Concerts you have attended?

There probably well over 20 bands I recognize. That a great lineup festival for those 4 days.
 
I know:
Blue October
Coheed and Cambria
Evanescence
Limp Bizkit
Megadeth
Pantera
Scott Stapp
Shinedown
Stabbing Westward
Three Days Grace
Vince Neil

I imagine most people know at least a few of those.
 
My bass player informed me it's "unlikely" he can go. He was gonna do most of the 12 hour drive, use his car, and use business hotel points for our stay. So I'm probably not going. Oh well.
 
I wanted to see Queen again when they came back in October. I found tickets were $970/ticket. So not going to happen. Same with Springsteen. I think both use Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing system. Which is just an excuse to rip people off more.

I heard that several artists like "The Cure" have refused to use the scheme calling it a rippoff scheme. Neil Young refuses to tour because of Ticketmaster gouging. He says concerts are broken.

On the other side of the coin, I don't think Taylor Swift used it and her demand exceeded the ticket supply.
 
Queen (most of them) would be fun, but not for a grand. Peter Gabriel is coming through, but those tickets were $450. I can’t justify supporting that industry.
 
HecticArt said:
Queen (most of them) would be fun, but not for a grand. Peter Gabriel is coming through, but those tickets were $450. I can’t justify supporting that industry.
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I have seen them twice. Last time they came through tickets were $150 for good seats. That was before dynamic pricing.
 
Not the normal concert, but there's a pop music connection. Through Mrs. Scotch's client, who's a senior trustee of the Boston Ballet, we once again attended a contemporary ballet performance today.

The first act was called Everywhere We Go, with music composed and orchestrated by indie pop artist Sufjan Stevens. He was commissioned by the NYC Ballet to collaborate on the production, which was first performed in 2014. But what we saw was the Boston premiere.

For reference, this is one of Sufjan Stevens' best known songs, with which the ballet score has much in common



The ballet performance was really enjoyable. It was nice to watch the amazing dancers, the staging was great, and the pit orchestra was the best of the best.

The second act was a dark and theatrical ballet story of human effects on ocean life, put to music by Claude Debussy. It was like a bad acid trip put to dance. But still impressive and entertaining.
 
As I was leaving Boston Sunday afternoon, you were on your way there! I was in Boston Common the day before (80 degrees, jam packed) just a few blocks from the venue.
 
sadchild said:
As I was leaving Boston Sunday afternoon, you were on your way there! I was in Boston Common the day before (80 degrees, jam packed) just a few blocks from the venue.
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We got to the Common around noon. Not only were there a lot of people with dogs there, but there was a big tent with people gathered on a hill. It was some sort of golden retriever convention.

A less enjoyable memory from the day was misplacing our car. Nowadays, when we go somewhere in Mrs. Scotch's car (which is most of the time), she drives. That's because she always knows where we're going, while I only occasionally do. So when we parked in the Lafayette garage across from the Opera House (where the ballet performs), I assumed she made a note of where we parked. She did not. When we got back to the garage after the ballet, all we knew is that we used one of those creepy-looking access stairways to get to the street. But there's 4 of those at the garage. There's also a central lobby with an elevator, stairs, and a cashier, but we knew we didn't take that way out.

Also, I remembered that when we exited via the stairway, we went up a floor to a door, and then saw a sign that said the street was another floor up. So that meant we were parked 2 floors down, right? Well, no, because there were parking levels that were half a flight down. And to make it more interesting, the exit door we took to the street was not accessible from outside; so even though we knew exactly where we came out onto the street, that was of no benefit. From now on, I will go back to taking my geeky pictures of where we parked.
 
scotchandcigar said:
We got to the Common around noon. Not only were there a lot of people with dogs there, but there was a big tent with people gathered on a hill. It was some sort of golden retriever convention.

A less enjoyable memory from the day was misplacing our car. Nowadays, when we go somewhere in Mrs. Scotch's car (which is most of the time), she drives. That's because she always knows where we're going, while I only occasionally do. So when we parked in the Lafayette garage across from the Opera House (where the ballet performs), I assumed she made a note of where we parked. She did not. When we got back to the garage after the ballet, all we knew is that we used one of those creepy-looking access stairways to get to the street. But there's 4 of those at the garage. There's also a central lobby with an elevator, stairs, and a cashier, but we knew we didn't take that way out.

Also, I remembered that when we exited via the stairway, we went up a floor to a door, and then saw a sign that said the street was another floor up. So that meant we were parked 2 floors down, right? Well, no, because there were parking levels that were half a flight down. And to make it more interesting, the exit door we took to the street was not accessible from outside; so even though we knew exactly where we came out onto the street, that was of no benefit. From now on, I will go back to taking my geeky pictures of where we parked.
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