What is the best concert you’ve ever been to?

[NicholasRivera34]

What’s your opinion?

[truckster]

Easy. I'm an old rock-and-roller, and I've seen some great concerts when some of the best bands were in their prime.

My favorite concert, though, was Blues Traveler. Most bands just play what's on their albums and jazz it up a little. When Blues Traveler is in concert they're a total jam band. It was the funnest show I've seen.

[FleetsidePaul]

Rammstein. In Las Vegas 2011 & The Cramps back in the 80's at "The Timbers' a small place which is long gone now.

[special-K]

I really can't say because I have been to so many great shows big to intimate and great for different reasons.

Ones that are way up there (that come to mind) are Greatful Dead and Allman Brothers at Watkins Glen, NY

Jimi Hendrix at Merriweather Post Pavilion, MD

Leo Kottke at Mt. St. Mary College, MD sitting right in front of him on the floor with a small group while all the college kids did more chattering than listening. He was playing and speaking for/with our small group of appreciaters

Bonnie Raitt & Little Feat at a ball field in Newport News, VA. I saw them play many concerts but the overall experience of this one was very memorable

Frank Zappa at Constitution Hall, Washington, DC

Ten Years After at Merriweather... MD

Greatful Dead at Winterpark, SF CA New Years Eve '76

Been to scores of blues shows that are always fantastic because that's the blues

Been to countless bluegrass festivals. Always the best playing

That reminds me. I used to go down to Bethesda, MD to see Emmy Lou Harris before she was discovered. We had Uncle Jack Quaintance(sp?) with a farm he put bluegrass shows on and she played there. Her mom lived nearby. I was there with my buddy Downs Thompson who plays fiddle (we were maybe 18 back then) and Jack got Downs playing with her. So, I got to meet her

Byrds & Flying Burrito bros at Annapolis, MD

I've never been to a bad concert.

The best concert ever, that I didn't go to, was The Allman Brothers Band at Filmore East 9/23/1970

[Grumpy old man]

I jived in Jax beach during the 70's cutting school and hanging out at the beach surfing most of the time,My sister was a VERY CUTE barmaid at a bar called The Tunnel where Molly Hatchet and Lynyrd Skynyrd played in the early days for door money . My mom worked as a nurse on the night shift so the after party would come to our house at times and it wasn't unusual to find myself stepping over some of these guys passed out on the living room floor and I've heard the story more than a few times of the guys pawning their equipment on Monday so they could keep partying all week and having my mom help them get their equipment out of the pawn shop on Friday so they could play over the weekend. The sound they made considering the equipment of the day was second to none ! Somewhere still packed away I have the original hand made shirts From Molly Hatchet in white stick on letters it says " Who the H*LL is Molly Hatchet ?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTZHHQplIX8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci3afKw_mcY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hib4n9RmFrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIWDmmqZzY

http://jacksonville.com/entertainmen...rn-rock-heyday

[special-K]

[quote=Grumpy old man;8079873]I jived in Jax beach during the 70's cutting school and hanging out at the beach surfing most of the time,My sister was a VERY CUTE barmaid at a bar called The Tunnel where Molly Hatchet and Lynyrd Skynyrd played in the early days for door money . My mom worked as a nurse on the night shift so the after party would come to our house at times and it wasn't unusual to find myself stepping over some of these guys passed out on the living room floor and I've heard the story more than a few times of the guys pawning their equipment on Monday so they could keep partying all week and having my mom help them get their equipment out of the pawn shop on Friday so they could play over the weekend. The sound they made considering the equipment of the day was second to none ! Somewhere still packed away I have the original hand made shirts From Molly Hatchet in white stick on letters it says " Who the H*LL is Molly Hatchet ?"


Do you remember, or did you know of the Bonnie Gringo Band back then in Florida?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...gGuf1j22NTIdZB

The Outlaws always put on a great show with their two lead-three guitar)/two drummer jams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIaS_vYIQ_A

[pritch]

Best concert? Hmmm...

