Or,why do people spend good money for a concert,then get so drunk or high that they end up catatonic before the concert even starts ?

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Went to a James Taylor concert at Polaris a few years back and the two yapping ladies behind us were so bad that I had to tell them to be quiet.  They shut up and everyone around us enjoyed the show.  If you want to catch up on things, play the record at home and sit on your couch.

I live in Bruce's "backyard" and have seen him over 70 times.

Most of my friends have seen him that many times or more.

I can tell you there is virtually no buzz out here for the 10 shows he's doing.

Its gotta say something when he's not doing any NY (Albany doesn't count) /NJ  shows,and that there's no talk of adding dates.

Well, I fall in the generation that started life when radio was king and first watched TV at a neighbor's house on a six inch oval screen that was attached to a "TV ready" radio.  However, I'm now addicted to my iPhone just as much as any teenager.  So, don't overgeneralize about various generations.  

I'm not a full-on Luddite, but I stopped using much of it about six months ago. Rarely Tweet. Use an old flip phone for calls and texts. Use an IPad only for work stuff and  dawdling around the internet and this strange place (much more as the OU basketball world has turned like a soap opera over the last month). But I did make a conscious effort to increase my reading on paper-based pages and it's like my brain has been given a spa treatment. Anxiety decreases. Creativity blooms. Sociability becomes easier. The world becomes clearer devoid of that bluish, strange filter a screen places over your eyes and your brain and your heart. I believe on the total, technology is a wonderful, beautiful thing to be treasured. I think it's also a force harder to curtail than any booze or drug or personal indiscretion. Because it's unseen and the side effects are indistinguishable to even the closest in our lives. I'm quite fond of people who have the addiction to their phone, however. I've lived with crippling social anxiety all my life, long before I had ever seen a cellphone or a computer. (Don't judge me, but I'm just 29 had an electric typerwiter in my room. My parents ARE Luddites). But those people glued to their phones and afraid to do much else are like my soulmates, except easier to heal. Just take their phones away.

     I like to check out Bruce's setlists for each show with some accompanying posts about the show (I know, "get a life"). The following comes from a fan at last night's show in Florida:

"Also, I owe some blonde douche bag surfer punk who was wasted and spent more time taking selfies and shouting during the quite songs a punch on the face. Other than a few people clearly there just to brag about it on social media, killer show/crowd."

This topic comes up in just about every show's discussion.

I'm younger generation (28), but I've never understood the point of shelling out that much money just to hear a song sound worse live than it does on the radio. I get nothing out of actually being able to see the artist while hearing the same song I have heard a million times.

That's one of the funniest and most truthful things I've read on heer in a long time.  We go to lots of concerts - 10 to 15 at Fur Peace alone each year.  In fact we saw Glass Harp there Saturday night and listening to Jorma and Phil Keaggy do Crossroads live is something you'll never hear on an album.  Long live live music!

Live music is better. Bumper stickers should be issued.

Indeed.  In fact, when I want to buy some music now I find myself searching for live sets as opposed to studio stuff.  

Also, there's tons of great acts out there for far less than $100.