off topic [OT] ... Best concert ever attended / hope to attend

[Neo]

Best concert ever: Talking Heads, summer of 1983 "Remain in Light" tour which would become the movie "Stop Making Sense." Miami University, Oxford OH. Sat in the 4th row.

 

PTR

 

Man ... perfect ... never saw The Heads, live ... but that concert film's in my collection .. and I bring it out all the time. I agree with an earlier poster ... of all here I've missed, this is the one I most regret.

[stenbaro]

Too bad you didn't ever see the best 1/4 of Nirvana...

I was that age when they were big along with Soundgarden and AIC..I never really cared for Nirvana at all..Strange thing considering I really like listening to the Foo Fighters

[DFITZ1]

Three I can remember well are:

 

Elton John - Summer 1976 at Rich Stadium. Boz Scaggs was teh feature opening band. EJ was recording in Toronto at the time

Billy Joel - The Aud, Winter 1991

Jimmy Buffet - Saratoga Performing Arts Center - August 1990

 

Loudest - Marshall Tucker Band, New Years 1977 at Niagara Falls Convention Center (now NF's friendly neighborhood casino). Couldn't discern a note except "Heard it in a Love Song". Hearing returned to normal in 3 days.

[walstib]

Great thread. It's fun going through the concerts everyone has seen. A few of my faves are listed below.

 

The Grateful Dead in Rich Stadium on 7/16/1990. Crosby, Stills and Nash opened on an absolutely perfect summer day. The Dead crushed it, imho. Link: http://stash.nugs.ne...how=9&cmd=shows

 

Blues Traveler April 1990 - In a large living room in a house on campus. Nobody really knew who they were or what to expect. Suffice it to say, John Popper blew a lot of minds that night. They were waaaay better live that night than anything you'll hear on the radio or via the studio. It's not even close. Link: http://www.archive.o...90-04-14.flac16

 

Beck and Rage Against the Machine, among several others, at a Free Tibet Concert circa 1995 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

 

Maceo Parker with Fred Wesley (James Brown's horn section) at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco in 1995. "2% jazz and 98% funky stuff".

 

The Beastie Boys at the Greek Theater in Berkeley in 2005 or so. Primus, also at the Greek in 2007. The Greek is a terrific venue - the acoustics are great and it's near impossible to not have a good sight line to the stage. Find an act you like and go there. The Greek will not disappoint.

 

Many others, and with any good fortune, many more to come...

[Randall Flagg]

 

I was that age when they were big along with Soundgarden and AIC..I never really cared for Nirvana at all..Strange thing considering I really like listening to the Foo Fighters

I guess you generally need to be angst-ridden to enjoy Nirvana, none of my "happy" friends like them at all...

[bunomatic]

I've seen a few. Here are some- Streetheart, Blue Oyster Cult, Def Leppart, AC/DC, The Who, The Stones ( x 3 ), Robert Plant solo( x 2 ), Page and Plant, Tragically Hip, Dire Straights, Rainbow, Van Halen( with Roth ), The Spin Doctors,Kim Mitchell (at expo 86 Vancouver ),

 

I really want to see the black keys, Led Zep ( surviving members ), Foo Fighters, Ben Harper

[korab rules]

My freshman year of college, Rusted Root was a college band playing basement keg parties. Blew my freaking mind 4 times a month.

[stenbaro]

I guess you generally need to be angst-ridden to enjoy Nirvana, none of my "happy" friends like them at all...

Im a natural born angry person....lol

[TheMatrix31]

Best actual show as in production? Rammstein.

 

Best show? Probably one of the Bad Religion concerts I've been to, since they're my favorite band.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Forgot another ...

 

While Joe and Mick once said ... "Ken Boothe for UK pop reggae" ... for my money the best for UK pop reggae was / is UB40, but they showed up after that tidbit from Joe and Mick.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Three I can remember well are:

 

Elton John - Summer 1976 at Rich Stadium. Boz Scaggs was teh feature opening band. EJ was recording in Toronto at the time

Billy Joel - The Aud, Winter 1991

Jimmy Buffet - Saratoga Performing Arts Center - August 1990

 

Loudest - Marshall Tucker Band, New Years 1977 at Niagara Falls Convention Center (now NF's friendly neighborhood casino). Couldn't discern a note except "Heard it in a Love Song". Hearing returned to normal in 3 days.

 

I have been to many very loud concerts ... let's face it they all are by nature.

 

By far the loudest, for me, was The Ramones. I'll never forget Dee Dee's initial "1,2,3,4" and then they would play for 2 hours non stop and about a hundred tunes. Ears would ring for about a week.

 

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Thank you all for your input.

 

And thanks mods for adding the tags ... wasn't sure of the proper use.

