To People Who Talk All Night During Concerts:

[shockadow]

I swear to god this works:

Expecially if you are dealing with drunks.  

It only takes a couple of puffs of the good kine.  Puts em' right on their ass in their seat.  You can really thin out the herd if you're feeling generous.

I'm a mouth-runner, though, so i empathize with the talkers...

Sorry in advance.

Don't get too worked up, guys.  If your biggest concern is loud yapping crowds, you're still in a good place.  Just wait till the band begins to decline.  that's a real problem.  

It's like your best girl giving you shit about something they inferred from what you said but didn't mean.  If that's all she's bitching about, everything is still cool.

[EgoTesticle]

I swear to god this works:

Expecially if you are dealing with drunks.  

It only takes a couple of puffs of the good kine.  Puts em' right on their ass in their seat.  You can really thin out the herd if you're feeling generous.

I'm a mouth-runner, though, so i empathize with the talkers...

Sorry in advance.

Don't get too worked up, guys.  If your biggest concern is loud yapping crowds, you're still in a good place.  Just wait till the band begins to decline.  that's a real problem.  

It's like your best girl giving you shit about something they inferred from what you said but didn't mean.  If that's all she's bitching about, everything is still cool.

NOTE TO SELF:  Next show sit by Shockadow and talk loudly so he will smoke the kine with me.

.... He he he    ;)

[shockadow]

You don't need to yap it up.  
I enjoy burnin' down with masses.  Makes friends and put everyone around you on the same wavelength.
Front Balcony, row B, Fox Theater.
See ya!!

[AMightyCaporal]

I've been lurking here for a bit and finally broke down and registered recently after needing another outlet to cope with aftermath of the Bonnaroo show.  I felt the need to hop in on this thread because this issue has been driving me *nuts*. Usually I can just tune yappers out at shows, but it's so, so difficult to do during songs like "Golden" and "Bermuda" (I have a hard time breathing during these songs, let alone talking!).  

I day-dreamed about creating a STFU mafia. Not entirely sure how it would play out, but I was thinking either signs or roofies. . . or maybe both. . .

maybe a swift kick in the rear!

[gregadams2]

Some people only go so they can say they were there.

So true. For some folks, it's all about the scene. I used to frequent shows at Higher Ground in Burlington, Vt, and there was a strong contingent of people who would shoot pool the entire show. And I never understood that. It was almost as if they were making a statement that they were too cool to pay attention to the show -- that not caring is way cooler than caring. You definitely get your garden variety drunks who just lose their attention, and care more about getting beer than the show in front of them, but I think overall show talkers are a mix of the former and of the latter.

Phish shows were always chock full of haters.

Steve Kimock plays better shows for quiet audiences. He told one crowd in Colorado a few years back to STFU. There was a "Shut up and Dance" campaign that some of his fans started a few years back.

As everyone else has said, you just have to get into your own zone. Find a place that is loud, where even the most belligerent person won't interrupt your experience. These people will never go away and, as one person mentioned, as a band gets bigger you'll get more and more people who are there just to say they were. It's a shitty reality for people who care so much and feel like they have the right to an uninterrupted experience, but I guess it's ultimately a pitfall of popularity.

[vespachick]

I actually did ask the fella's behind me whether they could continue their loud, in depth conversation at a later time.  I don't usually do stuff like that but I didn't fly 3,000 miles to hear random dude's yammering on about Radiohead or whatev.  (I mean seriously, if you're in the first 10 rows or so, it seems to me you should be focusing on the band!).  I dont remember which song was going on when I finally said something, but I felt like if what they were talking about for the previous 2 songs was that important then maybe they should go to the bar for some privacy. At first they were kinda pissed at me, but then I think we all got on the same page.  I told them I wasn't trying to be a bitch about it but tried to explain that they were being really loud and really off topic.  Funnily, when BH came up quickly to tell me something in my ear they asked whether WE could have our conversation at a later time.  ;D  Ultimately we became freinds and we all rocked out together...not necessarily quietly, but on topic!! WOOOOOOOT! 8-)

[stueym]

Well said.  

You guys go ahead and do what you want, I'm just trying to save yourself from looking like a raging dork with your STFU stickers and STFU whisper mafia campaign.  

[Billo]

Recently during The Librarian in Toronto it was stone silent.  Applause to all.   :)
But at the Berkeley Church concert I really want to throttle the Dondante singer who was over my shoulder.   Face it there is but one Jim.   ;)

[upstatestruggler]

wow. I am so glad to see this post. I posted something similar once and everyone told me I was an asshole. definitely starting to realize that it is me that is unpopular and not my opinions.
WHAT A RELIEF!

