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From: t~umancode.com (Tim Moyer)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:20:52 -0600
Subject: Re: WILD APPLAUSE

At 04:50 PM 1/16/98 EST, Mus1cman40 wrote:
>I have asked other unknown harp players on stage a number of times.
Audiences
>have almost always given the same reaction, WILD APPLAUSE, regardless of
>whether the guy could play or not.

This brings up a funny phenomonon I've noticed. I once went to see a band
perform with whom a friend was the guitarist. He let me know ahead of time
that he wanted me to sit in. What he DIDN'T let me know what that this
band already had a harp player. This guy wasn't very good. He lacked even
a very well developed single-note ability. The audience didn't seem to
care for his playing very much. When I got up to play -- WILD APPLAUSE.
Now, sometime later, I was playing in another band, with the same
guitarist. This guy shows up at a gig (I'm not a regular, so I don't think
he even knew I was going to be there), and asked if he could sit in on a
tune. The reaction: WILD APPLAUSE!

Maybe it's that we're such good natured people that we just love a guest,
no matter what their level of ability. Maybe it's people's way of saying
"Good try!" Maybe it's because they admire the spunk of someone who'll get
up out of the audience and perform on stage, as if to say, "He's one of us!"

Inexplicable.



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