# 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:** 16
**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:** [July 31, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/301 "2024-07-31T18:38:30Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan at one of the best venues ever, The Majestic Theater in Downtown San Antonio. Third row. Saw his concert at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium in 1986, about 10 rows back. I missed his half of the show when he toured with Jeff Beck – I had to leave early for work. (a decision I regretted later when I heard that both Jeff and Carlos Santana joined Stevie for the encore.) ---
**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 31, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/302 "2024-07-31T18:44:31Z")
Never saw KISS, but I did see Mini-KISS, a little person KISS cover band. Similarly, never saw Led Zeppelin but have seen Lez Zeppelin, a lesbian tribute band. ---
**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, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/303 "2024-07-31T18:50:15Z")
Stevie Ray Vaughan was the opening act for a Moody Blues concert I attended in the early 80s in Ann Arbor, MI. I was far from a fan of blues rock and, while it might have been spectacular, I’m afraid did not enjoy a single minute of his performance. ---
**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, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/304 "2024-07-31T18:53:12Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Never saw KISS, but I did see Mini-KISS, a little person KISS cover band. Also never saw Kiss, but a German Kiss tribute band (don’t remember the name) in my local music pub. The music was ok, but the outfits and make-up made the show, authentic Kiss style. ---
**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, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/305 "2024-07-31T18:57:28Z")
That would have been a great encore to see. SRV was incredible live. I’m glad I got to see him that one time. I don’t know why I capitalized “downtown” in my above post. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/306 "2024-07-31T19:57:27Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > Speaking of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, did anyone else see them with the orchestra on the 1977 tour? Soldier Field. > [@needscoffee](#): > > Saw Doc & Merle Watson in Seattle Never saw Merle, but saw Doc. He didn’t see me. Someone mentioned Maynard Ferguson. Another Chicagofest show for me. Might as well toss in a couple of fun ones I’m sure plenty of you have seen: Southern Culture on the Skids The Red Elvises Big Sandy and His Fly Right Boys No one else has seen jason? ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/307 "2024-07-31T20:04:52Z")
Did anyone see one of the shows where Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan played a duet on a double-necked guitar? I saw the Fabulous Thunderbirds open for SRV & Double Trouble in 1988. At one point the brothers performed this little number: [Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan duet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhfr7sjLcJg) This was not recorded at the show I saw but they played the same medley. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/308 "2024-07-31T20:08:29Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Never saw KISS, but I did see Mini-KISS, a little person KISS cover band. Similarly, never saw Led Zeppelin but have seen Lez Zeppelin, a lesbian tribute band. I saw KISS twice in the late 70s, the Destroyer tour and the one after that. IIRC the second time I saw them, the opening act was John Cougar! (I still have a Gene Simmons guitar pick from that show - he flicked it out into the crowd and it landed right at my feet.) ---
**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, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/309 "2024-07-31T20:20:23Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > I saw the Fabulous Thunderbirds open I saw them open for Elvis Costello in 1982. Sadly, unlike your story, there was no interaction between the bands. Also, Los Lobos used to play the student union at the University of Texas, and while I can’t claim to have “seen” them, I listened to their set while studying in an adjacent area. ---
**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, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/310 "2024-07-31T20:36:09Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Did anyone see one of the shows where Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan played a duet on a double-necked guitar? I saw the Fabulous Thunderbirds open for SRV & Double Trouble in 1988. At one point the brothers performed this little number: > > [Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan duet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhfr7sjLcJg) > > This was not recorded at the show I saw but they played the same medley. Yep I saw them on that tour. I saw them on The Pier in NYC next to the USS Intrepid. I saw Stevie Ray 7 different times and once bumped into him right before a show. Got his autograph. ---
**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, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/311 "2024-07-31T20:43:26Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Yep I saw them on that tour. I saw them on The Pier in NYC next to the USS Intrepid. I saw Stevie Ray 7 different times and once bumped into him right before a show. Got his autograph. Very cool! ---
**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, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/312 "2024-07-31T20:46:15Z")
I’m really envious of all these groups that you all have seen. My ex didn’t like rock music, and I was out of the country a lot, so I missed seeing most everyone of note. My wife of now likes all kinds of music, but any concert that involves standing up just isn’t going to work for us at this age. Also, most of the groups that I used to like are getting pretty long in the tooth. ---
**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 31, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/313 "2024-07-31T21:00:06Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > I’ll take a chance with one: Jeff Wayne’s _War of the Worlds_, Liverpool, November 27, 2014 I met him last year ! ---
**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 31, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/314 "2024-07-31T21:17:33Z")
The only candidate I have that nobody else here may have seen is **the Germs**. I am certain (45 years on, certainty ain’t what it used to be) they opened for the Cramps at the Cuckoo’s Nest in Orange County, but no evidence of The Germs ever playing there seems to exist online. I couldn’t have seen them in LA or Hollywood because I had only seen a handful of shows (X, the Blasters, the Go-Go’s, The Crowd, and the Dickies) there by the time Darby died. ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/315 "2024-07-31T21:17:48Z")
David Allan Coe, glad I saw him but he was in bad shape Seen Hank III a couple of times also have seen S.C.O.T.S several times and the Cramps once I saw the Weirdos in the late 80’s and even got to do an interview with the for a friend’s music zine ---
**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:** [July 31, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/316 "2024-07-31T21:55:06Z")
No mention of King Crimson so far. I saw both the Larks’ Tongues and Discipline line-ups. ---
**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, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/317 "2024-07-31T22:43:41Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > No mention of King Crimson so far. November, 1981 - Discipline tour. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/318 "2024-07-31T22:54:14Z")
I didn’t mention Rush, because I KNEW that lots of other Dopers have seen them too. I did, 4 times, and each in a different state: 1982, Des Moines, IA 1990, Omaha, NE 1994, within the same week (long story about that): Kansas City, MO and Moline, IL I don’t remember who opened the first show, Mr. Big (“Addicted To That Rush”) opened the second show, and Primus opened the two 1994 shows. Primus did not play the same sets both nights, but Rush did. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/319 "2024-07-31T22:55:33Z")
Sometime in the early 1970s I saw **Richie Havens** at Meriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia Maryland. He was still riding high from his 1969 performance at Woodstock, after years of being a self-contained itinerant folkie playing small clubs and coffee houses. Unfortunately, his management must have convinced him that Richie, his guitar and a small combo wasn’t enough. He came out with a stage full of backup singers and side men. It was just too much and it was quite disappointing. Even more weird was the opening act: 50s doowop tribute group **Sha Na Na**. Who thought that was a good combination? They were excellent and fun, as I recall, but they certainly didn’t fit the vibe we were expecting. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/320 "2024-07-31T22:56:20Z")
Jeff Healey had a couple of American hits, but IIRC he didn’t like touring, so he opened a music venue in his hometown area and did a lot of local and regional shows, until the cancer that blinded him as a baby came back, about FORTY YEARS LATER, and killed him. p.s. I’ve heard that “Road House”, the Patrick Swayze dud, is a bit of a camp classic, and that’s why AMC plays it so frequently. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899.md?page=17)