Concerts thread: Best/Worst/Next/Last one you attended?

I guess he went his own way....

Fleetwood Mac Fires Lindsey Buckingham

 

The missus and I got tickets to see the first of Gary Clark Jr.'s two shows in Toronto in August. really looking forward to this

 

Given the shitfest that is Coachella '18, oh, to have been at Wembley Stadium last night. Think of the Londoners who can brag about seeing Arcade Fire backing Florence Welch.

 

Anybody been to Glastonbury? Figure the corporate scene has made most US festivals all pretty much the same.

 

Beyonce was one of the Coachella headliners this weekend. I only mention it because it inspired this piece of writing that I stumbled across today and is making me want to claw my eyes out.
It's a Deadspin affiliate, so someone might or might not have been paid to write this:

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/beyonce-makes-history-at-coachella-and-beychella-was-1825273883

 

That's, uh... that's not good. The point may be entirely valid but that sounds like a high school junior gushing.

People get weird about Beyonce and Jay-Z, man. Everything Beyonce does has to be acknowledged as the most historically important thing ever.

On the flip side, Bomani Jones tweeted that Jay-Z is essentially riding his wife's coattails with a stadium tour -- a point that would seem to me to be beyond question -- and holy shit, did people lose their minds.

 

One headline proclaimed: “There is no one on earth like Beyoncé.”

Which, technically speaking, is true.

Like most things, the Internet has changed music inexorably. It’s ruined any sense of balanced music criticism, for one thing. Beyonce could make farting noises to a beat and get a 7.0 on Pitchfork.

 

Yes, but could she sustain that farting over three octaves? How about four or five?

 

OK, it wasn't a concert I saw live, and maybe this should go on the TV thread, but I just watched a DVRed show called "Elton John: I'm Still Standing" that honored the music of Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

It sure felt like a concert, and it was terrific, with some of today's top performers doing their own renditions of many of Elton John's most classic songs -- while he watched, listened to, and, seemingly, genuinely enjoyed it all immensely. Really, it was something, and nice to see, how much he enjoyed the show, and how honored he felt.

And he wasn't the only one.

 

I'm not much of a concert guy. I went with my wife to a Simon & Garfunkel concert years back. I just bought tickets to see Cake & Ben Folds in Asbury Park this summer. I'm looking forward to it.

 

A band to see when they come to town is G. Love and Special Sauce. Always a good show and all of the guys are really great musicians.

Also a fan of relative newcomers Lake Street Dive. Seen them a bunch over the last few years at small venues.

 

You spelled Bob Dylan and “Rolling Stone” wrong.