Unrealistically Disrespectful Audience

I agree that audiences never yell for the biggest song(s) right at the beginning. But at the same time, old artists (with many hits) never start a gig with a brand new song nobody has ever heard of.

I often hear audiences shout out for an artist's biggest hit(s), including at smaller clubs and music halls.

With it being a concert and all, I don't see why he didn't have time to squeeze in his new song. I think fans would love to be the first to hear something new. Especially from a guy that hadn't put out anything new in 30 years.

Great movie, but that scene bugged me. The song is 3 minutes tops? There was plenty of time to play it during the show. And like I said, true fans would have loved to hear a new song first.

Yeah, this is the only thing i didn't buy at the script. Maybe, some would think the son's acceptence of Danny Collins after so many years was rather quick and unconvincing but I could buy that because he was in a strong emotional state and his father was able to push the right notes. Also he looked to be a very warm-hearted, forgiving, nice man. However, although it's a relatively very smaller deal in the story, i'd never believe every single member of the audience would yell to the artist they are a fan of, at the very beginning of his first song at a show. They acted like children going all-over a clown to do his main thing (whatever it could be, i don't know) at a home birthday party or something. Honestly, even children wouldn't be so disrecpectful.

In the Warren Zevon biography "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead", a story is told of, at the height of popularity of "Werewolves of London" (which is fairly unrepresentative of Zevon's body of work), Zevon got so tired of the constant demand for the song, at one college concert, he got on stage, performed the song, and left.

So, in the broad range of possible experiences, I don't think what is scripted here is outside the range of 'suspended disbelief'.



Apparently, dogs are wolves with Williams-Beuren Syndrome.

I remember an interview with Rick Nelson. Of course, his big hit as "Ricky" Nelson was "Hello, Mary Lou". Like "Baby Doll" in Danny Collins, the audience begged for it at every concert. He made it really big time and then took some time off. Grew up a little. Wrote a lot of new stuff, and came back older as "Rick" Nelson. Everywhere he went they yelled "Mary Lou". He said it was like they just wouldn't listen to any new stuff without "Mary Lou". That's when he wrote "Garden Party". The song is about the old and the new conflict. At least, that's the way I remember the interview. He was very sad telling it.

Have you beeb to ageing stars trying to hang onto the glory days concerts? I have seen a few including Don McClean who was clearly sloshed on stage. He began to play and talk to the Audience and they cried out for American Pie. So yeah this does happen in unison