The best concert you been to????

[z0s0_jp]

i saw jethro tull fifteen years ago and went to the sound check and backstage and to the pub with them ....very fun....seen doobies...steve miller ..csn....chicago...tom petty...steely dan...boston ...floyd(without waters)...nugent...bad company ....motorhead(****ing loud)c.o.c...metallica...mercyful fate...slayer...elp...scorps...maiden..hagar..i know im forgetting something.. ;) robert plant 2 days ago...next week going to new york, paul mccartney at madison square garden..and tull (front row at carnegie hall!!)but the best was last year RUSH 30th anniversery tour 3 1/2hours with 15 minute break in the middle, those guys kick ass!!! what is your fav you been to???

[Jolly McJollyson]

i saw jethro tull fifteen years ago and went to the sound check and backstage and to the pub with them ....very fun....seen doobies...steve miller ..csn....chicago...tom petty...boston ...floyd(without waters)...nugent...bad company ....motorhead(****ing loud)coc...metallica...mercyful fate...slayer...elp...scorps...maiden..hagar..i know im forgetting something.. ;) robert plant 2 days ago...next week going to new york, paul mccartney at madison square garden..and tull (front row at carnegie hall!!)but the best was last year RUSH 30th anniversery tour 3 1/2hours with 15 minute break in the middle, those guys kick ass!!! what is your fav you been to???
Maiden and ELP are the ones I'm most jealous of (I've seen rush, haha).

[Homebrew1709]

I've been to many, but just to name a few:

-Slipknot (jaegermeister tour)
-311 (many times, but 10th anniversary show was amazing)
-Avenged Sevenfold (seen them twice already, but next saturday's show should trump all others)
-First year of Family Values Tour (Incubus, Orgy, Limp Bizkit, Rammstein, Korn).

I'll be seeing Children of Bodom and Trivium together in november. :D

[Jolly McJollyson]

-Slipknot (jaegermeister tour)
-Avenged Sevenfold (seen them twice already, but next saturday's show should trump all others)
-First year of Family Values Tour (Incubus, Orgy, Limp Bizkit, Rammstein, Korn).
A few you could have done without. :D

[z0s0_jp]

Maiden and ELP are the ones I'm most jealous of (I've seen rush, haha).
elp was good..the keyboardist laid on his back with his keyboard laying on his tum tum and had the keyboard facing away from him so he had to play backwards and he ripped out some bach..total madman...maiden was the powerslave tour, incredible stage show...so what was your favorite??? p.s. "giant fighting robot" kicks ass!!! :D

[Cody_King]

Best bands i have seen live,

1# Children of Bodom, Avenged sevnfold comes next, and than probley Slayer for there stage presence, lamb of god for the mosh pit

[Kevin Taylor]

Supertramp in Toronto with Jean Luc Ponty as the opening act.

[Homebrew1709]

A few you could have done without. :D

To hell with you, jolly! maybe u could do without, but not me! And when I'm in that pit next saturday, I'm gonna kick someones ass twice as hard just for you! hahahahah!

[Akira]

Saw Muse in 2003, they put on an amazing show. Bad Religion in '04; best thing about that was the crowd, it was mental.

Seeing Steve Vai this month (23rd). I can't wait. :D

[Andrew Sa]

Being a South African...I never really saw any international bands there apart from Smashing Pumpkins, James, Jackson Browne...maybe a few more...until I got out here to England...I have since seen many bands...the best show I have seen was Greenday at Milton Keynes Bowl in June...was there biggest show ever...65000 people on both days...so thats 13000 in two days......that was the best all round show...but I think Mark Knopfler at the Royal Albert Hall was probably the best playing and all that I have seen.

Also Coheed and Cambria (seen them twice) were amazing...and Bright Eyes (also seen them twice) are amazing.
Funeral for a Friend are also really good live.

lets turn this around tho...what is the worst international,succesful band you guys have seen?

The most dissappointing I have seen is probably Finch...I love them, maybe I just saw a bad gig, but they were very dissappointing.

