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	<title>Comments on: Sasquatch Festival&#8217;s &#8221;Dancing Guy&#8221;: Was This Real?</title>
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		<title>By: saaaa</title>
		<link>http://christophercatania.com/2009/06/19/sasquatch-festivals-dancing-guy-was-this-real/comment-page-1/#comment-2342</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe it was &quot;staged&quot;, but not in the scale you are implying. 

The triggering events was not made by many single individuals, which seems to be your underlying assumption. There were groups of people who decided to join, this makes the case different. In cases were individuals do not interfere when common logic say that they should, I believe the case would be different if a group of 5 close friends were expected to interfere by common logic. Our groups are our shields, and we feel and act different being around a bunch of people we know well. A group being at least more than three individuals.

A group of 10 friends are sitting in a circle, drunk, high or whatever, they&#039;ve been paying attention to the guy dancing for some time and some of them may say &quot;hey we should just run down there and join&quot;. So imagine if there were many of these groups paying attention, you would just need some few people in the group with influence to say &quot;yeaah let&#039;s go!, cmon cmon!&quot;.
Now if there were just a bunch of singles and duos the effect we saw probably wouldn&#039;t have occured. But in this case people act different when they are around a big group of close friends. 

My point here is that this can happen because GROUPS of friends decided to run in.

There are many individuals and duos that dance with him through the video, but it&#039;s finally when a big group of people come running down that the mania starts. This group of people were probably a bunch of friends sitting together eager to dance, and I can imagine the situation &quot;cmon let&#039;s go dance!&quot; by 2-3 of them, finally all of them are in and they run down TOGETHER. 

How do you think generals led armies clashing straight into each other in arms combat in former days? Humans act different when they feel like a part of a unity, while you are refering to an effect happening when people are not part of a unity. This is logical, humans are pack animals and therefore we withdraw when there is a sense of uncertainty. In an unexpected scenario we don&#039;t play sherlock holmes if we&#039;re alone.
At least the majority of us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe it was &#8220;staged&#8221;, but not in the scale you are implying. </p>
<p>The triggering events was not made by many single individuals, which seems to be your underlying assumption. There were groups of people who decided to join, this makes the case different. In cases were individuals do not interfere when common logic say that they should, I believe the case would be different if a group of 5 close friends were expected to interfere by common logic. Our groups are our shields, and we feel and act different being around a bunch of people we know well. A group being at least more than three individuals.</p>
<p>A group of 10 friends are sitting in a circle, drunk, high or whatever, they&#8217;ve been paying attention to the guy dancing for some time and some of them may say &#8220;hey we should just run down there and join&#8221;. So imagine if there were many of these groups paying attention, you would just need some few people in the group with influence to say &#8220;yeaah let&#8217;s go!, cmon cmon!&#8221;.<br />
Now if there were just a bunch of singles and duos the effect we saw probably wouldn&#8217;t have occured. But in this case people act different when they are around a big group of close friends. </p>
<p>My point here is that this can happen because GROUPS of friends decided to run in.</p>
<p>There are many individuals and duos that dance with him through the video, but it&#8217;s finally when a big group of people come running down that the mania starts. This group of people were probably a bunch of friends sitting together eager to dance, and I can imagine the situation &#8220;cmon let&#8217;s go dance!&#8221; by 2-3 of them, finally all of them are in and they run down TOGETHER. </p>
<p>How do you think generals led armies clashing straight into each other in arms combat in former days? Humans act different when they feel like a part of a unity, while you are refering to an effect happening when people are not part of a unity. This is logical, humans are pack animals and therefore we withdraw when there is a sense of uncertainty. In an unexpected scenario we don&#8217;t play sherlock holmes if we&#8217;re alone.<br />
At least the majority of us.</p>
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		<title>By: greenTYPEWRITER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This type of thing is typical at Sasquatch Fest.. I recommend you go a see for yourself.</description>
