This post is hilarious. Thank you @icculus

Someone asked why it's "OK" to chant in Wilson but not Hood. Excellent question! As with a lot of the crowd participation stuff, I think a lot of people's cut off is: things that existed when they started seeing shows are good, things that started later are irredeemable n00bish and awful. There are some who have a stick-up about the clap in Stash, which I find baffling—perhaps because that clap was firmly ensconced when I started seeing the band, and seems as legit as could be.

But on a matter of taste, the Hood chant has just seemed stupid and antithetical to the mood of the song to many of us who saw it develop and watched in horror as it took on. I mean, in that song, as my friend Glide once put it, do you really want to be thrusting your fist in the air and shouting? It always felt like something that some fans forced onto the song, more than a decade into its existence, and I've never seen a glimmer of indication from any band member that they're into it whatsoever.

Compare that with the Wilson chant...check out the well-circulated video from 12/30/94, where Trey is clearly delighted by the chant and egging the crowd on. In interviews around A Live One (which used that version) he also said he had the chant turned up as loud in the mix as would make sense.

BUT, if we use that standard, what about the dreaded WOO? Trey clearly has been egging those on, and many of us feel casual WOOing is the end of civilization. Why? Because when it happened at Tahoe (an event I was not present for, btw), it was a miraculous, spontaneous, in-the-moment event that was a special, shared experience marking a uniquely special jam. Throwing them in all over the place (such as in composed versions of songs like Reba!) just dilutes that and makes it a joke.

So in the end, is it all a matter of taste? I think so. And while some of the "rules" in this post are actually taken seriously as proper etiquette—things like talking during the music—I do hope we all understand that even the most intensely held view about something like the Hood chant or WOOing really just comes down to personal taste.
Whereas with Wilson, loo