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[MUSIC] Best Live Performances You've Ever (personally) Seen?

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  1. Surfguy

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    RUSH
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    #21 Surfguy, Sep 19, 2011
  2. ima_drummer2k

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    LOL at the posters listing 100 different shows. I love CF. ;)

    Among the hundreds of shows I've seen in my 40 years, here are a few that stand out:

    Living Colour 1988 (can't remember the name of the club in Houston on Richmond...I know some others here were there....what was the name of the club??)

    Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1985, Sam Houston Coliseum - This was their "rock out with your **** out" days. There were about 200 people there. LOL.

    Ben Folds Five, 1996(?), Numbers - Still can't believe all that sound came from a trio playing live.

    Weezer, 1996, Liberty Lunch/Austin - Weezer in their absolute prime with Matt Sharp totally working the crowd.

    All 5 Rush shows I've been to - Duh....it's Rush! What do you expect?

    All 40 Ten Hands shows I've been to. Anyone here remember them?
     
    #22 ima_drummer2k, Sep 19, 2011
  3. Xerobull

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    Ministry
     
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  4. Blake

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    The Vatican?

    Wild guess...I was 11 at the time and obviously didn't go to that show.

    Would love to have seen Vernon Reid jam live
     
    #24 Blake, Sep 19, 2011
  5. Rashmon

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    Neil Young and Crazy Horse at the Summit early 90's
    Zappa at Hofheinz Pavilion mid 70's
    Stevie Ray Vaughn at a club in Nacogdoches late 70's
     
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    The best shows I ever saw.....

    Bruce Springsteen - The Summit - 1978
    Stevie Ray Vaughan - Rome Inn (Austin) - 1979
    Fabulous Thunderbirds - Paramount Theatre (Austin) - 1979
    The Who - The Summit - 1980
    Grateful Dead - Manor Downs (Austin) - 1981
    The Rolling Stones - Astrodome - 1981
    Pete Townshend - Wiltern Theatre (Los Angeles) - 1993 (Pete Townshend solo with a 15 piece backing band in a theatre that seats maybe 1,000)
    Sex Pistols - Hollywood Paladium- 1995
    Tom Waits - Jones Hall - 2008
     
    #26 RocketMan Tex, Sep 19, 2011
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    Living Colour at Xcess in 89ish
    Benson & Hedges Blues Fest at the Summit - Saw BB King and his Orchestra and John Lee Hooker (with many others) 90ish
    Butthole Surfers 90ish
    Prince NYE show at the Summit
    Pet Shop Boys and Erasure at Astroworld
    Dead Milkmen played a song for me at a show. (I interviewed them for my college radio station before the show and they asked me what I wanted to hear - during the show they said "Our friend "oomp' wants to hear...")
    Ben Folds Five at Numbers
    Guy Forsyth multiple times
    Deer Tick

    Non Music:
    Gerorge Carlin in 88
    Andrew Dice Clay at his peak at the Summit
    Jim Rose when his show was huge. Right after Lollapalloza II when he was second stage. Full venue multiple acts. I saw him again years later at a comedy club, not near as fun.
     
    #27 oomp, Sep 19, 2011
  8. FranchiseBlade

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    1. Big Country

    2. Devo

    3. INXS

    4. The Kinks

    5. Depeche Mode

    6. They Might Be Giants at Prospect Park

    7. Squeeze

    8. The Pixies

    9. The Ramones

    10. starf*****s

    11. Butthole Surfers

    12. Radio Dept.

    13. Old 97's

    Those are the best.
     
    #28 FranchiseBlade, Sep 19, 2011
  9. macalu

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    no kidding. i don't think Best Live Performances You've Ever Seen equals list every concert you've ever been to. :grin:


    my most MEMORABLE one is the Metallica/Guns n Roses in '92 at the Astrodome. Both bands were at the top at the time and the Astrodome was rocking hard.
     
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  10. DaDakota

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    1. Van Halen with David Lee in the early 80s.
    2. AC/DC - For those about to Rock tour
    3. Journey - Escape Tourt
    4. Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians in a small dive bar in Austin before they hit.
    5. INXS
    6. Erasure
    7. REM
    8. The Cult

    DD
     
    #30 DaDakota, Sep 19, 2011
  11. leroy

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    Delta Spirit - just the other day at ACL and, well, pretty much every time I've seen them
    Ben Harper @ The Satellite Lounge
    Reverend Horton Heat @ Rockefellers (might be dating myself a bit with those 2)
    The Black Crowes @ the International Ballroom
    Wilco - ACL multiple shows
     
    #31 leroy, Sep 19, 2011
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    Replacements- Numbers 1988
    King's X- Rockafellers 1989
    Freedy Johnston- 1995 Luna's
    Frames- 2006 Aladdin Theater
     
    #32 white lightning, Sep 19, 2011
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    Front 242 - Numbers

    Pet Shop Boys - Astroworld ( probably because I had front row, center seats )
     
    #33 Samurai Jack, Sep 19, 2011
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    The Beatles ...2008 (Smoke Till You Choke Tour)
     
    #34 javal_lon, Sep 19, 2011
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    Great now we get to see a list that goes BEYOND encompassing a Stevie nicks solo show to prove the list is actually much larger and that those 100+ listed shows actually ARE the best.
     
    #35 CrazyDave, Sep 19, 2011
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    Delta Spirit w/ Dawes- Walters Houston- 2009
    The Strokes- Auditorium Shores Austin- 2011
    MGMT- ACL 2008
    The Black Keys- ACL 2008
    Girls -Walters Houston- 2010
    Warpaint- Anytime they come to Houston. Never let down

    Completely missed the boat on:
    Interpol- Numbers- 2005?
    LCD Sound System- Verizon Wireless- 2010
     
    #36 nachbarFTW, Sep 19, 2011
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    The Flaming Lips are always great. I saw them going back to seeing them at The Vatican in the early 1990's. I think they were touring "Clouds Taste Metallic." The most memorable show was in 1999, or 2000. They played a weird club in South Houston, maybe in Scarsdale and everyone in the audience was given headphones with an FM transmitter. I think this was touring for "The Soft Bulletin." It was quite an audio-visual experience. We were still finding confetti from the show years later.

    Issac Hayes at the Arena Theater was an incredible experience- from the crowd to the songs to the performance.

    Seeing the Pixies at a club with my wife on her due date with our first child would be memorable in any case, but they were so good it was surreal.

    Richard Thompson is incredible live.

    Probably my favorite concert ever was the Super Furry Animals in Austin in 2002. They were amazing.

    Best show in recent times is Sufjan Stevens here in Auckland.
     
    #37 BMoney, Sep 19, 2011
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    The gorillaz last year was amazing

    The dead weather on several occasions

    Incubus monuments and melodies tour

    Robert plant and Allison Krause at my first acl

    Pearl jam with Ben Harper

    Tom morello free concert during sxsw a few years back
     
    #38 conundrum, Sep 19, 2011
  19. basso

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    August 25, 1974 @ The Liberty Bowl, Memphis, TN:

    Jesse Colin Young
    Elvin Bishop Band
    Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

    Concert started ~5pm. CSNY hit the stage at 8pm, and were still playing after midnight.
     
    #39 basso, Sep 20, 2011
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    Best live performance is Marilyn Manson
    You can hate the guy and his music but he puts on awesome live shows.

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    #40 aeroman10, Sep 20, 2011
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