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		<title>By: greenTYPEWRITER</title>
		<link>http://christophercatania.com/2009/06/19/sasquatch-festivals-dancing-guy-was-this-real/comment-page-1/#comment-1126</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This type of thing is typical at Sasquatch Fest.. I recommend you go a see for yourself.</description>
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		<title>By: Sasquatch Festival&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing Guy&#8221; Reveals His Swarm-Starting Secrets — Live Fix Blog</title>
		<link>http://christophercatania.com/2009/06/19/sasquatch-festivals-dancing-guy-was-this-real/comment-page-1/#comment-997</link>
		<dc:creator>Sasquatch Festival&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing Guy&#8221; Reveals His Swarm-Starting Secrets — Live Fix Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 12:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] my follow up posts questioning and then discovering the truth behind the &#8220;Dancing Guy&#8217;s&#8221; YouTube video (above), [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Sasquatch Festival 2010: Who Will Be The Next Dancing Guy?</title>
		<link>http://christophercatania.com/2009/06/19/sasquatch-festivals-dancing-guy-was-this-real/comment-page-1/#comment-283</link>
		<dc:creator>Sasquatch Festival 2010: Who Will Be The Next Dancing Guy?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] I first saw the YouTube videos, I had my doubts.  But after I investigated and ask some more questions and talked with those who took the videos, [...]</description>
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		<title>By: I Was Wrong About Sasquatch Festival&#8217;s Dancing Guy &#171; Live Fix</title>
		<link>http://christophercatania.com/2009/06/19/sasquatch-festivals-dancing-guy-was-this-real/comment-page-1/#comment-282</link>
		<dc:creator>I Was Wrong About Sasquatch Festival&#8217;s Dancing Guy &#171; Live Fix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] my original post I&#8217;ve received responses back  from inquiries I sent to both fans who&#8217;s videos I [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://christophercatania.com/2009/06/19/sasquatch-festivals-dancing-guy-was-this-real/comment-page-1/#comment-281</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the insight and background info, Mason. I was hoping that it wasn&#039;t staged and I always hope that concert fans can just let the moment take them without having it be planned. It&#039;s also great to learn about what happened to the Collin (Dancing Guy) once the crowd swarmed around him. I hope I can interview him and get a first hand account of what it was like to have created such a swarm of fans and then ditch the party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the insight and background info, Mason. I was hoping that it wasn&#8217;t staged and I always hope that concert fans can just let the moment take them without having it be planned. It&#8217;s also great to learn about what happened to the Collin (Dancing Guy) once the crowd swarmed around him. I hope I can interview him and get a first hand account of what it was like to have created such a swarm of fans and then ditch the party.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://christophercatania.com/2009/06/19/sasquatch-festivals-dancing-guy-was-this-real/comment-page-1/#comment-1467</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the insight and background info, Mason. I was hoping that it wasn&#039;t staged and I always hope that concert fans can just let the moment take them without having it be planned. It&#039;s also great to learn about what happened to the Collin (Dancing Guy) once the crowd swarmed around him. I hope I can interview him and get a first hand account of what it was like to have created such a swarm of fans and then ditch the party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the insight and background info, Mason. I was hoping that it wasn&#8217;t staged and I always hope that concert fans can just let the moment take them without having it be planned. It&#8217;s also great to learn about what happened to the Collin (Dancing Guy) once the crowd swarmed around him. I hope I can interview him and get a first hand account of what it was like to have created such a swarm of fans and then ditch the party.</p>
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		<title>By: mmkrei</title>
		<link>http://christophercatania.com/2009/06/19/sasquatch-festivals-dancing-guy-was-this-real/comment-page-1/#comment-280</link>
		<dc:creator>mmkrei</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m the one that posted the first video.
Festivals are a much different atmosphere than other concerts.  You have to understand the type of people who attend festivals; 3 day drinking binges, traveled thousands of miles to attend a concert, willing to sleep, shower, and shit publicly for 3 days, etc.
