Something that really disappointed me

pushbuttonfour · #1 03-08-2013, 03:44 PM

So there was this original reggae band that was playing at my high school during lunch. It was their first show, and they were really good. However, there was barely anyone in the audience. I told my lunch friends I was gonna go watch, and they insulted me somehow. I asked my friend to watch them, and he said "no way, I don't want to feed the attention whores."

Is this really what high schoolers have come to? Any band that plays is automatically "attention whores?" Sometimes I feel like the only one of my friends with appreciation for actual music.

Salamenster · #2 03-08-2013, 03:49 PM

Here in the Netherlands, there's a lot of appreciation for bands, groups, as well as for electronic (house) music... So I guess it's just your high school... or maybe American high schools... I don't know. I only know that there's a healthy musical culture in Europe,at least in my opinion...

MatticusMania · #3 03-08-2013, 04:12 PM

I loved it when the local bands from my high school would play at lunch. They always had a good crowd show up.
I would have had my band play, but we 1)didnt have a drummer and 2)sucked.

salcott · #4 03-08-2013, 04:23 PM

Two things-one goes to hear, not watch, a band; your friends are idiots and too cool for their own good.

MatticusMania · #5 03-08-2013, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by salcott

Two things-one goes to hear, not watch, a band; your friends are idiots and too cool for their own good.

Well, I have tickets to see Primus in May, I will certainly be watching them at the same time I hear them play.

Hobobob · #6 03-08-2013, 04:25 PM

That sounds to me like what an actual attention-whore would say about someone they thought was stealing their thunder. They're jealous, and probably products of the modern 'look at me!' Constant twitter update mindset.

Hobobob · #7 03-08-2013, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

Well, I have tickets to see Primus in May, I will be watching them at the same time I hear them play.

You will be watching a very good show. Saw them a couple months ago, they're touring with a 3D projector and they give everyone 3D glasses.

MatticusMania · #8 03-08-2013, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hobobob

You will be watching a very good show. Saw them a couple months ago, they're touring with a 3D projector and they give everyone 3D glasses.

So Ive heard! Im stoked!

Technotitclan · #9 03-08-2013, 04:29 PM

You probably are the only one who appreciates music. A lot of high schoolers will down play anything that doesn't involve them. So the truth is those people are the attention whores, they just don't have any creative ways of getting it.

IronLung1986 · #10 03-08-2013, 04:39 PM

sad, but I can remember high school being like that. almost regardless of what was happening you could be sure that the cool thing to do was to make fun of it. in many ways high school was really an awful time, I don't miss it all.

rocksmoot · #11 03-09-2013, 06:18 PM

Boorish behavior in high school!??! I'm utterly shocked! Not. I went to HS in the 70's and it was exactly like that then too. It's hard to do your own thing at that point in your life, but if you don't, you'll miss every cool thing that come along.

Basshappi · #12 03-09-2013, 08:06 PM

Make some new friends, ones with similar interests.

Meddle · #13 03-10-2013, 06:50 AM

Make new friends, especially ones that don't use sexist slurs in their everyday chat.

theretheyare · #14 03-10-2013, 07:15 AM

A young couple, family, 21 or so visiting NY, came to see my wife's show. Jaws dropping to the floor. It appears there's a flocks of kids out there to whom the idea of playing an instrument with your hands and make music on the spot, is completely foreign.

Glad YOU enjoyed the show! That is what matters.

rust_preacher · #15 03-10-2013, 12:30 PM

Maybe your friends and female hygiene products have something in common?

.

.

.

Both are stuck up c***s

the wako kid · #16 03-11-2013, 01:33 PM

I get it all the time. I play my guitars and basses at school,and most people think I just do it because I want attention. I'm 6'5 and I get enough attention as it is. the fact is,people will hate you if your different. the real attention whores are the people who bring guitars and **** but CAN'T ACTUALLY PLAY but bring a guitar simply for the attention it gets them when people walk up and ask the typical moronic questions,like "is that your guitar?" or "you play guitar?" or "why does your guitar have four strings?"

Tat2dHeart · #17 03-11-2013, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

Well, I have tickets to see Primus in May, I will certainly be watching them at the same time I hear them play.

You are going to LOVE that show!!!! I've seen Claypool live four times (although only once with Primus) and he just keeps getting better. Go early. Force your way to the rail. Stay there the whole show. Soak up everything you can. It's been my strategy for all the shows and while I've never gotten any after gig stage swag, he's made eye contact and acknowledged that I was taking pictures. Then again...maybe he was just staring at my cleavage, but I'll take that since I got some really good photos and video as a result.