# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/81 "2024-07-28T23:11:12Z")
The concert I was referring to was in 1989 and they were the opening band and they were great. The color portions of the Paradise City video were recorded that day. I saw them a few years later with Metallica and they played a few songs, Axl got pissed at something and stormed off the stage. Horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/82 "2024-07-28T23:27:42Z")
Frander Swedish-Estonian Rock Folk [FRÄNDER - Evigt regn (Eternal Rain) - Official video (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28SFVPaG6TM) ---
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Interesting! I loved Harry Chapin’s concert but never knew about the aftercare entertainment malarkey lol. I vaguely remember a group of students who had been taking him around town before or after the concert. I was not in the elite crowd. ---
**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 29, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/84 "2024-07-29T00:27:35Z")
B.B. King: Several times in Chicago, 1970s. Uncle Bonsai - several times. Frank Zappa at Downers Grove High School, Illinois, in the mid-1970s. Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah at Ratso’s in Chicago, ~1977. Ditto [Ronee Blakley](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronee_Blakley). (from movies Nashville, Nightmare on Elm Street) ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/85 "2024-07-29T00:55:55Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I’m guessing I’m the only Doper who has seen The Dead Milkmen live Nope. St. Louis, 1990 ---
**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 29, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/86 "2024-07-29T00:56:08Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Anyone beside me and my gf see the barefoot diva, the Queen of Morna, the Cape Verdean Creole Cize, Cesária Évora? Yes! Saw her in Seattle! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/87 "2024-07-29T01:16:15Z")
I saw a new band called Guns N Roses open for Alice Cooper in, oh I don’t know, '87 or something. How about Hawkwind’s final (so far) US concert at the Cubby Bear in Chicago. I believe that one was '96. Yes, Hawkwind later played Nelson Ledges quarry park in Ohio, but neither Dave Brock nor Ron Tree made that show. ---
**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 29, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/88 "2024-07-29T01:25:09Z")
1977: [Brand X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_X) in the tiny UC Davis Coffee Shop\*. Kenwood Dennard was filling in for Phil Collins, who was touring with Genesis at the time. \*UC Davis hosted a quite a few well known/up-and-coming acts in the late 70s. (Devo, Dave Edmunds/Nick Lowe, Talking Heads, Rory Gallagher, Carlene Carter, Elvis Costello, Camel, Pat Metheny, The Police, Emmylou Harris, Ultravox, Dire Straits, John Cale, and Joe Jackson, to name a few) ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/89 "2024-07-29T02:14:04Z")
I saw the Dixie Dregs in a big tent, alongside one of the rivers in Pittsburgh, back in the late 80’s/early 90’s. Forget the name of the venue. It was more or less open-air. Steve Morse cracked up in the middle of one song, gestured to another band member to come over and pointed over the audience’s heads, whereupon the other bandmember started laughing. After the song, Steve explained that he saw a boat floating by, and I guess it hadn’t really registered that he was that close to the river. Guess he thought it was just a stretch of flat ground off in the distance. I guess it would be very strange and surprising to be somewhere and see a boat float by when you didn’t know you were near water. Great concert. Hmmm. . . acts I’ve seen that few other might have. . . Well, a shitload of Pgh acts. Without going into very obscure local stuff, which isn’t in the spirit of things, I’ve seen The Vogues and The Skyliners. . .Billy Price, who was at one point the singer for Roy Buchanan. I saw Roy Buchanan as well at a different venue (Grafitti). I saw Adrian Belew touring solo at the same venue a few months later - he did a surprisingly conventional rock set, considering I was expecting some crazy animal noises from his guitar. He did drag out a stereo guitar effect he had just acquired, told us about it, and proceeded to play around with it on-stage for several minutes. The whole thing felt like hanging out with Adrian and friends while they jammed. Edgar Winter. Peter Noone from Herman’s Hermits. Tommy James. The Little River Band. Mary Wilson from The Supremes. Ronnie Specter. The Grass Roots. Vanilla Fudge. Dr. John. Howard Kaylan from The Turtles. That’s about it from the slightly esoteric side of my concert list. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/90 "2024-07-29T02:20:37Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Townes Van Zandt (okay, I’m sure some people have, but I’m so proud to have seen him in 1994 in Lüdenscheid, Germany of all places)? I saw him in Johnson City, Tennessee. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/91 "2024-07-29T02:22:26Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > saw The Doors in a small concert hall at Berklee School of Music in Boston before they became famous. I saw them live in Hollywood on their 2002 reunion tour, with Ian Astbury singing. Several dozen people rushed the stage during the second encore and they kept on playing “Soul Kitchen” while surrounded by so many dancing Boomers you could barely make them out anymore. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/92 "2024-07-29T02:23:47Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Sarah McLachlan Within the last month or so, at Merriwether Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. ---
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Yes on Candlebox; Outlaw Music Festival in Frederick, MD. Bad Company and Blue Oyster Cult were there as well. ---
**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, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/94 "2024-07-29T02:35:12Z")
The first “Book of Lists” had Ray Manzarek’s Most Memorable Doors Concerts. (Yes, Miami was on the list.) One was Des Moines, where I grew up, and he said there were something like 30 people in the audience, and it was right before “Light My Fire” hit the charts. The promoters said that 5,000 people had come to the same auditorium the previous week to see The Association. I saw King’s X twice in what the closest thing was to their heyday (early 1990s), the Ramones in 1983, and Radiohead on two successive nights in 1994, opening for R.E.M. ---
**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, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899/95 "2024-07-29T02:40:59Z")
That below-par Indigo Girls concert wasn’t in Des Moines in the early 1990s, was it? Unfortunately, I had the same experience. Wasn’t their night, to put it lightly. I saw House of Freaks as an opening act for the Bangles; they had a middling hit at the time called “Sun Goes Down”, and I have a feeling that they got a little talking-to about their profanity-laden between-song banter, because of all the kids in the audience. (Darius Rucker had the same thing done to him, in the Hootie and the Blowfish era.) Sadly, HoF are better known for the way one member died than for any of their music; after the band broke up, he got a Real Job, got married, and had two children, and he and his family were murdered in a horrific home invasions in the 00s. ---
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Albert King Ben E. King Junior Walker and the All Stars Jackie Wilson The Four Seasons (before Frankie went solo) Little Anthony and the Imperials ---
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> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Anyone else see **B.B. King** live? I saw him at the Count Basie in Red Bank, NJ. I saw him at Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia when I was about 15. I was in the aisle as he was running down to the stage and we collided. He grabbed me and kissed me, which was really sweet given that I messed up his entrance. I couldn’t love him more! ---
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> [@motu](#): > > Of course us camping out in front of the amplifiers didn’t help. I sat right in front of the amplifiers for one concert. Fortunately it was Steve Goodman playing acoustic. Anyone else here see the Band with Robbie Robertson still there? At Tufts in 1971 or so. ---
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George Jones Mazzy Starr Brandi Carlile ---
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Assemblage 23 VNV Nation Icon of Coil Cruciform Injection Supertramp Alice Cooper X Big Country Eddie Money (the last three played at my college, and I only saw them because I was part of the concert club and working at them) Years ago I would have added Alan Parsons, but he’s touring enough lately that I’m sure several Dopers have seen him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerts-nobody-else-here-has-seen/1004899.md?page=6)