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Episode: Simplified Speech #207 – Unforgettable concerts
Author: Culips English Podcast
Duration: 00:33:51
Episode Shownotes
What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to? In this episode of Simplified Speech, Andrew and Indiana talk about some of the best live music shows they’ve ever seen. They share what made these concerts special, from the wild energy of mosh pits to the excitement of finding new bands.
This episode is perfect for English learners who love music and want to improve their listening skills and learn about the cultural side of English. And who knows, you might even discover a new band you really like! How this episode will improve your English: Grow your English listening skills: Hear a real, everyday English conversation between native speakers about concerts and music. Learn new music vocabulary: Discover words like “psych rock,” “crowdsurfing,” “moshing,” and “opener” and understand how to use them. Get cultural insights: Understand concert culture in English-speaking countries and learn about well-known bands, like Talking Heads and Weezer. Stay motivated with fun topics: Enjoy learning English by listening to stories and experiences about live music shows you’ll find interesting. The best way to learn with this lesson: Culips members get an interactive transcript, helpful study guide, quiz, ad-free audio, and more for this episode. Take your English to the next level by becoming a Culips member. Sign up and become a Culips member now! Members can access the ad-free version here: Click here. Join our Discord community to connect with other learners and get more English practice. Click here to join. Click here to listen to a playlist of the bands mentioned in this episode!
Full Transcript
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Hello everyone, this is Andrew and you're listening to Simplified Speech, our series that features clear, natural, and easy-to-understand English conversations about everyday life.
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It's perfect for intermediate-level learners who want to improve their fluency, strengthen their listening skills, and expand their vocabularies. Guys, I've got a question for you. What's the most unforgettable concert you've ever been to?
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I've been to so many concerts that, to be honest, it's hard for me to answer this question, but I'm going to try to today.
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In just a moment, I'll be joined by Indiana, who many of you know as one of our study guide writers and the host of our Tuesday small group speaking classes. And we're going to talk all about this.
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We're going to share some stories about the best concerts we've ever been to. And you know, learning English isn't just about mastering vocabulary and grammar.
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It's also about understanding the cultural fabric, the shared experiences, pop culture references, and stories that connect English speakers.
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And while my parents might not know about every band reference that we'll be making in this episode, millennials, especially millennials who grew up in North America, would absolutely recognize most of these musical groups that we'll talk about here today.
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And it kind of reminds me of my own language learning journey with Korean, and probably you guys can relate to this as well.
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There's been moments where I could follow a conversation linguistically, but I felt completely lost because I missed an important cultural reference that was mentioned in a conversation.
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It really just goes to show that learning a language is about learning the pop culture and the cultural references of the people who speak that language as well.
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So, today we're going to be talking about our memorable concert experiences and if you want to go a little bit deeper after listening to this episode, well, I've created a YouTube playlist of the artists that Indiana and I talk about in this episode.
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and I'll put the link to that playlist in the description for this episode so you can easily find it there. But before we get to our conversation, I do want to tell you about Qloops membership.
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And if you're looking to practice your English with other learners, just like you, then come on over to our Discord community.
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It's completely free for everyone and it's a wonderful place to discuss episodes and connect with English learners from around the world. You'll find the link to join in the description for this episode. Okay.
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I think those are all of the announcements for now. So let's welcome Indiana to this episode and we'll get the conversation started. Here we go. Enjoy! Hello Indiana, how's it going? Hey, Andrew, I'm doing good. How are you? I'm doing great.
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And I have to say, I'm excited to talk with you about concerts. And I was thinking we should start off by just learning about your musical taste.
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I know you're a big music fan, but could you tell me and tell our listeners about some of the music styles and genres that you enjoy?
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Yeah, definitely. I used to be a radio DJ when I was in university, so I got exposed to a lot of different genres there.
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And I don't think I'm the biggest concert goer, like I'm going every weekend, but I would definitely say that I go probably several times a year if I can, maybe six or eight or something like that. And I like all kinds of music.
