Best concert you have ever seen live

[Sporky]

Muse
House of Blues
Orlando 2004

seen a lot of shows and this was by far the best.

[beerbandit]

tragically hip
at copps colliseum

or

project revolution-
korn
the used
less than jake
snoop
linkin park
at pine knob

cheers

[Rutis]

Springsteen, Gothenburg 1985

[jdl22]

Kenny Wayne Shepherd in 1999 at the EMU ballroom at the University of Oregon. We got there early enough that there was no security whatsoever and we basically got an extra concert because during sound check he was playing songs that weren't on the playlist for the main show. At the concert we were literally in the front row, leaning up against the stage.

[sfer]

I don't know about best, but my favorite was a small set that Joe Strummer performed for free at Amoeba Records in San Francisco, July 2001, like a year and a half before he died. Maybe 100 people showed up, he did like 6 songs, none from The Clash, but he ended with The Harder They Come, and it was Joe Effing Strummer, man.

[ZeeJustin]

#1 - Smashing Pumpkins @ 9:30 club right after Jimmy Chamberlain came back

#2 - Muse @ 9:30 club a couple months ago

[srvollmer]

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Pearl Jam
1994
Cleveland, CSU Convocation Center


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Nice! I was in the front on the floor at that show. I understand why some people dont like this band, but if they were at that show, they would think differently. Purely amazing.

Also, I saw Outkast way back when, and they give it their all. Some other notables:
Grant Lee Buffalo
Pavement
Pixies
U2
Soul Coughing
Gift of Gab and Mike Relm
Radiohead
A Tribe Called Quest

[bosoxfan]

Best time at a show was Grateful Dead, Highgate Vermont 1995. 90,000 people in an old airfield the fence got knock down and at intermission we went back to the car and filled a backpack with beer. good times.

Best show was Tool at the Avalon in Boston right after Undertow came out.

[Matt Flynn]

biggest spread between talent and performance: The Y Store at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco. nontalent band but they were great live.

most enjoyable concert of all things was The Replacements at the Fillmore in 1987. everyone should see a concert at the Fillmore. you can feel Janis and Jimmy in the bricks.

best concert to take a college date in the late eighties: Sting for obvious reasons

best concert to score a killer vegetarian sandwich and get a contact high: Grateful Dead, any Bay Area venue, 1980s. of course you had to put up with the 2 hour rendition of fire on the mountain so the contact high was critical.

best drummer seen live: Dave Matthews Band. if only Matthews would learn not to whine every line.

i'd trade every one of them to see Jimmy Hendrix or Miles Davis live.

matt

[sfer]

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most enjoyable concert of all things was The Replacements at the Fillmore in 1987. everyone should see a concert at the Fillmore. you can feel Janis and Jimmy in the bricks.


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I'm way jealous. For me, the best part of seeing a show at the Fillmore was walking 10 minutes to go home.