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Originally Posted by Julie in the rv mirror
First, I'd like to say thanks to the folks who have been indulging me..it has been an interesting discussion. 
When you say you were disappointed, do you mean you thought the performance was poor, or the setlist was not what you wanted to hear? Or was it the performer's "personality"? You say you'd never see him live again, but do you still listen to/ like his albums? I'm not a Bob Dylan fan (don't dislike him, just don't really know his music), but I've heard (as in read) from people who like him a lot, that he is awful live. Yet they still really like his albums.
I wouldn't purposely seek out an artist's website to slam them, either. But let's say that you were already a member there. What, if anything, would you say about your experience? |
lol .. funnily enough it was Bob Dylan I went to see. Set list disappointed me, but to be fair we went thinking that we should see him once live before he or we dropped off the perch
I haven't kept up with his musical output over the years, so I accept I was likely to be disappointed .. (Although as an aside had we been attending a Meat concert for the first time, we would have heard some of the familiar classics .. something for regular concert goers to remember perhaps when saying "Drop Paradise .. etc" I suppose as Meat concert goers the lack of the big early classics in Dylan's set was bound to surprise us
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Performance also disapponted me .. band was good, but we didn't find him so at all. He was pretty static, standing behind a keyboard at the side of the stage for a lot of the time, but cme to the front for his fans at the end.
And .. the six rows in front of us were obviously serious fans, and clearly having a whale of a time. Can't say what I would have done were I a member of his fanclub .. although I think I can guess ... if I'd bothered to join his fanclub or forum I would have done so because I felt more connection to him as a person and performer, so I would have kept my disappointment to myself .. Might have said that it was my first concert and I'd been hoping to hear some of the early classics? But were I a member of such a board I would have probably gone with different expectations anyway. I coudn't offer him useful guidance even if he read his board, so I'd say something positive or say nothing.
You mention Elton John. I have a lot of time for him as a performer, and I find him an interesting person now. But there's no significant connection, so I don't seek out a forum for him. I love his concerts, but don't feel the need to try and tell him. I vote with my returning feet
So I guess I need to care quite a lot for the performer to want to join a club or forum .. for me that's Meat. And if I care for someone I want to consider their feelings very carefully before I give feedback.
As to fear of meeting "idols" .. I'm not someone who's ever hung around waiting to see any performer, because I've never had the desire really. The exception is Meat, but wanting to meet him developed because I felt I understood something of the person he is, something of his qualities and values, and wanted to meet someone I thought was a good person who was also exceptionally talented. I wanted to meet the person who takes Meat Loaf on stage
I didn't expect to be disappointed, and I wasn't
Caryl