talk about ht best oncert you went to!!!

[arefx]

Mine had to be when I saw Eighteen Visions, Atreyu, and From Autumn to Ashes. Amazing show, all the bands did really well, the pit was crazy and I got to hang out with atreyu (my favorite band) after the show. Im seeing them again on saturday :)

[Digital*Firefly]

He're the ones I've been too

1997 KRS-One, Mad Lion
1997 Wu-Tang, Rage Against the Machine
1998 Smokin Groves Tour - Black Eyed Peas, Mya, Fugees, Canibus, Busta Rhymes and the Flip Mode Squad, MOP, Gangstarr, Cypress Hill, Public Enemy
1999 Blackstar, Black eyed Peas, Biz Markee
2000 Vans Warped Tour - Green Day, Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples and lots of others
2003 O.A.R.
2004 O.A.R.
2004 Dave Matthew Band (free ticket, and I was forced to goto this one)

My favorite ones were Wu-Tang and O.A.R.

[mr_insobriety]

Grant Lee Phillips, nothing more can be said.

[Kscriv]

Grand Rock Music Festival. Sum 41, Matt Good, Grea Big Sea, the Ataris, Trble Charger, Not By Choice, The Watchmen, all up on stage kicking ass. Good times

[Raghnall]

the weezer concert i went to 2 years ago was great. going to see l'arc~en~ciel at the end of the month, so i'm sure that will take the cake.

[Zepoliney]

I can't pick the best, too many good ones, but the most recent one i went to was the Sasquatch festivel which held:

Apollo Sunshine, Gary Jules, Ben Lee, The Shins, Built To Spill, Postal Service, and The Roots.

[Auf_Der_Maur6]

Well, I've only been to three concerts:

2000 - Sheryl Crow at the Shoreline Amplitheater(sp)
2003 - Tori Amos at the HP Pavilion in San Jose
2004 - Melissa Auf der Maur at Slim's in San Francisco

[Spyder13]

By far is was Ozzfest 2003.

The second stage was awesome.
Killswitch Engage
Shaddows Fall
Memento
Cradle of Filth
Motograter

The main stage was even better.
Chevelle
Manson
Disturbed
KoRn (favorite band)
(Ozzy was "sick" and didn't preform so KoRn got to play an extended set)

[AcquiredTarget]

Metallica always puts on a damn fine show.

But, I am surprised to say, the best one I've seen was in Berkeley with a band called Dead Can Dance. It's not that new age "music", more like influenced by world cultures. I don't know how to explain it. The reason I really liked it was that the voice of the female singer was just so f'ing powerful and beautiful in away that I'd expect and angel to sound like.

-AT

[Darkdunpeal]

Well i havent been to many concerts in my life. One i was forced to go to in 5th grade that i would rather not mention. About two years ago i went to the Vans Warped Tour, and damn that was a good show. When the shitty punk bands would play i would just walk off and see the local acts. Sadly we were in direct sunlight, and i got completely dehydrated and puked everywhere. But even so, it was a damn good show! :D

[Snowmiser]

I've been to quite a few concerts for being only 17, but the best I have attended was just recently when Green Day had a suprise show in Los Angeles. The guys just played a huge set full of classics and some really covers. They played for like two and half hours and theyre jsut such a great live band.

[Dragoona]

My favorite so far is a very recent one - seeing Rush in 2004 at Charlotte North carolina.

The Day was a more anticipated one than before. I woke up around 6 in the morning, turned my shower on, took a nice relaxing hot shower, grabbed my Vapor Trails tour shirt, jumped in my dad's car, and began the long 6+ hour drive down to Charlotte, North Carolina. My heart was racing to see this show because I knew that this show had to be better than the Vapor Trails show (even though it was a good show, it was very commercialized).

