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Subject: Favorite Concerts
Posted by: Texas Flood
- [326462912] Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 15:32
I've seen so many over the past 25-30 years. Everything from Kodo (a Japanese taiko group), Pink Floyd, Buddy Guy, Garth Brooks, Chuck Barry and Van Cliburn (I love all types of great music).
Last Sunday night I went to VanAndel Arena in Grand Rapids Michigan to see Sting. I wasn't really expecting anything fantastic but I was stunned by the excellence of this show.
He stepped back to his roots and just rocked for two hours with no break. He belted out most of the great Police tunes along with his solo hits and he even coverd the Beatles "A day in the Life". No easy task with a four piece band. He did two 15-20 minute encore's and left the crowd wanting more. It was truly an amazing show. If you're even a casual Sting fan it's a must see show. |
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| 58 | MIkel
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Fri, May 05, 2006, 16:25
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Don't laugh...I saw Guster a few weeks ago, very good show. Played a nice long set and sounded good.
Their opener was a guy named Andrew Bird, That guy was pretty sweet. Never heard of him untill the show. Would love to check him out at a smaller venue though. He could play the Violin while singing. He also played the guitar, and is a professional whistler.
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| 59 | gibby88
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Sat, May 06, 2006, 09:27
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J:
LIVE is on my list of must sees! Looks like they are mainly swinging thru Europe this Summer...then maybe the US.
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| 60 | The Beezer
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Sat, May 06, 2006, 10:16
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J:
It's a shame you missed NIN at the Tabernacle last year. Some friends of mine and I saw it and it was a perfect mix of venue and performance - that place is just beautiful.
MIkel:
Andrew Bird was in one of my other favorite concerts, back when he played in a group called the Squirrel Nut Zippers. I saw them in '99 in Cary, NC, in a small club and I just can't even describe how good it was.
These two would be 1 and 1A on my list. You just can't beat the smaller venues for memorable performances IMO.
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| 61 | J
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Sat, May 06, 2006, 12:09
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I saw the squirrel nut zippers in the late 90's at some festival type show with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Neil Young, strange mix! I think it was called the Horde Festival?
Anyways I think they had 1 popular song? Never really liked them though.
I remember a few years ago Live and the Counting Crows had a show in Pelham, Alabama. I was going with a few friends and one of my female friends had a boyfriend no one liked. Dude took FOREVER to get ready and we got there in time to hear maybe 2 Live songs. I was so pissed...in a related story, I probably had 10 beers in about an hour when we got there :)
I've seen Live before though, but i definitely want to see them again if I can!
I just saw Candlebox is coming to Atlanta in August. I didn't know they were still around!
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| 62 | Texas Flood
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Fri, Jul 21, 2006, 10:19
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I just saw Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) he was backed up by a great band, and local symphony. He did all the Tull classics as well as some newer stuff. He had a teriffic young violin player in his band. She stole the show with a couple of fantastic solo's. Several standing ovations.
Great venue at the Interlochen Arts Academy right in our own back yard!
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| 63 | J
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Fri, Jul 21, 2006, 11:02
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I saw Butch Walker and Yellowcard this week (2 separate shows)
Yellowcard was absolutely amazing! That crazy asian dude with the violin is great!
Butch Walker was good (first night of his tour) but he didn't play enough of his old stuff.
Next Sunday I'm going to see Korn, Deftones, Flyleaf and a bunch others at HiFiBuys...tickets are just $9.99 for some reason. (plus $7.35 from ticketmasterbater)
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| 64 | Aman
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Mon, Aug 21, 2006, 16:29
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I went to see Eric Clapton last year. The opening band was Robert Randolph and the Family band. The guy played a lap steel guitar and blew the audience away. He got a standing O and I swore that if he ever came back through here, I would go see him again. If you get a chance to see him, you won't be disappointed.
