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valis2I just returned from a Muse concert. IT WAS WONDERFUL!!!
I have grown quite obsessed with their awesome Radiohead/Coheed & Cambria hybrid music. They are amazing. I have four of their albums. I love them.
THE CONCERT WAS GREAT!!
One odd thing...the average age of the crowd was about 19, which stunned me. The music is odd and introspective. The lead singer/guitarist/pianist is very technically gifted and is a wonderfully angsty sufferin' man. They are English.
I never would have guessed that the entire club would be stuffed with teens. Who sang along to all of the songs, even one song that's only available as an import.
I was proud that I knew every song...they mostly played songs from their latest (and my favorite) album, though.
People were moshing a little, and crowdsurfing, and I was glad that I took a spot on the balcony.
There were three security guys at the front; two young, one middle-aged. All three were large guys. People would crowdsurf, and then the middle-aged guy would stand on some sort of step and grab the surfer and pick him up and then set him down in on his feet. Made me think of writing a weird little story about a younger security guard who worries about the middle-aged guy who works with him, who has a bad back, and now because of the proliferation of crowdsurfing should not work security any longer, but loves it and doesn't want to quit.
I am tired, I smell like smoke (ugh), and yet I am joyous inside.
What an experience.
I have grown quite obsessed with their awesome Radiohead/Coheed & Cambria hybrid music. They are amazing. I have four of their albums. I love them.
THE CONCERT WAS GREAT!!
One odd thing...the average age of the crowd was about 19, which stunned me. The music is odd and introspective. The lead singer/guitarist/pianist is very technically gifted and is a wonderfully angsty sufferin' man. They are English.
I never would have guessed that the entire club would be stuffed with teens. Who sang along to all of the songs, even one song that's only available as an import.
I was proud that I knew every song...they mostly played songs from their latest (and my favorite) album, though.
People were moshing a little, and crowdsurfing, and I was glad that I took a spot on the balcony.
There were three security guys at the front; two young, one middle-aged. All three were large guys. People would crowdsurf, and then the middle-aged guy would stand on some sort of step and grab the surfer and pick him up and then set him down in on his feet. Made me think of writing a weird little story about a younger security guard who worries about the middle-aged guy who works with him, who has a bad back, and now because of the proliferation of crowdsurfing should not work security any longer, but loves it and doesn't want to quit.
I am tired, I smell like smoke (ugh), and yet I am joyous inside.
What an experience.
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Date: 2004-11-13 04:28 am (UTC)Ahh, that takes me back... If it wasn't for the security guards catching crowdsurfers when they get to the front, I probably wouldn't be posting this today. Once I crowdsurfed and there was no one there to catch me. By some miracle, I managed to land on my feet. Still, it freaked me out quite a bit.
I stopped crowdsurfing after spending six hours at the front of a moshpit to see Nine Inch Nails (the things you do whan you're a 17-year-old fangirl...) You have no idea how painful it is to have a crowdsurfer wearing great big goth boots dragged out over your head... I ask you, what kind of an idiot wears gigantic goth boots in the middle of an Australian summer? Anyway, even the ones wearing ordinary sneakers were painful. Crowdsurfing is fun, but not when you know just how much it hurts the people you're surfing on...
One odd thing...the average age of the crowd was about 19, which stunned me. The music is odd and introspective. The lead singer/guitarist/pianist is very technically gifted and is a wonderfully angsty sufferin' man. They are English.
Never underestimate the potential for teenagers to fall in love with odd, introspective, angsty music. We're not ALL into Britney, you know. :-)
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Date: 2004-11-13 05:52 pm (UTC)What really shocked me about the age thing was that there were only seven people older than 22 in the place that weren't working there...myself, my friend, a couple who, strangely enough, were standing next to us, and a group of three men in their forties. That really blew my mind, because I would have expected at least half of the crowd to be above thirty, considering how eclectic and unusual their sound is. I did not expect people to be bouncing in time to "Time is Running Out" with their fists in the air.
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Date: 2004-11-14 02:09 am (UTC)The funny thing about age at concerts - well, I can't comment on Muse, because I don't really know them - but sometimes younger generations pick up older bands, while the old fans leave them behind. The very first concert I went to was The Offspring. I was 14, and probably the youngest kid there. Everyone else was in their twenties, at least. This was after "Ixnay on the Hombre" was released - before they really hit the bigtime.
Anyway, the next time I saw them was after they'd become really popular, with "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" and everything that followed. And the crowd was full of 14-year-olds. I was 18 by then, and I felt old. I think now there's a whole new generation of kids listening to the Offspring. Those of us who knew them before "Pretty Fly" just listen to the old albums and reminisce about "the good old days". And most of us listen to other bands now.