"Tell The One About The Dog"
That's what Garrison Keillor needs to hear at least once a day from now on. This story about his reaction to the crowd noise at Chastain Park Amphitheatre - a place famous for its distracted audiences - makes him sound like a grade A putz. At least when rocker Neil Young complained about the crowd noise, he didn't try to turn it into a class issue. Chastain Park Amphitheatre audiences are usually a bunch of assholes, and that's that. Ascribing Chastain's problems to people "sitting in the expensive corporate seats" is just so...lame.
I've been to Chastain exactly three times and have been horrified and embarrassed by the crowd behavior every time. However, I must also report that one of my most transcendent concert experiences was also there, the night Warren Zevon surprised us by opening up for Jackson Browne. His name wasn't on the tickets and there was no announcement - he was just suddenly standing there playing his guitar and singing.