Audience Participation - Revision history

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Jason.Kreitzer at 23:18, 4 August 2021

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 ==Audience members invited on stage to perform with the band==
 *''[[Make A Sex Noise]]''
 *''[[88/03/17 Binghamton NY US Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena|88/03/17 Binghamton]]'' (longer version)
-*[[88/03/23 Towson MD US Towson]] according to CD-booklet in [[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6|YCDTOSA 6]] (date is questionable since [[wikipedia:St. Patrick's Day|St. Patrick's Day]] is March 17, so part of that track must be from March 23.)
+*[[88/03/23 Towson MD US Towson]] according to CD booklet in [[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6|YCDTOSA 6]] (date is questionable since [[wikipedia:St. Patrick's Day|St. Patrick's Day]] is March 17, so part of that track must be from March 23.)
 * ''Sex Noise Competition'' ~ [[88/04/27 Oslo Norway Skedsmohallen]]

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 * [[Al Malkin]]
 * [[Angus O'Reilly]]
 * [[Mark Trottiner]]

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 * [[Al Malkin]]
 * [[Angus O'Reilly]]
 ==Quotes==

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 *...
-==Notable audience members brought on stage to participate==
+==Notable audience participators==
 * [[Angel]]
 * [[Eric Buxton]]

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 ==Notable audience members brought on stage to participate==
 * [[Angel]]
-* [[Angus O'Reilly]]
+* [[Eric Buxton]]
 * [[Louis Cuneo]]
 * David Ditkowich (see ''[[Dave & Al]]'')
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 * [[Sal Lombardo]]
 * [[Al Malkin]]
 ==Quotes==
-''"Well, audience participation depends on two things, well, more than two. First of all, it depends on the audience. You got the wrong kind of audience, you'll never get 'em to participate. The next important thing is where you're performing. If you are in a theater, it's a little bit easier to do it if there's a stage apron out in front where you can accommodate people, because if you're just playing on one of those kind of built-up stages, like you do in a coliseum or something like that, there's not enough dancing area, or if people come up there, they're gonna trip over the wires on the stage, and you'll be out of business."'' - Frank Zappa, ''[[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1]]'', [[Den Simms]], Eric Buxton, Rob Samler, ''[[Society Pages]]'', April 1990.
+''"Well, audience participation depends on two things, well, more than two. First of all, it depends on the audience. You got the wrong kind of audience, you'll never get 'em to participate. The next important thing is where you're performing. If you are in a theater, it's a little bit easier to do it if there's a stage apron out in front where you can accommodate people, because if you're just playing on one of those kind of built-up stages, like you do in a coliseum or something like that, there's not enough dancing area, or if people come up there, they're gonna trip over the wires on the stage, and you'll be out of business."'' - Frank Zappa, ''[[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1]]'', [[Den Simms]], [[Eric Buxton]], [[Rob Samler]], ''[[Society Pages]]'', April 1990.
 ==See also==
 * [[Secret Word]]
 [[Category:Conceptual Continuity]]

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-During concerts [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] very often asked members of the audience to come on to the stage and perform with the band.
+Several concerts of Zappa made use of audience participation, which he often included on his albums and in videos too.
 *[[Make A Sex Noise]]
-<blockquote>
+==Audience members invited on stage to perform with the band==
-*[[88/03/17 Binghamton NY US Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena|88/03/17 Binghamton]] (longer version)
+*''[[Make A Sex Noise]]''
 *[[88/03/23 Towson MD US Towson]] according to CD-booklet in [[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6|YCDTOSA 6]] (date is questionable since [[wikipedia:St. Patrick's Day|St. Patrick's Day]] is March 17, so part of that track must be from March 23.)
-*Sex Noise Competition ~ [[88/04/27 Oslo Norway Skedsmohallen]]
+* ''Sex Noise Competition'' ~ [[88/04/27 Oslo Norway Skedsmohallen]]
 *...
-</blockquote>
-* Dance Contest
+==Audience members asked to vote which song to play next==
-<blockquote>
+* ''[[D.C. Boogie]]''
-*[[Be-Bop Tango|Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church)]] ~ [[Roxy & Elsewhere]]
-*"Audience Participation", [[The Black Page #2]] & [[Dance Contest]] ~ [[Baby Snakes (The Film)]]
+==Audience members ''coupled'' with "lonely" audience members==
-*[[Dinah-Moe Humm]] ~ [[Baby Snakes (The Film)]]
+* ''[[Dave & Al]]''
-*[[Dance Contest]] ~ [[Tinseltown Rebellion]]
-*...
+==Other performances==
-</blockquote>
+*''[[Don't Eat The Yellow Snow]]'' ~ [[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1|YCDTOSA 1]] version, "Recite-a-Poem"
 *...
 ==Notable audience members brought on stage to participate==
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 * [[Sal Lombardo]]
 * [[Al Malkin]]
-</blockquote>
 [[Category:Conceptual Continuity]]