freddie_hg Wrote:....38 years old.....I would have LOVED to hear it by The Hip, and sung by Gordon. I know everyone was excited, but this leads me in to my third point, the fact that any some what popular song was turned in to a giant Kareoke session. The only thing I heard during 38 years was some of the instruments, and thousands of people screaming the lyrics as loud as they could. 12 years since the last time it was played, only to NOT be able to hear it for the crowd. Gordon really appeard to be struggling to be heard over the people who want to be part of the band, and not just watch them. Don't get me wrong, some parts can be sung along with, but not the whole show. My wife commented that she could have got the same effect by listening to me singing in the shower along with The Hip. I didn't think it was that bad, but I was struggling to hear Gordon sing.
.......There was also the standard selection of idiots screaming during the songs. I wish the audio was a bit louder, so it would have drowned them out more. Also, what is the point of chanting "Hip, Hip, Hip" during a song by The Hip? What could be accomplished by this? In case someone forgets where they are, this will remind them?
Well, Steve, I am one who completely sympathizes (I wasn't at Fort York) and empathizes (I've experienced this same abomination at Hip shows before) with you. I feel it's selfish and disrespectful to enfringe on the opportunity on fellow concertgoers to hear THE ARTIST deliver the performance. The only time such behavior is acceptable is when the performer(s) expressly solicit some "help" or "participation" from the audience though a verbal request or by extending the mic out towards the crowd.
To those of you who have berated Steve for expressing his adversion to your rudeness and lack of consideration for others:
check yourself. Not only is his point
completely valid, but have you considered why you feel justified in degrading the experience of your fellow paying patrons with your woefully amateurish contributions? Better yet, have you even asked yourself why you even SING ALONG LOUDLY, and not just quietly to yourself, under your breath??
Yeah, yeah, yeah - you'll insist on some bullshit rationalization that you do it because "it makes you feel good", and that it's "an anticipated part of the concert experience" but I contest that the only satisfaction it brings you is in the form of stroking your own ego, as you proclaim yourself to be a "real" fan by "showing" everybody within earshot that you know the the lyrics and the melody to this song, that song - ALL the songs.
Two words:
Bush-League.
You aren't twleve, and this isn't a Jessica Simpson CD-release at a shopping mall.
So good for you, Sing-along-guy. You're an honest-to-goodness "true fan", and you win the honor of distinguished jackass-who-doesn't-know-how-annoyingly-shitty-he-sounds.
Now shut your pie-hole and leave the singing to the professionals onstage.
:rambo:
