Nostalgia: What were the best concerts you ever attended?
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When I saw The Used at Taste of chaos.0
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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 Clinton0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
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 Venue0 -
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 him0 -
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!)0 -
Ok this might sound silly but....trans Siberian orchestra...seriously loved it0
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OMG how did I forget to mention The Dresden Dolls?! They were amazing!0
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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)0 -
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:0 -
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!)0 -
WLIR Party in the Park, included so many great bands from 1979.
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Possibly King Crimson introduced by Mayor Ed Koch in Central Park.
Or
The Grateful Dead at Nassau Colliseum0 -
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.0
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Simon and Garfunkle reunion tour0
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Nirvana - Big Day Out January 1992...
RIP Kurt...0 -
2011-Prince. The man can STILL rock. Great, great time!0
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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.
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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.0 -
Rush, Steely Dan, U2, Roger Waters' The Wall!0
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Two of my favorite concerts were actually in the last 6 months. And I think that's 2 more concerts than I typically attend in the average year.
Ingrid Michaelson, 7/12/12 - she performed at Nitefall on the River in Des Moines, which is an outdoor venue, and it was wonderful. The weather was perfect and I got to go with an old friend from high school, and a Twitter friend (whom I'd not actually met in person until that night) and her boyfriend. We had a good time. I think this was the 2nd or 3rd time I've seen her live. She puts on a great show.
Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra, 10/3/12 at First Avenue in Minneapolis - my first AFP show, and it was outstanding. The local musicians who joined her for the show were great, one of whom had a two-headed tuba that was painted like a dragon and was completely badass. I sat outside the venue with a friend (yet another Twitter friend I was just meeting for the first time) for several hours before the show to make sure we'd get in the front row, which was an experience all by itself. I was asked to take some "artistic" cellphone photos of a totally strung-out dude who was passing by, and he offered to pay me in Klonopin. (I politely declined.) Neil Gaiman came out and gave us chocolates before the show. I was so completely blown by the end of the concert... no voice, a little dehydrated, and emotionally & physically spent. But I was too wired to sleep on the couch that had been offered to me, so I made the 4-hour drive home and crashed in my bed at 5:30 AM. Pretty much the best day ever.0 -
Gene Loves Jezebel/New Order/Echo & the Bunnymen in 1987 Saw it in Berkeley - that WAS a good show.
LOVE seeing FISHBONE live too! so fun!
The Wolfgang Press - 1991? 1992? for their Queer album tour <--- awesome
Paul Weller - First time I saw him 1992? 1993? for his first solo tour. swoon!
i might be the only other person reading this thread who remembers the Wolfgang Press. i have one of their albums, on vinyl. i'm old. :laugh:0 -
Best gig - Queen. The last tour with Freddie in 86.
joint second - Springsteen, Rainbow, U2, AC/DC, George Michael, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney.
Most consistently fantastic - The Saw Doctors
Most disappointing - Crowded House and Rod Stewart (not on the same bill!)
Shortest gig - Maroon 5 (70 minutes including encore)
Longest gig - Live 8
Most embarrassing gig - I'm not telling you!!0 -
The Cure - 07.09.1996 Antioch - Starwood Amphitheatre (USA/TN)
Want, Club America, Fascination Street, Lullaby, High, Lovesong, Just Like Heaven, Jupiter Crash, Round & Round & Round, Catch, Friday I'm In Love, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Strange Attraction, Mint Car, Like Cockatoos, Return, Treasure, Trap, Prayers For Rain, Inbetween Days, From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea, Bare, Disintegration,
E1: Hot Hot Hot, Let's Go To Bed, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You,
E2: Boys Don't Cry, 10.15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab0 -
Dizzy Gilespie in a tiny club in NYC (1980-something)
The Roots -- also in a tiny club in NYC when they were just starting out.
Ozomatli (San Diego)
Soulive and a bunch of artists in LA 2003ish0 -
Eric Clapton @ Schottenstein Center in Columbus, OH 04/06/07. Robert Cray opened, one of the best nights of my life!0
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missy elliot. run for cover mother fakka!
Oh and when I played in berlin I saw adam port and arena club. that was something else. i cant even explain it.0 -
Queens of the Stone Age in 2008. Here's a pretty decent video from the concert. I had a better view than that video, I was about 10-15 feet from the stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcCgHevElEY 0 -
The dead kennedys, the dead milkmen, blackflag, the pixies, the toadies
That's what's up!
Mine:
Morrissey '08
Dinosaur Jr. (Bug) '110 -
i really enjoyed audioslave in about 2003. mainly because chris cornell looks like a sexy gelfling, and i was about 3 metres away from the stage.
the big day out in ?2003 was great, too. early foo's, qotsa, deftones (when a man with blue hair and a blue goatee puked on my shoes). but the gigs were great.
more recently i thought NIN rocked- they were so good. i danced like a loon all night!0
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