Bozo Drunks at the shows

[bluecrystal]

yeah, i was at the motor city concert not too long ago, and along with A LOT of booze and alcohol everywhere, there were people doing cocaine in the bathroom, and passing it around to others!

[agnes121275]

Originally Posted by TheMacAttack

I saw the drunkest people at Pittsburgh. There was this woman behind me who looked like she crawled out of the hills somewhere before the show. Her voice sounded like she drank a fifth of Jack Daniels and smoked a carton of Camel Unfiltereds for good measure. She was one of those people who screamed at people for standing/dancing (mind you this was like the 6th row) and then who yelled all through B&B "I love you Stevie". There was a guy close to her who literally almost came to blows with guy sitting next to me for standing/dancing. Quite a mess.

I was at every Pittsburgh show for the last 15 years... sure we are a rowdy bunch... but it is because we love Stevie... and LOVE when she comes to the Burgh!! If you can't handle it then stay home and enjoy the fine recorded material that is available at Walmart from Ms. Nicks!!! Rock and Roll concerts get a little bit wild... if you can't handle it... then stay home!! Sorry to be a little blunt with my opinion... but y'all sound like a bunch of old fuddy duddies... get over it... really!!!

Next time she comes to Pittsburgh... I will likely be one of the drunken idiots that you all hate... HA! HA! and I will love every single minute of it!!!

[agnes121275]

Maybe Stevie should start performing her shows at convents, and then Sister Mary Agnes could bust out her ruler and strike all those evil beer consumers...
Beer + rock and roll = sin.

[THINKABOUTIT]

I have a strong feeling I'm in the minority since I really don't drink...I could give a S*** about it...I honestly don't understand people who have to drink to enjoy a concert. This, for some reason, and if you've experienced it, back me up (LOL) happens in all seating scetions, but is most predominant in the really really good seats that we all pay through the nose for!!!! WTF?!?!?

I swear, no matter the concert, I always get the people next to me or in my row, who get up every 15 minutes to get another beer or to pee because of all their beers....if you all out there are these people...you're such an annoying moron!! You've often spilled beer/wine on my friends and I since you either can't walk straight or cause you're in a hurry to get another! Stepping on our feet is also something that makes us want to trip you!!

You're wasting my time, your health, your money and most importantly, having to be sure you're okay to drive home amongst the rest of us!!

Stay in your seat!!

Anyone wanna second this? =)

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by THINKABOUTIT

Anyone wanna second this? =)

I do. I hate people who detract from the concert experience for others. I'm there to see and hear the performer live. They seem to be there to go to a fraternity party and the performance is just secondary. I think they should stay home, turn on the record player, get a keg and knock themselves out.

Michele

[StandbackStevie]

I agree I have seen a few people drunk at the shows they should do a dui check at the entrance when they check you thru security at the same time cause it does ruin it for anyone around them and if they are up front I am sure it makes Ms. Nicks pissed it would me I find it rude I can have a great time with out getting loaded I have never drank at a show also i hate when people get up to get food you can eat any time you want why should you eat a show and get drunk they you have to move out of the way every 5 to 10 minutes for people to go get more food or more beer or have to go the rest room so they waist there time doing this instead of listening and watching the show it is ridiculous to I go I dont eat or drink at the shows i am focused on the show pretty much all the time even if i get interrupted i am kind but do get a little pissed that i have to move every 5 or 10 minutes for people all the time its like stand up and dance and listen and watch the show.

[starshine]

I'm not much of a drinker either. I don't drink anything at the concert or during it. I might have 1 or 2 drinks (small) before I enter the venue...but inside there way too expensive to buy & besides if I paid alot of money for my ticket I'd rather 'hear' the concert & see it instead of spending all my time in the bathroom lines etc. To each his or her own.....I guess if thats your thing thats fine.....but you miss out on much of the concert (if its Stevie or any other musical act....).....I'd rather remember what I came there for than not recall anything. So really....its not my thing. I don't really like what drinking does to me. I have to remember things & well if your out of it....your not gonna recall much....but to each his/her own...... No offence....If I'm boring thats ok too.....

[SRhiannon]

Not only will I second this but I will third and fourth it!!!! I'm there to see a concert AND enjoy it. I can get drunk anytime but I choose not to at a concert because I would rather have memories of the concert itself than of puking or embarrassing myself or "stepping on someone else's toes"! Geesh! I see it as a very immature act. If you have to get drunk to enjoy a concert then you are not there as a true fan!!!! It's an insult to the performer ~ especially when it becomes disruptive. Yep, I said it! Get over it!!!!

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by THINKABOUTIT

I have a strong feeling I'm in the minority since I really don't drink...I could give a S*** about it...I honestly don't understand people who have to drink to enjoy a concert. This, for some reason, and if you've experienced it, back me up (LOL) happens in all seating scetions, but is most predominant in the really really good seats that we all pay through the nose for!!!! WTF?!?!?

I swear, no matter the concert, I always get the people next to me or in my row, who get up every 15 minutes to get another beer or to pee because of all their beers....if you all out there are these people...you're such an annoying moron!! You've often spilled beer/wine on my friends and I since you either can't walk straight or cause you're in a hurry to get another! Stepping on our feet is also something that makes us want to trip you!!

