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  • "let see how long we can go without talking".... My mom said the same thing to me when I was a toddler...

  • thank you for addressing those people who have not learned the concept of the world you bring change too. Thank you for allowing those of us who learn words, beats, tempo to sing along it, your show was one of the best I've ever attended. thank you! Being apart is the best part of life. Sing along.

  • @brotoriousastrolad you are what we call in England.... a cunt.

  • @thesonsarealreet in America we call u an outcast

  • @tvoh01 That 'Ms Jackson' song is good.

  • i talk as loud as i can in movie theaters. i paid money, so i can do whatever i want. if i have too much soda, i can take a piss on the guy sitting in front of me. i paid money. maybe you should take a look at the constitution, where it very specifically states that i have the right to piss on anyone i want as long as i have money.

  • Tweedy has another video called "Your kingdom must come down" where he talks about how a concert can almost be like a religious experience where these varied people have come together to experience this emotional trust and openness. And silence is undervalued now. Just hiding away in a quiet art museum looking at paintings on a rainy day-beautiful. A collective experience listening to good music in this scattered world is a thing of value.

  • I like to the concert and enjoy it and then go to the bar afterward and talk. I once saw Patty Smith in concert and had a great time and then she came to the bar I was at afterward and said hello. I can't understand why you, a musician, would be offended by someone like me who respects what you do. The Clash concert probably had less than 100 people and they weren't quiet but we were engaged with the music and not chattering about our stupid mortgages.

  • @nestorian9

    I'm not offended by your efforts at all, I would appreciate your eagerness to lend an ear. But I see that as a reciprocated privilege and not a demand, because be rights people are different I would prefer them to maintain their freedom and individuality in how they choose to spend their probably precious time out. I think the real fans and listeners emerge with time anyway, and an awe-inspiring artist can hold an entire room in silence with the pluck of a few notes.

  • cont... some people just don't and never get it, that's their loss. Worse than our loss of a quiet venue, they will likely never comprehend and enjoy music the way someone who embraces and draws themselves into it might. Perhaps they are just incapable, I let them on their way, I have my reward already!

    

  • Okay. A bar is a bar. I expect if I see a concert at a bar people will talk. However, if the band is good enough and not well-known, I will usually shut up and decide they are worth listening to. You should appreciate this as a musician. You put work and effort and talent into what you do and someone like me comes along and listens to your music. A concert in a concert hall is about the concert. It's not the bar. I"m not going to ruin the experience for you because I can't shut up.

  • I'm glad you have the money to pay to have Wilco be background music for you and your friends to socialize after work, but for some of us it is a treat. When I pay $50 a ticket, I want to listen to the band. If you think a $50 concert is background music, why not just go to any bar? Why go to a concert and ruin it for other people? If you paid $500 for the Rolling Stones, you might get annoyed if i wanted to chat with my friends after work and you should just deal with it.

  • @nestorian9

    I'm not well off, I just understand that it's a social environment. That is what clubs and bars are known to be, your specific listening desires and need for that environment are not social, hence you are the one with the inappropriate demand.

  • @nestorian9 They ruin it for other people because they're selfish, arrogant assholes, who are the first to be taken aback when somebody has the audacity to point out that what they do affects other people - because they DON'T CARE about other people, yet spend their entire lives PRETENDING to 'care', so that their 'friends' will continue hanging out with them (and no doubt talking throughout gig after gig after gig, too...)

    Most people simply can't HEAR music properly, it's as simple as that.

  • NO. Fuck this, I've played plenty of acoustic gigs in my lifetime, and as much as it's pleasant to have everyone nice and quiet, and to draw everyone in with your little campfire sound...it is NOT something you can demand. Some people pay money to socialise and watch only occasionally at music shows, and they are perfectly entitled to do that. Some of the diehard fans may yearn for stone cold silence, but not everybody cares as much, and to bully them out just so you can hear a pin drop= shitty

  • @billhicks8 Disagree. I saw Tom Waits in a small music hall and The Clash in another tiny venue. I saw Warren Zevon in a small space with a bunch of losers talking. I'm still pissed that people talked through Zevon and that was the last time he came through before he died. But I guess they got their after-work socializing in. That was what was important. That THEY were happy. My desire to see the concert I paid to see was nothing compared to their need to talk constantly.

