Personally, I miss concerts the most, with going to the movies being a close second. Maybe it's the genres of music I listen to but I've always believed that music is meant to be experienced live. Same as how I think a movie is best experienced at a movie theater. I don't care how big your 4k tv is - I have one, too, as well as an Xbox One X to play 4k discs and media on, big whoop - it'll never be as good as experiencing it at a theater. If it's Imax or Dolby Cinema, all the better.
Same with concerts, to me. There's something transcendent and tribal about a good concert to me. For a person with severe anxiety, I can say that concerts are the only time I've ever been comfortable in a crowd, even a crowd of many thousands. It's because it's not about you and bigger than you. You can pass out (I've fainted from dehydration and heat exhaustion at a concert before), act like a spaz and no one cares (although they may try to help).
2020 was first year since I started going to concerts (around 20 years ago) that I didn't go to any. I went to two in 2019, a little show by Blessthefall and Slaves at a tavern right around the corner from me. It was so hot and the room was so small that the sweat turned into condescension and dropped from the ceiling. Lol. Later that year, it was a slightly larger Clutch and Killswitch Engage gig. Now...nothing.
I've seen dozens and dozens of bands of various genres. Mostly genres related to punk, metalcore and extreme metal. AFI, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dropkick Murphys, Slayer, Anthrax, Lamb of God, Arch Enemy, Sick of it All, the Offspring, As I Lay Dying, Angels and Airwaves, etc. are typical of the bands I would go see - from post-hardcore to deathcore to old-school thrash and hardcore punk. But I also saw the the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Tool and Lady Gaga (out of those four, only Bowie wasn't in an arena, so make of that what you will) so my concert going was varied between mainstream and more underground artists, as my music listening is, although it tends to the underground.
Concerts are definitely a release for me. I miss even being next to mosh pits, although I no longer actively go in them. I even miss crowd surfers falling on my head and walls of death. It was something that made me feel alive, which was always something hard for me. Now I don't have much at all.
You?
Same with concerts, to me. There's something transcendent and tribal about a good concert to me. For a person with severe anxiety, I can say that concerts are the only time I've ever been comfortable in a crowd, even a crowd of many thousands. It's because it's not about you and bigger than you. You can pass out (I've fainted from dehydration and heat exhaustion at a concert before), act like a spaz and no one cares (although they may try to help).
2020 was first year since I started going to concerts (around 20 years ago) that I didn't go to any. I went to two in 2019, a little show by Blessthefall and Slaves at a tavern right around the corner from me. It was so hot and the room was so small that the sweat turned into condescension and dropped from the ceiling. Lol. Later that year, it was a slightly larger Clutch and Killswitch Engage gig. Now...nothing.
I've seen dozens and dozens of bands of various genres. Mostly genres related to punk, metalcore and extreme metal. AFI, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dropkick Murphys, Slayer, Anthrax, Lamb of God, Arch Enemy, Sick of it All, the Offspring, As I Lay Dying, Angels and Airwaves, etc. are typical of the bands I would go see - from post-hardcore to deathcore to old-school thrash and hardcore punk. But I also saw the the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Tool and Lady Gaga (out of those four, only Bowie wasn't in an arena, so make of that what you will) so my concert going was varied between mainstream and more underground artists, as my music listening is, although it tends to the underground.
Concerts are definitely a release for me. I miss even being next to mosh pits, although I no longer actively go in them. I even miss crowd surfers falling on my head and walls of death. It was something that made me feel alive, which was always something hard for me. Now I don't have much at all.
You?