Dustallica, I saw that tour down in Florida, man. Was awesome. Sheppard had me reminiscing about SRV and everything.

Best concert I ever went to, though, has to have been Rush. So many classic songs. Even the lesser known stuff was still awesome.

Peart did his fifteen minute solo - was the most amazing thing I've ever heard.

U2 Boston Garden 9/17/87 and 9/18/87
U2 Boston Garden 3/17/92
And the other 21 times I have seen U2

Pearl Jam Mansfield, Ma 7/2/03, 7/3/03, and 7/11/03

The SARS Benefit Concert we had here this summer. The Guess Who, Rush, AC/DC, and the Rolling Stones were all there. It kicked so much ass, especially AC/DC.

U2 March 2002. Amazing, paid $85 for the tickets and would have done it all over again the next night if I had the chance.

Dashboard Confessional, 2 solo shows May 2003.
I had the best time at these 2 shows. Right up in front. During the 2nd show Chris Carrabba played a little riff on his guitar and I said "Hey, I liked that!" And he looked down at me and said "Really? Alright, I'll do it again for you!" *swoon!*

Granted, Dashboard is my favorite band, but still.... Met Chris after the show and he was so nice and gracious to me.

I also loved shows with Counting Crows... John Mayer & Nickle Creek.... Counting Crows & The Wallflowers. All 3 of those were amazing.

I seen Cradle Of Filth, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, and Sworn Enemy a couple weeks ago, it doesn't top the previously stated opeth concert, but it was fucking louder than any concert i've ever been to...and met dani afterwards :)

it's hard to pick cos i've been to a lot of shows and i've had some pretty good ones for different reasons.

best would be my first ever GA show. first dose of the intimate, indie experience w/ a local band, sleater-kinney. i was just loving the crowd and the band and the people . even tho i basically hadn't heard of them til that night. but it introduced me to everything. and there was some cute lesbians making out and slowdancing next to me :D

when i finally got to see smashing pumpkins live, my most favorite band for YEARS that i've obsessed about (20+ albums including bootlegs..) ....that was pretty intense..

flogging molly was a definately feel-good show and i loved being in the pit. it was so happy. haha.

and my most recent best was metallica. i had to sift thru some sucky bands before the real thing came on :P but it was worth it. and the pyrotechnics were great. and the pit was scary but i experienced like, 10 minutes of it. i just liked experiencing it with my ex. sigh. it was really awesome. bcos we were both really into it. headbanging and everything :-D

My best concert experience was when MudVayne, Linkin Park, Disturbed and Slipknot played at a park in Manchester, NH. That show kicked so much ass. Because of it, they weren't going to allow open-air concerts in Manchester anymore...great stuff.

Really tough choice, but U2 at Compton Terrace in 85 was amazing. I also saw Cracker at a tiny little spot in Tucson(Club Congress) and they blew me away - fun, crazy and irreverent. And my freshman year in college, Jane's Addiction played in a small little venue at the University of Arizona Student Union. There were only about 50 of us in the audience and it was great.

Embarassingly though, I have to admit that I saw Huey Lewis in the late 80's. I was taking a family friend to his first concert, and while the show was good, about twenty minutes after the show ended, Lewis and the band came back out and had everyone left in the arena come down and they jammed for another hour. It was great rock and blues and jazz that they just felt like playing. I was very impressed.

Just been to Metallica.
Last concert I was at was 8 years ago.
Last night was a great show they played for over 2 hours.Atmosphere was great. Really enjoyed it

Korn Live at the hammerstein, it was a great concert

Haven't seen too many, but my favorite by far was the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Tiny (crowd show), but a lot of fun.

Slayer kicked my ass and gave me a headache for a week. It was great. Most hardcore show ever. Those guys are older than all the current metal bands and they still blow every one of them off the planet live. And the mosh pit was almost the death of me.

Erykah Badu made me cry. I don't care what you think about that.

RADIOHEAD

The best show I ever went to was Lollapalooza back in '92. Great lineup and that was when the whole festival thing was new, so it was quite and experience for a 15yr old. The 2nd best I would say is Radiohead. I got to see them (finally!!) right before OK Computer came out. The place held mabe 1000 people. So it was great to see them right before they hit the world. Now your lucky to see them play a theater, much less a club.

i'd have to say led zep in 69 and 73. frank zappa comes in second around 72

Tool and Meshugga...they all played together at the end. Maynard was painted White and Black in grease paint and stood back by the drum riser on this rotating pad on the stage. I have never seen someone belt out one continuous note while bent backwards to a 90 degree angle, while rotating, and not miss a note. Tool are gods.
2nd Place goes to the "Blackest of the Black Tour" with Lacuna Coil, Opeth, Behemoth, Amon Amarth, and some band I can't remember.

Weezer- Pre Green album, Cains ballroom Tulsa OK 2000

Best Show ever has to be Pink Floyd.

I'd pay anything to see them again.

Pink Floyd- the "Animals" tour

Peter Gabriel - "Secret World" tour

Los Lobos- any show they do

Warren Zevon- At the Park West bout 17 yrs ago
:crazy:

Too many to count...I was a real concert hound.

Ozzy, AC/DC, Kiss, Metallica, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cult, Rage Against the Machine, Ozfest, Lalapaluza, etc, etc, etc....so many.

