concert going

[fflo]

I'm late to the meme, in blog time---it's rather yesterday.

From other people's lists:
Ani DiFranco [she's on almost everybody's list]
Betty
Uncle Bonsai
Jeffrey Krause (if you count him singing in my living room)
Into the Freylakh
Dar Williams
Elton John
The Pretenders

some others off the top of my head:
Ella Fitzgerald
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
The Count Basie Orchestra
Pete Seeger
Arlo Guthrie
Elvis Costello
Robert "Escalator of Life" Hazard (on the bill with Elvis)
U2 (just before they hit it big in the U.S.)
Bette Midler
k.d. lang
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & guests there like Hilary Hahn, Radu Lupu, Evgeny Kissin
El Duke-O
Alison Krauss
Mark O'Connor
Bobby McFerrin
Tito Puente
Natalie McMaster
Etta James
the line-up at that March on Washington stadium show, including k.d., Melissa Etheridge, George Michael, Chaka Khan, the Pet Shop Boys, and Tipper Gore herself

embarrassing, unsatisfying, and/or "eh":
Billy Joel
Van Halen
David Bowie
Melissa Ferrick
Flock of Seagulls (with Elvis & the Escalator guy)
White Zombie (some goofy metal band Barry got free tickets to)

Comments

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I didn't even see this comment until just now, three months later. ;-) But I'm not even the tiniest bit inclined to throw you off my friends list for it - if I'd gone to a Bowie concert and he had said hardly a word and played everything exactly like the album versions, I'd be upset too! The times that I've seen him, he's always been extremely talkative, extremely funny, joking around the whole way through and sometimes playing joke versions of songs and then stopping halfway through them to switch to something more serious.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Wow. You're hardcore in the back reading!

I was debating whether to reply to your most recent post (about the resurgence of lezbo attraction) but feel funny chiming in to chat about such a thing in the life of someone I know only this way. I know you're quite adept at being frank with people online & all, but I felt squeamish nonetheless.

Anyway, yeah, other people have told me other concerts have been much more lively and spontaneous and personal. Guess I just hit him at the wrong time! I swear, it was like freakin' Ice Capades or something.... all choreography and costumes, and the music coulda been canned for all we could tell.