Poll of the Day > Have you ever attended a concert by a major music artist or gone

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topico

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Both, several times.

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Nope. I've only been to one play, one ballet, and the Zelda orchestra twice.

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Not major no.

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Yes to both

been to many concerts big and small, and Ive been to several MLB games

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you like mlb more than nba? i don't

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Yes to both. My favorite concert so far has been Billy Joel. Korn would be up there too

I've gone to a couple major hockey games and baseball games. And a few college football and basketball games if those count as well.

No major concert yet though.

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Both, many times. For a solid decade+ I caught 20 live shows a year and at least 1 three day festival, plus a number of sporting events.

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Of course. I even have seen some rock legends live.

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Major sporting event, yes. A rugby match when I was very young but I don't remember it too well. I don't even remember which teams were playing honestly. One would have been the local team but the other is a complete mystery to me.

Major music artist's concert, no.

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I've gone to a Chicago concert and a Lang Lang concert.

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I've been to a few sports games, 2 Bears games, a Cubs game and a Blackhawks game.

And many concerts, my favorites were Tool, Rammstein, and Mushroomhead

I've seen mushroomhead the most at 3 times all with different singers

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I've seen Styx, Green Day, Chicago.

Oh and I saw Victoria Justice once (took my sister as she was a huge Victorious fan). If you count Nickelodeon stars.

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Probably 50+ MLB games, a dozen NBA games, a half dozen NFL games, and 1 NHL game. Haven't been to a concert outside of orchestra or school band ones.
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1 basketball game, about 5 soccer games, about 35 cricket games and about 40 rugby games

6 concerts (best artists I've seen live were Black Veil Brides, Korn, Rise Against, Fat Freddy's Drop)
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Joelypoely posted...

about 35 cricket games

I've been wanting to learn cricket, but it's pretty much impossible to do so just by reading up on it. It uses what might as well be another language for its terminology. I've tried a few times, but within the first sentence or two, what I look up uses a term I need to look up, which in turn uses another term in the first sentence or two that I need to look up, and so on. Very quickly, I'm a dozen links deep and just give up.
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Absolutely know what you mean. One of the final things I'm still learning are the many names of the various fielding positions. Probably one of the quickest ways to learn is to watch a T20 or an ODI world cup. The commentary of these events is usually aimed at a general audience and they do a great job of explaining what is going on. Test cricket is the one which makes things quite complicated with the addition of declarations and more advanced fielding setups according to the state of the pitch.
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Both, Ive been to one NBA game so far and several concerts, mostly classic rock and country artists.

Yes to many concerts but I have no interest in sports.

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Yes I have!

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Billy idol Marilyn Manson and a ozzfest that had ozzy himself at it among other big bands. And a wcw and wwe wrestling event if that counts as a sporting event.

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Joelypoely posted...

Absolutely know what you mean. One of the final things I'm still learning are the many names of the various fielding positions. Probably one of the quickest ways to learn is to watch a T20 or an ODI world cup. The commentary of these events is usually aimed at a general audience and they do a great job of explaining what is going on. Test cricket is the one which makes things quite complicated with the addition of declarations and more advanced fielding setups according to the state of the pitch.

I want to watch some, but it's virtually never shown on US TV. It irked me when my cable provider was showing the Cricket World Cup about 5 years ago on a pay-per-view package and didn't even offer the first day or two for free. With how little interest there is in the sport here, you'd think the smart thing to do would be to give those who are a little curious a taste to find out if they'd become interested enough to buy the package. Otherwise, all they likely got was the extremely small group of people who were already die hard fans to buy it. I wasn't willing to drop likely $100+ out of curiosity on something I might end up not liking at all.
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You're gonna need to define what a "major" music artist means.

I've been fortunate to have been able to attend concerts by Loreena McKennitt and Sarah Brightman thus far. To me, they're major musical artists and they've sold plenty of albums, but probably 90% of the people in the U.S. have never heard of them.

streamofthesky posted...

Sarah Brightman

She's on a few compilation albums that I've imported from Japan.
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Growing up, went to a lot of Padres games with my dad and my uncle, and my wife won Chargers tickets at work for their home opener a couple of seasons before they moved to L.A. Been to a good amount of concerts, my favorites being Black Sabbath at the Hollywood Bowl during their farewell tour, and Motorhead at the House of Blues in 2010.

Concerts, yes. Hard to define "major" though.

Artists who might be called major within their genres or outside them...well, try these:

Suzanne Vega, Indigo Girls, Metric, Massive Attack, Opeth, Lacuna Coil, Epica, Evanescence, Sir John Tavener, Idina Menzel, Capercaillie, Within Temptation, Dar Williams, Eluveitie, Lamb, Hayley Kiyoko, Simply Red, Katie Melua, Tegan & Sara, Natalie Merchant, the Philip Glass Ensemble... I've seen a few, and more than this list, but they're the ones people here might have heard of. In their various genres.