  • @nestorian9

    You saw it, but your own expectations ruined it for you, you just decided that everybody else should sit in near silence. And because they did what they would usually do in such a place, you were upset. I don't talk much at gigs, much like yourself but your expectations for everyone to do as we do is just not going to be given much appreciation. At least I hope you didn't require silence at The Clash concert...

  • @billhicks8 And yeah, I expected too much. I expected that people would understand that Warren Zevon was one of the best songwriters of our generation and would listen to him. It was ruined for me, yes. Not because I was angry but because someone so obviously talented was ignored. I was just sad. I'm not saying (and Tweedy isn't saying) that people should be silent. Just engaged with the music and not in their own world.

  • Hey Jeff: I scalped your tickets and made a fortune. Neener neener.

  • I love Jeff Tweedy and no amount of condemning will ever make me hate this man.

  • Jeff Tweedy = most whiny bitch on the scene today. "I want to be the best I can be for you..." WAAAAHHH!!! People probably wouldn't be talking if his music didn't suck.

  • @ccrider201 irony. Ha

    

  • tweedy comes off a bit of a jerk here

  • Maybe I'm slightly more rancor after having attended a concert where said incident occurred, but honestly, to all concert goers who show up to just talk endlessly on end... NEWS FLASH! Nobody, in the history of man/woman, gives a flying piece of horseshit about how you're going to buy your goddamn dog a sweater over the weekend. Or how much pot you're going to smoke, or what party you're going to crash. You know why? Because people go to concerts to escape people like you! So please, just STFU.

  • @Prodakin And.....vented!

  • @OllieTheBum8182 Yes, they are social events, in the same ways as going to see a movie or a play. Do you talk for the entire duration of said 'social event'? No, because different social events calls for different approaches, just like you wouldn't light up a joint and blow smoke into your grandma's face during her 86th birthday party just because that's how you 'shoot the breeze' with your buddies in the confines of your own home.

  • @OllieTheBum8182 They're not. They're places where people go to listen to fucking music.

  • @LostTurntable

    ...and they do, they just don't listen in the intense way that you wish to enforce upon them. Some people might just be happy they are away from work and get to talk to a friend with some background music they like, some people aren't like you and would find your rules restrictive rather than liberating.

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  • @LostTurntable

    Here, have pride in your unbridled aggression:

    'There's listening and then there's not listening. Its not fucking binary. Either you shut your worthless fucking piehole and leave us non-idiots alone at a concert, so we can actually enjoy the fucking music, or you get the fuck out and blabber about your stupid worthless piece of shit life somewhere else.

    If you want background music, listen to your stereo and stay the fuck away from a concert. '

    ...and then get laid

  • ...and by the way there is a discernable difference between passive listening and active listening, unlike you I am comfortable with facts rather than trying to bend reality to a selfish whim. You want to go and listen to music where everyone is dead silent, go and listen at a venue fascistic and hateful enough for your desires and leave human beings who want and can communicate without screaming 'fucking' every few words...ALONE.

  • Pompous prick, really.

  • I mean, he has to be the most humble man ever. Seriously.

    He's yelling at these pricks, AND HE'S STILL BEING NICE!

  • That feel when you wish Jeff Tweedy was your dad?

    I know that feel.

  • Very funny. Check out @JeffyTweedying on twitter. Funny feed with just Tweedy lyrics.

  • Quite right. Never heard of this guy before, but he's spot on.

  • 0:59 i fell out of my chair laughing.. Jeff's got the right idea. haha

  • Is applause allowed or are we supposed to show our appreciation to Jeff with silence?

  • My only question is: Why are there 13 people that dislike this video? Hmmm...perhaps they were the ones talking during Jeff's show.

  • I applaud his courage for saying what a lot of artists are probably thinking but dare not say. People who talk are disrespecting not only the musician, but their fellow concert-goers. A few venues bill themselves as listening rooms and actively discourage talking during performances. Eddie's Attic in Decatur, Ga is a prime example. Music lovers: start insisting that venues deliver the experience you paid for!

