What Music Acts Have You Already Purchased a Ticket to See in 2014?

Just got my first for 2015: Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band.

 

Bit crazy, but we've already bought our tickets for next year's Tramlines Festival (in July '15). They were put on sale with the hook that if you buy them now, you get them at this year's price. Good deal and common sense. More festivals should do this.

 

1. Get a date who wants to also go. (I can take my wife to concerts but once a week would be stretching it)
2. Get a mother-in-law who is willing and able (have never hired a baby sitter)

The real secret is to not live in a concert backwater where interesting shows are few and far between.

 

Done for 2014! I have tried to cram in as much as I could afford the last couple of years before I leave the Big Apple for good in a week's time. So fwiw, this year I took in:

Jan:
Neil Young

Feb:
Amnesty International Bringing Human Rights Home - Flaming Lips, Blondie, Yoko Ono, Imagine Dragons, Cake, Tegan & Sara, et al.
Steve Earle
After Midnight (on Broadway w/ k.d. lang and the Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars)

Mar:
Paul Simon & Sting
Kaki King
The Allman Brothers Band
Arcade Fire
Keb' Mo'
Rosanne Cash

April:
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois
Indigo Girls
MoogFest (w/ Kraftwerk, Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder, et al)
Nickel Creek / The Secret Sisters

May:
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Cher
Lykke Li

June:
Willie Nelson & Family / Alison Krauss & Union Station
Ornette Coleman Tribute (feat. Denardo Coleman w/ guests Bruce Hornsby, Flea, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Thurston Moore, et al.)
Lucinda Williams
Amos Lee / Lake Street Dive
Elvis Costello

July:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Jack White
Shakey Graves / Valerie June / Shovels & Rope
Nickel Creek / The Secret Sisters

August:
Billy Joel
St. Vincent
Tori Amos
X
Arcade Fire (3 shows)

September:
Kate Bush
Laurie Anderson / Kronos Quartet
Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters

October:
Lykke Li
Fleetwood Mac


... with speaking engagements by Yoko Ono and Robert Plant thrown in for good measure! It's been fun.

 

Yes.......no kids or other huge obligations. Going and traveling to many concerts started as a Grateful Dead habit. This is the 1st time I went over 100 in a year.....after 86 last year. Normally I'm around 40-60 with vacation concert trips to other cities. I plan to scale back maybe below that next year.

One "problem" was buying a City Winery membership................have too clean a shot at front row to anything new announced.

 

I really wanted to see Beck when he played Austin for one of the festivals, but the ticket price was too high for me.....

 

Just saw Judas Priest tuesday. 'Twas phenomenal!

 

Ok, I told a (unintentioned) fib! I *just* this second purchased tickets for my first gig in my new hometown of Asheville, NC:

Warren Haynes' 26th Annual Xmas Jam - Sat. 12/13

 

There's that. Nashville is finally a city that actually gets tour dates for big shows now and then, but we still have a long way to go. Some shows are easy to get friends to go to, others you just get used to going alone and enjoying the music. There's also the reserved seats factor, which is a royal pain in my ass. Every show should just be gen. admission and be done with it.

 

You're moving to Asheville? You're going to love it there. It's part of my backyard. Between there and Charlotte, there are shows all the time.

And mountains!

 

Opeth - Dec 9th at the Hollywood Palladium

 

2014 concerts attended

February 9, NYC- Transatlantic

March 8, NJ- Imagine Dragons

March 25, NYC- The Winery Dogs

April 7, Port Chester- Gavin DeGraw

April 24, NYC- Alter Bridge with Monster Truck

May 6, Poughkeepsie- Volbeat

May 10, NYC- Haim

May 15, NYC- Mastodon with Gojira and Kvelertak

August 2, Holmdel- Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden

August 25, NY- Gavin DeGraw and Matt Nathanson

August 30, CT- Chevelle

October 3, Newark- Volbeat, 5 Finger Death Punch, Hellyeah, Nothing More

October 10, Starland Ballroom- Alter Bridge and California Breed

October 17, NJ- Judas Priest and Steel Panther

October 24, Poughkeepsie- Get The Led Out ( Zep tribute band)

FUTURE SHOWS

November 2, PA- Mastodon

December 6, Chester- Sully Erna

December 13, Poughkeepsie- The Script

December 18, NYC- Opeth and In Flames

December 29, NYC- Steel Panther

 

recently saw mike watt's new deal-e-o: il sogno del marinaio.
a week later i saw a j mascis acoustic gig.
no tickets needed

 

Boy and Bear at "The Leaf", Liverpool.

11 November 2014.

 

Bob Segar. I was not going to go. It is 2 hour away and I just saw him 1-1/2 year ago. But then I found out J Geils was opening.

 

I forgot to mention these in my 2014 shows I'd seen:

Willie Nelson w Allison Krauss and Union Station
Michele Malone

 

December 3 -Air Canada Centre Toronto - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

 

Oh, man. I'm getting "old" with too many responsibilities. Richie Kotzen at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, CA on 11/22. Only 2nd concert this year (saw Jack White earlier).