Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Creamtastic James McMurtry Shh's Fans at Mercy Lounge
Posted by Adam Gold on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:47 PM
[image-1]Sarcasm alert: Texas singer-songwriter James McMurtry loves his fans. He loves them so much that when they were showering him with cheers and singing along to his songs at last night's Mercy Lounge show, he repeatedly told them to "shut the fuck up." This according to CMT.com's Chris Parton:
Now I can appreciate an artist wanting to make sure the audience gets the full effect of their songs, and I can relate to how irritating a distraction can be. But when that artist tells the biggest fans in the room to "Shut the f*** up," "Go to the back of the room or I won't keep singing" and walks off the stage during the encore because said fans were singing along to his song, I'm not inclined to listen anymore. Especially since earlier in the show he invited everyone to the foot of the Mercy Lounge stage to dance and get wild. Which one is it?
According to a member of the audience the Cream spoke with, McMurtry returned to the stage and said, "Maybe you won't know the words to this one--I didn't write it," before playing a cover. Sounds like dude's a bit of a hothead.
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d. striker did that once. but only to me. and i was on stage playing bass for him. hitting on his wife. my bad d.
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when I saw his name I was totally stoked for this show...and then I realized that he didn't write Lonesome Dove...
I fucking love Lonesome Dove...
Lonesome Dove really was pretty awesome; though, when I told the book that, it punched me in the balls and pissed in my shoes.
That's just vintage J. McMurtry right there; once at the Continental in Austin, he stopped in the middle of a song (due to a chatty crowd) and started to chant "Hook 'em Horns, Hook 'em Horns." The crowd went wild and started chanting back, at which point he stopped and replied, "Oh good, you can hear me. Then shut the fuck up!" Good times.
I was at the show. The "fans" were a bunch of drunken hillbillies who were "singing along to his songs" so loudly
that you couldn't hear James, particularly during the solo acoustic song that he stopped. At this point one of the "fans"
headed towards the stage to "kick his ass" before he was stopped by his drunken buddies. Classy. McMurtry has every
right to shut them up so his real fans can hear his music.
As to his other "fans", maybe they could show their appreciation to a truly talented Artist next time by trying to stay at least sober enough not distract from a great show.
"Shutting the Fuck up" would be a good start.
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