I had tix for my favorite new artist in downtown L.A. last month but the idea of driving in from the suburbs and standing for three hours in a packed, small room kept me home.
I'm 64 and like you, I don't want to stand up for a show for 2-3 hours anymore. However, I still love going to smaller venues, like jazz venues, for an evening out. I live near LA, but there are many historic venues near you in NYC that I have visited a few years ago. I prefer crowds of 50-100 now, not auditoriums, casinos or stadiums. And my musical tastes have changed over the years into this genre, so that helps. I do enjoy supporting the artists trying to survive.
Wow, this really makes me kind of sad but I get it. I'm just a couple of years younger than you but I still like going to shows, though I don't get to see as many as I would like. Pretty much the last few years if a show is on a weekday I just can't hang anymore and I'm wrecked at work the next day. But I've seen Springsteen, the Who at Shea Stadium (on their first of many farewell tours), REM, the Police, Joan Jett, U2, I saw They Might Be Giants at the Knitting Factory when it was just the two of them and a tape machine in 1988. Probably the loudest show I've ever seen was The Replacements at a small club called 688 in Atlanta around 1985, my hearing didn't come back for days afterwards and to this day I have some minor hearing loss in one ear (I always wear earplugs now). Turns out my wife and I are going to a show tonight at the 9:30 club in DC, they require a vaccine card to get in so it seems relatively low(er) risk, but we debated even going because of covid. We have tix to see Courtney Barnett in February there too. Well, all the best to you, I know you still have your love of music, and I feel like virtual concert events will be around for a while for people who don't want to deal with the crowds.
I had tix for my favorite new artist in downtown L.A. last month but the idea of driving in from the suburbs and standing for three hours in a packed, small room kept me home.
I'm 64 and like you, I don't want to stand up for a show for 2-3 hours anymore. However, I still love going to smaller venues, like jazz venues, for an evening out. I live near LA, but there are many historic venues near you in NYC that I have visited a few years ago. I prefer crowds of 50-100 now, not auditoriums, casinos or stadiums. And my musical tastes have changed over the years into this genre, so that helps. I do enjoy supporting the artists trying to survive.
Wow, this really makes me kind of sad but I get it. I'm just a couple of years younger than you but I still like going to shows, though I don't get to see as many as I would like. Pretty much the last few years if a show is on a weekday I just can't hang anymore and I'm wrecked at work the next day. But I've seen Springsteen, the Who at Shea Stadium (on their first of many farewell tours), REM, the Police, Joan Jett, U2, I saw They Might Be Giants at the Knitting Factory when it was just the two of them and a tape machine in 1988. Probably the loudest show I've ever seen was The Replacements at a small club called 688 in Atlanta around 1985, my hearing didn't come back for days afterwards and to this day I have some minor hearing loss in one ear (I always wear earplugs now). Turns out my wife and I are going to a show tonight at the 9:30 club in DC, they require a vaccine card to get in so it seems relatively low(er) risk, but we debated even going because of covid. We have tix to see Courtney Barnett in February there too. Well, all the best to you, I know you still have your love of music, and I feel like virtual concert events will be around for a while for people who don't want to deal with the crowds.