Audience Concert Chatter?

The.Crimson.King wrote: ^ never noticed that, but I remember the girl yelling, "get out your violin"...I think it's right before Exiles???

Oh yeah, I remember that, except I thought she said "Who made your violin". I'm going to have to listen to it again.

Columbus, OH 4/28/74:

Tough discussion ... really tough, and it is one of the things that you hear a complaint about ... for example, TD's book complaints about a lot of European audiences that sit there dead and quiet until the end, and their concentration on listening often makes an artist uncomfortable.

In America, if you don't have one idiot screaming "rock'n'roll" in the middle of a Return to Forever, or Miles Davis concert, you know right away, that you must have gone to see the wrong band!

I do have an issue with some folks taking this to an extreme, like Keith Jarrett getting upset with people coughing and even leaving the stage for it. But there is a comment there that I think Keith is missing, and more than likely, this is not the audience he wishes he had, or would like to play to ... he does not want to be dictated as to what he plays, and this is a problem with American audiences that are so top ten and format and hit oriented, that they can not listen past a few minutes of a longer, experimental piece, and these days, the number of experimental artists on the concert scenes, is ridiculously low ... and you can't tell me there is no audience for them ... places like this, even, have a tendency to not appreciate many of thosse kinds of work, and spend their time saying things like ... it is wasteful music and filler ... too many times, and not spend more time flying and tripping with the music itself. 

The majority of the chatter in the PF albums I ever heard, started with DSOTM, and not so much in the early days ... and to me, this says that folks were enjoying the trips a lot more than later when the crowds got bigger ... but it was not like PF did not already have sound effects in between their pieces, and this did not seem out of place as it did later.

LZ bootlegs had a lot of audience comments and bits, and mostly they told you that something happened on stage that you can't see, or know about ... but on occasion, you get the Syd Barrett like comment completely out of context ... well, of course, we can't count Roger swearing and getting upset at fans at Anaheim Stadium.