NSFW Best live show you’ve seen

[BIGSTICK67]

Stones at Soldier Field
Kenny Chesney was a close 2nd

Been thinking about The Killers @B1G_10_Tony They're for real huh? Live shows look unbelievable on YT

 

[MtnHusker]

I'm really not much for big shows. Been to a few mostly because my wife drug me along. Fell asleep at U2 a few years ago at Century Link. Saw Dave Matthew's at an amphitheater by Sacramento. Was probably the only one that wasn't happy to see them come back for a 2nd encore. Annoyed as fuck by the 4th.

I like going to small venues like Music Box on Cass back in the day. Grasshopper Takeover was always fun.

I brought Grasshopper Takeover out to Colorado for some shows. Got them some gigs around the state. Their fucking agent Duffy screwed the pooch big time. I called in a favor to get them the Headlining Spot at the Winter Music Conference in Aspen. Duffy never called back to confirm. We were still able to get them on the bill but they were the first performer and none of the agents where there.

I grew up family friends with Curt's family, great guy. When his band started my mom told me I needed to book them. I laughed because I had no idea who they were. Told her to have their agent get ahold of me and she informed me Curt's mom Linda was their agent. I laughed again. Turns out she was just handling their Merch. We got a good laugh out of that story. I will say that they put on a great Live Show. My Sound Engineer walked away from their first show with us quite impressed. I had high hopes for them because they really did have a sound that could have taken off in the music world at the time. I still listen to their CD. Esta Vida's Life!!!!!

 

[Jim14510]

I brought Grasshopper Takeover out to Colorado for some shows. Got them some gigs around the state. Their fucking agent screwed the pooch big time. Called in a favor to get them the Headlining Spot at the Winter Music Conference in Aspen. Duffy never called back to confirm. We were still able to get them on the bill but they were the first performer and none of the agents where there.

I grew up family friends with Curt's family, great guy. When his band started my mom told me I needed to book them. I laughed because I had no idea who they were. Told her to have their agent get ahold of me and she informed me Curt's mom Linda was their agent. I laughed again. Turns out she was just handling their Merch. We got a good laugh out of that story. I will say that they put on a great Live Show. My Sound Engineer walked away from their first show with us quite impressed. I had high hopes for them because they really did have a sound that could have taken off in the music world at the time. I still listen to their CD. Esta Vida's Life!!!!!

I really thought they were going to be huge.. James was bad ass on the bass and Curt had a one of a kind voice.

 

[hothouse_corn]

Wait, why was this thread NSFW, and who the fuck is using Tony's account to post like a reasonable person?

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

Stones at Soldier Field
Kenny Chesney was a close 2nd

Been thinking about The Killers @B1G_10_Tony They're for real huh? Live shows look unbelievable on YT

Yes sir they are fo reals

 

[SoCal_Corn]

One of my favorite memories from there was a UFO concert (mid-70’s). Hell, I may have still been in high school.

One of favorite songs of theirs at that time was “Natural Thing”. I hadn’t heard it yet, so I caught the band as they were coming back from intermission by simply walking up to the stage (which was like a foot tall).

Me (to Phil Mogg): “Phil, I’m dying here. When are you going to play “Natural Thing”?

Phil: “It’s not in the set tonight, mate. Sorry.”

Me (edging closer to the stage so I can look him in the eye because he’s short and I’m not): “Phil, I have all of your albums. The two guys I’m sitting with are bigger UFO geeks than I am. They may throw themselves off of the balcony if you don’t play that song tonight!”

Phil (thoughtfully thinking: “Why not?” and her turns to Michael Schenker and yells “Natural Thing” on three. ONE, TWO, THREE …”

AMAZING!!! 😍

I am @Jealous of you. Never saw THAT version of the world's 2nd Most Underrated Rock Band of All Time.
Schenker is my favorite guitarist (took over from Blackmore about 15 years ago) and I have seen him play probably 10-12 times.
I saw the 'reformed' version in 1995 at The Palace in Hollywood on the WALK ON WATER Tour, a GREAT record BTW.

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

Top show that may never be topped is Grateful Dead w/ Warren Haynes at Red Rocks. 3+ hour face melter.

Other top shows— Kendrick, DAMN tour, Danny Brown, Old tour, Travis Scott Astro World tour, and Oddissee, Iceberg tour. Perfect Circle at Red Rocks was pretty cool too

 

[LoudHogRider]

AMAZING!!! 😍

I am @Jealous of you. Never saw THAT version of the world's 2nd Most Underrated Rock Band of All Time.
Schenker is my favorite guitarist (took over from Blackmore about 15 years ago) and I have seen him play probably 10-12 times.
I saw the 'reformed' version in 1995 at The Palace in Hollywood on the WALK ON WATER Tour, a GREAT record BTW.

A buddy of mine found a YouTube video of their “final” concert at essentially a bar in Scotland a few years ago. I had no idea they were going to pull that shit on me. It’s a show I would have bought a plane ticket to Scotland to go see.

