So true. In a small venue, there's nowhere to hide.
I'm going to avoid large venues for the most part from now on. The Ritter concert only set me back $8 and was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Josh Ritter and the other 3 members of his band were mingling with the crowd before the show and during the opening act. You got the sense that the band was a bunch of real people having the time of their lives.
Compare that to spending $50, $60, or even $75 on an arena concert for the privilege trying to listen to the show while drunken a-holes smash the crap out of each other in mosh pits... Then again, some girls like to flash their boobs while sitting atop their boyfriend's shoulders at these concerts...
