Top 5 best concerts you have seen live
 

My top 5- I changed them from my other GFY post

1. Foo Fighters
2. U2
3. Korn with White Zombie opening
4. Stone Temple Pilots
4. Coldplay

1. Jerry Lee Lewis
2. Champion Jack Dupree
3. Dire Straits
4. Canned Heat
5. nothing

I haven't seen to many real shows. I've seen a ton of bands play when I worked in a bar, but most of them were no names that suck.

Chimaira and Ill Nino were awesome shows.
Machine Head put on a pretty good show too.

I'm going to the Bud Bowl on the 2nd though, hopefully that's cool. Not the biggest fan of Kid Rock, but he breaks out some good tunes every now and then.

1) Grateful Dead
2) 311
3) U2
4) Lenny Kravitz
5) Korn

1) Hanson
2) Spice Girls
3) NSYNC
4) Backstreet Boys
5) Hillary Duff

Daft Punk @ Paris Bercy
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Some of the best talent comes from local bands. The first time I saw Foo Fighters was at a Sony Music party in California. They gave a private performance for about 400 people and it was the best I have ever seen.


Others I have seen that were very good:

Staind--but he makes you almost suicidal
Justin Timberlake with Pink(I was given VIP stage tickets so the bar I was sitting at was used as the stage they performed on).
Metallica-- pure insanity
Smashing Pumpkins

OHHH! I almost forgot...Beastie Boys with Cypress Hill opening (Check Your Head tour)

In no particular order:

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Faith No More
Carlos Santana
Paco de Lucia
Van Halen
Dream Theater
Toto
Steve Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
The Fun Loving Criminals for the atmosphere
Phil Collins for good memories
Shakira....for her body and a stadium full of hot looking shakira chicks :winkwink:

Always wanted to see Red Hot Chili Peppers but never got a chance. However, I did have a strange encounter with Flea outside a bar in LA. I was on my cell sitting on the sidewalk and I look up because this guy was just standing in front of me looking like he was ready to take a pee on me. I smiled at him, he smiled back and then just stood there for about a minute..then he walked away. Strange but memorable.

I've seen the peppers 4 times and all 4 times where awesome.....same
goes 4 all artist I listed though I didn't see all of them 4 times...:thumbsup

Queens of The Stone Age 2007
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 2007
RATM @ Cypress Hill 1994
House Of Pain 1994
Green Day 1994

Those are the ones that stick out.

Uhm, although I really do not do concerts (not a singles kinda guy---I do not do bands etc), here is my top-5 list of DJs, whom spun acetate whilst I tripped (out) the away:

God (AKA: JeffMills)
DaveClarke
RichardHawtin
ChemicalBrothers
LaurentGarnier

Oh shit how could I forget....Black Label Society.....

Tool
Godsmack
Metallica

Blue Oyster Cult (Canada Jam fest in '81)
Van Halen (1984 final tour with DLR)
ZZ Top (afterburner tour)
Steppenwolf
David Bowie (scary monsters tour)

And I'll throw in one other because I can't leave them off the list... Iron Maiden.

hmmm, I saw them as a lead act on the Stone's Voodoo Lounge Tour and they sucked.

As far as my top 5, tough call, but:

Emerson, Lake and Palmer
The Who (Quadrophenia Tour)
Grand Funk Railroad (Black Sabbath as lead act)
Jethro Tull (Bungle in the Jungle)
Rolling Stones 40 Licks Tour

Linkin Park
U2
Korn
Kid Rock (seriously - I don't like his music but his show was great)
Creed

hmmm, I saw them as a lead act on the Stone's Voodoo Lounge Tour and they sucked.

As far as my top 5, tough call, but:

Emerson, Lake and Palmer
The Who (Quadrophenia Tour)
Grand Funk Railroad (Black Sabbath as lead act)
Jethro Tull (Bungle in the Jungle)
Rolling Stones 40 Licks Tour

Too hard to list just five...

BEST 5 FESTIVAL SHOWS

US Festival (3 days - Headliners: Van Halen, Clash, David Bowie - also performing were Ozzy, Scorpions, U2, and 50+ more bands)

Tibet Freedom Concert (2 days - Headliners: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Bjork)

A.R.M.S. Concert (Multiple Sclerosis benefit for Ronnie Lane) - featured performances by Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck (who all performed solo then came out for a jam). Also included Stevie Winwood, Joe Cocker and Paul Rodgers)

In Concert Against AIDS: Grateful Dead, Tracy Chapman, John Fogerty, Los Lobos, Joe Satriani, Tower Of Power

Peace Sunday: Very eclectic performers - included Croby, Stills, and Nash, Bob Dylan & Joan Baez, Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks, Bette Midler, Bonnie Raitt, Donovan, Dan Fogelberg.

