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No Rhythm
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3/4/2008 4:21:43 PM
Biggest audience you've ever played to.
Hi all I'm just curious. Is your biggest audience ever your family or have you played a packed arena somewhere, or have you played live on tv via satellite to millions? What's your record.
Cheers Mark
My record is hardly worth mentioning about 20 drunks is the norm.
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LyinDan
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3/4/2008 5:02:05 PM
About a thousand or so. Captive audience, you might say. Prison.
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SqurlyMurly
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3/4/2008 5:05:18 PM
Not real sure. Played on a local TV show in Burlington, Vermont once. I think it was called "Dance Date" or something similar. I was 15. Don't know how many might have been watching that fiasco!!
I've played small clubs, huge weddings, etc. Possibly about 400 - 500 people at one time.
Still hungry! Bwahahaha
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the kozy king
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3/4/2008 5:05:45 PM
Lyin Dan, I can't believe a word you say!
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Jo Ellen
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3/4/2008 5:13:29 PM
Probably 50. It's hard to say because I started singing in front of people when I was seven (I am not counting school-based events)
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LyinDan
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3/4/2008 5:24:21 PM
Sure you can, kozy. It wuz at Cummins pea farm. I was not an inmate. But we played for them. It was an experience I could never forget (except for the fact that I was stoned at the time and I can't remember much about it).
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3/4/2008 5:26:01 PM
Maybe 50. And I think about 49 of them fell asleep.
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Steve Ison
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3/4/2008 5:31:08 PM
About 50,000.....Every week
There's about that many people who shop on saturdays in the town centre i busk..
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the kozy king
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3/4/2008 5:41:24 PM
You were stoned Dan. OK now it's sounding plausible.
Jo Ellen and Kasee -- about fifty -- you're both so lovable. What an asset to the Pipeline.
Steve, wayta go! I admire buskers. I bought a CD of a busker in Winnipeg who played the Chapman stick (jazz, folk, rock, classical -- it was great, but stolen later). Do you sell many CD's?
I've averaged 100 to 200 drunks all my life.
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Black Velvet Lace
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3/4/2008 6:41:49 PM
I think around a thousand but it was radio broadcast so if that counts, whoever was also listening in.
BTW I'd prefer to sing in front of a thousand strangers than in front of 10 people I know well.............
~Lace~
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Duane Flock
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3/4/2008 9:02:34 PM
On a regular basis, probably the average 50-100 people at the local bar/dance hall. The most at once would be our local public access (educational) TV channel. Or actually the County Fair at around 5K. At most all of these venues we played covers in the band I'm in.
As far as my own music, I guess you guys are it! I do some occasional coffee shops or parties....... I'm guessing at IAC maybe 10-15 people?
D.
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The Man With No Band
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3/4/2008 9:20:18 PM
I've played in front of several thousand people quite a few times ... of course I was just a member of a Marching Band then...
From the days of the old cover band I played in ... we played to audiences as few as 10 or 12 on up to 300 or so ...
Solo days just involve a little busking and playing for the kids... but my favorite audience was my gal, she made me feel like a full fledged Rock Star ...
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Chris Hance
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3/4/2008 11:47:00 PM
Largest audience? around 2000 at a real free festival in '89(before the tories banned public gatherings of more than three people)
Held on common public ground in a natural ampitheatre
A proper festival, with over 400 satans slaves bikers, and most of he rest of the crowd were new agers(the so called "hippy convoy") and punkers,
It was a good gig, and an eye opener,
The band was "HotLips", and we all took acid, then space cake before going on stage around 02:00am,
Mental.............
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Susan Raven
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3/5/2008 12:29:46 AM
Every summer at festivals around the UK, anything from a few hundred to close to a thousand people. Also, Satch and I have done a few live radio broadcasts, unknown audience size, but boy, when that red light goes on....
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Bruce Boyd
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3/5/2008 3:29:50 AM
1997 - An Australia Day Concert In Forrest Chase Perth. There was about 5000-10000 in the audience and it was broadcast nationally on SBS which is the smallest of Oz's national broadcasters - mebbe a million viewers?? That was playing backup mandolin with a woman called Brenda Conochie
2002 - Another Australia Day Concert - this time with a bush band called Dingo's Breakfast to provide entertainment before a SkyShow. They say that 20-30,000 people attended but the whole town had been shut down to accommodate the crowds so I've no idea how many could actually see or hear us.
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srm
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3/5/2008 4:21:38 AM
The biggest single crowd was probably between 300-400 at an open-air, lawnchair concert put together by the local Chamber of Commerce (no pay) with a band called Phosphene, which included fellow IAC-ers "Shaved Fish". Personally, I think everyone was there to see the "Imitation Stats" (a Statler Brothers 'tribute' group).
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Hop On Pop
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3/5/2008 4:40:33 AM
Don't know about the outdoor festival-thingies I played in college.
But, as far as a room full of people, I opened for Freedy Johnston once here in Chicago and the cap.-500 room was pretty-well full.
