so true. i never EVER wear heels to a concert-i know my feet will hurt. y back usually aches already after a concert (i can't stand up for too long for some weird reason) so heels would definitely kill me.

Do you just talk about yourself without saying much about anything? You seem to give an account of your own life, which is fine, but you never say much about a myriad subjects. Just asking.

that's just because most people i know are so slf-absorbed they never ever listen to what i say. they expect me to help them through all of their problems but never ask about me.

that wasn't entirely serious but i get what you mean.. it's something i try to avoid, but it's not easy, and combined with the fact that i'm not good at formulating my opinions, definitely not in another language.. i'll try to pay attention. sorry if i bug you.

Don't be sorry, porky is just a grumpy old spinster :)

it has happened to me. TALL PEOPLE TO THE FRONT!!!!!!!!!!

and hell FUCK yeah wear a band's shirt to their show. hell FUCK YEAH. How else you gonna get them to sign the shirt? why would I want sonic youth to sign a mudhoney shirt? have you ever been to a ramones show? the entire crowd is decked like a ramone army and it was fucking amazing. WEAR YOUR BAND'S SHIRTS DAMNIT!

steve shelley signed this one for me at their show. FUCK!! SONIC YOUTH RULE ALL!

I guess that just depends on the value you put on some guy writing his name...

Air guitar is never acceptable.

Ever.

i airguitar :/

I place GREAT value in having a memento of my rock n roll idols. sonic youth are my beatles, they are my stones, they are my elvis, they are my nirvana.
steve shelley signed my shirt
"Sonic Life! -Steve Shelley"

hell fuck yeah.

I have never worn the shirt again

In the privacy of your own abode is one thing, and even then, I hope it's followed by even a minute twinge of sheepishness.

I know someone who goes to A LOT of shows around here and does a sort of air guitar thing to pretty much everything. But it's less an actual air guitar thing than one of his myriad unique gesticulations so that's allowed I think.

air guitar is fine. do whatever you want. pogo, dance, whatever. there are no RULES except be considerate of your neighbor.

it is better though if you ahve the solos memorized before you air guitar

at the slayer show i went to in february, this
dude next to me was not only doing air guitar,
he was perfectly airing the CHORDS.

I repeat: Air guitar is never acceptable. In fact, no mimicry of the playing of any musical instrument is acceptable, exceptions being only when in an educational setting.

Anyone disobeying this rule is categorically a twat.

oh ha ha ha hahahahaaaa

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9r10UbGC6RI

painful to watch but the laughs win in the end

goodbye, my cherished invisible drum set. :(

Honestly, I expected better of you.

???

I went to see metal overlords Celtic Frost recently, and I saw this guy doing "the claw" constantly i.e. holding his hands out to the band in a claw-like grip. I really didn't get that at all. Well, I laughed a lot, but couldn't see the point of it. Is this something the young people do these days?

Of all the songs....why THAT one?

Mementos from concerts are really cool. Especially if the band breaks up.

Like what happened when I saw Controller.Controller at Bluesfest last summer. I managed to get every member of the band to sign it. six months afterward they broke up (as far as I know). It was the only time I got to see them live. :(

I don't actually USE it at shows (come on!), but it tends to follow me everywhere I go (typically it's disguised as my steering wheel).

after reading your rule, I was forced to smash it to bits Keith Moon style.

PS: your shame burns. :(

that's really great :D

Hee! :p

I made sure, at ATP, that I got there early for 16BPU. Right at the front, dead centre. I didn't cover or plug my ears once. It was rad. For some reason they don't make me want to. :)

Unlike My Cat Is An Alien . I admit I had to leave the building during MCIAA's set. Something about the pitch of that siren-like wailing sound they had going made my ears want to fold in on themselves. I couldn't take that one, not even from near the back.


Um, rules? Don't grope girls/women in the crowd no matter how squished it gets. And if you're going to do nothing but purposely push backwards then heavily fall into people (presumably in the hope of causing a domino-like fatal trampling fiasco?) expect to be elbowed fiercely in the face/neck/testicles and kicked HARD in the shins.

i involuntary air guitar whenever i hear music, i sometimes do air feedback when listening to drone shit...i know, i'm switching medications soon.

that's why i said it's not particularly something you would want to do, but if you most, just don't get in other people's faces.

Don't forget to take a leak before the show starts.
Don't wear sunglasses indoors. You won't see a thing, and you'll look like a zob.

ok, the REAL rules now, no jokes:

1) have fun! this might be your only or last chance to see the band. if you worry about how you look and don't enjoy yourself and you're trying so hard to fit in you're a stupid fuck. thousands of people there, not everyone is going to like you no matter what you do so don't be such an approval whore and just have some fun for fucks sakes. nobody gives a shit about you, really, they are there to see the band. live a little.

2) let other people enjoy themselves or be destroyed. if you think you're better than anybody else, you're not. if you think you're cooler than anybody else, you're not. if you want to act like a bully prepare to get your ass kicked. life is cool because people are so different from one another. let them be & don't act like a complete cunt.

Couldn't have said it better.

that's because you are hot and, in the food chain of concerts, hot girls are at the top, near the headlining band.

you are always on the list whenever i play, k. whenever you can make it to the show, you are welcomed anytime.

ah! spankings are in order! where is my paddle??

hey, who said this was supposed to be a reward?? :p :D

(Dont) tak advantage and feel up girls.

BTW, I'm back from Mr. Dylan, it was mighty fine !