Before all concert lovers struggled with the absence of live music during the pandemic, there was plain old FOMO. And in that bizarre phase of 2020 before the world shut down, one of the last live bands giving me FOMO was the Strokes. At the time, I didn’t know that The New Abnormal, their first album in seven years, would be such a fan favorite. All I knew was that one of the formative bands of my teenage years was finally playing shows again, starting with what looked like a spectacular New Year’s Eve set in Brooklyn featuring ample classics and promising new material. The Strokes’ scheduled concert itinerary before COVID was not exactly robust, more a series of special engagements than a full-fledged tour — the Strokes, with their stratified lives and famously tenuous intra-band relations, are no longer the type of act that hits the road for long stretches — but the scarcity made their gigs all the more enticing. And then concerts by the Strokes and everyone else got a lot more scarce.