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I know that we share an interest in city pop from Japan. which is a really cool, funky genre that was predominantly happening in the 70s. One of my favorite bands is Talking Heads, so have kind of that weird, rocky vibe.
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I most recently went to see King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard with my husband in Forest Hills in Queens, which is a borough of New York City. And they're kind of like psych rock, but they do a lot of different genres. So I'm pretty open, personally.
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I don't have one particular genre that I love. But yeah, if it's a little psychedelic, or if it's a little funky, I'm gonna gravitate towards it. But what about you? What do you like, Andrew, besides city pop, which I know we share an interest in?
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Yeah, I guess when I was a little bit younger, I was really into rock, indie rock, more arty rock, like you mentioned, the Talking Heads, UK bands. shoegaze, any kind of rock was like my main focus.
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Bands like My Bloody Valentine and Smashing Pumpkins I really loved. As I'm older now, I don't find myself listening to as much rock. I listen to a lot more electronic and ambient music. and quiet music, stuff that's not too abrasive.
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And my wife and I both really love jazz as well. So we listen to a lot of jazz in the home. But from time to time, especially when I'm running, I love to listen to like some heavy rock music. It just sort of pumps me up and gets me going.
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But yeah, I find that it's mostly when I'm exercising now that I listen to that kind of music that I enjoyed when I was younger. But just because I don't listen to it as much as I used to doesn't mean I don't like it.
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It's just not as much in the forefront of my picks, what I choose, my go-tos, I should say. Yeah. Indiana, I want to rewind there just for a second because you mentioned a really funny band name that maybe some listeners are like, what? Who are they?
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What are they? So the band name is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. And I haven't seen them play a concert, unfortunately. I know they're a band from Australia who are extremely prolific And prolific means that they have a huge output.
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They release an album three or four times a year, maybe. Do you know how many they have released?
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Yeah, sometimes it really is that frequent. It's wild.
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Yeah, maybe 30 records they've released over their career, which is probably like 10 years, 12 years that they've been around. But a really interesting band from Australia.
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Yeah, and not only are they so prolific, but their music spans so many different genres. Like if you want to listen to some heavy metal, there's an album for you.
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They just dropped, I think, a blues, a bluesy album, which wasn't my favorite, but yeah, they just will cover all sorts of genres. Sometimes they rap. It's like, yeah, they've got it covered.
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Yeah, they have some synth stuff. They're very experimental in that they really change their sound from album to album to album. But a really cool band and I definitely recommend checking out some of their their popular albums.
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If you are a rock fan, you'll probably enjoy it. And Indiana, you also mentioned about psych rock and psychedelic music. What does this mean? Because this might also be some vocabulary that our listeners are not too familiar with.
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Like we say, King Gizzard is kind of psyche, they're psychedelic. Yeah.
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Yeah, I suppose like a good way to describe it would be, it's actually a really tough question,
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How would I describe it? Psychedelic music, maybe has more space, more instrumental, more reverb, longer songs.
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So not just like a really short, compact pop song, but maybe it would go on for like, I know King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, they have some songs that are over 10 minutes long, a lot of repetition too.
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So they'll have the same beat going for a long time. And I think it is inspired by like the drug culture of the 1960s and sort of trying to emulate some of the effects of like, if you were to take a drug, you would feel like this.
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They're trying to replicate that with music, maybe. But yeah, it's very hard to pin down. But yeah, that's what the psych genre is, if I had to define it in my own words.
00:09:07 Speaker_01
I think most recently a great group to also look to to understand what the sound of psych rock would be would be Tame Impala, because you definitely hear a lot of that influence from 60s music or like even the vocalist Kevin something he sounds like John Lennon, honestly, so.
00:09:24 Speaker_00
Yeah, the Beatles to towards the end of their career got pretty psychedelic, like their early stuff was really poppy and radio-friendly, and then they got more experimental and more psychedelic towards the end of their career. Absolutely.
