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So I keep getting stuck next to stupid people at concerts.

The worst was James Taylor. What was supposed to be an intimate setting was apparently a huge party for the girl next to me. During the entire concert she's whistling, yelling, and everything else. I mean just way over the top, and out of a couple thousand people, she's the only one doing this. Halfway through I finally ask her to tone it down and pointed out that nobody else in the entire place is acting like that and I'd like to enjoy the music. Wow that made her mad. It just got twice as bad, had to sit through an hour of verbal assaults and the worst acting you can imagine, as if she's sloppy drunk, but once the concert was over, she just stands up and starts talking just like any other normal person.

ZZ Top was annoying, this redneck behind us was screaming every word to every song at the top of his lungs. We've got front row seats and this guy is louder than the band.

This last one was my favorite. We show up 2 hours early at a Jimmy Buffett concert so our kids can be right on the rails in the lawn section. My boy is 6 so he wouldn't be able to see otherwise unless I held him up. So we place our blanket right up next to the rails and when the concert started we stood up and are standing right behind the rails. Oh but the rails had a 6" concrete base on them, and since we weren't standing on that, this 18-20 year old girl who apparently didn't know any songs and only knew how to sway back and forth shows up at the last minute and tries to get in front of us and stand on this concrete base in front of my kids. While she is doing this she is inviting her friends to do the same. I block her off and just say that I didn't save this spot for her, please don't squeeze in there. That apparently insulted her, she stayed right next to me and talked smack and tried to squeeze in anyway the entire concert. All I did was just stand my ground and this chick was acting horrible, invited her friends over to hold their drinks in the air and sway back and forth very violently as if they were attempting to get in my field of vision or spill drinks on us. Just really immature.

So I guess my question is how are you supposed to handle jack-holes like this? Is this the new norm? Why can't people act respectable? And why can't you punch them in the teeth?

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Two days ago, I was on my way to visit a friend. Just down the street from his house a woman backed out of the driveway and took up both lanes and I had to hit the brakes. She sat there for at least a half minute before taking it out of reverse. When she finally got in her own lane, I floored it past her. She blew the horn and flipped me off. I got in the middle of the street, slammed on the brakes and walked back to her car. I told her that women want equal rights in this country and that with equal rights comes the equal right for me to beat her azz just like I would a man who would do the same thing. I think that got her attention as I fully mean it!

Roger

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Find your local university music department or professional symphony (including wind symphony), and frequent their performances. 

 

Your kids will love the variety, and there won't be the type of behavior that you describe. The sound of acoustic performances will reset their expectations of what good sound is really like...without amplification.  [Plus, you'll be saving your kid's hearing.] That is what I remember the most from my youth.

 

JMTC.

 

Chris

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New Year's Eve 2013 my wife and I were at a Jason Isbell/Dirty Dozen show in Charlottesville, Va. We were sitting in the balcony and it was pretty dark. A guy two rows in front of us kept texting. And kept texting, and kept texting. Glaring bright screen in your peripheral vision, you get the picture. Very distracting and annoying.

 

 I finally had enough and told him how rude that was and to put the damn thing away. I paid good money for VIP tickets and was not in the mood for his lack of consideration. He seemed shocked that I even made such a request, but complied. And this wasn't some young punk (you pretty much expect it out of a certain age group) but he was about my age (an old fart). Why do people pay good money to see live music then either talk or text the entire time?

 

Shakey

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Why do people pay good money to see live music then either talk or text the entire time?

The chick at the Buffett concert took selfies all night. She had more fun looking at herself than Jimmy. I kind of blocked her from seeing Jimmy anyway so I guess she didn't have a choice, she got stuck behind this projector.

 

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Developing/fine tuning my concert outings over the years all over the western states, music venues change, people do not.

After 20+ years of being "Dialed in" (Where to sit, Howmuch it's worth) i have it down pretty good.

 

First i surf, see who is around, tickys are more easily "Pickable" early on.

I call a Scalper in that town, i tell them exactly where i wish to sit within a row or two, and i tell them what it's worth to me.

About half the time they put me dead on in the seats i want for my price, the other half of the time they call back and say we need a little more Scratch to put you there. 

So these days i bumped up my pricing, two tickys $5Bones, dead center 10 rows back.

Yes i know $5Bones sounds like alot, but if you really want to see them, and pretty much know they aint comin around again, it's worth it.

Second cool fixed item is, Security within the first 20 rows front stage is tite, more than most know.

Security guys are watching those rows, intently.

Ozzy/Zombie concert in stockton a few years back, guy and chick in front of us were as normal as rain, till the concert started, within 5min they were wasted, Extasy? or something very effective, six security guys grabbed them and that was the last we saw of them.

Keep in mind this place has everyone smoking weed and having a good time.

 

Sorry MLO i got off on a rant here, i do have one funny concert story, will continue in another post.

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So I keep getting stuck next to stupid people at concerts.

The worst was James Taylor. What was supposed to be an intimate setting was apparently a huge party for the girl next to me. During the entire concert she's whistling, yelling, and everything else. I mean just way over the top, and out of a couple thousand people, she's the only one doing this. Halfway through I finally ask her to tone it down and pointed out that nobody else in the entire place is acting like that and I'd like to enjoy the music. Wow that made her mad. It just got twice as bad, had to sit through an hour of verbal assaults and the worst acting you can imagine, as if she's sloppy drunk, but once the concert was over, she just stands up and starts talking just like any other normal person.

