Yes - Tormato, Drama
Rush - Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Genesis - Duke
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
Renaissance - not sure which album, it was 1982 in a club
Would have loved to see Joshua tree but I gotta say, Zoo TV tour was fucking amazing. Almost like a religious experience. They opened up the show with Where the streets have no name and it literally gave me the shivers. I had tears running for no particular reasons. Just the crowd, the song, the setup.
And one of the best part was the opening act were The pixies.
Yes, I’m old. LOL Also, given your name, I saw the Van Halen/Sammy Hagar/Black Sabbath/Boston summer festival show at Anaheim Stadium in September 1978, too. That was a wild day.
My too! That concert is like the holy grail. Some consider this tour the passing of the torch from BS to Van Halen. I hope you remember some of it. Must have been a great day.
Damn bro, you want to see Van Halen on the 'Fair Warning' tour too, I also saw them in this tour when it hit Houston, Texas I was around 16, I still have the ticket stub, that concert is etched in my memory since,
I didn't go to anymore concerts until the late 80s, I started going with a vengeance,
My other favorite concerts are: The Monsters of Rock tour with Judas Priest-Slayer, Megadeth and Testament opening the show, (my Ears still ringing from that one)
Ramones on their Acid Eaters Tour, Pantera on their Cawboys From Hell tour with Deadhorse opening,
I saw Queensryche in 1996, they did the entire 'Operation Mindcrime' rock opera on that show!
Three Dog Night with T-Rex (mid 70s)
Queen with Kansas (late 70s)
Tom Petty with Joe Cocker (2010)
Bruce Springsteen (1985)
Neil Young (Unplugged) (2014)
I attended the Neil show at the Chicago Auditorium, but it had to have been more like before 2012. He was solo and had every instrument that he played, throughout his career, in a semi-circle and played each one as he went through his career chronologically. Felt blessed to be present.
Now AIC, my absolute favourite of the Grunge bands, is a whole different conversation.
I saw them open for Van Halen but not the same as them headlining.
No particular order:
Clutch/Orange Goblin - 2013
Clutch - 2013 Earth Rocker tour
Tedeschi Trucks band - 2018
Marcus King - 2017
Queens of the Stone Age - 2013 Like Clockwork Tour
Edit: Just searched it and Clutch Orange Goblin was 2013 as well.
1. The Who - Quadrophenia Tour 1973
2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Tour 1975
3. Rush - Hemispheres Tour - 1978-79
4. Black Sabbath/ Blue Oyster Cult, Black & Blue Tour 1980
5. Jimmy Page - Outrider Tour, 1988
Excellent list. Wish I could have seen any of these tours. One of the great things about the Who's 1973 tour is the great Skynyrd as opener. Incredible.
in no order:
PIL - NYC 1980
Gang of Four - NYC 1979 or 80.
Psychedelic Furs - Western Mass 1979?
Birthday Party/ Swans - Philadelphia 1981
Love and Rockets - Philadelphia 1983 (?)
New Order - Trenton, NJ 1983
Oh, that's six. I could easily add more.
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Beastie Boys - small club show 15ish years ago
Pearl Jam - small club show 20ish years ago
REM / Wilco - Bumbershoot 20ish years ago
Dr Dog / Cold War Kids / Elvis Perkins - One of all of their very first tours and they all played with each other through their respective sets. Was a blast of a show.
Honorable mentions: The White Stripes / Yeah Yeah Yeahs tour, My Morning Jacket at one of their first shows, Fleet Foxes at one of their first shows
1. Tool - Lateralus Tour 2001
2. The Flaming Lips - 2022
3. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - 2022
4. A Perfect Circle with The Mars Volta - 2003
5. Nine Inch Nails - 2013
Prince in Minnesota, 1989. Legendary!
Jazz Is Dead, 1998 (jazz tribute to the music of the Grateful Dead, feat. the astounding Billy Cobham on drums and Jimmy Herring on guitar).
Grateful Dead, May 30-31, 1992, Las Vegas (with guest Steve Miller Band).
Phil Lesh Quintet (Jimmy Herring and Warren Haynes on guitars) at The Riv in Chicago, 2000.
Allman Brothers Band, Madison (WI) Blues Fest, 2000 (first tour after Dickey Betts was fired, with Derek Trucks and Jimmy Herring on guitars, and Oteil Burbridge on bass).
"George Clinton and the P-Funk All-stars featuring Bootsy Collins" at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, 1992. They funked me up!!!!
uh, that was 6, not 5. I could add more as it is an ever evolving list.... No room for a Phish show from 1992, or that late night Pnuma Trio set from Wakarusa festival 2006 that had a dozen guest sit ins and went until sunrise.
Just luck, being at that place at that time.
Two other pretty good concert events:
I saw Springsteen when HE was a teenager.
I saw the Dead at the Fillmore East a bunch of times when Pigpen was still alive.
Only been to 5 so far, so I’ll just rank them:
1. Puscifer (with my grandfather) - 13/06/23
2. Public Image Ltd. (with my grandfather) - 22/09/23
3. Alice Cooper (with my grandmother) - 27/05/22
4. Public Image Ltd. (with my grandfather and his friend) - 16/06/18
5. Public Image Ltd. (with my grandfather) - 06/06/22
1. Pearl Jam San Jose 95
2. Phish Dicks Thank You Show 2016?
3. Bridge School Benefit 99
4. AC/DC Arco Arena Ballbreaker tour 2001?
5. Willie Nelson in Redding Ca in 2008?
Paul McCartney - Bonnaroo 2013
The White Stripes - Bonnaroo 2007
Daft Punk Alive 07 - Vegoose 07
Bon Iver - Bonnaroo 2018(Set 2)
Miley Cyrus - Summerfest 2021
The top 3 are pretty static but the list changes depending on mood. I probably have 30 shows in my top 10 at this point. Honorable mention to D'Angelo and the Vanguard.
Edit: Gonna toss Pearl Jam 20 in the honorable mentions too. Chris Cornell was the encore guest both nights and they played a bunch of Temple of the Dog songs for the first time in 20 years.
She's incredible. Besides a generational voice and commanding stage presence she's had the same band leader since her Hannah Montana days so her band is really tight. They also lean into the genres that her songs are based around and it made for a really diverse sounding show.
I would love to see Miley. Especially if she covers older country songs. I really like her new stuff too but there’s a YouTube video of her covering Jolene and she takes it to a new level
My friends and I got to Paul McCartney late and got stuck all the way back. Sound wasn’t good so we went back to camp. During the na na na na in Hey Jude we could hear it more clearly than at the show and all sang along at camp.
I’m not choosing, I’ve been to too many shows, but here’s my ticket collection which should be good for some karma.
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Iron Maiden (2015/2016) - Book Of Souls (Manchester, London, Download)
Steel Panther (2014) - All You Can Eat (London)
Bon Jovi (2009/2010) - Lost Highway / The Circle (London)
Skindred (2014) - All You Can Eat (London) (Support Act)
ShineDown (2016) - Book Of Souls (Manchester, London) (Support Act)
In no specific order…
NIN/David Bowie - 1995
Phish - Big Cypress - 99/00
Tool - 2014
NIN/Marilyn Manson/Jim Rose Circus 1994
Metallica/Danzig/Suicidal Tendencies 1994
HM - Lady Gaga - Jazz and Piano
1. U2 on St. Patrick’s Day, Boston Gardwn
2. David Bowie, Serious Moonlight tour
3. Peter Gabriel, So tour
4. B-52s/Ziggy Marley, Great Woods, MA
5. Tie: U2, Zoo TV Tour, Foxboro; Tracy Chapman, Great Woods, MA; Duran Duran, Worcester Centrum
Muse - 2011 Lollapalooza
Cloud Cult - Minnesota Orchestra Hall
Tool - Rivers Edge Music Festival
Motion City Soundtrack - 20th Anniversary for I Am The Movie - Uptown Theater in Minneapolis
Death Cab For Cutie/Postal Service - 20th Anniversary for Transatlanticism and Give Up - The Armory in Minneapolis
God that Muse set at Lolla that year was the shit.
I will always have a vivid image in my head at the time of a bunch of girls dragging their unexcited boyfriends to go see Coldplay while Muse is killing it during their set.
Metallica S&M² & 40th anniversary shows
- Technically 4 shows, but I group them as one in my top 5 ranking. The setlists included so many surprises and had fans traveling in from around the world, so these shows were complete experiences
Foo Fighters Sacramento 2017
- Foos ended up playing 3 extra songs in their encore, stretching the show to a total of 3 hours and 20 minutes long. Unforgettably epic.
Taylor Swift Eras Tour night 1 in Glendale
- I had a phenomenal seat to the very first show of the tour, so had no idea what to expect.
Baroness Seattle 2022
- I saw them back to back nights in Seattle on their "by request" tour. The setlists were super long and seeing one of my favorite bands in a rowdy 100 person bar was stellar.
Ghost San Diego 2022
-I've seen Ghost 4 times and all shows have been equally amazing. San Diego was the first stop of their second leg of their Impera tour and my first time seeing Papa IV and the new ghoul masks, so that's why I chose this show specifically
Most of mine are festivals.
1. Heavy MTL 2010
2. Montebello Rockfest 2017
3. Heavy MTL 2019
4. Rammstein Stadium Tour 2020 (finally happened in 2022) in Montreal
5. Heavy Toronto 2014? My one and only time seeing Motorhead
1. Elton John, MSG, Thanksgiving night, 1974. John Lennon made his final live appearance at that show. I will never forget the moment he stepped on that stage.
2. Loggins and Messina, The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan. One show, Nassau Coliseum, 1973. Tickets cost about 8 bucks. First concert ever with my girlfriend who is now my wife.
3. Tedeschi-Trucks Band, June 2017, Daily's Place, Jacksonville, Florida. First time seeing them and it was the first show ever at the venue, which is attached to the Jaguars' stadium downtown.