Driving along the highway, blaring Rush in Rio disc 1 (I believe), I was thinking about what songs they would have to put in this three hour concert. I was naturally expecting the fan-faves (Tom Sawyer, The Spirit of Radio, Red Sector A, and the always popular drum solo), but I was really debating which songs they would pull "out of the box" to play for this tour. Most anticipated from most fans was The Necromancer and all of 2112, as was I anticipating to see these songs live. But what others could they possibly play? Maybe an acoustic Tears or possibly they could play Subdivisions? But I knew that they couldn't play that song because it involves teen cultue, which Alex (the guitarist) said a while ago that they would never do live.

Around 2ish, we arrived at the hotel to unpack, and prepare for the show (starting at 7:30). I took this time to rest and reminess about my recent trip to Miami (which I just came back from). Watching the TV, eating some chips, drinking some coke, I was relaxed and prepared for this show.

We arrived around 7ish so we could get some nice parking and chill out talking with fellow Rush-ins before the concert. While I was sitting down, eating my sub on the gravel filled road that was on my feet, I couldn't help but smell this real sweet smell coming from the forrest from behind (Oddly where people were releaving themselves). From the ZZ Top concert I saw earlier in the year, I knew that the smell was, in fact, mary J, and it made me laugh that people in their 40s were still taking it. Again, still eating my sub, I could oddly hear the sounds of Xanadu comming from a bunch of cars all around me. This confused me because I knew that it was a good song, but I was expecting Rush in Rio to be blared.

7:30 came and I flew into the Verizon Wireless Ampethiter where the concert was held. First thing on my list was to grab a tour shirt (after using the bathrooms) and a tour guide, as I knew that this was going to be a great concert. When I went to the booth to see the shirts and tour book, I noticed a hippy-kinda poster. Little did I know that this was the new Rush Album, Feedback. I didn't buy the Feedback poster, nor shirt, but I dig snag a really nice looking 30th anniversery Tour shirt (XL) and an amazing tour book that I still look at today.

I found my seats, and was amazed on what the stage looked like. I was on stage left (Geddy's side), and I almost had a real good view of the 30th anniversery drumkit that Neil had made for this tour. I was in complete awe, and I couldn't wait to hear it's sounds and the new Sabian sounds that came with his kit. The stage was filled with keyboards, washing machines, and a new vending machine which spun around making me laugh at all the things inside it.

As the crowd grew more and more, the lights turned off, and a video popped up showing Rush through the years. We all cheered at the favorite albums, and how they all linked up together. Then, without warning, Jerry Stiller came on humming a Rush tune. He talked to us for a bit and complained that the band was late. After a while, he said, "OK boys! Come on!" And they came on blaring a medly of their first five hits.

After that, I was in shock. The band flew out with almost more energy that I'd have ever seen them before and every song was almost a blessing for me to hear. Probably the best moment of the concert that I can recall was when they finished and went right into the 7/8 meter of Subdivisions. I was in complete awe that they played the song, but nevertheless I fell to the ground screaming.

The concert prooved to be better than Rush in Rio, and was definately a great event for the summer. Hearing songs like Red Barchetta, Subdivisons, Between the Wheels, Xanadu, as well as many others for the first time made me feel that I wasn't alone in the world. Coming from someone who never found his clique in high school, that concert made me feel like I was someone in a crowd that knew music.

EDIT: Setlist for the concert.

'R30 Overture' (medley, with Jerry Stiller intro film)
Finding My Way*->
Anthem*->
Bastille Day*->
A Passage To Bangkok*->
Cygnus X-1 (Prologue)*->
Hemispheres (Prelude)*
The Spirit of Radio
Force Ten*
Animate*
Subdivisions*
Earthshine
Red Barchetta*
Roll The Bones
Bravado
YYZ
The Trees (I Feel Fine & Day Tripper ending)*
The Seeker**
One Little Victory (with dragon intro)
(-Intermission-/'That Darned Dragon' intro)
Tom Sawyer
Dreamline
Secret Touch*
Between the Wheels*
Mystic Rhythms*
Red Sector A
Drum Solo
Resist (acoustic-Geddy and Alex)
Heart Full of Soul (acoustic-Geddy/Alex/Neil)**
2112 (Overture/Temples of Syrinx/Grand Finale)
La Villa Strangiato (Lerxst rant)
By-Tor and the Snow Dog (abbreviated)->
Xanadu*
Working Man (reggae ending)
Encore:
Summertime Blues**
Crossroads**
Limelight (with Jerry Stiller outro film)

KEY:

* = never heard before

** = songs from Feedback

[zell58]

dragoona you type way too much some times,

but you have sparked a intrest in rush for me...

