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Too old to pogo
Jul. 6th, 2005 09:14 amNot that anyone else did either.
I haven't written about the Green Day concert. Too many other things to do and think about. It was a really good concert but also a really weird experience. I realized when we stood there in the centre of the floor in front of the stage that I've never been in a concert that was attended by "top-list-people", that is people who like everything on the top list, no matter what it is, before. Usually when you go to a concert you are surrounded by people who are at least in some aspects similar to you. When I was a teenager I first only went to heavy metal concerts, where you are distinctly a part of a sub-culture, and then most concerts had been punk concerts, sometimes in squatted houses, solidarity concerts with folk music and such things. Also a place were you meet like minded people. But here, most people very obviously belonged to a sort of mainstream music culture that I have never been a part of. The feeling was even more surreal since so much of the current fashion is inspired by the 80s and I saw people dressed like the trendy people were when I was in my teens, people who never would have gone to the same concerts as me, and definitely not to concert with a punk band. Yes, Green day still is a punk band. They don't play modern hard core, which is the most popular punk genre right now, at least here, but much of it is very like the late 70s-early 80s punk and politically there is no doubt.
That was rather funny when the audience very obviously didn't know what they were shouting "yeah" to, things that in other contexts might be considering enticing to riot. Weird feeling.
But the music was really good and the band's energy was amazing. There was a little too much sing along exercises where they could have played more of the songs, both the earlier and the ones from the last record.
But all in all a good concert.
And about the too old to pogo thing: There was nobody else doing any pogo and that really is a group thing and I am reluctant to do things that may hurt my body these days. And having borne three children I'm not too fond of jumping up and down either, those of you who have had children know what I'm talking about.
I haven't written about the Green Day concert. Too many other things to do and think about. It was a really good concert but also a really weird experience. I realized when we stood there in the centre of the floor in front of the stage that I've never been in a concert that was attended by "top-list-people", that is people who like everything on the top list, no matter what it is, before. Usually when you go to a concert you are surrounded by people who are at least in some aspects similar to you. When I was a teenager I first only went to heavy metal concerts, where you are distinctly a part of a sub-culture, and then most concerts had been punk concerts, sometimes in squatted houses, solidarity concerts with folk music and such things. Also a place were you meet like minded people. But here, most people very obviously belonged to a sort of mainstream music culture that I have never been a part of. The feeling was even more surreal since so much of the current fashion is inspired by the 80s and I saw people dressed like the trendy people were when I was in my teens, people who never would have gone to the same concerts as me, and definitely not to concert with a punk band. Yes, Green day still is a punk band. They don't play modern hard core, which is the most popular punk genre right now, at least here, but much of it is very like the late 70s-early 80s punk and politically there is no doubt.
That was rather funny when the audience very obviously didn't know what they were shouting "yeah" to, things that in other contexts might be considering enticing to riot. Weird feeling.
But the music was really good and the band's energy was amazing. There was a little too much sing along exercises where they could have played more of the songs, both the earlier and the ones from the last record.
But all in all a good concert.
And about the too old to pogo thing: There was nobody else doing any pogo and that really is a group thing and I am reluctant to do things that may hurt my body these days. And having borne three children I'm not too fond of jumping up and down either, those of you who have had children know what I'm talking about.
