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Let's not talk about good live acts or bad live acts. Sometimes the same band is great one night and terrible another, or great in one venue and blah in another.
No, let's talk about concert behavior. Boorish fans who insist on shouting "Whoooooooo!" at 10 billion decibels like they at a Bad Company concert, but it's really Nickel Creek on stage. (Yeah, an unfortunate real experience at the Fillmore in Denver.) Or clouds of marijuana smoke. Sorry, folks, but not all of us enjoy getting high, and some of us have responsible jobs that are affected the next morning because of a contact high resulting from your irresponsibility. (Yeah, same Nickel Creek concert.)
Or people who bring their kids to concerts. Or who get drunk and obnoxious at concerts. I could go on, but let's have a column about this. It would be enlightening, and might just wake up some of those concert boors reading this column.
