Nostalgia: What were the best concerts you ever attended?

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  • zCarsAndCaloriesz
    zCarsAndCaloriesz Posts: 348
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    When I saw The Used at Taste of chaos.
  • BeachGingerOnTheRocks
    BeachGingerOnTheRocks Posts: 3,927 Member
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    These aren't necessarily my FAVORITE bands, but some of the best concert performances

    Elton John in Atlanta at Lakewood.
    3 Doors Down, small invitation only performance.
    Train, another invitation only performance, only about 100 people.
    Pink Floyd, it was the Division Bell (yuck) tour, but they played all the good stuff, and I was front and center.
    Kid Rock

    Worst, Cheryl Crow.

    Most fun concert evert: George Clinton
  • MissJanet55
    MissJanet55 Posts: 457 Member
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    This is a weird range of music, but The Ramones, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings (unbelievable live), Neko Case, Daniel Lanois, The Beatfarmers, Paul Kelly.

    All created a live experience that can't be replicated in their recorded music.

    The Beatfarmers!!!

    lucky

    Ha! Seriously. I saw them many times, every time they played in Vancouver. A highlight was the time Country **** Montana danced on my table at a small club, but Country **** and The Petting Zoo with Mojo Nixon was also memorable.
  • MissJanet55
    MissJanet55 Posts: 457 Member
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    This is a weird range of music, but The Ramones, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings (unbelievable live), Neko Case, Daniel Lanois, The Beatfarmers, Paul Kelly.

    All created a live experience that can't be replicated in their recorded music.

    The Beatfarmers!!!

    lucky

    Ha! Seriously. I saw them many times, every time they played in Vancouver. A highlight was the time Country **** Montana danced on my table at a small club, but Country **** and The Petting Zoo with Mojo Nixon was also memorable.

    Oh my god they **** out his name. Which was D ick.
  • DamnImASexyBitch
    DamnImASexyBitch Posts: 740 Member
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    1985 Prince... first concert ever... I was 5 yrs old!
    1988 New Kids On The Block
    1997 Q101 Jamboree. So many great acts... Bush, Beck, The Cardigans, Echo & the Bunnymen, Erasure, Jamiroquai, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Moby, Republica, Social Distortion, Veruca Salt, Verve Pipe
    1998 Live Throwing Copper Tour
    2009 Metallica
    2010 STP at Charter One Pavillion in Chicago on the lakefront
    2010 Slash & Billy Idol at The Rivera in Chicago
    2011 Van Halen
    2012 Steel Panther House Of Blues Chicago
    2012 Boston At The Venue
  • mikey1976
    mikey1976 Posts: 1,005 Member
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    first concert i ever went to alice coopers trash tour i love it he cut his head off and held it above his waist while the lips still singing

    biffna$ed 3 times

    the Headstones where wild o how i wish i wasn't drunk that night

    vanilla ice after he was done being a poser he went by his real name when i seen him
  • HerbT51
    HerbT51 Posts: 36
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    you guys make me feel old.....lol
    most fun was Sha Na Na and Elvin Bishop at Winterland....1971
    Santana in 1975.....

    Rolling Stones 1969 in Spectrum in Phila
    Leon Russel 1971(?) free concert by radio station in Roxboro, PA
    Pink Floyd 1970 Electric Factory in Phila.
    The Who 1969 Electric Factory in Phila.
    (did their touring "Tommy" & all the "Live At Leed's" stuff

    #1 by far:
    Van Morrison the night The Electric Factory closed (GREAT SHOW!)
  • Irish_Eyes81
    Irish_Eyes81 Posts: 808 Member
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    Ok this might sound silly but....trans Siberian orchestra...seriously loved it
  • laserturkey
    laserturkey Posts: 1,680 Member
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    OMG how did I forget to mention The Dresden Dolls?! They were amazing!
  • mswize
    mswize Posts: 113 Member
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    Wow it is great to read about all of the great concerts people have attended!

    My most historic would have to be

    Michael Jackson and Jackson 5
    David Bowie
    Stevie Ray Vaughn
    The Cure
    The Smiths
    Roger Waters The Wall

    but of all of them....
    PHISH is my go to (I have been to well over 50 of their shows)
  • HurricaneElaine
    HurricaneElaine Posts: 984 Member
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    I need to add a few - though they pale in comparison to others' experiences I see posted..

    Simply Red at the Orpheum in Boston, sometime in the 1980's. 1986, 1987? :ohwell:

    Josh Groban at the (TD) Garden in 2011.

    I have unusual taste in music. I know. :blushing:
  • HurricaneElaine
    HurricaneElaine Posts: 984 Member
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    I was a child of the sixties and saw so many concerts:

    The Beatles
    The Rolling Stones
    The Dave Clark Five
    Herman's Hermits
    The Animals
    Bob Dylan
    Ian Whitcomb
    The Beach Boys (several times)
    Sonny & Cher
    Chad & Jeremy
    The Byrds
    Peter, Paul & Mary
    Cream
    and many more...
    I would say The Beatles and PP&M were the most memorable.


    I am SERIOUSLY jealous!!! (in a good way, of course!)
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
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    WLIR Party in the Park, included so many great bands from 1979.

    Or


    Possibly King Crimson introduced by Mayor Ed Koch in Central Park.

    Or

    The Grateful Dead at Nassau Colliseum
  • RemySquiggle
    RemySquiggle Posts: 9 Member
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    Don't shoot me down, but the best one I've ever been to has got to be the Lady Gaga: Born This Way Ball.
  • Dlibo1013
    Dlibo1013 Posts: 883 Member
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    Simon and Garfunkle reunion tour
  • dogo187
    dogo187 Posts: 376
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    Nirvana - Big Day Out January 1992...

    RIP Kurt...
  • Tennolina
    Tennolina Posts: 2,413
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    2011-Prince. The man can STILL rock. Great, great time!
  • SatchGallamax
    SatchGallamax Posts: 549 Member
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    Any of the late 90s punk rock shows I went to in high school - Strung Out, Lagwagon, Face to Face, Good Riddance, 88 Fingers Louie, The Misfits, Murder City Devils, Suicide Machines, Bouncing Souls, AFI, Guttermouth, Link 80, MXPX, Less Than Jake, and a handful of Warped Tours... just to name a few. I still have every concert ticket from every show I went to.

    But the best was probably the Warped Tour 2004 in Vancouver BC where I got to watch Bad Religion's set on stage and meet the band, thanks to a friend who knew them. :love:
  • SteveJWatson
    SteveJWatson Posts: 1,225 Member
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    I saw the Smashing Pumpkins on the 'mellon Collie' tour - that was pretty awesome.

    Pearl Jam were very good, as were the Foo Fighters.

    I saw Bush too - they sucked.
  • keezles
    keezles Posts: 7 Member
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    Rush, Steely Dan, U2, Roger Waters' The Wall!

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