# Concerts nobody else here has seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 28, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899 "2024-07-28T16:32:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/181 "2024-07-29T20:57:28Z")
> [@FinsToTheLeft](#): > > Gowan was a big act in my youth, Never saw Gowan. I did see a guy named MacGowan, however. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/182 "2024-07-29T21:30:30Z")
It was in 2014, not as wild as his early years - no fire (although he did play it.) ! ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/183 "2024-07-29T22:03:17Z")
Close to 50 years ago, Jazz great Maynard Ferguson gave a FREE concert at the town square of the city I was living in at the time. It was to publicize the city’s efforts to renovate an old theater into a performing arts center. Ferguson was a legend in the world of Jazz. And he gave a great concert. For FREE. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/184 "2024-07-29T22:23:21Z")
I saw X just a few weeks ago! ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/185 "2024-07-29T22:24:51Z")
I’ve seen the Residents. Great fun! ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/186 "2024-07-29T22:27:28Z")
I’ve seen MDC a bunch of times. How about: Black Flag (Rollins era) Raw Power Kinky Friedman John Prine ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/187 "2024-07-29T22:32:01Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I saw **The Roches** 35 (OMG, I don’t believe it) years ago in Baltimore — just the three of them, their guitars and a big-ass keyboard and they brought the house down. Heh! 35 years ago? Try **45** years ago! 1979, no keyboard, just the three of them and their guitars, opening for the Amazing Rhythm Aces at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta. They brought the house down there, as well. Another show that comes to mind (this thread has really had me dusting the cobwebs of my mind) was in 1978, I think. Leon Redbone opening for Tom Waits at Alex Copley’s Electric Ballroom in Atlanta. Finally, the first concert I ever saw without my parents. 1966, I believe, James Brown and the Famous Flames at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium. I was in the 10th grade. ---
**Author:** ![RunSilent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RunSilent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RunSilent)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/188 "2024-07-29T22:33:28Z")
I used to see Bill Staines perform on the West Bank in Minneapolis, back in the day. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/189 "2024-07-29T22:34:59Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > I saw X just a few weeks ago! X is probably the only band I’ve seen so many times I can’t even give a remote estimate of the number of performances I’ve caught. I saw them at a golf course in Nipomo a few years ago, and Exene commented how it was probably the most “unpunk” venue they ever played. [I’ll be seeing them on a cruise ship next year,](https://www.undergroundgaragecruise.com/) so I think the golf course has probably lost that distinction. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/190 "2024-07-29T23:05:19Z")
2016 was also recent enough for some people to think that “Because The Night” was a 10,000 Maniacs song. They also covered it. I can definitely hear the Springsteen influence in that song. I was more surprised to find out that Springsteen also wrote “Blinded By The Light.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/191 "2024-07-29T23:10:31Z")
45 years ago? Whoa, baby! Did they start performing for people when they were 12 years old? (I guess that _is_ possible). I didn’t like **Tiny Tunes Adventures** , but I did like the ladies driving around in their tiny, little van as… roaches. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/192 "2024-07-29T23:11:37Z")
R.E.M. has a song called “Electron Blue”, but that was on one of their post-Berry albums. Are you thinking of “Midnight Blue”, a cover of the Lou Gramm solo hit? My brother also saw them in a 1987 show that was all non-R.E.M. covers, and he’s always said that if he ever met any of them, he’d still ask for his money back. He did see the dB’s before they broke up, so it wasn’t a wasted evening. He also saw Public Enemy a couple years after that, and was one of about 10 white people in the audience. That probably wouldn’t be the case now, and he did say the show was also a disappointment. I saw They Might Be Giants in 1995, in a large ballroom, and yes, they did request that the audience form a conga line at one point. Ours was led by the friend I went with, who was 5 months pregnant (and she said her - we learned later - daughter slept through the whole show.). She wasn’t comfortable with that, so she asked to switch places with me, and the line stopped and let us do that! However, I remember almost nothing else about the show. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/193 "2024-07-29T23:22:25Z")
Math has never been my strong suit - it was 1979 - ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/194 "2024-07-29T23:26:20Z")
No, you had the math right. I was just stunned at almost a half century of Roches performances. But then again, they were on SNL just a little before that. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/195 "2024-07-29T23:31:12Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Teenage Fanclub (Indie power pop band from Glasgow)? Yay, there’s one! I saw them about a month or two ago here in Chicago. Great show! Oh, I got one for myself. Has anyone seen Liberace live? It was the first concert I ever attended, here in Chicago at the Arie Crown Theater, back in 1984 when I was 9. I begged and begged my father to get me tickets (I was taking piano lessons at the time), and he finally caved and took me. It was a hoot! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/196 "2024-07-30T00:30:03Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I saw They Might Be Giants in 1995, in a large ballroom, and yes, they did request that the audience form a conga line at one point. Ours was led by the friend I went with, who was 5 months pregnant (and she said her - we learned later - daughter slept through the whole show.). She wasn’t comfortable with that, so she asked to switch places with me, and the line stopped and let us do that! However, I remember almost nothing else about the show. I saw TMBG within the last year. It was a show that was postponed multiple times. First for Covid and then because of John’s car accident. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/197 "2024-07-30T01:46:50Z")
One more. I’ve seen Richard Thompson maybe five times. We saw him first on a bill with Roger McGuinn - Thompson was so much better that we ran out and bought his albums. He is great live. We even sent our daughter to get his autograph. I’ve seen Dylan three times but I’m sure plenty of others have seen him also, so that doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/198 "2024-07-30T01:49:53Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > I saw Bob Dylan and the Band (including Robbie Robertson) at Chicago Stadium in early 1974. It was Dylan’s first tour since his motorcycle accident in 1966. I was at that same concert. ---
**Author:** ![Allthegood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Allthegood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allthegood)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/199 "2024-07-30T01:51:46Z")
I saw The Roches open for Warren Zevon a small club in Washington DC in the late 1970s. I had never heard of them but I was an instant fan. ---
**Author:** ![Allthegood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Allthegood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allthegood)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/200 "2024-07-30T01:52:59Z")
Muddy Waters at the Four Corners Inn in Jacksonville, Maryland, January 1976. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899.md?page=11)