Who & When Was The 1st Concert You Attended & How Old Were You?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

***The stadium holds 71,000**** for football but Wiki shows the attendance of The Jacksons Victory Tour in 1984 was 94,000. Point is, no one even comes close to filling it anymore (The Rolling Stones had 50,000 in 2015, Guns N Roses had 35 when I saw them there in 2017)

Why do you imagine that is? Is it that modern bands don't have the same pull or are people just not as interested in concerts?

I have only ever been to just two concerts, but that's largely due to the fact that social anxiety made them basically unattractive to me. (Remember the good old days before social anxiety came along and you could simply say that you didn't like people?) Plus, and you will find this very difficult to believe (Ha!), I never had that tight group of friends other people seemed to have had, and therefore went to shows with. Either way, I'm not sure I ever liked any band enough to want to see them live.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Why do you imagine that is? Is it that modern bands don't have the same pull or are people just not as interested in concerts?

You have to remember a couple of things:
- Buffalo isn't exactly the most populous place on the planet, even with Canadia just north of our unwalled border. Other than The Jacksons, the only concert that shows selling out was The Who in 82. (but there are a lot of concerts with no data - and they only show 60k for Guns N' Roses/Metallica in 92 & that place was packed)
- 70-80k is a lot of fucking people. Most arenas (hockey/basketball) hold 15-20k. Baseball stadiums are 40-50k. If a band sells out our arena, that's a big deal. Move those 20k people to the stadium & you'd wonder why they bothered to put on a show.

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I have only ever been to just two concerts, but that's largely due to the fact that social anxiety made them basically unattractive to me...

4 words: Fermented Hops And Barley That's how I turn off that pesky social anxiety crap