So, last night i watched Sir Paul McCarney play at a local stadium.
The man is old but an accomplished performer. He sang for three hours straight.
His voice has aged but the show was solid.
Managed with a medium sized band, two guitars (three if you include him) and one of them doubled as bass player now and them. A very effective drummer, good keyboard player and a 3 men horn section (trumpet, sax and trombone).
Nothing fancy other than a few videos, some mandatory Beatles cuts and clips, His repertoir is so large that compromises must be made.

Also saw, not that long ago, Roger Waters doing his tour down here. Milking the 50th anniversary of DSOTM, he put on a full show with all you can expect nowadays. His voice is ahot, not much that can be done. His band is impressive and sounds incredible.
Lucky us, he played PF’s DSOTM and not his latest release, DSOTM Redux.
Then the awful part is that he shoves his politics down your throat and makes an excellent evening something barely if tolerable. Disgusted me.
The guy was banned by a few hotels in BA. He wasn’t welcomed and that is sone sort of memorable achievement, i guess. I ask myself why?

Finally, earlier this year, Rick Wakeman visited us. His show was just him, a keyboards station and a piano. The man walked baby steps back and forth from one place to the other and performed for hours, addung a short comment or anecdote here and there. All his music still fresh in his head and his hands performing flawlessly.

The three musicians are really really old but still touring. The two band play the music to the last original note, no room for improvisation. IMO that is not what i wish for, what i hope to witness.
Old Rick is not my favorite of the three, lived him as a Yes member a whole lot more than a solo artist. Still hats off to him, i was more impressed by his solo performance, if a bit spartan, than by the impressive musical industry that follows Paul and Roger.

Rock is dead, long live rock!

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He’s still pretty good! Sucks to see the musicians you loved growing up getting old like me!

Fudd rock?

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in the past few months I have seen a few of my 80's favortes,

Costello,
still got it, did notice he sat on a stool a bit when he played, but he and the Imposters (basically the original Attractions less Bruce Thomas) were still tight, active, and sounded great,

Darryl Hall was also on that bill, and sounded like the stereotypical washed up lounge act,

granted, neither are young, but Hall was not as good as I expected (saw he and Oates in the early 80's) after watching some modern shows of his (Darryl's House)


tho honestly, most of the 80's bands I see are still doing well, not as many original members, but sound good and play well,

Squeeze was another, great show, (Difford and Tilbrook started in 74)

not as old as what you mentioned, but close,

just remember that the 80's bands are 40 years past...70's groups are half a century

no one stays young forever, but its amazing that some of them are still upright

I’ve seen Chicago within the last 2 years and America in August this year. America had only one original member left doing the tour. It was still entertaining.

I’ve been seeing clips of Frankie Valli and the four seasons. He gets revealed walking out from behind the group and he really does look like a walking corpse.

We also saw BJ Thomas a year before he died. In the middle of a story he was relating between songs, he forgot the story. The audience was forgiving however.

It’s rough. I can finally afford to go to the concerts I want from the 70s but they’re not the same. I wouldn’t mind a soft jazz concert though.

I remember when the Rolling Stones went on tour for the Steel Wheels album. People were making fun of them, calling it the steel wheelchairs tour. Nearly forty years later, they're still touring. That's crazy.

You mean to tell me, you saw The Greatest Beatle (in my opinion) perform live and you retired? Dude, I think you are my man crush.

I would like to recommend Jake Thistle. He's a 20 something Rutgers student whose inspiration was Tom Petty. This kid writes rock music.

https://jakethistle.com/home

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
just remember that the 80's bands are 40 years past...70's groups are half a century

no one stays young forever, but its amazing that some of them are still upright

true, and all I mentioned started in the mid 70's