Well, best one I saw last week was Tommy Castro & The Painkillers.
https://youtu.be/lWyuY0HZnHc

Last month, probably our own local harpster, Tony Holiday and the Velvetones at the competition to see which band the Utah Blues Society will send to the International Blues Challange in Memphis in January:
https://youtu.be/9BK_Ft1sHdc

So far this year, probably Samantha Fish (quality and quantity-I've seen her 4 times in the last 16 months or so)
https://youtu.be/2LcWbZk2oDY
https://youtu.be/XFluj98nwkc


This decade, probably Trampled Under Foot. A family band that is on again/off again, and when their on, their really on! Named after the Led Zepp song of the same name:
https://youtu.be/emPZNK_LNuI
https://youtu.be/-uc59bvo6_Y

But I go to so many shows-on a good week I'll see 3 concerts, so it's kinda hard to say.

[RenoKeene]

Foreigner, Heart, Steve Miller and The Eagles at Oakland Coliseum 78 or 79. One of Bill Grahams "Days on the Green" $6 bucks!
or
Blue Oyster Cult at the Cow Palace about the same time frame. This was the last laser light show that they fired the lasers right into the crowd! Never had seen anything like it before or since. I saw the same tour in Nashville two weeks later and they shot everything at the ceiling. We heard the Government banned them from blasting the crowd with high powered lasers.
or
BB Kings 80th birthday party at the House of Blues in Orlando. Once in a lifetime experience.

[Palf70Step]

Probably the Kiss Farewell tour (the version around 2000in New Orleans). Other than that, my daughter's first concert I let her go to was called Unsilent Night (in Biloxi, MS), with 3 Doors Down & Shinedown (maybe 2001/2002). Dad lasted longer than her!!

[richard2717]

Rocky Gap music festival 1992. 3 day deal with a lot of top country acts as well as a lot of local. Even better I got in free all 3 days.

[midniteblues]

King diamond at the trocadero in Phila. In 98.

Practically all of his songs coincides to a haunted story line of his own design.
So not only do you get the music but the gory thearatrical stage show was pure entertainment for the sick minded like me.

The wife an i both saw him before we were together, we been waiting and waiting to see him together.


2013 Slayer and exodus in reading, epic show before a tragic spider bite took out a original member of the band.

97 Metallica rocking the liberty bell in phila.
This was a free show, attendance was so large it was held in the spectrums parking lot.
It was here that I learned how people get trampled on in large crowds. I'm 6'2 215 and my feet didn't touch ground for 45min at on point.

99, I was invited along with 148 (i got 2 tickets)others to the navy yard in phila. To attend a private jam session with puddle of mud.

Been waiting forever on a affordable young or Dylan show to come around.

[GOPAPA]

I am going to need some good ol boys from down south to give me any kind of high five for the only thing I ever been to that was maybe called a concert..

It was around 1965 in Portland Oregon Loretta Lynn Earl Scrugs and Lester Flatt Foggy Mountain Boys ..Slim Whitman ..maybe Cowboy Copus ?

[hambone61]

Originally Posted by GOPAPA

I am going to need some good ol boys from down south to give me any kind of high five for the only thing I ever been to that was maybe called a concert..

It was around 1965 in Portland Oregon Loretta Lynn Earl Scrugs and Lester Flatt Foggy Mountain Boys ..Slim Whitman ..maybe Cowboy Copus ?

Coal miners daughter, foggy mountain breakdown, yeah high damn five.

[BugzC10]

Jimmy Hendrix 1969 at the Waikiki outdoor Shell auditorium or was it Led Zeppelin at the Honolulu International Conversation Center? Loud music killed my hearing and memory.

[Ol Blue K20]

Journey "raised on radio" at the Cow Palace in S.F. Sometime in the late eighties. A lot of the seventies and eighties, hell even the nineties is a wee bit foggy....