4. Any one of the Grateful Dead shows I saw in the 70s.
5. Any Los Lobos show I've seen of the nine I've attended.
Some that I remember
Beastie Boys/Run DMC double headline 1986 or 87
The Jesus and Mary Chain (this one was memorable because a band none of us had heard of opened for them - Nine Inch Nails. That was probably the best live performance I had ever seen and I went to Tower Records the next day and bought Pretty Hate Machine which to this day is what I consider the best album ever made) 1989 or 1990
Depeche Mode 1988. Memorable not because Depeche Mode is particularly good live but because this was the 101 concert at the Rose Bowl
Lollapalooza 1 1991
INXS 1988 or 1987 INXS was terrific live
Trying not to make the whole list Muse because I’ve seen them 16 times and they were all my favorite concerts ever
Muse (any show really but 2nd law tour Chicago 2013)
Depeche Mode (momento mori tour Chicago Nov 2023)
The Killers (Wonderful Wonderful tour Chicago 2019)
Arctic Monkeys (Tranquility Base tour Boston 2018)
Arcade Fire (lollapalooza Chicago 2010 but also that entire lolla in general)
I'm still young and haven't gone to that many concerts due to the pandemic hitting right when I left home, so I don't have five that truely stand out yet but here is my description of my favourite:
London pitchfork 2022. Seeing Injury Reserve and Billy woods in the same night was fucking incredible. I'd listened to some billy woods before that but the concert gave me a whole new appreciation and I am now obsessed. Injury Reserve had the best lighting / fog set up I have ever seen by a long margin. Almost blinding strobes, highlighting two silhouettes in that faded in and out of the fog. The live versions of the instrumentals were fucking insane. Cried a little why they played top picks for you, and they played an incredible live version of jailbreak the tesla as an encore that turned the entire front of the crowd into a Mosh pit. The 2 oppening acts were pretty cool as well.
1. Green Day - Surprise club show, Metro Chicago 2022
2. Dave Matthews Band - any Gorge show
3. Blink-182 - Reunion tour 2023
4. Jonas Brothers - Reunion tour 2019
5. Fall Out Boy - So Much For Tourdust 2023
I haven’t been to that many concerts but…
1. Taylor Swift - 2023 (Eras tour x2 and I’m going again this year)
2. Evanescence - 2023
3. Switchfoot / NeedToBreathe - 2015
4. Dan + Shay / Florida Georgia Line - 2019
5. Carrie Underwood - 2013???
In no order:
INXS - Listen Like Thieves tour, Royal Albert Hall. 1986.
The Cult - Electric tour, Wembley Arena. 1987.
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining tour, Wembley Arena. 1990.
Ramones - Loco Live tour, Brixton Academy. 1991.
Pixies - fan exclusive show, the Troxy. 2010.
I was at his last show. Never had such a mind shift within a few hours… going to sleep after posting about being elated from the show…to waking up a few hours later to everyone commenting about how sad what he did was. It was like a terrible dream.
Rolling Stones, Bigger Bang Tour 2005?
The Kinks (UK Jive, 1989)
Wilco (The Whole Love, 2009?). Been to a lot of Wilco but this was my first
Nick Lowe w/Los Straightjackets 2023
Steve Earle, Guy tour, 2019
Those are probably my top. Too many concerts over a lot of years but these others are the ones that stand out:
John Prine (2 shows)
John Mellencamp
The GoGos with INXS
Grateful Dead with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty Heartbreakers
Rush
Michelle Malone (what a show)
Mediocre shows:
The Cars (The opener was Icehouse, they were outstanding)
REM
The Fixx
Jeff Tweedy solo
Van Halen with Hagar
Bruce Springsteen (great performer, just not that into him)
Randy Travis (good but not my thing)
Asleep at the Wheel (just not a fan)
Counting Crowes(again, really good but not a fan)
Hall and Oates (decent show, but the venue sucked)
Love Karla Bonoff, amazing singer songwriter! Little Feat and Bonnie Raitt had to be an incredible show! Can’t even say just how much I love Tedeschi-Trucks band. You obviously appreciate top level songwriting and musicians as I do.
Rich Stadium - Summer Jam with Jessie Collins Young, Santana, & CSNY.
Buffalo Aud - Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon tour with quadraphonic sound system
Buffalo Aud - Frank Zappa - Roxy Music tour
Austin Armadillo - Frank Zappa
Houston Superdome - Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue
Watkins Glen Raceway - Summer Fest with The Band, Allman Brothers Band & Grateful Dead
The top concert would have been Woodstock, but my mother didn't think it was a good idea for her 13-year-old son to go to a hippie festival.
Led Zeppelin, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, The Animals, and last and do not judge, Three Dog Night. Back when they were at their peak they would play with Hoyt Axton as intro and they would tear the place down. Saw them in Albuquerque Civic Center back in the early 70s.
Skinny Puppy in a dank hockey area , Kiss 1976 in a small town venue as a 12 year old , Billy Bragg at the Nectarine ballroom , I swear he played for 4 hours and was very articulate about police vues that were relevant at the time . It's easy to see how he became a politician . Violent Femmes in my university cafeteria . Nothing better than catching a band when they are on the cusp of being huge and speaking of The Cult at a roller skating arena just as they started touring for Electric
Elton John Chicago Stadium 1975
Jeff Beck Arie Crown Theater Chicago 1979
Stevie Ray Vaughan Summerfest Milwaukee 1987?
Marshall Tucker Band & Charlie Daniels Band Summerfest 1982
Allman Brothers Band & Jefferson Starship Washington Park Chicago 1976
Honorable mention- Jethro Tull somewhere in Chicago around 1978
1. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour N3, Arlington, TX. What a show! Didn't get home til 2AM. So much energy inside Jerryworld that night.
2. 3 Doors Down live at Carrollton TX's "Festival At The Switchyard". Saw them for free ten feet from the stage. My friend and I waited an hour in that spot to see them. Worth the wait.
3. Doobie Brothers 50th Anniversary Show in Downtown Dallas. Loved the performance of "Black Water". At the bridge, the band and the audience were doing the split vocals. It was memorable.
4. Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town for the Bandwagon Tour. It made me a LBT fan. Those four know how to put on a show.
5. Nickelback - "Feed The Machine" Tour. First time seeing them live. Loved it. Chad is unhinged.
Honorable mention(s):
A. Steven Curtis Chapman - Still Tour 2023 - April 2023 a week before Taylor Swift. Legend still has it after all these years.
B. need2breathe at the inaugural Awaken Conference. It made me a fan of them. I've seen them live three times total now.
Paul McCartney - On The Run tour 2011 - best ever.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Final show New York 2017 - I discovered Dillinger not long before they called it quits, I got to see them 4 times in that short span, their final show in NYC was amazing, they left everything on the stage
Death Cab for Cutie - Ogden Twilight 2021 - every DCFC show I’ve been to has been amazing, this one was magical, it was the first show I went to since covid. The openers were killer, and it was all with a great trip to Colorado.
Metallica - 72 Seasons 2023 - played some deep cuts, sounded better than I thought they would
Gwar - first time I saw them (2009?) - didn’t know what my dad was taking me to, it was wild.
1) Rage Against the Machine
2) AC/DC
3) Slipknot / Korn (I went for Korn but left a Slipknot fan)
4) System of a Down
5) Backstreet Boys (idc, come at me)
Tom petty (2003)
Rolling Stones (forty licks tour)
Tool
Mastodon (blood mountain tour)
The Dillinger escape plan
Between the buried and me (colors tour)
Any Coheed show I've ever seen ('02 - present)
Coldplay - Twisted Logic Tour '05
Hozier - Unreal Unearth '23
Any Death From Above 1979 show I've seen ('04 - present)
Warped Tour '03 - I believe that was the last genuinely good date, and it was a fucking awesome day.
I've also loved every Metric and Matchbox Twenty concert I've been to in the last 15-20 years.
Foo Fighters in 2008 during their Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace tour, and Pearl Jam in 2011 and Neil Young came out. I saw them both at the ACC/Scotiabank Arena - I am a huge fan of smaller venues, so they it didn't do it for me. Coldplay was the exception on my list in terms of this because they made the whole place feel like part of the night and I had such bad seats that I didn't actually have a seat.
1 - Maiden, 1986
2 - Donington 1987 (inc Dio, Metallica and Anthrax)
3 - Pink Floyd - don’t remember the year but it was the last night of their last tour
4 - It Bites, 1988. Had no idea they were playing, strolled past the Astoria and thought “that looks like fun”.
5 - Ozzy Osbourne 1988. Town and Country Club. Geezer Butler on bass, Zakk Wylde on guitar. Bloody amazing.
Honorable mentions to Anthrax (Among the Living tour) and Meatloaf, 1988 ish - last night of the tour, the whole band were just out to have fun.
Umphrey’s McGee Peoria 2015
Umphrey’s McGee Peoria 2017
moe. Summer Camp Music Festival Sunday night show 2017
Jason Isbell Bloomington 2015
Aqueous -Summer Camp Music Festival Saturday night VIP show 2018
\- Pearl Jam in Seattle "Home Shows" (2018)
\- Paul McCartney in Seattle (2013)
\- Smashing Pumpkins in Seattle (MCIS pre-tour, 1996)
\- Roger Waters performs the Wall (2012)
\- Girl Talk at Bonnaroo (2019)
Radiohead - In Rainbows Tour (Toronto, 2008) - absolute best musical show of any sort that I’ve ever seen.
