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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #15 on Jun 3, 2011, 9:34am »

More people should clap after college lectures.

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #16 on Jun 3, 2011, 12:13pm »

I just hate excessively negative people (ironic I know). The people who sit right behind you and just shit all over everything suck. We used to go down with a girlfriend of a friend who would sit on the hill with her hands over her ears and pout. What the hell? There's so much better stuff you could be doing than just complaining about what you're currently being forced to watch. There's two other stages for fuck's sakes!

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #17 on Jun 3, 2011, 12:32pm »

Jun 2, 2011, 11:59pm, interstateeight wrote:

I know that I'm usually a proponent of NOT making too many threads, but fuck it, this needs to be said and I didn't know where else to put it.*

Look everyone, I get that you're pumped to be at a music festival. And I get that you do things you normally wouldn't do (I rarely walk around at a concert in a wife beater and sunscreen, high-fiving people who are also singing the same sweet song I am). And I get that clapping any time you can discern the beat, or any time the song gets even kinda quieter, has long seemed part of the festival experience.

But it's gotta stop. It's getting out of hand.

It was getting out of hand when people were clapping semi-rhythmically during Explosions in the Sky. And it reached a peak this year when the kid I was standing near during Iron & Wine (who was there because he was seeing Bright Eyes for the first time ever and he was totally pumped for it) kept trying to get the crowd involved. Sometimes he'd add a flourish and drop some rapid eighth-note claps to spice up the otherwise obviously simple 4/4 beat.

Fortunately, it didn't catch on most of the time because just stop fucking clapping. So here's a public announcement, which I will likely make a sticky next year: MINIMIZE THE CLAPPING. There should be, at most, ONE INSTANCE PER SET of the audience clapping along in unison. Exceeding that, on an individual or collective level, is just annoying. It's like doing the wave at a baseball game when your team is behind -- it shows you don't give a shit about the entertainment, and you're just there to be seen or hang out with your friends at an acceptably cool place.

*Would anyone want a "Festival Pet Peeves" thread? Or would it just be me posting shit that pisses me off for no one's entertainment?

At first I thought you were being facetious, but that's a lot of writing for a joke. Seems like a silly thing to complain about. People are having fun and getting into the music. How can that possibly ruin your experience? Jeebus.

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #18 on Jun 4, 2011, 10:14am »

Jun 3, 2011, 12:13pm, weenie wrote:

First time post but I have to totally agree with this... During Iron & Wine some girl next to my gf and me was complaining how much they sucked and how pissed she was that they wouldn't sell beer to her. Just before that she was talking about how excited she was to be a senior next year... Definitely brought down my experience for hearing one of my favorite bands for the first time live. Throw in she just wouldn't shut up at all and I got pretty angry all together myself. Thankfully she left before Bright Eyes.

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #19 on Jun 4, 2011, 11:48am »

Choke slam woulda solved that problem.

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
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Jun 3, 2011, 12:32pm, lostatlimbo wrote:

Already commented on the ridiculous length. What can I say, it had been rolling around my head for a few days.

And I'm not saying that it ruined my experience -- if it could have, I wouldn't have come back for the fifth time. It's just one of those really annoying things. There are basically two kinds of annoying festival behavior -- shit that is annoying, but that you can chune out, and shit that is annoying that directly interferes with what you're trying to do. In the belt sander category falls shit like the dude standing next to you shouting the same song request throughout the entire set. In the former category falls shit like the girl behind you who won't put her fucking camera phone down, because hey, move your head and you no longer have that annoying shit sticking in your peripheral vision.

Clapping falls in the belt sander category, because it's annoying as fuck and it makes enough noise that you can't chune it out. Shut up guys I want to hear this song.

Jun 3, 2011, 12:03am, Cbats wrote:

still, clapping at concerts annoys me way less than clapping at the end of a movie does

I thought this was hilarious.

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #21 on Jun 4, 2011, 11:42pm »

Also everyone, don't clap between movements in symphonies. Bad etiquette.

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #22 on Jun 5, 2011, 12:31am »

Jun 4, 2011, 1:28pm, interstateeight wrote:

Jun 3, 2011, 12:03am, Cbats wrote:

still, clapping at concerts annoys me way less than clapping at the end of a movie does

It kind of annoys me when people clap at the end of a flight.

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #23 on Jun 5, 2011, 10:05pm »

I think "Festival Pet Peeves" would make an awesome thread. I definitely have a few.

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #24 on Jun 6, 2011, 10:22pm »

clapping when an artist tells me to makes me feel awkward.

I'm usually that person with their arms folded while everyone claps out of sync to an unjustifiable instrumental break.

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #25 on Jun 7, 2011, 1:36am »

I'm extremely surprized the Citizen Kane .gif hasn't been posted yet. Perhaps it's simply too obvious.

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Re: STOP CLAPPING
« Reply #26 on Jun 7, 2011, 11:25am »

Jun 4, 2011, 11:42pm, LumpSquatch wrote:

Also everyone, don't clap between movements in symphonies. Bad etiquette.

Yeah, of course. You're just exposing yourself as someone who doesn't know music.

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« Reply #27 on Jun 7, 2011, 11:35am »

I've noticed this at shows in the past year or so too. I never remember clap-alongs happening much before that. Maybe 1 per set, and only if there were actually hand-claps in the album version of the song or if there is an extended instrumental break.

It seems that everybody wants to be the one to start the clap-along, or the first to clap when the song ends, or whatever. Just enjoy the fucking music and let the artist decide what comes next.

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« Reply #28 on Jun 7, 2011, 11:50am via the ProBoards Mobile App »

I was at one show where the frontman got mad at everyone for clapping. It was kind of awesome. He was in the middle of an unplugged acoustic song and people started clapping and he stopped and told them not to. I've seen the band since then, and before that song he says 'if you know the words, sing along, if you feel like clapping, sing along.'

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