# 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:** 13
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/241 "2024-07-31T01:27:18Z")
Made a point to see John Lee Hooker before it was too late. > [@What\_Exit](#): > > Anyone else see **B.B. King** live? I saw him live. On his way to the next gig, his tour bus hit my girlfriend’s neighbor’s dog and killed it. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/242 "2024-07-31T01:39:08Z")
One of my favorite concerts was when Jerry Jeff Walker came to Toronto in the mid-70s. Played _Mr. Bojangles_ (of course) but it was his _[Desperados Waiting for the Train](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=06c8e48f77199bf5&sxsrf=ADLYWIIR61zXy9zKWo_6qq-kLDZON9j47Q:1722388987265&q=jerry+jeff+walker+desperados+waiting+for+the+train&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLUz9U3MDEsyE5S4tFP1zcsNM0yS8kyztIS9C0tzkx2LCrJLC4JyQ_Oz0tfxGqUlVpUVKmQlZqWplCemJOdWqSQklpckFqUmJJfDBTJLMnMS1dIyy9SKMlIVSgpSszMAwAbvPUPYwAAAA&tbm=vid&source=lnms&fbs=AEQNm0COtQ6qE5snXClm_cWqGTLXtyokgX4yHBibyXS4WWyUZ70wS7JVS1z8oFb1SxAyKGLLv-nyIWKcPYOXzmmjKO7YCSPVAKRc3xIPnwUAmWWvApctRsYQql_atuc44MFSXUirQxBYnzdvvKigXnnApKx4vrQm_zVlxpYDD9iWnT36HTbaDadSE1zl9BuT8xxAm8mzNQw8c-WS58QPXO96el_voBZ6WA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3yYD-jtCHAxUANNAFHcByFFYQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=2048&bih=981&dpr=2.5#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:05edd053,vid:4xvTY7AhW3M,st:0)_ that brought the house down. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/243 "2024-07-31T02:05:48Z")
Love him! Would have liked to have seen that show. I like the songs you mentioned and “Sangria Wine.” ---
**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:** [July 31, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/244 "2024-07-31T02:16:28Z")
According to “Co-Pilot” (I guess the Microsoft AI), here are the bands listed only once on the page so far. > Sure! Here are the bands or artists mentioned only once on the page you’re viewing: > > - **Herb Alpert and Lani Hall** > - **Mike Garson and Earl Slick** > - **Built To Spill** > - **Humble Pie** > - **Tuck & Patti** > - **Leo Kottke** > - **Chet Atkins** > - **Benny Golson** > - **Rotary Connection** > - **Ed Sanders and Allen Ginsberg** > - **The Marvellettes** > - **Jon Hendricks** > - **Diana Krall** > - **Karin Allyson** > - **Charles Mingus** > - **Jimmy Witherspoon** > - **Eddie Harris** > - **John Lee Hooker** > - **Jerry Jeff Walker** ---
**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 31, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/245 "2024-07-31T02:28:48Z")
I’ve seen Leo Kottke. Also Greg Brown, Dave Mallett, Marc Cohn, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Pure Prairie League, and Gordon Bok (not together). All in Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/246 "2024-07-31T02:34:10Z")
I’ve seen Humble Pie. Late 80s or early 90s. It was $10 admission. La Semana Alegre in San Antonio, Tx during Fiesta. Frampton had returned to the band. They kicked ass. ---
**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 31, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/247 "2024-07-31T03:28:21Z")
I saw Uriah Heep in a small venue in Germany. The late 80s version. I’ve seen many comics but I’ll only mention those I saw in what is usually a music venue. The venue is now known as the PNC Bank Arts Center. In separate shows I saw Steven Wright, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Cosby. Cosby was probably the hardest I’ve laughed in my life. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/248 "2024-07-31T03:53:18Z")
I saw Sam Kinison at a music venue. Sneakers rock club in San Antonio. He was hilarious ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/249 "2024-07-31T04:03:40Z")
Herb Alpert and Humble Pie were mentioned more than once. Meanwhile, I mentioned IQ and UK, and no one else has. So what do you have to say for yourself, “Co-Pilot?” ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/250 "2024-07-31T05:54:59Z")
I saw UFO in Tucson in the 70s. A small theater, I think it was on the UofA campus. I got to stand against the stage when the band told the ushers to let us stand in the open space in front. I could have touched them. Some of the girls did. ---
**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 31, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/251 "2024-07-31T06:11:30Z")
I almost forgot, I saw Canned Heat, and smoked hash with them afterward, around about 1973 or 1974. Some high school in the NW suburbs of Chicago; can’t remember which due to said hash. Wheeling? Arlington Heights? No idea. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/252 "2024-07-31T06:20:52Z")
I literally laughed out loud for that one. ---
**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 31, 2024, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/253 "2024-07-31T06:57:26Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > Herb Alpert and Humble Pie were mentioned more than once. Meanwhile, I mentioned IQ and UK, and no one else has. > > So what do you have to say for yourself, “Co-Pilot?” I mentioned Captain Beefheart, and no one else did. I guess the AI didn’t know it was a band. I never saw Benny Goodman, but my mother did at a UN Day celebration - and sat at his table for the dinner. She loved Benny and my father was an organizer of the event. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/254 "2024-07-31T07:54:35Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I saw Uriah Heep in a small venue in Germany. The late 80s version. Saw them too at a smallish venue in Germany, a little later, in the early 90s. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/255 "2024-07-31T10:04:45Z")
Pretty sure I’m the only one who has mentioned Gong (so far). ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/256 "2024-07-31T10:44:54Z")
I did mention Allen Ginsberg (with Philip Glass rather than Ed Sanders). ---
**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:** [July 31, 2024, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/257 "2024-07-31T10:51:24Z")
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that AI is getting things wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/258 "2024-07-31T12:03:23Z")
Yeah, and I’m the only one to have mentioned several international musicians. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/259 "2024-07-31T13:01:04Z")
I saw Canadian folk singer [Stan Rogers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Rogers) at [The Main Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Main_Point) in 1979. His set was wonderful and that venue? Impossible to emulate these days. A much-beloved stage from back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/260 "2024-07-31T13:18:59Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Has anyone seen Bob Mould live in any of his various iterations? I did twice, when he led Sugar. Both were great shows, and the better of the two, in 1994, was in the rural backwater college town of Decorah, Iowa. I’ve seen Bob five times: 1. Black Sheets of Rain tour, Ottawa, 1990. I actually wound up backstage afterwards and still have the signed set list. 2. Sugar, FUEL tour, Montreal, 1994. 3. Solo acoustic tour, Los Angeles, 1996 or so. First time I heard him perform Hüsker Dü songs live. 4. (and 5) two completely interchangeable Toronto shows a couple of years apart in the mid-naughts. Both were fine, but by that point all his albums were starting to sound the same to me, and both these shows had pretty much the same set lists, and I tapped out after that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899.md?page=14)