  • As a performance Artist, these words are my own. Thank You.

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  • Right on, Jeff, well said! People have become so desensitized by omnipresent technological media, it's as if they think they're in their own home watching TV and it's totally cool to talk, etc. But it's not TV, it's live human beings playing for other live human beings, and the least one can do is shut the fuck up ... if not to enhance their own enjoyment then at the very least out of consideration for their fellow audience members. In other words, like your mom said, don't be a selfish asshole.

  • Well said!!

  • 11 people need to STFU.

  • Since a friend was playing a small room back in the 60s and we were choked about all the people talking over his acoustic set, this issue has been the bane of my existence! People who feel the need to flap their gums during a performance are ignorant and need to be told to button it! Glad to see Jeff speaking up for artists & their audiences everywhere! 2 thumbs way up! :)

  • "so you're saying that you are silent the whole 2-3 hours that some artist is playing?" Yup! and I'm quiet during movies too! Guess I was raised right...

  • OK Jeff, garner attention through songs not some lecture.

  • @mojo75 You don't fucking talk during a Wilco set.

  • People that are talking during a concert are talking ABOUT the concert, sharing the experience with each other. So yeah, they are going to talk ABOUT YOU, and how you are doing. So stop bitching and let people share.

  • @barendbos That's fine; just share AFTER the song is over. Everyone else paid to listen to the music, not to you.

  • @barendbos - And what makes you think the people around you that have paid to come to the show want to hear your friends "sharing with each other"? Please STFU. And repeat.

  • @fusion07mp4 so you're saying that you are silent the whole 2-3 hours that some artist is playing? ...right...

    It isn't a classic concert you know, if he wants that he should only play at theatres and concerthalls. He has to accept SOME noise. That's not to say he was maybe right this time, but making remarks as he did like those is very dangerous. it can kill the mood of a concert

  • @barendbos Not ALL r talking ABOUT concert, in fact I've rarely heard people talking ABOUT the concert while AT the concert. I've heard 2 guys discussing their mortgages the WHOLE fucking time. I've heard girls talking about their boss/make-up/ex-boyfriends & even guys talking about ex's. I've heard all kinds of mundane bullshit. I wonder why someone pays for a ticket to go talk to a friend about their mortgage or their boss when they should be enjoying the show & forgetting about all of that.

  • @groovic67 haha allright. that sounds horrible :)

  • Excellent! I've been waiting so long to see an artist actually SAY this to the idiots who talk all the way through their music.

    What sort of morons go to concerts and TALK all the way through, ruining it for everybody else (who sure as hell didn't go to hear their neighbour talking!!!)

    EXCELLENT! I would go and see this guy even if I didn't like his music, just to hear the music for once, instead of DICKS talking throughout... idiots who are pretending to like music.

  • asshole.

  • Boy this seems like a stupid way to go. I'm a respectful listener, but at the same time I would never come see him again if he went off on this tangent.

  • @Quasi8 PEOPLE NEED TO SHUT UP!

  • Power trip. After the first couple of seconds about wanting to please, he is all about wanting his audience to please him. Yawn.

  • @druickd He's God. He don't care.

  • This is fucking fantastic. Thanks, Jeff.

  • he is so right. bein' a musician myself i can tell you, it distracts the people who want to just hear the music. as a fan AND a musician i can tell you: talkers suck!

  • @leveelevee talkers do suck!

  • tweed should go on tour with hope sandoval. what a bunch of fun audience participation that would be.

  • a true treasure to the world. Jeff Tweedy is my constant

  • Awesome!

  • People talking thru your songs is a fact o life. Especially when alcohol is mixed into the equation, friends will talk at anything, even a funeral! So just be a little bit more professional Jeff. Don't let the voices effect you, cuz the other 9 out of 10 people are listening to you, don't make it worse by admonishing the bad kids. Transcend the bullshit!

  • It's so refreshing to hear someone tell these self-absorbed assholes that we have to walk amongst to stop and consider someone other than themselves for one evening. Good on you Jeff.

  • The same thing happened at a Lambchop concert here in NZ, people paid $50 to go and talk while Lambchop played. Nice one. Sad face.

