I saw Neil Young in Hammersmith on his last UK tour a couple of years back. It was pretty much everything you'd want from a NY gig: acoustic and electric sets, a sprinkling of rarities, plenty of old. Damn near perfect. Since then I've passed up at least three opportunities to see him again - all outdoors, which probably has something to do with it, but also because I don't think anything can top that Hammersmith performance. As you say, seeing him once was, well, enough. And I speak as a big NY fan.

for an artist, we want to see them but if they play to often we may get over faced. I am giving John Hiatt & Nils Lofgren a miss on their currant tours as I have seen both 3 or 4 times in the last couple of years. I never miss a Nick Lowe gig but he needs to leave it for a year or two to get me out again. I will be instead spending my gig money on Sam Baker & Chatham County Line who I have never seen.
Bruce I saw in 75 on the Born To Run tour & was so good I felt that he could only let me down on his subsequent stadium tours so I didn't bother. Caught up with him again on the Seeger Sessions tour & that was probably even better! I then saw the e street tours on three occasions but with diminishing appeal.

I simply adore Mr Webb's music and have even published a fanzine about him - no longer due to personal commitments. I must have seen him play live 20-30 times, I've lost count. There is a problem though as every set he plays is pretty much the same as the others even to the extent of the same between-songs banter. Will I go again? Probably but in some way I like to think not.

How refreshing it was to see his tour last year with his sons, the amazing Webb Brothers. That is unliekly to be repeated though and he (Webb) has now settled back into the cosy set he has been peddling for ages.

Shame, but I still love the music.

and each concert was progressively less good than the one before.

I should've stopped after that first mind-blowing gig at Manchester Poly.

And His Bobness.

I'll not be rushing to see the Hold Steady either unless it's at a festival, 45 minutes of them is fantastic but anything longer and everything just rolls into a homogeneous mass.

Love his music, still buy his records, think that he's a top man etc but once live was enough, thanks. He was in no way bad - bit of banter, old faves played, tight band etc etc; just didnt do it for me

I am going through such a period of 'can't be bothered' with live music at the moment that I feel totally disinclined to see anyone I have seen before. I see dates from my old faves (Charlatans, James, B&S etc) and kind of know what I am going to get cos I have seen them so many times already. I feel sad about it, and in many ways hope it will pass but wonder whether it ever will.

Still love pretty much anything they ever recorded, but having seen them once I realised they just weren't a great live band (on the evidence of that night anyway).

Being a fan I was looking forward to the show, but when the nicest review you can come up with is "well, at least it was nice to see him" you´ve probably not enjoyed yourself too much.

It wasn´t really bad either. Just like watching a weather forecast. It didn´t leave me bored, just indifferent.

I saw her in 1983 in Dublin. She played everything I wanted to hear from the back catalogue, albeit with a slightly heavy handed band. The acoustic sections were however sublime. I do not think it could be repeated.

I really have no desire to see her again in the unlikely event she should ever hit the road again.

Contrast this with Van Morrison where I spent the best part of 20 years chasing the elusive perfection of the third night of a 1983 five night run at the New Vic in Belfast. I've stopped now.

Don't get me wrong I love BW and i've seen him perform Pet Sounds twice, plus Smile and career spanning live sets with enough obscurities and solo songs to satisfy any BW/Beach Boys nut. I'll be surprised if I ever hear an ovation like the one he got when he stepped out on stage at Glasgow first time I saw him, before he'd even played a note...

I'm not sure he can top that, and in a way I feel I've done my bit and paid toward his new teeth so I'd kind of be quite happy for the old boy to retire and just sit in the Hollywood hills at his piano and make records.

After the first couple of gigs you start to notice the scripted banter, and just how uncomfortable and unsettled he seems to be on stage. You start to tire of exuberant "Brian Wilson band" and the banter of sideman Jeff Foskett. All are eager to please and re-create the (pet) sound, Bass harmonicas and all. They do a cracking job but somehow just a little too smooth and missing some of that woomph and grit of the Wreckin' Crew. You wonder how much better it would sound (and how much cheaper the gig would be) with a 5 piece pick up band and Brian just vamping away on the piano in a smaller venue. That I'd go and see.

I worship the very ground he walks on and would happily take a bullet for the man. I own more of his records and CDs than is probably healthy and have seen him in concert countless times since 1966.

In our house several yards of shelving are groaning under the weight of books and DVDs (good and bad) devoted to Dylan and I devour every crumb of information I can find in whatever format it arrives.

But let's face it, when it comes to performing live these days he's well and truly taking the piss - and he has been doing so for at least a decade.

I really don't appreciate handing over more than 50 quid to go to a concert and then have no idea what songs I'm hearing until a lyric fragment gives it away, or someone 15 seats along hisses "It's Positively 4th Street, pass it on".

If he wants to mangle, mutilate and disembowel his entire back catalogue in a bizarre Linda Blair voice, let him do it in his own time and at someone else's expense. I don't want to buy a ticket on the off-chance that mine may be the one in ten shows that turns out to be life-altering.

Plus, Dylan still steadfastly refuses to employ on-stage screens, so if you're at the back of a cold, concrete Enormodome, that speck in the far distant spotlight really could be anyone at all. AND he plays a fucking keyboard most of the time these days anyway.

Oh, and how many times have I told myself never to buy another £20 t-shirt at a Dylan concert, only to find it turns into a dishrag after one wash?

That's right, too many times to mention!

Made some great records, but live are possibly the least engaging band I've ever seen.