OpenFireGlass - thanks for responding. Have loved your stuff here on JWD, and I admire you immeasurabley. But, we diverge a bit here.
I could see McMurtry backstage all I wanted. What I really wanted was to SEE him perform. I disagree that it's a bonus to actually get to "see" the person you bought tickets to watch in concert - that should be a given. For someone to feel that they have the right to destroy your experience of a concert for their "right" to block your view, well, I'll never agree that that is acceptable. That's just being an asshole.
If you, as another ticket buyer, want to get up and dance - all the more power to you - just get the fuck out of everyone else's way. I didn't pay $100 to watch you shake your ass, I paid to see the entertainer, not you. If I want to see someone dance to McMurty's music, I can dance in front of a mirror myself. I dance better than 90% of the folks blocking my view. Don't have your "experience" of the concert at my expense. Sure, you're some great "free soul" who needs to express their individuality in front of us all - at the same time blocking our view of what we paid our hard earned cash to see. Get the hell out of our way. We're not less important than you, and it's fucking arrogant of you to feel that you are.
Get over yourself and get the hell out of the way. You're not that great a dancer. At that point you're just another fat ass in the way, even if you don't have a fat ass.
Go dance off to the side - you're not such a great a dancer that I need to see you instead of the musician I really came here to SEE and HEAR! If you were such a great talent I'd have bought the ticket to watch you. But that's not the case, so bugger off. When you're that good, I'll buy tickets to your show. Until then - move to the side...
That having been said, I would love to invite you over for a brew or two after the concert, sitting on my deck and looking out on the starry sky (not too visible that night, I might add!!), and talking for hours. We'd have a hell of a good time. You can even dance for me. Hours on end if you want. I'll love it, and even dance with you. If you ever come to my part of the globe, consider yourself a guest at my home. I mean no disrespect to you in this post. But just don't think that your experience of some musician is so much more important than mine that you have the right to destroy my enjoyment of the concert.
I may be sitting in my chair a few rows back, quietly digging that music - and appreciating it a hundred times more than the stoner up there shaking his ass, swinging his jacket in the air, and blocking all our views, spilling his beer over everyone around him.
Just asking that all of us be respected. Wars, including ones going on right now, have been started for less!!
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