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Sometimes I’m reminded in a particularly strong way that Peter’s facebook page is run by a “team” and not by him. It would seem that they post photos submitted by fans, and occasionally use one as a status update. This photo appeared this morning.
I do believe these are the very same signs-on-a-stick that were held by two front-row-center fans at the show at the Ram’s Head in Annapolis. Peter paused his performance to ask the ladies to hold the signs up so everybody could see them, then wearily added, “Now, please put them away. I know what I look like.”
I love that you wrote about this today, because it’s really a perfect a snapshot of the show in Chicago last night. The fans were just rabid for attention, and Peter wasn’t having it. Much like the Mike show at this same venue, the crowd shouted and tried to converse with Peter, who had to keep reminding them, “I’m up here, this is MY show.”
At one point, when he was talking about the “Love Potion” film from his youth (an interesting story and one I really wanted to hear), a woman screamed out, “I SAW THAT! ON YOUTUBE!” and all Peter could do was stop and frown. Cringe-worthy.
Combine all that with the jerks behind us who spilled wine all over the floor under us and the people who were in our seats when we arrived, and had to be convinced to give them up, and I think I’m done with Monkees fans.
Funny reading this straight after a post about how ‘dickish’ Peter is towards his fans. Wonder if there might be some correlation?
The problem is, with a lot of ‘celebrities’ people don’t ever bother to stop and think about why said-celebrity was a ‘dick’. It’s just like “[insert name here] was rude to a fan!” - they don’t stop to think about how the ‘fan’ might’ve been rude to him first. Also, with Peter, he’s weird. He’s like, a really strange dude. His sense of humour is weird. I don’t get it a lot of the time, but I think he can be misunderstood and misinterpreted a lot of the time too.
Absolutely — especially since Peter appears to be somewhere on the autistic spectrum, and most fans who talk to him will be doing so either directly before a performance (when he’s trying to get mentally prepared) or directly after (when he’s just spent a couple of hours doing a rather mentally demanding job). Some people are good in situations like that, others definitely aren’t.
He’s been doing a meet-n-greet after ever single one of his solo shows this spring. No limits. “I’ll sign anything you’re willing to show in public.” I have heard nothing but happy outcomes.
I’m sure that’s the case. From what everyone tells me about Peter, I think if you put him in a situation where he’s expecting to deal with fans, and agreed to do it beforehand, he’ll be polite, funny and friendly. If you bother him when it’s not a pre-arranged thing, he might not be — just like anyone else.
Which is my point, really. The fans were putting him in a really inappropriate situation - to have to deal with them DURING THE SHOW. I don’t blame him a little bit for asking them to stop, and for being irritated. I thought he handled it with all of the grace he could.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e41ba4bce35c7f1b2cd969cf79910bc5/tumblr_mo6gcpxCMu1rdlezfo1_500.jpg)
Sometimes I’m reminded in a particularly strong way that Peter’s facebook page is run by a “team” and not by him. It would seem that they post photos submitted by fans, and occasionally use one as a status update. This photo appeared this morning.
I do believe these are the very same signs-on-a-stick that were held by two front-row-center fans at the show at the Ram’s Head in Annapolis. Peter paused his performance to ask the ladies to hold the signs up so everybody could see them, then wearily added, “Now, please put them away. I know what I look like.”
I love that you wrote about this today, because it’s really a perfect a snapshot of the show in Chicago last night. The fans were just rabid for attention, and Peter wasn’t having it. Much like the Mike show at this same venue, the crowd shouted and tried to converse with Peter, who had to keep reminding them, “I’m up here, this is MY show.”
At one point, when he was talking about the “Love Potion” film from his youth (an interesting story and one I really wanted to hear), a woman screamed out, “I SAW THAT! ON YOUTUBE!” and all Peter could do was stop and frown. Cringe-worthy.
Combine all that with the jerks behind us who spilled wine all over the floor under us and the people who were in our seats when we arrived, and had to be convinced to give them up, and I think I’m done with Monkees fans.
Funny reading this straight after a post about how ‘dickish’ Peter is towards his fans. Wonder if there might be some correlation?
The problem is, with a lot of ‘celebrities’ people don’t ever bother to stop and think about why said-celebrity was a ‘dick’. It’s just like “[insert name here] was rude to a fan!” - they don’t stop to think about how the ‘fan’ might’ve been rude to him first. Also, with Peter, he’s weird. He’s like, a really strange dude. His sense of humour is weird. I don’t get it a lot of the time, but I think he can be misunderstood and misinterpreted a lot of the time too.
Absolutely — especially since Peter appears to be somewhere on the autistic spectrum, and most fans who talk to him will be doing so either directly before a performance (when he’s trying to get mentally prepared) or directly after (when he’s just spent a couple of hours doing a rather mentally demanding job). Some people are good in situations like that, others definitely aren’t.
He’s been doing a meet-n-greet after ever single one of his solo shows this spring. No limits. “I’ll sign anything you’re willing to show in public.” I have heard nothing but happy outcomes.
I’m sure that’s the case. From what everyone tells me about Peter, I think if you put him in a situation where he’s expecting to deal with fans, and agreed to do it beforehand, he’ll be polite, funny and friendly. If you bother him when it’s not a pre-arranged thing, he might not be — just like anyone else.
Which is my point, really. The fans were putting him in a really inappropriate situation - to have to deal with them DURING THE SHOW. I don’t blame him a little bit for asking them to stop, and for being irritated. I thought he handled it with all of the grace he could.
Sometimes I’m reminded in a particularly strong way that Peter’s facebook page is run by a “team” and not by him. It would seem that they post photos submitted by fans, and occasionally use one as a status update. This photo appeared this morning.
I do believe these are the very same signs-on-a-stick that were held by two front-row-center fans at the show at the Ram’s Head in Annapolis. Peter paused his performance to ask the ladies to hold the signs up so everybody could see them, then wearily added, “Now, please put them away. I know what I look like.”
I love that you wrote about this today, because it’s really a perfect a snapshot of the show in Chicago last night. The fans were just rabid for attention, and Peter wasn’t having it. Much like the Mike show at this same venue, the crowd shouted and tried to converse with Peter, who had to keep reminding them, “I’m up here, this is MY show.”
At one point, when he was talking about the “Love Potion” film from his youth (an interesting story and one I really wanted to hear), a woman screamed out, “I SAW THAT! ON YOUTUBE!” and all Peter could do was stop and frown. Cringe-worthy.
Combine all that with the jerks behind us who spilled wine all over the floor under us and the people who were in our seats when we arrived, and had to be convinced to give them up, and I think I’m done with Monkees fans.