[R_Dudley]

I regret not going to many concerts from the time I was 16 through my mid-20's. Except for a couple of shows at Rich Stadium, I have nothing from the bands you listed...and I loved. Most of my friends never showed much interest, and instead we spent more time going to see local cover bands over this time period.

 

I am really jealous of you right now. :(

 

Yes sir that is the difference, all my friends loved going and we made it too as many as we could. Somebody was always waiting in line overnight for the best tickets at the ticket office downtown(name escapes me?) and would buy as many as they could afford and of course then something always came up where somebody couldn't make it so I jumped into a lot of great last minute shows that way. Made all the the rich stadium summer fest tours when i was in high school and continued from there. It also helped that a bunch of my sisters older friends were in bar bands and rock star wanna be's and of course always wanted to see bands. When I think about the crazy stuff we were doing in high scool back then and what my kids in high scool could be doing now, Yikes. Things really were a lot different, point in case legal drinking age was 18.

 

Other's in this thread mentioned the local bar band scene with bands like Talas and that was also really fun and cool. Maybe a another thread off shoot would be the best WNY bands and bars for bands. I recall seeing Pat Benetar on the way up at a place like the afterdark, Kim Mitchell, many other's. I remember going to the the Tralf , Neitche's(spelling)? Mulligans, and what was that great bar out in Colden off 240(gad I hate getting old) that burned down that used to have alot of up and coming bands play there. There was a great loft where you could look down at the band and get real up close and personal. I drank shots with the lead guitarist from the Winter brothers band because it was both our Birthday's at one particluar show. Great times and memories.

[spndnchz]

Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[shrader]

i was a little young for a Nirvana show back when they were all around (i think i was 3 when Kurt killed himself?)

 

But I gotta say i prefer Grohl to Cobain. Not a dis on Kurt at all, he was a phenomenal musician. I just like Dave better.

 

The thing you missed out on that is next to impossible to re-live is how the sound changed significantly around that time, especially with what came out of Seattle. Go listen to that musical wasteland known as the 80s and then throw on all that Seattle stuff. That'll help you out a bit.

[LGR4GM]

1) Green Day at HSBC (American Idiot Tour)

 

2) All-American Rejects at UB spring fest... Real Big Fish and All American Rejects both made that show pretty great

 

3) Metallica at HSBC was pretty sweet, the floor tickets and the atmosphere were electric

 

4) No Doubt/Paramore at Darien Lake was fun because I had 3rd row tickets and it was a fun show

 

5) MCR/Blink 182 at Darien lake was a good concert but I couldn't see which made it suck a bit.

 

6) Lady Gaga was a good show.... although at GAGA I got hit on by 6 different dudes... and I am not big fan of her music...

[Randall Flagg]

 

 

The thing you missed out on that is next to impossible to re-live is how the sound changed significantly around that time, especially with what came out of Seattle. Go listen to that musical wasteland known as the 80s and then throw on all that Seattle stuff. That'll help you out a bit.

That is one of the main reasons I listen to them. They killed glam metal bands like Poison.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

The thing you missed out on that is next to impossible to re-live is how the sound changed significantly around that time, especially with what came out of Seattle. Go listen to that musical wasteland known as the 80s and then throw on all that Seattle stuff. That'll help you out a bit.

 

Hopefully you mean the late 80's.

 

1) Green Day at HSBC (American Idiot Tour)

 

2) All-American Rejects at UB spring fest... Real Big Fish and All American Rejects both made that show pretty great

 

3) Metallica at HSBC was pretty sweet, the floor tickets and the atmosphere were electric

 

4) No Doubt/Paramore at Darien Lake was fun because I had 3rd row tickets and it was a fun show

 

5) MCR/Blink 182 at Darien lake was a good concert but I couldn't see which made it suck a bit.

 

6) Lady Gaga was a good show.... although at GAGA I got hit on by 6 different dudes... and I am not big fan of her music...

 

Dude, you must of had your "gaydar" on and set to full power ... lucky.

[shrader]

Hopefully you mean the late 80's.

 

It's a broad sweeping comment, but I'm fine with it. There's always some good stuff mixed in, but the decade as a whole kind of sucked.

[Weave]

It's a broad sweeping comment, but I'm fine with it. There's always some good stuff mixed in, but the decade as a whole kind of sucked.

 

As someone whose teens and early 20's fell in the 80's I have to grudgingly agree. There was some outrageously good music in the 80's. Unfortunately though, the great majority of that decade's music was typipcally all style and no substance. Video did kill the radio star.

