What was the last concert you attended?

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Mine hasn’t. I still haven’t been to one yet…but I’d love to hear what your last one (or two or three) was.

Natalie Merchant at the St Michelle winery. Probably four or five years ago. Good show. It’s sobering to think it might be the last concert of my life. I’d put the odds at 50/50.

Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder at a small amphitheater a few mile from my small city. Excellent bluegrass!

The Pogues, in Seattle. 2009, I think.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 40th anniversary tour last month at Wrigley Field. You know it’s a great show when 40,000 people don’t care that it’s raining :smiley:

On Thursday, my answer will be Pat Benatar. :smiley:

The Who at Oakland last year. It was Pete’s birthday so it was cool to join in with the crowd in singing happy birthday. Probably the last time I will see them live. (Could be my last concert as well–after attending shows for 40+ years I’ve seen just about everyone I wanted to)

We saw Pokey LaFarge a month or so ago. Excellent show. Saw Red Elvises two weekends ago in Johnstown (Flood City Music Festival). Igor is always fun.

Coming up soon, we’ll be seeing Gogol Bordello. We saw them open for Flogging Molly last year and vowed to see them the next time they played Pittsburgh.

Riotfest last year. in 9 days it will be Green Day at Wrigley Field.

I think mine was Wilco, summer of 2015, just days before they released “Star Wars” (which they did not play any songs from).

Black Sabbath - 197?

Pop Evil, with Badfinger and Kaleido opening. This past February @ the Fillmore Detroit.

The Finns who were in this year’s Resu after Rammstein; I don’t have their name here but translated literally it means something like “Lord of the Forest” IIRC. I only stayed for a while because the road to the hotel was scary and I wanted to leave after the Rammstein wave did but before the final cleanup.

Resurrection Fest is a rock festival in Viveiro, a small town in NW Spain. Officially it’s three days, Fri-Sun, but there are concerts on Thursday as well: by calling the Thursday concerts “the opener” they split it into a different ticket. This year’s big show on Friday was Dropkick Murphys and for Saturday Rammstein. And apparently it’s one of the permanent spots for Anthrax, who have been rocking long enough to be able to repeat places they like every year (another one is the concerts taking place in Pamplona during Sanfermines or their previous week).

There was a huge mural dedicated to a man who died last year in his low 70s and who had been a fixture of that kind of festivals since they started. It included this cite from him*: “if you think you’re too old to rock, then you are.”

  • May be inexact, quoting from memory.

I saw all of Asia’s set and three songs by Journey a couple of weeks ago, and after those three songs, it was rained out.

A local children’s theatre group production of Les Miserables. It was quite a lot better than I feared it was going to be.

If we’re counting only concerts and not Broadway shows, I saw the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Smetana’s Ma Vlast on May 19.

Also, in May, I saw Steve Hackett in Manchester and Liverpool UK.

Funny enough, the last show I saw was The New Pornographers, just like in the thread from 2011, but a different show (April of this year.) I swear, they’re not the only band I go out to see!

Andrew McMahon, and it’s not a pleasant memory. It was standing room only, and by the time he came on stage my back hurt so much that I had to escape to a back lounge and watch all but the first four songs on a TV screen. And I’m only 30.

Ween at the Aragon Brawlroom this Spring

Brian Wilson in London in 2016, then before that, Dave Davies in Islington in December 2015.