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

9:49

Born To Run

Probably the last time I'll see it live

 

Rosalita
Glory Days
Dancing In The Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

Brief pitch for Gleaners Food Bank -- literally the only between song commentary of the whole show

I'll See You In My Dreams

Lights up 10:26
28 songs
Duration 2:43

 

We saw Ruthie Foster last night at the Palace Theatre in Corsicana, Texas, and it was an outstanding show. She and her three-piece band played a solid 90-minute set, and she got a standing ovation after playing Phenomenal Woman, which is such a great song. I'm not even sure why, but I started crying in the middle of it. My son - a high school percussionist - were talking to the drummer after the show, and he said that I'm not the first full-grown man he's seen cry during that song, so I felt better. I also asked one of the stage guys for a set list, and he gave me Ruthie's which she signed.

We were talking to her after the show and I told her that my son is going to study commercial music at the same college she did, so she spent a few minutes talking to him about that.

And then we had dinner at Waffle House on the way out of town. It was a good night.

Here's Ruthie playing Phenomenal Woman at Antone's in Austin.

 

Titus Andronicus last night with Country Westerns as the opener. Proper rock show. Incredible energy from TA, even if the set was a bit short.

 

StarBro is gonna swing over to see Bruce again in Cleveland tomorrow night.

 

Drive-By Truckers are playing in Richmond at the end of the month. I've seen them a couple of times and plan on going again. Digging through Spotify, I didn't realize they released a big live album recorded at Plan 9 Records in Carytown. Really good stuff. Patterson said it's the best representation of the old lineup (recorded in 2006) and that they were going through a very rough patch at the time. Pay for the show was a case of PBR and two handles of whisky. Isbell was booted by the next year.

 

Update the media kit or whatever it's fucking called these days:

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Ruthie is a fantastic performer. She establishes a great rapport with her audience on stage, and it sounds like it carries over on a personal level. I hope she comes our way again soon.

 

Bruce last night in Newark. I had been shut out and the resale prices were beyond brutal. Kept on checking TM and fantastic floor seats dropped at 6 pm as they added to the width of the aisles.

The show was extremely good but not transcendent. He was fantastic but there was a bit of the Vegas choreography for me and there was not enough looseness with the band.

He opened with Local Hero, which I hadn’t heard since 1992 and did Jersey Girl.

 

Festival lineups have gotten really jarring to me. YouTube is live-streaming most of Coachella, which I thought sounded cool... until I realized there is not one band in the lineup I'd bother watching.

(I did see clips of Blondie's performance yesterday. I was a fan in their heyday. I am in no way a guy who looks at older acts and says "those guys should retire." If this is what they love to do, live it up. But goddamn, I'm 56 years old and Debbie Harry is a year younger than my mom. That was jarring.)

 

I’m really open to hearing out new music, but Coachella has given up on indie rock (or what’s left of that concept). Even the popular acts.