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

fuck clapton

 

I don't think I realized how much I missed live music. Taylor came out last night and sang "A Little Bit of Everything" solo, just him, an acoustic guitar and a crowd eager to join in singing along. Not gonna lie, got a little emotional. Live shows were such a huge part of my life pre pandemic, and I'll never take them for granted again. Someone spilled beer on my leg. Someone fist bumped me after one of the songs. The entire fucking room belted out "When My Time Comes" in unison. It was cathartic.

 

My wife and I have three-day passes for the music festival next weekend in our town. This year, it’s all women all three days. Tanya Tucker closes Friday night, and Sheryl Crow closes Sunday night. It will be our first concert since seeing Wilco four years or so ago in Kansas City.

I don’t know if we’ll have to provide proof of vaccination or wear masks or whatever. I’m looking forward to it, but I’m a little apprehensive, too.

 

Best - probably AC/DC mid-90s or the Stones a couple of years ago in Nashville
Worst - Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, 38 Special - loud enough to cause hearing damage
Next - have no clue, not that important
Last - U2 in Cleveland

 

As long as work cooperates, I'm off to see Trombone Shorty tonight. Super pumped. Have wanted to see him for some time but it's never worked out.

 

Attended a free Concert in the Park on Wednesday night in San Juan Capistrano. The park was packed. The band is a great one named Tijuana Dogs. The leader is Matt Mauser. His wife was a basketball coach who was on Kobe Bryant's helicopter. He recently appeared on America's Got Talent. He didn't win, partly because they told him to sing a Roberta Flack song for his finale. An hour before, he told the producer that he wasn't going to sing a Roberta Flack song, it just wasn't him. No disrespect to Roberta Flack, but it just wasn't him. He sang a Frank Sinatra song instead. He didn't win, but his performance did land him a one-year gig in Vegas. He has two small kids and couldn't uproot them for Vegas, so he turned it down.

 

That should be fun. I've watched his Austin City Limits episode repeated - dude is really good.

 

Does anybody on the board remember an off-the-wall piano player named Uncle Vinty? He had this quick-change wardrobe that he'd progressively tear off until he got down to a medieval court jester's silks. He'd mug incessantly through his repertoire of nonsensical somgs -- a program that went well with the availability at the time of good Middle Eastern hashish.

Vinty lived nomadically in a converted bread truck. I believe he was originally from Rhode Island where he was in a regionally successful band before going to California and assuming the Uncle Vinty identity. For some reason he hung out in Wisconsin quite a bit in the '70s and early '80s.

Here he is on a late-night TV show in (I believe) Toronto. The video is one of a six-part series.

 

Update: Show was sick, sick, sick. Sooooo good.

 

Wife and daughter got cold COVID feet on Harry Styles.

Tickets bought for $180 each just sold for $450 each.

 

He's always a fun show. Wear your dancing shoes.

 

Updating Last - Stones in Nashville

Excellent show, as usual, and fun.