Best concerts you've been to
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Clash of the Titans: Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Alice in Chains.
Although seeing Paul McCartney a few years back was pretty cool.
Although seeing Paul McCartney a few years back was pretty cool.
Deftones probably had the best live show. They were touring with Chevelle and some other similar bands in the early 2000s and came to my town. One of the mid card bands missed the venue so there was almost a set long wait for them to take the stage. They had a huge red flag/album cover/something as a backdrop and opened their show with the lights off. So good, and they aren't even one of my favorite studio bands.
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This may sound absurd (and it is not an accurate reflection of my musical tastes) but I have to mention Green Day.
Part of the live experience (or all of it) is the energy, and while I've been fortunate to see a few musical rock greats, I saw them, frankly, past their prime. For instance, seeing and hearing Tom Petty last year was just a little sad.
Anyway, back to Green Day. I saw them at AT&T park, right after, eh.... American Idiot had gone platinum or whatever, and they were just insane. Their music is always pretty basic power cords and typical 8 bar (or whatever it's called - I don't claim to be a musician) but they know what they're doing and they do it well, and that night, they had a little complement of a backup jazz quintet (saxaphones and such). The energy was amazing in that place, and their final 15 minute jam hurrah spun into We Are the Champions and then a final massive drum building guitar exploding finale that left everyone in the stadium and on the field cheering.
We were in the lower decks somewhere, but front row, so we were all hanging over the railing the entire show. Good times.
Part of the live experience (or all of it) is the energy, and while I've been fortunate to see a few musical rock greats, I saw them, frankly, past their prime. For instance, seeing and hearing Tom Petty last year was just a little sad.
Anyway, back to Green Day. I saw them at AT&T park, right after, eh.... American Idiot had gone platinum or whatever, and they were just insane. Their music is always pretty basic power cords and typical 8 bar (or whatever it's called - I don't claim to be a musician) but they know what they're doing and they do it well, and that night, they had a little complement of a backup jazz quintet (saxaphones and such). The energy was amazing in that place, and their final 15 minute jam hurrah spun into We Are the Champions and then a final massive drum building guitar exploding finale that left everyone in the stadium and on the field cheering.
We were in the lower decks somewhere, but front row, so we were all hanging over the railing the entire show. Good times.
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I could only imagine the mind shattering power of a Pink Floyd show in the 70s.
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Steven Wilson a couple years ago in a small club blew my mind. Also, Sigur Ros in Boston about ten years ago was mesmerizing.
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I've only been to 3 big name concerts. In order of mind blowing awesomeness, it would be
- AC-DC (at the Rogers Centre, 20 rows from the stage)
- Rush (Neil Peart blew my mind)
- Neil Young (he added guitar solos in almost every song)
- AC-DC (at the Rogers Centre, 20 rows from the stage)
- Rush (Neil Peart blew my mind)
- Neil Young (he added guitar solos in almost every song)
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Let me tell you, I saw them in 94' and they were mind blowing. First off, they sound live like they are in a studio. F'ing perfect in every way. The night I saw them was in Irving Texas in the old Texas Stadium which has a hole in the top of it and it has no retractable roof.
So check it out, let me set this up for you. That night in April it was flooding and the thunderstorms were extreme. It rained on the way to the concert that day and when we went inside to get our seats it stopped. The concert was going for a while, all mind blowing btw, the local news in Dallas filmed lasers shooting out of the top of the stadium from a distance of 10 miles.
And then shit got real.
It began to rain, like a monsoon, at the beginning of the song Comfortably Numb. The lasers are going off at an unbelievable rate and shooting out of the top of the stadium and everyone is looking up and you can see bolts of lightning shooting across the sky as the storm rages. The people on the floor are getting soaked beyond reason. But they don't care, something magical is going down with this concert and storm with an open top venue. Some sort of electronic controlled arm with a piece of clear plastic on it comes out from nowhere and puts the plastic over the top of David Gilmour to shield him and his guitar from the storm. He isn't missing a beat though and then he breaks into the longest most ridiculous shred of an extended solo of Comfortably Numb .......ever. The lightning is constant, the thunder is loud enough to hear over the amps, the rain is now building up inches deep on the floor of the stadium and nobody even gives a shit. Gilmour just kills it, studio quality, in a rain storm, like an axe master.
That was 22 years ago and I still remember it vividly. It imprinted itself on my psyche because I never before then of since saw anything like it.
This was live from the same tour I attended but a different venue.
Here is Run Like Hell performed on that tour but at a different venue. 1994.
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My first concert was Kiss and Aerosmith which was pretty awesome at 12 years old. Radiohead was the best band I've seen, as far as sound and playing goes. They sounded better than they do on any of the studio albums. Weezer was my most fun concert, I was up front with a bunch of my friends and the whole crowd was really into the show.
