# Bands you've seen, concerts you've been to **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [February 10, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139 "2025-02-10T17:09:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/241 "2026-08-14T16:18:26Z")
After all the interpersonal squabbles over the years it was nice to see them back on stage together. A wonderful moment for everyone in attendance that night. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/242 "2026-08-14T16:34:19Z")
Looks like I’m seeing BEAT, featuring two members of King Crimson, plus Steve Vai and Terry Bozzio. I’m not a huge fan of King Crimson, but I’ve been listening to a bunch of KC and BEAT, I’m getting excited for the show. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/243 "2026-08-14T19:01:17Z")
My wife and I are going to Berkeley this weekend to see two days of garage rock bands. A day before these shows were announced, we booked an October trip to Tokyo partly so I could see some “Back to the Grave” shows there in Shinjuku. The Stompin’ Riffraffs and the Highmarts were two of the bands I had hoped to see at the Halloween Ball there, so this will be a nice appetizer. The Phantom Surfers are technically the only band I have seen before, but most of these musician play in several different garage bands under different personas (which is why masks are so common…beside just being fun). I’m curious how many dopers recognize any of the bands on the posters below. [![](https://d.imgvision.net/tim333tim/Sunday_Back.png) ](https://d.imgvision.net/tim333tim/Sunday_Back.png) [![](https://d.imgvision.net/tim333tim/Saturday.png) ](https://d.imgvision.net/tim333tim/Saturday.png) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/244 "2026-08-18T00:00:47Z")
Caught the Guess Who in Las Vegas this weekend. We fell into comped tickets, so decided to go. Good decision! Don Felder opened for them, with Don Amato (REO Speedwagon) on second guitar. Then it was basically a selection of favorites from the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Burton was in fine voice, and Randy can still play up a storm, even if he did spend the entire concert perched on a stool. Don’t even want to guess the median age of the audience (Guys, it’s time to retire the ponytails. You’re bald - deal with it!) Burton pointed out that he’s known Randy for 61 years! And they’re still playing together and having a blast. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/245 "2026-08-28T10:58:52Z")
I just got back from a vacation in Vegas. I like to go to Vegas every few years or so - it’s like stepping into another dimension where the normal rules of society don’t apply, a 24-hour Disneyland where nearly every vice or form of entertainment legally permissable can be found if you’re willing to pay for it. I initially booked this trip in early spring to celebrate the fact that as of this month I was gonna be paying off a debt consolidation loan I’ve been working on for five years and would now have a lot more disposable income. Then it turned out in June that the owner of the house where I’d rented a room since 2009 was selling and I’d have to move, and I had to get my own apartment which was going to be triple the rent of my old place and eat up the money I was gonna be saving and then some, and I wound up having to take out a new (albeit smaller) personal loan to cover the moving expenses and furnishing my new place, so this trip instead sort of turned into sort of a “last hurrah before it’s gonna be a few years before I have money to spend on fun stuff again”. The trip actually turned out pretty well and I had several profitable runs at the craps table and hit a slots jackpot which meant I wound up leaving Vegas with about $3000 more than I arrived with, so all in all it was a pretty good trip and I had a lot of fun and splurged and now I have more money to cover my expenses for the next few months than I anticipated that I would. But I digress. All of this is a long way of saying that, on Wednesday night, the last night of my stay, I got to see Roger Daltrey, lead singer of legendary '60s British invasion rock band The Who, give a concert as part of a short residency at the Wynn casino resort as part of the kickoff of his “A Great Night Out” tour. The Who are my absolute favorite band of all time. I can pinpoint the exact moment when it happened. It was August of 1999. I was 16. It was summer vacation and I was up well past midnight playing Super Nintendo and listening to classic rock radio. “Won’t Get Fooled Again” came on. I’d heard it before because my dad always had classic rock radio on in the car, but this was the first time I actually listened to and understood the lyrics. They