Another guy that blew me away was David Crowder. He's a christian artist but he had everyone in the venue standing the whole show. If that genre is your bag, I would highly recommend seeing him.
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| 65 | blue hen
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Mon, Aug 21, 2006, 17:55
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Jethro Tull seems like it'd be fun.
Oh and I have a few changes to my PJ list above...
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| 66 | TB
Sherpa
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Sat, Sep 16, 2006, 15:11
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I saw Tool last night in Kansas City. They put on a pretty good show. They didn't play anything from Undertow, but I guess that album is over 10 years old so it probably isn't what the younger fan base was looking for.
I saw Journey and Def Leppard a couple weeks ago too. What a great concert. I really didn't remember Journey being such "rockers" and Def Leppard still kicks butt. They played several songs from High 'n' Dry which was a nice surprise. They announced a new album and played a couple songs from it. Their version of David Essex's Rock On was great. I felt like I was back in the 80's, rocking out (yeah, I know that song is from the 70's).
Prettiest girl I ever seen -
See her shake on the movie screen.
Jimmie Dean...
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| 67 | Texas Flood
ID: 8762917
Sat, Sep 16, 2006, 17:55
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James Dean, Rock On!
just had to finish that:).
Sounds like a fun show.
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| 68 | TB
Sherpa
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Sun, Sep 17, 2006, 00:32
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It was a great show. I'd forgotten how much fun concerts can be. It's been years since I've seen Aerosmith and they are coming to town Oct 17th with Motley Crue so that one is inked in. I think I have let my kid talk me into Godsmack and Zombie for next week as well.
Leppard has sample tracks on their web page. Check out Rock on. It was great live.
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| 69 | TB
Sherpa
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Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 02:23
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Just for you TF: Rock On
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| 70 | chode
ID: 15542131
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 02:30
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I happened to be in Gruene, TX a few weekends back to see Robert Earl Keen at Gruene Hall. Great show.
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| 71 | The Treasonists
Donor
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Tue, Oct 03, 2006, 17:02
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Probably The Who, circa 1976. It was the first event in the Pontiac Silverdome. Got there late, slithered up as far as the 6th row center. Pretty sure Keith Moon played. Opening band played Reggae. May have been Bob Marley. Got booed a lot. People wanted to see the Who, not that. Cost: $6 or $7.
Worst show, Alice Cooper...Welcome to my nightmare tour...Toledo Sports Arena circa 1978. They played about 3 songs and then left because someone was throwing firecrackers and supposedly one blew up a light bulb and it went in the drummer's eye. So we got to listen to the opening band some more and they played a 30 minute rendition of "Smoking in the Boys Room. "
Cost: about $7
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| 72 | Great One
ID: 56438112
Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 11:15
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Springsteen at the Meadowlands on Sunday night... now I've been to a lot of shows in my time, and am not a huge Bruce fan.
Best show I've ever been to.
And the man played for nearly FOUR HOURS!
Absolutely incredible, electric atmosphere with people just losing their minds dancing and the energy of the E Street band was rocking and rolling the entire night.
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| 73 | Senator Urine
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Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 16:15
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Best: The Smashing Pumpkins. Saw them four times, twice on the Machina tour and twice on the Zeitgeist tour. The Machina setlists were probably better, but I don't think anything will compare to the experience of when I saw them in Vancouver on the Zeitgeist tour. I waited outside all day to make sure I was front row and center up against the stage, it was the most out of control show I've ever been to.
Corgan is the greatest live performer of all time. A lot of people hate them live because they don't stick to imitating the album. You can expect 4 minute songs to turn into 2 minutes because they're blowing through them so fast screaming, and also 8 minute songs to turn into 40 minute epics.
2nd best: The Twilight Singers, fall of 2006 in Philly. Greg Dulli is amazing, I'd give anything to see The Afghan Whigs.
3rd best: Burning Brides, summer of 2004 in Philly. I've seen them 4 times now, but that first show is still my favorite. Amazing rock band out of Philly, they should be selling out stadiums.
