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| 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. |
| | | 1 | Mikel
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 15:47
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TF: That sounds great. I for one enjoy Sting as well as the Police.
Did you like VanAndel as a venue? I'm not tooo far from there.
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| | | 2 | J
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 15:49
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They Might Be Giants was probably my favorite concert of all time. I went in not knowing them, and came out loving them! I knew a few songs going in, but was really just going because it was free and a friend of mine really wanted to go. Turned out to be a wet rainy night, but didnt bother me at all, they were REALLY good!
Some of my other favorites I've seen:
Green Day X3
Blink 182 X2
Reel Big Fish X3 or 4
Butch Walker (Formerly of the Marvelous 3) X3 or 4
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 15:52
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Worst concerts:
-Jimmy Eat World - I like most of their songs, but they're just really bad live for some reason
-Ashlee Simpson - dont ask - but I did not pay a dime other than for the beer to help me get through it!! And they stopped serving when she starting because everyone there was 12 years old and they weren't selling any!!!!
-Everclear - last summer. Let it go guys, I saw them 2 or 3 times in the 90s and they were really good, but not so much anymore!
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| | | 4 | Mikel
ID: 8112016
Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 15:56
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J at ashlee simpson...at least you were the tallest person at a concert for once. ;)
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| | | 5 | Texas Flood
ID: 326462912
Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 16:09
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Mikel, VanAndel is great. Sting drew about 10,700. Prince (fantastic show) drew over 12,000 setting a VanAndel attendance record for concerts.
Great drinks and pizza at the "BOB" and we love Bistro Sanchez:).
Oh one other great concert. A while back I took Mrs Flood to Chicago's Rosemont Arena to see, Earth, Wind and Fire, The O'Jay's and the Isley Brothers. They were all on the same bill, what a hoot, but for R & B ya just gotta see George Clinton!
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| | | 6 | wiggs
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 16:45
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Aerosmith, BNL and Bon Jovi all put on pretty good shows.
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| | | 7 | KnicksFan
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 18:46
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The Who in 2002 and 2004.
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| | | 8 | tastethewaste
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 18:48
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2004? Entiwistle and Moon are dead. Daltry and Townsend still tour as the Who?
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| | | 9 | KnicksFan
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 19:00
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Yeah they were dead in 2002 also. It still rocks hard. They've got Ringo's son on drums.
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| | | 10 | tastethewaste
ID: 251043226
Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 19:08
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who plays bass. Without Entwistle i would think they couldnt go on. He made that band.
Best concert I ever saw was Ween. They are great.
NOFX/Fishbone close 2nd.
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| | | 11 | balls
ID: 53129180
Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 21:25
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lol ween...piss up a rope...now that's a classic
best concert's I've attended would be AC/DC, Aerosmith, and Guns N Roses.
worst would be George Thorogood...he left the stage halfway through the concert.
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| | | 12 | ksoze
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 21:32
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Best:
Metallica 1989,
Faith No More
Worst:
Skid Row (60 effin minutes for a headliner?),
Metallica 1991
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| | | 13 | Mark L
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ID: 3601149
Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 21:33
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Best ever was my Springsteen conversion experience
in the fall of 1978.
Recent highlight: 2 weeks ago I saw Paul Westerberg
for the first time since 1982. Astonishing show -
nonstop pace, high energy, remembered all the lyrics,
crazy covers like If I Had A Hammer and I Think I Love
You. Best show for me in the last year or so.
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| | | 14 | Great One
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 21:33
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The Streetlight Manifesto. 3x over. You have to be there to feel/understand what they have going right now. Its special.
Ben Harper and Bon Jovi (who I didn't even like going into the show) runners up.
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 21:57
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Best is probably a three way tie.
Steppenwolf - Front row center.
Led Zeppelin (1973) - Candlestick Park
Willie Nelson (Really knows how to work the crowd)
Worst ever is real easy -
Neil Young (1972 or 1973)- Winterland -
Never sang - walked off the stage because the fans wouldn't be quiet and were "disrespecting him"
Cliff
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Donor
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 22:42
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taste-
Pino Paladino on bass. He's pretty good, but can't fill John's shoes.
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| | | 18 | wiggs
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 22:54
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GO post 14 Bon Jovi (who I didn't even like going into the show) runners up.
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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| | | 19 | TB
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Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 23:29
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The first time I saw Bon Jovi they were opening for the Scorpions, 83 or 84ish. Had no idea who they were until they sang She's a Little Runaway. Even then, they were just okay. Much better a couple years later.
