Seattle Music

why is it that I'm always dissapointed when I go to shows in this town. This is the question I asked myself for years. Now don't get me wrong the musicians I go to see are always incredible but the is always something missing and I finally figured it out when I went to a Pierced Arrows show a few months back. I was really excited to go and see this awesome punk band from Pdx formelly known as Dead Moon. They were playing at the Funhouse and when they finally got on "stage" I was pumped and ready to dance. I did and realized that no one around was joining in other than a couple of my friends so I turned to the nearest person I saw and said "get up and dance". In which he replied "some people don't like getting bumped into man" then the guy behind me said "yeah bro show some respect for the band." To this I replied that if he wanted to show respect for the band then he should get up and dance and he quickly yelledat me to "take my hardcore back to where I came" and that "we don't apreciate that in Seattle." And what did I do, I threw my hands up in the air and screamed "go f--- yourself" then pushed through the crowd telling everyone in my way the same. I sat outside fuming and thinking that five years ago I would have busted the guys nose right there and how good it was that I was a little less aignsty. The bands that see people dancing around on the floor usually put more energy into the shows and it keeps reflecting back and forth constantly amping the atmosphere. I read this article in the PI about an awesome Japanese band called The Boredoms that made me think of all this and the way that the writer described the show is as follows. "First there was slow, deliberate head nodding, accepting the parameters of the music.Then there was giddy, spellbound head shaking as the music suffused every corner of the room.Then there was unchecked, fully-immersed headbanging, the only physical reaction left that even nominally acknowledged the music's overwhelming downpour. Also there was some recoiling in utter fear and awe."
(http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2004299551_zmus24boredoms.html)
I guess all this ranting is just me saying C'mon Seattle get up and dance.