# What was the last concert you attended? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723 "2017-08-15T17:01:05Z")\ **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:** [August 15, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/1 "2017-08-15T17:01:05Z")
[Has it been updated since your reply to this one?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=602421) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/2 "2017-08-15T17:19:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/3 "2017-08-15T17:28:09Z")
Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder at a small amphitheater a few mile from my small city. Excellent bluegrass! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/4 "2017-08-15T17:29:09Z")
The Pogues, in Seattle. 2009, I think. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/5 "2017-08-15T17:35:09Z")
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 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/6 "2017-08-15T17:45:39Z")
On Thursday, my answer will be Pat Benatar. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/7 "2017-08-15T18:01:58Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/8 "2017-08-15T18:04:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/9 "2017-08-15T18:08:32Z")
Riotfest last year. in 9 days it will be Green Day at Wrigley Field. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/10 "2017-08-15T18:09:57Z")
I think mine was Wilco, summer of 2015, just days before they released “Star Wars” (which they did not play any songs from). ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/11 "2017-08-15T18:13:27Z")
Black Sabbath - 197? ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/12 "2017-08-15T18:15:50Z")
Pop Evil, with Badfinger and Kaleido opening. This past February @ the Fillmore Detroit. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/13 "2017-08-15T18:22:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/14 "2017-08-15T18:26:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/15 "2017-08-15T18:34:14Z")
A local children’s theatre group production of _Les Miserables_. It was quite a lot better than I feared it was going to be. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/16 "2017-08-15T18:34:43Z")
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. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/17 "2017-08-15T18:44:33Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/18 "2017-08-15T18:49:12Z")
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. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/19 "2017-08-15T18:49:16Z")
Ween at the Aragon Brawlroom this Spring ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723/20 "2017-08-15T19:07:43Z")
Brian Wilson in London in 2016, then before that, Dave Davies in Islington in December 2015. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-concert-you-attended/793723.md?page=2)