Saw Skid Row when they opened for Aerosmith in Austin. I thought they put on a good show and they sounded great. Aerosmith blew them away, of course.
Best bands I've seen are the Scorpions, Aerosmith, Van Halen (with DLR), GnR, and Mettalica. As a change of pace, I also enjoyed a show where The Moody Blues played with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
The worse bands/shows have to be The Cars and Quiet Riot. I loved the Cars albums growing up but they are a studio band. Huey Lewis and the News opened for the Cars and really stole the show. Quiet Riot was just awful.
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| | | 20 | Tosh
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Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 00:06
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George Clinton and the P-Funk. The first time I saw them, I thought I had just had a religious experience. Five hours. First encore lasted 30 minutes. Second encore was an hour and 15 mins. Probably seen them a dozen times since then, but it was never as good as the first.
Another great show was the Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Chili Peppers tri-fecta.
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| | | 21 | threespleens
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Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 05:10
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smokin grooves tour - toronto - can't remember what year
the fugees were great, as were cypress hill and a tribe called quest... but busta rhymes stole the show with all his energy, running around in the crowd
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Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 16:30
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I saw the Village People. That was not a great show, but it was free.
Pearl Jam always plays all night long, and they rock the house.
My first concert was Aerosmith in `94. That set the standard for me, and I have never seen anything to exceed it.
Of course, I have seen Motley Crue (the original foursome) twice in the late 90's and they kicked @ss. Pam Anderson was at the one show, and she came out on stage at the end. That is one fine woman, hep-C or no.
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| | | 23 | Texas Flood
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Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 18:47
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Motley Cure, you're boys are going to be in Grand Rapids sometime in May. I saw the Vince Neal makeover thing on VH-1 and his return debut on TV. He's lookin & soundin good these days.
Anyone ever see Tom Petty? I never have, and I thought that might be a pretty fair to midlin show.
Worst concert ever, tough question. Last Summer I went to see Micheal McDonald and he was fantastic, but the second act was Hall & Oates. They looked and sounded great, but I really don't care for their music. Just a personal preference thing, but IMHO they sucked....way too cheesy for me.
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| | | 24 | KnicksFan
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Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 19:37
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Whoa here she comes,
Lookout Flood she'll chew you up,
Whoa here she comes,
She's a Flood eater.
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| | | 25 | allhair allstars
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Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 23:04
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Wow. Where to begin? Probably my favorite rock concert was my first R.E.M. show in Chicago, summer of 1985. This was back when the venue still sold general admission floor tickets. We got there early, waited forever, and then sprinted in to get a spot on the stage. I knew I was in for something special when, after the opening band The Three O'Clock left the stage, the stage crew set up one of the mikes directly in front of me. I was a huge fan in those days, and Michael Stipe was literally on stage right in front of me the entire show. Incredible concert! After the show we waited at the back stage door hoping to meet the band. As the road crew was dismantling the drum riser, I jumped through the stage door and grabbed a set list that was duct taped to the riser. Later that night all four of the boys - Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe - signed the set list. And while this might sound kitchy, I still have that set list and the ticket from that show, framed and hanging on my wall. :)
Other standouts... Seeing The Replacements open for their own opening band, who showed up late to the gig. Imagine, The Replacements being out-Replacemented! Also saw Trip Shakespeare's last non-Minnesota show ever. Saw the Grateful Dead in Telluride, CO, the same day as a super-rare harmonic convergence. The Smiths, Camper Van Beethoven, Cheb Khaled at the Melk Weg in Amsterdam, Bruce Cockburn playing unimaginable acoustic solo jams, Fairport Convention in England, The Meat Puppets, INXS back in college, The Violent Femmes during the summers in Milwaukee... I can never name just one!
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Fri, Apr 29, 2005, 23:16
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I was supposed to see REM back in around 1995 in Tallahassee but a tornado ripped a hole in the civic center a couple days before and they cancelled the concert :(
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Sat, Apr 30, 2005, 00:37
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I grew up in Denver in the early 80s and invested my snow shoveling $$ into ticket packages at Red Rocks. I bought 15-show packages for three years, and notable shows included the U2 'Under a Blood Red Sky' shows in '83, and the Dead in '85 (my first three of 72 shows).
