Do bands still do pretend encores?
- Thread starter Santino
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a pretend encore is one that's planned, where you know the band will come back on as they haven't played their biggest hit. the lights don't go up when they leave the stage, and it doesn't take long before they come back on again.
with real ones you can often see the band standing around trying to decide what song to play as they haven't planned it, or maybe ask the crowd for suggestions.
it's all very exciting.
with real ones you can often see the band standing around trying to decide what song to play as they haven't planned it, or maybe ask the crowd for suggestions.
it's all very exciting.
I really bloody dislike encores, impromptu or planned. The band's played, they've stopped, I want to go home.
Then they go and start again
I saw phosphorescent last Tuesday and The National tonight. Both bands played some great songs in the encores but why do it? Why not just play all the great stuff then go home?
Also, when I go to the theatre, the actors come back on stage at the end for an encore and take a bow. I'd be really pissed off if they came back and then acted another scene.
I think bands should just come back, take a bow or wave or do whatever and then get off.
Rant over, it's my bedtime
Then they go and start again
I saw phosphorescent last Tuesday and The National tonight. Both bands played some great songs in the encores but why do it? Why not just play all the great stuff then go home?
Also, when I go to the theatre, the actors come back on stage at the end for an encore and take a bow. I'd be really pissed off if they came back and then acted another scene.
I think bands should just come back, take a bow or wave or do whatever and then get off.
Rant over, it's my bedtime
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
even fictional artist do it
it happened at the hatsune miku concert
see the beginning of this vid.
a min or so of the crowd shouting Miku or ganbare (do your best) got this response
it happened at the hatsune miku concert
see the beginning of this vid.
a min or so of the crowd shouting Miku or ganbare (do your best) got this response
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Some bands need a lot of lovin' and some bands don't
it was on my mind because The National did a massive long encore and I knew it would take us ages to get out of the venue and drive back home. I had to be up for work this this morningWaited a fucking long time for that bloody encore!
Also I daren't start another thread or I'd have been Pogo-ed.
Athos
Well-Known Member
We always try to finish with something great, rather than hold it back for an encore. But we do tend to have an idea of we'll do if we get an encore - usually something a bit different from the main set. Although, we've been persuaded by the crowd to replay something we'd already played, on occasion. The last gig we played, we did three encores, thanks to some over-enthusiastic drunks (in the crowd and the band).
skyscraper101
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U2 played Vertigo twice when I saw them in 2005. Worked quite well though because it was the same track they opened up with, but it took on a different context when it'd all gone dark and it was the end of the show. More of a reprise than an encore I suppose.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
i felt slightly ill just reading that.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
it was on my mind because The National did a massive long encore and I knew it would take us ages to get out of the venue and drive back home. I had to be up for work this this morning
Also I daren't start another thread or I'd have been Pogo-ed.
When I start feeling like that I'll probably stop going to gigs.
See also- leaving football before the end to avoid trafffic.
Athos
Well-Known Member
When I start feeling like that I'll probably stop going to gigs.
See also- leaving football before the end to avoid trafffic.
That boils my piss. I love it when we score late on, knowing that the traffic-deserters missed it.
Are you famous? Will I have heard of your band? Should I be bragging to my friends that I know you?
Seriously?
I have no intention of stopping going to gigs or leaving before the band has long left the stage and the house lights are up.When I start feeling like that I'll probably stop going to gigs.
See also- leaving football before the end to avoid trafffic.
Athos
Well-Known Member
Are you famous? Will I have heard of your band? Should I be bragging to my friends that I know you?
Seriously?
No.
Almost certainly not.
Even family members have pretended not to recognise me at particularly bad gigs!
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Regardless of it being U2, I like that idea. It reminds me of seeing Magazine a few years ago when they reformed, and they started with my fave song of theirs (or anybody's) The Light Pours Out Of Me - and although it was great I was well pissed off as I was hoping and expecting they'd leave that one til the end, which they should have. That song was about 80% of the reason why I went to see em, so I'd have been well chuffed if they'd come back and done it again as an encore.
clandestino
no llevar papel
skyscraper101
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I left the Stones gig during Satisfaction to avoid the traffic.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Not too dissimilarly...
When I saw the Breeders doing Last Splash. They were still tying to get the sound right when, after a mere two minutes, they kick into Cannoball. 'Twas thrown away.
clandestino
no llevar papel
Fair enough.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
You are Andrew Ridgeley and I claim my 5 pounds.
5t3IIa
Registered User
Silva
This went well.
How big are encores, usually? I don't see many bands doing more than two or three songs. Then again, I run from the single-band high priced gigs like the plague.
