# 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:** 15
**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, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/281 "2024-07-31T16:17:21Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > > > > > > [@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. > > > > It may have been as late as 91. Maybe we were at the same show. It felt like it was in the middle of nowhere but I don’t remember where it was. > > Hey, in my case it surely _was_ in the middle of nowhere, at the Mehrzweckhalle (isn’t that a fine word? It means all purpose hall, but it was basically a sports hall) in Birkelbach, Erndtebrück, Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein (near the town of Siegen). Maybe 1,000 attending. > > I still remember that Mick Box had put on a little weight, but his hair was still impressive. I kept all my ticket stubs from my concerts in Germany. They were like works of art. I probably have that one somewhere. I’ll go look and see where the show was. ---
**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, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/282 "2024-07-31T16:20:40Z")
I also kept almost all the ticket stubs for every concert I’ve been too, but I keep them unsorted in a drawer. But I will look up when the concert in Birkelbach was. ---
**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, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/283 "2024-07-31T16:25:06Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I also kept almost all the ticket stubs for every concert I’ve been too, but I keep them unsorted in a drawer. But I will look up when the concert in Birkelbach was. I was in Mainz at the time. I know we traveled far to see the show but I’m not sure if it was that far. ---
**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, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/284 "2024-07-31T16:47:37Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I was in Mainz at the time. I know we traveled far to see the show but I’m not sure if it was that far. About 180 km, not that far. ---
**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 31, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/285 "2024-07-31T16:59:13Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Does anybody remember Jeff Healy? He was in the first **Road House** film in the house band. ---
**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, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/286 "2024-07-31T17:02:27Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > He was in the first **Road House** film in the house band. Oh yes, I remember that now! I tried to watch the movie much, much later, but I passed, it was unwatchable and even non-redeemable by Jeff Healey’s presence. ---
**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 31, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/287 "2024-07-31T17:04:26Z")
Say, “Amen,” brother, not even the platinum blond striptease sequence was worth anyone’s time. ---
**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, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/288 "2024-07-31T17:06:02Z")
I don’t even remember that scene, probably I had already changed the channel when it came up. ---
**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 31, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/289 "2024-07-31T17:09:11Z")
You are wise beyond your years. 😉 ---
**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, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/290 "2024-07-31T17:24:02Z")
I saw Rush at the Tucson Convention Center (1977 or 1978?). I think it was the first concert I saw with a video screen. During one of the songs, I believe, they showed a man falling through space. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/291 "2024-07-31T17:28:37Z")
I saw Lonnie Mack a few times in the late 80s/early 90s, after his “comeback” album _Strike Like Lightning_ was released (produced by Stevie Ray Vaughan). ---
**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, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/292 "2024-07-31T17:30:07Z")
Doh! Yes. ---
**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, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/293 "2024-07-31T17:45:43Z")
Saw the late, great Abbey Lincoln. She did “Devil’s Got Your Tongue”. Saw Buffy Sainte-Marie at Carnegie Hall in 1967. ---
**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, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/294 "2024-07-31T17:53:01Z")
Kiss is another one I saw at the Tucson Convention Center, late 70s. ---
**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, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/295 "2024-07-31T18:06:15Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > I saw Lonnie Mack a few times in the late 80s/early 90s, after his “comeback” album _Strike Like Lightning_ was released (produced by Stevie Ray Vaughan). I saw him once, I think in 1987, as the opening act for Stevie Ray Vaughan. ---
**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, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/296 "2024-07-31T18:08:29Z")
I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan at one of the best venues ever, The Majestic Theater in Downtown San Antonio. Third row. ---
**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, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/297 "2024-07-31T18:12:36Z")
I can’t count it as a Stevie Ray sighting, but I saw Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and Stevie Wonder sing at his funeral. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/298 "2024-07-31T18:28:37Z")
In 1998 I saw Michael Johnson (“Bluer than blue… sadder than sad… you’re the only light this empty room has ever had”) at a tiny, shortly to close venue in Grand Island, NE. He was unexpectedly terrific and that yawner of a hit song was quite good performed live. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/299 "2024-07-31T18:30:44Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > While there are a bunch of Renaissance fans on this board, I have no idea how many have seen Annie from 2’ away. I met and shook Annie’s hand when I was a stagehand in Philadelphia back in the 70s, and Renaissance played at Penn’s Landing. I also met Chubby Checker and Elvis Presley\* at that venue. I met David Bowie during his Diamond Dogs tour, when I worked the Tower Theater. For someone more obscure, Leon Redbone played at my undergrad school, but unfortunately, he got booed off the stage. That really pissed me off because I thought he was cool. (\*) Ok, it was an Elvis _impersonator_ (The Big El Show), not the real Pelvis. The impersonator was a real ass; I’m sure real Elvis was not. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/300 "2024-07-31T18:33:42Z")
I mentioned a whole bunch of international artists in my post, none of which were captured by that AI. In fact I saw one last night that I bet nobody else in this group ever saw: The Korean superstar [IU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IU_(singer)) on her first ever US tour. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899.md?page=16)