hey there and welcome to the new and improved blog. blog. god, the more i say that word, the more it bothers me. it's like when you say any word over and over again, it starts to lose its meaning and instead becomes a sonic rubick's cube of annoyance for your brain. ANYWAY, the purpose of the redirection of this blog is to recount the various (appropriate and non-damning) stories of my experiences as a member of the staff at two of san francisco's greatest live music venues, the great american music hall and slims. these two shrines have hosted some of the greatest names in music throughout the years, and i get to do the fun part, dealing with the people, the fans. fans are the people who keep places like ours in business and they keep the music industry rolling along with new sets of ears to be exposed to new music all the time, but it also supplies the security with an arsenal of jokes and stories about all kinds of assholes and idiots, and i mean that in the nicest and friendliest possible way. i was working in the pit at a NOFX show at slims a couple weeks ago, and due to my freakishly large largeness, i was getting in a couple of people's way. normally, i'm extremely conscious of the fact that i'm gigantic and i let smaller people stand in front of me, but like i told her and all the other pissed off people around me, "hey, me and my security buddies are here to make sure that all these knuckleheads don't kill each other, and that we all have a good time." this seemed reasonable to me, but your average concertgoer seems to forget all reason and common sense when they've had a couple long island iced teas or high life's or whatever and they walk into a music venue. and sometimes i don't blame them. music venues are places where fantasy and unreality take over and people allow themselves to be transformed for a couple hours, it just sucks for the people who work there when you happen to transform yourself into a complete moron. Anyway, not only does NOFX rock, they also happen to be really nice people, so enjoy this clip of their show from the Roxie in LA, where apparently the security was so lax that the crowd could take video...just sayin'
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Your blog was really interesting to read. I have never been to Slim's but I heard that it's a great venue. I on the otherhand, HAVE gone to Great American Music Hall and it is great! The venue itself is soo beautiful. I took my friend to see Imogean Heap sometime early last year. The show itself was awesome...the crowd itself was well mannered of course. But, I know what you mean about rowdy crowds. I went to a concert at the Fillmore and a fight broke out about 2 feet away from me.
I like the end of this post, although to a much lesser to degree because of capacity, I work at a Karaoke bar on California.
High five to the suckiness of people who transform themselves into drunken nonsensical idiots.
Living the life, that sounds likie a sick job.
I'm looking forward to reading more of your blogs, the topic should bring some great stories. I've never been to either venue.
The last concert went to was also at the filmore and some girl wanted to fight me, before the concert even began! She thought I was bumping into her, but in reality (she was WASTED) I was about 4 feet away!
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