  • What has this world come to? This man as a celebrity should be entertaining people not telling people what to do. If I go to a concert & started talking to someone, that's none of his business. I paid money to be there & he's making the money.

  • @ransom247

    it's assholes like you that ruin amazing shows for people who give a shit about the music..."you're not just you" says Tweedy...and i say the same to you...others paid money to be there too...shut your mouth and listen - and let others do the same!! this crap even bothers me at a loud-ass phish show

  • @antonvangrendel I'm sorry to piss in your cheerios again but this has been going on for a long time and it will continue to go on. I have been at several concerts where people talk, laugh, scream & shout, it's part of our constitution right. Besides-if you don't like it, raise your fist at one.

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  • If you wanna talk, go pay your entrance money at the talking hall and talking all you want. You pay your money at the concert hall, you got to pay attention to the concert.

  • YES! He's not arrogant, not a pompous ass --- most of us pay for concert tickets to hear the artists & not to have to listen to a bunch of ignoramuses running their mouths.

  • Saw Paul McCartney in 2005 and some jackass right behind me was talking through Blackbird. I turned around and gave them the eye roll and then they mostly shutup. That was around $150 ticket.

  • YES!!!

  • I hate it when people talk during concerts, especially if its a mellow laid back tune. I don't know anything by Jeff Tweedy, but he nails it here.

  • I know nothing about Jeff Tweedy. I don't know if I'd want to hear his music. But what he says here is right on the fucking money. Pompous ass or heavenly saint, if people just turned their iphones and blackberries off, shut up, and PAID ATTENTION, and listened to the music, or listened to the silence, or listened to anything at all besides their own tiny selves and their tiny aquaintances, they'd be better people and this would be a better world.

  • While I can't stand talking at concerts, this dude comes off as a bit of a pompous ass.

  • @Pappyhab I couldn't agree more. Jeff is a shallow, self absorbed pompous ass with only mildly interesting songs here and there. No wonder people were talking Jeff. Probably the smarter ones who see thru your think veneer. FUCK Jeff Tweedy!

  • YES! WHAT HE SAID!!

  • bravo!!!

  • Totally agree with Jeff! cause people who talk ruin it for others too..

  • I will bet any amount that it was some looser whinning to her girlfriends becasue her boyfriend dumped her. And I bet he dumped her because she didn't know when to shut up.

  • This is why I love Jeff Tweedy! Honestly. His personality is in his music.

  • Holy Shit! I love this....

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  • Nice ice-break at the end. Props to Jeff's performance skills.

  • DAYUM STRAIGHT!!!!

  • oh crap.

    That's at the Crystal in Portland, as you can tell at 1:40.

    Anyway, he's right, this happens everywhere there's a bar, and there is one there, in the back.

    Although he did go on about it too long.

  • @kartofflenbrain -- The point. You've missed it.

  • Yeah! I was just at his solo set in St. Louis and I every video I recorded was ruined by these people talking next to me. To see this is truly priceless. This is exactly what I was thinking.

  • @ngrcia Do you go to movies and videotape them too? People talking while your tryng to videtape the show, man I have heard it all now. You should have asked the ushers to throw those beatnik discussionists out on there liberal behinds.

  • @PappyHab You know I just might videotape a movie. And you wouldn't mind if people talked all through that movie I take it? Look, why go to a concert if you're not even going to watch it. Jeff Tweedy solo sets are very intimate things. I'm not saying what should be. But let me experience it the way I'd like and I'll do the same for you. Keep in mind though, this wasn't average talking. These people were beyond drunk.

  • Listen, I was the biggest Wilco fan on the planet til a couple of years ago. Seen him ream people out at 7-8 different shows, folks in the back not during "quiet" songs either. Just saying to him, put up or shut up. People have a right to talk, he has a right to voice his dissaproval i guess. Over the years I got really irritated with Tweedy and the band and the way they evolved. Used to worship the guy, now I find it all to be so pretentious and boring. Solo in St Loo would have been cool, shh!

  • Love you, you are the man.

  • Its amazing how when he asks for silence all however many hundred people who are in the room shut up and don't make a sound.

  • this guy is fuckin stupid lol what a dam douche bag.