Other highlights of the early-mid 80s included the Rolling Stones and The Who at Folsom Field on their farewell/retirement tours, and the Jackson Victory Tour (Michael, Jermaine, Randy, Tito, and LaToya) at Mile High. It was a great show with Michael doing most of the Thriller material, and I looked great in my sequined shirt and red parachute pants. :-)
In the late 80s and early 90s, I lived in Portland, Oregon which had a really active music scene, and I lived it. Any early grunge band ... I've seen most of them, including Mother Love Bone and Mookie Blaylock. Any notable reggae or blues act ... pretty sure I've seen them. I saw most of the alternative rock acts. Had backstage access most of the time, but rarely used it.
It was the 'jam bands' that I really enjoyed hanging with. Met the Phish, Blues Travelers, and Panic boys on their first West-coast tours. I never would have imagined they would go to the places they did as stoned as they were. :) I've hopped on the bus (while they were still touring in stinky yellow school busses) for tours with Leftover Salmon and String Cheese. I lost more than one brain cell those tours.
Three shows that deserve special mention -
When I went to see Gwar, the only thing I knew about them was that they were 'Beavis and Butthead's favorite band, and that they did some sort of performance. I hung the entire concert in the first ring of people just outside the mosh pit tossing people back in. I don't know if anyone has heard of Gwar, but they dress in these weird medieval gothic costumes and wage epic battles while playing non-stop heavy metal music. At the end of the show, I looked like I had been hit by a truck, because I was covered head-to-toe in the fake blood that the band shoots into the crowd (from decapitations and other chopped off limbs). Unforgettable (and really undescribable).
During a Neil Young encore (seen him a dozen or so times), Pearl Jam (the opening act) and Young were playing 'Keep on Rockin in the Free World'. At some point, one of the guitar amps starting smoking, then caught fire. A bunch of roadies ran out, put the fire out, and the bands barely skipped a note. I'm still not sure if it was scripted or not, but it was really cool.
Sat front-row just off-center for Peter Gabriel a few years ago for his first U.S. show in 7 years. Un-freakin' believable. What a performer.
I've still never seen Floyd. They are the only band left on my to-do list.
allhair - I had a signed Nirvana set-list from an early show that I gave to my cousin for Christmas. One of the stupidest things I ever did!
Man, I've gotta' stop. I having flashbacks and getting Carpal tunnel at the same time!
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Sat, Apr 30, 2005, 01:40
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Most of by concert going was about 10+ years ago and most of it was metal shows. Standouts include NIN (I think I saw Marilyn Manson open for them twice along with Jim Rose once), White Zombie, and Metallica (three shows). The first concert I went to was Danzig on the Lucifuge tour in a theater that held maybe 300 people. Anyways someone in the audience hated Danzig and let everyone know it, and Danzig ended up jumping into the audience and let him have it. The Lolapalooza with Rage, Primus, Alice in Chains was good, but I kicked myself later for not seeing Tool on the second stage. I did see Tool at Ozzfest a couple years later though.
TF - I did see Tom Petty- I think on the Wildflowers tour - He put on a very good show - definitely very laid back atmosphere.
Probably my most memorable concert experience was for a show I didn't even have tickets for. My wife (girlfriend then) and her friend were fake-hippies at the time and wanted to go hang out with the Deadheads before the Dead show at Deer Creek Music Theater outside Indianapolis. Well after a half day of wandering through the village that cropped up in the parking lot and grounds outside the venue I was ready to call it a day. (I was somewhat irritated as I felt I wasted my birthday and I'd forgotten my baggy at home). Eventually, the show started and we went to the closest place we could get to listen to the first songs. This was at the bottom of a large hill behind the back wall that fences off the lawn seats. Well, some dude crosses the tape that keeps the non-ticket holders away and starts to run up the hill - and quickly is grabbed by security. A couple more people make a break for it, and before you know it seemingly hundreds of people rush up the hill (ourselves included). As I climb the hill, I see the people ahead of me either climbing the wood wall or trying to pry the planks loose to go through the wall. I accelerate the last fifty feet so that I can climb the wall (just like on the Superstars), and after landing on the inside immediately feel guilty about leaving my wife and her friend behind. But, they ended up going through the wall, and we quickly try to blend in with the paying crowd. And of course, once inside, the atmosphere was totally opposite of the pandemonium outside. It was my first and only dead show (and I think like the third to last show ever), but I really enjoyed it - luckily the guy we settled next to didn't forget his baggy... And then the next day I see the event on Headline News being called a riot at the Grateful Dead show; I guess some idiots (bigger idiots than those who rushed the hill?) started throwing bottles at cops who came to restore order. ahh, good times
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Sun, May 01, 2005, 11:37
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I haven't been to a concert in ages..but the last 1 I saw I really enjoyed..The Temptations and 4 Tops..great to hear their songs and watch them perform..