[mrtoni]

Ok Blue is miss concerts at the cow palace. Kiss 79, scorpions maiden 81, Motley Crue 85 etc etc

[flashed]

In 1980 Molly Hatchet opened for 38 Special in the Fox Theater in Atlanta .I had never heard of Molly Hatchet ,went to see 38 Special but Molly Hatchet stole the show ,they were great .

[Grumpy old man]

Originally Posted by flashed

In 1980 Molly Hatchet opened for 38 Special in the Fox Theater in Atlanta .I had never heard of Molly Hatchet ,went to see 38 Special but Molly Hatchet stole the show ,they were great .

If I remember right that was the tour when I last saw them play in Baltimore , A few years later I ran into Danny Joe Brown in an ABC liquor store in St Petersburg Fl. He liked his Jim Beam and he had a lawn service business , Never saw him again ...About the same time in the early 80;s I saw Jackyl play the lumberjack in ybor city In Tampa Fl.it was nut's !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52p9jc-gOo

Man , I miss the Florida beaches in the 80's ,Now that was a party !

[ApacheNick]

Either Nile on their 20th anniversary tour in 2014 (which was also the first time they played in Canada) or Behemoth on the first tour for The Satanist. Both were great shows.

Immolation opening for Cannibal Corpse in 2013 was also cool. Couldn't hear anything for a week after that one. Getting to hang out with Ross and Bob from Immolation was killer.

[midniteblues]

Originally Posted by ApacheNick

Either Nile on their 20th anniversary tour in 2014 (which was also the first time they played in Canada) or Behemoth on the first tour for The Satanist. Both were great shows.

Immolation opening for Cannibal Corpse in 2013 was also cool. Couldn't hear anything for a week after that one. Getting to hang out with Ross and Bob from Immolation was killer.

I would love too see cannibal corpse or even six feet under if they are still doing that.

I truly believe cannibal is the best at what they do.


Forgot to add in.

Mr bungle

At the electric factory in 1999.
10 of us rented a limo( it was one fella's b day also) to go to this show so we could get prepped for the show and none of us have to drive.
We hit up a few of nudie bars on the way down. One of which we barely made it through the door before being asked to promply leave. since it was obvious we were up to no good.

The driver pulled us rite up too the front door of the elec. Factory all the weirdo's were trying to peek in through the windows thinking we were the band

The look of let down faces as these nobody's
( just more weirdo's)
as we got out of the limo and went straight into the club like top priority was priceless.

Who da heck were they


Oh those were the days.

[davischevy]

Where did the OP go?

[BR3W CITY]

Gov't Mule was a fantastic show at the Aragon, and there was an insane scene occurring during the show in the crowd.

Pretty Lights is easily the best "live" EDM-type show I went to.

Did go to a tiny little local place and see the original keyboard player from the Warlocks play a mini-set on how all music is pretty much the same. Dude melted a lot of minds at that show...

[MaximusD]

Foreigner and Cheap Trick in the early eighties, also Van Halen, all great! The best one was purchased for me by my daughter, AC/DC in the Tacoma Dome in Feb 2016, one of the last shows with Brian Johnson as lead singer!!

[CG]

Ok Im the weird one. I went to a bunch of concerts in the 70s people you would all know. But I actually ended up hating going to concerts. I hate dealing with the people in the crowds. You pay a pretty good chunk of change to go to a concert. Its not just the cost of the tickets. I'm a non drinker non drugger and it seems like I always end up by the stoned drunks. Same reason I stopped going to sporting events.

My wife and I did try going to some smaller venue outdoor summer concert series show, Chris Issac and similar shows. I just want to sit in the sun and enjoy the music. I swear we always got some hippy chicks and guys that want to stand in front of the whole show, arms up in the air and just spinning around. I get it, that's their way to get in tune with the music, same with the drunks and stoners, that's how they get in to it ... I just hate it when it ruins my experience. So I stay home =)