The sorry thing, Neal, is we all blame this kind of behavior on our own
towns (easy enough to do here in downtown hipper-than-thousville, too) but
it's getting to be too damn common everywhere across the U.S.--and maybe
beyond. The worst mistake is supposed to be to say anything about this
rudeness or to try to hush it..Yoiu become an instant heavy.
Unless you're Linda Ray, if I remember right. She shuts 'em up real good!
I can report on who talked through Dave Alvin and Robbie Fulks here
tonight-tomorrow!
Barry M.
There they were, playing their plucky banjo-fied songs to a
>crowd at the half-full Viper Room that was so so so so chatty that I kept
>hoping the band would give up on the quieter acoustic stuff and crank up the
>loud stuff again, just to mask the noise. It fucking pisses me off when people
>show up and then just talk over the music, especially when they're on the li
>Neal Weiss