BEST 5 STAGE SHOWS (Visual)

Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
Depeche Mode
U2
David Bowie

BEST 5 METAL SHOWS (Headbanging)

Metallica
Scorpions
Van Halen
Ozzy Osbourne
Judas Priest

BEST 5 CONCERTS I WAS AT THAT WERE MADE INTO AN ALBUM

Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Bob Dylan - At Budokan
Cheap Trick - At Budokan
Grateful Dead - Okay, not really an album, but I have great bootleg recordings from several shows I attended :stoned

MOST MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES:

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
U2 free concert at San Jose State
Jane's Addiction at Lollapalooza
Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense tour)
Neil Young at a Bread and Roses show at UC Berkeley in the fog

COOLEST TWO BAND LINEUPS

Page/Plant w/ Stone Temple Pilots
Tom Petty w/ Bob Dylan (the Heartbreakers played back-up for Dylan...best Dylan show ever, and then Petty and Dylan played together)
Nine Inch Nails w/ Marilyn Manson
Black Sabbath w/ Blue Oyster Cult
Mahavishnu Orchestra w/ Jeff Beck (Blow By Blow era)

BEST 5 SOUND

Yes
Jane's Addiction
Depeche Mode
Pink Floyd
Suzanne Vega


BEST 5 SURPRISES (Didn't expect much, but was blown away)

Roxy Music (Avalon tour)
Police (first US show)
Pretenders
No Doubt
Tie: Fleetwood Mac, Erasure, REM, Primus

BEST 5 JUST PLAIN FUN SHOWS

Oingo Boingo
Stray Cats
George Thoroughgood and the Destroyers
Santana
Fishbone

BEST 5 SING-A-LONG SHOWS

Police
Depeche Mode
Cure
U2
CSN&Y

Damn, I could go on, but enough from me for now - thanks for the memories...

ADG

Slayer
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Motley Crue
King Diamond
Dio

I totally forgot about some of these bands. I didn't see them in concert but love the music(NIN, Depeche Mode, Cure, Sonic Youth)...

I think I need to go update my iPOD. Great post!:thumbsup

Bad Religion
Tool
Decendents
faith no more/Mr Bungle/tomahawk -really any band fronted my Mike Patton
Ice Cube

Metallica on their Ride The Lightning tour played the Concert Hall in Toronto ('85? '86?), opening for WASP and some other, forgettable band. Metallica was still pretty much unknown then and the stage show was not much more than a hanging lightbulb. But everyone was there to see them.

The place was small, smoky and with about 1200 headbangers in the audience, they tore the place down for 45 minutes. So much so, that WASP (who were terrible, I don't know why anyone stayed) were all but booed of the stage.

Now THAT was a rock concert.
:thumbsup

(After that, there really was no #2)

I forget what years, but went to a shitload of concerts & shows back in the 80s & some in the early 90s.

Monsters of Rock tour. Van Halen, Scorpions, Metallica, Dokken
Alice Cooper w/ Faster Pussycat at Boston Garden
Lynyrd Skynyrd at Great Woods, backstage as a guest of the band
Clannad
TNT w/ Twisted Sister

BEST ACOUSTIC - "The Bridge" concerts (sponsored for over 20 years by Neil Young) feature an amazing array of artists all playing un-plugged.

These annual shows in the Bay Area raise money for The Bridge School, an educational program dedicated to ensuring that children with severe speech and physical impairments achieve full participation in their communities.

The Bridge School has some past performances available on iTunes:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...94388&s=143441

Check out this website for the listings of artists over the years.

Which reminded me, I was at the Neil Young and Crazy Horse "Live Rust" shows, which were made into both a double album and a movie... :thumbsup

ADG

Not to switch gears here but my worst one ever was OffSpring. They were so bad that they got booed off the stage. The lead singer almost started to cry.

1. Woodstock '99
2. Pantera
3. STP
4. Dave Matthews
5. Metallica

Great mix of musical taste on GFY:) This thread= $.99x100 on itunes at least today

Hard to just list 5 if you've been to so many good ones but as far as Best Concerts vs. Best Bands (since all aren't as good live) here ya go.

Top 5
Jethro Tull
AC/DC
Foofighters
Godsmack
Allman Brothers

Next 5
PinkFloyd
Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Collective Soul
Frank Zappa

A Few More
ZZ Top
Stone Temple Pilots
Hubastank
Bella Fleck

Beastie Boys
Radiohead
A Tribe Called Quest
Rage Against the Machine
The Roots

Wow, you kids really make me feel old as dirt.

