Live Concerts...

[TroyD]

OK, so I am bored and curious, what is the best concert that you have ever seen??

RAP doesn't count so don't even mention it...

Some of my fave's not in any order..

Boston - '86 at the Worcester Centrum
Tom Sholz is the MAN and it was a local crowd

Eric Clapton - '90 Worcester Centrum
Clapton just is awesome

Jimmy Buffet - '95 Charleston
biggest drunkfest of all time.

Hootie and the Blowfish
before Cracked Rear View was the best bar band ever. Those mofo's can cover anything.

Worst:

KISS - '97 (I think)
other than they hired EVERY stripper (boobie factor was off the scale) in Charleston, they couldn't even lipsynch thier own stuff. I think they borrowed my neighbors ghetto blaster to play "Beth". Utterly pathetic, even gratutious flesh couldn't save them.

[juice21]

saw staind, kidrock, limp bizkit at the electric factory in Philly! amazing concert. not the best sound or anyhting like that, but experience wise, probably the best! sore the next morning though, that pit was the shit!!! limp can get the crowd pumped up...

[TheOneRod]

My best time - despite being a Rush fan - probably couldn't even be a concert, per se'. When I worked at a music store, JBL brought in a group to promote their new line of Rivera guitar amps. This group included Scott Page, the sax player from Pink Floyd's big reunion tour, Bob Globb, the bass player for Bruce Springstein, Gregg Bissonette who played for David Lee Roth at the time, the rhythm guitar player for Dire Straights (I forget the name), and Mike Finnegan who played keyboards (Hammond B3) for Jimi Hendrix and Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

These guys RULED! Some of the best blues/rock I ever heard... all live. These guys never met each other before. They just played like they did.

I forgot about working and just sat about 5 feet away from Mike all night. If you never heard a B3 from 5 feet you need to. What a night!

I have tapes!:cool:

My wife's best gig is a toss-up between classic Yes or Mountain with Leslie West. She says:
:p

[wangotango68]

alice in chains,megadeth,slayer,anthrax, all for the low,low price of $5!! it was at deer creek music music center in noblesville indiana.(indianapolis) i came,i saw,they kicked my ass and i little bit of cid didn't hurt either.

scott :cool:

[wangotango68]

know if your talking "show" that is kiss! hell yea saw them in peoria ill. in 96 on there reunion tour. still have my concert t-shirt and tour book.YOU WANTED THE BEST,YOU GOT THE BEST,THE HOTTEST BAND IN THE WORLD..KISS!!!!!!

scott:cool:

[axeman]

Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 Oxford, Maine......................................5 kick ass bands that totally blew me away in the driving rain.

Still think of it and go WOW!!!!!!
Joe

[Aaron]

Hootie and the Blowfish's latest CD is basically all covers. Never heard it, but you might want to check it out.

Aaron

[mikemokr]

Originally posted by axeman
Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 Oxford, Maine......................................5 kick ass bands that totally blew me away in the driving rain.

Funny. A week later the back-to-back Grateful Dead shows I saw at the same Oxford Plains Motor Speedway ranked as the best all-around concert weekend I've ever experienced. The shows were real tight but it also was a matter of hanging out in great weather/environment with a shitload of friends from several different phases of my life. But I must say you Monsters of Rock guys had left the locals pretty damn traumatized :D

Some others, chronological order, and (appearances to the contrary) man is it hard to whittle down this list ...

Pink Floyd, "The Wall," Nassau Coliseum 2/79

Patti Smith Group, Central Park NYC 1979

Talking Heads, Central Park NYC 1979 and 1980 and Cape Cod Community Coliseum, MA, 1984

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Boston Garden, 1980

The Clash, Bond International Casino, NYC, 6/80

A few shows at The Paradise in Boston: Adrian Belew, 1983ish; Camper Van Beethoven, 1988ish; and Steve Earle & The Dukes, 12/88

R.E.M., Radio City Music Hall, NYC, 1987

Two great ones at tiny little Maxwell's, Hoboken NJ: The Mekons, New Year's Eve 1989-90; The Feelies, 1990

Fairport Convention, Bottom Line, NYC, c. 1991

Los Lobos, Tipitina's, New Orleans, 1992

Daltrey Does Townshend, Carnegie Hall NYC 1994 or so. Guests including Lou Reed, Eddie Vedder (solo acoustic "Squeezebox"), and a couple songs featuring Daltrey, Entwistle and Townshend himself.

