The last time I saw her was at the Shrine for the Hope 6 Demolition Project tour— I thought that she was still great and her band was fantastic.
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I think I was at that show and at her later Moby Dick show. Recently, there was a good piece about her in the NYT (you may have to deal with a paywall for this). Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans - The New York Times
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Warrior: I didn’t realize how old you all are.
Anyway, my ranking of 60s/70s bands, even though I wasn’t alive, goes like this: Beatles > Pink Floyd > Led Zeppelin > The Doors > Velvet Underground > Rolling Stones > The Who > King Crimson
My ranking of 60s/70s singer/songwriters who may or may not have been part of bands goes like this: David Bowie > Bob Dylan > Neil Young > Joni Mitchell > Jimi Hendrix > Stevie Wonder > Tom Petty > Eric Clapton > Bruce Springsteen
People and bands not mentioned I don’t particularly like (e.g., The Kinks) or they made only one good album (e.g., The Beach Boys, Love) or they are punk and don’t seem to fit the 1960s/70s theme (e.g., The Clash) or I forgot about them.
And all these bands and artists are better than any bands and artists today, except Radiohead. Like I’ve said before on this site–I believe in connection with milk tea–society is degenerating before our eyes. There is a new Adele song that sounds just like the others–slow, overdramatic, whiny, and boring. Compare her to Joni Mitchell, it is depressing.
Adele . Awful . Joni . Awesome
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Wild Horses is a Gram Parsons song, no matter what ASCAP may say about it - and the Gram version is actually good.
Who wants to pay $500 bucks to see a social-climbing octagenarian yacht-hopper? Keith has some redeeming qualities,but it’s all pathetic snaggle-toothed Brit boomer minstrelsy in the end.
Anyone have any interesting concert related food experiences/memories?
My first Dead show at Oakland coliseum, the family (mom, dad, 2 little kids) next to me offered me half a pb&j sandwich and some of their joint at intermission.
Postshow veggie burritos at the Bay Area dead shows.
Postshow bacon wrapped hotdogs at the Hollywood bowl or Rose bowl.
Postshow carnitas/adobada fries in San Diego.
Laurie Anderson’s United States show was one of the best performances I’ve seen. It’s a shame that there’s no video available. Hard to believe it wasn’t documented. The Moby Dick show, all I remember is Ahab doing a one-leg dance with a crutch. Which might have been one of the fancy Talking Stick controllers…
I saw a few incredible shows by The Residents.
I saw Lou Reed around 20 years ago. I didn’t know music could be that loud. I had earplugs but I felt like the low frequencies were going to give me a heart attack. One of my friends and I had to go to the lobby. The opening act was Victoria Williams and at a reasonable volume the sound system was the best I’ve ever heard, up there with the Iridium in Manhattan.
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Something like this happened to me at a small local venue many years ago. I was standing right up front almost on top of the band. I love rock music loud, but I actually felt like I was being levitated by the shear volume of the sound, especially the low frequencies. It was an incredible reaction, almost surreal and hallucinatory. Never since then have I had anything close to that experience – and I never would want to.
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And the answer is “No. The National was great but not 1979 Stones great.”
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being older than you simply means that we’ve all listened to a lot more music and have gone to many more concerts than you have. It also means that there is a lot of music that we are tired of hearing, over it or just don’t like for whatever reason based on everything that we’ve listened to over our lifetimes.
For me personally, I don’t like spending all my time listening to the same music that I’ve listened to for the last almost 60 years. I prefer to hear more recent/fresh music (both live and recorded) and when I go to see a show, it’s rarely a band from before the 90s (although I am not happy that the Dead Can Dance show at the Greek was cancelled. Those gezeers just didn’t want to travel to North America during covid).
Joni Mitchell & Stevie Wonder >>>> everyone else.
Trivia: Joni is so great she’s the only singer/songwriter mentioned on this thread who’s had at least three songs written about her by other singer/songwriters on this thread! 
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lol-- I don’t know about that. I’ve only seen the Stones once: 1981 at the coliseum with Prince as the opener.The Stones were good, but not amazing (Prince got booed off the stage). I imagine they would have been amazing early 70s, but in 1981 I already thought they seemed old and had lost it (granted I was 19, so everybody over 35 was old).
The National is very good live (I’ve seen them at least a half dz times)— although the last time I saw them at the Palladium I thought they were disappointing.
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Joni is the best
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And so you probably remember the then-common saying among people in your age group at the time: “Never trust anyone over 30”. Somehow that faded away after all of us turned 30.
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lol— so true. Now it’s don’t trust anybody under 50
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not sure. if I recall correctly, WE bought our tickets from scalpers in front of the venue. that could be why we went to the show…lol
I also saw The Who with the Clash opening (also at the Coliseum) the same year. that was a much better show. The Clash were just great and The Who were also really good in the English generational show.
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Omg legendary! I’ve been hearing about that concert for decades! Few had heard of Prince or knew what to make of him when the Stones had him open for them (bravo for them!). I heard the crowd immediately started booing and hurling racial & gay slurs at him. Small minded f-ers were witnessing a future legend!
I wouldn’t trust us. 
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