Hi everybody, new here and I love this place.
Once a number of years ago I was playing with a blues band called the Wailin' Blue Devil's and we were doing a concert in a park in a small fishing community in Southern Ontario (very, very tight knit).
The opening act was a poor fellow who desparatley wanted to be a folk singer/ songwriter and was equally desparate to gain a following. Well his opening song was a very slow dirg that he'd written as a tribute to a number of local fishermen who had recently been lost in Lake Erie as a result of a late night collision with a Coast Guard Cutter. This tragic loss was a very touchy subject in the community due to the nature of the event and the song, while well intended, was very gory and poorly written. The fellow seemed oblivious to the audiences discomfort and carried on to the bitter end.
I think he was just very new and inexperienced but I've never in my 25 yrs as a performer witnessed an audience reaction like that....total silence combined with very frosty glares, I swear you could feel the temperature drop at leat 10 degrees.