(April 11, 2024 at 8:32 am)Jamie Boy Wrote:

(April 11, 2024 at 12:48 am)Jackalope Wrote: I have seen The Struts, in Portland around 2019.

July 2019 was my first concert with The Struts. In Portland. Small world maybe?

Sounds like the same show. Roseland theater?

(April 11, 2024 at 12:34 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(April 11, 2024 at 8:32 am)Jamie Boy Wrote: July 2019 was my first concert with The Struts. In Portland. Small world maybe?

Sounds like the same show.  Roseland theater?

Indeed it was. Small world definitely.

(April 11, 2024 at 12:22 pm)Nanny Wrote: Future: Vulfpeck with Cory Wong

They're on my future list as well and will be performing in my neighborhood in September.

(April 11, 2024 at 12:48 pm)Jamie Boy Wrote:

(April 11, 2024 at 12:22 pm)Nanny Wrote: Future: Vulfpeck with Cory Wong

They're on my future list as well and will be performing in my neighborhood in September.

They can play. Joe Dart is Victor Wooten level on the bass

First concert: Motley Crue (at the Elbow Room, sometime in the 90s)
Favorite concert: Kansas (Three Rivers Music Concert in the 90s)
Fail: Pat Benatar (not her fault, the sound system at Characters failed her)
Future: Carolina Chocolate Drops

Never been one to travel, but if they come to me, that's different. Columbia SC had a much more vibrant music scene in the 90s. I also saw Hootie and Ani DiFranco (in this century, went all the way to Charlotte).

(April 11, 2024 at 1:56 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: First concert: Motley Crue (at the Elbow Room, sometime in the 90s)
Favorite concert: Kansas (Three Rivers Music Concert in the 90s)
Fail: Pat Benatar (not her fault, the sound system at Characters failed her)
Future: Carolina Chocolate Drops

Never been one to travel, but if they come to me, that's different. Columbia SC had a much more vibrant music scene in the 90s. I also saw Hootie and Ani DiFranco (in this century, went all the way to Charlotte).

Wait, the Carolina Chocolate Drops are still together? I thought they've been dormant since 2014.

Also, one particularly notable fail happened when I saw The Who live at Tinley Park in 2002.



It's not actually in this video, but the little caption at the beginning alludes to it. They played "Love Reign O'Er Me" twice in a row, because the first time, Roger's hearing aid stopped working, and he lost his place, so he just stood there for an entire verse. Eventually, he got it to start working again, so played it twice.

First concert: I'm guessing it was Kiss.
Favorite concert: It's a tossup between Kiss and NIN.
Fail: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. After waiting two hours at a bar in Wisconsin we were informed that they were snowed in down in Minneapolis.
Future: Probably none; I don't listen to a lot of new music and concert prices have gotten out of bounds.

(April 10, 2024 at 11:52 pm)Jamie Boy Wrote:

• First concert: Metallica (opened for Ozzy Osbourne in 1986)
  
• Favorite concert: The Struts (best rock n' roll band you've never heard of)
  
• Fail: Red Hot Chili Peppers (I left the venue before they took the stage in 1987 because I hadn't really heard of them)
  
• Future: John Mellencamp (seems doubtful considering his age, but I can hope)
  

~jamie

• First concert: Moe Bandy in 1979, the parents dragged us kids there.
  
• Favorite concert: Tie -- Rush with Primus opening Dallas 1992, and Alice in Chains in 1993 at SJSU. The first was great for musicianship, the latter for energy. Honorable mention: Steely Dan at Santa Barbara in 2003.
  
• Fail: Type-O Negative, opening for Queensryche in 1995. The singer's vocals were so laughably caricatured that the crowd in the partly-empty LA Forum were shouting out mocking comments between songs.
  
• Future: Not sure, now that Prince and Chris Cornell are both dead. Maybe Grupo Fantasma?
  

(April 11, 2024 at 5:11 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:

(April 11, 2024 at 1:56 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: First concert: Motley Crue (at the Elbow Room, sometime in the 90s)
Favorite concert: Kansas (Three Rivers Music Concert in the 90s)
Fail: Pat Benatar (not her fault, the sound system at Characters failed her)
Future: Carolina Chocolate Drops

Never been one to travel, but if they come to me, that's different. Columbia SC had a much more vibrant music scene in the 90s. I also saw Hootie and Ani DiFranco (in this century, went all the way to Charlotte).

Wait, the Carolina Chocolate Drops are still together? I thought they've been dormant since 2014.

Looks like you are correct, unless they have a reunion I'm out of luck. On the bright side, my favorite member Rhiannon Giddens is on Beyonce's new country album contributing banjo and viola to the Texas Hold "Em track so it looks like her career is on track.

Was thinking about this and remembered some crazy shows by the now defunct funk band, Chucklehead.