The event itself is unique: one band stripped down to their speedos, threw their equipment to the audience, and proceeded to yell intelligibly at the microphone as the audience held up the equipment and the artists.  A couple was spotted having sex on the top of the hill opposite the stage (also on YouTube) and was also put on the &quot;Jumbo-Tron&quot; while performing (not on YouTube).  Mt. St. Helen&#039;s Vietnam Band&#039;s lead singer yelled at the audience &quot;Fuck You!&quot; and &quot;You&#039;re all faggots!&quot; while going on emotional tirades between songs (and even before the equipment was tuned).  Tim &amp; Eric came on stage wearing nothing but cock-socks (as far as I could tell - I could barely see them from where I was).  The entire festival was one crazy experience after another.
I don&#039;t think the event was staged at all.  I&#039;d seen the guy earlier throughout the festival and he was doing pretty much the same kind of dance &quot;routine&quot;.  But what the videos don&#039;t portray is that a lot of people had been approaching him everyday of the festival.  I think a lot of people were doing it mockingly (&quot;Look, I&#039;m playing with the retard!&quot;), but some were genuinely those type of people to join in and dance.  I think what you see is the culmination of those latter type of people.
Two main reasons that I don&#039;t think the event was staged:
1. The event happened towards the very end of the song, if staging the event - I would have done it earlier.
2. He was not comfortable with all those people.  You can&#039;t see it on these videos but the Dancing Guy immediately escaped from the audience (back to where I was) and was yelling &quot;[Do whatever you want!  Just go and do whatever you want!]&quot;
My vote is that it was a genuine moment, but one that is unique to the multi-day festival (and can be witnessed on a smaller scale at a one-day festival) atmosphere.  I will attend more multi-day festivals and I would suggest others to do so as well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m the one that posted the first video.<br />
Festivals are a much different atmosphere than other concerts.  You have to understand the type of people who attend festivals; 3 day drinking binges, traveled thousands of miles to attend a concert, willing to sleep, shower, and shit publicly for 3 days, etc.<br />
The event itself is unique: one band stripped down to their speedos, threw their equipment to the audience, and proceeded to yell intelligibly at the microphone as the audience held up the equipment and the artists.  A couple was spotted having sex on the top of the hill opposite the stage (also on YouTube) and was also put on the &#8220;Jumbo-Tron&#8221; while performing (not on YouTube).  Mt. St. Helen&#8217;s Vietnam Band&#8217;s lead singer yelled at the audience &#8220;Fuck You!&#8221; and &#8220;You&#8217;re all faggots!&#8221; while going on emotional tirades between songs (and even before the equipment was tuned).  Tim &amp; Eric came on stage wearing nothing but cock-socks (as far as I could tell &#8211; I could barely see them from where I was).  The entire festival was one crazy experience after another.<br />
I don&#8217;t think the event was staged at all.  I&#8217;d seen the guy earlier throughout the festival and he was doing pretty much the same kind of dance &#8220;routine&#8221;.  But what the videos don&#8217;t portray is that a lot of people had been approaching him everyday of the festival.  I think a lot of people were doing it mockingly (&#8220;Look, I&#8217;m playing with the retard!&#8221;), but some were genuinely those type of people to join in and dance.  I think what you see is the culmination of those latter type of people.<br />
Two main reasons that I don&#8217;t think the event was staged:<br />
1. The event happened towards the very end of the song, if staging the event &#8211; I would have done it earlier.<br />
2. He was not comfortable with all those people.  You can&#8217;t see it on these videos but the Dancing Guy immediately escaped from the audience (back to where I was) and was yelling &#8220;[Do whatever you want!  Just go and do whatever you want!]&#8221;<br />
My vote is that it was a genuine moment, but one that is unique to the multi-day festival (and can be witnessed on a smaller scale at a one-day festival) atmosphere.  I will attend more multi-day festivals and I would suggest others to do so as well.</p>
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		<title>By: mmkrei</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m the one that posted the first video.
Festivals are a much different atmosphere than other concerts.  You have to understand the type of people who attend festivals; 3 day drinking binges, traveled thousands of miles to attend a concert, willing to sleep, shower, and shit publicly for 3 days, etc.