The Beatles
The Eagles (Hotel California tour AND Hell Froze Over)
Led Zepplin
Prince (1999 tour)
Garth Brooks

Billy Joel --more energy and talent than expected, incredible!!

Dire Straits sucked
Rush sucked
U2 sucked

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Bruce Sprigsteen Dec. 20, 1978
Grateful Dead Dec. 28th, 1982
Patti Smith June 1979
The Who April 1980
Prince Feb.14 1985

Queen
Metallica
Queensryche
Rush
The Who
Iron Maiden
Van Halen

the list goes on and on

Celine Dion at Caesars Palace.


I don't go to many concerts... :1orglaugh

1. social distortion
2. nofx
3. pennywise
4. face to face
5. lagwagon

Pink Floyd and The Stones were awesome but by far the best band Ive seen in concert were Tool who totally blew me away.

My ambition in life (or should I say dream) is to see RATM in concert.

1.Kraftwerk
2.Daft Punk
3.Prodigy
4.Rolling Stones
5.Depeche Mode

that was on my "before i die" list too. saw them in NYC last summer. FUCKING AMAZING!!!

Some interesting input in here!

An incomplete list of concert acts I attended in the past years (I am sure I will forget some and I will name only more of Rock n Blues acts):

Jethro Tull (the sound sucked but the band is great!)

B.B. King (that was massive - history revealed!)

John Mayall and the bluesbreakers (felt it to be a bit too proffesor playing..)

Black Sabbath with Ozzy (he ROCKED an there was no shaking corpse on the stage)

Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio (Never thought I will see them together - nearly killed me!)

Dio (Warsaw - went 500 miles there and back - Holy Diver tour 2005 and a superb concert!)

Yngwie Malmsteen (very surprised - incredible !)

Ten Years After (surprised me the most - fantastic performance!)

Eric Clapton (with Robert Cray - well nothing but a great show although the sound sucked )

Johnny Winter (too bad he wasn't in the best shape but I often remember that)

Lou Reed (put on 150 pct. to warm up the cold crowd)

Glenn Hughes (a bit too polished)

Tool (that was a massive display of playin skills an killing atmosphere)

Velvet Revolver (as I am a massive fan of G'n'R I was a bit dissapointed, the only song that really kicked ass was "It's so Easy" a G'n'R classic)

Desperately missing and wanted:

ZZ Top
Van Halen
AC DC
Deep Purple
Zeppelin

Worst concert I have ever seen:

Manowar (not that I would ever be a fan but they were a part of a certain festival)

Best Revival I have seen:

Judas Priest Revival Prague - they kick serious ass and look like the 1982 Screaming for Vengeance line up!

http://www.judaspriestrevival.cz/slides/JPR_2005.jpg

http://www.judaspriestrevival.cz/slides/JPR_1013.jpg

http://www.judaspriestrevival.cz/slides/JPR_2059.jpg

http://www.judaspriestrevival.cz/slides/JPR_2007.jpg

Glenn Tipton is our interior designer by the way.

Saw both of them this past year, both great shows.
Van Halen brought out his son to play bass for the band.

Good stuff

Jane's Addiction
Guns N Roses

1) Nine Inch Nails
2) Paul Van Dyke
3) Grateful Dead
4) Kiss
5) V2000 Festival Leeds, England

I don't get out much, so one of the coolest performances I have ever seen was Leon Redbone; he whistled a whole song and it was AMAZING.

Chris Isaak is a great old-fashioned entertainer and I got to dance on stage at one of his concerts (with a lot of other people, not solo on a pole or anything).

Southern Culture on the Skids was cool too because I got to throw fried chicken at people from the stage.

Worst concert ever was a Depeche Mode concert I only went to because my ex-girlfriend invited me and I thought I would get laid. Didn't get laid, and while I like DM, that kind of music is completely USELESS live.

1. Slayer
2. Korn and White Zombie
3. Primus
4. System of a Down
4. 8Ball

Definitely two bends I would LOVE to see live and am almost 101 pct. sure that it will NOT ever happen..

Velvet Revolver kind of sucked if I would take Guns into consideration and as for Jane's I have at least bought me the "Three Days" DVD recently, haven't got a chance to screen that yet though.

Next concert - this wednesday - "The Smashing Pumpkins" was a super fan of them especially on the high school.

http://www.hipersonica.com/images/smashing_pump.jpg

Jimmy Chamberlain actually put on an interesting solo album during their hysteric break up time and I am sure Zwan is also a very listenable thing for all the massive fans.

I saw them this summer at rock the bells... in a word AMAZING

tool
daft punk
dave matthews
and thats it :)