I'm surprised at all the negative Jimmy Eat World posts. I saw them four times back in college and they had a ton of energy. I saw them at Lupos in Rhode Island back in the fall of 2001 and it was one of the best shows I'd seen.
Worst: Maybe Weezer? Saw them in Maine back during the green album tour, just completely lifeless. Jimmy Eat World blew them off the stage.
Maybe Tool back on the Lateralus tour in MA, not because of the band, but because the crowd was so terrible. I've never seen a more lifeless crowd. Everyone just sat there.
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| 74 | Great One
ID: 56438112
Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 16:19
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I really enjoyed the Jimmy Eat World show I saw earlier this year as well.
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| 75 | blue hen
ID: 30311814
Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 16:20
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I saw Third Eye Blind a couple months ago. Man are they old.
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| 76 | Razor
ID: 545172413
Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 17:06
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I saw Jimmy Eat World a few years ago and that it was one of thw rost, most uninspired performances I had ever seen. Thank God I didn't actually pay to see them - Muse, Keane and Velvet Revolver were also there.
Top 5 concerts:
- Pearl Jam in Philips Arena in the last row in 2001
- Tool at Bonnaroo in 2007
- Nine Inch Nails at Tabernacle in 2006
- Smashing Pumpkins at Tabernacle in 2000
- Rage Against the Machine on the floor at Philips Arena in 1999
The Tabernacle is a very small venue for a band of NIN or Smashing Pumpkins' stature to play, which is why both concerts were epic.
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| 77 | Kyle
Donor
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Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 17:15
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Going to Lollapalooza this weekend, I should have a report on the bands I saw there.
Bands I know I am going to see:
Radiohead, The Raconteurs, Louis XIV, Noah and the Whale, RATM, Toadies, Lupe Fiasco, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Kayne West, Gnarls Barkley, and The Weakerthans.
Best show I've see was the 2007 Dave Matthews Band show in Noblesville, IN. Both nights just came with every favorite I wanted to hear. I've been to 5 DMB shows but this was by far the most energetic, electric show I had been to.
Worst: G Love and Special Sauce opened for DMB that year and they were just terrible. They are going to be at Lolla and I'm going to avoid that stage like the plague. They were absolutely dreadful. For a jam band to be repetitive and have no solos is bad. To be able to sing the lyrics to one song over every single one of your songs is worse. To be able to sing one line from a song over all of your songs is the epitome to terrible.
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| 78 | Great One
ID: 56438112
Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 10:43
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as part of the Bamboozle festival, I saw Snoop Dog this year too! though I don't understand why anyone pays money to see a rap concert. its just glorified karaoke lol...
Well let me expound on why Springsteen was so great there as well. Now its the Meadowlands... so we are talking 60,000 and thats usually a kind of distant, apathetic show to me in such a large place and I've experienced that there before. It is what it is.
But Bruce just owned it, working every inch of that stadium with sing alongs, covers (Summertime Blues!) extended jams and guitar solos and solos for all the E Street band... right down to taking signs out of the crowd and playing requests! he was taking requests folks... and I'm not talking "oh this kid has a sign with Thunder Road, so let me pretend this is a request and then we'll play it... but we planned to play it all along routine" --- nope. he was playing obscure requests spontaneously that weren't neccessarily hits or singles etc. "god we haven't played this in 15 years... the last time we played this, you weren't even born!"
Thats just one example of how they made it feel like you were seeing him at some local bar with 20 friends on a Friday night.
And the length of time was jamband-esque... went on around 8:30 and 30 SONGS later was rocking "Rosalita" after midnight.
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| 79 | Great One
ID: 56438112
Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 10:47
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And I guess the opposite of Kyle wanting to hear all the hits at DMB -- of those 30 songs... they DIDN'T play the following Sunday -- Thunder Road, Glory Days, The River (and frankly I would have loved Hungry Heart, My Hometown and Jersey Girl Tom Waits cover he does sometimes). And he NEVER plays Born in the USA for those of you who aren't that familiar... so obviously didn't do that song.
