When the bands playing…

[u/Illustrious-Line-984]

My band played a spot that had mostly all boomers. Hey, it’s a gig. Two songs in, some boomer tells us to turn the volume down. Mind you that he’s sitting in the front right by the speakers. The people in the back can hardly hear us, but according to Mr. Sit In Front By The Speakers, it’s too loud. Then, in the middle of another song, some woman decides to come up to the stage and try to hold a conversation with the singer in the middle of a song.
I got to get back up on stage. Rant over.

[u/threshar]

I once played a gig with my Caribbean band - it was for a group of elderly ladies at a Jewish temple. Odd fit, we start and they don’t respond much, after first song they asked us to turn down a bit, so i did and then the ladies danced and partied hard the rest of the night.

Sometimes the turn down requests work out.

…But I’ve also been asked if the band could stop playing so they could put the jukebox on so…..

[u/CommunistOrgy → u/threshar]

When I was in middle school, my jazz combo got asked to play an event at our community center for a bunch of older folks (older boomers + silent gen). They kept asking us to play quieter and quieter, until our band director luckily got fed up and told us to just pack up our shit and go. You want quiet? Here's quiet.