This is the worst. And it always makes me feel like Im being an asshole if I dont join in.

I enjoy this sort of thing. Oh, wait, no I don't.

I did when I was 14 and going to arena rock shows. Now it just makes me feel stupid and somehow dirty.

A slight detour...

*paging Dindon, Sly Bug et al.*

Please! talk to me about this - it's my very favourite thing but I'm limited to semi-annual exposures when I visit friends in Paris. The last time I saw him he came on singing the chorus to 'Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll..' while the audience clapped along like dead-eyed automatons.

Crap.

Even more crap because nearly everytime the audience drops the beat and gets off time with the band. Then it's just a matter of who holds out longer. Those who try to keep it going just get further and further off beat. I would imagine that would make it more difficult for the musicians to stay on tempo as well.

My brother asked me to go and see Metallica with him in Sheffield in about 93. During the 'die! die!' bit, Cowboy Bearshooter was encouraging the crowd to hold their arms up in a cross enthusiastically. We were fucking miles away from the stage, we could have been watching it on tv (which we were anyway). My brother was clapping his hands over his head, so i encouraged him to go further by letting him see me make the die die cross. Then i peaceably watched my brother turn stageward and make this physical gesture with his whole heart and wave it at metallica, who did not care about the fact in any way. i watched this til it stopped then made sure to be looking at him with an 'oh my god' face when he turned around.

I also saw Peter Gabriel in Sheffield and he got the crowd to clap and then tried to get them to make the sound of one hand clapping by miming it in the air.

Listen to the sound of one hand crapping.

cjh wrote:A slight detour...

*paging Dindon, Sly Bug et al.*

Please! talk to me about this -

Le Big Dil?


the Big Dil?


Big Dildo?


Dildo Baggins?


Eat a bag of Dicks?



wetf.

The only time it is not crap is when the audience initiates it.

If spontaneous rhythmic clapping occurs, and no one in the band is egging it on, then I'm totally fine with it.

I think this is most annoying when at the start of a TV show, the theme starts playing and the "LIVE" studio audience clap along,

I HATE THAT SOUND.

Clapping on the "one" like a buncha whiteys clapping to cracker music.
Crap

Clapping on the "two" in a gospel frenzy while some Mahalia Jackson looking woman belts out some jesusy gospely stuff.
Not at all Crap.

-A