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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 20:47:44 GMT -5
Nina Simone would stop her performance and sit there at the piano and glare if anyone so much as coughed during one of her concerts, until she had absolute silence in the room. I think that might be a far more effective technique than pitching an active hissy fit.
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Post by Dub on Jul 24, 2014 21:52:26 GMT -5
Christal did a pretty good job dealing with a table-full of loud talkers when I saw them last weekend. After finishing one of her songs, she started talking to them. I can't remember what she said, it sounded like friendly banter. But I think they got the idea. They talked through the next song or two, but more quietly, and then got up and left. I had a feeling those two knew how to handle such folks. Fiddlerina is pretty good too. She remembers people's names and talks to them if the room is small enough for that. She looks people in the eye and makes it seem personal. I take my glasses off so I usually don't know who's out there even if I could remember names.
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Post by Marshall on Jul 24, 2014 22:08:49 GMT -5
I figure Ray probably learned a lesson. Everybody has a bad day. Not many of us get it broadcast over the world wide web.
Maybe Ray's a prima donna. I don't know. But he works hard at this craft. This will probably cost him something. He'll learn to be better next time.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jul 24, 2014 23:42:51 GMT -5
Guess they'll be choosing a different song for the first dance. I'm thinking they will go with a Santana Song. Mike
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 5:11:07 GMT -5
There's this odd little club in Excelsior called the 318 Cafe that has music about four nights a week, and features good people, some rather large acoustic touring names (Jon Vezner has played there, for instance) and notable locals like Lonnie & Co. There is no real stage and the "audience" is a bunch of tables that seat maybe 60 people in the area adjacent to the performance area. By day, it's coffee and beer and wine and food, fairly high-end as is typical for those upscale Lake Minnetonka communities. So in late afternoon/early evening there are typically lots of people sitting around eating and drinking and yapping. About an hour or so before the music starts, the servers inform the customers of that, and let them know what the cover charge will be once the music starts. In other words, pay the cover or get outta there. What often happens is that a table or two of wine-sucking women (sorry, it almost always is) decide they don't wanna go home yet, so they pay the cover and keep drinking and yapping and laffing and invariably they are close to the "stage." I saw Vezner there one night, and he was appalled at all the loud conversation going on while he performed in this intimate little space. As I recall, he finished one song and just stared at a noisy table for what seemed like forever, daggers coming out of his eyes. They didn't shut up, they just finished up and eventually left. I hate places like that. I hate places like the 318, too. In fact, I hate the 318 in particular because they never, ever returned my emails or calls when I tried to book a gig there. As for talking patrons, I blame the general decline in manners and DVD players. Before the DVD (or VCR, actually) people went to movie theaters and had to be quiet. Now they can have the movie experience at home and yak right through it. So now, when they actually go to a movie theater, they yak through that, too. Same deal with concerts.
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Post by Dub on Jul 25, 2014 8:32:22 GMT -5
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