Phx at his UTS show. It put a huge uncontainable smile on his face. Not so during the OOTC tour.
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