What's The Best Concert You've Seen?

IanCurtisWishlist

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I saw THE NATIONAL in October 2007, The Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Oregon.

Best show of my fucking life. The crowd were so receptive, the band were right-on, and I have never had a better time in my life. Unbeknownst to me, I smoked a joint outside of a drug rehab center in between sets. Until the lady who ran the place came out and was like, "what the fuck are you doing, you're smoking drugs outside of this drug rehab facility." Oops, sorry bitch.
 

DeweY

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I Gt Real Pissed Before i went and saw the pussy cat dolls they were soo fit and loads of hotties in the crowd shit music tho ..free tickets cant complain
 

twostarhotel

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yeah id see them too for free tickets who wouldnt thats like admiting you havent watched a music video purely cause there were hot girls were all animals
oh i saw the notwist a few weeks ago they were awesome one of the guys was playing a nintendo wii instrment he was just up there waving the sticks it was pretty cool
 

pitchforksandtorches

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well. i dunno me best ever, but i had a frikkin riot seeing the butthole surfers in wolverhampton in ??july?? 08..
met up with a bunch of my oldest, baddest mates, drank too much, smoked too much and took too much (lol, legal piperazine thingies, was totally wankered). remember only 3 songs, musta scared a heap of people with our freaky behaviour.... apparantly gibby stopped the gig to tell us we were a bunch of assholes, not that i remember :fire:
a friend of mine also wet himself, which was genius entertainment!
thats only part of the storylol, probably wont share the rest ;-), but..ah! good times :-P
 

Brick Top

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I would say the three best concerts I have ever been to were Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Van Halen (some may have called them Van Hagar at the time).
A concert that I did not expect to enjoy much that really turned out to surprise the heck out of me and was really good was Elton John. My girlfriend at the time wanted to go and I went just because she wanted to and thought I wouldn’t like it but he put on such a fantastic performance that I was very impressed even though I am not a big fan of Elton John.

I would say the concerts that were the worst I have ever been to was a Rod Stewart concert, it was SO BORING that I could hardly stay awake and then as much as I love their studio work The Allman Brothers bored me, and that was each of the three times I saw them. It is like in almost every song they go into a 20-minute jam that sounds so much like the last jam that it is like you keep hearing the same song over and over again and at times their jams are so long that you can forget what song they were playing.
They are really talented and as I said I love their studio work they just aren’t much fun to see live. Many bands are exciting to watch let alone listen to but The Allman Brothers Band all seemed to be really bored up on stage and did not excite the crowd.
One of the times I went to see them I was right up front and had a great view of Greg Allman and even though I had front row seats I brought some binoculars because I like to zoom in on the finger work of lead guitarists as much as I can but I found myself watching Greg Allman much of the time. He looked so totally bored that it was a real downer.
He would sit in the middle of his semicircle of keyboards and when not playing just stare with a blank look on his face. At times he would light a cigarette and stare off backstage and other times he would walk off stage and then when it came time to play a little he would walk back to his keyboards and lean over, not even sitting down sit times, and play a little and then walk off stage again like something was more interesting back there than it was to him to be in front of a crowd.
The best moment I ever had at a concert was the last time I saw Black Sabbath on one of their reunion tours. I had second row seats that were dead center right in front of Ozzy. As many of you most likely know Ozzy loves to throw buckets of water on the crowd and to spray them with something like a super soaker that is attached to a hose. He nailed me with a bucket of water and later I managed to get his attention by holding out my fist and showing him a skull ring I wear.
It is the same skuul ring that Keith Richards wears, bought at the same place, The Great Frog in Loondon, and I bought it from the same sales lady that sold Keith his. Ozzy has one and Alice Cooper has one (you can see his in the movie "Wayne’s World" when Alice holds out his hand for Wayne and Garth to kiss after they kneel before him saying "we’re not worthy, we’re not worthy.") Billy Idol has the same ring and you can see it in the Adam Sandler movie "The Wedding Singer" when near the end Billy is sitting on a plane seat with his arm draped over the back talking to "Robbie," Adam Sandler." You can see Keith Richard’s ring in the third "Pirates of the Caribbean" flick when he is looking through the pirates code.
Anyway I think Ozzy spotted it and recognized it because he got a really big grin on his face and picked up his hose and hit me right in the face with the spray. He sprayed my face so long I was starting to cough and choke and I held up my hand to block the spray to get a breath of air. Ozzy lowered it down to my chest and just stared at me grinning really big and gave me a moment to catch my breath and then raised it up and plastered me right in the face again. I think it must have been shown on the big screens because the crowd went wild.
What made it so great for me is because I had enjoyed Black Sabbath and Ozzy so many times over the years and for those few moments it looked like Ozzy was really enjoying himself and to me that was like I was in some small way paying him back for all I had gotten from him and the others over the years. Also in a very small way since the crowd reacted like it did making me figure it was being shown on the big screens it was almost like being a minor part of the show for everyone that might so that made it really fun too.
 

