Total Concerts You've Seen - count 'em up!

[WilliamMunny]

Maybe it’s already been answered, but does playing a show count as seeing a show?

I mean, other that the time you’re on stage, you’re essentially standing Around watching other bands.

I’ve probably see. 75-100 touring bands.

Add in local shows and the numbers probably in the 200 range.

Add in shows I’ve played and it’s probably like 350.

Crazy to think I’ve spent a year of my life watching live music.

Even crazier that I haven’t seen a show since covid :/

[King Postwhore]

Counting festivals as 1 show, 397.

[cramx3]

I counted festivals as one show per day. So progpower is 4 days, even though I may see 18 bands, I still counted that as 4 concerts.

[Stadler]

Maybe it’s already been answered, but does playing a show count as seeing a show?

I mean, other that the time you’re on stage, you’re essentially standing Around watching other bands.

I’ve probably see. 75-100 touring bands.

Add in local shows and the numbers probably in the 200 range.

Add in shows I’ve played and it’s probably like 350.

Crazy to think I’ve spent a year of my life watching live music.

Even crazier that I haven’t seen a show since covid :/

I did not count shows I've played.

I did not count local bands, bar bands, or local cover bands.

Between the two I think we add about 150, maybe 200.

I only counted national touring acts and their opening acts (which sometimes could be local bands, bar bands, or cover bands) as listed on setlist.fm.  I've seen local Connecticut bands like the Neyba's, Gary Gidman (RIP), Tirebiter, Beyond Purple, and Aquanett like 15 times each.  My friend Jim and I will go out for a beer whenever these bands are playing.  My local bar has bands every Friday and Saturday, so if my stepson and I step out, we'll see a band. 

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I've saved all my ticket stubs over the years, but I've never counted them. They are in storage somewhere at the moment. I should go find them and see how many I've been to. It's at least several dozen at this point.

[King Postwhore]

I've saved all my ticket stubs over the years, but I've never counted them. They are in storage somewhere at the moment. I should go find them and see how many I've been to. It's at least several dozen at this point.

I lost all my ticket stubs when our power went out for 5 days in 2008 and the basement flooded.

Now I have a generator. 

[pg1067]

Total concerts - 121

Outdoor concerts - 39

Stadium concerts - 3 (Pink Floyd, U2, Taylor Swift - it feels like this number should be a little higher)

Rush is the band I have seen the most at 12 times, with Dream Theater at 9 times and Blue Oyster Cult at 7 times.  I have seen Neal Morse now 9 times, but that was in various incarnations (solo, Neal Morse Band, Transatlantic). 

The three members of Rush are the individual musicians I have seen the most at 12 times, with, surprise surprise, Mike Portnoy right behind them at 11 times (5 with Dream Theater, 4 with Neal Morse Band, 2 with Transatlantic).

This is all from setlist.fm, which contains info from ticket stubs (plus the first 5 or so for which I lost the stubs at some point, but which I know with certainty).

- Total concerts:  161
- Artists:  72
- Artist seen the most:  Rush (20x), followed by DT (17x) and Iron Maiden (8x)
- Individual performers:  Lee/Lifeson/Peart (20x), Myung/Petrucci/Labrie (17x), Rudess (12x), Portnoy (11x)
- 21 of the 22 songs I've seen the most are Rush songs, with the other being Pull Me Under (10x).
- Venue at which I've seen the most shows:  Irvine Meadows/Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Irvine) (27 shows), followed by Long Beach Arena
  (23 shows).
- Total different venues:  39 (all but two of which have been in California)
- Outdoor shows:  47
- Stadium shows:  3

[jammindude]

When I talk to my IRL friends, I could tell them I’ve been to 100 concerts and they will stare at me slack jawed.

I come here, and I’m practically a baby.

According to Concert Archives, my recent trip downtown to see The Cure was officially my 100th concert and it was just two weeks shy of the 39th anniversary of my first. (Weird Al on the In 3-D tour)

This coming Saturday will be my 13th time seeing Dream Theater. Easily beating my 2nd most seen band Rush, whom I’ve seen 8 times.

EDIT - in some ways, I found it a bit amusing that Metallica is #3 with 6 shows…and I haven’t seen them since The Black Album.

