Anything You Create You Co-Create With Your Audience: My Top JUST PRESS RECORD '24 Moment #6

I wanted to get Dave Nadig and Angie Colee together to talk about all the life lessons a person can extract from performing at and going to local musical performances.

They’ve both played in bands. They’ve both seen their fair share of shows. And, I’d talked to both of them about mosh pit philosophy, which, is pretty random, making it a perfectly good excuse to introduce them and see what happens.

Angie told us a few stories about her version of mosh pit rules. How, despite the inherent appearance of violence, nobody is actually supposed to get hurt in a pit. It’s a self-reinforcing mechanism where anybody can get in if they want, anybody can get out of they don’t want to be in anymore, and should anybody fall, the group is committed to picking them back up.

But, then Dave, after sharing a story about a human jukebox karaoke wedding experience he had, dropped one of the single greatest sentences I heard all year:

For any show to go well, for any mosh pit to not turn into a disaster, we must accept the responsibility of co-creation.

Somebody might be on stage and being all artist-y.

But every person in the room is a part of that experience.

Every person in that mosh pit is a part of the mosh pit experience everyone else is having, and the crowd around the pit, and the artists on stage vibing to the energy of the room.

If you play small shows in a band, or write online, or YouTube with strangers—it’s an act of co-creation.

The more you start to see it this way, the more you start to involve the others in the co-creation itself, the better it all becomes.

This is why Angie and Dave are my #6 clip, watch the full episode or check out their episode below!