BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?

Subject: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:44 PM

So you're at a rock gig and the lead guitarist plays a face-melting solo... he then hurls himself at the crowd and is 'surfed' around the audience....

What would be the folkie equivalent? A packed marquee, an achingly good penny whistle tune...... then what?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:47 PM

Passing the spliff around.

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:54 PM

"group hugs"...or long lines of backrubs...(seen these many times...at least among our regular group)

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 12:55 PM

Catching an un-named folk performer as he falls off the stage pissed?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: coldjam
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 01:48 PM

Prolly following it with some achingly-long heart-sick melody-challenged singer/songwriter epic, would be comparable to the vulnerability of hurling yourself into the audience.You will find out just how much they truly love you!

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:06 PM

Twice I have seen blues performers hurling on the stage, so that may be the blues equivalent. (Or it could be that they just heard it wrong.)

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: GUEST,Seaking
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:57 PM

a great harmony -then everyone sticks their finger into someone else's ear..

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: GUEST,Seaking
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:59 PM

...otherwise known as 'waxing lyrical'

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 03:26 PM

I'm with Cluin...

*Pfffffffffft*

'ere... *gnnnnk*   take it...

*fffffooooooooooooooooo....*

Heh.... heh.... hehehe...

Sweeeeeet duuude...

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Micca
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 03:35 PM

I think it is probably when there is a silence, of tangible duration, when the song ends, before the applause

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 03:35 PM

Try that at a folk concert and people would just get politely out of the way and you'd crash on to the ground.

Maybe the nearest so far as trust goes is the thing rappers do, when they grab a punter and make them do a kind of somersault in their arms. Hard to describe, but it always goes down well.

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 03:19 PM

Mentally tapping into the collective consciousness, and nodding knowingly. The audience knows the chorus -- instinctively. Grok!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 03:22 PM

Everyone in the room sticking their finger in someone else's ear-----after first wetting it in your mouth.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: ranger1
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 03:27 PM

I think that would just result in a really loud chorus of "Eeeeew!"

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 03:44 PM

Silly

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 04:29 PM

For me, the equivalent of that would be when I am playing something in a way that inpires people nearby to start dancing. I'm not a natural performer, so when that happens (and it has happened for me only a few times), it's incredibly gratifying.

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 04:32 PM

That's true enough Carol - especially when it's in a pub. The thing there is, it isn't just flattering, it's illegal, which makes it double flattering.

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Jan 05 - 08:31 PM

I dunno, but I do know the folkie equivalent to the wave-- it's group-mooning.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 07:06 PM

ROFLMAO.....Ohhhhh the visions I am having....LMAO *SNORT*

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 07:33 PM

I think that's maybe an American thing, WYSIWYG... In folk circles anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Jan 05 - 08:19 PM

Hope no one considers us folkies at our weekly mass we play for. LF-- no, no, NO!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: mooman
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 11:43 AM

Would there be a crowd to surf?

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 11:48 AM

There's always "Quaker applause"--holding both hands in the air and wiggling them.