captain792000

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probably a toss up between Manson, Iron Maiden, Rob Zombie, and 3 doors down...lol....yes 3 doors down, they put on great shows....
 

ghosthorse

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Probably say Pink Floyd back inearly 70's but saw a lot of good concerts in Winterland S.F. like Greg Allman, Black Sabbath, Peter Frampton, lots more Bummed that I've never been to a Neil Young show love him. Saw Crosby and Nash in Berkeley long time ago Carol King came out as a guest. Many years ago Saw Doobie Brothers when they were first out there, but one of the jamminest shows was Leon Russell in Tallahassee Fla!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

WiRE

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I have to say the best concert I have attended goes to Les Claypool and the fancy band. They blew me away.

The best concert environment goes to Dark Star Orchestra; the crowd was amazing at that show and I ended up seeing like 5 people I had not seen if forever. Plus the mushies helped ;-)
 

Cheech Wizard

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Nice Ghosthorse! I saw Neil play last fall (finally) and I have to say that was the best show Ive seen in awhile.. He is amazing. I also saw Leon Russell play with his two daughters at a little bar several years ago and he does put on a hell of a show....Pink Floyd I saw in the mid 90s... ya know who put on a good show? Blind Melon...
 

Twistyman

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I love Zeppelin, Tull, Yes and Moody Blues! wow you have seen some classics Twisty
I grew up during the best music era... my 1st show was Grand Funk... I saw Hendricks at a small arena... I remember the prices..one show.. Deep Purple, Cactus and buddy miles... also Rod Stewart and the faces, 10 cc and Bad Company.. both those shows were $5.50.. so with my $10.00 allowance..tickets 5.50. acid $2.00...and 5 joints at 0.50.... good times...
 

Brick Top

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I love Zeppelin, Tull, Yes and Moody Blues! wow you have seen some classics Twisty

I have seen Jethro Tull numerous times over the years and all but the last time it was fantastic. The last time I saw them Ian Anderson could not hit any high notes and had a peddle he would step on when it came to high notes that evidently electronically altered his range raising it to a higher level. I think his voice is shot. Maybe he was just sick or something and it was a temporary cheat but it seemed evident that his voice was gone. In some songs where there were high notes he just sang it different and went lower or went just slightly higher but for every high note you could clearly see him stepping on a peddle. I was in the third or fourth row so it was clear as could be to me. Maybe people farther back, especially in the nose bleed seats couldn’t see it but anyone close could.

They still put on an entertaining show but the quality of the past was gone when it came to the vocals.

What did turn out to be a major treat is that when I bought the tickets I never checked, or even cared, who else would be playing. All I cared about was seeing Tull again so I never checked who would open and we had gotten to the concert and were heading to our seats and I saw a family with a son that was I would guess around 10 years old and the son asked who would play first and his dad said Procol Harum and I almost soiled myself. I had never had a chance to see them before and my level of excitement at least doubled.

They were great and sounded exactly like their old recordings and were actually better than Tull because of Ian Anderson’s vocals.
 

Brick Top

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I grew up during the best music era... my 1st show was Grand Funk... I saw Hendricks at a small arena... I remember the prices..one show.. Deep Purple, Cactus and buddy miles... also Rod Stewart and the faces, 10 cc and Bad Company.. both those shows were $5.50.. so with my $10.00 allowance..tickets 5.50. acid $2.00...and 5 joints at 0.50.... good times...

You did mean Hendrix, right? ;-)
 

Twistyman

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You did mean Hendrix, right? ;-)
Oppps... yeah.... actually the last show I saw was Tull... last labor day approx. The only other original member was Martin Barre... it wasn't what I was expecting.. they did a weird version of Aqualung....... I just bought Bursting Out..the live CD......
 

frusciantecedricomar1

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The Mars Volta in April of 08 was the best.
my first was alice cooper in 05. I saw the who in 06 and that was awesome. rush wasn't that great, but it was worth the money (june 07), and jethro tull the night before johnny winter (who i got to meet which was awesome. the guy couldnt even open his eyes.) seein modest mouse march8, psyched
 
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