Tell me about your craziest crowd (post vid or pic)

Bayou_Brawler · #1 07-26-2007, 12:04 PM

Last weekend we got to play for the best crowd EVER. It was at a traditional music festival (6,000 in attendance or so) but my band was booked on the side stage late at night.

We played it the year earlier and made a splash so there was definatly a buzz about us.

We had at least 400+ people moving booty from the 1st second to the last...that's 2.5 hours total. even crowd surfing and just going nuts. my ears litteraly hurt onstage from the crowd noise.

it was probably my best moment as a musician. we're pretty popular for a local band but we don't get crowds like this every night or anything like that. i've played in front of bigger crowds but not this intense. it's shows like this i live for.

here is a quick 30 second vid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r10OEjT-hwM

what was your best crowd? pics vids?

Cactusgrant · #2 07-30-2007, 02:10 PM

Holey Moley! Looks amazing, bet that felt pretty good huh?

MoD_Scotty · #3 07-30-2007, 06:09 PM

That reminds me of when my old band opened for Crossfade. The >600 person crowd was goin nutz the whole time we played. Too bad Crossfade was completely lame.

BassIsBoss · #4 08-02-2007, 02:47 PM

Quite a few over the years, but one of the craziest would have to be the Dream Palace, Mardi Gras Day, New Orleans (first of three gigs for us that day). Started off at 8a.m. with the usual assorted beverages and a head full of various substances that needed to be abused...then three hours of the French Quarters crawl with their Krewe of Kosmic Debris Marching Club with a general increase in imbibing modalities...back to the club for a quick two hour set and the beginnings of a day long descent into an inferno of licentious behavior (naked patrons involved in various acts of endorsed deviant practices...think devices and a large vat of oil). All in all, a good time was had by all and except for the Dream Palace drip, nobody lost an eye. I heard there were photos, but those involved (think bank president, public officials) were forthcoming in having the negatives destroyed. At least the band was tipped well.

Bayou_Brawler · #5 08-02-2007, 02:50 PM

MakiSupaStar · #6 08-03-2007, 01:47 AM

Sweet. Bayou. You guys play similar music as my jamband. Replace your fiddle player with a banjo or a resonator and you've got my band. It was funny to see your groove on the first link and then I watched your other stuff. Sweet Rocky Racoon cover man. Great vocal play in the middle too. Liked it. Funny to see the crowd difference. Ain't that the craps? Ah well. Cool post dude. Like your stuff.

rappa29 · #7 08-03-2007, 07:17 AM

We're just a local, dive bar, rock and roll cover band, so we're not playing to more than 100 (on a good night) people on any given gig. But the people that show up sure know how to have a good time!

I can't post pics b\c they're not suitable plus I don't want to exploit our partying patrons.

I'll just say that at the last 2 gigs, our drummer has had to play an entire song with a woman sitting on his lap giving him a lap dance. He did not miss a beat!

Also, some people just shouldn't take their clothes off in public. I don't really need to see the "Eat Me" tattoo you have below your belly button especially if you have to move your stomach to show it!

<insert your higher power of choice> bless Rock and Roll!

jomahu · #8 08-03-2007, 09:12 AM

see, i like rowdy crowds, but i hate it when people....ok, MEN, feel like they have total right to do whatever they want just cause we're all female.
like, people gettin up on stage in the middle of our set because they want their buddy to take a picture of him. one dude actually rushed the stage 'cause he wanted to kiss the singer.

and that's all part of the deal, i guess. it's just a very big difference when men do it to a female band.

rappa29 · #9 08-03-2007, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by jomahu

see, i like rowdy crowds, but i hate it when people....ok, MEN, feel like they have total right to do whatever they want just cause we're all female.
like, people gettin up on stage in the middle of our set because they want their buddy to take a picture of him. one dude actually rushed the stage 'cause he wanted to kiss the singer.

and that's all part of the deal, i guess. it's just a very big difference when men do it to a female band.