You're wasting my time, your health, your money and most importantly, having to be sure you're okay to drive home amongst the rest of us!!

Stay in your seat!!

Anyone wanna second this? =)

I will also second. third ect. yes yes and yes. I agree with you completely

[Zombie]

I think it depends on the show and what song is being performed at the moment, like others have said. There's a time and a place for everything. Dancing and yelling during "Go Your Own Way"? Good! Professing your love for Stevie's great hair loud enough to put a banshee to shame during "Landslide"? NO.

This past April, alllllll I wanted was to hear Stevie do BtaB live because I hadn't gotten a chance to hear her do that live yet, and I just adore the song. I had second row center seats for the Reading, PA show, and she did BtaB, and it was BEAUTIFUL...except for the drunken idiots next to me.

I had two chicks nearly get into a fistfight over god-knows-what while some guy that looked like he'd just lumbered down the mountain in his best coonskin cap continuously bellowed things like, "STEVIE IS PRETTY! CAIN'T BELIEVE SHE'S SO OLD! I'D STILL DO HER! I LOVE YOU, STEVIE! YOU'RE HOT! EVEN IF YOU'RE OLD!"

Add that to the shoving matches people got into the whole night over who deserved to stand where and why, the angry couple on the other side of me that did not clap or even crack a smile the whole time but immediately threw a fit at a security guard because a woman on the other side of THEM had her small daughter at the show and hopped up to the front so the little girl could be near Stevie for the Edge Walk, and the crazy hosebeast next to me during said Edge Walk that actually tried to YANK STEVIE DOWN off the stage to "give her a kiss" and... just color me appalled, people.

It's one thing to enjoy the show and dance around and sing and yell and all that - that's called having a good time and that's what concerts are for - but this kind of behavior is ridiculous.

And before anyone calls me a "fuddy duddy" - I'm a metalhead and I've acquired more than my fair share of bodily injuries in the mosh pits of the world. I haven't got anything against drinking at shows, either - if you go over to the thread where folk have posted pictures of themselves on the Chit Chat board, you'll find one of me & Kenny from Type O Negative where I am perhaps half a sheet away from three sheets to the wind at a Gwar show (I ended up about 5 sheets to the wind by the time the after party on the tour bus rolled around, but that's a tale for another day).

But, in my opinion, that stuff isn't appropriate everywhere. A girl once vomited all over my boots at a Tori Amos show and that was extremely annoying, but if someone vomited all over me at a Gwar show, I likely wouldn't notice because I'd already be covered in all that lovely goo the Gwar lads spew off the stage.

When I wade into the pit at a grindcore show, I expect to get knocked around because that's what the pits are for - but I recently emerged from a Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds show with bruised kidneys and ribs because some drunk asshole plowed me into the security railing in an effort to take my spot in the front row.

And all of that stuff is even less appropriate at a Mac or Stevie concert - if you love them like we all do, show them (and your fellow fans) a little respect during those quieter moments and actually LISTEN to what they have to say to us.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Zombie

"STEVIE IS PRETTY! CAIN'T BELIEVE SHE'S SO OLD! I'D STILL DO HER! I LOVE YOU, STEVIE! YOU'RE HOT! EVEN IF YOU'RE OLD!"

Guys like that love BATB. When Stevie says, "Who's the Beast?" They love to say, "I'M your beast, Stevie. I'm the beast!" I think they wait the whole concert just to throw that in at the end.

Michele

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Guys like that love BATB. When Stevie says, "Who's the Beast?" They love to say, "I'M your beast, Stevie. I'm the beast!" I think they wait the whole concert just to throw that in at the end.

Michele

I suppose, but I just wanted to hear her sing, dammit! I have such small dreams.

But it's like, yeah right, just what Stevie wants to hear, you mouthbreather - she'll go home to her hotel tonight and be all, "Well, I would never have known I've still got it if it weren't for that charming, toothless rake in the second row next to that scowly girl letting me know he'd still do me even though I'm old. Whew!"

[paleshadow]

Originally Posted by Zombie

"Well, I would never have known I've still got it if it weren't for that charming, toothless rake in the second row next to that scowly girl letting me know he'd still do me even though I'm old. Whew!"

LMAO! I love the version of BATB that someone posted on youtube from a few years ago. It was really one of the best I've seen, and I always wish like hell there was a way to edit out the doofus that was yelling "SING TO ME STEVIE". And you know they wait for a quiet moment on purpose so that they can be sure Stevie (and the rest of the venue) will get their message.

[nicepace]

I'm with the folks who wish alcohol wasn't sold at concerts. If someone "needs" booze or "can't imagine not drinking" at a concert, I'd suggest there is an alcohol addiction problem at work. When I go to a show, the music is what intoxicates me!

[DeeGeMe]

I like a drink every now and then myself. But I don't get people who get so drunk at a concert that they won't remember it later. I also think I lost part of my hearing from having two drunks bellow in my ear at the last Stevie concert I went to.