“I've grown up playing pop music for the experimental crowd and I always feel like I'm pushing something weird on people. I had this underdog feeling. It's crazy that all of a sudden I'm the overhyped band you read about on the blogs.” PeopleFeelsFeelingsCrazyBandCrowdsPopsPushingBlogsPop MusicUnderdog Author:Girl Talk
“I can tell you there is no finer stadium to play in. The traditions that they place in that stadium like when they announce that it's Saturday night in Death Valley, when the band plays, when that crowd stands and cheers for the Tigers, there is no place like it in America.” I CanPlayAmericaNightBandTraditionCrowdsCheerValleysSaturdayTigersStadiumsSaturday NightLsu Author:Les Miles
“Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.” SometimesBehindsCoupleBandSingingSevenChaosCrowdsSeconds Author:Rob Zombie
“Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.” KnowsKindPlayFunFrontsHugeBandCrowdsWho We AreFestivals Author:Mac DeMarco
“Papa Roach is actually a band that's great at playing arenas. Not every band is suited for that environment. But besides the huge energy you guys bring, the songs are very grand and anthemic. "Kick in the Teeth" being an example as a song that's made for huge crowd sing-alongs, not tiny little club shows.” LittlesMadeShowsGuySongEnergyEnvironmentExampleHugeBandCrowdsClubsTinyTeethKicksArenaPapaRoachesPapa Roach Author:Tony Palermo
“Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.” LittlesDifficultFrontsBandWingsCrowdsSoloTouringBucksIntimidatingPun Author:Timothy B. Schmit
“I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph them. Initially, I was pretending to be a photographer, simply so that I could go up to the front of the crowd and be a bit closer to the bands. But, I found I was gradually developing an interest in the photos I took.” WantedFoundBitsInterestRocksFrontsBandPhotographerPhotographCrowdsDevelopingPretendingRock Bands Author:Derek Ridgers
“I had no real photography experience, thankfully. I consciously took a lot of crowd shots. I was influenced by Seattle photographer Charles Peterson, who always seemed to incorporate fans in his live band shots.” RealFansBandPhotographyShotsPhotographerCrowdsSeattle Author:Bruce Pavitt
“When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"” WantAsksBitsStageBandCrowdsGood TimesHaving A Good TimeReassurance Author:Alexis Taylor
“Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in vague generalities. You get applause for slogans. And then governing comes. And governing is tedious and it's difficult an it's time-consuming and it demands your attention. And policy isn't vague generalities. It's specifics and it's based on knowledge.” SpeakFunDifficultAttentionPolicyBandDemandPoliceCrowdsCampaignsAirplaneVagueSlogansApplauseConsumingGoverningTediousBalloonsGeneralitiesTime ConsumingSpecifics Author:Mark Shields