  • I call this the "immaturing of America" -- you have people in grown-up bodies, going about with grown-up facades, but they actually are really just elementary school kids inside, if EVEN that.

    Do you notice how Jeff has to sit there and restrain his anger and talk to them like he's talking to a room of elementary school-age children? That's because that's what they really are, between the ears, nowadays.

  • jeff "gaylord" tweedyhe makes some good points but he takes it waay too far he couldve just done it jokingly this just reeks of fucking pretentious take myself seriously american hippie/indie bullshit. wat a fucking little self centered prick they paid u to fucking stand there n sing songs if they wana talk thats their business. u think people listen to ur albums in silence u little fuckstick? seriously man this guy needs to take his finger out of his arse and learn some people skills.

  • @jeremyhillaryboobphd lmfao. right?

  • @rockerchick211 i don't get it sorry haha i wasn't trolling if that's what you mean, musics about having fun not listening to some guys life story about how he wants to kill himself, a concert should be entertaining if people are talking he's not doing his job well enough. maybe he should watch some van halen dvd's

  • @jeremyhillaryboobphd

    not at all. if i were an artist wanting to play a concert like that it would be the most insulting thing in the world, to stand there putting my heart out for everyone but they just reject me, like some lowly piece of entertainment.

    also, have you ever been to a concert with people talking? its the most ridiculous thing in the world. at least realize that talking at a concert is a disservice to the others there, not just the performer.

  • god i love this

  • someone needs to SIIHB.

  • What a douche.

  • "you know why? cuz you're talking!"

    sounds like my fuckin 1st grade teacher.

  • @TwilitParade You're first grade teacher was not as awesome as Jeff Tweedy. This is why you're now an internet troll. Go learn something.

  • attention whore!!!

  • Yeah...the man is SO right

  • I had to tell a prima donna guitar player in "Beirut" to shut up at the Wilco gig at the Øya Festival in Oslo last year Hehehe. He threatened me with telling Jeff about it. Hahaha. Glourios....:D

  • Tumbs up for Jeff

  • I agree with him but in my opinion this reaction is definitely exagerated. Anyway I don't know what the audience did.. maybe some of them were really too loud and disturbed the quiet ones who just wanted to listen to the concert. I would never behave like that with my fans

  • @normanhate I agree.

  • As a musician myself, once you stick out your neck, you have to be prepared for anything: the rudeness, the heckling, the indifference, all this as well as the glory and the praise. Like it or not, it's part of 'the game.' Especially in a culture where every third person has a band or is some kind of performer.

  • I saw him play solo in Beacon, NY. Much as he chides the audience, he definitely plays it up a bit & feeds off it. Sometimes the banter in between songs is as entertaining as the music!

  • @PappyHab -- you are being rude to the other concert goers who also payed $50 to see him if you don't shut up long enough to let them enjoy what they came to hear. People talking during performances act like they're the only person in the goddamn world. Stop being such a self-centered ass.

  • @cynopt You...my friend..rely on the company of cute kittens who claw at your crotch at dinnertime. It is hard to take you seriously, I am sorry. Tweedy is the ass dude and I am reporting you to the authorities cause it looks like you have way too many 4 legged felines in your place, not to mention the ones you have living in your dryer! Get a life cat-guy.

  • @PappyHab -- You know that's not even my video, right? lol

  • JUDAS!

  • I have a page on Facebook titled, Stop Talking While The Band Is Playing. Come by and join!! What a great video!!

  • TWEEDY! RULES!

  • so there actually was one good moment of heckling at this concert when some dude yelled out "Tweedy's a Sweetie" at a very opportune quiet moment...

  • he's dead on. he said what everyone else at the show was thinking. if you're not at an acoustic show to listen and enjoy the music, gtfo

  • Seriously. He said what I want so many musicians to say when I'm at concerts and people will not stop talking.

  • Right on, Jeff!!!!

  • Who is this guy? He's right on the money!

  • you're a bitch, tweedy will murder you

  • he's right.

    man, its so frustrating when i listen to concerts of bands who are no longer around etc. and legendary performances and I hear people talking! I wanted to be there intent on the concert, and they were wasting their time! jeff is completely right!!

  • Actually, I think this cares about his audience.

