Mike wrote:
> That same year I saw Stephen Stills in the same venue. He was
> playing an accoustic set and heard some boos from the audience. In
> the middle of the next song he stopped playing and said something
> like, "you don't like this kind of music". He walked off the stage
> and returned with his electric guitar. He pulled off a great concert
> in a tough situation. He made no enemies along the way.
The CSN box set has a version of Black Queen where Stills reacts to the
audience. People start laughing, presumably because they think he's
parodying an old black blues man (which he's not), since he opens the song
by saying that an old black man he knew "played kinda like this". There are
a few shouts of "Quiet" from other audience members, but Stills just stops
singing (while still playing) and says "One thing the blues ain't.....is
funny". Huge round of applause and he carries on with the song, with no
more heckling.
Crosby does it too, when they're trying to close a set with an acoustic Find
The Cost Of Freedom (which closes most of their concerts). People are still
screaming out requests, and Crosby just says "This is wooden music, so you
gotta be cool, otherwise you won't hear it."
Maybe it helps that they play a lot of electric music, and like the audience
getting involved, so they understand when they get carried away, and
"disrespectful". Joni's music (on the whole) tend to be more acoustic and
mellow (for want of a better word) or maybe she just doesn't expect that
kind of audience?
Just thinking out loud...
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