Pits, Girls, Parties, Backstage, Antics, Adventures, Mishaps....
For 10 years...so many stories to tell, and some I shouldn't.;)

I'd say I like AC/DC for concerts the best.
But as to experience...many bring a smile to my face,
an unbelievable shake of my head, and a twinkle in my eye.

any of several concerts at the ACC at Notre Dame...was a short walk from my dorm, which meant we only had to be concerned with not burning our fingers on joints getting passed around on the way there...Jethro Tull or Cat Stevens in particular would be best (this pre-dated "arena" rock)

Tie for 1st place:

AC/DC at the Phillips arena in Atlanta
and
Mervelous 3's last concert in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta


AC/DC was great. Almost every person in attendance was singing along to a lot of the songs and the stage setup was perfect. It was so loud it felt like a hangover the next day.

The Marvelous 3 show was perfect in every aspect except that it was their last. Butch really knows how to cater to the crowd and have fun on stage.

Radiohead- 8/24/03. Amazing SHOW!

Queens of the Stone Age at the Hard Rock Live in Orlando was an awesome show. It will be aired on MTV eventually.

2 Skinnie Js I think a couple of years ago. People were packed like sardines into this small bar, it wsa hot as hell(mirrors were all fogged up) but the show was unbelievable. People were going nuts throughout the whole show, band members dressed like bunnies, stage diving, crowd surfing, and tons of hot women.:cool:

Its a toss up.... I just saw Iron Maiden, Dio, and Motorhead this past friday. That was one of the coolest shows Ive ever seen.

But I also saw Slipknot, Mudvayne, Head P.E., System of a Down, and Taproot all in one show when Slipknot had just hit the scene.

Queens of the Stone Age at the Hard Rock Live in Orlando

Sorry for the repost I was looking at the wrong page

Used to go to a lot in my younger days.

I'd have to say for sentimental reasons, my first concert was the best - The Doors - ticket price - $4.50. Got within a few feet of the stage that night, and Morrison was actually sober enough to perform. (1970)

Pink Floyd was awesome - of course, I was in a highly altered state at that one.('76)

Best single entertainers, though have to be:

Elvis (1972) and Rod Stewart (1983) - they really could work a concert hall.

Pink Floyd at Soldier Field - 1993

Reverend Horton Heat/Nashville Pussy/Tiger Army at Metro, Chicago - 2002

Reverend Horton Heat/Super Suckers at Metro, Chicago - 2000

Lollapalooza '93 at Starlake Ampitheatre in Pittsburgh - Primus, Alice in Chains, Tool, Rage Against the Machine....

I got dragged to a Grateful Dead show in Chicago. They sucked, but it ended up being the last ever Dead show before Garcia kicked the bucket, so at least I can say I was there.

Another shout out for Pink Floyd - saw them at the Rose Bowl and it was fun watching the stadium fill slowly with marijuana smoke. ;)

Best Live show ever is THE FLAMING LIPS. I mean lots of blood, confetti, people in animal suits humping, huge jumbotron closeups of wayne's nose wth more blood. a keyboardist who is also a drummer and guitarist, and huge huge mirrorballs, plus deeper and moe complicated music then human ears can decipher.

I wish I could have made a concert they once did, where the only speakers they used were like 90 subwoofers and they broadcasted all the mids and highs to headphones that everyone was wearing. that must have been an experience.

the weirdest show i've been to was gorillaz though. it's weird seeing only the shadows of the performers.

Motorpsycho is the best live band I've ever experienced. Listen to them sometime...

hmmm that would have to be seeing The Cure on the Wish tour after eating 5 hits of acid

i went to go see Jurassic 5 which in itself is amazing then ater the show all of J5 hung around till everyone that had stayed got and autograph, i ended up meeting the whole band it was awesome they're a bunch of real down to earth guys with some awesome music.

TOOL in 2002 was by far the best concert I have ever seen.

Close second is Dredg in concert. Great stuff.

The Country Stampede...oh so much good country

Some of the best I've seen have been...

Beck, Ed Harcourt, Pearl Jam, Audioslave, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Flaming Lips, Weezer, Muse... I forget others at the moment

Here's a few amazing nights.

The Tubes at Kent State in '76 or '77.
Commander Cody in Berkeley in '78.
Roxy Music in Cleveland in '83 or '84.
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes in Columbus in '91 or '92.
The George Clinton All Stars in Columbus in '94 or '95
John Hiatt in Columbus in '95 or '96
Chris Isaak in Columbus in '95 or '96


And Recently:
Ani DeFranco in Columbus in '02.
U2 in Columbus in '02.
Elvis Costello in Columbus in '03.
Beck in Columbus in '03

Thanks for listening.

Best concert would have to be Jethro Tull at UNO Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, rather small arena, so it was kinda intimate, laid back show.

Most fun EVER would be a Rush show in Jackson, Ms. in about '82. A big group of us took 2 hits each of some blotter an hour or so before the show, Took another hit when we got there. By mid way through a whole row of us were tripping at about the same rate. The show goes on with them playing "Red Barchetta" and a view from a windsheld movie playing on the back drop behind them, The car would make a curve and we'd all lean that way. It was a blast. Show's over and we're going to a bar, I get elected to drive (I didn't even own a car then, and had never driven on acid) so off we go, easing through the parking lot, being careful (in my addled mind) and I look to my left and a car was driving BACKWARDS passing me. The funny shit hit the fan, we were another 20 minutes leaving because of laughing so hard.