Fans

I'm a Fan Fan!

I just love fans, no not the air blowing kind, the type that come to your show and tell you all about how many times they have come to see your show. No matter how my week has been or what bad vibes there may be going around, a good interaction with a fan can pull you out of it.
I'm always puzzled by acts that don't treat their fans well. maybe they think that they're too big to care about them. We did a show in Fergus Ontario last Saturday and although it rained most of the day, it cleared up during our first set and so the small crowd of sit in the rain die hards began to grow larger and larger. After the show some of us went out to an autograph table to interact with the audience. An older couple approached us and told us how much they had enjoyed our show, and would we take some pictures with them. Well of course we did! It was a crappy rainy day and these folks stood in the rain to watch us carry on. I really loved taking those photos, because I know how the people will laugh at them later, carrying the good feelings from our show to others. They also bought our Cd, which we all signed, maybe it will be worth a million bucks someday?
We also signed the hats of some cute girls, they had been at the Trooper concert there the night before and of course they didn't sign anything!
There were many other acts at this show, and they arrived on their humongus tour buses with their entourages, and they had their product on the signing table, but they didn't interact with their fans either onstage or off. Too bad.