I went to an Elton John concert where the crowd cheered for an encore for about 10 minutes.
He did not come back.
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I went to a Willie Nelson concert where he just ignored the countdown timer on stage and kept right on playing for at least another 30 minutes. That was a good concert.
If the house lights come up, it’s over. Go home.
You are allowed to be a dick to your audience when you're a superstar.
You're allowed to be a dick at any level of fame. I'm not famous at all and I told both dudes at my show to go fuck themselves.
If you're a gay porn director, that's not being a dick, it's just your job.
Kinda rough that encore is so expected that if they don't come back people think you're a dick. It's like Americans and tipping
Or Americans and standing ovations.
Americans are great at making things that should be optional or rare into common, mandatory garbage.
I'm doing my part, I don't even stand for the national anthem.
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Is it being a dick if they already did all their set? You want them to repeat a song? Artists get tired too idk.
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My favorite encore might be one time I saw Sincere Engineer. Someone in the audience shouted "play corn dog sonnet!. That's one of their "hits" as far as small bands go.
But the band had already played it earlier in the set, and said so. The audience person shouted back "I was late! I missed it!"
The singer went, "well, I guess we could play it again if everyone wants to hear it again"
The crowd cheered , so they played it again.
Back in college, I saw the meat puppets open for another band. (I think it might have neen deerhoof?) Pretty much the whole venue staff came to see that show, and we all showed upeqrly, psyched to see them play, whereas a lot of the audience filtered in later to see just the headliner. After the headliners played, we semi jokingly started a chant, 'bring back the meat puppets!' And they did it, Using a lot of the headliners equipment, like drums and amps and stuff. I like to think I helped introduce some kids to the meat p I pets that day.
I also don't like it, because it feels just like a play and fake.
Like a societal norm that just has to happen, but all the entertainment effect of it has gone (as it is so common to come back)
I've seen bands not come back out. If the crowd isn't into it, they can just leave.
Fans should do a flash mob and instantly start to leave, when the band leaves the first time
The best I’ve seen it handled was by The Pixies. One show they did the whole thing backwards. One song encore, the a three song encore, then the main set. The other, the did their set then stayed on the stage encouraging the crowd to cheer louder, the did the encore.
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I saw Reel Big Fish a long time ago, and after every single song they said thanks, we were a great audience, and left the stage. Then they'd come back and played "one more". Then one time, they just didn't come back
10/10
Sellout with me oh yeah, sellout with me tonight. The record company's gonna give me lots of money and everything's gonna be all right.
Miss the days when we shit on shills and valued independent thought.
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I saw Metallica this week and they played a killer 90 minute set right through, no encore. It was glorious. They left, we left, everyone was happy.
When I worked backstage, it seemed like that encore period was just a mini break for most bands, so they could finish strong. Often it would be round of shots/ a quick joint, then psych themselves back up for the last 3.
Encores are just giving music away for free; it's basically stealing a concert ticket from themselves. /s
Logic did this at aggravating levels. He did that "you're going to have to be louder than that" hype BS, but then he actually left the stage and didn't come back for 3 minutes. Trying to "hype" us.
This was only 10 min into the concert. Worst band ever. We walked out. It was a music festival. Don't ever see Logic.
Don't bother with Lenny Kravitz either. What a pretentious and whiny little bitch. Yes, we know it's raining, but it's also like 25°C and the rain is merely a light drizzle, so stfu about it. Besides part of the stage is dry, we paid for your name to come not your attitude, and we've been standing in the rain for hours, listening to far more talented musicians than you, so just play your two hits and piss off
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Or how bands are leaving their biggest hit for the encore. From this summer: Static X left the stage before playing Push It? Well there's no point leaving yet, as they will have come back. And we only had to wait like 30 seconds, since it's a music festival, and every band has their time onstage scheduled to the minute. Leaving Your best song for the end is a good thing. It makes people stay longer, and see the whole show. But an encore, should be something extra not the obligatory song.
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Always kinda bums me out when the band straight up says, "this is gonna be our last song, none of that encore stuff".