Richard Thompson, St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn NY 1997

Bob Dylan, Roseland Ballroom NYC 1998(?), with encores including Springsteen and Neil Young

[hoosier21]

I think it was 86, my first Pink Floyd show - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason tour, what a show, killer sound, guitar solo "Sorrow" I think was the name of the song, has the lowest notes a Synthesizer can play, it had the buildng puslating. Then again in 89 with the Delicate Sound Of Thunder tour, they made the Bobby Dodd stadium rumble, I have been searching for the same bass in my house :D but it was more than that, it was a show lights lazers movies, a total experience.

Second best would be in 1978, KISS, my first consert and it was the loudest, coolest thing I have ever saw. We had center seats 12 or 13 rows up, perfect spot, and they were the hottest band around for me at that time.
And yes I agree the farewell and reunion tours both SUCKED.

Summer/Fall of 2001, outdoor concert at the Atlanta ZOO with Shawn Mullins and Angi Apparo both play small sets to a crowd of about 500? or so, Beck's sponcered the show and sold the beer, killed all they brought and then all the Buttwiper they had trucked in , great singer songwriters and performers and the beer was was very good.

[wodom1]

Red Hot Chili Peppers my Freshman year at LSU was the best. They played in New Orleans @ UNO. I saw Incubus 3 times that year--Baton Rouge, House of Blues New Orleans on Fat Tuesday, and again in Baton Rouge. 311 twice even though i don't even like them--one was a date--both times in baton rouge. Better Than Ezra, Local H, The Fly's, Cowboy Mouth, Third Eye Blind, and some more i've forgotten at an outdoor show in New Orleans my senior year of high school. Seven Mary Three, Oleander, Candlebox to name a few more.
worst shows were everclear (i know, i know, they suck, but come on, the show was free), seven mary three, harvey danger. there are more, i just can't remember them.

[jdelan]

1989, ACDC at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Maine. High energy the whole show.

1992, Guns and Roses in San Diego. Great Show and they did a 3 hour set! It was really good...Even if they didn't get on stage until 11pm

1998, Vince Gill at WolfTrap in Vienna, Virginia.
Nice Subdued atmosphere and the man can sing...

[TroyD]

Monsters of Rock at Oxford Plains Speedway......I was at that 'un after the worst friggin traffic jam in history and the pouring rain. I didn't go to the Dead shows the next week though...What the hell were you guys doing up in the middle of nowhere???

jdelan - I was at that AC/DC show at the Cumberland County Civic Center. If memory serves that was the Blow up Your Video Tour....I saw them there for the Fly on the Wall Tour, Who Made Who, Blow Up Your Video and Razor's Edge Tours....always a great show.

Troy

[jdelan]

Troy, yeah, it was that one I beleive...They Had Angus Pop up in the Middle of the Audience...It was really cool...Love ACDC, granted their songs mostly sound alike but they are high energy and rocking...

As for the Monsters of Rock. I wanted to goto that one, but Did not have Transportation at the time. I was just turned onto Metallica at that time with And Justice For All.
Anything at the Oxford is gonna be a Traffic Jam...OYE!

[TroyD]

...man you ain't kidding about traffic to Oxford, holy schnikeys!

I still have a few of those AC/DC dollar bills they dropped during the Razor's Edge show somewhere....

What were you doing in Maine then? I am form Wells and went to school at UMO.

Troy

[jdelan]

Lived there from the age of 8 to 20. Then joined the Military and never went back. Lived in Standish and went to 3 semesters at USM.

Anyone else see the Cars? Saw them in 88 at the CCCC in Maine and i have to say, I got more enjoyment from listening to their CD then going to their Show...

[TroyD]

No, I didn't see that one, but some other shows that sucked:

Kiss
ZZ Top's latest tour (their earlier tours were great)
Aerosmith in '87 playing with Def Leppard (before they got sober)
Rod Stewart (it was a girlfriend thing)
Phil Collins

Troy

jdelan
I spent quite a bit of time at USM, between 87-88 when I was dating a couple of girls there.....I lived in Maine until early 92 when I went in to the Air Force. Did you go to Lake Region HS?

[jdelan]

Nope, did not goto Lake Region. Went to Bonny Eagle High School in Standish. Graduated in 89 there...

[TroyD]

that's right....for some reason I was thinking LR was in Standish...
I gradutated from Wells in 88

always good to know another Maineiac.

