Best concert you have ever seen live
 

who where and when?

Stevie Ray Vaughn
1984
Syria Mosque
Pittsburgh Pa

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something like mecca normal 1991 jabberjaw. there's been lots of good ones though. all of bands none of you know in places youd never go..sigh...

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Up In Smoke Tour
2000
Mellon Arena
Pittsburgh, PA

I don't do much concert going. Like the music or not, this was what I was raised on and just had to see Dre and Snoop in person. Definitely one of the best times I ever had.

My favorite was the Rock The Mic Tour when I got to see my favorite artist, Jay-Z, live for the first and only time. I can't really consider that my favorite concert though because I went late only wanting to see Jay-Z. Sadly, I had to sit through 50's set as the concert was running late.

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I rmember when it was the civic arena

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I don't do a whole lot of big concerts, but my two most memorable (maybe not the best, but the best nights):

Kenny Chesney, Margaritas and Senoritas Tour. March, 2003. Mankato, MN.

Keith Urban, Be Here Tour. Northrup Auditorium, Minneapolis. 12/4/04.

The one band I'd kill to see: The Eagles.

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jimmy buffet...every yr in atlanta
and rage and wu tang about 7 yrs ago

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U2
2001
Copps Coliseum
Hamilton, ON

easily the best show I've seen


also (in no particular order)

U2 (2nd show)
CNE
Toronto, ON

Guns 'n Roses
1991 (2nd show)
CNE
Toronto, ON

Steve Earle
1990
Massey Hall
Toronto, ON

Radiohead
1997
Arrow Hall
Toronto, ON

Daniel Lanois w/Brian Blade
2003
Theatre Aquarius
Hamilton, ON

Most every Tragically Hip show I've seen along with some other notables...

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Live

Summerfest 2004

BTW on a side not Summerfest makes me so happy to be from Milwuakee, purely the greatest annual music festival in the U.S.

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I've only been to four concerts in my life, but here goes:

Ben Folds
Spring 2004
La Crosse, Wisconsin

For any fans that have never seen him live, he is INCREDIBLE. Even though it was a fairly small show, I had a great time. Also interesting to see him making 80's guitar sounds with a piano.

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i always luv seeing Sugar Ray live...besides Mark being SUPER fine..they always put on a good and entertaining show...alot of crowd interaction

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Radiohead
August, 2003
Red Rocks Amphitheater
Morrison, CO

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Best ever, and best in a big room, U2's Zoo TV in 1994 or so. Best in a small room, Tom Petty, 1997 or so.
REM and Def Leppard (Yes, Def Leppard) were also fantastic.

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Rage Against The Machine and The Roots Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR ~1997. Wu Tang was supposed to open but a few of them got arrested for beating up their manager or something. I don't wish jail on anybody, but to this day I'm glad they couldn't make it. It was much better for the overall atmosphere of the show. The Roots>Wu Tang. Rage against the machine kicks more ass live than anyone else I've ever seen. And I've seen KISS.

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Man, I really wanted to start a thread like this.

Best Concert is one of the following:

Rufio/Brand New/Taking Back Sunday - Late 2002 (The Revolution)
No one knew who they were, and they played to a crowd of about 300 people crammed into a trailer-sized room. It was awesome.

Coheed/Thrice/Thursday - Early/Mid 2004? (Masquerade)
By this time a lot of people were into these bands, so the concert crowds were getting worse, but this show was amazing.


Best Single Song at any Performance:

Incubus - Certain Shade of Green: Music Midtown 2002 (Middle of the fuc[/b]kin city!)
Prolly 60k-70k people at this concert, all outdoors, all crowded up to the stage. The energy was crazy, and it was the only song I was waiting for all night, and they didn't disappoint at all.

Weezer - Say it Ain't So: Summer 2002 I think? (Hi-Fi Buys)
Nothing like being drunk high schoolers, screaming the lyrics as loud as you can from the grass behind the seats at Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheatre while flames shoot out of the giant Weezer symbol on stage.

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The roots

nasty nasty live show

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Prince - 1997? 1998? San Francisco aftershow at 415 townsend from 2:30 to 5:30 a.m. Best damn thing I ever saw.

natedogg

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Dave Matthews Band (Duh)
Nissan Pavilion
2004


coming in a close second:
Bloodhound Gang, Cypress Hill, and ICP
Virginia Beach Amphitheater
1998

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Rage rocks I have seen them twice. Awsome both times.

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You know who puts on a good show?

The Offspring. Saw them at the streetfest in San Diego in 2001

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Not "best," but most fun:

Afroman, UCSD--FallFest '01.
This was at the height of his 15 minutes and they were asking for trouble when they held this in an arena. Walking in was enough to get high.

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MMB the music midtown in ATLANTA?? i go to that every yr hehe i was gonna mention it but i didnt think anyone would know what it was!!

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Yup, in Atlanta. Is there another one?

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haha dunno thats y i didnt mention it b/c its an Atlanta thing didnt think anyone else would know about it

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Yeah, there's only a few ATL people on these boards that I know of, and all of the others are northsiders, unlike me.

You
Me
Shajen
ClaytonN
Shadow29
Fins

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Wow, that sounds awesome, I would have loved to see that one nate.

There have been several and I have a hard time recalling, but off the top I might have to say Olu Dara, New Year's '05 at Club Helsinki. That was a sweet sweet show.

