People who go to concerts want to see their favourite singles and favourite tracks from the albums they already own played by the band who created them (or a really good tribute band). The concert-goer might also want to relive the past and feel like they did when they first heard that music. Note that you don’t get many youngsters going to see old bands when they do a comeback tour. Nostalgia is a really big part of it.
When the band pulls out a new song, it doesn’t touch any of those desires whatsoever. From the nostalgic’s perspective, it’s basically an ad break between all the good stuff, and people hate being pulled out of their reverie to listen to an ad.
Speak for yourself. Being a part of the debuting of a brand new track is a huge part of the concert experience to me, and some of my favorite concert memories are hearing tracks from my favorite bands for the first time live before the studio version.
Last year drag went to a concert to hear a famous band drag liked. They sucked, they were too loud and overwhelming. But one of the opening acts, a local band drag had never heard of before, was amazing. And drag is a fan of them now.
I missed Smashing Pumpkins when they were nobodies opening for Guns-n-Roses. GNR sucked balls, Rose was wasted and showed up 2-hours late, sound was unintelligible, all that. Wish I could have seen the Pumpkins.
You have at least a couple of things that make it not quite the scenario I described in my comment. Yes, warm-up acts are kind of an ad, but they’re the pre-show ad. People who watch movies prefer the “trailers” before the movie, not interspersed within it.
And trailers work. Sometimes. Lots of parallels with support acts there.
Secondly, the main band being terrible is not the norm. You went there expecting them to be good and to hear your old favourites, not their new stuff. Maybe you would have liked some of their new stuff if they hadn’t been hopeless at everything else as well, but that isn’t the main thing you were there for.
People who go to concerts want to see their favourite singles and favourite tracks from the albums they already own played by the band who created them (or a really good tribute band). The concert-goer might also want to relive the past and feel like they did when they first heard that music. Note that you don’t get many youngsters going to see old bands when they do a comeback tour. Nostalgia is a really big part of it.
When the band pulls out a new song, it doesn’t touch any of those desires whatsoever. From the nostalgic’s perspective, it’s basically an ad break between all the good stuff, and people hate being pulled out of their reverie to listen to an ad.
Here’s a silly sketch from Big Train where they call this sort of thing out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1YNEtaHbzA
Speak for yourself. Being a part of the debuting of a brand new track is a huge part of the concert experience to me, and some of my favorite concert memories are hearing tracks from my favorite bands for the first time live before the studio version.
Last year drag went to a concert to hear a famous band drag liked. They sucked, they were too loud and overwhelming. But one of the opening acts, a local band drag had never heard of before, was amazing. And drag is a fan of them now.
New stuff is great!
I missed Smashing Pumpkins when they were nobodies opening for Guns-n-Roses. GNR sucked balls, Rose was wasted and showed up 2-hours late, sound was unintelligible, all that. Wish I could have seen the Pumpkins.
This was me seeing The Watchmen for the first time in 1990. Holy shit, what an amazing band.
You have at least a couple of things that make it not quite the scenario I described in my comment. Yes, warm-up acts are kind of an ad, but they’re the pre-show ad. People who watch movies prefer the “trailers” before the movie, not interspersed within it.
And trailers work. Sometimes. Lots of parallels with support acts there.
Secondly, the main band being terrible is not the norm. You went there expecting them to be good and to hear your old favourites, not their new stuff. Maybe you would have liked some of their new stuff if they hadn’t been hopeless at everything else as well, but that isn’t the main thing you were there for.
Drag has autism. Drag doesn’t know if they played new songs or old songs, it was too loud and drag left during their first song. It hurt to be there.
What. A drag?
They are talking about themselves in the third dragson.