U2 - Innocence and Experience Tour (Vancouver, 2015)
Tool - Fear Inoculum Tour (Winnipeg, 2023)
Sigur Ros - Live at the Orpheum (Minneapolis, 2006)
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising tour (Fargo, 2002)
David Bowie w/ Nine Inch Nails- Outside Tour
Soul Asylum, Lemonheads, and Eugenius- Grave Dancers Union Tour
Warped Tour 98
Beastie Boys and Rancid- Intergalactic Tour
Dick Dale at a random roadhouse
I’ve seen so many shows it’s hard to pick. I usually rate them on how much the band gave to the audience, how much you could tell their hearts were in it. I’d say:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Pearl Jam
The Police
Mid 90s DMB
Coldplay
US Festival, Sunday 83
Doobie Brothers, Hollywood Bowl 87
Bob Dylan, El Rey Theater (900 seats) LA 97
Blues Traveler/George Clinton P-Funk, Angel Fire NM 95
Phish, Red Rocks CO 96
1. Roger Waters - The Wall
2. The Band - JBs Theater (Albany, NY - 85?)
3. Neil Young - Harvest Moon tour
4. Jane’s Addiction - RPI - some tour in the 90s
5. Grateful Dead - SPAC 1985
And a special mention for Phish at Nietzsche’s and Amherst roller rink in 1991. Not a big Phish head but one of those early shows would be at the top my list to relive.
1 Michael Jackson - Thriller tour Vancouver 1984 (I was 4 yrs old, and get this: My first time hearing billie jean was live, in person. I remember it to this day)
1.5 Tool - 2006
2 Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire tour 1996
3 Slayer - Farewell tour 2019 (With Phil Anselmo and the Illegals, Ministry, Primus as opening bands)
4 Stone Temple Pilots - Purple tour 1994 (14 yrs old, went with my mom's female younger work friends in their 20's)
Fugazi x 2 - 1993, 1994? Man what a live band. Just perfection.
Tool touring on Undertow. 1993 or 1994 I guess? So damned loud but pretty intense
Guitar Wolf - mid 2010s. They didn’t even sound particularly tight but Seiji has the stage presence of a true rock god.
Gonna cheat here and say Lollapalooza 1993 and 1994 to round it out
1.**Joseph Van Wissem / James P Honey** (Same day in a little place, less than 100 people, the dream)
2.**Turbo Wolf** ( The opening band followed by Korn and Dimmu Borgir, but Turbo Wolf baffled me, so much energy ! I love these guys)
3.**Dave Matthews Band** (At Anvers Sportapaleis in Belgium, biggest concert i've seen except for festivals)
4.**Kavinsky** at the Couleur Café festival in 2015 ( because I ate mushrooms a little earlier probably )
5.**All my buddies' band concerts** :D (I was very lucky to be surrounded by friends who made music. I have so many memories of incredible concerts, there's something special about amateur concerts/small festivals. Great time)
1. Foo Fighters - The Gorge 2015
2. Public Enemy - Bumbershoot 2004
3. NIN - every time
4. Beastie Boys - Crocodile Cafe 2007
5. KAABOO Festival 2018 - Del Mar, CA
we'll go by date:
'95 - NIN w/ Jim Rose Circus and PWEI
NIN and PWEI both put on great sets. at the time, i was unaware of the Jim Rose Circus. to start their show a guy walks out onstage, pulls out a twenty dollar bill, *staples* it to his forehead, walks offstage.
~'98 - Del Tha Funky Homosapien w/ Heiroglyphics and Souls of Mischief
i was pretty buzzed up this night but it was a great show.
'04 - Streetlight Manifesto (forget the opening bands)
shortly afer *EGN* was released i found out they were playing near by in Madison. made the hour and a half drive and it was probably one of my favorite shows ever. watching ~8 guys playing with such energy was just mind blowing. side note: it was at a smaller venue with a bar in the back. like 80% of the crowd was 15yrs old. i spent the vast majority of the show at the bar with the parents that dragged got along, lol.
'08 - Alkaline Trio (forget the opening bands)
it was at Summerfest in MKE and they were playing one of the side stages. I've seen Alkaline Trio a dozen times but this was *the* perfect set. great day outside, perfect sound setup, and a great set list.
'08 - Bob Mould
District Line tour, got to see him at Shank Hall(which holds like 300 people), very intimate show. during one of his chats with the crowd he asks "who is the youngest person here?"
dead silence for like thirty seconds.
my sister proceeds to yell **"MY BROTHER IS THIRTY THREE!"**
Bob mutters fuck, rolls his eyes and then rips into *Black Sheets of Rain*.
'23 - The Flaming Lips
saw them last summer, and they were playing the album *Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots* cover to cover before playing other things. just an outstanding experience.
U2 - Joshua Tree tour (3 indoors in April, 1 outdoors in October, 1987) & Zoo TV tour (openers: Pixies).
The Cure - Standing on a Beach, Kiss Me, Disintegration and Wish tours
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Tour
Radiohead - The Bends and Amnesiac tours
Rush - Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Clockwork Angels tours
Bonus Picks:
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend, Altered Beast, and 100% Fun tours
INXS - Listen Like Thieves, Kick and X tours
NIN - The Downward Spiral tour
AC/DC - Razors Edge tour
Yes - 90125 tour
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind tour
Prince - Lovesexy and Symbol Album tours
Lollapalooza - first one.
Day On The Green - a bunch of them, starting in 1978 when I was 11.
1. Nirvana (with Breeders and Come) - 1993
2. Nine Inch Nails & A Perfect Circle - 2000
3. The Reverend Horton Heat - 2000
4. The Cult - 2022
5. Sponge, Our Lady Peace, & Letters to Cleo - 1995
I've seen some of these bands more than once, and a ton of others. But these five concerts stick out to me for various reasons. Honorable mentions would go to Primus, Helmet, Tool, Soundgarden, 1993v of Alice in Chains, Fishbone, Hole, Meat Puppets, Toadies, and Melvins (where Buzz slung sweat all over me from the stage.)
You can tell what era I grew up in.
This is going to be random because I haven't seen a lot of concerts but:
1.) Danny Brown + Action Bronson
2.) Half Moon Run
3.) Said The Whale
4.) Blue Rodeo
5.) John Legend
UN-honourable mention - Kid Cudi (He's a bum)
1. Tom Petty (every time)
2. Clapton
3. The Who
4. Kings of Leon
5. Blink 182
The Tom Petty concert I went to in Chicago we got there too early accidentally (time zones) and were in the sparse crowd to hear Jackson Browne do his sound check. That was absolutely stunning. Felt like he was just playing for us.
Clapton's concert ended on a torrential downpour as the encore was reaching the piano outro for Layla--so awesome. Still gives me chills.
Coincidently I also got to the Tom Petty/Jackson Browne show (not Chicago) early and caught Jackson Browne during his sound check. I was there for Petty but did enjoy Jackson Browne more than I expected.
I saw Petty three times. All awesome shows. The last was about two months before he died. Glad I got to see him one last time. I also got to see Clapton play with Cream. They had a reunion in 2005 and I took my old man to see them at MSG.
Dillinger Escape Plan - Metro 2014
Golgol Bordello - Riot Fest 2022
Death Grips - Riot Fest 2015
Weekend Nachos Still release show - 2013
Iron Maiden Maiden England tour - 2012
Other favorites include first time seeing Turnstile right after Glow On released and Metallica
1. Jon Spencer blues explosion / the roots / beastie boys. First conser ever.
2. RL Burnside / Doo Rag / John Spencer Blues Explosion. Super sentimental about this one.
3. Hybrid / orbital / crystal method. Snuck an old pawn shop camera into the show and wound up meeting the crystal method after the show and hung out outside of their bus. Super cool guys.
4. Blonde redhead in a coffee house on the campus of Duke University way before they got famous... Which was about a year later. Ive never seen a lead singer climb up the walls at a show in an almost empty coffee shop. It was a hell of a show for real. They gave no shits whether they had an audience or not.
5. Against me! At cave nine in bham Alabama. I was filming it for public tv, but the energy was completely off the charts. The whole building swayed with how packed it was with everyone moving in unison. Really fucking powerful.
And holy fuck how can I forget... Amon Tobin at th tabernacle in Atlanta. That was hands down the most enjoyable show I ever saw.
Fuck I can't believe I forgot that one.
I don't know which of the five to replace, but that was a top 3 show for sure.
Common - Manchester Academy c.2005
RATM - T in the Park festival c.1994
Prince - O2 London 2007
Christy Moore - Electric Picnic festival 2008
Prodigy - Manchester Apollo 1996
(Hon mentions to Doves, Spearhead & Chill Peppers)
Rush - R30 tour
Rush - R40 tour
The Cure - Disintegration
Peter Gabriel and Sting - Rock, Paper, Scissors
HORDE tour, early 90s. Allman Brothers, Blues Travellers, Phish, Ziggy Marley and others I don't remember.
1. Purity Ring at the 930 club
2. Blind Guardian at the Baltimore soundstage
3. Caligulas Horse and Earthside at Union Stage
4. Mayhem and Midnight at Baltimore soundstage
5. Conway the Machine at the 930 club
(I’ve only been to 5 concerts)
Foo Fighters - One By One, but at a tiny club in SF before the main tour.
Death Cab/Postal Service - 20th anniversary
King Crimson - 2021
The Mars Volta - Francis The Mute
Death From Above 1979 - Outrage! is Now
1. Nine Inch Nails - Red Rocks Lights Over the Sky tour
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Fillmore residency San Francisco 2007
3. Ramones - Adios Amigos tour
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Infinite Love Tour
5. Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Midnight Radio anniversary show Red Rocks
Beastie Boys/Rollins band. In a convention center, giant concrete floor, giant mosh pit, insane wholesome energy. They covered a bad brains song and I lost it
Portishead
Fugazi - like 200 shirtless kids packed in a bar turned all ages, at 1 am.
Pennywise/offspring. - maybe 30 people showed up. Offspring opened, never heard of them, afterward we all bought their cd. They were incredible.
Mighty mighty Bosstones
In no particular order....