ZZ Top was annoying, this redneck behind us was screaming every word to every song at the top of his lungs. We've got front row seats and this guy is louder than the band.

This last one was my favorite. We show up 2 hours early at a Jimmy Buffett concert so our kids can be right on the rails in the lawn section. My boy is 6 so he wouldn't be able to see otherwise unless I held him up. So we place our blanket right up next to the rails and when the concert started we stood up and are standing right behind the rails. Oh but the rails had a 6" concrete base on them, and since we weren't standing on that, this 18-20 year old girl who apparently didn't know any songs and only knew how to sway back and forth shows up at the last minute and tries to get in front of us and stand on this concrete base in front of my kids. While she is doing this she is inviting her friends to do the same. I block her off and just say that I didn't save this spot for her, please don't squeeze in there. That apparently insulted her, she stayed right next to me and talked smack and tried to squeeze in anyway the entire concert. All I did was just stand my ground and this chick was acting horrible, invited her friends over to hold their drinks in the air and sway back and forth very violently as if they were attempting to get in my field of vision or spill drinks on us. Just really immature.

So I guess my question is how are you supposed to handle jack-holes like this? Is this the new norm? Why can't people act respectable? And why can't you punch them in the teeth?

accidently spilling drinks and coughing like a lunger frees space up.

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reminds me of a dream theater concert in Baltimore. the guy in front of me, and his friends, just couldn't control themselves laughing how I looked like brian Wilson!

 

I casually leaned towards the guy and told him his haircut must be the hit of his trailerpark. while regaining my stance I "accidently" spilled my drink all over his seat, and gave him my best serial killer stare. no more comments, laughs, or problems.

 

kings x and dream theater kicked butt!

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Fox theater a few years back, Yeah,Yeah,Yeah's.

Six Bars in this joint and two in the lobby, the great slection being in the lobby, so i walk out to get the wife and i a Libation, standing behind a full seated bar, i order between people sitting, just like everyone else, no biggie.

I suddenly got polked in my back from behind, hard, turning around i fully expect to see some guy with a beef of some sort?

A 5' BullDyke accusing me of making moves on "Her Girl", excuse me? im ordering a drink like the other 15 guys.

So i turn back to the bar, and the bartender winks at me, "put her in her place pal" he says handing me my drinks, DYKE steps on my foot!, raising my foot kind of threw her(it), back a couple of feet. she(it) pops off with you would not hit a girl would ya?

Oh so now your a Girl?, you see that window cupcake?, your about to go through it.......drinks in the theater from then on.

 

Hey, it's Frisco area, home of the waccos.

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It just happens so often I find myself wondering if these people are rude or am I just getting old and cranky and want to pull a Clint Eastwood "get off my lawn" scene like in Gran Torino.  

I think people in general are just more rude.

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In the early 2000's Digital Underground came to a microbrewery in the town where my wife was going to law school.  The lower level is pretty much standing room only as shown below.  While we were watching, this older guy decides he is going to molest my wife right there in the middle of the mosh pit.  He didn't take shoving as a hint and I had to wedge myself between the two of them and then he took off.  We didn't want that to happen again so we went up to the second level where there's really only one row of people standing against the rail.  While up there a buddy whips out something funny to smoke right before The Humpty Dance came on.  "Humpty" aka. Shock G sees it then comes over at the beginning of that song and starts shaking his nose at us like a big goober.  Guess you had to be there. :)

 

 

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In the early 2000's Digital Underground came to a microbrewery in the town where my wife was going to law school.  The lower level is pretty much standing room only as shown below.  While we were watching, this older guy decides he is going to molest my wife right there in the middle of the mosh pit.  He didn't take shoving as a hint and I had to wedge myself between the two of them and then he took off.  We didn't want that to happen again so we went up to the second level where there's really only one row of people standing against the rail.  While up there a buddy whips out something funny to smoke right before The Humpty Dance came on.  "Humpty" aka. Shock G sees it then comes over at the beginning of that song and starts shaking his nose at us like a big goober.  Guess you had to be there. :)

 

 

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Ha, total forgot/spaced my "Mosh" Pit experience.

Alice cooper Frisco concert...again.

No seating in this venue, standing room only, wife and i kind of worked our way to within 50' of the stage, yep turns out we were in the middle of the pit that formed around us, we had no clue as to what the hell was going on, then realized we could get hurt here., lined the wall for the rest of that concert we did.

 

Got me thinkin, no it was NOT Alice Cooper, The Melvins, yeah, thats the one..........

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Last year my parents went to see Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) at the Ryman in Nashville and ran into a couple of these types of people.  Mom didn't want to be confrontational so she alerted security who then came to check things out and told the people to chill out.  All of a sudden they figure out that it was mom who ratted them out and just went ballistic.  They start to escort these people out of the concert when they took crazy to another level, broke away from the security guard and starts threating to hurt my mom, all while right in front of security, in the middle of the balcony at the Ryman, which used to be a church.  It was enough to get them arrested and hauled out.  They both got their concealed carry licenses shortly after.  

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