Is anyone here still into live concerts these days?

Here in Cloverdale CA Friday Nights, a series of summer concerts starting in May and ending in September, waah.  The downtown is closed off, local vendors beer and wine.  Free as it is sponsored by local business.  Excellent SF Bay Area bands you dance 5 feet from.  Bring a cooler and chair, just be aware some people sit in the same place for years ;)  Nothing beats live music!

@allenf1963 ,

@thecarpathian -- It was awful. Just dreadful. Drinking a beer with him after the show was pure misery, I tell ya. Misery! 😆

Now you’re just rubbing it in!!

I am not at all into anything that would qualify as mainstream music, that would be at large venues, and cost a lot of money.

My tastes run to the progressive, avant-garde, underground, musicianship oriented, type of music, that tends to have a limited following. So, by default, I am only going to small venues for live music, and relatively low ticket prices. 

With those caveats, I go to quite a few live concerts.

Due to the ridiculous cost of tickets, I have only attended two concerts in the last two years. They were Sarah McLachlan and Robert Plant / Allison Krauss and both shows were at outdoor venues here in the Seattle area. It’s quite enjoyable drinking wine while listening to live music outdoors on a Summer evening. Growing up in LA, I had the opportunity to see a lot of the greats in concert back in the day when tickets were affordable (The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Simon and Garfunkel, Van Morrison, U2, R.E.M, The Clash, The Pretenders, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Steve Winwood, John Fogerty, Tom Petty, Jefferson Airplane, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck). I’m thankful for those memories.

@thecarpathian --