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So, Indiana, going to concerts, turning to concerts. I have to ask, you mentioned the Talking Heads at the top of the episode, and they have that really classic concert film, which is called Stop Making Sense, I think. Have you seen that?
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Oh many times, many times.
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Many times. It's really iconic because the lead singer, what's his name, David Byrne, he's wearing this very big oversized business suit and he dances in this
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massive business suit that is probably like, I don't know, 20 times too large for him, right? Like it's really oversized suit and he's dancing on the stage and just a really great concert film.
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Guys, you could probably search for it on YouTube and find it if you wanted to see what we're talking about. And I'd recommend that because really cool band and really great performance. But Indiana, have you ever seen the Talking Heads play live?
00:10:38 Speaker_01
I don't think that they have ever reunited in that way since they broke up for a live performance. The fans are always pushing them towards it, but I don't think it's going to happen, unfortunately.
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I didn't realize that they're finished for good.
00:10:56 Speaker_01
I think there was a little bit of bad blood between them. I think David Byrne is sort of a stubborn creative type and maybe doesn't treat his friends or bandmates the way that they want to be treated.
00:11:08 Speaker_01
Those are the stories I've understood from like their biographies, like Tina Weymouth's biography and stuff like that. So it may not happen, but they did recently, I think a year or two ago, remaster and re-release that film, Stop Making Sense.
00:11:22 Speaker_01
So they got together for these interviews and it seems like everybody's kind of getting along well enough. So that's nice, but I don't think they'll ever play a show together again.
00:11:30 Speaker_00
So we'll just have to enjoy the film instead. Okay.
00:11:35 Speaker_01
But I did see American Utopia, which is David Byrne's Broadway production, which was also a movie. I think you can see it in a movie form as well. He does do some songs, those classic Talking Heads songs in that. So that was really cool.
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I did see him perform live, but not as the Talking Heads.
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So what are some of the, maybe we could go through your top three concerts, that might be hard to choose, but what are some of the most memorable or best experiences you had attending a concert?
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So the musician I've seen the most probably, which really isn't that many times, but I've seen Ty Siegel three times. He's a really cool musician, also very prolific, and he does kind of like garage rock stuff.
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He'll change genres a little bit as well. But there's a really cool venue in Connecticut. I think it's called Space Ballroom, which is just this tiny, tiny club. And so maybe it fits like 100 people. Really not a very large venue at all.
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And so I saw him with my husband. We went and saw him do an acoustic set. And we were right in front of him, like, you know, five feet away.
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And he's one of our favorite musicians, so it was just so cool to be in that intimate setting and hear him play all the hits. And everybody was singing along for some of the last songs. It was just a very, very wonderful experience to see him.
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in that setting because he's popular enough that he could fill, you know, maybe not a stadium, but like a larger, maybe like, you know, five, six thousand person venue. So that was really, really cool.
00:13:10 Speaker_01
But I want to keep thinking about some other top concerts. But what about you, Andrew? I'm going to kick it back to you. What is your maybe top one or two concerts you've been to?
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Well, I have to go back to when I was in my teens and my 20s to talk about this because since moving to Korea, I've seen a couple of shows here.
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But unfortunately, and I don't want to anger our Korean listeners, but in my opinion, it's a little bit harder to see the kind of music that I'm used to seeing here in Korea.
00:13:42 Speaker_00
There are lots of great Korean bands and I have been to see live music in Korea and you can see some local bands but in terms of like international touring acts for whatever reason these musicians they ignore Korea and I'm very angry about this like sometimes I'll see some bands or DJs or artists that I like and they'll go to Japan and they'll go to Australia but they won't come to Korea
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Or occasionally they will, but it's often on like a Sunday, like they'll go to Japan for the Friday and the Saturday, and then we get the Sunday night show. And I'm like, man, I got to go to work on Monday morning.
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Like I don't want to go see a concert on Sunday night. And also ticket prices are extremely expensive. I understand it.