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I briefly went in to a skillet concert once. It was at a theme park and my sister wanted to see them, but I did not so I took a friend, my sister stayed at the concert and me and my friend rode rides in the near empty park

That made me realize that I would not care for concerts even if it was somebody I liked. I just don't personally see the appeal of listening to a song where the acoustics are not good, and the song is drowned out by annoying screaming. Orchestras on the other hand are really cool

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I don't think I've seen ever seen a concert at a an actual large concert venue, but I usually go to a show once or twice a month if I'm interested in who's playing. always fun

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I love live music, big concerts or small venues.

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Both. I've probably been to about a dozen concerts in small venues all the way up to arenas, and I've been to both major league and minor league baseball games and a few hockey games.
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SirPikachu posted...

I briefly went in to a skillet concert once. It was at a theme park and my sister wanted to see them, but I did not so I took a friend, my sister stayed at the concert and me and my friend rode rides in the near empty park

That made me realize that I would not care for concerts even if it was somebody I liked. I just don't personally see the appeal of listening to a song where the acoustics are not good, and the song is drowned out by annoying screaming. Orchestras on the other hand are really cool

Sounds to me as though you need to try different venues before you write off non-classical concerts in general forever. They really aren't all like that.

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Trialia posted...

Sounds to me as though you need to try different venues before you write off non-classical concerts in general forever. They really aren't all like that.

Yeah. The two I went to were in concert/theater halls, and the audience was respectful and quiet during performances, applauding and such at the end of each song.

i guess it depends on what kind of music it is.
Had a chance to see Within Temptation one time, but it was a Wednesday night 2 hours away, and in some sort of mosh pit standing room only type venue w/ some death metal band as the lead-in, and I just said, "nope...not for me." It's a shame, I really do like WT's music. But I could tell I'd have a horrible time at such a concert.

Saw Rush 4 times, KISS once with the original lineup, Midnight Oil 4 times, and Dream Theater once. Those are the major bands- saw a bunch of local bands nobody here would know too.

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Haven't been to a sports game since I was a youngin'.

Been to several concerts and a few opera though

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streamofthesky posted...

Yeah. The two I went to were in concert/theater halls, and the audience was respectful and quiet during performances, applauding and such at the end of each song.

i guess it depends on what kind of music it is.
Had a chance to see Within Temptation one time, but it was a Wednesday night 2 hours away, and in some sort of mosh pit standing room only type venue w/ some death metal band as the lead-in, and I just said, "nope...not for me." It's a shame, I really do like WT's music. But I could tell I'd have a horrible time at such a concert.

Not even always that. WT are fairly strong on the production values where their concerts are concerned, & I have to say that every gig of theirs I've been to was as you describe for seating arrangements at least - though not with death metal for support acts, they do tend to lean more towards their own subgenre when picking support! Delain were their support act the last time I saw them with one, I think, and I managed to get a ticket for their joint concert with Evanescence in Leeds in April, so there's that. Anyway, I know acoustically that's a very different venue than the last one where I saw them, but even at the standing-room-only venues their sound is pretty damn good, to be frank. Their gigs aren't the sort where the sound is so distorted you can't tell what the lyrics are - in fact, they're very careful to make sure that's *not* the case. I've found Lacuna Coil are much the same way on tour - I've seen them in spaces with a capacity of 200, where I was just ten feet from Cristina on stage, and in spaces with capacity ten times that size, and their sound was amazing in both kinds of space. I've heard & seen festival recordings, too, and they aren't any less talented at managing the sound in that kind of space than in enclosed halls.

Honestly, I think it depends far more on the bands/artists, their sound crews, and the venue acoustics, than it ever does on the genre of their music. I've heard people play beautifully in twenty-person rooms who could barely be heard in 500-capacity spaces, and bands tear up a 2000-capacity space with over-miking who've taken my breath away in dark little low-ceilinged clubs. That's why I don't ever generalise about this stuff.

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Yea, I have been to 6 concerts from major music artists and a NHL game. I have been to a few minor league hockey games, but I doubt you would count those.

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been to a lot of baseball games, a few college football games and an nfl game. Ive seen probably about 200 major bands live between all the concerts and music festivals Ive been to.

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No and no.

Biggest artists I've watched in concert are Mannheim Steamroller and Gordon Lightfoot - neither of whom I'd call "major".

I've never been to a major sporting event. The biggest I've been to were small community college baseball games.

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I havent been to any big name concerts, but have gone to a few NHL games (2 Flames, and 1 Knights game)

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