Longest encore you've ever seen at a concert?

[bbernardini]

I think two of the longest would have to be The Cure (on the "Bloodflowers" tour) and Southern Culture On The Skids (I forget which tour, but around 1995-1996). The Cure encore was about 55 minutes and 11 songs, and the SCOTS encore must have been at least that long (and included a limbo contest and fried chicken being thrown into the crowd).

[Blue-Jay]

1. James Taylor

At an outdoor venue, he played about a 1.5 hour encore. The management had to threaten to call the cops on him if he didn't stop playing.

[progmom]

2. Leontyne Price

I think the encore portion lasted longer than the main concert.

[RandomKoolzip]

3. Neil Young, "Ragged Glory" Tour, 1990.

I guess because he was competeing nightly with openers Sonic Youth's "Expressway to yr. Skull," with its ten + minute drone fade-out, Neil the Heel decide to end every (EVERY) song on this tour with a massive feedback/noise explosion.....the encore to the show I saw in Hartford, CT ended with a version of "Welfare Mothers" featuring a "coda" that seemed to last for DAYS.

[chickenscratching]

4. Frank Black and the Catholics

seriously, i believe it was an hour encore of about 7-9 songs. i dunno? Good show, but overdid it. hmm. i like encores, but generalyl even more so when it seems like it was "unplanned", so I guess I should say I like spontaneous encores.

[jburton]

5. Ween

It was during their Golden Country Greats tour, so they had the whole country western band with them.

The last song was "Fluffy" and lasted an eternity, with lots of new lyrics. They started the song with a large bottle of Jim Beam and by the time Fluffy was over they were done with it. Which kinda explains why the song lasted for so long.