# Full Albums In Concert **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 11, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822 "2026-06-11T14:57:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [June 14, 2026, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/61 "2026-06-14T19:07:23Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > How about a band playing _someone else’s_ album in its entirety? I recently saw The Wallflowers. Did the entire “Horse” album, took a short break then came back to do a set of Tom Petty (It very well could have been an entire album, I’d have to research that). What was odd, to me, was that during that Petty set, Jakob Dylan said, _“Everything I know about music I learned from Tom Petty”._ ---
**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:** [June 14, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/62 "2026-06-14T19:17:06Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > What was odd, to me, was that during that Petty set, Jakob Dylan said, _“Everything I know about music I learned from Tom Petty”._ We know that Tom Petty was one of the best buddies and frequent collaborator of his father, so he would have known him well. And I can imagine Petty being more open to sharing his talents with Jakob than Bob. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2026, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/63 "2026-06-15T05:45:00Z")
Yeah, I get that. But “Everything”? ---
**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:** [June 15, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/64 "2026-06-15T13:47:27Z")
Didn’t Ringo’s son, Zack say something similar about Keith Moon? If you are exposed to equally great musicians, it’s probably easier to learn from someone other than a parent. Less baggage. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/65 "2026-06-15T13:57:34Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I saw Boston in 1987, when they were touring behind their long-delayed third album, _Third Stage_. They opened with a few of the best-known songs from their first two albums, and then played every song from _Third Stage_, in the order in which the songs appeared on the album. I was coming in to say this exact same thing. The Who in '89 did their The Kids are Alright tour. The show was in two acts. The first act, while the sun was up, was Tommy. The took a break, and continued with a Greatest Hits show after the sun went down. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/66 "2026-06-15T13:58:00Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yeah, I get that. But “Everything”? It’s entirely possible that Jakob was exaggerating just a tiny bit, in the spirit of praising of Petty’s role in his musical education. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/67 "2026-06-15T14:24:15Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > It’s entirely possible that Jakob was exaggerating just a tiny bit, in the spirit of praising of Petty’s role in his musical education. Yeah, obviously a bit of hyperbole, in order to praise a mentor and friend who’s not with us anymore. I mean, I think everybody loved Tom Petty, I’ve never heard or read a bad word about him. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/68 "2026-06-18T18:09:07Z")
Just FYI - for fans of Andrew Hickey’s “500 Songs” podcast, he has released a Patreon backers’ Q&A episode for June and this subject was one of the questions he answered. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/69 "2026-06-18T19:48:24Z")
Mrs Maven & I have seen Bob Dylan many times. In 1979 we saw him in Albuquerque shortly after he released his first Christian album _Slow Train Coming_. He played all the songs from that album but not in order. He did not play any other songs nor an encore. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/70 "2026-06-18T21:32:34Z")
Taking the concept to the next level, there’s the annual [Sgt. Peppercorn’s Marathon](https://peppercornmarathon.com/), a concert by Columbus-area musicians who perform “perform all 215 officially released Beatles songs in chronological order.” ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/71 "2026-06-19T00:43:03Z")
In 2014 I saw Stevie Wonder perform all of _Songs In The Key of Life_. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/72 "2026-06-19T06:38:05Z")
Yes! My wife and I saw that in Hyde Park, London. It was perfect, because in the Venn diagram of our musical tastes, Stevie is smack in the middle of the overlap area. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/73 "2026-06-19T07:56:05Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > In 2014 I saw Stevie Wonder perform all of _Songs In The Key of Life_. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Damn, that was one of those shows where I could have gone when it came through town, and I didn’t. I will forever regret it. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2026, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/74 "2026-06-19T08:46:51Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > The Who in '89 did their The Kids are Alright tour. The show was in two acts. The first act, while the sun was up, was Tommy. The took a break, and continued with a Greatest Hits show after the sun went down. I’ve got the album of that tour, _Come Together_, tucked away in my closet somewhere. The second disc has a couple of Pete Townshend’s solo tracks mixed in with the Who’s greatest hits, including “Rough Boys”, “Face the Face”, and “A Little Is Enough”. Neat little gems. I haven’t listened to that album in probably 20 years or so at this point. That was their “Who On Ice” tour where they recruited a keyboard player, a second guitarist, a second drummer, three backing singers, and a five-piece horn section, so it definitely wasn’t the classic raw Who sound, but fun to hear the songs live with the full instrumentation. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2026, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/75 "2026-06-19T10:43:58Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’ve got the album of that tour, _Come Together_, _Join Together_. I think _Come Together_ might be an imaginary Beatles reunion tour. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/76 "2026-06-19T13:51:05Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Have you ever seen a live show that covered a whole album? I’m not aware of other artists doing this but I am absolutely sure they do. Just after Rick Wakeman released his second solo album, _Journey to the Center of the Earth_, I attended a concert he gave at the then-Boston Music Hall (now the Wang Theater). He did the entire album. He had a full orchestra onstage, a bank of various keyboard instruments for himself, and two inflatable dinosaurs. A couple of years ago I stumbled onto a recording made at that concert. It’s the only live recording I have of a concert I attended. I didn’t follow his concerts afterwards, but since a lot of his albums were themed I wouldn’t be surprised if he did a lot more full-album shows. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/77 "2026-06-19T18:12:04Z")
Brian Wilson has done many tours with his band doing the entire _Pet Sounds_ album. I caught the 50th Anniversary tour with Al Jardine and a stage full of musicians. The rest of the concert was about 25 hits. Brian is barely there but his musicians made it great. He’s also done tours doing the entire _Smile_ album that never was, but I didn’t catch it. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/78 "2026-06-22T21:24:24Z")
Saw Stephen Pearcy do all of Ratt’s “Out of the Cellar” album. Saw Paradise Kitty do all of GNRs’ ‘Appetite for Destruction’ Saw Queensryche do all of the original EP and then all of The Warning . It’s nice to hear deep cuts that never get played, but I don’t love knowing what the next song will be all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/79 "2026-06-22T21:47:38Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Just after Rick Wakeman released his second solo album, _Journey to the Center of the Earth_, I attended a concert he gave at the then-Boston Music Hall (now the Wang Theater). He did the entire album. He had a full orchestra onstage, a bank of various keyboard instruments for himself, and two inflatable dinosaurs. I saw that tour in Chicago at the legendary Auditorium Theatre. It was awesome. The battle of the dinosaurs was hysterically funny (on purpose). Rick was standing on a raised square platform. On each side was a stack of 3 (?) keyboards. He kept moving his hands from one keyboard to another. I couldn’t believe how well he kept track. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822/80 "2026-06-23T05:07:24Z")
> [@batsto](#): > > Saw Queensryche do all of the original EP and then all of The Warning . I actually thought I didn’t have an entry in this thread and was just reading it. But on the mention of Queensryche, I realized I did. My sister had tickets for the tour promoting _Empire_, and she convinced me to go by telling me that the Suicidal Tendencies were opening. They performed all of _Operation: Mindcrime_ on that tour (don’t ask me, maybe they just liked it more than _Empire_). It was a pretty good show (all of Queensryche’s players are damn good). But I wouldn’t have gone if ST wasn’t the opener, and they were just kind of OK. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-in-concert/1030822.md?page=5)