# Yet another concert thread:  Most wasted audience at any show you've attended

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**Created:** [May 16, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-concert-thread-most-wasted-audience-at-any-show-youve-attended/834083 "2019-05-16T22:34:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-concert-thread-most-wasted-audience-at-any-show-youve-attended/834083/21 "2019-05-17T17:12:10Z")

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I went to concerts in the 70s, so my short answer is “all of them.” The on-campus shows I saw in college, where the audience didn’t have to drive home afterward, deserve special notice.

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-concert-thread-most-wasted-audience-at-any-show-youve-attended/834083/22 "2019-05-17T17:16:02Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> I’ve never heard of the band “The Red Sox.” What were their hits?
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> 😃 - j/k

[Here’s one.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0lvBSfDZU)

And [another…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q62AUM08nzM)

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-concert-thread-most-wasted-audience-at-any-show-youve-attended/834083/23 "2019-05-17T22:02:19Z")

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The Dead in the early 80s.

Beats out Cheech and Chong in 1973 by a mile. So that’s saying something.

(And also tops _2001_ in Cinerama and a laser show in the same era.)

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-concert-thread-most-wasted-audience-at-any-show-youve-attended/834083/24 "2019-05-17T22:13:13Z")

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> [@kunilou](#):
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> I went to concerts in the 70s, so my short answer is “all of them.” The on-campus shows I saw in college, where the audience didn’t have to drive home afterward, deserve special notice.

Yup, there you go.

I’ve been to upwards of sixty Dead (or Garcia Band) shows from 1977-95, and I never noticed anyone passed out. Probably because we we all tripping and wired and grinning madly about being there. And dancin.’

Not so many drunks going to the Grateful Dead, at least in the Northeast (NYC, Jersey, upstate NY, New England).

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**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-concert-thread-most-wasted-audience-at-any-show-youve-attended/834083/25 "2019-05-17T22:38:55Z")

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Van Halen in Dayton Ohio, 1982

We were all flying pretty high.

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