[R. Shackleferd]

Hmmm...prolly Pantera with Anthrax. Although spending New Year's Eve 2000 with ZZ Top here in Houston was quite an experience too. But like was already mentioned...so was that last Rush tour, they were flawless. But I've had fun at practically every concert I've been too, like a free Kenny Wayne Shepherd show down on the beach in Galveston. Maybe one of the most obscure concerts of note would be Leo Kottke.
As far as disappointments, the only ones that come to mind are Black Sabbath, and another particular ZZ Top show in the Astrodome (just cuz that place doesn't have very good acoustics).

[rockonn91]

Seeing Steve Vai this month (23rd). I can't wait. :D


mannnnn lucky.

[Akira]

mannnnn lucky.

Hoorar. :)

[bigbuda]

I was working Event Staff for a company in Amarillo and our boss asked us if we wanted to work a Metallica show in New Mexico. We said "of couse" and took off. It was in the Eastern New Mexico University football stadium and me and a friend got to work the stairs that lead up to the press box. It was pretty sweet, we had a birds eye view of it all. The bands, the mountains, man we got so stoned just chillin on those steps and got paid for it. It was in 93 i think. I remember when Metallica came on, this storm started movin in over the mountains and you could see all this lightening but it never rained. It was the shiznit!

[z0s0_jp]

I was working Event Staff for a company in Amarillo and our boss asked us if we wanted to work a Metallica show in New Mexico. We said "of couse" and took off. It was in the Eastern New Mexico University football stadium and me and a friend got to work the stairs that lead up to the press box. It was pretty sweet, we had a birds eye view of it all. The bands, the mountains, man we got so stoned just chillin on those steps and got paid for it. It was in 93 i think. I remember when Metallica came on, this storm started movin in over the mountains and you could see all this lightening but it never rained. It was the shiznit!
ride the lightning baby!!!!

[Raskolnikov]

I'll be seeing Children of Bodom and Trivium together in november. :D
Assuming I can get tickets before they sell out, should be seeing that same tour sometime in December.


Best show I've seen: Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals.

Honorable mentions: Primus, Clutch, Artimus Pyledriver, Hank Williams III, Five Horse Johnson, Stinking Lizaveta, Fishbone, The Aquabats, and Blues Traveler.

Worst band that I've seen (that wasn't some crap local Punk or Nu-Metal band): P.O.D. "Singer" actually managed to rap off key the whole night, the band was all-around sloppy and their songs did nothing to make up for any of it. Simply horrid.

[x0o_BurnOut_o0x]

Ive only been to one concert(Rascal Flatts) but they kicked ass, and I had so much fun, and thats saying something if countrys not my thing.

[stolly3]

By far the best show I've seen would be The Cardboard Vampyres. They only are suppose to play 6 shows this year, if you get a chance you have to go. Jerry Cantrell and Billy Duffy are amazing together and their vocalist is awesome. They just play a bunch of cover songs with Alice In Chains songs thrown in. I saw the Doobie brothers, Allman Brothers, and Shinedown all at Summerfest this year, but Cardboard was the best show the whole week.

[PRSplaya]

I've seen a butt load of concerts ranging from country to blues to full on metal. I have to say, the best cocert I've ever been to was AC/DC!. Amazing showmenship, and playability! Angus is a mad man, and all over the place!!!!!

Worst would probably have to be ZZ Topps, only because they just stood there and played and sang. Basically looked like they didn't give a **** about what they were playing or who they were playing for.... their FANS! They were opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd, which only put on a marginaly better show... only because they looked like they enjoyed what they were doing.

[ZChixSoccer]

Last year I went to the Relient K concert. They are so awesome. Everyone must go to at least one of their concerts....you will have a blast.

[Jolly McJollyson]

Last year I went to the Relient K concert. They are so awesome. Everyone must go to at least one of their concerts....you will have a blast.
HA! Yeah, after that I'll head out to see Good Charlotte and then maybe New Found Glory!

