I went to my first concert a couple months ago in Shreveport, LA. It started off with Hurt, Seether, Breaking Benjamin, and finished off with Three Days Grace. Obviously it's the best I've been too since it's been the only one but my best friend has been to about 8 different ones and he said that concert blew the rest of them away.
/Me Reading 311 @ Numbers Fall 1999 Jurassic 5 @ the Engine Room Fall 2002 Black Sabbath/Pantera/Deftones Winter 1999
In 1973 Emerson Lake and Palmer did their Someone Get Me A Ladder tour (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...). in quadraphonic surround sound. Instead of just the usual stage array of speakers, they had two additional banks of speakers in the back corners of the Auditorium (Memorial in Dallas...a standard 10,000 seat venue). To my dim and acid addled memory the effect was amazing and I've always wondered why it hasn't been done since. It was a comparable step up to adding surround sound to your home theater only at about 50,000 watts. And of course Keith had the flying trapeze piano at that period. The entire baby grand piano lifts up into the air while he his playing it and then spins end over end.....well, you had to be there. Any audio engineers out there that tell me why this was the only time I've ever heard this type of sound system in concert?
I was at that show...it was a great one The best for me was probably The Arcade Fire in Dallas. Runner up would be the Pixies/Radiohead back to back show at Coachella in 04
I'm not as in to them as I once was, and I'm still not convinced that they're the best band ever, etc, etc, but the best concert I've ever been to was Rush.
Wow thats tough.... really tough. I went to alot of shows in my prime (18-28), but some highlights were: * Toadies (with Rev. Horton Heat and Butthole Surfers) at Westpark Coliseum. In fact any Toadies show for that matter - one of my fav. bands live hands down. * Coldplay at The Backyard in Austin * Queensryche at The Summit with Suicidal Tendencies (first concert ever) * Guns-N-Roses / Metallica at the Dome * Weezer / Foo Fighters at Woodlands * Black Crowes at Stubbs in Austin
Probably the first concert Jimi Hendrix played in Houston, at the Music Hall, February 18th, 1968 with the Soft Machine and the Movin' Sidewalks. Saw him again August 4th, 1968 at The Roman Barn (Sam Houston Coliseum). Again in April of 1969 at the Coliseum. With Band of Gypsies on June 6, 1970... same venue. The best, however, was at the Music Hall. Great acoustics, about 3500 seats, general admission was $2.50!!!
Bingo. (But wasn't it early 1989?) Most energy I had ever seen on stage. Vernon was breaking strings and Corey was all over the stage, Great show. All three Lollapaloozas Pet Shop Boys Performance tour where they had a different set for every song Flaming Lips when they opened for Candlebox and were wrapped in Christmas lights for the whole set The Dead Milkmen dedicated a song to me at a show where I had interviewed them for my college radio station before they went on Seeing Nitzer Ebb open for Depeche Mode at the Pavillion Pumpkins at the Summit Also at the Summit, The Benson & Hedges Blues fest with BB King, John Lee Hooker, Etta James, Fabulous T-Birds, Johnny Winter and others. Butthole Surfers in 89 or 90. I think it was at the Ensemble, someone corrected me here once before about it's location. But it was a memorable show. (What I can remember of it anyway!)
I was at this show. Is that venue still around? That was the first and only show I'd ever been to there. That show sticks out for me because I remember I was 18 and drank Zima's on the way to the show and just thought I was sooooo cool. Ahhh...to be young again.
Dubious, I saw Pink Floyd do a concert at the Houston Music Hall in quadrophonic on September 9, 1972. While Dark Side of the Moon hadn't been released yet (I don't think it was, anyway... would have to look), they played a huge chunk of it. Just an incredible concert. Best Floyd concert I've ever witnessed. Our tickets? $3.50!
Question: Why is it anytime someone asks "What's the best" whatever, people give a list of their top 5 or some cases, top 10? it doesn't really answer the question.
Because they can't decide on their favorite. I bet it's hard for you to decide between Panic at the Disco and Fall Out Boy.
And making $75 a week was good money for a kid. Reconsidering the criteria, I'm going to take Crosby,Stills,Nash& Young at the Summit because of the depth and range of the songs, from the quietest most perfect harmonies of Guinivere to the loudest, grungiest sound of Mr. Soul. There was no warm up act, they just walked on and did 3 hours. After one particular sponteneous outpouring of crowd love, David Crosby said, "songs, you want songs?.......We've got songs." It wasn't that long ago so they were cetainly old enough to just do a geezer rock nostalgia show, but the energy level was stunning. A Neil Young show by itself might merit the thread's consideration.
Probably, but I just remember it was my freshman year of college. Can't remember if it was fall or spring semester. I remember Cory doing several stage dives and getting his shirt ripped apart. It didn't even phase him. I was wearing a Zildjian shirt and at the end of the show, Will Calhoun pointed at me and gave me a 'thumbs up'. Deckard, my Dad is always telling me about a show he saw at Jones Hall where Jimi Hendrix opened up for Janis Joplin. No one knew who Hendrix was at the time but he blew the roof off the place.
kroq weenie roast 2000 Korn, Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath, Limp Bizkit, The Offspring, Creed, Moby, Stone Temple Pilots, No Doubt, Third Eye Blind, Godsmack, Cypress Hill, Everclear, Lit, Incubus, eminem was supposed to be there too but he cancelled at the last minute and they brought out ozzy and black sabbath instead. korn put on a crazy show (they always do) it was crazy it was at edison field (where the angels play) the entire infield was the mosh pit...it was the biggest mosh pit ever. had sooo much fun, right after i graduated high school was like my last hurrah with some of my close friends. we all hooked up with random chicks there it was great. except for my friend sean he got elbowed in the face in the mosh pit had a bruise for a few days. oh yeah and we boo'ed limp bizkit off the stage they had to cut fred durst's mike a few times cuz he was being an idiot
1.) Sufjan Stevens 2.) Five Iron Frenzy on the Winners Never Quit tour 3.) Five Iron Frenzy on the Rock Your Socks Off tour 4.) Bruce Springsteen on The Rising tour 5.) dc Talk on the Supernatural tour 6.) Steve Burns' second live show with The Starlight Mints at Stuka 7.) The Ataris, just before releasing So Long, Astoria 8.) The Starlight Mints at Hailey's in Denton, just before releasing Drowaton Active artists I haven't seen live but really really want to: Reese Roper, John Vanderslice, Lisa Loeb (bite me), AIR, Gabe Hascall, Daft Punk, Mute Math, the Old 97s.
Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Judas Priest concert a few years ago, because of those legends and because I was with a very nice lady who later became an internet skank. Marco Antonio Solís was excellent a few years ago too. I agree with Tool, they put on a ****ing show.
Nine inch Nails Van Halen Red Hot Chili Peppers in L.A Pink Floyd in S.F Iron Maiden in 1987 was the best however.