hit me the way that they can only hit an impressionable teenager that needs to hear something deep, and when I finally got my first job the next year, the first things I spent my first paycheck on were a Sony Discman and a copy of the Who’s greatest hits CD. Over the following years, I soaked up their entire discrography, and the solo albums of all four members of the band, like a sponge. I can sing entire albums of theirs from memory. I have their history memorized. I know their deep cuts and B-sides and solo albums. I can sing from memory the anti-smoking PSA they recorded for the American Cancer Society in 1968. Pete Townshend’s peculiar religious beliefs (he follows the teachings of Meher Baba, an Indian guru who claimed to be God in human form, swore a vow of silence which he maintained for 45 years, preached that all human souls are a tiny part of God which have been separated from Him and one’s ultimate purpose of life is to reunite with the whole like drops of rain making their way to a river and flowing into the ocean no matter how many lifetimes it may take, and coined the expression “Don’t worry, be happy”) has had a profound influence on my own spiritual evolution. The band and their music have meant a lot to me ever since I was an angsty '90s kid. This was my sixth time seeing Roger live - thrice with the Who (the first time being in Hollywood in 2002, their very first concert after the death of bassist John Entwistle) and thrice solo, and ten years since I last saw him with the Who on their “This Is Our Last Tour Forever And Ever And We Really Mean It This Time” tour. (They’ve done three or four more tours since then.) The venue was the Encore Theater at the Wynn, one of the more upscale resorts on the Strip. I normally wouldn’t be caught dead in a place as bougie as the Wynn - I prefer the kitschier Strip resorts myself - but the Encore is an elegantly designed and intimate venue. It seats maybe a thousand people, and I was seated in the seventh row of the balcony, but I was probably less than a hundred feet from Roger and I had an excellent view, and the acoustics were perfect. The opening act was Jeffrey Gaines, an African-American singer-songwriter with stomach-length dreads who plays solo acoustic folk-pop. I’d never heard of him before. I assumed watching him that he was a young guy who Roger had decided to feature because he liked his music and wanted to give him a break. Turns out he’s 61 years old, he put out his first album in 1990, and he’s been in the Top 40! He played for about 50 minutes and was utterly phenomenal. He did a few love songs. He reminded me a lot of Tracy Chapman or Counting Crows with the melancholic feel of his songs. He did a cover of “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel that I’ve learned was a minor hit on the Adult Contemporary charts, and a cover of “Question” by the Moody Blues. He did a song that was almost Springsteenian in theme about a young couple struggling to get by and feeling like everyone has the potential to be a hero. He did a song calling out the white people in the audience for what our ancestors did to his ancestors. He did an anti-war song that blew my mind. It’s rare that I see an opening act I’ve never heard of before that doesn’t bore me and just make me wish they’d get on with it and the headliner would get on already, but he did a great job and I’m gonna seek out more of his music in the future. I unfortunately don’t have a setlist for him because I don’t know the titles of most of his songs, but here’s a Youtube link to the anti-war song which was the strongest part of his set; [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QwsXWDaTepg/maxresdefault.jpg "A Simple Prayer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwsXWDaTepg) After a 20-minute intermission, Roger came on and played a 2-hour set consisting of a mix of the Who’s greatest hits, songs from his solo albums, and some covers. He is accompanied by the No Plan B Band, a nine-piece rock orchestra that’s a who’s-who of British supporting musicians, headed up by Simon Townshend, the younger brother of Who guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend, who joined the Who as a rhythm guitarist in 2002 and has played with them and Roger’s solo band since, and who Roger likes to introduce as his own brother “because I’m tired of him being Pete’s brother and I never 'ad one”. Several of the members of the group have been working with the Who for decades, though you definitely wouldn’t recognize their names unless you’re a diehard superfan like myself. The band consists of Simon on lead guitar, along with a second guitar, mandolin, bass, violin, accordion, harmonica, and two drummers - one