Audience sing-alongs on live albums. Sheer ebullience or whatta effin RIPOFF?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

I'm sitting here listening to Marillion's double concert CD "Size Matters" and it just got to "Lavender," probably my favorite Marillion song of all time, and they let the fukken audience sing half the damn the thing. I WAS GANKED!

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. I do love a GOOD sing-along...

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...witness Pete Seeger or Arlo Guthrie.
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Or an INTENTIONAL sing-along encouraged by the musician(s).
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What sucks is when the person WAY too near you decides to sing every
freakin' word of every freakin' song offkey.
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COOLEST audience participation request I've ever seen? Some New Age
band in the 80's (a free college concert) that was actually EXCELLENT.
The rest of the band members stepped off the stage and allowed their
violin player (a young hunk of a Romanian Gypsy dressed in colorful
Gypsy silks) play a solo called "Butterflies". He told the audience it was
an audience participation number -- "And here's what I want you to do.
Close your eyes."
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And he went into this absolutely STUNNING piece for about 5 or 6
minutes. I was fucking AWESTRUCK. When his final note faded, there
was absolutely NO REACTION FROM THE AUDIENCE WHATSOEVER!!!!
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HOW could they have missed that?
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But, after 5 or 10 seconds, the Gypsy's spell wore off and people
were on their feet rattling the rafters with their appreciation for
quite a long time.
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[blogslut]

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