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It costs a lot of money to travel with a band to a different continent and bring all of your amps and your guitars and your gear and your crew, right? It's a very expensive thing.
00:14:41 Speaker_00
So for that reason, I haven't seen too many live shows since I've been here in Korea in terms of international touring acts. So I got to go back to when I was younger. I guess I was in grade 11 or grade 12. No.
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Grade 12, this is grade 12, my final year of high school. And the reason I know this was because this was just after September 11th had happened. So I think it was like maybe October 2001 or November 2001.
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I went to go see a concert in Seattle with some of my friends from my hometown and we saw Weezer in Seattle.
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And that was a super fun road trip, but I really had to twist my parents' arm to let me go because after the September 11th attack, there was, you know, right after, it was kind of a confusing time in North America.
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And there was like a lot of people who were concerned that there might be another attack. And my parents didn't want me going into the USA, but I eventually managed to convince them that it would be okay. I wouldn't die.
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And that, you know, Seattle was safe enough. And I was lucky because my buddy who was driving, we had like a minivan that we filled up with all of our friends. The driver was a dually, a dual citizen. We call them duallys in Canada.
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So he was American and Canadian. And so my parents felt like a little bit better that he had the American passport maybe and he would be able to guide us across the border. Okay. So yeah, that was a really fun experience seeing Weezer.
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And there's a band called Jimmy Eat World that opened and I also liked them in high school. Maybe not so much now, but Weezer, I think, still holds up. I was a fan of theirs in high school and I still like Weezer a lot now.
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And that concert was really crazy because it was just wild. We were close to the front and it was a big arena. So it was an arena show with probably 20,000 people in attendance. But we were on the floor near the front of the stage.
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And it was just chaos, like people pushing each other and crowd surfing and jumping and dancing and just hot. And I remember just being squeezed to death almost, you know, like just a really tight crowd.
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So that was maybe one of the first experiences I had had like that. And it was a little bit scary, to be honest, when you're in a big crowd like that.
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Yeah, it was really fun and a great show and one that stands out in my mind as being just a really, really fun experience. Except on the way back.
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On the way back, the Canadian border guards, they thought that we were just kids who are up to no good in the States. And they detained my friend, my duly friend. They detained him at the border. They took him into the office for questioning.
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And they thought that he was trying to carry drugs into Canada. And they took the minivan and did a huge search. They brought dogs in, they like ripped it apart. And of course, we were just like innocent high school kids.
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We didn't have any drugs, of course. So they didn't find anything. And eventually they apologized and they just thought we looked like rockers, I guess. We looked like we were up to no good, even though we were all pretty goody two-shoes kids.
00:18:13 Speaker_00
But that was a little bit scary on the way back. We're like, we got into the States with no problems at all, but going back into our own country, we had all these issues. That's the memory that stands out in my mind.
00:18:25 Speaker_01
You guys got a shirt that says Weezer from the merch table and they clocked you and they said, hey, you guys have drugs.
00:18:32 Speaker_00
Yeah, exactly.
00:18:34 Speaker_01
That's so weird. Yeah, that's very scary to go through as a well as anybody. But yeah, just an 18 year old 17 year old.
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Yeah, we were like, yeah, 16 1718 around that age. But yeah, it was fun.
00:18:47 Speaker_01
I have another question for you. I have a couple friends, I remember they were arguing about Weezer and is it Blue Album and Pinkerton are like the biggest albums. One of them was like, it's Blue Album, Blue Album is the best one.
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And the other one's like, no way, Pinkerton, even with the problematic lyrics, it's the best one. You can't deny it. So I wonder where you land if you have an opinion.
00:19:10 Speaker_00
Ah, that's a tough one. Yeah, for listeners who don't know, Weezer is an American rock band and their lead singer, his name is Rivers and that's a kind of interesting name.
00:19:23 Speaker_00
I don't know anybody else named Rivers except one of my friends from back in my hometown who's a huge Weezer fan and had a baby and named the baby Rivers. So now I know a baby named Rivers. But they have produced many albums now.