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Prince 2004 Musicology tour in Chicago. I've never seen anything like it. Purple streamers and Prince symbols all over in the parking lot. Walking in the door they handed everyone a copy of Musicology. The arena itself was draped in purple regalia and what really struck me was the pre show music was all Prince music. Who does that?
I was seated on the floor in a corner along the pathway he took to the stage. But he didn't climb a set of stairs to get up there. Most of the arena didn't see him walk in as the band was vamping on stage. He went under the stage and as the band crescendoed he shot up from underneath the stage on a riser right in front of his microphone. He fixed his hair...it was on.
The performance itself was mesmerizing. I've never seen a performer have an audience in the palm of their hand like he did. The energy level was through the roof the entire night.
Ministry at the 92 Lollapalooza stop in Chicago, Liquid Tension Experiment 2008 at Park West Chicago, John Paul Jones Zooma tour show 1999 at Park West, Phish 07/11/00 "moby dick show" at Deer Creek, Wayne Shorter at Symphony Center in Chicago in 2008 and John Lee Hooker in 98 at Fleahd Fest are all big stand outs.
Saw the 94 Pink Floyd show in Chicago as well and it was awesome.
I was seated on the floor in a corner along the pathway he took to the stage. But he didn't climb a set of stairs to get up there. Most of the arena didn't see him walk in as the band was vamping on stage. He went under the stage and as the band crescendoed he shot up from underneath the stage on a riser right in front of his microphone. He fixed his hair...it was on.
The performance itself was mesmerizing. I've never seen a performer have an audience in the palm of their hand like he did. The energy level was through the roof the entire night.
Ministry at the 92 Lollapalooza stop in Chicago, Liquid Tension Experiment 2008 at Park West Chicago, John Paul Jones Zooma tour show 1999 at Park West, Phish 07/11/00 "moby dick show" at Deer Creek, Wayne Shorter at Symphony Center in Chicago in 2008 and John Lee Hooker in 98 at Fleahd Fest are all big stand outs.
Saw the 94 Pink Floyd show in Chicago as well and it was awesome.
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I agree, I saw them co-headline with Blink 182 ..in 02? While they were supporting International Super Hits...so no new songs or filler just straight fire for just over an hour. Needless to say they blew Blink off the stage that night
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Let me tell you, I saw them in 94' and they were mind blowing. First off, they sound live like they are in a studio. F'ing perfect in every way. The night I saw them was in Irving Texas in the old Texas Stadium which has a hole in the top of it and it has no retractable roof.
So check it out, let me set this up for you. That night in April it was flooding and the thunderstorms were extreme. It rained on the way to the concert that day and when we went inside to get our seats it stopped. The concert was going for a while, all mind blowing btw, the local news in Dallas filmed lasers shooting out of the top of the stadium from a distance of 10 miles.
And then shit got real.
It began to rain, like a monsoon, at the beginning of the song Comfortably Numb. The lasers are going off at an unbelievable rate and shooting out of the top of the stadium and everyone is looking up and you can see bolts of lightning shooting across the sky as the storm rages. The people on the floor are getting soaked beyond reason. But they don't care, something magical is going down with this concert and storm with an open top venue. Some sort of electronic controlled arm with a piece of clear plastic on it comes out from nowhere and puts the plastic over the top of David Gilmour to shield him and his guitar from the storm. He isn't missing a beat though and then he breaks into the longest most ridiculous shred of an extended solo of Comfortably Numb .......ever. The lightning is constant, the thunder is loud enough to hear over the amps, the rain is now building up inches deep on the floor of the stadium and nobody even gives a shit. Gilmour just kills it, studio quality, in a rain storm, like an axe master.
That was 22 years ago and I still remember it vividly. It imprinted itself on my psyche because I never before then of since saw anything like it.
This was live from the same tour I attended but a different venue.
Here is Run Like Hell performed on that tour but at a different venue. 1994.
That was a fucking epic retelling. I've watched several concerts of theirs on television and I agree, they are every bit as intense and majestic as their album recordings and beyond.
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I've seen Aerosmith. Joe Perry is just a phenomenal, old school guitarist. At one point he broke out a tabletop 9 string and just went off for 5-10 minutes.
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Saw Porcupine Tree when they were touring for The Incident. Such a great show, Steven Wilson is the man.
I saw Wilco at the Red Rocks Ampitheatre outside of Denver last summer, everything about it was incredible. Definitely the coolest venue I have ever been to.
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One more, check this out. Same tour, 1994. Floyd was still a force of nature man.
This is "One of These Days" and at first your like ok how long is this bass intro but at the 4 minute mark they just cut lose and then the giant demonic pigs come out. David Gilmour on slide for this song.
