A Brooklyn resident known as "Concert Joe" has spent more than half a century attending live music shows and collecting memorabilia throughout a Bay Ridge apartment. Boxes of ticket stubs, calendars, posters, bracelets, and shirts chronicle an estimated nearly 24,000 full concerts, with opening acts excluded. Concert attendance peaked in 1992 with over 1,000 shows and 99 in one month. Live music is prioritized over recorded music, compared to fresh versus frozen food. Early ticket purchases included The Birds at Carnegie Hall in 1971. Close friends share similarly prolific concert habits.
I never listen to any recorded music ... because I see live music almost every night for 54 years. My ears are ringing the next day, you know, what do I need a music system for?
It's the difference between fresh food and frozen food ... Recorded is good, but not as good as live. Frozen food is good, but not as good as fresh,
That's full shows, opening acts not included. If I counted opening acts and band performance, it'd be over 30,000,
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