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Gryff:
To me encores are only stupid if the band leaves the stage and comes back when there's only a half-assed audience response. The crowd should be begging for more, not politely clapping until the band inevitably comes back on.

Bigger bands have the luxury of knowing that there will be a big response from the audience when they leave the stage, so they can plan ahead and save a couple of hits for the encore. I'd prefer it if bands never took it for granted. If there is demand for an encore they should come back and play a few more songs, maybe some lesser known stuff, maybe a cover or two or something.

My best encore experience was seeing The Clean a few years ago in a small pub. It was a pretty small venue but it was full of people, and everyone was screaming for the band to keep playing. They did three encores after a pretty long set and by the end of it the band looked like they were going to collapse (along with most of the audience too I think). Good times - and man did my ears ring after that one.

Valrus:

--- Quote from: Jarne ---Paul McCartney did two encores when I saw him. It was annoying simply because of the amount of time he left inbetween each one.
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I bet that motherfucker was just fishing for applause.

Kai:
GEORGE WAS BETTER

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: sjbrot ---I'm slightly bitter about Metric. They just cancelled a show in my town (that was selling plenty of tickets) so that they could do a third show in Edmonton.
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Fuck fuck FUCK. Words beyond that cannot express my fury.

Fuck.


Anyways, the Arcade Fire did an encore. They obviously planned it, as Win careened about the stage and knocked shit over at the end of "Rebellion (Lies)" after his crowdsurfing (that was surreal, guys) and guitar rockage bit. Roadies came on and brought it back up, destroying any illusion that they were done.

That said, the encore was amazing. Consider this: instead of "one more song," the crowd merely clapped in rhythm and "ooo"ed the violin hook from "Rebellion" and the band came on grinning in response. They proceeded to go through "In The Backseat" and walk out through the crowd, who sang along with them (again, "ooo"ing the same line the band "ooo"ed).

It was pretty kickass.

sjbrot:
I think Gryff summed up my feelings very well.

Probably my only really cool encore experience of the last while was with Gonzales. He came on stage and pretty much said that since some people arrived late for his set, he would condense the whole thing into a three-minute highlight reel. Which he did, which was great.

He also turned "Happy Birthday" and "Frere Jacques" into minor keys, which was great as well.

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