of whom plays a traditional drumkit and the other (Jody Linscott, the sole American in the outfit) who plays miscellaneous percussion including congas, bongos, cajon, cymbals smacked with her bare hands, tambourine, timpani, and a gong, occasionally running between spots on the stage to play her various instruments. On various songs, Roger joined in on acoustic guitar, harmonica, or tambourine. It’s at this point that I feel the need to address the elephant in the room - Sir Roger Harry Daltrey (he finally got knighted last year) is a very very old man. He turned 82 earlier this year, and his age is really starting to show. His signature curly blonde locks have now turned snowy white. He wears huge thick glasses. He stands hunched over and can’t walk very fast or move around very well. He had to sit down a couple of times during the concert and forgot the lyrics he was singing more than once - the first time, he started with the second verse instead of the first and the band had to stop and take it from the top, and the second they started vamping while he assured the audience that “It’ll come to me in a moment”. He complained about the room being too cold and dry and needing more wet towels lying around his mic stand to help clear his sinuses so he could breathe, and stopped several times to dump bottles of water on them. He probably doesn’t have many good years left in him and this is probably gonna be his Last Tour Ever And We Mean It This Time For Real. He seemed to be struggling through the first few songs and I felt bad for him that he still felt the need to go onstage at his age and in his condition. It’s probably a testament to his having been strictly straight-edge for his entire career and staying clean and sober while his bandmates were drowning in drugs and alcohol that he can still function at all. His voice, though? It HASN’T AGED A DAY IN THE LAST 60 YEARS. He still sounds exactly like he did when he was in his 20s. He can still belt it out with the best of them. The only thing he couldn’t do was the “YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” in “Won’t Get Fooled Again”, which he asked the audience to do because “I’ve had quite enough of it”. As the show progressed, he seemed to get livelier and more into it and you could tell the adrenaline and stage legs were taking over. Before he even sang his first song, he took a moment to express his condolences over the passing of Dolly Parton. He told a story about the one time he met her when they were talking about doing an album together (which tragically never came to be, because wouldn’t that have been amazing?) and he accidentally spilled his coffee on her chest. He took time between each song to talk about the song and what it meant to him and why he was playing it. He joked about how it was supposed to be Pete’s job to talk between the songs and never shut up. He talked about being a 15-year-old dropout working in a sheet metal factory with men 20 or 30 years older than him who’d fought in WWII and how profoundly the horrors of war had affected them. He talked about how the Who’s original drummer Keith Moon’s death by overdose in 1978 had felt like losing a family member, and how Zak Starkey, the son of Ringo Starr who’d grown up with Moon as sort of a second father and eventually took his place in the Who and now drums for Oasis, was almost as much of a maniac as Keith was (and got along as poorly with Pete Townshend as Keith did). He talked about doing an album with Wilko Johnson of Dr. Feelgood when he’d been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and how a radio interview they did lead to Johnson undergoing an experimental and radical surgery that wound up adding seven years to his life. He talked about how Paul Simon’s album “Graceland”, recorded in Johannesburg with African singers, might’ve done more to bring about the end of apartheid than the economic boycott of South Africa did. He was ridiculously foul-mouthed during these stories and dropped more F-bombs than I’ve heard in his entire live discography. At one point he got into an argument with someone in the audience who was complaining about people standing up. He said “Let’s have a vote - do you care if people stand up?” to which the audience largely responded “NO”, and he then quipped “This isn’t Liber-fucking-ace, it’s a rock show, so FUCK OFF!” Honestly the kind of quip Keith Moon would’ve made in the Live At Leeds era. He joked about how he was a fuckin’ liar because his first “last tour ever” was 44 years ago now. He swore they really REALLY mean it this time and the Who won’t be touring again, but they might book a few one-off shows in 2027, and that as long as he and Pete are still physically capable