Best concert you've ever been to

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  • Micksgurl
    Micksgurl Posts: 84
    Summer of 1982 at Busch Stadium...Super Jam

    REO Speedwagon
    38 Special
    707
    Loverboy
    Shooting Star
  • kym117
    kym117 Posts: 315 Member
    Really difficult question but I think it has to be Rob Zombie I missed him the last time he was in the UK and waited 13 years for his return last year and seen him twice!(even met & go autograph)
    Off to see Tenacious D tonight though looking forward to seeing them again!
  • GZinSea
    GZinSea Posts: 50 Member
    Elliott Smith at the Showbox in Seattle
  • kikilieb
    kikilieb Posts: 118 Member
    bob dylan circa 1999 at the spectrum in philly
    phil lesh circa 1999 at some outdoor venue in maryland (forgot where)
    csny 2000 at comcast center in philly --- NEIL YOUNG ROCKED!!!!
    pearl jam 2006 at the tweeter center in camden
    ozz fest 2006 at the tweeter center in camden --- line up included disturbed, lacuna coil, soad & black sabbath --- awesome, AWESOME day and night (i think we were there for 12 hours that day)
  • melbaby925
    melbaby925 Posts: 613
    Wow - trying to decide is actually hurting my head. I think I can pick a top 5:

    - Metallica/G N R in 92

    - Pearl Jam circa 91 (can't remember)

    - Van Halen around 84

    - Slash with Myles Kennedy about 2 weeks ago

    - Shinedown in PHX in '10; and again on the acoustic tour in NOLA in '10 (buying tix Friday to see them in ABQ this year!)

    - Avenged Sevenfold, Seether, 3DG, Sevendust in '11

    But jeez...the Eagles were great, I love Lyle Lovett live (right?!), Ray Charles was great, Motley Crue, Ratt, Cinderella were all good, Dave Matthews rocks...and Beth Hart is absolutely amazing live. So so many wonderful shows.
  • willy0524
    willy0524 Posts: 1,897
    Old guy alert!

    I've been to hundreds of concerts but this gets the nod...

    Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band at the CNE Grandstand in Toronto August 1978.

    Pearl Jam was the last show I saw in Toronto before moving to the UK and they were excellent. They're headlining the Isle of Wight Festival (Saturday night) and I'm hoping I can find the cash for a ticket.

    Old Lady Alert!

    The Doobie Brothers, in 1977, without Michael McDonald......................when they did "Black Water", and mentioned our town (Duluth MN), the crowd went wild..............I was pregnant with my first child, and DID resist the doobie that floated by me a few times :wink: :wink:

    Also enjoyed Seals & Croft at about the same time.................they were into their Bahá'í faith stage, though, and were a little too preachy, but GOOD music!


    Another Old Guy Alert!!

    Yardbirds 1967 Umass Cage, were backup band for the Association......Jeff Beck and some guy named Jimmy Page

    Jethro Tull
    Frank Zappa..have to say one of the best guitar player's I've seen
    The Who
    Pink Floyd the wall Long Island, wtf that was a long time ago.
  • rammsteinsoldier
    rammsteinsoldier Posts: 1,552 Member
    Rammstein live at Madison Square Garden and again in Denver.
  • Matthew West. I cried because his music is about real life people and I could connect my life to it.
  • cdngirl71
    cdngirl71 Posts: 2,641 Member
    Mine was Motley Crue's Girls Girls Girls tour in 1987!! Fantastic show!! Def Leppard's Hysteria Tour in 1988 was awesome too!!
  • Kupe
    Kupe Posts: 758 Member
    Metallica - Melbourne, Australia 2010
  • TubbsMcGee
    TubbsMcGee Posts: 1,058 Member
    Elliott Smith at the Showbox in Seattle

    :heart: !!!!!

    Strange, as I've been listening to his songs all morning.

    Total opposite spectrum of music, but the best show I've been to was MSI at a small club, maybe 100 fans at the venue. More personable that way, and I got to touch Urine's shoe :D
  • sillygoose1977
    sillygoose1977 Posts: 2,151 Member
    Michael Franti and Spearhead was absolutely incredible! He was so interactive and in the audience a lot and so much fun. Crazy fun hippy party.

    I just saw him on Friday and it was probably the most fun I've ever had at a show. Dispatch at Red Rocks last summer is definitely in my top 5. Also Willie Nelson the many times I've seen him.

