Bob Weir Storms Off Stage During Acoustic Performance in California

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Monday night’s (March 4) acoustic performance by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead was cut short when Weir stood up and abruptly left the stage, mid-song. He was growing irritated with several chatty audience members, before leaving during Bob Dylan‘s ‘A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall.’

At one point, Jambands.com reports, Weir asked if he was interrupting the talkers, before saying “OK I give up. I’ll be back up later with an electric band and we’ll be loud enough and that will be that.”

The show would not end there however, both he and Jonathan Wilson were doing acoustic sets before the two joined their RatDog Quartet bandmates for an electric show. That set went on as scheduled, with a few barbs toward the audience.

“It’s okay, we’re not going to try to do anything particularly delicate now,” Weir said when returned to the Sweetwater Music Hall stage. The San Anselmo-Fairfax Patch caught up with the manager at the venue who said they told the audience members to be respectful. “And we’ll have security guards (in the future) going through the room asking folks to please keep it down, though we did this to an extent but it simply got away from us,” Aaron Kayce said of the night.

All was not totally well during RatDog’s set, as Weir did shout “Shut the f**k up!” at one point. They were able to finish however.
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Happens almost all the time now and is one reason I don't go to movies anymore. Last time at Return of the King I almost lost my temper and laid a beating on 3 snot nosed punks who were ruining the movie. I told them the next one who kicks my chair will wake up in the hospital with tubes sticking in all kinds of places. Finally some other folks my age chimed in and they stopped acting like assholes.

When you attend any public event you have an obligation to respect the artist(As long as they are not drunk or stoned to the point of embarrassing themselves onstage) and the other people who paid their hard earned money to see the show.

There is plenty of time for chat after the concert is over, how hard is it to show some manners and class.