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| 80 | JeffG
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Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 10:56
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I was at Sunday's Springsteen concert as well at the Meadowlands. Set List. I've seen his NY area stops for each of his tours going on 30 years now (first time saw him live was in my teens in 1980). His shows are still as intense and powerful now as they were then. Everyone from the floor to the nose bleads are standing for practically the entire concert, and you walk out of the venue as drained of energy as he and the band must be. The taking request bit was awesome, from the link you will see that his actual set list and the hand written one vary for both Giants Stadium shows.
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| 81 | JeffG
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Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 11:01
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Great One [78] - There are so many classics in the Springsteen library, you can take any show and list at least a half-dozen songs you are disappointed about not hearing, but he played 30 songs over 3 1/2 hours. Other than a few blocks of songs he is playing on tour, his set list varies pretty widely from show to show as you can see in the link in [79]. Most of the songs you mentioned are getting rotation time in this tour.
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| 82 | chode
ID: 196471617
Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 11:28
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Re: 73 - I saw The Afghan Whigs at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC in the Fall of 1993. Very good.
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| 83 | Great One
ID: 56438112
Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 12:16
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I'm not really too disappointed he didn't play any of them cause I knew he couldn't really do all of them and was gonna plug them in for the next night... gotta mix it up each night. Whats amazing is he did 29? songs the next day with less than half of those being repeats. Thats pretty incredible too.
This does leave me wondering... will tonights final show be 50 songs over 6 hours?! lol...
You are right about the exhaustion level... I was physically and mentally drained. And I've been to tons of live shows - jam bands, mosh pits, punk shows, hardcore... and I've been wiped out there before too, but its usually from moshing and half paying attention to the show. This was from direct involvement with the show, song after song.
Holy crap - that reminds me... feeling the concrete upperdeck MOVING up and down was a bit unnerving and not something I've felt there before. So if that gives an idea of how people were just losing their minds dancing and singing, there ya go.
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| 84 | blue hen
ID: 86502521
Fri, Aug 01, 2008, 00:43
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I saw Missy Higgins tonight. Really.
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| 85 | Addicted
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Fri, Aug 01, 2008, 05:46
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I love the reviews of the Springteen concerts.
Here's another take on them (with pictures).
Madrid Concert
--Addicted--
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| 86 | Great One
ID: 56438112
Fri, Aug 01, 2008, 09:11
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thats awesome... these lines summarized my experience (and I love that he mixed in La Bamba when playing in a spanish speaking country lol...)
Three hours of pure rock, with the Boss giving it all until the end, when he sung a 10-minute version of Twist And Shout, mixed with—get this—La Bamba. Not a single pause. Just music, heart and soul. I just couldn't believe this guy is almost as old as my dad. Forget Mick Jagger. Forget bloody Bono. He is the greatest rock musician alive, a true force of nature.
And I'm not even—or was not, until this day—a fan. The whole thing was totally unexpected for me.
During the whole concert, the entire stadium was under his command, jumping, singing, waving, screaming, completely in ecstasy, electrified, everyone sweating under the hot Spanish summer night. He and the band were enjoying the whole thing to no end. You could see them laughing, looking at us with real surprise in their faces, as if they weren't believing that this huge stadium just couldn't stop singing and jumping through every single one of the songs they played.
They were giving all their life away right there, and the public was returning it right back. With interest. Each of us. Mass hysteria. Crowd orgasm. Total love and dedication from Bruce, the band, and the public.
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| 87 | blue hen
ID: 30311814
Fri, Aug 01, 2008, 11:08
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Bon Jovi sang Twist and Shout the other day in Central Park.
