Well, that settles it! I ain’t voting for him!
normal concert activity
The same thing happens at every concert. It’s just part of the program and I have never been to a concert in which the main attraction does not come out for an encore.
Did you not know this?
Did you notice that when George Strait comes out for his encore, he wears a different hat that he tosses into the crowd when he walks off for the first time?
This is hugh. No, wait, this is series.
Almost every concert act does this.
Show buisness
However, I saw The Police 2 years ago in Boston. They played most of their hits well (not a great show, but good music.) However, everyone was waiting for Roxanne, and they refused to play it. The whole crowd boo'd, and left pissed.
It takes a lot of planning to be spontaneous. Every act does this in concert.
It’s only an encore when the crowd’s so drunk and stoned they think it happened because they lit their bic lighters!
“Event Staff” and “Security” at these venues are high dollar expenses. The days of encores extending a concert past its pre-planned time allotment are long gone.
It’s called an encore. Every single one of his concerts ends with that song. It isn’t over until the cowboy rides away!
I saw Toby Keith a few weeks ago, and he did not do “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue” and “American Soldier” until the encore. Some in attendance must have seen the same show before, because when they left the stage and all was dark, chants of “USA, USA” started around. Later I read a review from another venue, and it sounded like it was the same series of songs and encoure. Regardless, it was pretty cool and I was glad I went. Trace Adkins also performed.
It’s the way live concerts work.
BTW, my wife and I flew to Nashville to see him and Reba together a couple months ago. It is almost certainly the last “arena” concert we will ever see. He was boring and, although she was somewhat entertaining, the parking, crowds, crappy sound quality and lack of anything other than some pretty talented musicians on stage it was just not worth it.
If someone offered me free tickets to a concert like that now I’d treat it like Mariner tickets. That is, If I was really bored and needed to get out of the house, I MIGHT go, otherwise I’d just find the tickets in my junk drawer months after the fact.
That said, there is a famous venue in Nashville that seats about 2500 that is specifically DESIGNED for live music. I’d definitely want to see a good act there.
Part of it may also that becuase of my wife’s job we meet and talk with LOTS of “famous” people (hence my thread about meeting Sara Palin) so star power has become completely lost on us. They’re all just people, and most of them will be the first to admit it.
I’m glad Dusty cut off his ponytail though. ;)
Standard thing at comcerts.
You need to look up the definition of “encore”.
You ain’t been to many concerts, have ye?
I’ve seen bands do “planned” encores. Even funnier when they are on a remote stage (center of the crowd) and can’t leave but pretend to anyway.
I’ve also seen bands say “we’ve got to go” and say “this is our last song” only to do another 30 minutes or more.
The Doors did a several hour concert in Detroit one time that they recorded (part of it came out as Absolutely Live and eventually they released the whole thing). After about 90 minutes he asks the audience if they’d stay for the show if the band paid the staff to work another hour. John Sebastian even got onstage with them.
....It’s a multiple song encore...everybody has done encores in rock and country history except folks like John Cale and David Byrne and Prince..egotists.
And more importantly, you never never never ever ever criticize George Strait in my wife’s presence.
I thank God he lives in San Antonio and not here in Williamson county Tennessee...else I’d have to do DNA on our many children. She is about George Strait like girls were about the Beatles in 1965.