Do any of you have a tough time after going to a Gig?

[elanorelle72]

July 4th was the first time I have seen Green day,,,unlike many other people..They are very lucky..but I think of myself equally as lucky because its a personal thing.I cannot go to many more concerts because of commitments , work etc. So I might not see them again this year...

that aside...

How does one cope with the emotions and feelings ...how long does it take to for some of you to come down from the high and get back on to daily things? do you find that often things have changed? Your perception on life has changed and all the good in life is way more noticeable and the ugly in life is more visible?

People think that its just some kind of phase and that it was the high that is totally triggering ideas and emotions.

Well its certainly making things clearer except I knew of this stuff before the concert and now its being shown more to the light. Green Day and Billie made me more observant of my life and the interconnectivity of everything..now after the concert ,,,even more so...

what do some of you do?

write? write poems? songs? run ? hike? write essays? go become a monk?

LIke to see how any of you cope...or maybe there is no issue at all...

Suzanne

[SaintSaturn]

You're talking about post-show depression, and it happens to everyone. Usually the night after the show, I'm so jacked up and excited that I can't sleep. I stay up really late and talk about the show with whoever I went with and eat food. It's a tradition. But the next day, and sometimes for a week, I start feeling depressed. It's sad knowing that I won't see another show that awesome for a long time (unless I'm lucky enough to go to multiple shows on a tour). Eventually that feeling goes away.

[Astrid.]

^Everyone has it? Then I'm an exception. I sleep well after a show, just because I'm tired. It's normal to talk about it the days after but I don't feel some sort of depression :/ The day after is just gonna be a normal day for me.

I go the the show, enjoy the show, go home after the show. Nothing's changed on my view of life.

If that's what you mean. The story was a bit difficult to read..

[Psycho Britney]

I call this post gig comedown! I really hate feeling this way after gigs. It's normally the next day for me when I get it. Life just seems boring and mundane. I normally relive the gig by talking non-stop about it for a few days after it! What I find helps is looking through my photo's and video's that I took at the gig, or looking on youtube for vids! Also it really helps when I've got another gig already booked to look forward to or something like that!

[spark in the night]

post-gig high is amazing

I don't have any after effects lol

but I definitley don't sleep at night, even though i know im dead tired

and my ears ring for a couple days

[Muttweed182]

I kinda get it after shows but it's a little different for me. When I got back from the Seattle show I was so fucking pumped and excited I really enjoyed every fucking moment. Then I get up the next day and realize that I'm in the normal world again. I play music so I wish that I could just do what GD gets to do like everyday I always think "damn why can't I just play arenas for the rest of my life?". It puts me in this sort of depression but I get out of it soon because I know when I'm 18 I can leave my town and do whatever I want so just cheer up .

[mary_x3]

i know what you mean. after i saw them during the AI tour i cried when it was over. it's sad once it's over if you're not going to another one soon because you know you're going to have to wait a long time to experience it again.

[Kryssi.]

Well, normally I don't really get a huge emotinal high at gigs, only for bands I am really passionate about. So, that's only happened twice. Well, I think it's only happened twice. As I can really understand the music more and get into it. If I feel i'm more in tune with a band, then I take a hell a lot from the show emotionally and physically. When I saw Green Day for the first time back at the Milton Keynes bowl, I could NOT come back down from that high for like over a week, I think it was longer than that, actually.

[Guest Shangri-La]

DUDE! I have NOT stopped smiling since the day before the Seattle show. My desktop background is me and you-know-who and everytime i see it i feel like crying because i am just so freaking happy!

And even when we were all leaving the "green party" after vancouver i had to cry a little because i am so happy to have met you guys!

..cue sentimental music..

[Tripe]

I definitely get PCD (Post Concert Depression) after shows. I think I am on such an emotional high in the hours leading up to a show, then amazingly pumped during a show....well, there is nowhere to go but down afterward.

Sometimes I find it hard to listen to the music again for a few days or look at all the photos/videos from the show for a little while. Give it a few days, though, and it will be all good, life will be back to normal.

Until the day after the next one.

[NowhereBound]

I wouldn't cuz I havn't been to their concert before....but i WILL know August 25th

So I'll let you know then

[Laura!]

post-gig high is amazing

I don't have any after effects lol

but I definitley don't sleep at night, even though i know im dead tired

and my ears ring for a couple days

Ah yes, mine too. I love that feeling right after you come out your hearing is all muffled because of the loudness of the concert and you shout without even realizing it. But I've only really felt that depression once. It was after my 2nd Third Eye Blind concert and we had to leave early because my friend couldn't stand the mosh pit and wanted to go. It was pretty rough. And they are one of my favorite bands probably 2nd behind Green Day and I didn't want to leave early because they are so amazing live.

