Is anyone here still into live concerts these days?

@allenf1963 , I had the pleasure of discovering Ziggy’s in 1994. I was working as a movie extra and housed in the vacant Hane’s pantyhose plant next to WFU.  We got bored one night and went on campus to find something to do. Stumbled onto Ziggys and decided to check it out. Saw Ozric Tentacles one night and Leftover Salmon the next. Truly epic venue. Looked like a little honkytonk bar, but go down some stairs and bam, a huge concert hall. One of my favorite bits of serendipity.

@allenf1963 , I was filming a TNT movie called “Tecumseh, The Last Warrior”. It was part of a series of Turner movies about the Native American experience in early America. I was out of work, the money was good, and I had a blast. Ziggy’s was part of it. The horse wranglers I was hanging out with liked to party.

But to respond to OP’s original post, yes I still love to go to concerts and go whenever I can. In the past year I’ve seen Matthew Sweet, Robert Plant/Alison Krauss, the Psychedelic Furs, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and Superchunk.

I can sympathize with a lot of posters though. I have two bad knees so standing for the entire show is a non-starter. My wife and I got COVID (again) at the Superchunk show in October, so that’s given us some pause too. I too am not willing to pay a huge ticket price for an act that’s in many cases long past its sell-by date, so I choose carefully.

These days, I’m an avid concert video collector. I have two rigs: a 2 channel one upstairs and a 7.2.4 Atmos setup that is all Focal and Anthem in the basement. So I do a lot of my concert watching reclined with a glass of wine and a cool buzz. It’s not quite the same, but waaay easier.