Ever go to a music show where everyone is half your age?

I saw Justin Nazuka and everyone was just barely legal age. I'm in my 50s. Boy was that a strange feeling.

and felt like a chaperone.

The Rolling Stones, and The Who where I was probably half the age of many people there at the time. Does that count? :)

I think the average age is death minus 2 years.

but in Europe and a lot of the United States, the audiences are wonderfully mixed. At least that's always been my experience, all over the world. It's a canard, I think, and an unfair one that only older people appreciate a certain kind of performance.

Do you also find that only really old people attend the ballet?

What about the local philharmonic?

basis?

It should count double, not only am I over 50, but I'm female!



"I'm buying them for the kids!"



Yeah, that's the ticket!

I'm okay with that. :)

So, yeah.

but only half of the audience was half my age.

That's how they all are.

Not many people into their 50s are into Noise music.

Does Mogwai count? I love them... and that's one show where the situation described in the OP is definitely the case for me.

Merzbow
Fennez
Autechre
Boredoms

I'm well into my 50's, but great rocknroll is great rocknroll, and Rancid qualifies for that category. Much of the crowd both times was teens and 20's...second time especially worked out great for me: I wasn't feeling well and almost didn't go, but at the last minute decided I HAD to, but was worried about finding a seat...Well, at the back of the Sunshine theater in Albuquerque there was an old beat up naugahyde(?) couch and no one was on it. So I sat down, and people must've thought I was a cop or something , due to my age, and no one else sat there the whole show ( maybe I just looked weird or smelled bad--nah, its a punk show, nobody would've cared about that). I just put my feet up and enjoyed the show in relative luxury, although by the end I was off the couch and jumping up and down like a kid...

i saw them in denver a couple of years ago and it was a blast.

That show was August 2006----Missed em last summer here; had plans to go, but couldn't at the last minute...I see they're going to be at Red Rocks on June 11, and apparently as Rise Against's opening act( wtf?---Rancid shouldn't be the non-headliner with anyone of a lesser stature than maybe the Stones or Bruce---showing my age here, huh?). Hopefully they'll add Albuquerque to the itinerary but not holding my breath. Well, at least I'm gonna see Springsteen at the Pepsi Center in a month. At 57, I'll probably be right in the middle age-wise for that one, but The E Street Band still rocks like a SOB for a bunch of guys my age ( and some of em older). Can't wait...

Strange feeling, isn't it?

I heard a comedian on the radio a few weeks ago talking about this same subject. He said that bands should do a show for people over 35 -- no warm-up band, no encore... just come out, do your hits, say good night, and go home. Start the show at 7:30pm and end it at 9:00...

Makes sense to me!

kind of like the early bird specials! :rofl:


I don't care about feeling "old" - it's the cigarette smoke that I can't deal with. That's why I end up going to see artists I like at those more pricey shows in a theatre.

to see emo and scream-o type bands. I stand in the back or try to find a place to sit. There are usually a few fellow parents suffering along with me. I've also been to several "warped tours." Those are the worst. Hot sun and no bathroom facilities. Torture.

There's only so much getting run into/getting beer spilled on by drunk 20-somethings a guy can take before he gets fed up with the whole experience. Besides, I'm way too old to find any pleasure in the "mosh pit". Most of the time, I'm happy to stand at the back, with a decent sight line, where the music sounds better, anyways.

That, and most of the bands I'd want to see are either 1) broken up, or 2) deceased.

I'm only 23 though.

x(

:P

they kept getting annoyed when we stood up. :rofl: :wtf: :eyes:

And I'm not that old!

Got young tastes.

But then again the Stones were twice everyone's age, so go figure.

But then, I also see people twice my age rockin' out to these great musicians. Even my sister-in-law's 60 year-old mother comes along...

I buy music online.

I am in my ffities and I hang out in the jamband scene. Most of the people in that scene are in their 20's and 30's. I love it, they keep my spirit alive. Most of my friends my age are still debating on whether Led Zeppelin was the greatest band or not, that to me was like a brazillion years ago. The youngsters are what keeps it fresh.

Hanson. My daughter was 9.