Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!fortune!strock From: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Grateful Dead Concert complaint Message-ID: <4823@fortune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 11:19:42 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.4823 Posted: Fri Dec 21 11:19:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 02:49:08 EST References: <561@aluxe.UUCP> <1309@hao.UUCP> Reply-To: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 21 Summary: >> Well, this time, 10 years later, it was a whole different story. The >> crowd insisted on standing for 90% of the concert. The people in the >> aisles stood and blocked the view of people who were sitting >> in the seats that they had paid for. If I wanted to see >> the group I had to stand which wasn't nearly as comfortable. > > I have been going to Dead concerts for 7 years, and have never sat down >except when my legs were tired. Where have *you* been? Why would *anyone* >want to sit down at a Dead concert, unless they didn't belong there in the >first place? I don't think that people standing the whole time is at all >typical of rock concerts. That's one reason why I like to go to Dead concerts >so much. The crowd is really *into* it. What bands have you been seeing? I'd >like to go to some of their shows too, they must be hot. If you want to sit >down, stay home. I like to dance. Standing or sitting at concerts. It always seemed silly to me to go to a concert where you where required to sit while foot-tapping, body-moving music was being played. Its worse when you actually have an assigned seat number.