➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[ShrekDawg]

I love them. I don't go to many now as I simply don't have time, but I went to more than I can even remember before I turned 30 and became officially lame.
Favorites are Radiohead, Arcade Fire, The Cave Singers, and Chris Cornell. So many others that I'm sure I'm not remembering.

you’re not lame at all!!

Those all sound amazing!! I will say I don’t go to very many big ones like that, I mostly go to smaller club level ones or like local or small national touring bands so that’s also why I get more anxious sometimes cause there’s less people so more chance they are watching lol oddly I’m less anxious at bigger shows like that

I wanna start going to more bigger shows haha but they can be expensive but I think it’s worth it. I’ve gone to soooo many smaller ones though. Way more than I can count lol

 

[BantyChooks]

I love them. I don't go to many now as I simply don't have time, but I went to more than I can even remember before I turned 30 and became officially lame.
Favorites are Radiohead, Arcade Fire, The Cave Singers, and Chris Cornell. So many others that I'm sure I'm not remembering.

I have never intentionally been to a concert, and if you ever see me at one, I've been replaced by a robot that didn't read up on me before enacting the replacement.

 

[ShrekDawg]

To a sadist.

I mean, I don’t typically think of myself as a sadist but who knows

 

[ShrekDawg]

I have never intentionally been to a concert, and if you ever see me at one, I've been replaced by a robot that didn't read up on me before enacting the replacement.

I like the music and experience. Idk. Also, at least to me, it often sounds better live than the record which I love. But only if they’re good does it sound better lol but even if not, I love singing along and participating lol don’t really dance or jump much anymore cause I’m old but I always clap or do the hand wavy thing they usually ask lol I’ve only crowdsurfed once but I wish I did it more when I was younger. Too old now. Not fun anymore

 

[BantyChooks]

You would have hated Warped Tour then. Multiple stages, maze of band merch tents/vendors/whatever all over, outside in a parking lot/outdoor venue (though one stage was in the amphitheater ha) in the middle of summer, swarms of people, especially when one band ended and they started heading to the next, sometimes you could barely get through, etc.

But I loved it

Well, not the hordes of people, not cause I was anxious, just cause it was annoying ha, and def not the sweat and sunburn and the fact that it was literally all day but then again it was all part of the experience and I don’t think I’d trade that in

Anyway, I love concerts. Practically addicted.

BUT.

I will say that I do actually get pretty anxious at them lately but I don’t think it’s agoraphobia or because of the crowds or anything like that. That part doesn’t bother me.

My thing is I get really anxious and worried about what people will think and also am too polite to push past people for a certain spot so sometimes will get stuck in the back or stuck in one spot or won’t get my camera out or won’t itch my leg or take my coat off or whatever it is I want to do cause I’m terrified everyone’s watching me or will think I’m weird or whatever. Which is ridiculous but I freeze. But usually I try to get over it and force myself to move ha

But I also get really anxious talking to bands too and for a while I was pretty bad even buying merch cause they’d look busy or were talking to people and I didn’t want to bug them. So I’d sit there on my phone (anxious habit. Tend to pull it out when I’m nervous which probably makes me look more weird or awkward but whoops) and then eventually they’d be packing up and it’d be too late. But thankfully I’ve mostly gotten over that. That one is weird because I didn’t used to be like that. I’ve always been anxious and had troubles going up to them but I eventually would, the thing where I waited so long they were packing up was new ha but mostly over it now but I am definitely more anxious at shows than I used to be but I think that’s only because I’ve just been more anxious in general.

But I also have troubles actually talking to the bands and stuff and do the same phone tactic and waiting thing with them too. And barely say more than a few years and get super nervous and awkward EVEN for ones that I have seen many many times and known for years and am basically friends with now. I am still insanely awkward and anxious. Which is really freaking weird because as you all have seen, I never stop talking online but in person I don’t. I even had one say that once. He’s like “you talk so much online/tweet us so much but in person you barely say anything!” LOL he is the nicest guy in the world so didn’t mean it in a bad way at all, just thought it was odd/interesting me too, dude, me too.

I think it’s the environment. Shows are so dark and loud and everyone’s usually busy that it’s hard to talk. I’m sure if we were at lunch/dinner or hanging out in any other setting I would be better.

Although maybe not because I have troubles with strangers/new friends elsewhere too.

Idk.

Shows are weird too though cause you only really see them once a year or if you’re lucky a few times a year so don’t really know them enough haha

But some of them I’ve known since they were playing tiny little venues and watched them grow so there’s that connection too.

But still barely talk and often don’t say things I want to ha

But I’m also not very outgoing in general. I’ve watched people just run up to people or scream for them or whatever but I could never do that

Ewww. Physical contact with one person is more than enough for a whole week, never mind a whole crowd in one day.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Ewww. Physical contact with one person is more than enough for a whole week, never mind a whole crowd in one day.

You would also likely hate this too then lol but I found it insanely fun

 

[BantyChooks]

You would also likely hate this too then lol but I found it insanely fun

I've had more enjoyable nightmares! Better you than me.

 

[Conan]

you’re not lame at all!!

Those all sound amazing!! I will say I don’t go to very many big ones like that, I mostly go to smaller club level ones or like local or small national touring bands so that’s also why I get more anxious sometimes cause there’s less people so more chance they are watching lol oddly I’m less anxious at bigger shows like that

I wanna start going to more bigger shows haha but they can be expensive but I think it’s worth it. I’ve gone to soooo many smaller ones though. Way more than I can count lol

Oh, shit! Forgot about The Naked and Famous and Eels. Both also really rad at smaller venues. A Perfect Circle, Blink 182 (when I was a kid at the Gorge and first time in a mosh pit), tons of country concerts because they're always a blast, and a bunch of punk shows too. I'll be honest, I don't really remember a lot of them... can't be 100% certain as to why.

 

[Conan]

I have never intentionally been to a concert, and if you ever see me at one, I've been replaced by a robot that didn't read up on me before enacting the replacement.

That's cool. I'll hang out with RobotBanty. I bet she's a hoot.

 

[BantyChooks]

That's cool. I'll hang out with RobotBanty. I bet she's a hoot.

She'd at least be more fun than me, though I can't guarantee her motives are pure.