Is anyone here still into live concerts these days?


Concert Ticket Prices Are Expected to Keep Rising in 2025 and Beyond

keeps me wondering if it's even worth it anymore (smaller live music venues excluded as they don't typically charge as much)

tippydi

Saw Styx foreigner great concert still have great voices and sound had 7 crown i tec 12000 amps sounded great.reo and zz top all in the past year.now because I have more time and finances than when I was 20 years old.i guess it is a quality of life issue now.i use the I tec 12000 on my woofer towers with 6 12 inch woofers and they sound great.on another 6x12 inch woofers I have a bunch of high watt ice amps.enjoy the music weither it's live or in your home.

@allenf1963 ,

He's one I'm sorry I missed. I would have loved to hear a live acoustic 'Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.'

Slaw.

Trower is just extraordinary. "Bridge of Sighs" is in my top ten fav rock albums. I saw him live once in Ohio. Very cool concert.

@moonwatcher "To show the disconnect at large shows, some YouTubers recorded some of the songs as presented in commercials or videos from Taylor Swift’s recent live tour. They found that on most of the songs, she wasn’t even singing live. They were canned "prerecorded" vocals.To show the disconnect at large shows, some YouTubers recorded some of the songs as presented in commercials or videos from Taylor Swift’s recent live tour. They found that on most of the songs, she wasn’t even singing live. They were canned "prerecorded" vocals".

That is not accurate. David Grohl joked that she doesn't perform live (probably because he does not) and, yes, background vocals are pre-recorded when they all must move in unison on stage for prolonged periods, but Taylor is not mailing it in. Choreography requiring high intensity dancing is just what it always has been. Her concerts last 3 and a half hours and she is not lip-synching.

And just for the sake of fair play, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen also use some pre-recorded music in some of their performances, so let's just say that to put on a show for 3 hours plus it's gonna take a village.