Concert Length Quotes

I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

The problem with the Moodies is not what to play, it's what to leave out! That's always difficult. We stopped having support acts many years ago just because of that. We needed getting on to two hours; there's such a big catalog to call on.

Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

I don't like doing 25 songs. I think that just kills the audience. I think the show should be 17, 18, 19 songs and encores.

I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four or five singers, and percussion. We did a two-and-a-half hour show where the music spanned from the early Sixties to the present. Whereas the David Lee Roth thing was like, Now. Very big and intense.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.