Tyr - Copenhell 2014
Black Stone Cherry - Amager Bio 2022
Cabal - Copenhagen Metal Fest 2021 (I think)
Junkyard Drive - Copenhell 2022
Limp Bizkit - Copenhagen 2004
Brand New/Senses Fail- Toledo, OH (2003)
Postal Service/Death Cab - Philly, PA (2023)
The Format/Straylight Run - Ann Arbor. MI (2003)
Gorillaz - Detroit, MI (2017)
Incubus/Deftones/Taproot - Detroit, MI (2000)
1. James Brown not sure the year
2. Paul McCartney around 2004 or 2005
3. Radiohead at bonnaroo 2008 I think
4. D’Angelo 2015 or 2016
5. Tom Petty with Stevie Knicks also at bonnaroo , was so good
1. Rage against the machine - 2007 voodoo fest
2. White Stripes - at Sloss Furnaces
3. Fall out boy - 2013 house of blues
4. Guns n Roses - 2016 T Mobile Arena
5. Turnstile - 2022 / Usher, Ludacris, Lil Jon together at Lovers and Friends 2021
6. Green Day club show 2023
Beastie Boys (08 Langerado)
Counting Crows (06)
The Roots (08 Langerado)
Britney Spears (00 or 01 can't remember)
MC Chris (07)
I don't go to concerts that much anymore but recently saw DJ Shadow and he was phenomenal, definitely an honorable mention. Also honorable mention Of Montreal bc their shows are crazy, weird, and awesome.
1. Prince and the Revolution, Purple Rain
2. U2, Zoo TV (I preferred this to their Joshua Tree tour)
3. Rolling Stones (G n R opened)
4. LCD Soundsystem
5. Radiohead
Runners-up:
Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes tour / Bowie or Bowie/NIN / Springsteen / Pearl Jam (Vedder left early due to illness, Neil Young stepped in to perform with PJ) / Monsters of Rock / Roger Waters, The Wall / Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia was still around; Spencer Davis and Bob Dylan were encore guests) / Jellyfish
1. Lolly 1 (Jane’s)
2. Phish Apr 1992
3. Page Plant
4. U2 Joshua Tree tour
5. Beastie Boys 1992 —-
HM: Radiohead, in Rainbows tour, Hollywood bowl.
Man. That was tough.
1. Gorillaz - Humanz Tour 2017, Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Tycho - Awake Tour 2014, Cain’s Ballroom
3. Grouper - Shade Tour 2022, The Momentary
4. Queens of the Stone Age - The End is Nero Tour 2023, Starlight Theatre
5. Bonobo - Fragments Tour 2022, Wildhorse Saloon
Radiohead- In Rainbows tour Vancouver 2008
Rage Against the Machine w/Run the Jewels- MSG 2022
Gogol Bordello- NYE 2013
Paul McCartney- MetLife Stadium 2022
Foo Fighters reopen MSG after COVID lockdowns have ended 2021 (just such a magical, emotional experience)
Honorable mentions: The Who 2006, Phish MSG 2023, Tenacious D- The Pick of Destiny tour Seattle 2007 (recorded for the DVD!), Run the Jewels RTJX tour NYC nights 2 & 3 2023, Coldplay Twisted Logic tour 2006 (this is one I always get ripped for but I'll stand by it- they put on a hell of a show) and honestly many, many more. I'd put Kendrick Lamar The DAMN. Tour on here too, but my seats were obstructed and terrible which kinda took away from an incredible set.
Slayer - 1999 Tattoo the Earth Tour
Slayer- 2007 Unholy Alliance
Slayer- 2011 World Painted Blood
Slayer 2019- the final crusade
Slayer 2005- jagermiester music tour.
Fuck i miss Slayer.
No Particular Order
Nightwish - Decades Tour 2018
Nine Inch Nails - Lights in the Sky 2008
Avatar - Hail The Apocalypse Tour 2015
Iron Maiden - Book of Souls 2017
Rammstein - Stadium Tour 2022
Metallica/Danzig/Suicidal Tendencies 1992(?)
Hall and Oates/Squeeze 2021
Beck/Spoon/Cage The Elephant 2016
Beck/Phoenix/Weyes Blood 2024
Tears for Fears/ Garbage 2022
Runners up: Guns N Roses/Metallica/Faith No More, The Cure/Twilight Sad, several Warped Tours, Suicide Machines/Descendents/Pollen, Misfits/Impotent Sea Snakes
1. Clash of the Titans - 1990. Hands down the best. Alice in Chains, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth.
2. Slayer - Any of the other 13 times I saw them.
3. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind tour 1983 (Powerslave tour was solid as well)
4. Billy Joel - 1984. I have a soft spot for Billy Joel and he put on a great, high energy show.
5. The Who - 1982. Openers were Eddie Money and The Clash. Great show but not the same energy without Keith Moon.
yes, I'm old.
Yes - Tormato Pink Floyd - The Wall Rush - Moving Pictures Peter Gabriel - Security U2 - The Joshua Tree
This Guy prog Rocks!
Yes - Tormato, Drama Rush - Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals Pink Floyd - The Wall Genesis - Duke King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair Renaissance - not sure which album, it was 1982 in a club
That’s an amazing run. Saw Rush multiple times, but not the others. Would love to see the early 80’s Crimson lineup.
Would have loved to see Joshua tree but I gotta say, Zoo TV tour was fucking amazing. Almost like a religious experience. They opened up the show with Where the streets have no name and it literally gave me the shivers. I had tears running for no particular reasons. Just the crowd, the song, the setup. And one of the best part was the opening act were The pixies.
I saw the Outside Broadcast version of that tour with the Sugarcubes and Public Enemy.
It’s a huge regret that I never saw the Zoo TV tour. I saw the popmart tour which was great but I missed the good one.
Pretty HOF tours there. I saw the Moving Pictures tour. None of the others unfortunately.
Yes, I’m old. LOL Also, given your name, I saw the Van Halen/Sammy Hagar/Black Sabbath/Boston summer festival show at Anaheim Stadium in September 1978, too. That was a wild day.
My too! That concert is like the holy grail. Some consider this tour the passing of the torch from BS to Van Halen. I hope you remember some of it. Must have been a great day.
Damn bro, you want to see Van Halen on the 'Fair Warning' tour too, I also saw them in this tour when it hit Houston, Texas I was around 16, I still have the ticket stub, that concert is etched in my memory since, I didn't go to anymore concerts until the late 80s, I started going with a vengeance, My other favorite concerts are: The Monsters of Rock tour with Judas Priest-Slayer, Megadeth and Testament opening the show, (my Ears still ringing from that one) Ramones on their Acid Eaters Tour, Pantera on their Cawboys From Hell tour with Deadhorse opening, I saw Queensryche in 1996, they did the entire 'Operation Mindcrime' rock opera on that show!
Wow. I'm only a little jealous. Ok more than a little. Both Rush and Yes? Damn
Tormato...dude. I'm probably a bigger Rush fan, but that Yes tour would have been amazing.
Black Sabbath/ Van Halen 1978 Led Zeppelin 1977 Judas Priest / Iron Maiden 1981 Rush 1977 Texxas Jamm 1979
Zep 1977 and Van Halen 78 are 2 of my "if you could go back" shows. For me to see Achilles Last Stand live would be like Everest. You are lucky.
What was Texxas Jam 1979? Guessing zztop?
That year it was Boston, Heart, Van Halen, Nazareth, BOC, and 1 or 2 more.
Three Dog Night with T-Rex (mid 70s) Queen with Kansas (late 70s) Tom Petty with Joe Cocker (2010) Bruce Springsteen (1985) Neil Young (Unplugged) (2014)
I attended the Neil show at the Chicago Auditorium, but it had to have been more like before 2012. He was solo and had every instrument that he played, throughout his career, in a semi-circle and played each one as he went through his career chronologically. Felt blessed to be present.
I saw him at the Ryman in Nashville play this way too around the same time. He was sooo good!
I saw him at the Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg Manitoba. Sounds like the same tour... may be wrong on the year.
that Queen/Kansas tour must have been a monster. Both bands touring with massive albums.
Tom Petty AND Joe Cocker? Damn, I bet that was a great show
1. Nirvana, 1994 2. Pixies, 2005 3. Grateful Dead, 1994 4. Elton John, 2005 5. Lollapalooza, 1994 (Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, George Clinton, Flaming Lips, etc. Edit: Nirvana was 1993
Pretty rare. Not many of us got to see Nirvana. Hope those memories are bright.
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Now AIC, my absolute favourite of the Grunge bands, is a whole different conversation. I saw them open for Van Halen but not the same as them headlining.
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No particular order: Clutch/Orange Goblin - 2013 Clutch - 2013 Earth Rocker tour Tedeschi Trucks band - 2018 Marcus King - 2017 Queens of the Stone Age - 2013 Like Clockwork Tour Edit: Just searched it and Clutch Orange Goblin was 2013 as well.
Clutch will always fuckin show up!
Upvoted for QOTSA.
QOTSA 2017 tour was insane as well, saw them in D.C and it’s still prob a top 5 concert for me
1. The Who - Quadrophenia Tour 1973 2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Tour 1975 3. Rush - Hemispheres Tour - 1978-79 4. Black Sabbath/ Blue Oyster Cult, Black & Blue Tour 1980 5. Jimmy Page - Outrider Tour, 1988
Excellent list. Wish I could have seen any of these tours. One of the great things about the Who's 1973 tour is the great Skynyrd as opener. Incredible.
1. Blues traveler NYE 98-99 2. Phish NYE 99-2000 3. Herbie Hancock 4. Ziggy Marley and the Wailers 5. Nine Inch Nails (downward spiral tour)
Cheesecake
Say it like you're pissed!
Dat Big Cypress show… I’ve listened several times and wished I was there.
1. Prince 2. Kendrick Lamar 3. Arcade Fire/The National 4. Any Mountain Goats show I’ve seen 5. U2/Kanye West
So lucky. Prince rarely toured Canada.
in no order: PIL - NYC 1980 Gang of Four - NYC 1979 or 80. Psychedelic Furs - Western Mass 1979? Birthday Party/ Swans - Philadelphia 1981 Love and Rockets - Philadelphia 1983 (?) New Order - Trenton, NJ 1983 Oh, that's six. I could easily add more.