I guess the 2 I liked best were Chicago..right after they changed their name from the Chicago Transit Authority..I was about 5 rows back right in the middle with cotton in my ears..and Elvis at the old Olympia Stadium in Detroit..people from little kids to retires were there..It was an unbelieveable event to watch an Icon perform..great show that I will always remember
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Sun, May 01, 2005, 11:52
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as much as I love 60s and 70s hard rock, the best concert I've been to was N Diamond. Man put on one hell of an entertaining show. #2 goes to Oakridge Boys/Sawyer Brown/Kenny Rogers whom I caught 'in the round' in Ames, IA several years back. Was supposed to have 'the day off' back in '99 and had plans to attend ZZ Top/L Skynard. That was on a Sat night and starting too early for me to get to had I worked Sat. Fri nght rolls around and as I'm getting ready to leave, my boss calls me in and says oh btw, I'm going to a wedding tomorrow so you'll have to work. bstrd.
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| | | 31 | blue hen
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Sun, May 01, 2005, 22:57
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Best Pearl Jam shows attended:
9/29/04 Boston, MA
9/29/96 New York, NY
11/6/00 Seattle, WA
9/1/98 Atlanta, GA
9/24/96 Washington, DC
Worst Pearl Jam shows attended:
10/1/04 Toledo, OH (with Mikel and Neil Young)
7/11/98 Las Vegas, NV
9/2/00 Camden, NJ
10/22/01 Seattle, WA (with REM and Alanis Morisette)
4/30/03 Uniondale, NY
Also seen in Alpine Valley, WI; Knoxville, TN; Greenville, SC; another Boston, MA; Tampa, FL; two more Camden, NJ; another Washington, DC; Stone Gossard's band Brad in Seattle; Matt Cameron's band Wellwater Conspiracy in Seattle.
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Mon, May 02, 2005, 00:13
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Best concert ever for me has to be my first Bruce Sringsteen Concert in 1980. Have seen him at least 15 times since and every one was awesome.
The rest of the list of the best concerts I have seen would include Meatloaf (who I first saw at a local bar so many many years ago, have seen him about 10 more times), Paul McCartney (post Wings, late 80's, first time he did Beatles stuff since the breakup), U2 (in 1983 at my college before they were big), and the Stones.
Worst concert. For me it was the Greatful Dead. I had to experience it at least once for all it's hype, just was not my scene.
Dare I admit this, my last concert attended was last fall - The 'American Idols' with my 6 year old daughter.
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Mon, May 02, 2005, 10:37
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The best concert I ever saw was on Smashing Pumpkins final tour before the broke up. I had seen them twice previously, both times in large civic centers. On their last tour, though, they decided to play in clubs. AWESOME. Saw them at the Tabernacle in Atlanta which holds maybe 2,000. There is nothing like seeing a band huge enough to fill half of a football stadium playing in a much more intimate setting, and I'm going to do it again in two weeks when NIN plays at the Tabernacle.
Worst concert, though it was just part of a show, was Jimmy Eat World. They came on after The Music, who are these young kids that aren't my favorite but play with a lot of passion, and Muse, who are some awesome rockers. Jimmy Eat World was just absolutely lifeless compared to the other two bands. While The Music and Muse came out in traditional grunge clothes and played their asses off (and multiple instruments at times) until they were dripping in sweat, Jimmy Eat World came out looking like they were going to the local country club and played like it, too. They barely moved around and looked downright robotic. It was apparent after seeing them perform and listening to their sappy radio "hits" what Jimmy Eat World is all about and why they got into the music business - $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Most embarrasing rock performance I've ever seen.
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Mon, May 02, 2005, 10:48
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Razor - I wanted to go to see NIN at the Tabernacle, but both shows were sold out by the time I got around to looking into getting tickets! Still haven't been to the Tabernacle yet...
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Mon, May 02, 2005, 11:01
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Best venue in Atlanta by far for rock bands. I've seen Pumpkins, Garbage twice, and Interpol there. Never a bad show. Chastain is the best for slower music.
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Wed, May 04, 2005, 12:32
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Have seen hundreds of concerts over the years, Dylan, the Dead, Pearl Jam, etc.
Nothing comes close to seeing The Boss give it his all for well over four straight hours back in the eighties. Saw him 5 times, and every concert was tremendous.
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Wed, May 04, 2005, 12:50
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Offspring, and surprisingly, Peter Frampton, were two of the better concerts I saw.