Troy

[jdelan]

I wanna move back one day, but until they get more High Tech jobs, or I lose all my bills I am gonna have to stay away. It's pretty bad up there for Jobs now...OYE! Maybe one day...It's a Beautiful State...Alot nicer than Alexandria, VA...

[Micah Cohen]

You guys are so funny. Seeing AC/DC one day and then seeing Hootie and The Blowfish the next and LIKING THEM BOTH. Huh? Pick one, man, kill the other (and you know which one I'm pickin'!).

Best shows ever:

1. DAVID LEE ROTH, "Eat Em & Smile," Cap Center in Largo MD. Recently broke up VH, got the best effing band of youngsters in the land, and fully aware of the crushing talent and volume capable with Billy Shehan and Steve Vai and a giant stage show built for the clown prince of showmanship. We spent the whole show standing, with our jaws touching the ground. Right before the break in "Ice Cream Man," he stopped and said: "You thought the other band was great? Check THIS out..." And this band BLEW VH away. A pivital moment in a young rockers life.

2. DEEP PURPLE, MACH II reunion tour 1985, Meadowlands Arena, first show in NY in 12 years, loudest band in the world -- and I was SECOND ROW. The band was happy to be back, put on a playful, overpowering show, and I was DEEF for two whole days afterward. The power and the majesty of real Brit METAL in my face. And that voice... He really could do "Child In Time" live!

3. GUNS N'ROSES, Hammerjacks, Baltimore MD, '86. No one knew who they were, 200 hundred people in the club, and this sick, kick ass band comes on and rips everyone's heads off with their stuff (we knew who they were because a friend's brother helped master the LP). It was like (I would venture) seeing The Beatles in The Cavern Club: totally new, exciting and different, and everything afterwards was a copy. Axel vomited on the club owner and they were never invited back.

Second tier best shows:
1. ZZTop, Eliminator Tour with the dashboard stage design that CHANGED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SET from the old car to the space ship. That was COOL! Great show!
2. Aerosmith, many times in the 80s pre-"Pump." Too bad they're all old women now and SUCK ASS these days, selling their fucking songs to car commercials like PUSSIES. What a come down. Like the fat old guys in KISS and even ROLLING STONES, yech, Aerosmith needs to PACK IT IN. I'm embarrassed for them.
3. Keith Emerson (and his lame band "3") at Hammerjacks. I leaned on the stage right in front of him as he destroyed a keyboard in my face. I met him backstage later and shook his hand. He's amazing.

>> I think it was 86, my first Pink Floyd show << Too bad it wasn't the real band. Ha ha. And >> Pink Floyd, "The Wall," Nassau Coliseum 2/79 << you can't believe how jealous I am of THAT. I was just beginning to become aware of what rock was, and I KNEW I was missing something important here. Shit. My friend's sister went, and said it melted her brain.

MC

[TroyD]

awww c'mon cut me some slack....

Yes the zz top eliminator tour was tres cool, the last one a couple years ago, sucked.

I've seen Van Hagar twice, liked it immensely...

I'm telling you guys Hootie was THE bar band, period, end of discussion. Edwin McCain was also great. The bar scene in Charleston in the early 90's was awesome. I agree, that most of thier later stuff was cheesey but as a bar band, they are without compare.

My bitch with Aerosmith was that they were so friggin out of it they had no clue where they were evidenced by the fact he kept refering to Portland Oregon (they were in Portland, Maine).

Troy

[mikemokr]

Originally posted by Micah
Axel vomited on the club owner and they were never invited back.

GOD I love rock 'n' roll.

>> Pink Floyd, "The Wall," Nassau Coliseum 2/79 << you can't believe how jealous I am of THAT. I was just beginning to become aware of what rock was, and I KNEW I was missing something important here. Shit. My friend's sister went, and said it melted her brain.

yeah, there was the music, and the sound -- they had some sort of surround-sound setup so it was coming at you from all angles -- and the stage production too. By far the most elaborate theatrical production I've ever seen at a rock show -- the brick-by-brick building of the wall, the tearing down of the wall, etc etc. They even had the big flying pig with lasers shooting from its eyes, from the "Animals" tour (to maximize their investment in that thing, presumably). The fact that it was a very limited run -- something like five or seven shows each in NY and LA, a couple more performances in England and that was it -- made this one even more special. I went to a pretty strict high school but the one time in four years that I cut class was to get those tix. I still have the full-page New York Times ad (with big Gerald Scarfe monster) announcing the on-sale date.