I'm sure I'll be really sad once the Green Day show is over next week, I'm so pumped up for it and can't wait for it to get here and then the time will go buy so damn fast at the concert. And I know I'll probably listen to them a whole lot after the concert is over, probably will last for a few weeks. This is my first time of seeing Green Day live.

[bass boy]

well with me, im just really hyper the next 2 or 3 days, and talk about it for over a month

[elanorelle72]

hey guys...thanks so much....i am remembering....so much beauty and magic...just the feelings I can't shake...but I have wrote a new song to help me with the feelings....

[amy_runs]

After I saw the Foxboro Hot Tubs ( x30462347602) I was so ecstatic. For days and days I was just happy about everything. But eventually I got really sad cause I knew I'd probably never experience that ever again....

No, I must not think that way! Green Day will come back to LA soon... and they will play small clubs.... and I will be there.... happy thoughts... happy thoughts...

[J'net]

DUDE! I have NOT stopped smiling since the day before the Seattle show. My desktop background is me and you-know-who and everytime i see it i feel like crying because i am just so freaking happy!

And even when we were all leaving the "green party" after vancouver i had to cry a little because i am so happy to have met you guys!

..cue sentimental music..

Well, I've experienced this with many different things in life. When there's something we look forward to so intensely, it's natural and normal to feel a letdown when it's over (as Dorie -Tripe- expressed so well). It does help if you anticipate that feeling in advance and prepare for it. So have something else planned soon after ... as someone above said, it helps if you've already booked another show ... or a trip ... or just anything that you can look forward to instead of just focusing on the sadness cause it's over.

Personally, I don't have too much trouble now that I've learned that trick.

[Parley]

^Everyone has it? Then I'm an exception. I sleep well after a show, just because I'm tired. It's normal to talk about it the days after but I don't feel some sort of depression :/ The day after is just gonna be a normal day for me.

I go the the show, enjoy the show, go home after the show. Nothing's changed on my view of life.

Same here. I never have anything near depression after a Green Day show. In fact, the happiness lasts for quite a while!

[fashionvictim86]

chickin' pickin' is gonna love this thread.

I don't know, me and my friends used to drive around for awhile......esp stopping at a gas station and getting TONS of water and gatorade and water to drink. After being in the pit you get sooo thirsty. The high usually ends after I get my pictures, do my scrapbook, and realize that I'll probably never meet Green Day again.

[Greenday_Aussie]

Dont think like that! They'll be back. Remember, they do 2 tours of most countries!

[Drink Drank Punk]

Im dont really let it effect me like that. After the DNA Lounge show I pretty much just thought about how awesome it was all the next day. I still went to work and it didn't really change anything.

[Rezurgam]

I remember after the Fox Theater show, I was living in ecstasy for the next week or so, especially since I got tickets on the day of the show and because I had gone through some break up a few weeks before the show and I was still coping. On the ride home, my friend and I couldn't stop fucking smiling. It was like we were so fucking high or something. Then the next couple days, I couldn't stop talking about the show or stop replaying that night over and over in my head. It was like that high when you fall in love or something. Amazing shit really.

[Boston]

I thought I was the only freak who feels depressed after shows.

I think its a combination of being tired from being awake and bouncing around all night and the "crash" from being jacked up from the show.

[Bastard of 1967]

Well, I've experienced this with many different things in life. When there's something we look forward to so intensely, it's natural and normal to feel a letdown when it's over (as Dorie -Tripe- expressed so well). It does help if you anticipate that feeling in advance and prepare for it. So have something else planned soon after ... as someone above said, it helps if you've already booked another show ... or a trip ... or just anything that you can look forward to instead of just focusing on the sadness cause it's over.

Personally, I don't have too much trouble now that I've learned that trick.

Funny you should mention that -- I've planned to take two weeks off from work that starts the day of the DC concert. I explained to my boss that he would most definitely NOT want me touching any of our critical "user-facing" systems the day after the concert and I think he understood. The second week, our family's going to the beach. We'll just have to see if my wife will have gotten me to "shut up about Green Day already" by the time we get there....

[Angela.]

Well... I can't say much about this now, since I have yet to experience it. But I will get back to you on it July 22nd.

[teddie]

I totally understand that feeling. At the July 4th show I felt like I poured all my emotion out with all my screaming and singing along. I had the time of my life, but I also felt emotionally drained afterward. There are so many Green Day songs that I connect so deeply with, that it's unlike any other band I've ever known. They played songs that helped me through super tough phases in my life, so I get that.

It was such a high, I couldn't believe how amazing it was - seeing my all-time dream band live.

That night my stomach was so jumpy, and I just longed for more contact with them.

I think it's because Green Day is one of the few bands that actually make it a very personal experience for the audience, so you feel so touched by them after.

The depressed feeling is fading now, and I'm able to look back on it and think of what a fucking great time it was

ALSO -- I checked out all the concert videos filmed in Vancouver, so great