Re: audience requests

Posted by Edward Reid on March 14, 2004 at 04:27:52:

In Reply to: Re: audience requests posted by Ranger Rick on March 11, 2004 at 08:55:03:

: 2. A request is one person's want though it may be what others want also. But it also removes another song from the set list that perhaps many would love to hear. No one gets to know what the song is the request replaces.

A year and a half ago in Kirkland (Seattle), they tried an "audience choice": they took a vote on whether they should do K-Mart or Taking the Kids to Disneyworld. K-Mart won (and they didn't repeat the vote at the next two concerts). But why did K-Mart win? I think it was the mood of the audience, not an absolute preference. And what it really meant was that K-Mart fit into the program better at that point; the audience was ready for it. At a different point in the program, I think the vote might have gone the other way.

All ties in with Andrew's reasons for not doing a life-chronology of Doug songs: a program has to flow musically and emotionally.

And requests during the program don't fit that need.

Edward

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: : 2. A request is one person's want though it may be what others want also. But it also removes another song from the set list that perhaps many would love to hear. No one gets to know what the song is the request replaces. : A year and a half ago in Kirkland (Seattle), they tried an "audience choice": they took a vote on whether they should do K-Mart or Taking the Kids to Disneyworld. K-Mart won (and they didn't repeat the vote at the next two concerts). But why did K-Mart win? I think it was the mood of the audience, not an absolute preference. And what it really meant was that K-Mart fit into the program better at that point; the audience was ready for it. At a different point in the program, I think the vote might have gone the other way. : All ties in with Andrew's reasons for not doing a life-chronology of Doug songs: a program has to flow musically and emotionally. : And requests during the program don't fit that need. : Edward

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