[reenie]

The guy next to me was up and down all night.  He kept asking me a variety of questions.  "what did they open with?" "did they sing wordless chorus yet?" The list goes on.
I eventually told him to leave me alone.
When you have 4th row seats you ass should be there enjoying every minute.  I don't get it.

[AMightyCaporal]

The guy next to me was up and down all night.  He kept asking me a variety of questions.  "what did they open with?" "did they sing wordless chorus yet?" The list goes on.
I eventually told him to leave me alone.
When you have 4th row seats you ass should be there enjoying every minute.  I don't get it.

i would have gladly traded him! then you and I could just be dancin! no jibba jabba needed when your watching pure rock n roll!

[EgoTesticle]

... STFUeym    ;D

[Salacious D]

I think it's time to bring this thread back.

Hearing a lot about people yapping during shows again. And while I know most of the people who post here most likely aren't the type to be doing anything but starring intently at the stage, hopefully someone will read this thread and think twice before they start blabbing during another amazing Dondante.

[Sassbox]

Ugh, the yappers are everywhere.  I've been smiling and putting my fingers to my lips, which seems to work.  I also put my hands on someone's shoulder at Red Rocks and and gave him a gentle "shhhh..."  Seems to be working.

Forget the fact that you're infringing on my good time -- YOU ARE BEING DISRESPECTFUL TO THE BAND.  

[DaFunkyPrecedent]

... no one talked at the radiohead show i was at....

[slappymoe]

"I'll tell ya' fuckers something, alright? Now listen. Just fucking listen and shut up. Alright?

Either sit down or stand up or lay down or do something but SHUT UP!  Alright?

This is a fucking rock and roll concert, not a fucking tea party! Alright?"

Pete Townshend, Long Beach Arena, December 10th, 1971.

Alright, Pete!

[idioteque]

im a little torn on this.

like, if i had lawn seats at the local amphitheater - i really can't complain too much.  i just move.  those are the cheap seats for people who want to get fucked up.

when you start moving in closer to the stage, or have seats - yeah, i have to say it's really rude.  but im guilty of it - im guessing we all are at some point if you go to enough shows.

last night the people in front of me were wasting their time taking pictures with flash on, of each other, chatting, constantly leaving to get beers, etc etc.  but im not there to watch other people or really get too into what other people are doing.  they could have had a freakin orgy in front of me  :o

so, i guess what im saying is:  yeah, people talk.  unless you want to be the concert police, there is little you can do.  i would agree with others - and take the presidents advice.  smoke em out.   8-)

[nichless]

The only thing I hate more than talkers at a show are the talkers on tape.  I can tune just about anything out at a show.  The volume of the music, the lights, the energy swirling around the audience and back to the band--all of this keeps my face melting and my attention focused.  However, when I am driving to work in the morning, listening to a little Bermuda Hwy or Sooner, I can not tune out Mandy and her fucking "Oh..Mah..Gad..Did you see blah blah blah blah blah" bullshit.  I think that this is just another reason for the band to oficially embrace taping and have a designated taper's section at the shows so THOSE folks can tell anyone yapping to shut their fucking holes.  (BTW, on the record, I am simply grateful that they allow taping at all.)  

And don't listen to Shockadow claiming he is a yapper.  Yapping is NOT rocking out and exclaiming how fucking awesome the band is...between puffs.  

Front Balcony, Row A, Fox Theatre...smokedowntown!!!

[AMightyCaporal]

man philly had some awful talkers, I was trying so hard to tune them out, I really was trying but they were so obnoxious, i mean they were introducing people to other people, and they were right up front, backs to the stage just carrying on conversations the entire night.  I didn't say anything, I wish I had, i'll try the polite routine next time around.  But honestly, its cool you want to go see a show with your friends, its even cooler that you want to be right up front... it is  NOT cool to talk the entire time you are up there, if you want to talk- make you're way to the back, you can hear each other better and you can still hear the music perfectly, but you aren't ruining the experience for everyone around you. and that gives the people behind you and your huge group of gabbing friends a chance to get a better, quieter view.

Please.

[purvis9876]

Uggghhh. I don't know who else has listened to the Nashville show intently, but there are people constantly talking through IWSYS and Librarian.

Oh, but geez, what always gets me is after Wordless Chorus, a note is struck that signals Highly Suspicious is about to kick off; and, this girl yells(who is obviously feet away from the mic) "fucking highly suspicious, highly su-mother fuckin'-spicious.. Yes, she inserted the mother fuckin' in between supspicious. I laugh ever time, but it's soooo annoying.

Btw, I sincerely apologize if that is a member of this forum who reads this. Sorry.