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

I'm pretty excited. The best live band I've ever seen is Fishbone, circa 1984 to about 1991. I saw then 17 or 18 times in that period. Then some key guys left and the band absolutely turned to shit. I always hoped they could get the originals back together for a few shows.

It finally happened -- the original band* is back, and is playing in a club in town next Friday. Cannot wait.


* OK, 5/6 of the original band. The original guitarist who joined a cult around '92 is still out, but his original replacement is part of this version.

 

Guy I know has a contact for tickets at the Budweiser Stage, a 15,000-seat shed on the shores of Lake Ontario here in Toronto. Tells me he has access to great tickets for every show. Tells me he can get me two for Skynyrd/ZZ Top/38 Special for $320. Told him you'd need a 38 Special to get me part with that kind of cash for that show.

 

I'll bet the John Fogerty/ZZ Top tour will be a great show.

 

The ZZ Top part should be.

 

Metallica is coming to Birmingham for the first time ever on this tour. The cheap upper deck seats are $131. The prime seats are $766 (!).

Nope, 'fraid not.

 

Fogerty is one of the few that I'd be tempted to pay whatever it took.

 

I think Mrs. Whitman and I are going to go see Ryan Adams at Red Rocks. That won't suck.

 

This sounds like a deleted scene from This Is Spinal Tap.

 

Re: Skynyrd--are there any original members still playing with the band? Seems like you're paying to see a Skynyrd cover band.

 

It gets better -- the bass player tried to have him "deprogrammed" and was arrested for kidnapping. The guitarist insisted he wasn't in a cult -- he said he just bailed because the band turned to shit.

 

I was talking to a buddy this week about our respective Rage Against the Machine concert experiences. We both agreed that now, 20 years later, we might not survive such an evening. That's a pretty tough realization—that you're now too old to go to certain shows, because you might die.

I was in a Ministry pit that almost broke my 19-year-old self. My 44-year-old self would end up in the hospital given the exact same circumstance.

Not everything about getting old sucks, but that kind of does.

 

Been in the mosh pit for a couple bands in recent months at a small club. Once it was The Orwells, the other time Parquet Courts.

Let me tell you, them kids is crazy. This old man held his own, though.