of performing they’ll make themselves available for benefit shows if a worthwhile cause presents itself. Setlist, covers indicated in parentheses; - Let My Love Open the Door (Pete Townshend) - Freedom Ride (Taj Mahal) - Who Are You - After the Fire - Days of Light - Giving It All Away (Leo Sayer) - Boy in a Bubble (Paul Simon) - Squeeze Box - Going Back Home (Dr. Feelgood) - Won’t Get Fooled Again - Goin’ Mobile - As Long As I Have You (Garnet Mimms) - Have You Ever Seen the Rain? (Creedence Clearwater Revival) - Without Your Love (Billy Nicholls) - Baba O’Riley - Keep On Rockin’ in the Free World (Neil Young) - Young Man Blues (Mose Allison) Roger Daltrey doesn’t do encores at his solo shows. He’s said that in his opinion, the whole rigamarole of leaving the stage and letting the crowd cheer until you come back on to play a few more songs as if that wasn’t the plan all along is “a load of horseshit”, so he just arranges all his songs into one set and plays until he’s done playing. He did quip at the end that “We were only supposed to do 75 minutes because you’re meant to be out there gambling”, but I assume that was just a joke since 75 minutes is kinda the standard for a Vegas residency show. For “Squeeze Box”, which is a song about a woman who loves playing accordion and is absolutely not an innuendo or double entendre of any sort, he asked the audience to sing along with the “in and out and in and out” part, with just the ladies the first time, the fellas the second, and everyone the third time. It always kinda bothered me that for a song that is about playing the accordion AND IS ABSOLUTELY NOT ABOUT TITS that there’s no accordion on the studio version, so there being an accordionist in the band who got to play a prominent solo was a nice touch. For “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and “Baba O’Riley”, which are backed by synthesizer tracks on the Who’s Next album and in the Who’s live performances, the violinist played those parts instead. Since “Baba O’Riley” closes with a violin solo and the Who didn’t have a violinist back in the day, Roger would play that part on harmonica instead -for this performance the violinist did it live and ran up to center stage for the solo, which was really damn impressive. For “Goin’ Mobile”, a song about “air-conditioned hippy gypsies” in camper vans living free on the open road which Pete Townshend sang on the album, Simon stepped in to do the lead vocals. His voice sounds a lot like Pete’s falsetto did before his voice deepened and got gravelly and Tom Waits-y in the late '80s. There was definitely a very ‘60s-ish protest song vibe to the setlist - you have pieces like “Freedom Ride” and “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” that evoke the sentiment of that era, and “Young Man Blues” which is a timeless anthem about how old men with money are screwing everyone else over, and "Keep On Rockin’ in the Free World" which is about how we tell ourselves we live in the greatest country in the world so we can ignore how profoundly diseased our society is. “There’s Won’t Get Fooled Again” which is about how revolutionaries invariably turn into the same kind of self-interested conservatives they were rebelling against in the first place. There were fun moments like “Squeeze Box” (WHICH IS NOT ABOUT SEX STOP SAYING THAT IT’S ABOUT SEX IT’S A WHOLESOME SONG ABOUT ACCORDIONS DAMMIT) and “Without Your Love”, a song by Billy Nicholls (the mandolin player in Daltrey’s band!) which Daltrey covered on the soundtrack of the obscure gangster movie “McVicar” and became a popular wedding song in the '80s, and left Roger asking the audience the same question he asks in the song; “Where would I be without your love?” This show felt kinda bittersweet, all in all. Roger Daltrey was already past his prime and in his mid-50s when I discovered his music. I’m now a few years older than he was when the Who had their first Last Tour Forever Seriously You Guys We Mean It. Time comes for us all. This’ll probably be the last time I ever see him perform before his health declines and he can’t perform live anymore. I’m approaching middle age and I’ve got health problems that are gonna be a big problem down the road. This tour is a last hurrah for one of the last rock icons of the Boomer generation, just like this vacation was a last hurrah for my younger years as an Elder Millennial. _People try to put us down Just because we get around The things they do look awful cold I hope I die before I get old_ ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/246 "2026-08-28T12:10:10Z")