The event itself is unique: one band stripped down to their speedos, threw their equipment to the audience, and proceeded to yell intelligibly at the microphone as the audience held up the equipment and the artists.  A couple was spotted having sex on the top of the hill opposite the stage (also on YouTube) and was also put on the &quot;Jumbo-Tron&quot; while performing (not on YouTube).  Mt. St. Helen&#039;s Vietnam Band&#039;s lead singer yelled at the audience &quot;Fuck You!&quot; and &quot;You&#039;re all faggots!&quot; while going on emotional tirades between songs (and even before the equipment was tuned).  Tim &amp; Eric came on stage wearing nothing but cock-socks (as far as I could tell - I could barely see them from where I was).  The entire festival was one crazy experience after another.
I don&#039;t think the event was staged at all.  I&#039;d seen the guy earlier throughout the festival and he was doing pretty much the same kind of dance &quot;routine&quot;.  But what the videos don&#039;t portray is that a lot of people had been approaching him everyday of the festival.  I think a lot of people were doing it mockingly (&quot;Look, I&#039;m playing with the retard!&quot;), but some were genuinely those type of people to join in and dance.  I think what you see is the culmination of those latter type of people.
Two main reasons that I don&#039;t think the event was staged:
1. The event happened towards the very end of the song, if staging the event - I would have done it earlier.
2. He was not comfortable with all those people.  You can&#039;t see it on these videos but the Dancing Guy immediately escaped from the audience (back to where I was) and was yelling &quot;[Do whatever you want!  Just go and do whatever you want!]&quot;
My vote is that it was a genuine moment, but one that is unique to the multi-day festival (and can be witnessed on a smaller scale at a one-day festival) atmosphere.  I will attend more multi-day festivals and I would suggest others to do so as well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m the one that posted the first video.<br />
Festivals are a much different atmosphere than other concerts.  You have to understand the type of people who attend festivals; 3 day drinking binges, traveled thousands of miles to attend a concert, willing to sleep, shower, and shit publicly for 3 days, etc.<br />
The event itself is unique: one band stripped down to their speedos, threw their equipment to the audience, and proceeded to yell intelligibly at the microphone as the audience held up the equipment and the artists.  A couple was spotted having sex on the top of the hill opposite the stage (also on YouTube) and was also put on the &#8220;Jumbo-Tron&#8221; while performing (not on YouTube).  Mt. St. Helen&#8217;s Vietnam Band&#8217;s lead singer yelled at the audience &#8220;Fuck You!&#8221; and &#8220;You&#8217;re all faggots!&#8221; while going on emotional tirades between songs (and even before the equipment was tuned).  Tim &amp; Eric came on stage wearing nothing but cock-socks (as far as I could tell &#8211; I could barely see them from where I was).  The entire festival was one crazy experience after another.<br />
I don&#8217;t think the event was staged at all.  I&#8217;d seen the guy earlier throughout the festival and he was doing pretty much the same kind of dance &#8220;routine&#8221;.  But what the videos don&#8217;t portray is that a lot of people had been approaching him everyday of the festival.  I think a lot of people were doing it mockingly (&#8220;Look, I&#8217;m playing with the retard!&#8221;), but some were genuinely those type of people to join in and dance.  I think what you see is the culmination of those latter type of people.<br />
Two main reasons that I don&#8217;t think the event was staged:<br />
1. The event happened towards the very end of the song, if staging the event &#8211; I would have done it earlier.<br />
2. He was not comfortable with all those people.  You can&#8217;t see it on these videos but the Dancing Guy immediately escaped from the audience (back to where I was) and was yelling &#8220;[Do whatever you want!  Just go and do whatever you want!]&#8221;<br />
My vote is that it was a genuine moment, but one that is unique to the multi-day festival (and can be witnessed on a smaller scale at a one-day festival) atmosphere.  I will attend more multi-day festivals and I would suggest others to do so as well.</p>
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