[apuszczalowski]

1) Green Day at HSBC (American Idiot Tour)

 

2) All-American Rejects at UB spring fest... Real Big Fish and All American Rejects both made that show pretty great

 

3) Metallica at HSBC was pretty sweet, the floor tickets and the atmosphere were electric

 

4) No Doubt/Paramore at Darien Lake was fun because I had 3rd row tickets and it was a fun show

 

5) MCR/Blink 182 at Darien lake was a good concert but I couldn't see which made it suck a bit.

 

6) Lady Gaga was a good show.... although at GAGA I got hit on by 6 different dudes... and I am not big fan of her music...

You are in direct violation of your man Card, I would ask that you please turn it in to your local Chapter, but with a violation of this level, the card self distructs, If you ever need a Man card again, I suggest you ask Gaga to borrow hers

 

Yes sir that is the difference, all my friends loved going and we made it too as many as we could. Somebody was always waiting in line overnight for the best tickets at the ticket office downtown(name escapes me?) and would buy as many as they could afford and of course then something always came up where somebody couldn't make it so I jumped into a lot of great last minute shows that way. Made all the the rich stadium summer fest tours when i was in high school and continued from there. It also helped that a bunch of my sisters older friends were in bar bands and rock star wanna be's and of course always wanted to see bands. When I think about the crazy stuff we were doing in high scool back then and what my kids in high scool could be doing now, Yikes. Things really were a lot different, point in case legal drinking age was 18.

 

Other's in this thread mentioned the local bar band scene with bands like Talas and that was also really fun and cool. Maybe a another thread off shoot would be the best WNY bands and bars for bands. I recall seeing Pat Benetar on the way up at a place like the afterdark, Kim Mitchell, many other's. I remember going to the the Tralf , Neitche's(spelling)? Mulligans, and what was that great bar out in Colden off 240(gad I hate getting old) that burned down that used to have alot of up and coming bands play there. There was a great loft where you could look down at the band and get real up close and personal. I drank shots with the lead guitarist from the Winter brothers band because it was both our Birthday's at one particluar show. Great times and memories.

I went to many shows on my own, didn't matter that no one else I knew wanted to go.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

As someone whose teens and early 20's fell in the 80's I have to grudgingly agree. There was some outrageously good music in the 80's. Unfortunately though, the great majority of that decade's music was typipcally all style and no substance. Video did kill the radio star.

 

You made me do it ...

 

 

While not the 80's ... 1979 is pretty close.

[BuffaloSoldier2010]

 

 

The thing you missed out on that is next to impossible to re-live is how the sound changed significantly around that time, especially with what came out of Seattle. Go listen to that musical wasteland known as the 80s and then throw on all that Seattle stuff. That'll help you out a bit.

 

I know what you mean. Given my age I actually pride myself on my grasp of american rock music. Love all things grunge, and seattle was a huge part of how that genre gettin started.

 

Favorite grunge bands would be nirvana, stp, and collective soul to name a few, maybe even throw.soundgarden in there, though im far more partial to audioslave.

 

On another note, Ive been on a john mayer kick lately, say what you will about the guy but until you listen to him rip a blues solo on his strat you havent heard the man play. Id love to see him live at some point. Ive been playing guitar since I was 12 or so and blues guitar has always been near and dear to me.

 

Hes no clapton or knofler (knophler?), but hes pretty damn good, and probably about as close as anyone in my generation will get to that level. id post a video but im on my phone atm.

[shrader]

Favorite grunge bands would be nirvana, stp, and collective soul to name a few, maybe even throw.soundgarden in there, though im far more partial to audioslave.

 

I've never seen the grunge label applied to much outside of Seattle (a bit with STP though). I've definitely never seen it applied to Collective Soul.

[Weave]

I know what you mean. Given my age I actually pride myself on my grasp of american rock music. Love all things grunge, and seattle was a huge part of how that genre gettin started.

 

Favorite grunge bands would be nirvana, stp, and collective soul to name a few, maybe even throw.soundgarden in there, though im far more partial to audioslave.

 

On another note, Ive been on a john mayer kick lately, say what you will about the guy but until you listen to him rip a blues solo on his strat you havent heard the man play. Id love to see him live at some point. Ive been playing guitar since I was 12 or so and blues guitar has always been near and dear to me.

 

Hes no clapton or knofler (knophler?), but hes pretty damn good, and probably about as close as anyone in my generation will get to that level. id post a video but im on my phone atm.

 

If John Mayer would come to town and do an all blues show I'd go in a heartbeat. He's a fantastic guitar player. I wish he'd stick to blues.

[BuffaloSoldier2010]

I've never seen the grunge label applied to much outside of Seattle (a bit with STP though). I've definitely never seen it applied to Collective Soul.

Maybe my definition is slightly broader then... definitely possible. Out of curiosity, what would you classify collective soul as?