It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.
Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.
People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.
You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.
It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
I relaxed. “I would imagine in your world, girls are much different than here in the real world. I’m sure if you spent some time with the everyday girl, you would find I am not unique.” He grinned at me. “The everyday girl is who writes me fan mail and buys out my concerts. They are the girls who yell my name and run after me like crazed animals. You’ve not even tried to sneak into my room and squirt your perfume on my pillow.
In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed... the gig is the party for me now.
I think the crowds in Europe are songwriter crowds. Like, they are a fan of the words, and they're there to listen. An American crowd, they're there to get rowdy, man. And I love both.
Girls throw their panties on the stage, but rarely if ever do they fit.
The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.
When I see a cutie in front at a concert, I say, 'Ohhh, you're so cute! What's your name?' But I wouldn't do that in real life.
The cool thing about our fans is that they're not just passive concert goers.
I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.
You might be a redneck if you're still scalping tickets after the concert is over.
[Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody.
The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.
I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.
The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old.
I'm really into EDM music and the culture of that. I just love all that stuff.
I want babies before I'm 25. I want to bring my babies on the road and bring them to concerts and raise them in the studio.
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.
I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well, that ain't going away.
Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.
