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Favorite concert by an artist? (1 Viewer)

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What is your favorite live performance by an artist or band? Happy Friday,  FFA!  :

 
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Mogwai's show in Northampton, MA was probably the best live show I've experienced. They closed with My Father, My King and it was so deafening and such an intense ending to an intense set.  

 
I've seen my favorite band (Widespread Panic) well over a 100 times so tough for me to pick out the best show from them but it was probably the final show of their 2000 Nola Halloween run.

I have a really tough time picking out just one show but seeing Neil Young at the Warfield was pretty amazing, 20 minute Down by the River.  I saw Prince only once at the Fleet Center in Boston with Maceo Parker and that ruled.  Also saw David Byrne at The Fillmore in SF and that was awesome.

Ive seen well over a 1000 live shows so tough question.

 
Big shows would be The Drones tour by Muse.  What a spectacle

Smaller shows would be one of many July Talk shows

 
Coldplay at Red Rocks, June 6, 2003. Poured down rain the entire time, but the energy in that place was out of this world

More of a metalhead these days, so in that vein I'd say Mayhem-Watain-RottingC at Mr. Smalls in Pittsburgh, November 22, 2015. 

 
Metallica Justice tour popped into my head immediately.  Funny that it's already got 3 votes.   

Motley Crue on the Girls Girls Girls tour was pretty great.  They had an unknown Gun n Roses open for them and Tommy Lee's overhead drum solo was insane.

 
Right Said Fred 2016. They played all their hits and closed with Don't Talk Just Kiss..

 
Talking Heads at Red Rocks 1983 Speaking in Tongues - it's the tour they filmed for Stop Making Sense. Crosseyed, Big Business/ I Zimbra out of this world - 9,000 people just straight out getting down.

 
Saw Metallica open for Ozzy way back

Huge Janes fan: Porno for Pyros put on a show that blew me away 

Never miss Petty

PJ at Wrigley was pretty epic 

 
These are probably the two best I have seen.

GNR-Boston Garden-1993

Arcade Fire-Halifax/Dartmouth N.S. 7/28/11

I have to add Elton John with Ray Cooper in Providence (late 90's?) and Eagles Hell Freezes Over at Great Woods were pretty great.  I was in the first few rows for one of the Eagles shows.  

 
The Who "25th Anniversary/The Kids are Alright Tour" in 1989 at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh.

 
This changes from time to time. The death of Glenn Frye makes this one memorable.

The Eagles two years ago at Joe Louis arena Detroit. Sounds and vocals were spot on.

 
I've seen Tool many times---amazing every time. 

I went to a Kroq acoustic xmas in 1998--featured Depeche Mode, smashing pumpkins, garbage and many more.  Pretty awesome. 

 
My default answer for this is The Hold Steady at Lee's Palace about 10 years ago now. Small venue, favourite band, perfect setlist.

For bigger shows, Arcade Fire 2010 on Toronto Island was pretty amazing.

Big band in a small club is always fun, so I loved seeing The Killers at Sound Academy a few years back.

Best combined bill (non festival) I've seen was The National/Modest Mouse/R.E.M. in 2008, just an incredible lineup.

More recently, Foals at Wayhome was so much fun and was part of a ridiculous run of Nathaniel Rateliff/Wolf Parade/Foals/LCD Soundsystem/Mac Demarco.

I think I see way too many concerts, or maybe not nearly enough. I did a count at the end of the year, I think I saw 52 different bands last year alone...

 
My favorite was probably the Commodores/LTD in (I think) '78 at the old Capital Centre.

Best experience (I was backstage) was P Funk at the same venue in either '79 or '80.

The most fun I ever had was at a 3-day bluegrass festival in the early 80s at Conewingo, MD. I can't recall who the headliners were other than JD Crowe.

 
Allman Brothers Band. Sandstone Ampitheater Kansas City 1995. Dickie Betts at his prime and a Young Warren Haynes. Allan Woody (aka the ugliest man to ever strap on a bass) was unbelievable. More screaming Guitar than you could fathom. I'm a deadhead so it took me like 10 years to admit it was the best show I ever saw......but it was. 

Saw the last 10-11 shows of the last grateful dead run including the "riot" show and the last show ever. 

 
Don't really have a favorite, though gun to my head I'd probably go with Spirituatized at Radio City Music Hall in 2010 playing Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space with brass, strings, and choir.

