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Longest span between seeing same band/artist?

hutch
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Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 02:47 PM UTC #
Anybody go a really long time between seeing somebody the first time and the second time?


I think my best or should I say worst is 20.5 years.
brennser
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 03:02 PM UTC #
U2 - saw em in 87 and again when they played Baltimore 3 (4?, 5?) years ago
K8teebug
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 03:39 PM UTC #
16 years for Ani Difranco is currently my record.
Space Freely
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 03:42 PM UTC #
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, I think I've only seen them twice, wish I had seen the much more:

April 28, 1997, Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill, NC
August 21, 2016, Maymont, Richmond, VA
sweetcell
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 04:01 PM UTC #
i went over 20 years (23?) between seeing rollins perform.  first several times were as a teenager, late 80's (and early 90's), rollins band played community centers and universities several times in my hometown.  next saw him perform (spoken word) at his 50th b-day thingy in 2011. 

if we want to keep it to purely musical performances, i went 19 years between seeing soundgarden: lollapalooza 1992 to patriot center in 2011.
kbone
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 04:28 PM UTC #
21 years apart seeing Mr. Big (open for Rush, than at M3). Yeah, so uncool, I know.

Oh, wait - 22 years apart seeing Joan Jett. Much better.
ggw
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 04:33 PM UTC #
Feelies 1986 - 2011
Relaxer
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 04:54 PM UTC #
Jane's Addiction – 1988 first time, 2016 second time
bunnyman
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 05:08 PM UTC #
A performer/musician who has continuously been performing? Are we including bands that broke up or were inactive?

Either way, 21 years for me: Stone Roses and Lloyd Cole both win that award.
grateful
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 05:40 PM UTC #
I havent seen Iron Maiden since…1987??

Still working on that streak!
hutch
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 06:28 PM UTC #
wow…lots of good ones!… I saw the Dandy Warhols last night and had not seen them since I saw them open for Love and Rockets at the 930 Club in 1996.. so that is my record…. I'm in my 40s and I didn't really start going to shows much until about 1994 so its kind of hard to top 20 years for me….
bob72
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 06:41 PM UTC #
living colour in 1991 (twice, once was the first Lollapalooza) and again in 2016
DeathFromAbove1979
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 07:17 PM UTC #
Death From Above 1979
11/2/05-12/1/14
grateful
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 07:24 PM UTC #
I spose Green Day 1998 / 2016 would be an actual streak.
challenged
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 07:24 PM UTC #
Squeeze, English Beat, REM: Nassau Coliseum, November 24, 1982
Squeeze, English Beat (no REM): 930 Club, October 11, 2016
jrpa
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 07:26 PM UTC #
Off the top of my head, I think the answer in Blink-182 and 15 years. (In neither instance was Blink-182 the band I went to the concert to see.)
sweetcell
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 07:39 PM UTC #
challenged wrote:
Squeeze, English Beat, REM: Nassau Coliseum, November 24, 1982
Squeeze, English Beat (no REM): 930 Club, October 11, 2016

wow u old
challenged
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 07:52 PM UTC #
sweetcell wrote:
challenged wrote:
Squeeze, English Beat, REM: Nassau Coliseum, November 24, 1982
Squeeze, English Beat (no REM): 930 Club, October 11, 2016

wow u old


In all fairness, I was 40 in 1982.
hutch
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 28, 2016 at 07:54 PM UTC #
challenged wrote:
Squeeze, English Beat, REM: Nassau Coliseum, November 24, 1982
Squeeze, English Beat (no REM): 930 Club, October 11, 2016


wow .. this might be the 930 forum record at 34 years!
Space Freely
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Re: Longest span between seeing same band/artist? September 29, 2016 at 02:37 AM UTC #
challenged wrote:
sweetcell wrote:
challenged wrote:
Squeeze, English Beat, REM: Nassau Coliseum, November 24, 1982
Squeeze, English Beat (no REM): 930 Club, October 11, 2016

wow u old


In all fairness, I was 40 in 1982.


Holy crap. Yer almost as old as Kosmo.
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