You know what? Fuck encores. I hate that shit.
I only hate them because everybody freaking does them. EVERYBODY. Even the shitty little jam band that cleared the place out does an encore. People even write it out on the set list: ENCORE 1, ENCORE 2.
Look you presumputous fucks, I paid $15 to stand up and drink overpriced beer to hear you so give me all you got. Don’t go holding out, knowing you are going to give in in the end. You play all the songs then I will clap my ass off for you. Deal?
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Amen. Fuck encores.
BB King does not do encores. He plays his heart out, says goodbye and leaves. You gotta love the King.
We have been known to play “one more song” after the end of a set, but it’s usually just a song we’ve cut from somewhere else in the set. We never plan it, or build it into the set.
One thing the audience can do is not buy into it. If a band walks off a stage, stop clapping for them. If audiences stop asking for encores, bands will stop playing them, and they’ll put all their top jams in the regular set. Break the cycle!
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