[axeman90210]

Seeing this thread bumped gave me the nudge to finish up the concerts spreadsheet I started a little while back. Counting festivals/cruises as 1 show I've got 138 shows total and counting openers and each separate festival/cruise performance I've seen 136 unique acts performing 270 sets. My top 3, and only bands in the double digits, are Dream Theater (18), Haken (15), and Transatlantic (10).

[KevShmev]

I counted festivals as one show per day. So progpower is 4 days, even though I may see 18 bands, I still counted that as 4 concerts.

That makes the most sense to me.

Same thing with Morsefest.  For example, Transatlantic played there two nights last year, and I saw both nights, so that is two concerts, not one.

[KevShmev]

I've saved all my ticket stubs over the years, but I've never counted them. They are in storage somewhere at the moment. I should go find them and see how many I've been to. It's at least several dozen at this point.

The bitch is we do not get ticket stubs anymore.  It's just a ticket on your phone, so the days of saving ticket stubs are over.  I guess you could always print out your email confirmation of the ticket purchase and use that as your stub in a collection, but that's just not the same thing.

[cramx3]

I miss getting ticket stubs as well. I actually got one this weekend though because they handed out upgrades via physical tickets. That may have been better than the upgrade itself.

[Samsara]

I'll update this tomorrow. I just saw FORBIDDEN yesterday, and I'm close to 260 now, I think.

[SoundscapeMN]

most concerts you can still get a ticket stub, but you have to pay extra fees to have it mailed to you or held at Will Call.

[pg1067]

I've saved all my ticket stubs over the years, but I've never counted them. They are in storage somewhere at the moment. I should go find them and see how many I've been to. It's at least several dozen at this point.

The bitch is we do not get ticket stubs anymore.  It's just a ticket on your phone, so the days of saving ticket stubs are over.  I guess you could always print out your email confirmation of the ticket purchase and use that as your stub in a collection, but that's just not the same thing.

There's actually a place where you can input the data, and they'll send you an old-school style ticket stub.  Seems like a cool idea, but I've never done it.

[Grappler]

I have a count on my home computer and I think it's somewhere between 70-90. 

I had a good stride at various points in time, but at most only saw a handful every year.  I spent a lot of time in the early-mid 00's seeing original, cover and tribute bands in bars with my friends every weekend and skipping a ton of "regular" concerts.  If I added those shows in, I'd be over 200.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I've saved all my ticket stubs over the years, but I've never counted them. They are in storage somewhere at the moment. I should go find them and see how many I've been to. It's at least several dozen at this point.

I lost all my ticket stubs when our power went out for 5 days in 2008 and the basement flooded.

Now I have a generator.

Dude, that sucks!

I've saved all my ticket stubs over the years, but I've never counted them. They are in storage somewhere at the moment. I should go find them and see how many I've been to. It's at least several dozen at this point.

The bitch is we do not get ticket stubs anymore.  It's just a ticket on your phone, so the days of saving ticket stubs are over.  I guess you could always print out your email confirmation of the ticket purchase and use that as your stub in a collection, but that's just not the same thing.

I know right? Sucks, but I've done exactly what you said for recent concerts and just printed out a "stub" to keep with the rest of my actual stubs.

[cramx3]

most concerts you can still get a ticket stub, but you have to pay extra fees to have it mailed to you or held at Will Call.

Whenever I see this option, it costs like $15 more.  It's just not worth it.  I used to do it back when digital tickets were slowly becoming the norm, so they'd charge a few bucks to get the stub and I'd do that.  These days, only having the physical ticket or it waiting at will call means you have no flexibility if you can't make it these days too.

[Samsara]

most concerts you can still get a ticket stub, but you have to pay extra fees to have it mailed to you or held at Will Call.

Whenever I see this option, it costs like $15 more.  It's just not worth it.  I used to do it back when digital tickets were slowly becoming the norm, so they'd charge a few bucks to get the stub and I'd do that.  These days, only having the physical ticket or it waiting at will call means you have no flexibility if you can't make it these days too.

I don't do this any longer, but when .pdfs of tickets were a thing (and still are for some local stuff that is done on Eventbrite and other platforms), I just printed out the ticket and kept that and put it into a book. Casinos will also give you tickets for free (at least in my experience) at the end of a show. And most casino shows, if you purchase from them and pick up at will call, will have printed tickets.

But yeah, TM and LN - such...ridiculousness.