Nah I fucking love it. Stage time is limited often by when a venue has to close due to noise ordinances, if the band respects your time enough to not pretend to walk off stage you actually get more music.
I mean, it's also about having a bit of fun. It's definitely fair that you don't like it, but I feel like enough people enjoy the little dance, so that they do demand an encore.
At the very least, you often feel like a clap-activated jukebox throughout your performance. And then when you're about to leave, the audience suddenly wakes up and showers you in applause.
Believe me, lots of musicians find encores silly, too, but when you're given so much love at the end of your performance, you feel bad not answering that with an encore.
Yeah it depends. The venue I go to definitely doesn't have to shut down due to noise (it's in the middle of the city where there's tons of bars and clubs), but I get that every minute of a show costs someone money. I don't think the kind of shows I go to would result in more music if encores were skipped, and it's a good feeling when your chant brings the band back out (even if I know it was planned). But, I understand the aspect of not wanting to be click-baited irl.
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I genuinely don't like the whole fake encore shit. Like a band won't play their greatest hit during the set and you just know they will be back for an encore. But I've been to plenty concerts where there was hardly a demand for an encore. Just play your main set including those popular songs and if there is a high demand, then play an encore, but if not, just leave ffs.
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Whenever a band doesn't come back for an encore, I feel like they're telling us we were a bad audience. 😔
You cheer when they say the city name dont you?
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The church I went too when I was a child hosted Christian rock shows from smallish artists. One of them was particularly mid, and after their last song everyone started to leave without a single person calling for encore. The band ran back out for their "scheduled encore" to a silent crowd and started playing another song while everyone left.
I think about how awkward that was every time I go to a show now.
In best encores, Porter Robinson played Cheerleader twice in a row for the Seattle show on his tour last year since it was going to be the last show with this big billboard on stage that they couldn't bring on the world tour, so he got all hooked back up in his harness and they played it again. The second go was more fantastic than the first.
Accidentally found the right spot to stand recently at a small venue to be able to see through the bar to the hallway to the stage. I could see the band "hiding" while the crowd chanted for an encore
You can always tell if they're coming back out based on the house lights. Encores are always scheduled so if the house lights come up, show's over. Another tell is the time. If it's still ten minutes to the hour, they will likely fit in another set. If it's 11pm exactly, for example, they're probably finished.
Leprous informs you they don’t do encores.
When it’s over they turn the lights on.
People still stand for an encore.
I've always found this whole ordeal at the end of a concert hugely annoying. Like play another or leave but make up your mind for god's sake. But this post makes it sound fun. Maybe I should give encores another shot.
I miss when concerts were affordable. It’s become a good way to tell which of your friends is loaded, when you see them at concert on instagram every month
Local shows are still cheap! Support more local artists, some are even better at covers than the band they are covering.
I’d love to find a megadeth cover and that sound like they did in the 90s
I remember seeing a megadeth show in early 2000, front row against the stage in a dingy, hot, warehouse/500 person venue. $50 and it was epic! The final tour they did the tickets were running $800+
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What kills me is music acts (Taylor Swift, Eagles) charging over $1000 for a ticket just to lip-sync to their audiences. Fuck that noise.
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I like it. I visit classical concerts more than pop ones, but there it definitely isn't automatic, but a light-hearted "artist's choice" response to a genuinely enthusiastic crowd after the approx. 3rd round of applause. Not a given. My favourite is still when the soloist did a jazz encore and the audience swapped from "no applause even between movements" classical mode to "applaud good solos" jazz mode.
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Went to see Pulmonary Fibrosis recently. There were like 30 people inside including bartenders, and we cheered then not for one but for two encores. That's what I call a good gig.
There was a special episode of this comedy show in Germany. And they had planned a song for the encore. And they started playing it while people were about to leave. And there was a part in the song where the audience were supposed to sing along and shout "encore" and nobody shouted anything.
It was really depressing to watch.
... and then there are bands that go like "That's all, thanks, bye." and that's really it.
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