Best live show you ever saw

[iAmBaronVonTito]

at the Radiohead show last month, i felt really young and much older than i expected to feel.  granted, im (only) twenty-five, but to see a guy (easily in his forties) with both of his kids, pumping his fists in the air and singing along to radiohead, shooting looks to his wife ("this is so much fun!"), really brought weird to the surface.  

[Pat K]

at the Radiohead show last month, i felt really young and much older than i expected to feel.  granted, im (only) twenty-five, but to see a guy (easily in his forties) with both of his kids, pumping his fists in the air and singing along to radiohead, shooting looks to his wife ("this is so much fun!"), really brought weird to the surface.  

I'm picking up an undercurrent to some of the posts here, and I'm just going to go ahead and come out and say it -


Seriously, old people: you need to stop going to shows. You are making us feel weird.


Thank you.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

excluding Sarah. 


note: i dont know if she's "old" but Hot Tuna in '72...my mom was eleven. 

[Beth]

Combine that with the fact that it was a seated show, and that Jeff Tweedy actually stopped the show to yell at some people who had decided to stand up and dance/move around a bit, and it was not the recipe for a fun night of live music.

ICK! Well, that seals it, my Jeff Tweedy crush is totally over.

I saw them on that tour at Skidmore and it was actually an amazing show. It was standing. Nels Cline really helped to make it extra awesome. With the release of Sky, Blue Sky, however, I don't know if I would pay to see them again.

[kellie-bow-belly]

The Dirtbombs show in Detroit was great.  There was a lot going on that night for them, end of tour, members leaving... they put on a great show.

[Sarah]

excluding Sarah. 

Nice of you, but why exclude me?  If anything, Dave from Knoxville is the one who should get the pass:  he's actually still interested in this kind of thing, while I haven't done anything of this sort since the early nineties.  I'll go see TL if he and the Pharmacists ever perform in St. John, but that's it.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

excluding Sarah. 

Nice of you, but why exclude me?  If anything, Dave from Knoxville is the one who should get the pass:  he's actually still interested in this kind of thing, while I haven't done anything of this sort since the early nineties.  I'll go see TL if he and the Pharmacists ever perform in St. John, but that's it.

...i forgot about Dave. 

EDIT: excluding Sarah and Dave from Knoxville.  and other older, active, show going FOTs.

[Susannah]

To be honest, I'd rather take Spike's approach: people under the age of 20 shall neither be seen nor heard at shows.

I'm 24, so technically I don't exist to Spike until next year.


(With the exception of Emma, who can and should go wherever she damn well pleases.)

[buffcoat]

How old is too old?  I want to make sure I'm aware when I slide into that range.

[dave from knoxville]

I saw an in-store today by Tea Leaf Green at the Disc Exchange. Seemed like their "real" stuff might be fun, nice guys, great guitarist.

[emma]

To be honest, I'd rather take Spike's approach: people under the age of 20 shall neither be seen nor heard at shows.

I'm 24, so technically I don't exist to Spike until next year.


(With the exception of Emma, who can and should go wherever she damn well pleases.)

You are a sweetheart. I try not to be one of those annoying concertgoing kids everyone hates, but I fear the worst - I have been known to do my fair share of dancing and sing-alonging and bringing-bands-baked-goods-ing. I don't push people, though.

On the other end of things, I'm not at all weirded out by over-40-types at shows, unless we are talking about that one totally tubular [I type it now! I can't help it!] guy who used to try and start pits at all-ages punk things here. He was kind of Hammerhead-ish, now that I think about it - I remember standing next to him once at the edge of a crowd; he was shaking his head and sighing this big sigh. When I asked him what was wrong he was like "nobody really gets into it anymore, you know?" Poor guy. He hates the weak pits!

My goodness, that veered off topic quickly.

[A.M. Thomas]

To be honest, I'd rather take Spike's approach: people under the age of 20 shall neither be seen nor heard at shows.

I'm 24, so technically I don't exist to Spike until next year.


(With the exception of Emma, who can and should go wherever she damn well pleases.)

You are a sweetheart. I try not to be one of those annoying concertgoing kids everyone hates, but I fear the worst - I have been known to do my fair share of dancing and sing-alonging and bringing-bands-baked-goods-ing. I don't push people, though.

On the other end of things, I'm not at all weirded out by over-40-types at shows, unless we are talking about that one totally tubular [I type it now! I can't help it!] guy who used to try and start pits at all-ages punk things here. He was kind of Hammerhead-ish, now that I think about it - I remember standing next to him once at the edge of a crowd; he was shaking his head and sighing this big sigh. When I asked him what was wrong he was like "nobody really gets into it anymore, you know?" Poor guy. He hates the weak pits!

My goodness, that veered off topic quickly.

Was that Joey Shithead?  Also, what kind of baked goods would you bring to bands?  I've never heard of that one, but that would be a huge perk if I were in a band.

[emma]

Was that Joey Shithead?

I wish. Then it maybe wouldn't have been quite so creepy. Or it would have been just as creepy, but it would make a better story?

Also, what kind of baked goods would you bring to bands?  I've never heard of that one, but that would be a huge perk if I were in a band.

Mostly cupcakes. It doesn't happen often, but when it does the results are usually good. I made chocolate cupcakes for the Hylozoists once because they were playing a free show at Harbourfront and I think their music is pretty, but there are like 20 of them so I ended up showing up like an hour early, carrying a million cookie tins. I'm sure I looked like a crazy person. They dedicated a song to me, though, which was surprising and awesome.

I made TL vegan brownies the first time I saw him play live, too! He was super nice to me, of course. That was probably one of the best shows I've ever been to, now that I think about it.

[Pat K]

I love the Hyozoists. Theremin + vibraphone = always good stuff. Definitely some weak pits at those shows,though.

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Wes pretty much has it right.  Don't think there's a point where a person formally decides to stop going to shows (unless maybe there's some sort of life event that really precipitates/necessitates it).  It just slowly starts to happen.  I think most of your club-going crowd is inherently socially adept enough to allow the same currents that swept them in eventually sweep them away on to the next thing.