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

Hoping to be able to see Jason Isbell on Aug. 22 in Lexington. Southeastern is one of the better albums I've heard in quite a while. Maybe since The King is Dead by the Decemberists.

 

Saw them about two years ago and was impressed with how smooth they still were musically, even though they were in their late 50s. I guess not doing heroin and drinking yourself into a stupor every night in your 20s and 30s pays off.

 

I saw Isbell earlier in the tour. He was fantastic and you should definitely go.

 

Great point. That's one thing that's cool about seeing a band like Rush. Right now they aren't far from their peak - at least not as the common fan could tell. Whereas someone like the Stones are nowhere near their peak any longer and haven't been for years. Geddy Lee isn't quite the crooner he was back then, but some would say that's a good thing. Musically they are incredibly tight. The latest album is pretty damn good, too.

 

Went to see Bryan Adams on his "Bare Bones" tour. Good show. Just Adams, a guitar, and a piano player doing an acoustic set in a small venue.
The set list was basically a greatest hits package. He's one of those guys that, until you hear him play about 30 songs over 90-plus minutes, you don't realize what kind of career he's had. All those songs, and I think there might have been four or five that I'd never heard (and even those were good).
He had a great line, too, when someone in the audience yelled out to ask if he was going to play anything new. He responded by saying, "If I do that, it's going to be like a fire drill in here."

 

Saw TI and Lil Wayne the other day. The concert was ehh, but the people watching was fantastic, better than an airport. I've never seen less clothing per square inch of flesh for such a large crowd. Lil Wayne had dancers whose tiny tops had attached to them what appeared to be the tags a runner wears at a marathon, except these tags simply read 'BITCH'. By the end, the concert had a haze hanging over it from the pot smoke.

 

In every instance I've seen hip-hop/rap live, I've found it to be pretty awful. So much of the genius in that genre lies in the production booth, and it's difficult to recreate live.

 

Very true. The performers would only perform along with about half the lyrics to their songs, otherwise it was just the sound of the DJ playing the tracks, just as if I was listening to Pandora on a big stage.

 

I went along with my wife to see Jay Z and Timberlake at Fenway Saturday night. Jay Z put on the best show I've ever seen.
There was a live band on stage and it changed everything. There was a DJ and they used backing tracks for Empire State of Mind and Hard Knock Life and the such, but Jay Z was amazing. Timberlake put on a great show, but Jay Z stole the night. I went in thinking it wasn't going to be that great, but after years of going to shows, it was the best concert I've seen.

 

I think Jay-Z might be the exception. I saw him several years ago and he put on a great show. (No live band though, bet that was badass!) But basically every other hip hop show I've seen has been as described above.

 

Joan Osborne later this week, unless things go sideways.

Highly recommend her most recent release.

 

Just got tickets to see Snoop Dogg/Lion at a casino in Oklahoma. Just hoping me and my buddies aren't going to be the only middle-aged white men there.