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

The last I saw was Beach House, a great dream-pop band from Baltimore. They sounded great but didn't play any of my favorites, which was a surprise, as they have a huge catalog.

 

Last: Radiohead in July
Next: Jeffrey Foucault in October
But there's a good chance I see/hear another concert before then.

Good spring/summer for me:
Radiohead
Drive-By Truckers/Tedeschi Trucks Band
Justin Townes Earle
Mandolin Orange

At a festival in Pasadena:
Neil Young
Robert Plant
Pretenders
Jack White
Violent Femmes
Gary Clark Jr.
Kamasi Washington
North Mississippi All-Stars
Los Lobos
Milk Carton Kids
Tramples By Turtles
The Revolution
Margo Price
Hurray for the Riff Raff

 

Just saw Butch Walker on Friday night. Just an amazingly great show.

Great news today: Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul are playing a club in town in December. Been hoping for that.

Also have Johnny Marr and Elvis Costello coming up in the next couple of months.

 

Butch is my favorites. Seen him about 20 times. Adding another in two weeks and one day.

Anything new? Sounds like it's kind of a greatest hits show. Wonder if the set lists vary.

 

He's got one new song he's playing. Other than that, yeah, pretty much greatest hits. (I was hoping he'd bust out some older stuff, and when he opened with "Uncomfortably Numb" I figured it would be a good night.) No one's posted set lists from the other two shows yet.

I suspect the encore will vary, because he just walked out by himself with an acoustic and admitted he hadn't thought about what he would play.

 

Saw Paul Simon last night. He and his band were outstanding. Less outstanding were the fans trying to video the show on their smartphones, producing an evening of annoying camera flashes and the like.

 

Drive By Truckers were great last week, closing out a brewery festival in RVA.

Next up: Father John Misty and Jason Isbell (again). Not together, mind you, but at the same venue five days apart.

 

Just got in from Helloween.

I am sore, sweaty and mostly deaf.

It was great.

 

The Father John Misty show was freaking excellent. Great mix of the new album and some older stuff. So glad he played Holy Shit.

 

How many college-aged chicks in mom jeans tho?

 

Yeah, not a fan of that trend. There were plenty.

 

When I saw Kiss perform in 1990, the typical garb for female audience members were stiletto heels, leather mini-skirts and push-up bras. When I attended Lollapalooza last year, the girls were wearing shawls and clogs. Anyone who feels this is a legitimate improvement should not be going to concerts. Go home and read Beowulf.

Chuck Klosterman - Zen and The Art of Yngwie