Just mention the best concert you’ve been to ever or whatever.
Mention a memmory that was cool like a cool person you met there or something. Maybe it was the first time you smoked weed or something like that. Or you crowd surfed all over and got to give Coby Dick a high five or something.
If your an experienced fan of many bands and have a lot of stories, keep ramblin away. Your memmories make good stories most likely!
K, I’d say that the coolest concert I’ve been to was Fuel, Our Lady Peace or Manson. Or maybe it was the time I met a girl that I dated for (tooo long) at a Papa Roach concert. That memmory makes me laugh… K I’d say that my favorite concert was at a local radio station concert when I crowd surfed for the first time to a band called 8 stops 7 and then to 3 doors down. What a cool feeling that is!
i’ve got so many cool concert stories, where do i begin?
i guess at my first one… PapA RoaCH!!!
Cinco de Mayo, got to meet em b4-hand at a local music shop… they’re tight as hell
we got there (two friends went with me… one is the thread-starter above) and worked our way to the front of the barriers… the come out, they rock, mettledrummer here hooks up with a now pregnant teen (NOT HIS) i get to scream lyrics into Coby’s mic… BAD ASS CONCERT!
i figure its easier reading short reply’s as opposed to one REALLY long one, right?
anywayz, # 2 - disturbed!!!
damn, that was intense! again, at the front of the barrier, but damn 200 lb. crowd surfer's kept landing on my head - smashing it into the barrier! yeah, not fun when you're not conscience for the songs you like!
getting into the moshpit, i get thrown (literally) from behind and go front-teeth-first into a big bald guys head... we both grasp our wounds, and his head starts gushing, i mean oozing with a red stream of blood... luckily, i hadn't taken any part of his skull with me...
all in all, amazing concert
that concert was seriously 140 degrees! holy crap was it hot
they came out and rocked, the WHOLE crowd started moshing... even the kids who were there with their sunday school on a church visit... it was incredible... you get knocked down, someone pulls you back up and recites a bible verse! what a weird feeling!
i believe my next one was summer sanitarium with metallica, KoRn, kid rock, PM5K, and system o.a. down
overall, it rocked… i only wish system had a longer set and kid rock been replaced by a GOOD band
system got to play in the rain and give shouts-out to their pot dealers…
PM5K (powerman 5000)… spider 1 or whatever talked way to long - just play the damn song!
Kid rock sucked my right nut… and then his drummer didn’t miss a beat by getting the left one! HA
KoRn was cool just because they really got the crowd moving… everyone was jumping and moshing… really cool
in between korn and metallica was like an hour set change with - what must be - the LONGEST span of flashing EVER at a concert… there were at least 5 flashings going on every minute for 60 minutes! i loooove mile high women!
metallica came out with hetfield and his 1st concert back from a back injury… just to be able to say i saw the ledgends before they get too damn annoying is why i wanted to see them… they put on a great show!
next is my absolute favorite: G. Love & Special Suace
for those unfarmiliar, G. Love does an awesome blend of blues, hip-hop, rap, and reggae to make his own philadelphonic sound!
i've wanted to see this guy FOREVER and i finally did at the historic Filmore Auditorium!
amazing... then i got to meet him and the band after for a CD signing... really nice guys
G's got the bluest eyes and the girls in front of us started crying that they got to meet him... he held their hands and just looked deep into their eyes, i went with a girl-friend and she said that look nearly melted HER! what a pimp!
amazing show... a helluva lot of college students and even more weed.... DAMN! the shirt still smells "funny"
all bands were great, none better than the other, but they didn't have to be since they all rocked
i wasn't too farmiliar with any of them, but i and the same 2 friends mentioned above thought we better catch these guys b4 they totally blow up and go huge
i wasn't mispleased... really cool songs and a lot of energy kept the crowd going... i went crowd surfing so many times, i actually lost my keys! luckily, i found em b4 some roadie swiped em... he was just about to do it--- bastard
my most recent concert to date was the Area: One tour with too many names to mention
1st group i saw was Rinôçérôse… a french techno/rock/weird ass band who was a big suprise to my friends and me
then we headed to our seats for Miss nelly furtado... not bad, but whatever... not what i came to see...
by the time the roots came on, i HAD to get onto the floor (it was sold out like *SNAP* that) so i spent their entire set trying to get past the guards... long story short, i got in, but not for long and missed their WHOLE set! DAMN!
incubus was incredible, even though mike E's guitar fu**ed up more than once... i'm just glad they played "i miss you" reminded me of my girlfriend
we FINALLY got on the floor in time for Outkast.... "Crowd check motherfucker, crowd check!" hell yeayuh! i've never seen so much energy on stage b4!
my friends and i were about to die from starvation so we left the field RIGHT as moby came out and watched from the seats... no complaints, b/c i'm sure it was better to see the light show from afar then be IN it
an amazing night with once-in-a-lifetime memories!!!
My first concert was at JFK Stadium (now defunct) in Philadelphia.
Pousette-Dart Band were the openers. They were okay.
Gary Wright came on next. Synth, synth, bass synth, drums, backup singers. They did Dream Weaver.
Peter Frampton was next. He had the black Les Paul, a stratocaster, the talk box, a big leslie cabinet. He was touring to support “Frampton Comes Alive.” I only knew the songs I’d heard on the radio or at other people’s houses. He threw two tamborines into the audience.
Yes (with Patrick Moraz on keyboards) closed the show. They had the space crab lighting rig and an emerald laser. The arms of the lighting rig moved up and down on chains over John Anderson, Chris Squire, and Steve Howe. Howe was in peak form on the ES-175 (his preferred axe at the time) and on steel guitar.
