Best concert you've been to

[Hard_2_Handle_454]

Just attended my first concert tonight and wanted to share some pics.  It was an amazing experience at a small venue. 

So what was your favorite concert attendance? 

I got got to see the one and only Alice Cooper in Wilmington, NC!

 

[atomicholiday]

That's awesome!   I never got to see Alice but I always wanted to.   Looks like a great time! 

I used to go to a lot of shows,  but hands down the best I ever saw was Pink Floyd. 

Me and some friends took a radio station sponsored bus trip to Chicago to see them at Soldier field.   This was around '93 or '94 for the Pulse tour.  It was an amazing show!  Sound quality was the best I'd ever heard live, and their performance was stunning. 

This will date it a little for you.   Round trip bus fair and concert ticket total cost was $100.  And these were great seats about halfway back in the middle.   Don't even want to think what it would cost now!

[Mike C.]

First one comes to mind was The Pixies opening up for Love and Rockets at Villanova university outside of Philly. Next would probably be Buffalo Tom at the TLA in Philly and we got to hang with the band backstage This girl we went there with that night worked for Polidor records and she got us backstage. Cool bunch of Boston guys. Thid that I can think of was The Replacements at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby in Philly. After the show, we got to hang with them at a bar across the street called Brownies Pub We I got to sing Round and Round with Westerberg before Thay left. Years later whenever we saw Paul and Tommy both said they remember us when they come to play there. I also remember The Hoodo Gurus for Australia at a cool nightclub in Asbury Park NJ.

[jaymcminn]

It's tough to narrow down to one. Best small venue would probably be the Flaming Lips at Jannus Landing in St. Pete several years ago. They put on something less like a concert and more like an out-of-body experience. Best medium venue would be Vampire Weekend in 2019 at St. Augustine. Great show, great crowd. I don't go in for arena concerts much anymore but my #1 would probably have to be Paul McCartney in Tampa back in 1990. Sir Paul somehow managed to make a stadium full of fans feel like an intimate concert.

[Rob Hall]

I've been to a lot of concerts over the last 30+ years.hard to narrow down to one.  Some that were above average, and really stood out include:

Pink Floyd on the Division Bell tour in 1994 at the Richfield Coliseum south of Cleveland

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band at Mile High Stadium in Denver in 2002

The Rolling Stones at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 2003

David Gilmour w/ Richard Wright, Nick Mason at the City Walk Amphitheatre in Studio City, CA in 2004-5

U2 and Pearl Jam at the Aloha Stadium in Hawaii in 2006

Rush at Red Rocks in Colorado 2007

Simple Minds at Northfield Casino in Northfield, OH in 2018

Paul McCartney at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY in 2022

The Cure at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH in 2023 (though it rained)

Duran Duran at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH in 2023

Peter Gabriel at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland in 2023

 

[Mike C.]

One that I missed was Pat DiNunzio (Smithereens) in a house in Collegeville PA in his cousins living room right before he sadly passed. It was friends and family only and my best friends brother got invited because he worked with Pats cousin. R.I.P. Pat. I miss that band. ?

[Mike 1017]

The Who at the Chicago Stadium

Mike

[Hard_2_Handle_454]

54 minutes ago, Rob Hall said:

I've been to a lot of concerts over the last 30+ years.hard to narrow down to one.  Some that were above average, and really stood out include:

Pink Floyd on the Division Bell tour in 1994 at the Richfield Coliseum south of Cleveland

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band at Mile High Stadium in Denver in 2002

The Rolling Stones at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 2003

David Gilmour w/ Richard Wright, Nick Mason at the City Walk Amphitheatre in Studio City, CA in 2004-5

U2 and Pearl Jam at the Aloha Stadium in Hawaii in 2006

Rush at Red Rocks in Colorado 2007

Simple Minds at Northfield Casino in Northfield, OH in 2018

Paul McCartney at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY in 2022

The Cure at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH in 2023 (though it rained)

Duran Duran at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH in 2023

Peter Gabriel at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland in 2023

 

I think that Stone's tour was filmed for an HBO special.  My friend taped it for me back then as I am a huge Stone's fan.

