BEST concerts you've ever been to?

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  • Banrion
    Banrion Posts: 157 Member
    Dolly Parton, not a huge country fan, but the drag queens I was sitting next to did teach me some new make-up tips!!

    Keith Urban @ ASU Convo= cowboys butts make me nutts!!
  • Kate6868
    Kate6868 Posts: 159 Member
    Alice in Chains in the early 90s.
  • Kate6868
    Kate6868 Posts: 159 Member
    Dolly Parton, not a huge country fan, but the drag queens I was sitting next to did teach me some new make-up tips!!

    LMAO!!!
  • NiciS72
    NiciS72 Posts: 1,043 Member
    Ozzie Osbourne's No More Tours Tour in 1993 (yes I'm dating myself)
    Bon Jove last summer
    Chris Cornell in 1998
  • medoria
    medoria Posts: 673 Member
    Tarrus Riley has been excellent both of the times Ive seen him
    Also saw Mr Vegas a month back, he was a great performer.
    And Busy Signal has been great everytime Ive seen him.
  • c2sky
    c2sky Posts: 487 Member
    Paul McCartney American tour last summer. He only played in 10 cities. And since my daughter knew he would be in town when I was planning on visiting her, she surprised my with floor seats to his concert for my birthday.

    Without a doubt the best concert ever. Not only did he sing as many crowd pleasing classics as possible, but his new stuff was out of this world fabulous!! And the guy may be getting up there in years, but he went 3 and 1/2 straight hours with not one break! He was bouncing off the piano, playing the acoustic guitar, and his voice sounded as fresh as it ever has. He announced that night was his 200th performance with his current band.

    I was delightedly BLOWN AWAY!
  • poseidon9447
    poseidon9447 Posts: 104
    Between 1994 and 1998 I averaged about 3 concerts a week. I saw so many great bands. The concert I enjoyed the most was Pink Floyd in Toronto in 1994. There is no Band that puts on a show like that, The DVD of the show is not the same.
  • reedee94
    reedee94 Posts: 25 Member
    Queen live at Wembley - long ago and even longer ago Thin Lizzy.
  • vanessaclarkgbr
    vanessaclarkgbr Posts: 731 Member
    Queen live at Wembley - long ago and even longer ago Thin Lizzy.

    We saw the newer Thin Lizzy at High Voltage this year - they were great! Would have love to have seen Queen too..
  • johnwhitent
    johnwhitent Posts: 648 Member
    Ok I have to show my age here. #1 Led Zepplin #2 Steppenwolf Both in country music capitol Nashville TN in 1969 (I think!)

    To the guy who wrote that no one puts on a show like Pink Floyd, agreed they are fantastic, but Zepp set the unbroken standard for all ages! This concert was between their 2nd and 3rd albums and they were already playing stuff that was to be on 4.
  • unsuspectingfish
    unsuspectingfish Posts: 1,176 Member
    Hands down, it's Roger Waters performing The Wall live at the Tacoma Dome.
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
    Tarrus Riley has been excellent both of the times Ive seen him
    Also saw Mr Vegas a month back, he was a great performer.
    And Busy Signal has been great everytime Ive seen him.


    AHHHH! alll of these people are on my list!!! Serani was in new orleans a few months back but it was after i moved :( same with Red Rat :(:( i'd love to see Beres Hammond as well!
  • suzie52
    suzie52 Posts: 27 Member
    Nickleback and Shine Down !!!!! it was soo good !!! i wish they would come back soon !!!
  • christine24t
    christine24t Posts: 6,063 Member
    Nsync, Maroon 5, and Blake Shelton.
  • whatwentwrong
    whatwentwrong Posts: 228
    i've been to see like, 2 bands (mellowdrone and the paper chase), but the paper chase was AMAZING holy crap :D
  • sherismb
    sherismb Posts: 120 Member
    Sade in Toronto this year.
  • Silverkittycat
    Silverkittycat Posts: 1,997 Member
    The 2nd Lollapalooza - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush, Jim Rose Circus, Porno for Pyros, Basehead, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Seaweed, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., Stone Temple Pilots, The Vulgar Boatmen, Rage Against the Machine + many more............

    1992 in Orlando, FL... during an evacuation of the state for Hurricane Andrew, Eddie Vedder climbing to the top of the scaffolding......and the best part? It was the first time I saw Lush. :love:
  • avalonms
    avalonms Posts: 2,468 Member
    My problem is not that I am not old enough to remember the band Triumph, but that I am not old enough to have forgotten.

