Simple Torture wrote:Watching some videos from Wrigley last night and here's one I kept hearing: the people who start singing songs before the songs start to prove they know which one is coming. E.g., Stone walks up to his mic and starts strumming a few chords to get in tune, and people start singing the chorus to "Don't Gimme No Lip."
My dad is the king of this, with any song he recognizes. Be it at a stadium, or a bar jukebox, the opening notes start, and his face lights up with joy that he recognizes the song. He starts sings, or mouthing guitar licks. Cringing ensues.
Awe, thats adorable.
I can be one of those douches and it just comes out. usually about which guitar i see them strap on. I can tell what song is next. Ill mutter it under my breath as best I can.
Simple Torture wrote:Watching some videos from Wrigley last night and here's one I kept hearing: the people who start singing songs before the songs start to prove they know which one is coming. E.g., Stone walks up to his mic and starts strumming a few chords to get in tune, and people start singing the chorus to "Don't Gimme No Lip."
My dad is the king of this, with any song he recognizes. Be it at a stadium, or a bar jukebox, the opening notes start, and his face lights up with joy that he recognizes the song. He starts sings, or mouthing guitar licks. Cringing ensues.
I think you may be talking about different things. There's genuine "OMG I know this song" enthusiasm like you describe, and then just showboating to the people around you that you recognize the song from 2 seconds of strummed guitar. One of the times I saw PJ there was an annoying dude right next to me who got a huuuuuge kick out of calling "Betterman" before anybody actually played anything, because of the chord shape Ed was making.
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Simple Torture wrote:Watching some videos from Wrigley last night and here's one I kept hearing: the people who start singing songs before the songs start to prove they know which one is coming. E.g., Stone walks up to his mic and starts strumming a few chords to get in tune, and people start singing the chorus to "Don't Gimme No Lip."
My dad is the king of this, with any song he recognizes. Be it at a stadium, or a bar jukebox, the opening notes start, and his face lights up with joy that he recognizes the song. He starts sings, or mouthing guitar licks. Cringing ensues.
I think you may be talking about different things. There's genuine "OMG I know this song" enthusiasm like you describe, and then just showboating to the people around you that you recognize the song from 2 seconds of strummed guitar. One of the times I saw PJ there was an annoying dude right next to me who got a huuuuuge kick out of calling "Betterman" before anybody actually played anything, because of the chord shape Ed was making.
There used to be people who would call the next song based on the guitar Mike or Stone was using..."six songs in, old brown strat, time for Even Flow!"
Anyone notice the band was wearing the same clothes tonight as sat? Gotta be for film purposes. This show was incredible. Best 1st encore they've ever played, BRY, man it was awesome.
Simple Torture wrote:Watching some videos from Wrigley last night and here's one I kept hearing: the people who start singing songs before the songs start to prove they know which one is coming. E.g., Stone walks up to his mic and starts strumming a few chords to get in tune, and people start singing the chorus to "Don't Gimme No Lip."
My dad is the king of this, with any song he recognizes. Be it at a stadium, or a bar jukebox, the opening notes start, and his face lights up with joy that he recognizes the song. He starts sings, or mouthing guitar licks. Cringing ensues.
I think you may be talking about different things. There's genuine "OMG I know this song" enthusiasm like you describe, and then just showboating to the people around you that you recognize the song from 2 seconds of strummed guitar. One of the times I saw PJ there was an annoying dude right next to me who got a huuuuuge kick out of calling "Betterman" before anybody actually played anything, because of the chord shape Ed was making.
I suppose. But will you concede that my dad is a dork?
Your dad who looks like Julio Iglesias? He is the opposite of a dork.
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
Simple Torture wrote:Watching some videos from Wrigley last night and here's one I kept hearing: the people who start singing songs before the songs start to prove they know which one is coming. E.g., Stone walks up to his mic and starts strumming a few chords to get in tune, and people start singing the chorus to "Don't Gimme No Lip."
My dad is the king of this, with any song he recognizes. Be it at a stadium, or a bar jukebox, the opening notes start, and his face lights up with joy that he recognizes the song. He starts sings, or mouthing guitar licks. Cringing ensues.
I think you may be talking about different things. There's genuine "OMG I know this song" enthusiasm like you describe, and then just showboating to the people around you that you recognize the song from 2 seconds of strummed guitar. One of the times I saw PJ there was an annoying dude right next to me who got a huuuuuge kick out of calling "Betterman" before anybody actually played anything, because of the chord shape Ed was making.
There used to be people who would call the next song based on the guitar Mike or Stone was using..."six songs in, old brown strat, time for Even Flow!"
Sounds like the guys I was unfortunate to be stuck next to last time I saw the band:
Birds in Hell wrote:I haven't even started on the two dudes intently studying the guitar changes and loudly exclaiming what song would be coming up next ("Mike's got the 12 string, it's gonna be Sirens!"), celebrating with each other when they got it right. They would also complain at volume and length whenever the band played the same songs they'd already seen at the previous show. Insufferable.