[sigment frued]

Saw Muse in 2003, they put on an amazing show. Bad Religion in '04; best thing about that was the crowd, it was mental.

Seeing Steve Vai this month (23rd). I can't wait. :D

isn't Steve Vai playing in Ireland that day?

I can't wit for it either, I'm goning to the ireland one, the best gig I ever was at would have to be maiden, and masion.

[CW14]

Children of Bodom, two days ago.

[bababooe316]

"when you go home you can tell your friends, i was there, you werent, you blew it" - george thorogood and the destroyers 08/11/05

guy in the crowd yelling throughout the show "madison blues! madison blues!"
george says ok well do it and if we do it poorly you can keep talking but if we do it great, like we will, you have to shut the **** up.

after the song is over george says to the guy "dont **** with me man" :cool:

[Akira]

isn't Steve Vai playing in Ireland that day?

I can't wit for it either, I'm goning to the ireland one, the best gig I ever was at would have to be maiden, and masion.

Nope. *checks tickets* Definitly playing in Nottingham on the 23rd.

Edit: Ireland is on the 26th, checked on the Vai site.

[arska007]

BLACK ****ing SABBATH!!!! i saw it this summer live for the first time and it as awesome!!! :D

[aschleman]

Oh man.... Best show... I can't even think straight... Lets see... GnR and Metallica in 1992 when I was 9 years old... that was my first concert. My big brother took me... It would have been a million times better if I were the age I am now though... I've seen Dave Matthews 11 times... Every show except this years was absolutly amazing. Been to Ozzfest... it was okay... Sabbath didn't even play... But I saw Zakk Wylde thats all I wanted to see. Saw Metallica last summer when Godsmack opened for them. It was an awesome show... Seen Incubus. They put on one hell of a show, and suprisingly have good moshpits... Breaking Benjamin was good, Shinedown was good, Seether and Evanesence was awesome... I've also seen Jack Johnson 3 times... and one time he was with Ben Harper... that was f'n awesome. I saw Robert Plant and Jerry Cantrell in the same weekend on back to back nights at the House of Blues in Chicago... I also saw Steve Vai and Eric Sardinas at the House of Blues in Chicago... Sardinas was awwwwwesome, and Vai will blow you away. I would have to say.... that THE best concert I have been to... would have to have been Dave Matthews Band in 1998... I saw them at Deer Creek... now known as Verizon Wireless Center in Noblesville, IN.... It was pouring down rain and they almost cancelled the show.... Dave came out and played a song called "J.T.R." by himself when he wasn't suppose to... In the chorus it says "Rain, Rain, Rain down on me" and so on. The crowd went nuts and the rest of the band came on and played one of the best shows they have ever played.... it was great. That comes in first very slightly ahead of the GnR/Metallica tour... with special guest Faith No More. Just because I can't really remember everything about it and I was too young to fully enjoy it. But I got a t-shirt from it still to this day. haha.

[Jolly McJollyson]

BLACK ****ing SABBATH!!!! i saw it this summer live for the first time and it as awesome!!! :D
Well then I guess you saw it after Iron Maiden left the tour...otherwise you'd be saying "Iron ****ing Maiden," right?

[CW14]

Well then I guess you saw it after Iron Maiden left the tour...otherwise you'd be saying "Iron ****ing Maiden," right?
Every time I think about that I have an urge to kill Sharon Osbourne.

:mad:

[hann1bal]

Well I'm into energy and having fun at shows. Therefore the best ever to me was Pantera/WhiteZombie a while back.

honorable mentions:
Jagermeister two yrs ago w/ hatebreed, Arch enemy, and Slayer (=not a crowd, just one big mosh pit)
Black album tour:Fight, Suicidal Tendencies, and Metallica (the previous metallica that is)

More recently:
Soulfly-hope to see em' again this week!
Cannable Corpse w/ Hypocrisy
Superjoint Ritual (nuts...chicks stage diving topless into one gigantic pit)

Hope to see soon: Lamb of God, Maiden, Shadows Fall, Malmsteen, Slipknot, Chamira