# What was the last concert you attended? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306 "2011-03-28T20:25:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/1 "2011-03-28T20:25:42Z")
And was it any good? ETA: I have yet to go to my first concert, let alone a recent one. I like hearing about them, though. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/2 "2011-03-28T20:32:08Z")
Last concert of any type: a small, local _a cappella_ group, in which a good friend is a member. Great concert, as they did a variety of songs with connections to movies. Last concert by a group(s) with a record deal: Kansas, Foreigner, and Styx, last summer. Kansas was pretty good, but Foreigner and Styx were great. Alas, the concert was cut short during Styx’s set, due to bad weather (it was at an outdoor venue). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/3 "2011-03-28T20:33:17Z")
Jeff Beck with the Imelda May Band, this past Friday. It was freakin’ phenomenal. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/4 "2011-03-28T20:34:12Z")
Hmmmm…probably Fleetwood Mac at the MGM Ampitheater in Las Vegas about a year and a half ago. It was excellent. We got the tickets for free, and the seats turned out to be pretty good as well. The band really isn’t the same without Christine, but they still put on a good show. This must have been the 6th or 7th time I’d seen them over the years, but it was my wife’s 1st. She loved the show. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/5 "2011-03-28T20:35:30Z")
Rush, for the 52nd time, last November in Pittsburgh. Still: Fucking Awesome. And the klezmer version of The Spirit of Radio rocked. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/6 "2011-03-28T20:35:53Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Jeff Beck with the Imelda May Band, this past Friday. It was freakin’ phenomenal. :jealous: They’re here in Chicago this weekend, but it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to go. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/7 "2011-03-28T20:36:30Z")
I thought about posting on the “First concert” thread, but I honestly have been to so many concerts that the first one has faded away completely. It was probably one my older brother took me to, very likely Todd Rundgren. As to the last one? Last night. The Scottish band _Trashcan Sinatras_. Excellent show. I’ll see another concert tomorrow night, the alt-country singer/songwriter Tom Russell and then another the night after that, the utterly brilliant Raul Malo. Then my brother and I are driving from Kansas City, MO to Columbus, OH to see Todd Rundgren perform two of his classic albums in full - _Todd_ and _Healing_. I see live music at least once a week, often more. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/8 "2011-03-28T20:41:07Z")
Very recent - last Thursday I took Mrs. zoog to our local Indian casino to see Meat Loaf. It was a fun show. Meat Loaf is a bit past it vocally, IMO, but he’s still entertaining on stage and he had a pretty good band behind him. And he played a few songs off a new album that came out last year that I hadn’t heard, and they weren’t half bad. One of the things you always dread hearing at a concert by a classic rock artist: “Here’s a song from our new album”. But these were pretty good. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/9 "2011-03-28T20:41:45Z")
October '09: Alice Cooper w/Jetboy at the Warfield Theater, SF. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/10 "2011-03-28T20:43:06Z")
Last Friday. Great Big Sea in Colorado Springs. It was the final show of their current tour, supporting their album “Safe Upon The Shore.” We had a blast - the venue seated only about 500 people, so it was like one big party where you had this fabulous band playing. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/11 "2011-03-28T20:47:04Z")
Mahler’s Second Symphony performed by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Franscisco Symphony. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/12 "2011-03-28T20:49:44Z")
U2 in Oct 09 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/13 "2011-03-28T20:49:49Z")
I just posted in the first concert thread about seeing Kiss in Detroit in 1976. Coincidentally enough, my last concert was also Kiss, in Ottawa in 2009! And I still loved it! ---
**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:** [March 28, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/14 "2011-03-28T20:57:19Z")
I think it was Herb Alpert and Lani Hall last year. It was excellent. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/15 "2011-03-28T20:58:01Z")
Does opera count? In that case it was Lucia di Lammermoor in Houston. It was very good, except that the sets were non-existent (just fancy curtain work). Otherwise, the last concert I attended was by a Swedish r&b girl group (!) called Baskery. They were quite good, but I was not sufficiently intrigued to see them a second time. The last concert I should have gone to was Jesse Winchester, but like a dumbass I forgot the date because it was quite a while after I’d bought the tickets. I get another chance in about a month, though. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/16 "2011-03-28T20:59:04Z")
Eagles, 2009. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/17 "2011-03-28T21:00:36Z")
I’m embarrassed to report that the last concert I attended was Kings of Leon last year and it was horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/18 "2011-03-28T21:03:38Z")
Natalie Merchant at the Chicago Theater this past fall (Sept maybe?). It was a “different” show with mixed reviews from city to city. The first half was her doing bits from a new album which was all various children’s poems (not by her) set to music with a bit of spoken exposition, audience chatter and other non-singing activites. Then she had a brief intermission and did a full set of songs from her previous solo albums and a few 10,000 Maniacs tunes. I’ll admit that I started the show skeptical, actually got into enjoying her schtick for the poems and then the second half was an unexpected bonus. I don’t recall how long she was on stage but it was probably over three hours. Coincidentally, my first concert was 10,000 Maniacs’ final tour (with Merchant) back around 1993 or so. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/19 "2011-03-28T21:05:52Z")
Richard Thompson, solo. It was awesome because it was outdoors and the weather was perfect. The last one before that was also RT, but it was indoors and he had a band. ---
**Author:** ![Cell\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306/20 "2011-03-28T21:34:05Z")
Sammy Hagar, July 2, 2010 in Naperville, IL. I had seen him with Van Halen a number of times but this show didn’t compare. He’s much better without the brothers holding him down. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/576306.md?page=2)