Your last concert was to see who and when?

Seeing Garbage/Blondie in two weeks.

Seeing Tift Merritt & friends in four weeks.

Good to see all the Richard Thompson love here!

My wife and I arrived in Las Vegas yesterday to see tonight's Buckingham McVie show (which stars in about 5 hours).  After we checked in and got dinner, we wandered over to Planet Hollywood and bought tickets to see Pitbull.  Evidently he's a Big Deal these days and my bride wanted to go.  It was a quick show and entertaining enough - he played 75 minutes - although I'm not sure how much more he could have gone on  before it got annoying.

The odd part (for me) was the large overlap between "street attitude hip-hop" (not sure that's the right genre, but it's as close as I can come up with)  and traditional schmaltzy Vegas spectacle.  Loud pop music, highly choreographed, big lazer production, lots of "feel blessed to be here" / thanking the audience speeches, and the requisite scantily clad, top heavy dancing girls.  In a way, it wasn't much different from the Rat Pack.  I guess it was very different in some ways, but it felt very much "in the Vegas tradition".

Incidentally, while there wasn't a ton of musical ability on display, Pitbull's drummer is a beast.

Later tonight - Lindsey and Christine.

Lindsey and Christine.  Terrific show.  The new material works better/rocks harder live than on record IMO.  Buckingham's voice was in much better shape than it's been in for years.  McVie still has great pipes.  The new rhythm section is hard edged and great on the more aggressive material.  They skipped a few songs that I'd have loved to hear, but that's usually the case when the band has so much material that I love.

BTW - The Wallflowers opened.  Their set started slow, but picked up steam throughout.  Coincidentally, given all of the Richard Thompson love recently exhibited in this thread, they covered "I Want to See The Bright Lights" and it was a high light of their set.

Bdp

I know of Fritz and the Fritz story, and I’ve seen a few photos, but I never heard them. Unfortunately.

BTW, Buckingham and Nicks moved to LA after they got a deal with Polydor. Fritz auditioned, but the label just wanted the two of them. Their record flopped, but Buckingham happened to be in-house when Mick Fleetwood walked in looking for a studio and new guitar player. Fortuitous meeting.