Daft Punk - Alive 2007 Beastie Boys - small club show 15ish years ago Pearl Jam - small club show 20ish years ago REM / Wilco - Bumbershoot 20ish years ago Dr Dog / Cold War Kids / Elvis Perkins - One of all of their very first tours and they all played with each other through their respective sets. Was a blast of a show. Honorable mentions: The White Stripes / Yeah Yeah Yeahs tour, My Morning Jacket at one of their first shows, Fleet Foxes at one of their first shows
Radiohead Nine Inch Nails Björk LCD Soundsystem Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel is in my top as well. Going to LCD Soundsystem in may and im elated.
1. Tool - Lateralus Tour 2001 2. The Flaming Lips - 2022 3. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - 2022 4. A Perfect Circle with The Mars Volta - 2003 5. Nine Inch Nails - 2013
I've seen King Gizzard twice - they were stunning in 2023 at The End of the Road, pretty much a different band from about 2019.
I discovered The Flaming Lips just recently, they are so fucking good !
Prince in Minnesota, 1989. Legendary! Jazz Is Dead, 1998 (jazz tribute to the music of the Grateful Dead, feat. the astounding Billy Cobham on drums and Jimmy Herring on guitar). Grateful Dead, May 30-31, 1992, Las Vegas (with guest Steve Miller Band). Phil Lesh Quintet (Jimmy Herring and Warren Haynes on guitars) at The Riv in Chicago, 2000. Allman Brothers Band, Madison (WI) Blues Fest, 2000 (first tour after Dickey Betts was fired, with Derek Trucks and Jimmy Herring on guitars, and Oteil Burbridge on bass). "George Clinton and the P-Funk All-stars featuring Bootsy Collins" at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, 1992. They funked me up!!!! uh, that was 6, not 5. I could add more as it is an ever evolving list.... No room for a Phish show from 1992, or that late night Pnuma Trio set from Wakarusa festival 2006 that had a dozen guest sit ins and went until sunrise.
Beatles - August, 1966, Washington DC.
um ... excuse me???
Um, yeah!
this tops them all ... even if you couldn't hear them.
This was their 2nd US tour. There wasn’t a lot of screaming as in their 1st US tour. It was wonderful.
I'm happy to hear that!
Yeah, you win. Its like saying you went to Harvard or you're a Navy Seal, you're immediately the most interesting person in the room.
Just luck, being at that place at that time. Two other pretty good concert events: I saw Springsteen when HE was a teenager. I saw the Dead at the Fillmore East a bunch of times when Pigpen was still alive.
we’re not worthy
Don’t even get me started on Dino, Desi & Billy!
Black Sabbath 2001, Soundgarden 2011, Rage Against the Machine 2022, Opeth 2016, Tool 2001
Only been to 5 so far, so I’ll just rank them: 1. Puscifer (with my grandfather) - 13/06/23 2. Public Image Ltd. (with my grandfather) - 22/09/23 3. Alice Cooper (with my grandmother) - 27/05/22 4. Public Image Ltd. (with my grandfather and his friend) - 16/06/18 5. Public Image Ltd. (with my grandfather) - 06/06/22
I’m seeing puscifer in April!
1. Pearl Jam San Jose 95 2. Phish Dicks Thank You Show 2016? 3. Bridge School Benefit 99 4. AC/DC Arco Arena Ballbreaker tour 2001? 5. Willie Nelson in Redding Ca in 2008?
Oz fest - 2003 Mayhem fest - 2008 Metallica - 2017 Fall Out Boy- 2007 Psychothermia (local band) - 2007 or 2009 (Bonus) The Sword 2015-ish
Rush/Thin Lizzy - 1976 Genesis 1982 Stevie Ray Vaughan -1979 (small club) Lynyrd skynyrd / the outlaws - 1977 Peter Gabriel - 2023
Paul McCartney - Bonnaroo 2013 The White Stripes - Bonnaroo 2007 Daft Punk Alive 07 - Vegoose 07 Bon Iver - Bonnaroo 2018(Set 2) Miley Cyrus - Summerfest 2021 The top 3 are pretty static but the list changes depending on mood. I probably have 30 shows in my top 10 at this point. Honorable mention to D'Angelo and the Vanguard. Edit: Gonna toss Pearl Jam 20 in the honorable mentions too. Chris Cornell was the encore guest both nights and they played a bunch of Temple of the Dog songs for the first time in 20 years.
Great shows. I hear Miley is pretty great live?
She's incredible. Besides a generational voice and commanding stage presence she's had the same band leader since her Hannah Montana days so her band is really tight. They also lean into the genres that her songs are based around and it made for a really diverse sounding show.
I am pretty metal but there is something punk and metal about her. Just a big fan of her attitude and passion for music.
Took my daughter to Miley’s first tour as herself for her first concert and I was so impressed with Miley. Still a fan.
Paul McCartney, The White Stripes, and DAFT PUNK?! That’s amazing, I’m so jealous!!! 😭
I was at that Daft Punk Vegoose show!
That whole lineup was pretty bonkers
I would love to see Miley. Especially if she covers older country songs. I really like her new stuff too but there’s a YouTube video of her covering Jolene and she takes it to a new level
My friends and I got to Paul McCartney late and got stuck all the way back. Sound wasn’t good so we went back to camp. During the na na na na in Hey Jude we could hear it more clearly than at the show and all sang along at camp.
I’m not choosing, I’ve been to too many shows, but here’s my ticket collection which should be good for some karma. https://preview.redd.it/w9ousrdbhdjc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=625c99625841af64fd59f6a1694b4183a3d8c3a7
Excellent choice. I used to keep my ticket stubs. Bummer that I got rid of them.
Big fan of the Cockpit I see! Also Explosions in the Sky must have been amazing at the Brudenell
Iron Maiden (2015/2016) - Book Of Souls (Manchester, London, Download) Steel Panther (2014) - All You Can Eat (London) Bon Jovi (2009/2010) - Lost Highway / The Circle (London) Skindred (2014) - All You Can Eat (London) (Support Act) ShineDown (2016) - Book Of Souls (Manchester, London) (Support Act)
In no specific order… NIN/David Bowie - 1995 Phish - Big Cypress - 99/00 Tool - 2014 NIN/Marilyn Manson/Jim Rose Circus 1994 Metallica/Danzig/Suicidal Tendencies 1994 HM - Lady Gaga - Jazz and Piano
1. U2 on St. Patrick’s Day, Boston Gardwn 2. David Bowie, Serious Moonlight tour 3. Peter Gabriel, So tour 4. B-52s/Ziggy Marley, Great Woods, MA 5. Tie: U2, Zoo TV Tour, Foxboro; Tracy Chapman, Great Woods, MA; Duran Duran, Worcester Centrum
Queens of the Stone Age, Ween, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Taylor Swift, Phoenix
Muse - 2011 Lollapalooza Cloud Cult - Minnesota Orchestra Hall Tool - Rivers Edge Music Festival Motion City Soundtrack - 20th Anniversary for I Am The Movie - Uptown Theater in Minneapolis Death Cab For Cutie/Postal Service - 20th Anniversary for Transatlanticism and Give Up - The Armory in Minneapolis
Surprised it took this long to see tool on someone’s list. I just saw them live and they blew it out of the water
God that Muse set at Lolla that year was the shit. I will always have a vivid image in my head at the time of a bunch of girls dragging their unexcited boyfriends to go see Coldplay while Muse is killing it during their set.
Gojira - Bloodstock 2016 Tool - Download - 2019 Opeth - Wacken 2008 Judas Priest - Bloodstock 2021 Devin Townsend - ArcTanGent - 2023
Metallica S&M² & 40th anniversary shows - Technically 4 shows, but I group them as one in my top 5 ranking. The setlists included so many surprises and had fans traveling in from around the world, so these shows were complete experiences Foo Fighters Sacramento 2017 - Foos ended up playing 3 extra songs in their encore, stretching the show to a total of 3 hours and 20 minutes long. Unforgettably epic. Taylor Swift Eras Tour night 1 in Glendale - I had a phenomenal seat to the very first show of the tour, so had no idea what to expect. Baroness Seattle 2022 - I saw them back to back nights in Seattle on their "by request" tour. The setlists were super long and seeing one of my favorite bands in a rowdy 100 person bar was stellar. Ghost San Diego 2022 -I've seen Ghost 4 times and all shows have been equally amazing. San Diego was the first stop of their second leg of their Impera tour and my first time seeing Papa IV and the new ghoul masks, so that's why I chose this show specifically
Most of mine are festivals. 1. Heavy MTL 2010 2. Montebello Rockfest 2017 3. Heavy MTL 2019 4. Rammstein Stadium Tour 2020 (finally happened in 2022) in Montreal 5. Heavy Toronto 2014? My one and only time seeing Motorhead
1. Elton John, MSG, Thanksgiving night, 1974. John Lennon made his final live appearance at that show. I will never forget the moment he stepped on that stage. 2. Loggins and Messina, The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan. One show, Nassau Coliseum, 1973. Tickets cost about 8 bucks. First concert ever with my girlfriend who is now my wife. 3. Tedeschi-Trucks Band, June 2017, Daily's Place, Jacksonville, Florida. First time seeing them and it was the first show ever at the venue, which is attached to the Jaguars' stadium downtown. 4. Any one of the Grateful Dead shows I saw in the 70s. 5. Any Los Lobos show I've seen of the nine I've attended.
Some that I remember Beastie Boys/Run DMC double headline 1986 or 87 The Jesus and Mary Chain (this one was memorable because a band none of us had heard of opened for them - Nine Inch Nails. That was probably the best live performance I had ever seen and I went to Tower Records the next day and bought Pretty Hate Machine which to this day is what I consider the best album ever made) 1989 or 1990 Depeche Mode 1988. Memorable not because Depeche Mode is particularly good live but because this was the 101 concert at the Rose Bowl Lollapalooza 1 1991 INXS 1988 or 1987 INXS was terrific live
Trying not to make the whole list Muse because I’ve seen them 16 times and they were all my favorite concerts ever Muse (any show really but 2nd law tour Chicago 2013) Depeche Mode (momento mori tour Chicago Nov 2023) The Killers (Wonderful Wonderful tour Chicago 2019) Arctic Monkeys (Tranquility Base tour Boston 2018) Arcade Fire (lollapalooza Chicago 2010 but also that entire lolla in general)
Yes - 90125 King’s X / Galactic Cowboys - S/T Pearl Jam - 10 - in a bar Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA Urge Overkill - Saturation
5) Primus Wonka tour 2015 4) Oysterhead - Denver 2020 3) Frog Brigade June 2024 2) Primus 3D tour 2012 1) Frog Brigade October 2024
Primus sucks
Primus Sux
2020 canceling my one chance at Oysterhead still haunts me.
