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Topic: How many gigs have you been to?

I was reading this story on the BBC website about a guy who claims to have been to 5000 live music concerts over the last 35 years and has kept a record of them all! 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7741457.stm

No doubt, it would be difficult to match that figure, but it would be interesting to find out who has been to the most gigs on the forum...

"The recently formed Edinburgh Blues Club has identified an appetite for the personal communication between musicians and audience that the blues long ago perfected." The Herald Newspaper (Scotland)
http://www.edinburgh-blues.uk
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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

Absolutely no idea, but it's a lot! I've been collecting all my ticket stubs for about the last 15 years to chronicle artists, dates, and venues. God forbid I should add up the ticket prices or I might seek help for this habit, NAH, never. LIVE MUSIC IS LIFE !

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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

Lemme count...

16 or 17 I believe...started going when I was 13, so not bad in my opinion...that's an average of like 4 shows a year or so. Guess that doesn't count as much when I think about it...oh well! I'd be going to the RAH show if I wasn't...17!

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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

300-400 give er take....weak by others standards....first one was at 9 years old...I'm a young and still handsome 50......***there not gonna buy the crap Shred***

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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

I really don't know!

I was about 16 the first, now I'm 55 and Joe was my last so far!! I go as often as I can to blues, bluesrock, rock shows/festivals.
That's 40 years and now I do about 25 a year, more when I was a younger and had no family. So must be somewhere around 1500 I guess.

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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

Cadbury done been to de mostest.

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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

i don't know ! maybe 150 and more

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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

I stopped counting after 5000 15 years ago wink

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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

I find it interesting that you use the term gigs.  Are you a musician, too?

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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

bigjeffjones wrote:

Cadbury done been to de mostest.

That's all relative FDOL. How many do you think he made where he didn't plug in????????

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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

ohiodawg13 wrote:
bigjeffjones wrote:

Cadbury done been to de mostest.

That's all relative FDOL. How many do you think he made where he didn't plug in????????

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oh, 1 or 2.

tee hee

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Re: How many gigs have you been to?

bigjeffjones wrote:

I find it interesting that you use the term gigs.  Are you a musician, too?

Me no, not yet anyway! Maybe when I'm older smile Its a pretty common term up here smile

"The recently formed Edinburgh Blues Club has identified an appetite for the personal communication between musicians and audience that the blues long ago perfected." The Herald Newspaper (Scotland)
http://www.edinburgh-blues.uk