And you can't top Darik and the Funbags.
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Sun, May 08, 2005, 15:33
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I have been to more concerts during my teenage years than I can possibly remember. I wish I had the time for them now.
My favorite of all time was Ozzy Osbourne in the mid-90s at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.
The Ballroom only holds a couple thousand people and its 99% general admission. Absolutely crazy and Ozzy sure as heck didn't disappoint.
I've seen Metallica twice and hated them both times.
The best performer I've ever seen was Scott Weiland when he was with Stone Temple Pilots during the mid-90s. He integrated a megaphone along with use of his regular voice during songs. He really was capable of spellbinding an audience.
It was also a riot when Dennis Rodram got up on stage at the STP concert during one of his many suspensions with the Bulls, flipped off David Stern, and co-sang Sex Type Thing with Weiland.
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Mon, May 09, 2005, 09:43
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WTF was David Stern doing at a STP concert?
I also saw STP a few years ago, at the University of New Hampshire. No opening band, less than 5000 people in the audience, and probably less than 1000 on the floor of the basketball arena. That show was great because it was so intimate. They only played for an hour, though. That was disappointing. Weiland busted out the megaphone for several songs. A lot of dope-smoking going on, too. That surprised me because there just weren't alot of people to blend in with while doing it. I would have been too afraid to do anything like that. Cops were crawling all over.
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Mon, May 09, 2005, 10:08
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I've seen STP a couple of times. They even showed in Roanoke, VA where my parents live so I went for a visit that weekend and took my little sister to go see them. They did put on a great show, I remember some megaphone, but they did an accoustic set for a couple of songs. That was pretty cool.
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Sat, Jun 18, 2005, 12:11
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saw Tom Petty w/ Black Crowes last night at the Tweeter Center in Jersey. I wasn't really blown away... solid show, nothing that amazing. I do like that venue a lot and really want to be there for Coldplay w/ Rilo Kiley - two of my favorites.
My friends that went to Bonaroo said Rilo Kiley certainly won over the crowd. (my friend said something like... "we all really liked this one band with this girl lead singer, I went and bought their cd after too, its pretty good... " then I showed her that I have all their albums lol... AND that she helped that "Such Great Heights" song from the Garden State soundtrack that she already listened to all the time.
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Sat, Jun 18, 2005, 22:54
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I missed this thread when it first appeared.
I saw Guns'n'Roses in Dallas summer of '91. It was the first show after the St. Louis incident. Skid Row opened and they were just loud. The crew took speakers off the stage when they were done.
Dallas had just instituted a curfew so out of spite (IMO) Axl didn't take the stage until almost 10:00. For perspective, Skid Row did their 45 minutes beginning at 7:00.
G'n'R did over 2 hours once they started. Only thing missing was they didn't do "Paradise City." I've since heard from other people at other shows it's not one that's usually on the list.
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Thu, Jun 23, 2005, 09:27
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I have to decide between Reel Big Fish (one of my 2 or 3 favorite bands) and Weezer in a couple weeks.
Of course, I've seen RBF about 4 times and never seen Weezer. And that's a free concert...Weezer it is!
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Thu, Jun 23, 2005, 10:03
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I'm headed for Weezer and Ben Folds on July 22nd. Weezer doesn't seem like one of those bands that would put on that great of a live show ala Jimmy Eat World. I'm much more excited to see Ben rock out on the piano.
RBF is coming to St.Louis and I'm trying to con someone to go with me. They're definitely one of those bands that being drunk at the show will enhance it ten fold.
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Thu, Jun 23, 2005, 10:49
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There's actually a bunch of free concerts coming here this July (they do this every summer in ATL):
July 9 - Cake, Stereophonics, The Caesars
July 16 - Weezer
July 23 - TBA
July 30 - Ben Folds
Aug 6 - Chevelle and Seether
Aug 13 - Garbage
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ID: 4310501610
Thu, Jun 23, 2005, 11:07
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Wow, I'm jealous. Cake, Weezer, and Ben Folds in less than a month's time.
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ID: 98192416
Sat, Jun 25, 2005, 10:28
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Best:
Audioslave May 2005 (because it was a small venue of
1,500 people)
Mellencamp 4x (every time he was great)
Counting Crows 2x (always energetic)
Funniest Show:
Timbuk 3 in 1988
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ID: 406635
Sun, Jul 03, 2005, 16:50
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best concerts I've made it to:
Rush - Omaha - '91
Rush - KC - '02
Waterless Pink Floyd - Ames '94
Floydless Roger Waters - KC '99
Page/Plant - KC '98
best small shows:
NoMeansNo - OKC '05
Michael Hedges - OKC '85
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Wed, Jul 06, 2005, 20:18
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US festival 1982 and 1983 stick out in my mind, though a little hazy. Anyone else made the trek?