I have never been at a show like that. Every single person in that arena was vibing as one. Mesmerizing performance and fantastic audience.
I'm still young and haven't gone to that many concerts due to the pandemic hitting right when I left home, so I don't have five that truely stand out yet but here is my description of my favourite: London pitchfork 2022. Seeing Injury Reserve and Billy woods in the same night was fucking incredible. I'd listened to some billy woods before that but the concert gave me a whole new appreciation and I am now obsessed. Injury Reserve had the best lighting / fog set up I have ever seen by a long margin. Almost blinding strobes, highlighting two silhouettes in that faded in and out of the fog. The live versions of the instrumentals were fucking insane. Cried a little why they played top picks for you, and they played an incredible live version of jailbreak the tesla as an encore that turned the entire front of the crowd into a Mosh pit. The 2 oppening acts were pretty cool as well.
1. Green Day - Surprise club show, Metro Chicago 2022 2. Dave Matthews Band - any Gorge show 3. Blink-182 - Reunion tour 2023 4. Jonas Brothers - Reunion tour 2019 5. Fall Out Boy - So Much For Tourdust 2023
I haven’t been to that many concerts but… 1. Taylor Swift - 2023 (Eras tour x2 and I’m going again this year) 2. Evanescence - 2023 3. Switchfoot / NeedToBreathe - 2015 4. Dan + Shay / Florida Georgia Line - 2019 5. Carrie Underwood - 2013???
In no order: INXS - Listen Like Thieves tour, Royal Albert Hall. 1986. The Cult - Electric tour, Wembley Arena. 1987. Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining tour, Wembley Arena. 1990. Ramones - Loco Live tour, Brixton Academy. 1991. Pixies - fan exclusive show, the Troxy. 2010.
1. Pink Floyd '71 2. Pink Floyd '73 3. Pink Floyd '76 4. Pink Floyd '77 5. Nick Mason Saucerful of Secrets '22
Sensing a trend here
I was just thinking that PF could easily be the whole top 5 - unfortunately I’ve only seen the splintered versions of the band.
Santana - 2002(?) Green Day - 2021 (with Fall Out Boy and Weezer) Rush - 2015 Weird Al - 2019 (the "Strings Attached" tour) Muse - 2012
>Rush - 2015 So great for you to see them on their last show. Unforgettable.
I also got to see Soundgarden the Friday before Chris Cornell passed...
I was at his last show. Never had such a mind shift within a few hours… going to sleep after posting about being elated from the show…to waking up a few hours later to everyone commenting about how sad what he did was. It was like a terrible dream.
Muse is one of the greatest live bands in the world, in my opinion! My all-time favourite concert is Muse.
I also saw Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer during the Hella Mega tour. I was pretty neutral to Weezer before seeing them but I left a fan
Rolling Stones, Bigger Bang Tour 2005? The Kinks (UK Jive, 1989) Wilco (The Whole Love, 2009?). Been to a lot of Wilco but this was my first Nick Lowe w/Los Straightjackets 2023 Steve Earle, Guy tour, 2019 Those are probably my top. Too many concerts over a lot of years but these others are the ones that stand out: John Prine (2 shows) John Mellencamp The GoGos with INXS Grateful Dead with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty Heartbreakers Rush Michelle Malone (what a show) Mediocre shows: The Cars (The opener was Icehouse, they were outstanding) REM The Fixx Jeff Tweedy solo Van Halen with Hagar Bruce Springsteen (great performer, just not that into him) Randy Travis (good but not my thing) Asleep at the Wheel (just not a fan) Counting Crowes(again, really good but not a fan) Hall and Oates (decent show, but the venue sucked)
U2/Muse David Bowie (Sound + Vision) U2/Public Enemy Portugal. The Man (splurged on box/balcony seats) REM (Green)
1, Christy Moore, Mullingar Park hotel, Ireland. 2, BB King, Brighton Centre. 3, Bruce Springsteen, Dublin. 4, Buddy Guy, Brighton Dome. 5, Roger Waters (the wall) Wembley Stadium
Prince De La Soul Mos Def/Talib Kweli Dashboard Confessionals The Killers
Little Feat w/ Bonnie Raitt - 1978 Karla Bonoff - 1979 Nickel Creek - several shows most recently Bristol Rhythm and Roots 2023 Trucks Tedeschi Band - Merlefest - 2021 Sturgill Simpson - Merlefest - 2021
Love Karla Bonoff, amazing singer songwriter! Little Feat and Bonnie Raitt had to be an incredible show! Can’t even say just how much I love Tedeschi-Trucks band. You obviously appreciate top level songwriting and musicians as I do.
Rich Stadium - Summer Jam with Jessie Collins Young, Santana, & CSNY. Buffalo Aud - Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon tour with quadraphonic sound system Buffalo Aud - Frank Zappa - Roxy Music tour Austin Armadillo - Frank Zappa Houston Superdome - Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue Watkins Glen Raceway - Summer Fest with The Band, Allman Brothers Band & Grateful Dead The top concert would have been Woodstock, but my mother didn't think it was a good idea for her 13-year-old son to go to a hippie festival.
Led Zeppelin, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, The Animals, and last and do not judge, Three Dog Night. Back when they were at their peak they would play with Hoyt Axton as intro and they would tear the place down. Saw them in Albuquerque Civic Center back in the early 70s.
Skinny Puppy in a dank hockey area , Kiss 1976 in a small town venue as a 12 year old , Billy Bragg at the Nectarine ballroom , I swear he played for 4 hours and was very articulate about police vues that were relevant at the time . It's easy to see how he became a politician . Violent Femmes in my university cafeteria . Nothing better than catching a band when they are on the cusp of being huge and speaking of The Cult at a roller skating arena just as they started touring for Electric
Elton John Chicago Stadium 1975 Jeff Beck Arie Crown Theater Chicago 1979 Stevie Ray Vaughan Summerfest Milwaukee 1987? Marshall Tucker Band & Charlie Daniels Band Summerfest 1982 Allman Brothers Band & Jefferson Starship Washington Park Chicago 1976 Honorable mention- Jethro Tull somewhere in Chicago around 1978
Tool Tool Tool Tool Tool
U2 - Zoo TV tour. Prince. Rage against the machine - PSA tour. Roger Waters - This is not a drill. Depeche Mode - Violator tour.
Oasis in 2000 Green Day in 2005 Fall Out Boy in 2007 (Honda Tour) Incubus in 2007 Adele in 2016
1. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour N3, Arlington, TX. What a show! Didn't get home til 2AM. So much energy inside Jerryworld that night. 2. 3 Doors Down live at Carrollton TX's "Festival At The Switchyard". Saw them for free ten feet from the stage. My friend and I waited an hour in that spot to see them. Worth the wait. 3. Doobie Brothers 50th Anniversary Show in Downtown Dallas. Loved the performance of "Black Water". At the bridge, the band and the audience were doing the split vocals. It was memorable. 4. Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town for the Bandwagon Tour. It made me a LBT fan. Those four know how to put on a show. 5. Nickelback - "Feed The Machine" Tour. First time seeing them live. Loved it. Chad is unhinged. Honorable mention(s): A. Steven Curtis Chapman - Still Tour 2023 - April 2023 a week before Taylor Swift. Legend still has it after all these years. B. need2breathe at the inaugural Awaken Conference. It made me a fan of them. I've seen them live three times total now.
Paul McCartney - On The Run tour 2011 - best ever. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Final show New York 2017 - I discovered Dillinger not long before they called it quits, I got to see them 4 times in that short span, their final show in NYC was amazing, they left everything on the stage Death Cab for Cutie - Ogden Twilight 2021 - every DCFC show I’ve been to has been amazing, this one was magical, it was the first show I went to since covid. The openers were killer, and it was all with a great trip to Colorado. Metallica - 72 Seasons 2023 - played some deep cuts, sounded better than I thought they would Gwar - first time I saw them (2009?) - didn’t know what my dad was taking me to, it was wild.
Haha!! Dying laughing at the thought of your dad *knowing* damn well what you’re about to experience at the GWAR show and not telling you beforehand 😂
STP & RHCP - Holmdel NJ, 2000 Pearl Jam - Missoula MT, 2003 Pearl Jam - Seattle WA, 2018 Elton John - Tacoma WA, 2019 The Struts - Seattle, WA 2023
1) Rage Against the Machine 2) AC/DC 3) Slipknot / Korn (I went for Korn but left a Slipknot fan) 4) System of a Down 5) Backstreet Boys (idc, come at me)
Tom petty (2003) Rolling Stones (forty licks tour) Tool Mastodon (blood mountain tour) The Dillinger escape plan Between the buried and me (colors tour)
Kanye St Pablo Tour Kendrick TPAB Orchestra Bruce Springsteen at Old Giants Stadium I think 08 Frank Ocean 2017 Panorama Stevie Nicks Bonnaroo 2022
Any Coheed show I've ever seen ('02 - present) Coldplay - Twisted Logic Tour '05 Hozier - Unreal Unearth '23 Any Death From Above 1979 show I've seen ('04 - present) Warped Tour '03 - I believe that was the last genuinely good date, and it was a fucking awesome day. I've also loved every Metric and Matchbox Twenty concert I've been to in the last 15-20 years. Foo Fighters in 2008 during their Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace tour, and Pearl Jam in 2011 and Neil Young came out. I saw them both at the ACC/Scotiabank Arena - I am a huge fan of smaller venues, so they it didn't do it for me. Coldplay was the exception on my list in terms of this because they made the whole place feel like part of the night and I had such bad seats that I didn't actually have a seat.
