They're texting or busy surfing, or maybe being social on Agnostic?

Go to a Slayer concert! Things will change. lol

My first born used to manage an Industrial Metal Band. My ex wife went to one of their concerts... Her review? TOO DAMN LOUD! Somewhere in storage are a couple of their CD's to be played after hearing loss.

I was at a concert with a friend. She moved to the music while I sat perfectly still but I can't say one one of us enjoyed the music less than the other. Just different styles of listening!

fuck that life too short

so many people are lifeless - they don't know how to enjoy anything, and have been taught to not express themselves. I much prefer an audience that is vibrant and full of the life the music is showing!

Your the lucky one! The others are wishing it was over.

Never been a band parent but am strongly in favor of music education; especially encouraging them to compose and seek new genres.

This 'Rock and Roll' thing is really getting borrrrring. Between 1900 and a950 American music took the world by storm and not in just one genre. We went into Ragtime to Jazz to Tin Pan Alley popular music also called Jazz to Blues including distinctive sounding 1920's-30's bands playing all of it, to Swing and the later, more homogenized Big Band styles of the 1940's.

Rock and Roll emerged in the early 50's and held for a couple of decades with some really creative times until... electronics and computers began replacing people, gradually to the point where people have largely become a minority in their own 'native' form of expression. They still call much of it Rock and Roll or some form of 'rock'.

Really, it's been 68 years and the few bands comprised entirely of humans making the sounds are usually young men dressed as alien as possible, jumping around strumming the ever present three or more guitars, screaming and whining into mics, with some guy banging drums, rolling his head and shaking his hair like a lunatic. Grand Funk Railroad et al were doing this stuff, only better, in the 70's.

Maybe they don't get emotionally involved in their kids' music because music itself has lost so much human emotion in the real adult world; so much alive, human resonance to the water torture perfect percussion of sound beds and synthesized tones phrased redundantly within the dead tempo? At least the 'jock' parents know that the impossible odds their kids must compete against in gaining fame will allow them to show talents personally without interference by or subjection to machines. Who knows? The future of real music NEEDS some talented, visioned young artists.

Maybe people are getting so subconsciously weary of the emotionless drone of electronics that they are hungry for it and will migrate toward it. By playing old recordings of young people in the past making real music, some truly interesting responses and comments happen. Very young people come up and ask if I played it, complement it, (as though I'm the musician or something) and say they really like how it sounds. People all around will unconsciously and involuntarily move to it and 'catch themselves', laugh and start moving more. NO KIDDING.

Many places have these Internet connected players that allow searches. Try it yourselves. BRING THE BAND KIDS. Long past time for me to shut up this rant. Here's only one early swing sample by a strict tempo British Orchestra.

Band parents are probably mind numb from attending games and trying to keep up with their young. I'm sure they're zoned out, thinking of all the stuff they could be doing instead of enduring yet another school event.

I know! Love your kids: love their crafts! Love it! Love it!
If they just tolerate it then the kids will just tolerate it and give up first excuse!
Love them? Love their art!
Don’t you Dare look at your watch!

I agree. Old school band dad here...

That's adults for ya

Parents probably just hope their kids don't screw up. They aren't there to enjoy the music.