Crazy dancers - was NOLA Blues Fest

[Walter Potter]

At a Sean Costello show a few months back some folks from New Hampshire 
were in the juke. One guy kept doing a sort of handstand-kick routine 
that looked like a mule kicking to me. At one point Sean jumped back 
from the mic and later said he was worried about getting his teeth 
knocked out.

At another show a rather buxom, barely dressed and very intoxicated 
woman kept falling around the dance floor. Finally she ended up draped 
backward over a monitor and made motions like she was about to take off 
her clothes. One of our more prudish regulars went up and drug her off 
the dance floor ... damn it.

I've seen some awfully goofy dancing, I wonder how the musicians can 
keep from cracking up laughing at times. Maybe because they've seen it 
all too often. Watching someone acting goofy on the dance floor is one 
thing, the one that gets me are the extremely serious "I just came from 
my Arthur Murry class" types. You can almost see them counting steps.
--
Walter

Stan Erhart wrote:
> Dance floor sites can be very weird at times, even at gigs you wouldn't 
> expect it at.  Here are a couple of knuckleheads doing their thing in the 
> midst of a dancing crowd of well dressed ladies and otherwise normal blues 
> fans while Mike Schermer was playing.  They kept it under control and 
> didn't scare anybody, but Walter's comment reminded of these pictures I 
> took from the stage last June.  I see these guys in the crowd every so 
> often and it makes me laugh and I'm glad I caught them on digital.  They 
> were in their own little mosh pit.
> 
> http://erhart.net/images/opl-06-24-2007-crazycancers-1.jpg
> http://erhart.net/images/opl-06-24-2007-crazycancers-2.jpg
> 
> -Stan
> 
> Blues Music List <BLUES-L@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG> wrote on 10/12/2007 04:55:53 
> PM:
> 
> 
>>Kim Mason wrote:
>>
>>>It was difficult for a younger person to maintain Their footing that
>>>night, given all the bodies in motion and the heat. Robert isn't as
>>>young as He used to be, but none of Us are! It was either the
>>>dehydration, or being scared by the older hippie chick that was
>>>flailing herself around in front of Him, dang near became ...intimate
>>>w/ My beer bottle when She fell onto Me.
>>
>>I can only imagine what musicians must think while playing on stage 
>>looking out at the dance floor. Sometimes its a beautiful site but all 
>>too often ... well, alcohol doesn't bring out the best in many folks.
>>
>>-- 
>>Walter
>>Keep on keepin' on ...
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