I saw Hum with Pedro the Lion and somebody else, either Shiner or another band, at the Cat's Cradle in March 1998 or 99, that was a great show too for all you indie rock freaks. I was actually on crutches after spraining my ankle that day in gym class, and people for some reason started moshing all around me. This was during that weird period when kids weren't sure if they were supposed to mosh or dance or what during a show like this. I wasn't giving up my 3rd row spot so some idiots just got whacked with crutches.

One of the other most-fun shows was The Ducky Boys, Patriot, and the Dropkick Murphys, also at the Cat's Cradle circa 98 or so.

NT

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DMB (w/ Jason Mraz)
The Gorge Amphitheater
George, WA
2004
or
Jack Johnson (w/ G Love and Special Sauce)
also at the gorge in 2004

I have never been to Red Rocks but my Coloradoan friends say its even more impressive than the Gorge, so that must have been a helluva show.

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dunno them

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Up in Smoke Tour Summer 2000, Continental Arena. 9-5 plus fo' pennies. Add that [censored] up.

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band 200x, The Rising Tour. I first saw him at the Fleet Center, and the first time was quite something, but objectively, the playlist was better in Providence a few months later.

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Phish @ Loring AFB - Limestone ME - Aug 15 & 16, 1998 (The Lemonwheel)

The candlelight set on saturday night is probably one of my greatest phish memories. Just laying there on the grass, chatting with friends and enjoying great music...it was a very peaceful and surreal expereince.

Runner up would be a phish show at Darien Lake (in NY) in 97 where Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters crashed the party (leading to some onstage antics that were a bit strange even for phish phans). I got to meet Ken, Babs, and Mike (the bassist for phish) in the lot before the show which was also quite a highlight.

J

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nasty nasty live show

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i concur.

i saw them perform with mos def, talib kweli and common, the entire show was just nuts.

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the roots
outkast
red hot chili peppers

these dudes are just sick.

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Yeah, there's only a few ATL people on these boards that I know of, and all of the others are northsiders, unlike me.

You
Me
Shajen
ClaytonN
Shadow29
Fins

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Northside here too.

Best concert I saw? Beastie Boys @ Lakewood, Hello Nasty tour.

Best concert that I DIDN'T see? Beastie Boys + Rage... Had tickets for this, then one of the Beasties hurt themselves and Rage split... DOH!

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Music Midtown rules. I lived in Atlanta '93-'96 and went a couple other times as well.

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I've seen Page/Plant 3 times, twice in '95 at the LA Forum.
Once in '98 at Irvine Meadows. Effin sweet, Page is still very good. Plant was alright, not bad though.

Hey, I was born in '80. It's the closest thing to Zep in my lifetime.

I saw the Chili Peppers last year at Irvine Meadows, and it was a great show. They rock, they were on top of their game.

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So hard to say, so many come to mind. I narrowed down the list as much as I could:

GNR/Cult in some little club
Def Leppard Hysteria in the round
Boston Third Stage
Soundgarden in some little club
Counting Crows various times in small clubs/theaters
Soundgarden/GNR
Pearl Jam/Soundgarden in some little club
Stevie Ray Vaughn at Rockefeller's and others
Arc Angels at Rockefeller's
Pearl Jam at the Fox Theater
Garbage at Slim's and the Point
Peter Stuart / Dog's Eye View a few times
Beastie Boys at Bottom of the Hill
The White Stripes at Fillmore and Warfield
Beck at the Greek
Bob Schneider at Bimbo's
Liz Phair/Flaming Lips at the Warfield
Pixies at Greek Theater
TV on the Radio at Bottom of the Hill
Old '97s a couple of times
The Wrens a couple of times
Coldplay at the Warfield

Probably one of those.

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Clutch's transnational speedway tour at the Phoenix (det) in 93, even though there was an all out riot. I hear this was the last time they played binge and purge in concert.

91 or 92 I saw Pantera (just getting popular) and zombie(unknown) at Harpo's(a large bar) in detroit. The most violent pit ever!

Tool's undertow tour was great at the phoenix in 94

Soundgarden superunknown tour was awesome, pine knob 94.

Down (phil from pantera and pepper from CoC) harpos 95

I've seen slayer 8 times, the best being the diabolus tour (with clutch) hapros 2000

Metallica with Danzig and Suicidal was a great show too, pine knob 94

These shows were all very good, but if I had to pick, I'd say pantera/zombie

Zombie also put on a great show at the mi state fairgrounds during the astrocreep tour.

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Rolling Stones
B.C. Place Stadium
Vancouver, B.C.
1994

They were old even back then, but they put on a hell of a show. Worst seats I've ever had in my life, though -- I was all the way across the stadium from the stage. Row ZZ. The very top of the stadium. Still a great night.

Close seconds would be AC/DC in Portland in 1991, or Van Halen last year in Spokane (but just because I had Golden Ring tickets and was about a foot away from Eddie).

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They kind of suck, but the Prodigy put on a pretty amazing show in about 1996.

De La Soul last year in London were great, probably the concert I've had the most fun at.

Pavement were very good in about 1995.

Nirvana would have been good if they hadn't cancelled for some spurious reason related to the death of someone or other.

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Muse
Glastonbury 2004

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It's tough to choose between these two:

Pearl Jam
July of 2003
New York City, Madison Square Garden (night #1 of 2)

Pearl Jam
1994
Cleveland, CSU Convocation Center

I feel like the band lost some of their edge after 1994, but they have really come into their own recently, and the MSG 2003 show is what made me realize this. Pick it up on DVD if you want to see something legendary ("Pearl Jam Live at the Garden").