Culture Shock 2/26/13
Today I would like to blog about observations I have made in my life recently. I have always loved attending live music shows no matter the genre. My first concert was a Snow Patrol concert that I went to with my mom in Los Angeles after she got diagnosed with breast cancer. It was such a positive and uplifting show with a great loving audience. After that, my dad took me to many string orchestras at UCLA. As a child with a heavy case of ADHD, the orchestra somehow really spoke to me and smoothed me out and I didn’t have to get out of my seat every five minutes. By this time, I was really into the electronic music scene and would listen to it whenever I could. In high school, I met several friends who also really loved electronic music. Eventually one thing lead to another and I ended up going to electronic music shows with these friends. Often times these shows were quite disgusting with trash everywhere and with too many teenagers doped up on who knows what. I simply attended these shows for the great music that I could enjoy with good friends, nothing more and nothing less. The biggest electronic show I went to was the Electric Daisy Carnival the last year it was in Los Angeles. The large number of deejays outweighed all the negatives I addressed earlier. I then moved to college in Oregon and I still wanted to see live music but there weren’t as many electronic music shows as I had anticipated. After attending a couple hip hop, bluegrass and electronic dance concerts I began to notice how much better the audience is in Oregon compared to back home in southern California. The concert-goers in Oregon exhibit a more profound mutual respect for one another. They come to the show for the music, not the drug scene.
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