This was a summer outdoor show. Water was a scarce commodity. You had to fight your way through a crowd to get to the water truck. People would bum swigs from you on your way back to your spot. About halfway through the day folks started throwing orange drink cartons. During Frampton’s set there was a swarm of them in the air at any one time.
Later when it got dark, there were small fires in the stands (I think in 55-gallon drums).
This was all quite a lot for a straight 16-year-old to take in. Estimates were 130,000 people in attendance.
The Alcoholics and The Aquabats open for Blink 182 and Primus. I’m not a big fan of Blink 182, and neither were a lot of people at the concert who kept telling them to get off stage so primus could play. When Primus finally got on, there was a HUGE cloud of weed smoke over the audience, it was hilarious. My nephew (two years younger than me, 12 at the time) got pulled away from us by this group of like 20somethings, and was asked if he wanted to light up. We found him with them, right as they were asking, and he turned them down and walked toward us. Then the naked guy showed up (no joke) and was promptly asked by a security guard to put his clothes on or be ejected. He responded, “i’ll put em back on, just know that I still love you.” We cracked up, and it was a great show.
It’s sick to say, but the best concert was actually Tony Bennett. No, REALLY, what a showman! He all smiles, giving out salutes and waves to the crowd. He only did the hits, which is realistically what the older crowd came out to see anyway. I never listened to any of his music before, but I’m a fan now. Looks kinda weird with a CD of his between Ministry and Tool, though.
Another great concert was the Joel/John tour about 7 or 8 years ago. It was like 5 hours, and I definitely got my money’s worth. Billy Joel is hysterical on stage. Every so often he’d stop and ask us what we wanted to hear, then poll the audience. Long sets too.
Barenaked Ladies! I went to their Stunt tour concert two years ago and have never had so much fun at a concert–they are absolutely hilarious, and quite clever and talented musically.
Well, there was the time my husband’s band opened for Buddy Guy. That was a great show, my husband’s AND Buddy Guy’s. Got to meet Buddy Guy after the show, too. That was awesome!
But my all-time fave right now was the show I went to last year, and a club in Detroit. John Mayall, and Peter Green opened for him. Oh…my…Goddess. The club had no tables. Everyone stood. And we got there early enough that we got to stand no less than three feet from the stage. That had to be the single most amazing concert experience of my life.
I don’t know if have a best concert - but I do have quite a few unexpected pleasure concerts.
Laurie Anderson at the Paramount in Denver - around '84-'85. Totally blew me away. I didn’t know a lick of her music going in and the show was just awesome.
Pat Metheny Group at the Community Theater in Morristown, NJ. '79 or '80. I was a high school kid and Pat and the band rocked. Another good show of his was in Asbury park, NJ with Nano Vasconcelos. He was sweating on us. I saw AC/DC open for Savoy Brown with Kim Simmonds at the Community around the same time.
Baba Maal at SOB’s in NYC. Early 90’s. This Senegalese singer has a hot band and was a very spiritual experience. I saw him at Irving Plaza in NYC a couple years later. Awesome as well.
Cassandra Wilson and Papa Wemba at Summerstage in Central Park. Dropped by to get a schedule and ended up spending the rest of the day. Weeping.
Ivo Popasov and his Bulgarian Wedding Band at Summerstage. It’s like Mahavishnu meets Klezmer music. They BURNED. Half the audience left halfway through the first song. The other half of the audience was rapt.
Youssou N’Dour at the new (54th st) Ritz. Another revolutionary show for me.
Frank Zappa at Manley Field House in Syracuse & at Jones Beach.
King Sunny Ade at the monster events center(?) in Denver - mid '80’s. Lots of fun, lots of space to dance.
I’ve seen a lot of “big” shows, too, but I always hyped them so much in my mind, that I was always a little disappointed.
A lot of Grateful Dead shows - Red Rocks, the Greek in Berkeley, Alpine Valley, Madison Square Garden, some island in the Susquehanna near Harrisburg, PA, Irvine, but my favorites were in old hockey rink war memorials in upstate NY.
Yes in the round, Tull, Frampton, Nugent, Rush in the Garden
Rush, UK at the Palladium in NY. Better Rush.
The Dregs at the old Ritz. Peter Gabriel, Genesis, King Crimson, The Rolling Stones in various venues.
Pink Floyd doing the Wall at Earl’s Court in London. That was cool.
Soundgarden, SuperUnknown tour, 6/1994 This was my first concert, and it was awesome. It was at a small outdoor venue in Cleveland (Nautica Stage for those from NE Ohio). They played a great set, and sounded great. The screens behind them flashed pictures the whole time, and it actually added to the show. Fantastic.
Toad the Wet Sprocket, Coil tour, Odeon, Cleveland I’ve seen Toad 3 times in concert, including a previous date on the Coil tour just 2 weeks before this concert. However, this show was awesome. We were about 6 feet from the stage. Incredible show…“Come Back Down” was the best live song I’ve ever heard played. Awesome.
Warped Tour- First concert I ever went to! It was a big outdoor event with about twenty bands playing. I went crowdsurfing, fell on my ass, got a few (many, really) bruises from a big mosh pit type of thing. It was the best.
Deftones/Incubus- The music rocked. All the bands, including the opening act (Taproot), played their asses off and gave one hell of a show.
Did Black Uhuru open up for King Sunny? I saw them at the Tower in Upper Darby, PA, in about '83 with Black Uhuru when Sly and Robbie were still in the band. It was one of the more racially mixed shows I’ve been to, and Black Uhuru did “Solidarity” by Little Steven. Great show.