[mikemokr]

Originally posted by TroyD
Monsters of Rock at Oxford Plains Speedway......I was at that 'un after the worst friggin traffic jam in history and the pouring rain. I didn't go to the Dead shows the next week though...What the hell were you guys doing up in the middle of nowhere???

umm, catching great music ... I lived in Concord NH at the time so it wasn't too bad of a schlep. Lived in the Augusta ME area (Winthrop) for a year in '85-86, too. I like Maine a lot (even if the Circuit City in Portland didn't have any open box specials on the CS400i or F/Xs when I was up there the other day ...).

[wangotango68]

hay troy is the flying dutchmen still open down there?

scott:cool:

[TroyD]

In Charleston? The name rings a bell, but I don't think I ever went there. The names change so often it is rediculous. My haunts were: The Windjammer, Music Farm, Cumberlands, Cafe 99, Miskins.

If it was a strip club, I can tell you that I was never there.

Troy

[TheOneRod]

Hey look! Everyone let me have my computer back!

I thought of my worst show. David Lee Roth at the St. Louis Riverport Ampatheatre. It was HORRIBLE!

Now, before anyone jumps me David's performance was good. He put a lot of energy into it and the band played well, too.

The problem was the soundman from HELL!!!!

We arrived early and the first thing I saw in the booth was OLD mxr processors and ancient crown amps. I couldn't tell what kind of mixing console was there but it looked real beat up. And the sound all night fit the gear I saw.

At one point it was so bad I turned to look at the soundman to see what he might do about it and all he did was fold his arms and stare at the console.

I could've mixed a better show on a Shure Vocalmaster like the Beatles used to use. Kill da sound guy!

[axeman]

The traffic was SOOOOOOOO BAD, Eddie Van Halen had to charter a helicopter to get to the gig on time!

Loved it though and sorry to the locals for the tramitic time!!

Great speedway though.

Joe

[ntculenuff]

green day great sound for a punk band it was not so loud that you couldn't hear any thing like a lot concerts.
moby, 311 3x's, googoo dolls 2x's, warped tour 98 limp bizkit, sugar ray 2x's, alkoholics, pennywise 3x's, mighty bostones,warp tour 99 civ, save ferris, cherry poppin daddy's,warp tour 2000 ice-t, sevendust, man i must have gotten better drugs each year, i can remember less each year i went....:confused:
dj irene, van halen with sammy and i am not really a fan, hole, marilyn manson, white zombie, prong, type o negitive, alice in chains, gwar 2x's, soulfly, pantera, jon e thin 5x's, john kelly, crystal method, uber zone, no doubt 2x's mmmmm gwen, hed pe 2x's, tori amos, black happy 3x's,billy idol, alice cooper, santana not really a fan of his either but what a show, blink 182 4x's these guys are fun, chris cornell, red hot chili peppers, black eyed peas, stone temple pilots, roger waters let me just say holy sh*t unbeleivable, pearl jam, korn 2x's, papa roach, powerman 5000, lit, slipknot, mudvayne, sir mix-alot, primus, bush, suicidal tendancies, g love and special sauce, journey w/o steve perry the new singer sounds a lot like him, zz top....just to name a few

not all of them may have been EPIC shows but every one of them is burned into the memory bank (some more cloudier than others)
and i enjoyed everyone of them. even met a lot of them at the shows:cool:

[PETERNG]

Originally posted by TroyD
[B]OK, so I am bored and curious, what is the best concert that you have ever seen??


Boston - '86 at the Worcester Centrum
Tom Sholz is the MAN and it was a local crowd


Troyd,

I wish they put this on on DVD, I will be the first in line to get it...

Yes Tom is the MAN...

[Aaron]

I can't say I've had a truly life-changing concert experience, but here are two that I enjoyed.

Goo-Goo Dolls and Tonic -- just a good concert

Eve 6 -- two terrible bands opened for them, but they rocked. Too bad my ears rang for the next week. Never subject your ears to 5 hours of insanely loud music. Bad! I learned a lesson that night.

Aaron

[Ron-P]

Oingo Boingo on Halloween. I went to 3 of their shows all on Halloween nights. Danny Elfman is a Friggen genius. To bad a reunion tour is not in the works.


Peace Out~:D