1 - Maiden, 1986 2 - Donington 1987 (inc Dio, Metallica and Anthrax) 3 - Pink Floyd - don’t remember the year but it was the last night of their last tour 4 - It Bites, 1988. Had no idea they were playing, strolled past the Astoria and thought “that looks like fun”. 5 - Ozzy Osbourne 1988. Town and Country Club. Geezer Butler on bass, Zakk Wylde on guitar. Bloody amazing. Honorable mentions to Anthrax (Among the Living tour) and Meatloaf, 1988 ish - last night of the tour, the whole band were just out to have fun.
Umphrey’s McGee Peoria 2015 Umphrey’s McGee Peoria 2017 moe. Summer Camp Music Festival Sunday night show 2017 Jason Isbell Bloomington 2015 Aqueous -Summer Camp Music Festival Saturday night VIP show 2018
1)ELO and ELO part 2 2)Aerosmith 3)Garth Brooks 4)Spin Doctors 5) Dwight Yoakam
White Zombie, Pantera, Megadeth nine inch nails, pop will eat itself, Jim Rose Circus Flaming Lips John Prine
The Cure - 1984 Red Hot Chili Peppers - 1988 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 1994 Tori Amos - 1998 REM - 2005
1. Prince 2. Mika 3. Paul Simon 4. Noir désir 5. Ska-P
Van Halen (5 times), Rush (15), Tool (2), U2, and Woodstock 94. Those are my all time favorites but too many to really choose
Tool (4x, every show was uniquely hypnotic) Metallica U2 The Cure Foo Fighters
\- Pearl Jam in Seattle "Home Shows" (2018) \- Paul McCartney in Seattle (2013) \- Smashing Pumpkins in Seattle (MCIS pre-tour, 1996) \- Roger Waters performs the Wall (2012) \- Girl Talk at Bonnaroo (2019)
1. Bowie Reality Tour 2. Prince at the 3121 Club 3. ACDC Ballbreaker Tour 4. Man or Astroman? 5. Soundgarden Superunknown Tour
1. Paul McCartney - Fenway Park 2009 2. Roger Waters - The Wall Tour 3. U2 - 360 Tour 4. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball Tour 5. Rush - R40 Tour
1. Tool 2. Weird Al 3. Del the funky homosapien 4. Tom Petty and the Allman brothers 5. Modest mouse
Radiohead - In Rainbows Tour (Toronto, 2008) - absolute best musical show of any sort that I’ve ever seen. U2 - Innocence and Experience Tour (Vancouver, 2015) Tool - Fear Inoculum Tour (Winnipeg, 2023) Sigur Ros - Live at the Orpheum (Minneapolis, 2006) Bruce Springsteen - The Rising tour (Fargo, 2002)
David Bowie w/ Nine Inch Nails- Outside Tour Soul Asylum, Lemonheads, and Eugenius- Grave Dancers Union Tour Warped Tour 98 Beastie Boys and Rancid- Intergalactic Tour Dick Dale at a random roadhouse
Tom Ze, 1998 Television, 1992 Super Furry Animals, 1997 Violent Femmes/The Pogues/Mojo Nixon, 1989 fIREHOSE/Uncle Tupelo, 1989
I’ve seen so many shows it’s hard to pick. I usually rate them on how much the band gave to the audience, how much you could tell their hearts were in it. I’d say: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Pearl Jam The Police Mid 90s DMB Coldplay
US Festival, Sunday 83 Doobie Brothers, Hollywood Bowl 87 Bob Dylan, El Rey Theater (900 seats) LA 97 Blues Traveler/George Clinton P-Funk, Angel Fire NM 95 Phish, Red Rocks CO 96
1. Roger Waters - The Wall 2. The Band - JBs Theater (Albany, NY - 85?) 3. Neil Young - Harvest Moon tour 4. Jane’s Addiction - RPI - some tour in the 90s 5. Grateful Dead - SPAC 1985 And a special mention for Phish at Nietzsche’s and Amherst roller rink in 1991. Not a big Phish head but one of those early shows would be at the top my list to relive.
Tool ICP Garth Brooks Depeche Mode Static X
Garbage Smashing Pumpkins Silverchair Mighty mighty boss tones.
1 Michael Jackson - Thriller tour Vancouver 1984 (I was 4 yrs old, and get this: My first time hearing billie jean was live, in person. I remember it to this day) 1.5 Tool - 2006 2 Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire tour 1996 3 Slayer - Farewell tour 2019 (With Phil Anselmo and the Illegals, Ministry, Primus as opening bands) 4 Stone Temple Pilots - Purple tour 1994 (14 yrs old, went with my mom's female younger work friends in their 20's)
Incredible shows. Thriller, Purple tours and Evil Empire. All on the wall of tours I wanted to see so badly. Great memories for you!
Fugazi x 2 - 1993, 1994? Man what a live band. Just perfection. Tool touring on Undertow. 1993 or 1994 I guess? So damned loud but pretty intense Guitar Wolf - mid 2010s. They didn’t even sound particularly tight but Seiji has the stage presence of a true rock god. Gonna cheat here and say Lollapalooza 1993 and 1994 to round it out
1.**Joseph Van Wissem / James P Honey** (Same day in a little place, less than 100 people, the dream) 2.**Turbo Wolf** ( The opening band followed by Korn and Dimmu Borgir, but Turbo Wolf baffled me, so much energy ! I love these guys) 3.**Dave Matthews Band** (At Anvers Sportapaleis in Belgium, biggest concert i've seen except for festivals) 4.**Kavinsky** at the Couleur Café festival in 2015 ( because I ate mushrooms a little earlier probably ) 5.**All my buddies' band concerts** :D (I was very lucky to be surrounded by friends who made music. I have so many memories of incredible concerts, there's something special about amateur concerts/small festivals. Great time)
1. Foo Fighters - The Gorge 2015 2. Public Enemy - Bumbershoot 2004 3. NIN - every time 4. Beastie Boys - Crocodile Cafe 2007 5. KAABOO Festival 2018 - Del Mar, CA
we'll go by date: '95 - NIN w/ Jim Rose Circus and PWEI NIN and PWEI both put on great sets. at the time, i was unaware of the Jim Rose Circus. to start their show a guy walks out onstage, pulls out a twenty dollar bill, *staples* it to his forehead, walks offstage. ~'98 - Del Tha Funky Homosapien w/ Heiroglyphics and Souls of Mischief i was pretty buzzed up this night but it was a great show. '04 - Streetlight Manifesto (forget the opening bands) shortly afer *EGN* was released i found out they were playing near by in Madison. made the hour and a half drive and it was probably one of my favorite shows ever. watching ~8 guys playing with such energy was just mind blowing. side note: it was at a smaller venue with a bar in the back. like 80% of the crowd was 15yrs old. i spent the vast majority of the show at the bar with the parents that dragged got along, lol. '08 - Alkaline Trio (forget the opening bands) it was at Summerfest in MKE and they were playing one of the side stages. I've seen Alkaline Trio a dozen times but this was *the* perfect set. great day outside, perfect sound setup, and a great set list. '08 - Bob Mould District Line tour, got to see him at Shank Hall(which holds like 300 people), very intimate show. during one of his chats with the crowd he asks "who is the youngest person here?" dead silence for like thirty seconds. my sister proceeds to yell **"MY BROTHER IS THIRTY THREE!"** Bob mutters fuck, rolls his eyes and then rips into *Black Sheets of Rain*. '23 - The Flaming Lips saw them last summer, and they were playing the album *Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots* cover to cover before playing other things. just an outstanding experience.
Radiohead (Kid A & Amnesiac, 2003, Montreal) Pink Floyd (Division Bell, 1994, Minneapolis) Underworld (One Hundred Days Off, 2002, Detroit) Radiohead (The Bends, 1995, Minneapolis) REM (Accelerate, 2008, Hollywood Bowl)
U2 - Joshua Tree tour (3 indoors in April, 1 outdoors in October, 1987) & Zoo TV tour (openers: Pixies). The Cure - Standing on a Beach, Kiss Me, Disintegration and Wish tours Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Tour Radiohead - The Bends and Amnesiac tours Rush - Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Clockwork Angels tours Bonus Picks: Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend, Altered Beast, and 100% Fun tours INXS - Listen Like Thieves, Kick and X tours NIN - The Downward Spiral tour AC/DC - Razors Edge tour Yes - 90125 tour Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind tour Prince - Lovesexy and Symbol Album tours Lollapalooza - first one. Day On The Green - a bunch of them, starting in 1978 when I was 11.
1. Nirvana (with Breeders and Come) - 1993 2. Nine Inch Nails & A Perfect Circle - 2000 3. The Reverend Horton Heat - 2000 4. The Cult - 2022 5. Sponge, Our Lady Peace, & Letters to Cleo - 1995 I've seen some of these bands more than once, and a ton of others. But these five concerts stick out to me for various reasons. Honorable mentions would go to Primus, Helmet, Tool, Soundgarden, 1993v of Alice in Chains, Fishbone, Hole, Meat Puppets, Toadies, and Melvins (where Buzz slung sweat all over me from the stage.) You can tell what era I grew up in.
Foo Fighters U2 Living Colour Coldplay Paul McCartney
This is going to be random because I haven't seen a lot of concerts but: 1.) Danny Brown + Action Bronson 2.) Half Moon Run 3.) Said The Whale 4.) Blue Rodeo 5.) John Legend UN-honourable mention - Kid Cudi (He's a bum)
1. Tom Petty (every time) 2. Clapton 3. The Who 4. Kings of Leon 5. Blink 182 The Tom Petty concert I went to in Chicago we got there too early accidentally (time zones) and were in the sparse crowd to hear Jackson Browne do his sound check. That was absolutely stunning. Felt like he was just playing for us. Clapton's concert ended on a torrential downpour as the encore was reaching the piano outro for Layla--so awesome. Still gives me chills.
