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BILLW · 08-09-2006, 10:05 AM

I'm not sure if it's technically a majority but a large part of the audience, in my experience lately, seems to be waiting for the "hits". If that is the case he needs to keep them happy. Most of the "singers" in the audience don't seem too schooled on much recorded in the last 25 years.
I'm not, by any means, being elitist. He makes his living from those folks as well as us. If he didn't satisfy them he'd be up the creek in his canary yellow canoe. They tell their friends and so on.

It'd be great if all the concert-goers were hardcore fanatics but I just don't think so.

"I went to a Garden Party..."

Bill

I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again
When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name
No one recognized me, I didn't look the same

[ August 09, 2006, 10:11: Message edited by: BILLW ]

08-09-2006, 10:05 AM	#5
BILLW Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Salisbury, MD, USA Posts: 2,558	I'm not sure if it's technically a majority but a large part of the audience, in my experience lately, seems to be waiting for the "hits". If that is the case he needs to keep them happy. Most of the "singers" in the audience don't seem too schooled on much recorded in the last 25 years. I'm not, by any means, being elitist. He makes his living from those folks as well as us. If he didn't satisfy them he'd be up the creek in his canary yellow canoe. They tell their friends and so on. It'd be great if all the concert-goers were hardcore fanatics but I just don't think so. "I went to a Garden Party..." Bill I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends A chance to share old memories and play our songs again When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name No one recognized me, I didn't look the same [ August 09, 2006, 10:11: Message edited by: BILLW ]