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Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.
I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
Somewhere along the line, a concert became a variety show. It was no longer enough for four dudes to play together in front of some guitar amps. Costume changes, an army of dancers, and Broadway theatrics suddenly became standard for a 'concert.'
When you go to a great concert something that happens is there is a deep sense of communality and connectedness one to another - as though we are all looking to eachother and saying yeah, we get it, we're all on one page.
Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.
Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.
I'd rather make music than tour.
Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.
Getting to communicate with many people through our shows was just great in itself and I felt a lot of energy. I think I learned what love is through our concert.
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I've been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles.
We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.
People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.
Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales.
Now we make records to promote tour dates.
I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
A performer needs and craves a live audience.
As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.
Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.
In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show
I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.
A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.
TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.
Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that - but I don't like to do that. People take their very precious time to come to my concert, and they give me the opportunity to share two hours of their lives. I want to do the best I can, for visuals, sound and everything!
I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
I'm a live performer and I love playing live.
I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.
I'm experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don't look at these concerts as a platform for people to watch me, look at me. No, a tour is about an interaction. A thing, myself, a band, and the people who support what I do and enjoy what I do.
I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.
The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.
The best gig in the world is a packed bar on a Friday night. Reason: Everybody gets paid and everybody wants to get laid. Any band that can't go over on a Friday night should be shot.
Buildings are forms of performances.
We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.
When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.
There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.
I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
exhibition. Lake Eden.
Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
I like the energy of live performance.
I've always had live audiences.
So much energy comes out of concerts sometimes, especially good ones that are really moving. And that energy, no matter how great the show is, it dissipates within two weeks or a month.
Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.
Shit, you name it, they're performing. The D-Bags, Bending Cupid, the Mighty Storm, Black Falcon, and my fav band
What you're hoping for about the concert is an overall collective experience that everyone has and that you share with them and when you hit the stage you have a "common" feeling. Even though you're the performer and they're the audience there's something uniting everybody in the room.
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
I was touring a lot ... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.
I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!
There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a certain love that you don't feel anywhere else; it's like home base.
Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.
Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.
I don't go to a lot of shows. If you go to too many shows, then it doesn't become a special thing. Whenever I've been to a concert, it has been such a cool experience.
You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.
I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.
I love going on tour and playing music for people.
There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People you have never met, singing along, and making that connection with somebody is so awesome.
There's this great TV show we have called 'Later ... with Jools Holland', a live-music show on Friday nights. Anyone and everyone's been on it.
I'm in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I'm on that night, whether it's the Paisley tour, the CMT tour, or a bar with 10 people in it, it is the most important show I've ever played in my life. I go to the ends of my imagination to do something that's unforgettable every night.
We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.
But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.
But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.
I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.
I used to produce this band, Dragons of Zynth. There's something about their live shows, which, to me, is ultimate. I mean, you feel like somebody could get hurt when you go see them live.
A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.
The most important part about playing shows and touring, is connecting with fans. At the end of the day it's not really a band and fans, we're all just human beings.
In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.
The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.
I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.
I've only been to one concert in my life.
Live music is healthy.
I really love live performing!
Musicians were always coming and going in our house. My parents didn't play much, but they were forever arranging these parties for artists. As a result, they didn't have to play that many records.
I love to play gigs.
We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.
I love touring, I really do.
The Majestic Theater in 1990. That was one of my first real shows where I had 300 to 400 people there.
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
Backstage passes at a middle school choir concert. I hang with a crew who knows how to live.
I want people who are going to rock out for the duration.
I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.
Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.
I like to go to concerts because I love to see my favorite band through the phone of the asshole who's standing in front of me.
I don't want the concert to ever end.
In a song you can shine a light on a topic and with your voice at a concert you can shine a light on an actual issue or a person, you can acknowledge whatever you like with music and people will listen.
I never really went to any concerts that I wasn't in.
The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.
You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.
We also tour nationally and internationally.