Longest and shortest headling sets you've seen
 

Mine are:

8/4/1978: Bruce Springsteen, Charleston Civic Center, Charleston, West Virginia

Two Hours and forty-five minutes, not counting intermission. I enjoyed the show but don't know if I would enjoy seeing Springsteen nowadays.


3/26/2016: Jad Fair, Indianapolis Museum Of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

For this solo show, the leader of Half Japanese played all of 23 minutes. Yes, this was a free stage at a music festival where it cost $ to see most of the national-level musicians. And yes, the primary purpose of Jad's appearance was to sell his art--although that's not how it was advertised at first. But I still think he could have given us a longer set.

The longest was probably when I saw The Cure this summer which ran about 3 and a half hours.

As for the shortest, I saw hed(pe) and powerman 5000 at a dive bar last year, each set was no longer than 45 minutes each.

What's a "headling"?

It's a women that only blows you. Refuses to screw.

It's a baby head.

Shortest: Aerosmith as a headliner in the late 70s at their peak only played about 45 minutes cause they were so wasted. Tyler didn't even come out for the 3 minute encore which Perry sang.

Longest: Not sure cause if it was a great show I didn't pay attention to time. I have some live Zep boots that are 3.5+ hours.

Longest was a 3 hour set by The Allman Brothers Band (can't remember the date.)

Shortest was a 3 song set by Roky Erickson at the third annual Roky Erickson Psychedelic Ice Cream Social held at Threadgill's in Austin, TX on March 19, 2005. It was his first live performance in 10 years and although I was expecting a much longer set, it was good to see him onstage and playing again.

And Jad can get away with stuff like that. At the show back in March, he had a miniature pink guitar that looked like a toy but he got some music out of it--sort of. At the end of the set, the neck came completely off, but it turns out there was a peg that allowed such detachment. Maybe it WAS a toy.

Shortest was Make Believe. During the second song, the singer got really into the moment, yanked the mic out of the stand, and tossed the mic stand behind him. Unfortunately, the guitarist was standing right behind him and was struck in the head by the flying mic stand. He collapsed, unconscious. The paramedics were called. He was taken off stage on a stretcher. And that was it for the evening.

Went to see Slightly Stoopid a few years back. Played for 4 hours straight. They thought it would be a good idea 3 hours into there set to cover Nirvana's Nevermind.