00:19:38 Speaker_00
They've been a band for probably 30 years since the mid 90s. And the first album was called the Blue Album. That was their debut album. And their second album was called Pinkerton. And most fans think those two albums are their best work.
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And then after they had I think it was the green album was next. And I listened to those three albums and then I haven't listened to any of their other work after that. I think that's when I stopped listening to Weezer.
00:20:07 Speaker_00
But there's a lot of debate which one is the best one. And I have to say that I do think both of them are really, really good. And I'd probably go back and forth. But if I had to choose just one, I'd probably say Blue Album.
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It's a pretty remarkable debut. I think there are 10 songs and every song is just so good and so catchy and really, really well done. It blows my mind that just a group of young kids like in their early 20s made a debut record that is just perfect.
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It's pretty much a perfect rock record. So I'm going to go with the blue album. Do you have a preference, Indiana?
00:20:48 Speaker_01
I don't think I've ever listened to either of the albums front to back, so I couldn't weigh in on this one. But that was an impressive debut though. I know that they were really young when they started, so it's pretty cool how successful they were.
00:21:01 Speaker_00
So did you think of another great concert experience?
00:21:05 Speaker_01
Well, what I thought of was often, and I assume this is the case for any international concert, that there is an opener, an opening act, maybe two, and then there's the main band. I assume that's pretty much universal.
00:21:21 Speaker_01
I don't know where you land on when it comes to going to see the opener, but I do remember that one time I went for the opener and I was so glad that I did because that musician became one of my favorites, much more so than the main act like long after.
00:21:37 Speaker_01
I think it was like 2013, I went to see Mac DeMarco in Buffalo and the opener was a musician called Jerry Paper. and I love them so much. They're incredible. And of course, I still like Macnamarco, but my love for Jerry Paper indoors to this day.
00:21:53 Speaker_01
It's so cool to be turned on to new music when you're not expecting it, especially live music. Like, oh, this opener is actually incredible. So that was a very cool experience to just be wowed like that.
00:22:05 Speaker_00
Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, I've never really understood people who don't watch the opening bands. Maybe it's just because I was always in the opening band. My band was never good enough to be the headliner. We were always the openers.
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So yeah, maybe it's like my bias. But yeah, it's great. Like the artists that you're going to see usually curates who the opener is going to be. Not always. Sometimes they don't have a choice in who the opener is.
00:22:37 Speaker_00
But if it's like kind of larger touring band, usually they're the one putting on the show and they're curating the show. So they want to choose some artists that they think are going to go well and be liked by their fans.
00:22:50 Speaker_00
And yeah, so they'll choose a band or artist or two and sort of curate that performance. So I've found that as well, that I've learned about a lot of new music and fallen in love with some new bands just because of watching the openers.
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I always try whenever I can to watch the opener. It's great when you have a stacked lineup or a stacked bill. That's what we would call it when all of the openers are good and the headliner is good. All of the bands that will be performing
00:23:25 Speaker_00
That concert, we call that a stacked lineup. So of course a stacked lineup is great, but it's kind of exciting too when you're like, I don't know who these guys are. Like I'm going to go check out this band and maybe I'll love them.
00:23:37 Speaker_00
Maybe I won't, but that's just me personally.
00:23:40 Speaker_01
Yeah, I agree.
00:23:41 Speaker_01
I like to go as much as I can, but I don't know about you, Andrew, but sometimes I just get so exhausted from the whole experience of like standing for hours and hours and if it's packed and people are smoking and there's beer everywhere, like people are throwing beers and just like being in that environment for so long.
00:24:01 Speaker_01
I guess it depends on the genre and the crowd, but Sometimes it's exhausting, so I might skip the opener if I'm not feeling it for that long.
00:24:10 Speaker_00
Yeah, you gotta understand that my point of view here is coming from when I was in my 20s, and I think I could probably handle standing up for a long time, but yeah, now I actually love going to theaters.
