What was the last concert that you went to?

[R Blum]

Mark Farner of former Grand Funk Railroad. Great show, great song writer. No GFR without Mark.

 

[Ishi]

We went to the Newsboys I’m guessing 2018ish

 

[daspyknows]

Just finishing up a 2 month European adventure. These are the shows I have attended. Tomorrow is Third World at The Paradiso in Amsterdam. Besides all of the great music some of the highlights were seeing Samantha Fish at a 2000 year old Roman Amphitheater, Flying with Samantha Fish and the band from Hamburg to Helsinki and sitting across the aisle from Samantha and having a real meet and greet and in Utrecht at the Ben Harper show I was chatting with a friend in the band with a couple of his Dutch friends and security said it was time to go and a few minutes later I find myself backstage. We closed the venue that night. More than just the last show.

Seasick Steve 2026-06-05 Amsterdam
Amanda Shires 2026-06-09 London
Warpaint 2026-06-11 London
Jason Isbell 2026-06-13 Tilburg Netherlands
Jason Isbell 2026-06-14 Groningen Netherlands
Holland International Blues Festival 2026-06-19 and 20 (Erwin Java, Grainne Duffy, Jackson Dean, Jontavious Willis, Marlon Pichel, Samantha Fish, Toby Lee, Van Morrison, Amanda Shires, George Thurogood, Imelda May, Jesse Daniel ,Keb Mo, Old Crow Medicine Show, Robert Jon and The Wreck, Tim Knol and The Wandering Hearts, Zac Schulz Gang)
Ben Harper 2026-06-22 Amsterdam
Ben Harper 2026-06-23 Antwerp Belgium
Jazz A Vienne 2026-06-27 (Chicago Blues Summer, Fantastic Negrito , Samantha Fish ) Vienne, France
Samantha Fish 2026-07-02 Hamburg Germany
Puisto Blues Festival 2926-07-04 (Pepe Ahlqvist and Sons, Aaron Barone, Eternal Erection , Unna and Helge Tallqvist Band, Elje Lyttinen, Samantha Fish ) Jarvenpaa, Finland
Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals 2026-07-07 Liege Belgium
Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals 2026-07-08 Utrecht Netherlands
North Sea Jazz Festival 2026-07-10-12 (Jason Ngonga , Grace Bowers , Leif De Leeuw Band , Jon Batiste ,Incognito ,, Joy Crookes, Marcus Miller , Bill Frissell , Youssou N'Dour, Pat Metheny ,,Original Koffee, Aly Venable ) Rotterdam Netherlands
Ronnie Wood 2026-07-17 Lucca Italy
The Skatalites 2026-07-26 Tilburg Netherlands

 

[Rafter H BBQ]

We went to the Newsboys I’m guessing 2018ish

Seen them around the same tiimeframe… my Son loved at the end when Duncan the drummer went vertical and still pounding away!

 

[Ishi]

Seen them around the same tiimeframe… my Son loved at the end when Duncan the drummer went vertical and still pounding away!

They are fun to watch and hear in a live setting !

 

[forktender]

This was the 13th time that I've see them. And for 71 years old he didn't disappoint. He's nothing like he once was, but who is? This was my wife's first time seeing them, which was sweet, and she loved every minute of the show, which shocked me.

Their timing isn't nearly as good as it was when they were younger, but still 10X better than mine. They played to a sold out Levi statuim croud of 60.000 fans of all ages. I was happy to see the younger crowd going nuts over them, it was super cool. You couldn't of had better seats unless you were in their shirt pocket. Angus moves a whole lot slower then he once did, but he'd still do the duck walk around me.

Had a blast last night!
But it will likely be the last time I see them. So it's kinda like saying goodbye to an old friend that you grew up with. But hey I can say I was there once again. I got very few good shots most turned of grainie,,but I will cherish the few I did get along with the grainie video i got of Angus doing the duck walk. It was a super fun show, but man di it remind me of how old I've become. Tickets prices are ridiculous these days. The first time I saw them was in 77-78 tickets were. $12 back then. Todays prices are much, much higher but worth every penny to see them once again.

 

[JckDanls 07]

I'm sorry I don't recognize him... Who is it ?? as it ws never mentioned...

 

[forktender]

The white hair dude is Angus Young of ACDC.

