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BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?

08 Jan 05 - 12:44 PM (#1374479)
Subject: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Liz the Squeak

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


08 Jan 05 - 12:47 PM (#1374484)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Cluin

Passing the spliff around.


08 Jan 05 - 12:54 PM (#1374501)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Bill D

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


08 Jan 05 - 12:55 PM (#1374502)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: John MacKenzie

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


08 Jan 05 - 01:48 PM (#1374556)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: coldjam

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!


08 Jan 05 - 02:06 PM (#1374573)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: GUEST,heric

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.)


08 Jan 05 - 02:57 PM (#1374619)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: GUEST,Seaking

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


08 Jan 05 - 02:59 PM (#1374622)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: GUEST,Seaking

...otherwise known as 'waxing lyrical'


08 Jan 05 - 03:26 PM (#1374638)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Clinton Hammond

I'm with Cluin...

*Pfffffffffft*

'ere... *gnnnnk*   take it...

*fffffooooooooooooooooo....*

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

Sweeeeeet duuude...


08 Jan 05 - 03:35 PM (#1374644)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Micca

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


08 Jan 05 - 03:35 PM (#1374645)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: McGrath of Harlow

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.


09 Jan 05 - 03:19 PM (#1375235)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme

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

Art Thieme


09 Jan 05 - 03:22 PM (#1375238)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme

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

Art


09 Jan 05 - 03:27 PM (#1375242)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: ranger1

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


09 Jan 05 - 03:44 PM (#1375257)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: John MacKenzie

Silly


09 Jan 05 - 04:29 PM (#1375302)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: CarolC

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.


09 Jan 05 - 04:32 PM (#1375304)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: McGrath of Harlow

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.


09 Jan 05 - 08:31 PM (#1375499)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: wysiwyg

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

~S~


10 Jan 05 - 07:06 PM (#1376243)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: LilyFestre

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

Michelle


10 Jan 05 - 07:33 PM (#1376261)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: McGrath of Harlow

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


10 Jan 05 - 08:19 PM (#1376284)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: wysiwyg

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

~S~


11 Jan 05 - 11:43 AM (#1376611)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: mooman

Would there be a crowd to surf?

Peace

moo


11 Jan 05 - 11:48 AM (#1376618)
Subject: RE: BS: Crowd surfing - folk equivalent?
From: Jim Dixon

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