    <---pic from Michael Franti at Red Rocks
  • Michael Buble! He puts on an awesome show
  • laurenbausch
    laurenbausch Posts: 146
    July 12th, 2003 - Summer Sanitarium Tour at Veterans Stadium (RIP) in Philadelphia

    >Metallica
    >Limp Bizkit
    >Linkin Park
    >Deftones
    >Mudvayne
    I LOVE Deftones!!!!
    So green with envy!!!

    It was a fantastic show! Metallica put on an amazing show but between Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, i don't know who put on the absolute best show of all bands. A great night for sure.
  • WOULD HAVE TO BE BETWEEN

    SHINEDOWN AND RED
    OR
    KISS AND SKIDROW

    ALTHOUGH IF YOURE A TESLA FAN. THEY ARE INCREDIBLE IN CONCERT!!!
  • KCoolBeanz
    KCoolBeanz Posts: 813 Member
    Rammstein! They were in my neck of the woods about a month ago, and it was insane. Tickets are pricey, but 100% worth it - I'd see them again any day.

    Honorable mentions go to: Alice in Chains, Rise Against, and Volbeat. :-)
  • brittigno
    brittigno Posts: 193 Member
    I won concert tickets to a Taylor Swift concert last September. Got pit passes. I was RIGHTTHERE by the stage.
    Ugh. It was so freakin' awesome. I had post-concert depression for like a month after that.

    Also Flight 206 with Fall Out Boy. You could only win passes and I won them 3 days after my 18th birthday. It was great, except that Chicago had a major snowstorm and the concert was delayed a good 3 hours. Last time I saw them live before they went on "hiatus." :sad:
  • saw Nickelback live for their Dark Horse tour back in 2010!! i vowed i would see them again but i am missing out this year as the Netherlands gig was sold out within 30 mins of going on general sale :S
  • Charloo1990
    Charloo1990 Posts: 619 Member
    Christina Aguilera - Stripped tour. My god, her voice is amazing.
  • jazzedorange
    jazzedorange Posts: 184 Member
    Areosmith
  • gombolyu
    gombolyu Posts: 136 Member
    Jovanotti - on Sziget in 2006
  • Elzecat
    Elzecat Posts: 2,916 Member
    WOULD HAVE TO BE BETWEEN

    SHINEDOWN AND RED
    OR
    KISS AND SKIDROW

    ALTHOUGH IF YOURE A TESLA FAN. THEY ARE INCREDIBLE IN CONCERT!!!

    I'm seeing Scorpions and Tesla tonight at Red Rocks, WOOHOO!!!
  • 75Juniper
    75Juniper Posts: 376
    Flyleaf!
  • mommasox
    mommasox Posts: 97 Member
    AC/DC!
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
    Mumford and Sons or the Decemberists. I can never decide.
  • VeganPanda
    VeganPanda Posts: 582 Member
    Metallica by far.

    In a distant second is Bruce Springsteen.

    :)
  • NYCDutchess
    NYCDutchess Posts: 622 Member
    DIVA Concert
    Missy Elliot
    Beyonce
    Alycia Keys!!!
  • Elton John.
    My best friend took me and we had awesome seats. I could see the patterns stitched into his shoes, we were so close.
  • embersfallen
    embersfallen Posts: 534 Member
    I can't narrow it down to one ;)

    Muse, Foo Fighters, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Myriad, and the Smashing Pumpkins were all incredible!

    Some of my favorite musicians though... ones I have seen multiple concerts of, and will ALWAYS jump at the chance to see: 30 seconds To Mars, OURS/Jimmy Gnecco, Lovedrug, The Violet Burning..... EVERY concert by any of them has been amazing..... Also a musician who has not been out there for awhile but is currently recording... Brian McSweeney formerly of the bands Matthew and Seven Day Jesus. One of my favorite voices, from way back.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Been to almost 800 concerts in my life. There are many that were great for different reasons.

    Biggest event -- California Jam (1974) or ZZ Top, Rory Gallagher, Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Rick Derringer, Ted Nugent (Together in 1976)

    Best overall -- Steve Miller (2010)

    Best Road Trip for a concert -- BOC, Sammy Hagar, CCRevisited, El Tri (approx 2005)

    Very first Concert - BB King w/ Janis Joplin (late 60's)