00:24:26 Speaker_00
I would much rather see a band perform at a theater where I can sit down than just a concert hall or a stadium where I have to stand. That Weezer show that I mentioned, that was super, super fun, but there's no chance that I would do that now.
00:24:42 Speaker_00
It's just too intense.
00:24:44 Speaker_01
So maybe this could be one of our last questions, but that reminds me, you know, because the environment you were talking about at the Weezer show sounds like there's a mosh pit, right?
00:24:53 Speaker_01
So people kind of flailing, dancing really hard, bumping into each other. And that's kind of a dangerous environment to be in, but I've certainly been in some mosh pits.
00:25:02 Speaker_01
And most recently, I was at a streetlight manifesto show, which is like third wave ska. And typically, you know, it should be skanking, it's called, which is a more like dancing moshing.
00:25:15 Speaker_01
It's not as violent and crazy as a regular mosh pit, but it was really just a mosh pit at this show. So I entered the pit, as they say, and jumped around and got a little beat up in the process.
00:25:27 Speaker_01
I think this was a year or two ago, but I'm definitely not trying to mosh again at this age. But I wonder when the last time you were in a mosh pit was, if you can recall.
00:25:40 Speaker_00
Okay, so first we should define what moshing is for our listeners because this is a really, I guess it's part of like North American subculture.
00:25:49 Speaker_00
Maybe our European listeners or South American listeners will know about this, but I'm just thinking about my specific context here in Korea. And I don't think I've seen Koreans mosh before.
00:26:00 Speaker_00
So I don't know why we do it or, you know, to be honest, I never was much of a mosher. So I can't say that I really did this,
00:26:08 Speaker_00
what usually happens is during a heavy rock show so like maybe like heavy metal or classic rock or yeah some kind of like heavier rock punk music something like that it wouldn't be like at a folk concert right it's got to be some heavy music and the audience will do this kind of dancing where they
00:26:30 Speaker_00
make a circle, and that circle we call a pit. So people will step aside and they'll form like an empty space in the middle of the audience. And that's called the pit or the mosh pit.
00:26:40 Speaker_00
And then they kind of run in and jump into each other and hit each other, not like punching each other, but sort of just bumping their bodies together. And I guess it's just a way to let the music take control of you, right? Like you're just sort of
00:26:55 Speaker_00
being totally captured by the feeling that the music invokes in you. And especially I think a lot of younger males do this, like younger guys, I think they have a lot of aggression and energy and it's an outlet for that energy and aggression.
00:27:13 Speaker_00
Yeah, definitely growing up, I used to go to concerts at community halls and basements. We'd do house shows and these kinds of things before I was old enough to get into nightclubs.
00:27:26 Speaker_00
And you would always see like people moshing there, but they were just high school kids that had a lot of energy and aggression.
00:27:34 Speaker_00
And I think parents thought like, hey, at least they're not fighting each other, or they're not like stealing cars or doing drugs. Like they're just enjoying this music. And it's a way to get that energy out.
00:27:45 Speaker_00
So to be honest, I was never much of a mosher. Although from time to time, when my band would play, I used to play in bands when I was younger. From time to time, you'd see some people moshing.
00:27:59 Speaker_00
And that would always kind of like scare me, like, oh, don't hurt yourself. Like, are you okay? I don't know. It would kind of freak me out when I'd see them doing it from the stage. But I'm trying to think. I think I crowd surfed before.
00:28:12 Speaker_00
That's kind of similar to moshing, right? Crowd surfing. That's when you sort of jump on top of the crowd and all of the audience puts their hands up and equally supports your weight.
00:28:25 Speaker_00
Like everybody will just push you along on top of the crowd and you could float to the back of the audience.
00:28:31 Speaker_00
And yeah, I think I did that a couple of times when some of my friends played concerts just to sort of like support them and get really into the show.
00:28:40 Speaker_00
So being a musician, you'd have tons of other friends who are all musicians and yeah, we'd go to each other's shows and support each other. I didn't want to really mosh, but I did try crowd surfing, and it's a fun experience.
