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VinylGuy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:why ?

Because for a long time I've said how little live music means to me anymore and I've gotten tremendous pushback from users here about that. But low and behold now all these years later all y'all agree!

Well people change. I’m sure it’s not directed to you. We are becoming more mature with time.

Talk for yourself there VG. I am (proudly) juvenile AF!

I sense more wisdom in that post

Why is Radiohead showing up in this thread? I was thinking of seeing Thom solo lol.

axelbono73 wrote:For me, bands like Radiohead and Pink Floyd fall into that category.

Even the fucking bots are hating on Radiohead now? God damn.

I just thought of another. Sigur Ros. They were magical the first time I saw them when I was a teenager. When I saw them again a few years ago I was mostly bored.

Jorge wrote:I just thought of another. Sigur Ros. They were magical the first time I saw them when I was a teenager. When I saw them again a few years ago I was mostly bored.

The first two times I saw them (2008 and 2013) were magical as well. I saw them again in 2017 and it was merely pretty good. That was due to them playing only as a three piece, though. I need those strings and keys and everything. They need to be immense sounding.

In general : I don't live near any major cities so I've always had to travel to see most bigger bands and I did that a lot in my 20s and early 30s. So i'm kinda done with that, especially for big arena shows where i'm paying $150 to sit in a plastic chair in a giant lousy sounding room with 18000 other people. PASS. I don't think i'm missing much by saying no to most of those kinds of concerts these days. I still love seeing smaller bands in club shows though and i'm in a band that regularly plays bar gigs. Live music rules, i'm just done with arenas and spending money and vacation time on those kinds of experiences.

In the spirit of this thread: I've seen Mastodon a bunch and probably don't need to see them anymore, except they always tour with other cool bands so I end up seeing them over and over again.

Seeing Mastodon too many times. What a problem to have.

*cries in filthy riffs*

Like it or not, the answer is pretty much every band I love, but only out of necessity. The ticket pricing game has gotten so far out of my league. It's really heartbreaking. My oldest kid is getting into music and would love to go to a big show I'm sure, but $150 per ticket if you're lucky enough to beat all the bots at the exact moment they go on sale and even then get rafter seats just isn't viable.

The last time I saw Pearl Jam (2016), I was queued up on Ticketmaster at 10am sharp on the sale date. Got lagged out multiple times because of the server load and my tickets kept getting further and further back. Finally got a purchase to go through and I could touch the ceiling of Rupp Arena. At the show, Eddie Vedder looked up at the upper levels and said something like, "To all the people up to, I know you probably weren't the first in line to get tickets but thanks for coming." It was a really depressing moment.

i would travel anywhere on the east coast of the US to see radiohead. this is getting a little out of control

lvc wrote:Like it or not, the answer is pretty much every band I love, but only out of necessity. The ticket pricing game has gotten so far out of my league. It's really heartbreaking. My oldest kid is getting into music and would love to go to a big show I'm sure, but $150 per ticket if you're lucky enough to beat all the bots at the exact moment they go on sale and even then get rafter seats just isn't viable.

The last time I saw Pearl Jam (2016), I was queued up on Ticketmaster at 10am sharp on the sale date. Got lagged out multiple times because of the server load and my tickets kept getting further and further back. Finally got a purchase to go through and I could touch the ceiling of Rupp Arena. At the show, Eddie Vedder looked up at the upper levels and said something like, "To all the people up to, I know you probably weren't the first in line to get tickets but thanks for coming." It was a really depressing moment.

2016 was the end of the PJ road for me too. I waited in a "virtual waiting room" for an hour and a half only to have the window suddenly go non-responsive -- that was game over for me. If you've got the time and the patience to fight with robots for the privilege of paying several hundred dollars to sit in the back row of a ballpark, then you're a more devoted fan than me and you deserve the ticket. Thankfully my cousin got a couple tickets through the 10C (not great ones), so I didn't miss the show, but that was the end of my desire to engage in competitive ticket-buying for large-scale events. Reading about the lengths that some people went to for the Eras tour just blew my mind. There's no concert in the world that would be worth that kind of hassle to me.

Thankfully most shows I'd be interested in seeing these days wouldn't be like that. Shortly after that PJ annoyance in 2016 I saw Bill Frisell with his trio, two front row tickets for about $60 out the door, and the online transaction took like two minutes. A zero stress experience and probably a better show too.

Ello Sailor wrote:Seeing Mastodon too many times. What a problem to have.

*cries in filthy riffs*

Hey that's me, who's seeing Mastodon for the 6th or 7th time now this summer.

Modest Mouse and The Mars Volta both fucking sucked live, but their recorded material has been really iffy for a long time too.