Agreed on the "musicians listening to musicians" premise. As a concert production crew member back in the 70s and 80s, I worked one of
the more iconic shows back then, the Who concert in Riverfront Coliseum on
Monday, December 3rd, 1979. Nine people died that evening when the
gathering crowd - there to be first in line for "festival seating" -
collided with a long, overnight drive that pushed the band's sound check
past the posted "doors open" time. The gathering throng of 14,000
wrongly surmised the concert had started without them and rushed the
huge panes of glass that bordered the venue, causing them to buckle and
break. The subsequent surge knocked many off their feet... those who
were unable to re-stand were trampled to death in the melee. The subsequent outrage
ushered in a decade or more ban of "festival seating",
although I heard it returned after I departed the concert production
industry in the early 90s. As a gigging musician these days, I rarely
attend large concerts... preferring instead to frequent more intimate
venues that feature lesser known, albeit very talented performers.
I still love to listen to live music... but I no longer enjoy being in
large crowds.