    Best Concerts:

    Neil Young w/ Sonic Youth and Social Distortion (early 90s)
    U2 on the War Tour (about 1983-4)
    NIN, 1994
    Drive By Trucker anytime, everytime
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    OzzFest 2000...the only time I've ever seen Pantera live...totally awesome!
  • boomboom011
    boomboom011 Posts: 1,459
    MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice. Uh oh uh oh.
  • Kaycurrier
    Kaycurrier Posts: 231
    I can tell you the best concert I never got to go to. Cruefest 2009, landed on my due date I wanted to go anyways but hubby put the foot down and said that it was not safe and he was right, it probobly wasn't
  • BeckyV73
    BeckyV73 Posts: 69 Member
    Beastie Boys in 1987 (first concert), Prince in 2004 or Dave Matthews Band in 2003!!
  • SLaw4215
    SLaw4215 Posts: 596 Member
    The 2010 Bayou Country Superfest at Louisiana State University- LSU Tiger Stadium. There were too many performers to list individually but the highlights were Brooks' and Dunn's as one of the last stops on their farewell tour. Then Kenny Chesney closed the show. The concert sold out at 80,000 tickets for the two days. My best friend and I flew from MA for the concert and spent a few days sight seeing at New Orleans. We got our first tattoos at the Deja Vu Tattoo Parlor... If you like country music, I totally recommend you check it out the May 2012 show. I hope to be there :)
  • audram420
    audram420 Posts: 838 Member
    Godsmack: seen them 4 times and LOVE them. RHCP and Foo Fighters ROCKED ... forgot what year, but I was in college and was like soooo close to the stage. A complete stranger let me sit on his shoulders through almost all of the concert.
  • loristroud
    loristroud Posts: 138 Member
    Green Day 2010, just because it has been my life goal to see them live and it was SO perfect. But I went to a Papa Roach concert recently and was up front and man it was pretty awesome.
  • brianward81
    brianward81 Posts: 217 Member
    Muse 2007 and Muse 2010 - The perfect live band. Awesome music with some great additions to the endings of songs (Rage Against The Machine Riff here, a Nirvana riff there, random b-side riff...), fantastic light/video shows that go along with the music, engaging band members, HUGE floating balls of confetti thrown into the crowds, etc... just awesome awesome stuff.

    Shihad - A band from New Zealand full of the rock. Every Shihad show is one of the best concerts I've been to. I'm up to about 9 now. Check them out, meow!

    Pearl Jam ~ 1997 - There was a tour announced for Australia and as is the case many a time, no Perth show. The city collected a massive amount of petition signatures (old school style, internet was not popular enough back then. Signatures were signed at music shops across the city for months in the lead up to their arrival in Australia). Pearl Jam caught wind of the petition and ensured they squeezed a show in for us. They didn't dissapoint; Nearly 3 hours of music played for us in Perth, West Australia. The whole experience from not believing they'd come, having the petition work, 3 hours of everything you wanted them to play and more. Good times.

    And Foo Fighters ~ 2006 I think - They played Belvoir Amphitheatre, this amazing outdoor venue where no matter where you sit/stand you have a great view of the band. Was such an intimate, in your face show and Dave still mentions it every time they play in Perth. Seeing them again in November and can not wait. Wasting Light live is going to be a big thing for me, it's been a rough year and its been the album in my head through all the bad.
  • brianward81
    brianward81 Posts: 217 Member
    The 2nd Lollapalooza - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush, Jim Rose Circus, Porno for Pyros, Basehead, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Seaweed, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., Stone Temple Pilots, The Vulgar Boatmen, Rage Against the Machine + many more............

    Oh man, that would've been awesome!
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
    The 2010 Bayou Country Superfest at Louisiana State University- LSU Tiger Stadium. There were too many performers to list individually but the highlights were Brooks' and Dunn's as one of the last stops on their farewell tour. Then Kenny Chesney closed the show. The concert sold out at 80,000 tickets for the two days. My best friend and I flew from MA for the concert and spent a few days sight seeing at New Orleans. We got our first tattoos at the Deja Vu Tattoo Parlor... If you like country music, I totally recommend you check it out the May 2012 show. I hope to be there :)

    awww i graduated from lsu, wyclef jean performed one year and i comPLETELY missed it :(:(
    new orleans has some of the best concerts, especially at the house of blues where it's a bit more exclusive and intimate. musiq was there and was amazing :)
  • HannahPastoor
    HannahPastoor Posts: 303
    1999 DC Talk SuperNatural Tour in Orlando!!!
    #tnuffsaid!


    I love DC Talk!
  • obstacleone
    obstacleone Posts: 228
    Best concert? That would have to be this year's coachella.
    On the Friday I checked out The Rural Alberta Advantage, !!!, Odd Future Wolfgang Kill Them All, Lauryn Hill, Interpol, The Black Keys. I left before Kings of Leon.
    On the Saturday I checked out Gogol Bordello, Eryka Badu, Broken Social Scene, One Day as a Lion, Mumford and Sons, and left before arcade Fire.
    On the Sunday I checked out CSS Nas and Damien Marley Death from Above 1979 The national Chromeo and The Strokes and left before Kanye.

    I got tickets for next year already and I have no idea who's performing. Such a great time. I highly recommend it to everyone.
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