@raidcehlalred said:

I read all your reveiws @noob. You write extremely well, so I value your opinion. Say the wooing appears every 4-5 shows; would this move you from your position?

I ask myself when it's going down - or when I catch the tape - if the 'participation' adds anything positive to the playing, or to my experience (the two can be mutually exclusive). Every time* the answer is No.

You break down alligator mouths and 'three-chord' progressions with calibrated precision; can you do the same for wooing?

I'm not trying to harsh @glassio's good times or whatever. (Nor am I trying to put you on the spot; if you like it, you like it, enough said.) And I could be in the minority, which is fine. But what glass dismisses out of hand is that people do talk like we're at a HS reunion.

Moreover, we're getting into apples and oranges.... Singing along - like last night, with Forbin - is different than inserting yourself into the playing; wooing often creating, at best, a distraction.

It just seems amateurish. I haven't been to a DMB show, but I'll take Dust99's word for it.

My opinion on the woos is that a) the band generally feeds the woos, b) crowd participation is hardly the worst thing in the world, and c) I "woo"ed the times it was prompted at my live shows, and they don't *hurt* the listening experience (they certainly don't hurt the 12/31/14 Theme or 10/27/13 Golden Age, for example). If they did it with more frequency, then sure, I might get tired of it. But they don't.