Other standouts:

Grateful Dead RFK '90, JGB Hampton '91

Bridge School Benefit '99 - Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, The Who, Neil, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Pearl Jam, Corgan/Iha, Green Day

Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams - Anaheim '98

Guided by Voices - Maxwell's '01, Terminal 5 '10

Drive-by Truckers - Freebird Live '05, Charleston Chazfest '06

John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom Room '97

JJ Cale/John Hammond - Telluride '94

Phish - Flood Zone '92, Red Rocks '93, Red Rocks '94

Metallica/Ozzy - Cap Centre '86 (first show)

The Who - RFK '89

 
Jackstraw said:
Allman Brothers Band. Sandstone Ampitheater Kansas City 1995. Dickie Betts at his prime and a Young Warren Haynes. Allan Woody (aka the ugliest man to ever strap on a bass) was unbelievable. More screaming Guitar than you could fathom. I'm a deadhead so it took me like 10 years to admit it was the best show I ever saw......but it was. 

Saw the last 10-11 shows of the last grateful dead run including the "riot" show and the last show ever. 
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Ouch

 
RokNRole said:
Aren't all concerts live by definition?
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Of course. And since there's absolutely no way to film or record them, or to broadcast them or make a movie or special or reality TV show or simulcast or bootleg, there's clearly only one single way to interpret the question.

 
Too many concerts to pick just one. The best year for concerts though is a slam dunk....1990. I purchased a session for five concerts that summer and the shows were:

Aerosmith (Pump tour)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (In Step tour and just 9 weeks before he died)
Rush (Presto tour)
Stevie Miller Band
Robert Plant (Manic Nirvana tour)

Total cost for all 5 shows in the pavilion (as opposed to the lawn) was $125. That's the cost of ONE show these days!

 
My second best experience was Motley Crue - Tesla - Joe Satriani - Bonham - 

July 7, 1990.  I was 16 years old.  Time of my life!  They filmed the Same Ol Situation video that night (and the previous).  So fun.  

 
I should throw in AC/DC at Rogers Centre in late 2008, loudest concert I've been to and the only one I went to with both my dad and my brother. Dad died a couple months later.

 
I'll throw another vote in for that Metallica / Cult Tour

Saw that show completely sober. Weed was nowhere to be found around us in the summer of '89. All of us were under 21, got there too late to tailgate and buy beers in the parking lot, And if I remember correctly, they didn't even sell beer at the venue for that show. We were in panic mode going in about 'not being wasted, man!' but no one gave a damn as we walked out afterwards. 

 
Might get crushed for this but Kanye came to our campus in 2004 right after College Dropout. 21 year old me thought it was an amazing performance. 

 
Buzzbait said:
simey said:
The Who "25th Anniversary/The Kids are Alright Tour" in 1989 at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh.
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Great show! I went the one in Cleveland the week before NC.  :thumbup:
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Daltrey was in great voice, and he had so much energy. He put any aerobics instructor to shame with the way he moved around the whole show. Townshend was whipping his windmills, Entwistle thumping his bass, and Jones banging his drums. It was loud and it rocked!! :headbang:

 
Limp Ditka said:
I've pontificated about this on this forum many of times, but I saw Pearl Jam open up for two well known bands probably about 5-6 weeks before 10 was released. Outside of a few 'These are the MLB guys' whispers from others in the crowd, we had no idea who they were. To say that they completely stole the night would be an understatement. The energy that band brought that night still echoes in me.
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Weird to have a band, whom at the time I had never heard a single song from, still be one of my favorite shows after all these years.

Every other time I've seen a band that I was unfamiliar with at the time, I stand there, soak it in, walk away and decide if I like it or not. Even with artists I was already familiar with (Example: Knowing Huskers and Bob Mould stuff, saw Sugar before Copper Blue was released), it would be the same thing. 

Not this show. I was completely swept up in it and as I say above, it still echoes in me. Every time I think about it, it puts a smile on my face even though I really haven't followed PJ closely since Vitalogy. It was that damn good.

 
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cheese said:
Might get crushed for this but Kanye came to our campus in 2004 right after College Dropout. 21 year old me thought it was an amazing performance. 
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No way you get crushed in my world. That album was straight genius. Awesome all around.

 
I haven't been to many concerts but I'd have to pick Pearl Jam in Glendale, AZ in 2013. Finally got to see my favorite band live and 3 1/2 hours later they did not disappoint.