As someone known in my high school as “that guy who always wears that Maximum R&B shirt” in the 70s, I enjoyed reading your summary. I saw the Who a lot back in the day, but was less interested in Pete Townshend handing off the more complicated guitar bits and I fell off at some point. Also, I’m guessing Rabbit Bundrick wasn’t in Daltrey’s entourage 😉 I do have to say - > [@Smapti](#): > > there’s no accordion on the studio version, - there is an accordion on this track, but used incredibly sparingly as background hum during one of the bridges. It is however fair to say that it basically doesn’t have any, since it’s so light. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/247 "2026-08-28T12:21:04Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Also, I’m guessing Rabbit Bundrick wasn’t in Daltrey’s entourage He is not. I think he parted ways with the Who awhile ago - on the 2016 tour I mentioned they had Jon Carin playing keyboards instead. I didn’t catch the name of the keyboard/accordion player in this particular band. > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > - there is an accordion on this track, but used incredibly sparingly as background hum during one of the bridges. I can honestly say I’ve never noticed it. Townshend’s demo on one of the _Scoop_ albums features a prominent accordion, so it always puzzled me why the version on The Who By Numbers left it out. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/248 "2026-08-28T12:31:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The opening act was Jeffrey Gaines…He did a cover of “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel That name and cover mention combo is a blast from the past. Never saw him live, but years and years ago, someone hosting a music show on our local NPR station used to play Jeffrey Gaines’ cover of ‘In Your Eyes’ on a fairly regular basis, and I really liked the soulful, stripped down guitar and voice arrangement of it. So I got a recording of it (I think I actually tape recorded it off the radio, it was that long ago-- early 90s maybe?) and learned how to sing and play a cover of Gaines’ cover of IYE on guitar. Now, I’ve never been a terribly skillful or talented musician, but I had a few songs I worked hard on being able to play and sing competently enough that I could perform them in front of other people without embarrassing myself (too much). And Gaines’ IYE was one of them. Did a nice job setting the mood in my dating years 😉 [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o7WtavVdBCk/hqdefault.jpg "Jeffrey Gaines - In Your Eyes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7WtavVdBCk&list=RDo7WtavVdBCk) ---
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I just saw Kesha Saturday night for the Chicago stop of her Freedom tour. It was another sellout of the 22,000-seat amphitheater in Tinley Park. This was the 14th time I’ve seen Kesha, and she was excellent as always. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/250 "2026-09-01T15:29:25Z")
Did Katie Jacoby come out for the Baba violin solo? Her performance has been a highlight of recent tours. > [@Smapti](#): > > He swore they really REALLY mean it this time and the Who won’t be touring again, but they might book a few one-off shows in 2027… If recent rumors are true, Zak will be back behind the kit. > [@Smapti](#): > > He stands hunched over and can’t walk very fast or move around very well. Aw, that’s too bad. The last time I saw [him he did a little soft-shoe routine](https://youtu.be/izwaEgz4CZk?si=JP7rRt9w5Rv4BHxo) during “I’m Free” ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/251 "2026-09-01T15:40:34Z")
I rarely go to shows, but recently got to see one of my idols: Rhiannon Giddens. She organized a short tour called American Tunes: Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing > **[Rhiannon Giddens Announces Shows with Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mavis...](https://www.nonesuch.com/journal/rhiannon-giddens-announces-shows-hurray-riff-raff-mavis-staples-mary-chapin-carpenter-2026-03-03)** > > The official site of Nonesuch Records It was Hooray for the Riffraff, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mavis Staples, and Giddens herself, in that order. Hooray were fine. I’d never listened to them before, but they did some Crash Test Dummies covers and some originals, and cool. Mary Chapin Carpenter and especially Mavis Staples are legends, but legends for what they did in their prime. I’m really glad I got to see them, but they weren’t the highlight. Rhiannon Giddens. Oh my God. She’s trained as an opera singer, but fortunately for opera-hating me, she left that style behind. Her voice is incredibly powerful, and she uses it brilliantly, roaring and trilling and crooning and growling and humming. She’s also a brilliant instrumentalist, playing