    I'm all about calling out rude audience members. You don't run your mouth during a solo acoustic show in a theatre unless you're a dick. This isn't a bar or a loud electric show. This is a room full of people who paid good money.

  • People don't talk during acoustic shows in theaters. That's pretty rude.

  • I love this guy. He's totally right. This isn't just a gig Jeff is playing in a bar, either...you'd expect people to be talking there, because it's a bar. But Jeff is playing a proper concert in a proper music hall, where people paid $30 to see him. So why would you go to that kind of a show if you aren't going to listen?

  • It was more like $20.

  • hehe, this is like the coolest guy ever :D

    sooooo freakin cool :)

  • man there are alot of (and i dont wanna offend anyone) ass-kissers to jeff tweedy on youtube...yeah concerts are for the music, but they're also a place where you can listen to awesome music AND talk to your buds about while drinking a beer. So in the end, who cares...maybe Wilco needs to turn their amps up to 11.

  • @specopdude there are no amps...and there is no wilco. this is a Jeff Tweedy solo acoustic show.

    i went to a wilco show a few nights ago...they played loud most of the set, and folks talked a bit, but when they moved to the front of the stage for an acoustic set and the audience volume stayed the same tweedy asked us to be quiet. we did. and it was a better show because of it. then the amps came back on and folks started talked and carryin on.

    theres just a certain etiquette for performances

  • @specopdude This was a solo concert with Jeff Tweedy. And you don't go to a show and talk through a solo acoustic performance. That's what bars are for.

  • Hahaha, I was at this show. They were REALLY loud and VERY distracting.

  • That's great! He's not at all being a jerk. He's being honest. He's asking people to come out of their narcissistic self and be a part. LISTEN.

    Why would anyone take this any other way? He makes it very clear. He is speaking NOT from arrogance but from the heart.

  • haha he's awesome, what a cool dude.

  • I think he's speaking less out of his own frustration with being an artist who's not being heard and more for the other fans in the audience who might not be getting 100% of this experience because someone next to them can't shut the fuck up.

    He's right. And he's the man.

  • Last night I was at Girl In A Coma (excellent band by the way) and everyone, all 100 or so people were really in to it. Except, of course, three douchebags who yakked loud enough to be heard OVER THE MUSIC. I shot them a couple of "c'mon people" looks and then finally, after 45 minutes with two songs to go, asked them to please be quieter. Of course, the thought I was the douche and kept talking and ruined, for me and my wife, the last two songs. There must be a solution to this problem.

  • maybe people should not get annoyed at him for lambasting a fan, but actually listen to what hes saying. You know, if you listen to someone sometimes,you might actually understand what they're trying to say.

  • He sounds like someone who is annoyed at a bunch of fucking pricks who have no problem ruining the show for everyone else.

  • he's just joking. tweedy's a cool guy with a great sense of humor

  • Why? Its his fucking show that a couple thousand people paid good money to go see. They didnt pay to listen to douchebags like yourself ruin the concert.

  • You employ the logic of a 7th grader. Im starting to think you are the douchebag that is talking. No, if you want to talk....fucking leave. Other people paid to see a show not listen to some douchebag (you?). Yes, if you have to compete with some douchebag in the audience, it does says something. It says there is a doucebag named Dan in the audience who's mama didn't slap the piss out of him enough...

  • Dude, shut the fuck up. All of your commenting is making it hard to pay attention to my Jeff Tweedy video.

  • He's got a point, though. Think of the people who paid money to see a rare Jeff Tweedy solo show, and they have to sit next to these yappers who talk through the whole thing. The TALKERS are the douches, man.  Not Tweedy.

  • Amen Jeff ... this same ilk of attendees are people who can shove their cell phones straight up their asses too. They really make concerts near unbearable to attend anymore.

  • I have to agree that Tweedy goes a little long, but I have to agree with him on this. I saw Wilco last night and spent the entire show between a set of superfans who compared setlists all night, and a gaggle of teenage girls and boys who constantly made a big deal out of the fact that they were smoking pot. It was a fantastic show, but the crowd was obnoxious and at times it took away from the performance.

  • Why the fuck would you watch this if you have no idea who he is?

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