Setlist:
Long Road
Release
Low Light
Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd cover)
Corduroy
Lightning Bolt
Mind Your Manners
Given to Fly
Getaway
Yellow Moon
Even Flow
Sirens
Daughter
Wishlist
Infallible
Do the Evolution
Once
1/2 Full
Better Man
Go

Encore:
Bee Girl
Around the Bend (First time live since 2006)
Future Days
Hard to Imagine
Footsteps
Jeremy
Alone
Down
Unthought Known
Porch

Encore 2:
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Spin the Black Circle
Alive
Rockin’ in the Free World (Neil Young cover) (with Nils Lofgren)
Indifference

 
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My all-time favorite was The Who in December '82 at the Checkerdome in St. Louis.  It was the first farewell tour!  It was also the best seats I had ever had at a concert (15th row) up to that time (I've had lots of real close seats since).  The concert was great because of the girl I was with, the seats, the fact that I was seeing a legend for what was (at the time) likely the last chance. 

 
World Series of Rock at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1978.

Trickster

ELO

Foreigner

Journey

ELO came on last because they were doing the giant illuminated space ship looking stage.

And musically this one suprises me but it was at the Richfield Coliseum in NE Ohio in I want to say 1975 or 1974.

Eric Carmen

Dave Mason

The Beach Boys

 
Northern Voice said:
My default answer for this is The Hold Steady at Lee's Palace about 10 years ago now. Small venue, favourite band, perfect setlist.
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I've seen the Hold Steady a few times now, but one of my top 3 concerts (I can't choose just one) is seeing them at the Bascilica Block Party in MSP - summer 2009. Outdoors in their hometown, in front of the big Bascilica downtown, I had no idea what I was walking into. I had heard they were a good band but had never really listened to them. The energy was unreal and that night remains one of my favorite concert experiences ever.

I saw Prince on his Musicology tour - I think it was 2004 - in St. Paul. So this was his "hometown" show. It was the only time I saw him live, I'm only a casual fan and I had no idea how amazing it would be. I'm still surprised that this show has stuck with me as one of my favorite concert experiences ever. I loved the funk but the song that sticks with me is his acoustic rendition of "7" during his acoustic set. Everything about that show was "wow".

Perhaps my favorite music experience ever was seeing a Van Halen soundcheck during their tour in 2012. A friend and I bought their VIP tickets and had seats in the first ten rows. Cool. But a perk of that was getting access to their soundcheck. Eddie, Al and Wolfie (no Dave) - they played 5 or 6 of their songs from the setlist (and one that wasn't on it) sans vocals. It was unreal seeing them just nail those songs while I had was singing all the vocals in my head. I've never been more in awe of greatness than during those 25 minutes.

Finally, seeing Dave Matthews in 2001 at the UNLV football stadium in Vegas was amazing (Sam Boyd stadium I think). Vegas weather, under the stars, awesome vibe and the band was on fire. There's something about traveling to a concert that adds to the enjoyment level (at least for me) - especially when that travel is to Vegas. Destination concerts are fun.

 
Oops I forgot about Rage Against the Machine and U2 at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis in 1997.

That was a good show too.

And the Stones with Johnny Lang opening for them at Fed-Ex Forum in MEM in 1999? was pretty awesome too.

And the Eagles Hell Freezes Over tour Fed-Ex Forum was musically great. 

 
Big venue - Prince Purple Rain tour 1984 - Greensboro NC

Small venue - A Tribe Called Quest 1991 (about a week after The Low End Theory dropped) - The Brewery Raleigh NC

 
Village Idiot said:
And the Eagles Hell Freezes Over tour Fed-Ex Forum was musically great. 
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I think I saw three shows from that run which was very cool.  Another cool show that happened right before they got back together was Don Henley's Walden Woods benefit at Foxboro.  He sounded REALLY good that night.  That was a couple of months after I graduated high school and I took my wife.

 
Chemical Brothers - 1995 @  Arragone Ballroom in Chicago and 2011 at North Coast Music Festival.   the visual | sound experience they have been producing the last 5 or 6 years is off the charts.

 
I think it was like 2003 or 4 that I saw ben harper and the innocent criminals at the Greek in Berkeley with Jack Johnson as his opener. By far the best live concert I've seen with the Foo Fighters last year at shoreline coming in a close second.

 
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