banjos and violins and other instruments. She’s a musicologist, who introduces every song by telling who taught the song to her, or where she drew inspiration for the song. She’s a polyglot who sings in multiple languages, sometimes in the same song (my favorite example was a number in Irish, Congolese, and English, describing different experiences of coming to America). And then she starts dancing, and I’m like, how is it possibly fair for one person to have all these talents? Giddens is a treasure, and it was one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-youve-seen-concerts-youve-been-to/1014139/252 "2026-09-01T21:39:38Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Did Katie Jacoby come out for the Baba violin solo? I believe that was her name, yes. ---
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I saw Rush last night at TD Garden in Boston. What an amazing show! I wish I had seen Rush when Neil Peart was alive but Anika Nilles was a great substitute. I’ve been listening to them for 40+ years and am glad I finally got to see them live. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/53FCNIH.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/53FCNIH) ---
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> [@Telemark](#): > > I saw Rush last night at TD Garden in Boston. What an amazing show! I wish I had seen Rush when Neil Peart was alive but Anika Nilles was a great substitute. Got to see them live twice when Peart was still around - the “Snakes and Arrows” tour in 2007 and the “Time Machine” tour in 2010, the latter of which featured them playing _Moving Pictures_ in its entirety during their second set. I appreciated the self-deprecating humor they featured in the video clips between songs, like Bob & Doug McKenzie explaining how to enjoy a Rush concert, or the group encountering a fan backstage who insisted on pronouncing Neil’s last name as “Part”, or the South Park kids performing ‘Tom Sawyer’. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Eh_9NY56Sxw/hqdefault.jpg "RUSH - TOM SAWYER - INTRO SOUTH PARK - HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh_9NY56Sxw) ---
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That is so awesome. Good guys… ---
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They’re still using the South Park clip. ---
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I have tickets for Pat Metheny and BEAT (playing the music of King Crimson) in the next month. Seems like this fall is for live music. ---
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> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Telemark](#): > > > > I saw Rush last night at TD Garden in Boston. What an amazing show! I wish I had seen Rush when Neil Peart was alive but Anika Nilles was a great substitute. > > Got to see them live twice when Peart was still around - the “Snakes and Arrows” tour in 2007 and the “Time Machine” tour in 2010, the latter of which featured them playing _Moving Pictures_ in its entirety during their second set. I appreciated the self-deprecating humor they featured in the video clips between songs, like Bob & Doug McKenzie explaining how to enjoy a Rush concert, or the group encountering a fan backstage who insisted on pronouncing Neil’s last name as “Part”, or the South Park kids performing ‘Tom Sawyer’. > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh\_9NY56Sxw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh_9NY56Sxw) I saw them many times over the years. They started to really enjoy themselves with the video interludes. Surprisingly they didn’t do a bad job acting including accents. Although to be fair Geddy was just doing his mother’s accent. In this video Kugel is played by Geddy’s daughter. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/61eu-KyijQE/hqdefault.jpg "The Real History of Rush Episode 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61eu-KyijQE) ---
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I caught Marty Stuart and The Fabulous Superlatives last night at the grand old Fremont Theater in San Luis Obisipo. Great show. I’m not a hardcore fan but I love [Way Out West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_Out_West_(Marty_Stuart_album)) and [Space Junk](https://savingcountrymusic.com/marty-stuart-unveils-surf-guitar-inspired-album-space-junk/). Marty is a very congenial master of ceremonies and The Superlatives are one of the tightest bands around. The set list ran from Slim Harpo to 50s rockabilly to a Rolling Stones cover to spacey surf music. The house sound was excellent, loud but not too loud and every instrument and vocal clear as a bell. ---
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