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

If the weather cooperates, going to see Reckless Kelly (part of Deploraville's free summer concert series) Friday night.

 

I listed my top five from the album the other night and it went:

1. Where the Streets Have No Name
2. Running to Stand Still
3. In God's Country
4. Red Hill Mining Town
5. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

 

Over the span of eight days, I've been to the Indy 500, a White Sox game, and a monster outdoor stadium show.

I feel like a kid who is binging on sugar after being kept from it for months and months. Except I am binging on summer.

 

I'd move No 2 up and 4 to 2, but agree those are the top 4. Still Haven't Found What I'm looking For, don't really like, but part of that may be that it was a decent song but just couldn't avoid hearing it on the radio and at house parties back when it came out.

 

In God's Country is so underrated. Also, some of the B-sides from the Joshua Tree (Three Sunrises, Spanish Eyes) are solid. Would have been much better than some of the end of the album selections.

 

The sequencing issue I had was with coming out of "Mothers of the Disappeared" with "Miss Sarajevo," and then "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)." I don't want a greatest hits show, but you just played an entire album, front-loaded with its hits, for 60,000 people. "Miss Sarajevo," a cut so deep you didn't even record under your own band name, played to images of Syrian refugee camps, doesn't exactly get the crowd on its feet again.

 

Yeah, that's kind of a rough set order.

We got really lucky. After "Joshua Tree" wrapped it was "Beautiful Day," "Elevation," "Ultraviolet" and "One," then another encore with "Miss Sarajevo," "Bad" and "I Will Follow." From what I've seen, we had the best setlist of the tour so far.

 

What's the issue. Do you have to take a shuttle to remote parking?

 

Yeah, the Rose Bowl doesn't really have parking. It's on a golf course and the only parking is on the course itself, which is a pain in the ass and starts at $40 a car.

There's a shuttle service to Old Town Pasadena, which is a few miles away and has parking garages. The shuttles are pretty efficient but when you have 85,000 people and most took the shuttle, there's only so much they can do.

 

On the calendar: Jason Isbell in early July, Arcade Fire and Spoon in August and The National in October.

 

Just saw Wilco at an outdoor venue. First time seeing them live. Got beautiful weather, and a great show.

 

Dwight Yoakam's tonight.