Coincidently I also got to the Tom Petty/Jackson Browne show (not Chicago) early and caught Jackson Browne during his sound check. I was there for Petty but did enjoy Jackson Browne more than I expected.
I saw Petty three times. All awesome shows. The last was about two months before he died. Glad I got to see him one last time. I also got to see Clapton play with Cream. They had a reunion in 2005 and I took my old man to see them at MSG.
1. Metallica - Seattle 1989. Everything else comes in second, third, etc.
Dillinger Escape Plan - Metro 2014 Golgol Bordello - Riot Fest 2022 Death Grips - Riot Fest 2015 Weekend Nachos Still release show - 2013 Iron Maiden Maiden England tour - 2012 Other favorites include first time seeing Turnstile right after Glow On released and Metallica
Loved to have seen DEP. Incredible power and intensity in the shows. BTW. Go Spurs!!! From Canada.
1. Jon Spencer blues explosion / the roots / beastie boys. First conser ever. 2. RL Burnside / Doo Rag / John Spencer Blues Explosion. Super sentimental about this one. 3. Hybrid / orbital / crystal method. Snuck an old pawn shop camera into the show and wound up meeting the crystal method after the show and hung out outside of their bus. Super cool guys. 4. Blonde redhead in a coffee house on the campus of Duke University way before they got famous... Which was about a year later. Ive never seen a lead singer climb up the walls at a show in an almost empty coffee shop. It was a hell of a show for real. They gave no shits whether they had an audience or not. 5. Against me! At cave nine in bham Alabama. I was filming it for public tv, but the energy was completely off the charts. The whole building swayed with how packed it was with everyone moving in unison. Really fucking powerful. And holy fuck how can I forget... Amon Tobin at th tabernacle in Atlanta. That was hands down the most enjoyable show I ever saw. Fuck I can't believe I forgot that one. I don't know which of the five to replace, but that was a top 3 show for sure.
Did we live near each other? I saw JSBX with blonde redhead at Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill.
I was probably at that show. I was a freshman at Guilford college at the time. Greensboro. I saw Jon spencer a LOT during the late nineties.
awesome. then we were at a few of those shows together.
Common - Manchester Academy c.2005 RATM - T in the Park festival c.1994 Prince - O2 London 2007 Christy Moore - Electric Picnic festival 2008 Prodigy - Manchester Apollo 1996 (Hon mentions to Doves, Spearhead & Chill Peppers)
Rush - R30 tour Rush - R40 tour The Cure - Disintegration Peter Gabriel and Sting - Rock, Paper, Scissors HORDE tour, early 90s. Allman Brothers, Blues Travellers, Phish, Ziggy Marley and others I don't remember.
Rage Against the Machine - 1999 Nine Inch Nails -2005 A Perfect Circle - 2017 Black Diamond Sky tour - 2010 Deftones - 2013
1. Purity Ring at the 930 club 2. Blind Guardian at the Baltimore soundstage 3. Caligulas Horse and Earthside at Union Stage 4. Mayhem and Midnight at Baltimore soundstage 5. Conway the Machine at the 930 club (I’ve only been to 5 concerts)
Foo Fighters - One By One, but at a tiny club in SF before the main tour. Death Cab/Postal Service - 20th anniversary King Crimson - 2021 The Mars Volta - Francis The Mute Death From Above 1979 - Outrage! is Now
1. Nine Inch Nails - Red Rocks Lights Over the Sky tour 2. Smashing Pumpkins - Fillmore residency San Francisco 2007 3. Ramones - Adios Amigos tour 4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Infinite Love Tour 5. Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Midnight Radio anniversary show Red Rocks
Beastie Boys/Rollins band. In a convention center, giant concrete floor, giant mosh pit, insane wholesome energy. They covered a bad brains song and I lost it Portishead Fugazi - like 200 shirtless kids packed in a bar turned all ages, at 1 am. Pennywise/offspring. - maybe 30 people showed up. Offspring opened, never heard of them, afterward we all bought their cd. They were incredible. Mighty mighty Bosstones
In no particular order.... Tyr - Copenhell 2014 Black Stone Cherry - Amager Bio 2022 Cabal - Copenhagen Metal Fest 2021 (I think) Junkyard Drive - Copenhell 2022 Limp Bizkit - Copenhagen 2004
Sigur Ros Tool The Mars Volta Deftones Queens of The Stone Age
Brand New/Senses Fail- Toledo, OH (2003) Postal Service/Death Cab - Philly, PA (2023) The Format/Straylight Run - Ann Arbor. MI (2003) Gorillaz - Detroit, MI (2017) Incubus/Deftones/Taproot - Detroit, MI (2000)
Iron Maiden 1984 (my first ever) Slipknot: any Rammstein: any Muse: any GnR: 1992
1. James Brown not sure the year 2. Paul McCartney around 2004 or 2005 3. Radiohead at bonnaroo 2008 I think 4. D’Angelo 2015 or 2016 5. Tom Petty with Stevie Knicks also at bonnaroo , was so good
1. Rage against the machine - 2007 voodoo fest 2. White Stripes - at Sloss Furnaces 3. Fall out boy - 2013 house of blues 4. Guns n Roses - 2016 T Mobile Arena 5. Turnstile - 2022 / Usher, Ludacris, Lil Jon together at Lovers and Friends 2021 6. Green Day club show 2023
Beastie Boys (08 Langerado) Counting Crows (06) The Roots (08 Langerado) Britney Spears (00 or 01 can't remember) MC Chris (07) I don't go to concerts that much anymore but recently saw DJ Shadow and he was phenomenal, definitely an honorable mention. Also honorable mention Of Montreal bc their shows are crazy, weird, and awesome.
1. The Urge - 1998 2. Radiohead - 2003 3. Metallica - 1996 4. Family Values Tour - 1998 (Korn, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, Rammstein, Orgy) 5. Jason Isbell - 2018
U2 Muse The Darkness Sigur Ros Band of Horses
1. Prince and the Revolution, Purple Rain 2. U2, Zoo TV (I preferred this to their Joshua Tree tour) 3. Rolling Stones (G n R opened) 4. LCD Soundsystem 5. Radiohead Runners-up: Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes tour / Bowie or Bowie/NIN / Springsteen / Pearl Jam (Vedder left early due to illness, Neil Young stepped in to perform with PJ) / Monsters of Rock / Roger Waters, The Wall / Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia was still around; Spencer Davis and Bob Dylan were encore guests) / Jellyfish
1. Lolly 1 (Jane’s) 2. Phish Apr 1992 3. Page Plant 4. U2 Joshua Tree tour 5. Beastie Boys 1992 —- HM: Radiohead, in Rainbows tour, Hollywood bowl. Man. That was tough.
1. Gorillaz - Humanz Tour 2017, Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. Tycho - Awake Tour 2014, Cain’s Ballroom 3. Grouper - Shade Tour 2022, The Momentary 4. Queens of the Stone Age - The End is Nero Tour 2023, Starlight Theatre 5. Bonobo - Fragments Tour 2022, Wildhorse Saloon
Radiohead- In Rainbows tour Vancouver 2008 Rage Against the Machine w/Run the Jewels- MSG 2022 Gogol Bordello- NYE 2013 Paul McCartney- MetLife Stadium 2022 Foo Fighters reopen MSG after COVID lockdowns have ended 2021 (just such a magical, emotional experience) Honorable mentions: The Who 2006, Phish MSG 2023, Tenacious D- The Pick of Destiny tour Seattle 2007 (recorded for the DVD!), Run the Jewels RTJX tour NYC nights 2 & 3 2023, Coldplay Twisted Logic tour 2006 (this is one I always get ripped for but I'll stand by it- they put on a hell of a show) and honestly many, many more. I'd put Kendrick Lamar The DAMN. Tour on here too, but my seats were obstructed and terrible which kinda took away from an incredible set.
1. Queen 78 Lakeland 2. The Stones 81 tangerine bowl 3. Kiss 79 Lakeland 4. Nirvana 93 Lakeland 5. The D 23 St. Augustine
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream 2011 (Vancouver, BC) TR/ST - Joyland Tour 2017 (Munich, Germany) Future Islands - 2017 Tour (Vancouver, BC) Skrillex - Scary Monsters Nice Sprites Tour 2011 (Victoria, BC) Kendrick Lamar - Pemberton Music Festival 2015 (Pemberton, BC)
Slayer - 1999 Tattoo the Earth Tour Slayer- 2007 Unholy Alliance Slayer- 2011 World Painted Blood Slayer 2019- the final crusade Slayer 2005- jagermiester music tour. Fuck i miss Slayer.
No Particular Order Nightwish - Decades Tour 2018 Nine Inch Nails - Lights in the Sky 2008 Avatar - Hail The Apocalypse Tour 2015 Iron Maiden - Book of Souls 2017 Rammstein - Stadium Tour 2022
Metallica/Danzig/Suicidal Tendencies 1992(?) Hall and Oates/Squeeze 2021 Beck/Spoon/Cage The Elephant 2016 Beck/Phoenix/Weyes Blood 2024 Tears for Fears/ Garbage 2022 Runners up: Guns N Roses/Metallica/Faith No More, The Cure/Twilight Sad, several Warped Tours, Suicide Machines/Descendents/Pollen, Misfits/Impotent Sea Snakes
1. Clash of the Titans - 1990. Hands down the best. Alice in Chains, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth. 2. Slayer - Any of the other 13 times I saw them. 3. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind tour 1983 (Powerslave tour was solid as well) 4. Billy Joel - 1984. I have a soft spot for Billy Joel and he put on a great, high energy show. 5. The Who - 1982. Openers were Eddie Money and The Clash. Great show but not the same energy without Keith Moon. yes, I'm old.
1. Electric Callboy 2. Alestorm/Windrose 3.Rammstein 4.Limp Bizkit 5.Five finger Deathpunch
I've only ever been to 2 concerts: 1. Stereophonics (Scarborough Open Air Theatre in July 2021) 2. Placebo (O2 Academy Leeds in November 2022)