What are all those s yelling after “Didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you cryin’” (in I Want You to Want Me)? I’ve found the lyrics, and they don’t seem to be yelling anything from the song.
What would they all be thinking of to yell at that time in almost perfect unison?
Isn’t it just:
Didn’t I didn’t I didn’t I see you cryin’
…cryin’ cryin’
That’s what I always thought, but I could be wrong.
That’s it, Cabbage. The audience is faithfully recreating the echo of “Crying, crying” that is on the studio version of the song.
Spontaneous audience tricks are fun though, huh? On a lesser but related note, in 1997 I followed a band called Terrorvision for several consecutive dates on their tour of England. Even though the shows were in compeletely different regions of the country, the individual audiences seemed to be in league with the band and each other, rather like an English Christmas panto. There were several times when everyone would shout out the same thing at the same time between songs, or sing “whooo-ooooh-aahhh-ooooh” during instrumental parts of certain songs. I asked the singer how everyone knew to do it, and he had absolutely no clue. There was no organized press or fan club activity, and the band had no real Internet presence either. Very odd, but cool as well. I’ve never seen the like since!
And on an even lesser note, I was a big fan of Cheap Trick until I met Rick Nielsen at a music convention about 15 years ago. He was hawking some book and signing autographs. I asked him for an autograph, and he told me he’d only give me one if I bought a book. He was a real jerk about it too. Oh, and he weighed like 700 pounds.
Thanks for the info. I tried to hear a sample of the studio version at cheaptrick.com, but the RealPlayer file didn’t get to that part before it cut out.
I have to say though, that the studio version is a complete waste of time compared to the live one. Wow, what an insipid arrangement.