I feel ya.

Really, I can only tolerate an uninvited stage rush (male or female) about twice during a 3 set night and we generally try to keep it that way.

The only male stage rush we've had involved some singer from another local band decided to play shaker (off time I might add) and sing backups on all the songs he knew from our set (about 5) during the whole night. That was pretty F'n annoying especially for myself and the drummer! Our singer finally had to tell him out loud to get the F off stage!

I've played in bands with women (singer) and have witnessed firsthand how annoying it is when some drunk dude is trying to get up on them.

BassIsBoss · #10 08-03-2007, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by jomahu

see, i like rowdy crowds, but i hate it when people....ok, MEN, feel like they have total right to do whatever they want just cause we're all female.
like, people gettin up on stage in the middle of our set because they want their buddy to take a picture of him. one dude actually rushed the stage 'cause he wanted to kiss the singer.

and that's all part of the deal, i guess. it's just a very big difference when men do it to a female band.

That's why the Precision was invented...so you can take someone out with the butt end and it'll still be in tune. The stage is yours...claim it...also make friends with the club bouncer, bartender etc. Nothing like a few hundred pounds of muscle when necessary to clear out the invaders.

**Eric Perry** · #11 08-03-2007, 10:22 AM

Here's pics from this past May, from an annual outdoor Cinco De Mayo show we do every year in NJ. About 4,000 people there this year. Just us an one other band, alternating sets. This is probably our biggest consistent draw...

Cinco De Mayo @ Chevy's in Clifton, NJ

tlwaps · #12 08-03-2007, 10:33 AM

Don't have any pics or vids but the craziest crowd I played infront of was at a house party about 3 years ago. Some how somebody knew the janitor at this school in Ky. and talked him into having a party in the school one night since it was summer time. Well then he talked the guy into letting us play there. So we arrive and by this time everybody is drunk. We're setting up and fights are breaking out. Finally the show starts.
Everything we have is plugged into 2 outlets. One behind the drummer and the other outlet is infront of the stage right infront of the singer, so all the chords are dangling infront of us all night long. As soon as we begin our first song a mosh pit breaks out; now keep in mind that we were in the band room on stage and the floor is brand new hard wood with a pool table in the back. Well next thing I know a garbage can is flying threw the pit hitting everybody in its way, a pool stick is being swung, the pool table is flipped over, some kid pissed off somebody in the crowd and he got thrown through an unopened window (and we were on the 2nd floor), girls were in the pit, one girl tried to stay clear of everything so her boyfriend walks up and clocks her in the face knocking her out cold. There was a pot filled to the rim with potting soil in the room it got dumped on the floor, so now there's beer/whiskey mud on the brand new hardwood floor. Somebody found a 5 gallon bucket of used oil, whether it was motor oil or some other type of oil i'll never know, it got dumped on the floor. So now there's beer/whiskey and oil mud all over the hardwood floor. A bat flew in the broken window and somebody killed it with a pool stick sending bats blood everywhere.
Finally we finished our set and the janitor yells at everybody to "get their s*** and get the f*** out." Me and the guys in my band were like "Ok, we're finished anyway." It was a great night and great show for us. Don't think i'll ever see anything like that ever again, but it was damn awesome, except for the chick getting knocked out by her a****** boyfriend.

Bayou_Brawler · #13 08-03-2007, 10:35 AM

i think we have a winner.

BassIsBoss · #14 08-03-2007, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Bayou_Brawler

i think we have a winner.

I should think with the large number of gigging bass players here there are many more stories to tell. I know I've seen more than my share of parking rumbles, crowd fights, knifings and shootings over the years at gigs...but then I always thought sex far more interesting than violence.

Bayou_Brawler · #15 08-03-2007, 11:51 AM

well my original question was "what was your best crowd? pics vids?"

which would mean....most fun to play for big or small.

you could go off on the tangent of craziest crowd ever.

parking lot incidents do not count.