I also had everyone singing along to the "na-na" part at the end of my last song of the evening. ("Happy Days" -- which is posted over at my page, FYI.)
Now, hearing a room full of strangers singing along with me to one of my songs —THAT felt good!
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Vincenzo Pandolfi
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3/5/2008 4:45:00 AM
Well...In the seventies in Italy your average dance/rock venue held between 500 to 2000. We played regularly at such venues, but we also did some TV. One particular show I will never forget. It was a New Year's Eve show, broadcast live to over 20,000,000. But now picture this. Back then they would NEVER let you play live in Italy on such a production. You had to mime everything, wich for us was crazy as we did a lot of live stuff. Anyway, they gave us all the instruments, but none were plugged in. In the middle of our segment, the singer's (drummer) mike stand falls of his elevated platform, so we did'nt know what was worse. Stopping to pick up the stand while the music still played as normal, or let people see that you could still hear the singer without a mike!!
To make matters worse, when we finished, they told us to stay on as the next segment was not ready. So here we were, on national TV, with instruments that didn't work, looking stupid!! So I picked up a very large wooden flute, which I could not really play, and played something which nobody could hear anyway....sob sob sob. There was no hole to sink in that would have been large enough!!
Vincenzo
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the kozy king
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3/5/2008 4:50:04 AM
Great story, Vincenzo!! I'll be repeating it. I love telling stories.
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Hop On Pop
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3/5/2008 5:27:33 AM
Wait, does a TV audience count?
In that case it was probably a couple of million when we played on the Morning News here in Chicago. T'was a lot of fun!
And, Vincenzo... that is a clip that I could see airing in the U.S. on one of those "Funniest Bloopers" shows!
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Kevin White
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3/5/2008 10:23:49 AM
The largest was probably 10k or thereabouts at a local festival featuring free music.
We did that a couple times.
In college in the mid seventies, the outdoor "spring weekend" concerts averaged about 3-5k ...
We did that more than a couple times.
We warmed up national acts in the large showcase clubs ... that was fun, the crowds were good sized ... at least a couple grand ...
We did that a LOT.
Fun times.
Didn't make a plugged nickel from most of it.
Kev-
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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3/5/2008 1:12:52 PM
interesting tales!!
The Cube was my band in the '80s and we played to anything between 10 drunks pubs and bars------to 2000 ---3000 at festivals and other outdoor venues! I love those big stacks of speakers!!!!
Last week because of the "accident" I found myself playing solo to about 500 at Artrageous----- plus I did the mixing for all the othe Artists.( the rest of silverwood was stuck 120 km away!)
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Larry Killip
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3/5/2008 2:08:54 PM
About 30,000 at a huge outdoor festival called "Nambassa" here in NZ...was a long time ago.
My set just before Australian band "Little River Band".
Broke a string but just kept on going...
Larry
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Vincenzo Pandolfi
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3/5/2008 11:48:39 PM
Terry and Hop On Pop,
I can tell you it was not funny at the time..Thanks goodness was in B&W. So you could not see my red face!!!
Vincenzo
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Pulse Eternal
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3/6/2008 12:46:48 AM
LOL Vincenzo!!
The biggest physically present audience I've played to was a couple of thousand or so at the Melbourne Concert Hall but the BEST audience I played to was somewhat smaller and more intimate. It was at a very cool theatre called 'Grainery Lane' in Ballarat and was a performance I wrote about a dream called 'Becoming Real!'
It was also streamed live on Ratnet TV, an internet broadcasting group I was involved with. They took a feed from the cameras I had set up to video the show.
There's an audio track from that show on my IAC page and also a couple of video clips too.....
Becoming Real! Part IV
and Becoming Real! Part II
I recently found the tapes from the individual cameras and am going to do a re-edit soon.
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Black Velvet Lace
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3/6/2008 10:58:35 AM
Titania, I jsut realized I've been spulling yer name wrong all along! Have I even spulled it rite now?? I watched your preformance vid before and really liked it.
Love all the stories of gigs n things, Vincenzo yours gave me a good laff, there's nothing like an disasterous musical incident to humble one, eh? I've had many over the 20some years I played in all kinds of situations from clubs to picnics to weddings/etc.
~Lace~
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Ben Elliot
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3/6/2008 1:22:33 PM
Due to the nature of my music I havnt been able to find anyone to help me perform my music. Therefore, in the last 4 years my biggest audience has been when the next door neighbours have the grankids round and they tell me shut up through the wall.
Before then I gigged a lot singing in a metal band. We generally played to about 50 or 60 people but our biggest gig was a sell out to 200 people at our local venue. Unfortunately, we were the support band so most of the people there had some to see the main band. To make matters worse, the headlining band were an all girl band who had got people to come by giving out a load of flyers saying that the singer was going to be wearing a PVC nurses outfit. And finally to rub salt in the wound.... the bass player in the all girl band, was and still is my girlfriend. She doesnt have a huge interest in music but just decided to get together with a few friends one day. Needless to say I have never heard the last of it.
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