Red Mosquito

Biff Pocoroba wrote:I'm going to see Elton John play tonight and I'm especially looking forward to his 70s piano ballads. I would not have admitted that twenty years ago.

bodysnatcher wrote:

Yeddie Yedder wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Has anyone been asked to sit down at a concert before? Especially by someone younger than you? This happened to us last night. Still can't wrap my head around it.

Unless you are seeing James Taylor or John Mayer....unacceptable.

Seattle's fuckin' dead. The tech crowd has killed it.

Went to a Modest Mouse show last night. Had front row seats in the balcony. The entire fucking balcony stayed seated. Couldn't believe it. It's not like this was a Sigur Ros show. We wanted to get up, but figured we'd be the only people who did, so decided to be polite to the people behind us. At one point, we tried to go down to the general admission floor and lose our view just so we could stand and dance, but they wouldn't let us in. Go back to our seats, the encore hits and we decide to stand when the band comes back on stage. The row behind us was seated, then a group behind them were standing too. Little pockets of people were standing around the balcony. About halfway through the first song of the encore, I hear the guy behind us go, "Hey down front sit down!" Ignored it, then he and his girlfriend come around to the walkway in front of us... He's wearing an Amazon shirt, both are about in their upper 20s / young 30s, completely capable of standing (which is why i say "tech crowd'), and ask us to sit bc they couldn't see. I said, "Well, stand up". He throws his arms up in despair, and they walk off. They come back with an usher... the 30 year old POS went and tattled on us about standing. Usher asks us to sit, and we and the standing group two rows back start giving him shit. Usher and the two bozos walk off.

The show ended about 30 seconds after all of this ended, so it was a moot point by then, but as my wife put it, "RIP Seattle" (she doesn't even read strat's posts, which made me laugh)

Just the entitlement that's run rampant through people these days. The guy honestly thought that because HE was inconvenienced and – god forbid – would have to stand, thought he should get his way and have us sit down. We sat down the ENTIRE set purposely to be nice to these people behind us, but this completely unaware realization once we stood for two songs at the very end went way over their heads. Wtf is wrong with people. This is an attitude that has permeated through Seattle the past 5 years with its tech boom, and it's annoying as shit.

BurtReynolds wrote:oh shit. So we were. Was he the drunken Jesus guy who kept hanging on everyone around him?

Birds in Hell wrote:Festival line ups frequently make me feel about 200 years old.

zeb wrote:

Should I go to this? My interest in bands like Battles, Beach House and Chvrches is somewhat lukewarm.