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| 88 | Great One
ID: 56438112
Fri, Aug 01, 2008, 11:18
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Yeah, I think Jovi did that when I saw him in Greenville, SC a few years back. They've both been covering it for a while for whatever reason.
I just noticed an interesting potential show is on the horizon for a band I've never seen...
The Who
@The Borgata
on Halloween
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| 89 | blue hen
ID: 30311814
Fri, Aug 01, 2008, 12:03
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That's a decent one. Or Eddie Vedder playing up at 175th next week...
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| 90 | Great One
ID: 56438112
Fri, Aug 01, 2008, 12:09
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Does the Borgata have a large indoor concert facility or will this be on that outdoor stage I saw set up last time I was there? I'd imagine its too small for the theater I once went to.
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| 91 | TB
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Sat, Aug 02, 2008, 20:27
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I've been to quite a few concerts since the last time I posted in here. Lots of my old-time favs and plenty of newer bands. Saw Judas Priest yesterday with Jackyl and Drowning Pool. I never saw Priest live before and they were one of my favorite metal bands back when I was in high school. I'm glad I finally got the chance to see them. Rob Halford still has an amazing voice. I've seen Drowning Pool their last three trips to KC and they delivered every time.
Saw Ted Nugent just a few weeks ago. Uncle Ted still rocks. Saw Van Halen with Diamond Dave a while back. Not quite what they used to be, but was still great seeing them together on stage again. Saw Sammy Hagar a week after I saw VH and Sammy still rocks his butt off. Probably one of the better concerts I saw all summer.
Caught Def Leppard again, Motley Crue, Aerosmith (always a great show), Styx, Rush, Foreigner (only one original member but they sounded great), Poison (never cared for them and their songs still have lame lyrics but was a good concert), Ratt (my new worst band ever seen live), STP (have to agree with all the comments from above...great performance), Shinedown, BuckCherry, Saving Abel, Trapt, Black Stone Cherry, Chevelle, Saliva (a couple times...really enjoy them live), 10 Years, Sevendust, Puddle of Mudd, Three Days Grace, Godsmack, Tesla (these guys sound the same as they did way back when, love 'em), The Cult (okay performance, fantastic sound), Stone Sour, and several others I'm probably forgeting at the moment.
Some great rock performances, but the best concert I've been to the last couple years and one of the top ones ever had to be Garth Brooks back in November. I'm not even a big country fan, but jumped at the chance to see him live. It was a heck of an experience when the crowd knew all his songs. Electric atmosphere all night and the guy really is a showman.
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| 92 | Texas Flood
ID: 45712213
Sat, Aug 02, 2008, 21:48
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I happend to see WAR a couple of weeks ago. It was the Lonnie Jordan
version as opposed the the Low Rider Band which features other members
of the orig group.
It was very nostalgic and even at 60 years old Jordan was spot on. His back
up band was as good as the original, but it would kind of cool if B.B
Dickerson and Lee Oskar would join up with Jordan again!
Anyway it was great fun on a beautiful summer night!
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| 93 | blue hen
ID: 86502521
Sat, Aug 02, 2008, 23:41
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Damn, TB. That's a pretty impressive selection.
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| 94 | TB
ID: 395122110
Mon, Aug 04, 2008, 02:03
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My son just turned 16 in June and I took him with me to almost all of those. He missed a couple when he went to visit his mom, but he did get to go see Ozzie and Rob Zombie without me when I had to go on a business trip. I love that he likes all the old bands that I grew up listening to. I'm hoping a few more "old-timers" like Iron Maiden and Dio decide to add KC on their tour. Doesn't look likely and we might have to go down to Texas to catch them or miss out.
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| 95 | cblack
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Mon, Aug 04, 2008, 10:45
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I saw Bon Jovi at Comerica Park in Detroit. Goo Goo Dolls opened (not bad, but not great). Sheryl Crow went next (nice set) and then Jon and the boys kicked it for 2 1/2 hours AFTER THAT!!
