As you get older, do you still enjoy going to festivals or music shows venues ?

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In our 20s, it is nice to get out and enjoy a good festival or show, but as we get older and are building a career, a family, times like these are getting hard to do and even more restrictive.

But do you guys still like to go in a show ? If you have time doing it.
 
Absolutely. Always taken time to catch a few concerts each year. Some of the best memories of my teenage years were a few of early Lollapaloozas. Concerts are generally fun as hell. Who doesn't love music?

Wife got tickets to Our Lady Peace show early 2025, should be fun. We normally catch a Christmas show/concert at one of the local theatres too.
 
No... not at all

At 37 I bought a ticket to see Tool in the Loolapalloza... there are a gazillion bands that day.. I'm thinking in going pretty late. I don't want to see a bunch of artists I could not care less about.
 
Not nearly as much but every now and then we'll go to a concert. Definitely not doing festivals anymore. Haven't been to a festival in about 20 years.
 
Not really, I got kind of burned out in my 20's and 30's. I've been to around 100 concerts. Plenty of great times and stories but I've seen most of the bands I wanted to see, multiple times.
 
Spounman said:
Not really, I got kind of burned out in my 20's and 30's. I've been to around 100 concerts. Plenty of great times and stories but I've seen most of the bands I wanted to see, multiple times.
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You got it done sir, the good way.
 
Im almost 50(ugh) and I go to concerts all the time, this past year I saw Snoop Dogg, Too Short, Bone Thugs, Gap Band, Keith Sweat, Big Daddy Kane, Montell Jordan and Limp Bizkit

My 2025 summer concert season has already started filling up, in this past week I bought tickets to see Jelly Roll & Post Malone and Nelly & Ja-Rule
 
Versez said:
In our 20s, it is nice to get out and enjoy a good festival or show, but as we get older and are building a career, a family, times like these are getting hard to do and even more restrictive.

But do you guys still like to go in a show ? If you have time doing it.
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I didn't go to concerts much in my twenties so now I'm making up for lost time by going to music festivals and concerts. I'm an extrovert so with a good group of friends it's a lot of fun. Plus now I can actually afford the tickets, though I'll still smuggle in vodka in flasks in my pants
 
Pliny Pete said:
Im almost 50(ugh) and I go to concerts all the time, this past year I saw Snoop Dogg, Too Short, Bone Thugs, Gap Band, Keith Sweat, Big Daddy Kane, Montell Jordan and Limp Bizkit

My 2025 summer concert season has already started filling up, in this past week I bought tickets to see Jelly Roll & Post Malone and Nelly & Ja-Rule
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Damn, limp bizkit is a blast from the past...seeing Fred Durst with his white beard made me old.
 
Versez said:
You got it done sir, the good way.
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I remember lining up to get into Ozzfest at 8:30 AM and we were there until almost midnight. I was somewhere around 25. No way I could do that today <JagsKiddingMe>
 
Music gets worse and concerts get worse as you age. Just the way it goes. There's maybe 5 bands left that can get me to leave the house and a lot of that has to do with tradition of seeing them every year with buddies for 20 years.
 
Versez said:
Damn, limp bizkit is a blast from the past...seeing Fred Durst with his white beard made me old.
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Yea, I was a bit disappointed when I saw what he looked like now, I was expecting the angry dude in the red hat and instead I get The Dude walking around with a big ass beard in his jammies but he ended up putting on a great show and still rocked the house

Was hella people in the crowd walking around with wife beaters and backward red caps though LoL
 
nope. never liked it even when i was a kid. in Hawaii concerts are almost always magnets for fights. i remember like 15 yrs ago there was a MASSIVE brawl at a Tarrus Riley concert. i'm talking like a +100 dudes just letting it go. there even used to be a video on youtube of some of the chaos. dudes getting slept, waking back up and sitting up only to get slept again by someone running up and soccer kicking them. guys highkick KOing other dude's girlfriends as retaliation, dudes getting slept by sucker punches while they defend themselves from other attackers, guys getting KO'd and falling face first into puddles.

concerts and bars, i would suggest to avoid in Hawaii. festivals are ok because they're bigger, more spread out there's other things to do like get food etc. people bring their kids. but concerts and bars are for men who want to get stupid.
 
I’ve never liked festivals, although I did go to some pretty big raves back in the day,
Concerts I’m still down with, but now that I’m old and crusty I like far less new music, and I’ve seen most of the bands I care about already. Still haven’t seen PJ Harvey or DJ Shadow though…
 
I usually go to at least 10 concerts a year, but no festivals. I dont want to pay a fortune and stand around all day to see a bunch of bands I don't care about.

I also don't do standing room only anymore. Gotta have seats.
 
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