I saw them in the late 70’s at the Music Hall attached to Civic Auditorium in Omaha, and for the final time at Comstock Rock outside of Ord, NE in 2005. Joe Satriani started it up, followed by Joan Jett, UFO & Cheap Trick closed it out. Fun day of moosic in that pastoral setting.

 

[doublewing]

I prefer small venue shows anymore. Great one I saw in 2014 was Jane's Addiction at the Brooklyn Bowl in Vegas. It was about 20 years removed from the last time I saw them and just as good.

 

[SoCal_Corn]

Will have to think on this one a minute,,,

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

Will have to think on this one a minute,,,

 

[cwessel76]

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What a bump

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

I’ve been to shows all over the world, hundreds of shows. I almost never turn down a live show. I’ve seen everything from heavy deathcore metal to Native American traditional flute performances, to top 40s pop.

If I had to narrow it down the 5 best would be:

Oasis @ Wembley
Pearl Jam - many times
Peter Frampton
Paul McCartney
Kingfish

 

[SlumpBuster]

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Epic bump

 

[FLusker]

I’ve been to shows all over the world, hundreds of shows. I almost never turn down a live show. I’ve seen everything from heavy deathcore metal to Native American traditional flute performances, to top 40s pop.

If I had to narrow it down the 5 best would be:

Oasis @ Wembley
Pearl Jam - many times
Peter Frampton
Paul McCartney
Kingfish

I read your first two sentences in a Trump voice for some reason. Made me laugh.

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

I read your first two sentences in a Trump voice for some reason. Made me laugh.

“many shows, good shows. Quite frankly the best shows, no one sees better shows than me.”

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

I’ve been to shows all over the world, hundreds of shows. I almost never turn down a live show. I’ve seen everything from heavy deathcore metal to Native American traditional flute performances, to top 40s pop.

If I had to narrow it down the 5 best would be:

Oasis @ Wembley
Pearl Jam - many times
Peter Frampton
Paul McCartney
Kingfish

If you are not familiar with Kingfish, he’s incredible

 

[MtnHusker]

One of the most talented & gifted musicians I've ever seen or worked with was Buddy Miles, who grew up in Omaha. His dad was a musician that played with lots of greats like Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker & Count Basie. Seemed like Buddy played with everyone including Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Billy Preston & Carlos Santana in the 70's & 80's. There's a funny story about Buddy playing alongside the Grateful Dead on a tour and shaking hands with Jerry Garcia, while he was eating a rib out of his other hand. Jerry didn't like that. Drug abuse was a big issue with Buddy, fought that his entire career.

Buddy was a large man, probably weighed 400+ lbs when I was doing shows with him later in his career. Sometimes he had to get around in a wheelchair but always stood on stage. He was mesmerizing to watch during soundchecks. You could see he just had a different understanding and ear for music. He could play any instrument and would regularly correct his band members during soundcheck by showing them on their instrument. He was a perfectionist when it came to the music. Crazy to watch that big bastard put down his guitar kicking the drummer out and then squeeze in behind then drum kit to show him how it should be done. Sometimes he sang while playing the drums, which is rare and not easy to do

Buddy could be a real grump to work with as due to his excessive weight he had serious back and knee pain. Seemed like he was always quite surely. 1 day he was barking at me and I had enough so I snapped back asking is there anything I can do to make you happy? He said it would be great if you had a god dammed TV in this venue so he could watch his fucking Huskers play. You know big guys are always hungry so I asked him what food he was craving to which he responded Chicken Wings. Told him we'd let his band and my sound guys finish setting up the stage plus start sound check so we could go get Chicken Wings and watch the rest of the Husker game. Wheeled him to a restaurant and watched the Husker game, which we won. He ate the fuck out of some food. Buddy was hungry for more than just wings. Seemed like he ordered 1/4 of the menu. Had no idea he was a huge Husker Fan and we got along great after that.

 

[Cavalot]

Honestly haven't been to many. But Black Jacket Symphony's Dark Side of the Moon was awesom.

 

[Irv]

1. Nirvana at First Avenue, Minneapolis, 1991 right after Nevermknd came out. Urge Overkill opening. They were already way too big for the venue. Just insanity.

The did an acoustic set at a local record store earlier in the day. Someone tried to give Kurt shit by yelling “Play Negative Creep!” assuming he’d never do it acoustic. He said “Just you wait” and then closed the set with it. Glorious.

2. Beastie Boys, First Avenue, Check Your Head tour. Pretty much played the entire catalog - did a couple of medleys to get everything in.

3. Pixies, First Avenue, Doolittle tour. Also did almost the whole catalog (I believe they skipped Here Comes Your Man because it was popular) in, IIRC, alphabetical order.

4. Paul McCartney, Rose Bowl. Mentioned in another thread - Ringo Starr (and Joe Walsh) joined for encores. The closest I’ll ever get to the Beatles.

5. Pavement, most recent reunion tour, Los Angeles. My favorite band of all time. Finally became a great live band. Briefly chatted with Marc Maron in the crowd.

6. Death Cab for Cutie/The Postal Service, Hollywood Bowl. 20th anniversary tour for Transatlanticism and Give Up. Indie rock perfection (with Saddle Creek artist Jenny Lewis adding to the majesty).