[Tom the First]

I have seen 311 twice, but this year's performance shut out any other concert I have been to. Concerts are a hell lot better when you own all of their music. 311 rocked it hard.

[MageMasher]

2001-the warped tour 2001...AFI was the best band there
2002-aTaking back sunday's conert
2004-Warped tour 2004.....best banned there was Coheed and Cambria

but the best was

....it was on MTV a little show called Jammed were a band or singer preforms a surprise concert....and i was there for a Dashboard Confessional one...it was fucking great

[MalcolmBrass]

Pink Floyd. I was drunk off my ass, but man it was a great concert!

[Dragoona]

Pink Floyd. I was drunk off my ass, but man it was a great concert!

Man, I wish I could see Pink Floyd live :(

[Duality]

By far, the coolest concert I've ever been to was from KMFDM's <Symbols> tour.

It was the last KMFDM tour before En Esch and Gunter Schultz took a back seat for Tim Skold. It was fantastic. They played everything from the <Symbols> album to ANGST and even some NIHIL.

Highlights include getting beer dumped on me -- Sascha Konietzko's beer. Raymond "PIG" Watts' backwash the he spit out at the front of the crowd.

And I even got an offer to be a roadie after the concert and we hung around to talk to Sascha and En Esch. Though I don't think they were serious. :/

[Komposit]

I go to shows and events...not concerts...Concerts are rip off, to much money for one group.

[Style]

For me it was Ozzfest 2001. The bands I liked were:

Slipknot
Marilyn Manson
Taproot
Drowning Pool
Nonpoint
Papa Roach
Linkin Park
Disturbed
Mudvayne

[Ender]

I've only been to one, but it was definatley worth coughing up $150 (although I got to go for free)

Hilary Duff, seriously kicks ass live.

[Pig]

Dave Matthews Band
Hershey, PA 9/11/03

Soundcheck:
Halloween (first few notes) Typical Situation (partial song, instrumental) Stefan Solo (Star Spangled Banner) Unknown Jam Too Much (full band)
onstage 8:25pm
Seek Up
Granny
Stay
Crush
Dancing Nancies -->
Warehouse
Where Are You Going
#41 -->
Everyday
Jimi Thing
Rhyme & Reason
Grey Street
Cry Freedom
Stefan Intro (Star Spangled Banner) -->
All Along the Watchtower
offstage 10:40pm
Encore:
onstage 10:45pm
Two Step
offstage 11:05pm

[Green]

My favorite concert was probably either Le Tigre or Sleater-Kinney. Both shows were in smaller venues and had really great crowds. The amount of interaction between Kathleen Hanna and the crowd was spectacular, and at the S-K show Janet the drummer was actually selling some of the merchandise before the show. Being so close to people that I admire that much really meant a lot to me.

Production-wise, seeing Depeche Mode twice and both were amazing times. They use great lighting and video sequences to provide an extra element of intensity to their performance and Dave Gahan is quite the showman. Even without the intimacy of a small venue like S-K and Le Tigre, they did a great job of connecting with the audience. I've also seen Dave Gahan solo, but it wasn't too spectacular.

There are so many other shows and concerts I've been to that I can't even really remember them all.

[AcquiredTarget]

I was surprised how much I enjoyed the first Depeche Mode concert that I was dragged to, so I went willingly to the second one. Made up for the Duran Duran concerts I had to go see.