Crazy dancers - was NOLA Blues Fest

[Jim Wells]

Setting a video camera up behind the drummer to film the whole night of 
dance floor shenanigans can be quite a bit of fun...embarrassing for some, 
too...

Rgds...Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Potter" <maxdog-blues-l@COMCAST.NET>
To: <BLUES-L@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: Crazy dancers - was NOLA Blues Fest


> 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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