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another one of my favorites was Styx, REO Speedwagon, and Journey all in the same night. My wife and I sat andjust sang for almost 4 hours!!!!!!! The new Journey singer really DOES sound a lot like Steve Perry.
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| 96 | cblack
ID: 23945316
Mon, Aug 04, 2008, 10:47
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If you are looking for one of the greatest shows all around, check out Trans-Siberian Orchestra when they tour in the winter. Lights, lasers, guitars. They just assault your senses for 3 hours.
Very cool!!!
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| 97 | Great One
ID: 56438112
Mon, Aug 04, 2008, 10:50
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General consensus on Jovi from post 18 above, they really know how to put on a great show --
GO post 14 Bon Jovi (who I didn't even like going into the show) runners up.
Wiggs..
When I got the tickets to see Bon Jovi, I was like oh great. After the show, I came home and looked up tickets to more shows.
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| 98 | blue hen
ID: 30311814
Mon, Aug 04, 2008, 15:04
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My father has seen Jackyl (with me) and Flock Of Seagulls (with my sister). Someday I want to take him to a Pearl Jam concert.
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| 99 | Razor
ID: 545172413
Tue, Aug 05, 2008, 15:57
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Loolapalooza was awesome. I am getting old and enjoy other things more, especially in Chicago, than seeing a bunch of bands I only sort of like, so I ended up just showing up for Radiohead, Rage and NIN. All three were excellent, though they should have put Radiohead on the middle day to break up Rage and NIN which were both very rough shows, especially Rage. Zach stopped the concert three times for a total of maybe 10 minutes to pleased with the crowd to back up off the stage because there was so much of a crunch up front. I am 90's music fan and a 90's concert-goer, so it was good to see 90's-style crowds complete with mosh pits, stage rushing and crowd surfing. That said, I am ready to pass my mosh pit pass to the next generation of young concert-goers - I was pretty dang sore and tired halfway through NIN.
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| 100 | J
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ID: 049346417
Sun, Oct 26, 2008, 14:04
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I saw Weezer last night...and they were AWESOME. Totally made up for the crappy free concert they had in ATL (see post 52)
For one song they had a promotion with a radio station where people could call in and win the chance to play onstage with Weezer, they had about 30 people up there (include a girl tap-dancing) playing all kinds of random instruments. Probably was the coolest thing I've ever seen at a concert. GREAT show!
The only thing I was disappointed in was that Angels & Airwaves opened for them but only played about 6 songs
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| 101 | Great One
ID: 298238
Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 10:58
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saw The Who on Sunday in Philly. A little underwhelmed... they only played 2 hours and left out a lot of hits. I enjoyed myself, just not quite for the price I paid. Of course after seeing Springsteen tear the house down for nearly 4 hours, its getting hard to compare. I do have a new rock band I am excited about. The Gaslight Anthem one critic writes, "the Gaslight Anthem are like something out of speculative fiction: this is what pop music would be if Springsteen hadn't listened to his producer, let the Ramones record ["Hungry Heart"], and launched the C.B.G.B.'ers into megastardom."[1]. The driving punk sound with which the Gaslight Anthem plays owes a great deal to the New Brunswick hardcore scene and acts such as The Bouncing Souls.
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| 102 | Great One
ID: 298238
Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 13:56
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Gaslight Anthem, the next great American band?
Wow, they really are getting some great reviews.
Tree, I bet a certain former ROH'er would like these guys a whole lot.
Think I'm gonna go try and see them with Bouncing Souls at the Stone Pony Xmas weekend. I fear they might be too big for that place by then though...
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| 103 | Tuques
Sustainer
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Tue, Nov 04, 2008, 15:53
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Phish in the everglades for New Year Eve 2000, almost 80 000 people for 2 night concert including a full night set on New Year....
12 hours traffic jam to get in, 4 days of almost no sleep and almost 60 hours drive from Quebec and back... All worth it....