[Little Timmy]

Hands down, Judas Priest screaming for vengeance  tour ( 1982 I believe ? ) I had seats directly right front of stage. ( 2 rows back from the stage ) I couldn't hear anything for about a day.

I have been t a LOT of concerts.

The worst ?  Blue Oyster Cult.

Their a great studio band, but live... they all played like they were drunk, and hadn't practiced in months.

 

 

[Can-Con]

Huey Lewis and the News in the Casino in Moncton. IIRC, row 8.

The whole band sounded great. It's a crying shame hell probably never be able to perform again. ?

Second best was ZZ Top, same place row 11. 

[Big John]

Hard to make up my mind... either Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, Zeplin's first tour with Jethro Tull opening 69, but probably Crosby Stills and Nash with Joni Mitchel opening in 69.

[von Zipper]

 The first concert i went to my mom took me to see The Carpenters at Pine Knob in 1972...that was not the best concert i have been to LOL

On 10/5/2023 at 11:39 PM, Hard_2_Handle_454 said:

 

So what was your favorite concert attendance? 

I got got to see the one and only Alice Cooper in Wilmington, NC!

 

In 1975 some of my friends got tickets to see Alice Cooper "Welcome to My Nightmare'" at the old Olympia Stadium in Detroit, Suzi Quatro was the opening act, my dad wouldnt let me go , my maternal grandmother bought tickets and took me ,  My dad really couldnt say NO to her . All these years later i still have a crush on Suzi Quatro ! And miss my Grandma like crazy , she was a cool lady !

[BlackSheep214]

Same here. Hard to pin one particular concert. Concerts I've been over the years:  

Hall and Oates

Miami Sound Machine

Styx

John Cougar Mellencamp

Beach Boys - 3 times; most recent one a couple months ago.

Cheap Trick

Billy Joel at the Carrier Dome

Rick Springfield

Bryan Adams at MSG

 

Concerts I never saw but wished I had

The Police

Rolling Stones

Meatloaf

George Thorogood & the Destroyers

Tom Petty

Alice Cooper - regretted I passed seeing him in Utica last year.

REO Speedwagon

Rob Zombie

[stinkybritches]

Trans Siberian Orchestra... Dec. 2018 at the Richmond Colosseum.

[webestang]

I think there is a fav concert thread somewhere on here.

 

But anyway........

 

Best- all the Scorpions concerts I've been too (Best of all was the 1984, Love at First Sting tour). I'm bias as they are my favorite band. 

Loudest- Judas Priest.

Best sounding- Bod Seager.

Best seats- Aerosmith -2nd row center. 

Met the band- Foreigner. Foreigner 4 tour 1981. After the show the band went to a restaurant that a friend's brother worked there and surprised us. 

 

So many other concerts. 

[iamsuperdan]

Oh man, so many concerts over the years. But some standouts for me...

 

Rammstein - Edmonton, 2011

Roger Waters - Edmonton, 2012

Metallica - Damaged Justice tour, Edmonton, 1989

Faith No More - Vancouver, 2015

Muse - Edmonton, 2013

The Cult - private event at the Union Hall, Edmonton, 2018

Depeche Mode - Edmonton, 2017

 

 

 

Have a few concerts coming up to. 

Tool next week.

Depeche Mode in November

Inflames and Meshuggah in November

Ministry and Front Line Assembly in March.

 

 

[CaddyDaddy]

I’ve been to too many concerts over the years. Seems that I see the same bands over and over again. Hands down, the best that just about guarantee (guaranteed?) a great show:

J. Geils Band.........ain’t nothin’ but a house party!

ZZ Top.......that little ‘ol band from......

David Johansson.......would rip up any club

[Ace-Garageguy]

The best:

Cream. Chastain Park Amphitheater. October 1968. Front row seats.

Edited January 9, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy

[ChrisBcritter]

Legendary Ladies of Rock 'n' Roll - Cerritos, CA 1983. Martha Reeves, Darlene Love, and Ronnie Spector, hosted by Mary Wilson of the Supremes. Smokey Robinson in the audience. I won second row seats on KRLA and managed to shake hands with Darlene!

March/April 2006: The great blues singer Linda Hopkins at the Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood. My boss was a longtime friend of hers and produced the recording of the shows which became her final album, The Living Legend Live!.