I have seen a lot of great shows since, but the experience of living at the site for 3 days each time can't be topped.
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ID: 95201914
Wed, Jul 06, 2005, 20:29
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I gotta think that little Woodstock festival thingy would be able to top it... :) anyone on these boards attend the original?
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ID: 145442719
Thu, Jul 07, 2005, 20:31
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I just purchased G3Live, Rockin in the Free World. Features a live concert with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen. Great tribute to Hendrix (Little Feet & Voodo Child) on the 2nd CD. Man what a show that must have been! Anyone see it? I think it was in Kansas City?
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Leader
ID: 049346417
Mon, Jul 18, 2005, 09:01
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So I went to see Weezer on Saturday night. This free concert idea was really really really bad. Usually its in a park or somewhere big. They're having these concerts basically on a damn street corner downtown!!!! There were TONS of people there, it was impossible to get within viewing distance of the stage. And when you do, I'm too damn short to see anything anyways!!!!
I wish they would've charged $5 at least. That would've probably cut the crowd in half.
Luckily Weezer and the Foo Fighters are coming back to the ATL Sept 8 :)
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ID: 262411016
Mon, Jul 25, 2005, 00:27
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I saw Weezer and Ben Folds on Friday night. It was at the Savvis center but we had GA so we were about 20-30 feet away from the stage. Overall, I thought Ben rocked but he set was way too short(about 7-8 songs). Weezer played about 18 songs with 6 songs from the Blue Album. I had heard bad things about Weezer live but I came away very satisfied and a horse voice. Only downer was the price for beer(10 bucks for 32 ounces).
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ID: 36241218
Mon, Jul 25, 2005, 09:58
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I was at that free Weezer concert downtown. It was awful. Centennial Olympic Park was a great venue for the free summer concert series, but the Underground is horrible. They try to hold it on a street and it's just too narrow. That and there are too many drunk college and high school kids.
I saw NIN at a club in May. It was incredible. I liked NIN before, but they just rocked the place. Trent Reznor is buff as hell now and was just swimming in sweat, as was the rest of the crowd on the floor. The concert was reminiscient of shows in the 90's where people actually like to move around and mosh and stuff. It's the first time in about 9 years I've experienced the Big Push (when the crowd gets crushed going one way, then those people push back and the crowd goes the other way) and huge run up to the stage just before the main act comes in where 25 rows worth of people somehow compress into 15 rows of people. Moshing was actually kosher unlike the Garbage concert a few weeks earlier when people were crying like little girls when I tried to get things started.
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Leader
ID: 049346417
Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 14:54
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Razor - friend of mine scored free tix to see NIN tonight at Philips. Should be awesome, can't wait!!! No idea where the seats are though or even if we've got seats or on the floor. I kinda hope their seats though, I'm too damn short for being on the floor :)
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Leader
ID: 049346417
Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 18:18
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yeah um scratch that, free tix fell through :(
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Leader
ID: 049346417
Thu, May 04, 2006, 00:56
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been a while since I looked at this thread...
Saw They Might Be Giants again tonight at The Variety Playhouse (in ATL) those guys are awesome and put on a great show...again
Live is gonna be there on Sunday, that sold out in a hurry, sucks that I missed out on that one.
I finally made it to the Tabernacle a few months ago...saw Matisyahu. That guy is amazing too, couldn't understand a damn word, but he was amazing!
NIN is coming back, this time to Hifi Buys ampitheatre. I hate that place, I really wanna see NIN, but not at such a huge outdoor venue.
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ID: 236287
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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ID: 63471218
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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Leader
ID: 191202817
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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Leader
ID: 049346417
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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ID: 5157177
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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Leader
ID: 10171012
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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ID: 427312414
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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ID: 710321114
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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Sherpa
ID: 031811922
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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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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Sherpa
ID: 031811922
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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Donor
ID: 171572711
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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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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ID: 106171416
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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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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Donor
ID: 052753312
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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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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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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Leader
ID: 01584348
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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Leader
ID: 01584348
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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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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Dude
ID: 4611592518
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
ID: 395122110
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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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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ID: 23945316
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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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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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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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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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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Leader
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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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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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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Sustainer
ID: 28821296
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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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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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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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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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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