Tuques
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| 104 | Senator Urine
ID: 106171416
Mon, Nov 10, 2008, 21:11
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Just saw The Smashing Pumpkins again, three nights in a row. Twice in NYC at the United Palace Theater and once at the Borgata in Atlantic City.
Absolutely amazing. You can't even imagine what Billy was doing with the guitar. He really should be considered among the greatest guitarists of all time, I personally think he's unquestionably #1. The fans were terrible on Thursday night, resulting in a really interesting show ending. Some drunk jackasses started booing as they were covering Pink Floyd's "Set the Controls to the Heart of the Sun", so for the encore Billy came out with a kazoo and started singing "Everything is Beautiful" while joking with / taunting the crowd. It was hilarious and the most memorable show ending I've ever seen.
I got to the Borgata early and managed to get front row center, and had my face completely melted off by 20 minute monster jam sessions. He played a bunch of new unreleased songs and they were fantastic as always.
There's no other live band like them. It's just pure destruction and creativity.
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| 105 | Great One
ID: 151126410
Thu, Dec 04, 2008, 11:29
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I may have said this before... but if you ever noticed that Smashing Pumpkins had a lot of feedback in their early songs, here is why. Corgan's guitar was so cheap that when he stopped playing it would have crazy feedback -- so the freaking genius he is, he just incorporated that into the songs. Good stuff.
The Gaslight Anthem peforming on ConanThe Gaslight Anthem will be playing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on December 9th. This will mark their first performance on a late-night talk show, congrats to them!
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| 106 | Mike D
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Thu, Dec 04, 2008, 22:54
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Great thread. I can't believe Motley Crue saw the Village People....and also that he admits it. Tosh, all those concerts at Red Rocks? I'm in awe. And TB, I can relate, took my oldest two kids with me last summer to a great concert and it was surreal. It was Collective Soul/Seether/Breaking Benjamin/Three Days Grace/Live. What a freakin' lineup, and concert. Live is from my hometown, FWIW.
My favorite ever is probably U2 at RFK in DC, 120,000 people, around 1989. The night before the Philly concert that my wife (before I knew her) attended, when Bono slipped on the wet stage and got hurt.
Crosby, Stills and Nash, I was front row hanging over the railing at a stadium show, and it ranks high up there for me.
Funny to see some people liking the Grateful Dead concerts and some disliking, though it's no surprise. Saw them in 1981 and it was enjoyable, memorable, and a great day, including the pre-concert hacky sack with anyone who came along.
Others that rank high for me are Cheap Trick, Boston, Bad Company, Yes, Steve Miller Band, Jethro Tull, Neil Young (acoustic tour, all by himself), The Alarm with Pat Benatar, Peter, Paul & Mary (1988 and they still sounded great, especially from the 2nd row), the Indigo Girls (my wife was pregnant with our first child), and Judy Collins (I'll never forget Amazing Grace a capella).
Others I enjoyed include The Hooters, The Outfield, Dennis DeYoung/Styx, Staind, Avril Lavigne, Joan Jett, Daughtry, Foghat, Little Feat, Allman Brothers, Loverboy. That's at least a start. ;)
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| 107 | Great One
ID: 2415517
Thu, Feb 04, 2010, 11:41
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Rollings Stone magazine...
The Gaslight Anthem, “The ‘59 Sound” [Live on Letterman]
We’ve had this longstanding rule that no live band sounds good on TV. And then we saw NJ’s Gaslight Anthem on Letterman and concluded that either a) our rule was wrong, b) they are, in fact, the band of our generation, or c) some combination thereof. Absolutely breathtaking. Gaslight on Letterman When we have to watch a Grammy awards show with only 2 bands playing instruments... it makes you wish there was a way for the public to find these awesome bands like these that don't have the backing of a major record label. And their new album comes out in June and they are staying on the small label SideOneDummy... but I guess I'm cool with them never blowing up so big that I start to not like them.
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