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people in his band.
GW: What was it like playing to their crowds?
Anne: There was a lot of crowd surfing the whole time that had nothing to do with us. Anything that happened out in the audience usually had nothing to do with us, it had to do with the audience itself entertaining themselves.
Brian: In Omaha, some guys were so angry at us because we did a lot of slower, quieter songs during this particular set, these guys were so angry at us that by halfway through our set I couldn't keep time anymore because the "We want Live" chant was so loud. Then we announced that the we were going to do was a cover of an Ennio Morricone soundtrack. These guys almost had aneurysms it upset them so much, and they were standing there screaming "fuck you" at us. We finished our show and they were screaming at us the hole time we were unloading and everything. I went off stage, ate some food and came back, Pete Droge had already finished, an hour had passed since we'd angered them. I looked over- the lights were still up because Live was still fifteen or twenty minutes from getting on stage- and I looked on the other side of the barricade an d saw some of the same people still flipping me off and mouthing "fuck you."
Anne: It was character-building too. It was a good test of ego and emotional response to crowds, because we would have to deal with hearing people say, "You suck, we hate you, get off the stage, fuck you!" and all these things, and just remind ourselves that we don't think we suck, and not be affected by that. But after a while, I think we got better at turning around the negative energy and kind of feeding off of it, and it would get really hysterical. Sometimes we'd be up there laughing our heads off while they were screaming at us, kind of going, "I don't care what you think! You have to listen to us! Ha ha ha!"

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