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Honestly, I think it's mostly that Bruce himself is such an incredibly physical performer, it's sort of like watching a force of nature, which is not something you can say of most acts, but esp. not the Dead or Phish.

Like, I'm pretty confident the Dead and Phish have played shows in shorts and flip-flops before.

Is it controversial to suggest that no band should play shows in shorts and flip-flops?

I like Ween fwiw but seriously that argument holds no water with me.

If I had to choose a band that plays for 4 hours it would be P-Funk

uh ... so?

xp this thing ilx has about shorts and flip flops

I love shorts and flip-flops! On me.

xpost Maybe P-Funk a few decades ago. The last two times I saw P-Funk live they were on some sub 24-7 Spyz metal shit and it was nigh unlistenable. And no way was it 4 hours.

That's a good question, though. What bands are famous for playing long shows? What bands/acts still play long shows? Bruce, Pearl Jam ... how long are Phish shows these days, or UnDead shows?

yeah def referring to previous iterations tbf, back when George still had actual members from the bands' heyday involved

xp

The first time the Magnetic Fields played Chicago our band opened. The MFs, for whatever reason, chose that night to play 2.5 hours, iirc. Ladies at Lounge Ax told me it was the longest set ever played at the club. I think someone drugged Stephin Merrit.

That sounds awesome. What year was that?

199 ...7?

was stephin wearing flip flops and dreads?

He sat in with Dread Zeppelin that night

The MFs, for whatever reason, chose that night to play 2.5 hours, iirc

that's enough for about 59 love songs

I recall several covers. ELO?

https://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/pict/232593550927_2.jpg

bands I would accept performing in flip flops and shorts
- a lot of rap acts
- p much any band from California

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Touche!

The grateful dead, however, were a great band, but better in the studio. american beauty is a great album but their live albums are tedious.

― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, November 6, 2018 1:46 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

treesh believe me these are the famous last words of an eventual deadhead

Longest show I've ever seen: King Sunny Ade, 8 PM - 4 AM.

That's a cool-ass Springsteen photo.

Lots of bob weir in shorts but always with tube socks:
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That's a cool-ass Springsteen photo.

― too busy or too stoned (morrisp), Tuesday, November 6, 2018 9:27 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's a cool ass, Springsteen photo.

Peak Serpico Springsteen

That's so funny; I just walked by a framed "Serpico" still (here at work) and made the same connection.

https://i.imgur.com/xNFHnHZ.jpg

What bands are famous for playing long shows?

The Cure's standard show length is 3 hours

(I saw TMBG the other week play 2 hours 50, but including an intermission; more extended stage raps due to jetlag than extended jams.)

I forgot that i had seen the cure before you mentioned that

If 3h is long, I think that's standard for Rush too? At least it was in the Vapour Trails era.

Its kind of standard these days for bands that don't tour with opening acts.

Legacy bands with deep cuts, for sure.

Guns 'N Roses plays for 3 1/2 to 4 hours these days.

A million x-posts

Pretty sure both of the Rush concerts I saw were in the three-hour range. Saw the Cure once too, Bloodflowers era, but left before the end.

Leonard Cohen played 2 1/2 hours when we saw him which isn't as long but for a guy who was 75 or 76 at the time it's pretty impressive.

So I guess Guns n Roses is the best band

it’s hard to hold a candle in the cold november rain

Hero

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/worlds-longest-concert-will-last-639-years/2011/11/21/gIQAWrdXiN_blog.html?utm_term=.00d699b59333

that’s not a “concert”

Shhhh!

i don’t get Durutti Column

just sounds like guy noodling on reverby guitar

then you get it

i really like the durutti column but when i saw him live it was bad

oh yeah, i have a great challop: my bloody valentine first reunion tour sucked ass, they were the sloppiest, most garbage band I've ever seen

all the songs pretty much have leads that they were playing from tape (or whatever) and they frequently got so out of time with the prerecorded music that they were full bars or so out of time with it

My challop: that kind of rhythmic freedom is exactly what their music needs.

Not controversial: Durutti have had a lot of mediocre albums.

The Martin Hannett produced The Return of the Durutti Column (1980) and Vini Reilly (1989) are all-time greats in the pantheon of modern instrumental "rock", but neither reach the heights of the "Lips that Would Kiss" tribute to Ian Curtis, and I haven't felt compelled to relisten to the intervening or later albums.