[Monty]

Colorado Sunday (1982) at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado.  Used most of my meager savings to get a ticket and went with friends.  Ended up sleeping on the floor at the motel, but didn't care. 

707 opened (hadn't heard of them before, never heard of them since, followed by Rainbow, Ted Nugent, Scorpions and REO Speedwagon to close the show.  I remember questioning that choice at the time, but they put on an amazing performance worthy of a headliner.   

About a month later I learned The Who would be at the same venue for the first of what would be many "final tours" (probably where KISS got the idea), but I didn't have a dime to my name and couldn't beg or borrow any.  Really regret never getting to see them at the tail end of their prime.  

Edited January 9, 2024 by Monty

[Bugatti Fan]

Back in the sixties all the big name groups did the big ballrooms over here in the UK and we could get up close to all our favourites. The  Marquee Club in London was big at the time. We also had a pokey little coffee bar named The 2 I's in Soho, just off Picadilly Circus that was reckoned to be the birthplace of British rock n roll. The coffee bar has gone but there is a plaque on the building indicating where it was. Many well known British rock stars started there as  'Tin  Pan Alley' where all the London music agents offices were was literally just around the corner. It was the place to be discovered, allegedly. Of course the other venue everyone knows about is the Cavern Club, sadly demolished to make way for a Liverpool Subway System. The current Cavern Club in Liverpool is actually a copy as the city realised it could  have potential as a nostalgic tourist attraction. Have been to all three during their heyday back in the sixties and saw many performers just before they hit worldwide fame.

My most memorable concert was seeing the Beatles live just as they were beginning to get big.

There has always been a big Elvis Presley fan following over here in the UK. I felt that they were always badly let down as he never appeared live in the UK. In fact the only time he actually stepped onto British soil was when he was returning to the USA after his military service in Germany, and the plane he was travelling in stopped for an hour or two to refuel at Prestwick Airport in Scotland.

 

Edited January 11, 2024 by Bugatti Fan

[1972coronet]

Blues Festival whose entitlement was Benson & Hedges Blues Festival in June 1990. Featured many of my favourite artists / performers :
- John Lee Hooker 
- Cab Calloway 
- Stevie Ray Vaughn (one of his last performances)
- Dr. John 
And that's just from memory ! 

Second best ? 
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives , 15-04-2022 , La Mirada Theatre .
Marty - who happens to own and curate and play the hell out of  Clarence White's Parsons-White B-Bender - and his band play more than Bluegrass . One of the finest renditions of the Count Five Psychotic Reaction ever ! Their version of Pretty Boy Floyd is pure dynamite ! 

Then there were the numerous Punk , Psychobilly, Bluegrass, Electronic, and Deathrock shows back in the late 80's / early 90's.

[Brudda]

WOW brings back the old days! My father had a great friend that was one of the promoters for Bill Graham. We lived in the Bay Area so there was a lot. Probably saw over 100 before the end of the 70’s since they were free tickets for us. So back then I remember Grand Funk Railroad was at winterland  in San Francisco. Pretty great. Doobie brothers were great. Jefferson Airplane/ starship was pretty good. Jethero Tull was good. (Ian Anderson).Peter Framton was pretty good.  Elton John day on the green was great. Too many too list. Later Phil Collin’s was great. U2 in Colorado was great. Still today I have a high school friend working for Steve Winn and she gets us tickets in Vegas. Been very lucky with concerts. The one that stands out is Phil Collin’s. The best one in Vegas is the Blue Man Group. 

[bobss396]

Best, Neil Young at the Nassau Coliseum in 1978, the Rust Never Sleeps tour. It was LOUD. We had great seats. 

Other notables, Jerry Garcia at the Suffolk Arena. March on 1978. With NRPS and Robert Hunter. Garcia came on after midnight, I had to leave at 5 am since I had to work. 

The Ramones around 1979 at Hammerheads on Long Island. 

I have seen Hot Tuna around 7 times, from college campus shows, acoustic shows and lastly in 2012 at the Westbury Music Fair.

[ChrisBcritter]

On 1/12/2024 at 7:08 AM, Brudda said:

The best one in Vegas is the Blue Man Group. 

Nice! Are they still doing the "Human Paintbrush" skit?