dchurch
140 posts
Jul 23, 2017
12:13 AM
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I just played Louie Louie at Safeco field for about 35,000 fans. That's a new personal record.
My wife, daughter and I were asked to kick off the song on the field's big screen. I backed them up with for the first few bars with a 7 hole harp that I was packing tonight. Mariners over Yankees 6 to 5 in the 10th.
What a hoot!
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kudzurunner
6303 posts
Jul 23, 2017
4:16 AM
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I think you got me beat. The biggest audience Satan & Adam ever experienced was in 1993, when we played Friday night on the big stage at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. You got me curious just now about how big that would have been, so I ran a quick search. The festival attracts 10,000-20,000. There could have been as many as 10,000 spread out across the lawns and hill that night, but definitely not 35,000. That's a lot of ears! Way to go.
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Sarge
623 posts
Jul 23, 2017
6:38 AM
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35000 is a bunch!!! The biggest audience I ever played for was about 150 at the big annual Elk Falls Outhouse Tour. That's no joke. The small town of Elk Falls has an annual Outhouse Tour.
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Tommy the Hat
614 posts
Jul 23, 2017
7:26 AM
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That's huge! I've never played harmonica in front of anyone but a few friends here and there. Maybe someday. I have performed on stage singing though but that was to a much smaller crowd. The venue capacity was a little over 1150 and the place was full.
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jbone
2323 posts
Jul 23, 2017
7:39 AM
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I'd have to guess maybe 500. Band I was with opened a show for Bobby Rush some 8 or 9 years ago.
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dougharps
1508 posts
Jul 23, 2017
8:30 AM
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I once was invited to sit in and play on the main stage with a local band at a harvest festival as they played the set before the headliner. I had played with them a number of times before this and was familiar with their material, as well as with that of the local guest female vocalist they had invited to sing on this gig.
There were supposedly around 2500 in the crowd facing the stage, but they were there for the headliner act that followed us, Delbert McClinton. Other than that, 100 at most, usually far fewer, depending on the band and venue.
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nacoran
9536 posts
Jul 23, 2017
3:09 PM
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A few dozen at an open mic as a harp player in a band. A few hundred as part of a choir or band back in school.
The one show where we actually were on the lineup before our band broke up was just a local coffee shop gig.
Things with the band went south just about the time we had a full set of our own stuff down. That was kind of frustrating.
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Joe_L
2736 posts
Jul 23, 2017
3:34 PM
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Six people. Six, if you don't include the band, the bartender and the wait staff. Six. When I start singing, it becomes less than six very quickly..
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shakeylee
679 posts
Jul 23, 2017
5:33 PM
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i guess the most i ever played for was a few thousand at penn's landing in philadelphia.
other than that,i usually play for less than a hundred at a time.
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Michael Rubin
1163 posts
Jul 23, 2017
6:13 PM
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42,000.
National anthem at an Astros game. Afterwards, someone said to me, "Great fireworks, huh?" I was so tripped out, I didn't notice they had fireworks.
Also, in the green room everyone was watcching ANOTHER ballgame. Mark Maguire was about to beat the home run records. An old guy came up to ask me what was going on. I explained it to him and he walked off. Someone nearby explained that was the owner of the Astros and he was messing with me.
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florida-trader
1169 posts
Jul 23, 2017
7:44 PM
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A significant percentage of my "stage performances" have come while playing with the Praise Team Band at church where we can have 200-400 or more if it is a holiday service like Christmas or Easter. I also played at benefit event that had several acts lined up back to back. Probably about a thousand in that audience.
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Diggsblues
2130 posts
Jul 23, 2017
8:36 PM
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I guess maybe a 500 thousand to 250 thousand for a tv ad for big river. Walnut st. theater 35 performances a thousand a night. Maybe 5 thousand or more opening for the Iron Butterfly, Mitch Rider and the Soul Survivors. Maybe 10 thousand opening for the Pure Prairie League at Dover Downs Race Track.
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