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Speaker 1: Okay, I've got a possibly controversial view on standing up

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Speaker 1: at a concert. So I went to Metallica last night, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, was great, and I shouldn't have bagged

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Speaker 1: them as much as I did on the show yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We were in the stands, we had some seats. There

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Speaker 1: was a guy who was a couple of rows in

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Speaker 1: front of us, and the minute that Metallica started, this

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Speaker 1: guy was up on his feet. Everybody was sitting that

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Speaker 1: he was up on his feet. He had both hands

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Speaker 1: in the air, he was pulling the horns, he was

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Speaker 1: banging his head, he was playing the air guitar, he

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Speaker 1: was singing all the lyrics. He was just having the

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Speaker 1: best night of his life. And him having a good

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Speaker 1: time was actually so much fun to watch. It actually

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Speaker 1: made the rest of us have a better time as well.

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Speaker 1: But the people behind him didn't love it, so they

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Speaker 1: started to throw cans at him, and the cans were

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Speaker 1: hitting him in the back, and he just ignored them.

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Speaker 1: And then a couple of ladies actually like reach, clambered

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Speaker 1: over their seats, whacked him on the back, told him

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Speaker 1: to sit down. He ignored all of this, and at

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Speaker 1: this point a guy this has been going on for

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, and a guy just had enough

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Speaker 1: and he got out of his seat way behind us,

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Speaker 1: walked down, leaned across the whole bunch of chairs, got

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Speaker 1: into a verbal altercation with the head banger, told him off,

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Speaker 1: actually tried to drag him down into his seat physically,

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Speaker 1: and this went on until the guy finally gave up

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Speaker 1: and just sat down. But he couldn't help himself because

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Speaker 1: he was having the best night of his life. So

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Speaker 1: every time another song started, old mate was back up

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Speaker 1: on his feet, double horning at it again, going for

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Speaker 1: a few bars on the air guitar, and then remembering

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Speaker 1: he was supposed to sit down. This carried on for

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of songs until he eventually kind of

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Speaker 1: took himself off to the side and crammed himself into

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Speaker 1: the stairwell so that he was able to carry on

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Speaker 1: thrashing away without disturbing all of the nanas behind him.

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Speaker 1: But you could see it wasn't as much fun because

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Speaker 1: it was a much more cramp space that he was

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Speaker 1: having to push himself into. Anyway, here's my take on it.

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Speaker 1: If you are at a concert, you should be able

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Speaker 1: to stand up and have the best time of your life,

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Speaker 1: even if you have paid for a seated ticket, And

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Speaker 1: if you are behind someone who wants to get up

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Speaker 1: and dance, you are just going to I'm sorry, have

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Speaker 1: to get up as well. It is not okay to

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Speaker 1: ask somebody at a concert to sit down the entire time.

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Speaker 1: It's music. It's not a movie, and it's a mesal concert.

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Speaker 1: It's not the symphony orchestra. For God's sake. I'm with

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Speaker 1: the meddlehead of the gig last night. He paid good

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Speaker 1: money to have a good time. If having a good

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Speaker 1: time for him means standing up with the double horns

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Speaker 1: and the ear guitar and the head banging and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. Do it for more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive.

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