00:28:54 Speaker_00
I would encourage everybody to try it, 100%.
00:28:56 Speaker_01
Yeah, it's funny. I've never crowd surfed, but I have moshed, although that's clearly the more dangerous of the two.
00:29:03 Speaker_00
Yeah, you're very brave to try moshing. What was the impetus for trying to mosh?
00:29:10 Speaker_01
probably just like you mentioned, there's a culture of basement shows in North America and in my city as well.
00:29:17 Speaker_01
So basically, you know, the people that rent or own the home, they will set up a small, small stage, basically just on a carpet in their basement, and then maybe, you know, 20, 30 people come in.
00:29:29 Speaker_01
And sometimes the genres of music that were played at those shows would work for moshing, like you mentioned, like something punky or something like that, punk or rock.
00:29:38 Speaker_01
So, I don't know, just kind of going with the flow and shoving people around, saying, okay, let's try this. Yeah, like you said, just feeling the music, feeling the energy, having that release.
00:29:48 Speaker_01
I mean, I think I've done it maybe just a couple times in my life, maybe never again. My bones are too achy at this point.
00:29:57 Speaker_00
So Indiana, I think we should wrap up. We're getting a little long in the tooth here, but I'll ask you just one question before we finish. Just a quick rapid fire question.
00:30:06 Speaker_00
And that's if you could see any band or singer who's like the number one on your concert bucket list that you would like to see.
00:30:16 Speaker_01
So it would have been David Byrne, but as we talked about, I have seen him, thank goodness. So then I suppose it would be definitely Tatsuro Yamashita, or Yamashita Tatsuro. Yeah, amazing city pop, king of city pop. He has pipes like no other.
00:30:34 Speaker_01
I personally think he's like the Freddie Mercury of Japanese city pop music. I mean, he's just such an incredible singer, and I don't know if I'll ever be able to see him because it seems like he just tours in Japan.
00:30:45 Speaker_01
Maybe next time I'm there I'll get lucky, and I'm sure it's incredibly expensive too, but he is just the best. So I would love to see him, yeah, at a sold-out stadium show. That would be so cool. But what about you?
00:30:58 Speaker_00
Well, I have to say about Tats, Tatsuro. He's the musician that made me sort of hang up my guitar. When I discovered him for the first time, I was like, I can never write songs that are this good. Like, I just gotta quit. Like, he's just too good.
00:31:13 Speaker_00
He made me feel like it's just not even worth trying to do music anymore. So yeah, he would be awesome to see. But for me, I would love to see the singer Bjork. She's always been like number one on my bucket list. had a couple of chances to in Canada.
00:31:28 Speaker_00
And for whatever reason, I think, yeah, like I was younger and just having to go to Vancouver or Toronto, wherever she was playing, wasn't exactly where I was living at the time.
00:31:41 Speaker_00
So I would have had to like buy an airplane ticket and a hotel and a concert ticket. And it was just too much money at the time. And you know, you're always like, ah, I'll see her later. I'll see her next time.
00:31:53 Speaker_00
And then next time has never come around and now we're all getting older, right? So she's getting older too. And it's like, ah, will I ever have a chance to see Bjork? I don't know. I hope she comes to Korea one day.
00:32:05 Speaker_00
I'm just a big fan of her and her voice. And I think, yeah, it'd be an amazing concert experience. So that's my number one Bjork.
00:32:15 Speaker_01
I'm sure you've listened to the Sugar Cubes, but if you haven't, you should, because that was her band before she was solo. She's cool. She's crazy, in a good way.
00:32:23 Speaker_00
Yeah, she is definitely an interesting artist. I'm a big fan, so yeah. Well, everyone, that brings us to the end of today's episode. Thanks to Indiana for being my co-host and sharing some of her concert stories with us.
00:32:50 Speaker_00
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00:32:58 Speaker_00
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00:33:38 Speaker_00
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