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I ask myself when it's going down - or when I catch the tape - if the 'participation' adds anything positive to the playing, or to my experience (the two can be mutually exclusive). Every time* the answer is No.
You break down alligator mouths and 'three-chord' progressions with calibrated precision; can you do the same for wooing?
I'm not trying to harsh @glassio's good times or whatever. (Nor am I trying to put you on the spot; if you like it, you like it, enough said.) And I could be in the minority, which is fine. But what glass dismisses out of hand is that people do talk like we're at a HS reunion.
Moreover, we're getting into apples and oranges.... Singing along - like last night, with Forbin - is different than inserting yourself into the playing; wooing often creating, at best, a distraction.
It just seems amateurish. I haven't been to a DMB show, but I'll take Dust99's word for it.