No slight against Devo, but if that's the best concert you ever saw, you don't get out very often.

Okay, I'll play:

For me, it's a tie separated by 35 years. Queen in 1980 at Madison Square Garden, and Jeff Lynne's ELO at Irving Plaza just last November. It was incredible to be among only about 300 fans and see the guy for the first time in 30 years from only ten feet away....

...which is why I'm seeing him at the Hollywood Bowl and Radio City next month.

True story: At the 1982 tour (with Billy Squier), I was hanging on the edge of the stage (back then, you could do that before assholes started rushing the stage). Freddie came out for an encore of Another One Bites the Dust wearing a feathered coat made of silk arrows. He held out the coat right toward me. I said fuck the coat and grabbed his arm. When he walked away, I was staring at his sweat on my hand in awe, then turned to my friend and the people around me, all of whom had the silk arrows which you could pick off his coat as a souvenir.

Which begs the question: Which is better? Grabbing his arm? Or getting a silk arrow? (I bet my friend lost his ... he was a bit of a dumbass.)

Yeah...and I definitely would have been given something to take home.

My band played with Skid Row when we were mistakenly booked at a heavy metal club in Perth Amboy, NJ just before they hit it big. We were warming up for them and were in the dressing room with them after. Sebastian Bach was pawing some girl's tits and she kept slapping his hand away. I thought they were total scumbags and Bach was a super tool. Then their first album came out and I couldn't believe they hit it big. And I really liked a few of their songs. Never judge a book by its cover, I guess...

This is why you're awesome (among other reasons): You can actually list Slayer and Neil Diamond in the same list, and it doesn't make you any less of a man.

Amen, brother. I saw the Night in the Ruts tour when they were at the peak of their drug use. Falling all over the stage...it was pathetic.

That was a cover band. No Dennis DeYoung, no Styx. Likewise, no Lou Gramm, no Foreigner. And Queen was a bullshit band with those other singers...especially Adam Lambert.

I saw them with Foghat. They had the giant Godzilla that they blew up with air. So frickin' funny.

I had 8th row center for the Zoom tour, only to realize that nobody bought any more seats behind me. The tour was cancelled soon after. Very depressing. I'm so happy to see him going through a revival. I had to pay close to $800 for the Bowl tickets in the super seat section, but with two orchestras, lasers, and fireworks, it was worth it to me. We're flying on miles and getting free hotel, so it all evens out.

But yeah...scalpers suck balls.

You can't throw ELO lyrics at me when I'm binge-watching all of GOT again...

Oh...is THAT what you call it?

I'd have to say that ELO at the Hollywood Bowl with the HB orchestra back in September is easily one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Worth the cross-country flight. Lasers, projections on the front of the proscenium, a huge fireworks show during the encore, and music that sounded lifted from the albums. And incredible experience for any ELO fan...and hey! They just got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

I had front row center for Yes when they played with Toto in 2015. We walked out three songs in. The lead singer looked like some parody from Saturday Night Live and my wife and I couldn't stop laughing.

I love Yes (seeing them inducted in the Hall of Fame in April), but can't stand the new lineup.

Stop it.