 

[forktender]

Next week we go see Tedeschi Trucks Band. Can't waut to see Derik wailing away on his Gibson SG.
I gotta thing for Gibson's , and especially them old SG's. 5hey just gotta sound like no other.

 

[gmc2003]

I'm sorry I don't recognize him... Who is it ?? as it ws never mentioned...

Donnie and Marie

Chris

 

[KonaRich]

Mark Farner of former Grand Funk Railroad. Great show, great song writer. No GFR without Mark.

Oscar Peterson Trio. Illinois Institute of Technology collage auditorium, 1970. I still remember it so well.

I also saw Ramsey Louis there, as well as Andrés Segovia, the classical guitarist. Incredible musicians all!

 

[normanaj]

Last show was John Corabi at a local club.

Next show(s) is Iron Maiden!!!

 

[JckDanls 07]

The white hair dude is Angus Young of ACDC.

AHHHHH.. That's why I didn't recognize him... I never was a big ACDC fan.... I was (and still am) a Southern/Country Rocker...

 

[JckDanls 07]

Donnie and Marie

Chris

Now that you say that...

 

[912smoker]

Donnie and Marie

Chris

She's a little bit country.....

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

The white hair dude is Angus Young of ACDC.

I did not recognize him without his schoolboy uniform.

 

[forktender]

AHHHHH.. That's why I didn't recognize him... I never was a big ACDC fan.... I was (and still am) a Southern/Country Rocker...

I like all different types of music, I can listen to almost anything except wrap, and pop music, but first and foremost I'm a rocker.

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

I am getting older myself but looking at these legendary rock bands even older than me makes me sad that there is no future bands to replace them.

Groups that took years to learn their craft and when they got it right won the world over.

Now it is just Disney looks without any talent. They parade around and can't sing without auto-tune. Pathetic. No one that can play any instruments.

The one exception is Japanese heavy metal. They seemed to have captured the best of rock and metal and combined it with Japanese pop.

BabyMetal started it about 15 years ago. It was an experiment to see how to combine heavy metal (DragonForce) with cute young Japanese dancer/singers into a weird and fun mismatch.

I found about them early and have been a fan since. Now there are many more bands following in their footsteps.

15 years later BabyMetal is huge around the world.

 

[BugHunter]

I am getting older myself but looking at these legendary rock bands even older than me makes me sad that there is no future bands to replace them.

Groups that took years to learn their craft and when they got it right won the world over.

Interesting you mention that. The last concert I saw was back in February, went to see Def Leppard at Caesars Palace in Vegas. Early in the show, Joe Elliot was talking about how long they've been doing this, and said this was now 49 years they've been touring. Doing a second residency in Vegas at the time, and likely will do more. Every show sold out, and they sounded like they did in the 90s (saw them several times then too).

But you make a good point about the lack of "talent" nowadays. Not to say there's none of them with any, but it's very hard to find any that actually train to be in music. Whether it be playing an instrument or vocals.

Some examples, Pat Benetar had vocal lessons basically from the time she was able to talk. And considered going to Juliard (grew up in NYC) but eventually stuck it out singing in clubs trying to get noticed.

When Neil Schon and Jonathin Cain were looking for a vocalist for Journey, they found Arnel on Youtube and brought him to the US just to hear him without Protools. Only to find out he couldn't afford Protools and all his stuff on YT was just him live.

Can't find it in his wiki, (smallest wiki ever) but CJ Snare, lead vocalist and founder of Firehouse, was a classical concert pianist...

Boston (founded by Tom Scholz) basically only used the band members when playing on stage. All the studio work (everything but vocals and percussion) was played and mixed by Scholz on equipment he built, (he was an electrical engineer) and recorded and mixed in his spare bathroom. This was true through their 3rd album, and a lawsuit even ensued trying to force him to use a studio. He refused, and eventually won the lawsuit as well.

If you search YT, you can find original recordings of Brad Delp laying down the vocals for some of their songs. Just the vocal tracks. Word on the internet leads you to believe those vocals are being extracted with ai or some such bs, but no, it's just the original vocal track recordings with nothing else audible. Still, unprocessed other than Scholz analog tube processors (which btw are industry standard through out the music industry today. Seriously high dollar stuff). Show me somebody in their 20s today who could scratch build their own sound processing equipment and become legendary in music... Most aren't even good with a mouse...