Concert Fans

Recently (last night), I went to the Alexi Murdoch (http://www.myspace.com/aleximurdoch) concert at Headliner's Music Hall with Sarah and Aaron. Not many people know about Alexi since he is from Ireland, but WFPK has made Louisville one of his largest markets by pushing his stuff heavily (which in turn made Sarah push his stuff onto me......although she was supposed to burn me the cd 3 months ago). The show was good except for this one fan up front who thought he was at a football game, and wanted to let Alexi know that Alexi was #1 the entire concert. He wasn't giving him the finger, but actually raising that index finger proudly for everyone (he was in the front row, so everyone was watching him) to see. Then sometimes, he would pretend he was a composer and face the croud to direct us through our enjoyment of the show.

Who are these people? I consider myself of superfan of music. In fact, the greatest tragedy of my life is that I am unable to sing or play a lick on the guitar (which means I instead have to pursue graduate degrees to make myself useful to society and also implies that I haven't had much tragedy in my life). I seen almost 100 bands live over the past 2 years, and fail to understand why people react the way they do at concerts. Do you think Jim James cares that you wish his new puppy well by yelling it from the crowd between songs? No, he probably wonders how you knew he had a new puppy, how you knew it was sick, and why you are so creepy. Another example is the Ray Lamontagne show at the Brown in November. It is a commonly known fact among Ray's fans that he has bad stagefrieght and doesn't particularily enjoy performing live. Do you think he feels any more comfortable when you catcall during the show about wanting him to talk more between songs? No, it probably makes him want to get off that stage faster. Does it really matter if he tell you how much he enjoys Louisville between songs? You are there for the music anyway.

Enough ranting. Time to enjoy the birthday weekend.

Song Recommendation - Wish You Well by Bernard Fanning