Rush in toronto last year kicked ass

Saywer Brown was the best
followd by Metallica
Garth Brooks
Pantera
Snoop Dogg

Tool! I saw them play September '02 and it was spectacular.

Yes (Sweden Rock Festival 03)
Blind Guardian (Sweden Rock Festival 03)
Rammstein (Quart 02)

I saw The Flaming Lips play yesterday, at the Perth big day out and it was phenomenal. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy :)

2. Pearl Jam 6/25/03

1. The Dismemberment Plan 6/20/03

So that was a fairly remarkable 5-day stretch.

Nothing better than live music. I'm a bit of a junkie when it comes to concerts but some of the best that I've seen are:

Tool 02'- unreal how great this show was, words cannot describe the experience.

Bruce Springsteen and the E street Band (Twice in April 03') - This guy with his band is awsome. The man has no end of energy.

The Tragically Hip (many times) - The best of hip show I saw though was in 02' at a small auditorium in the front row. This band sells out huge shows all over Canada so to see them in such a small venue and front row was a great experience.

Pearl Jam (May 03') - One of the greatest road trips I've ever had. We drove from Calgary to Vancouver to see the show. A friend of mine hooked us up with a next to free room at the Hotel Vancouver which is a fairamount hotel, reallly nice. Then the show was soooo great, the place just went off.

Weezer 02' was another fantastic show that stands out.

And Neil Young with Beck opening for him back in 99' I think, was fantastic as well.

So many others were great as well, but I'd be here all day so I'll leave it at that for now.

Edit:
Can't believe I forgot to include Ben Harper on this list. I saw the show at the same small venue as the Hip and he blew me away. Unreal show, the guy is an amazing live artist.

Rush - Moving Pictures Tour
The Who - Tommy
Yes - 90125
Genesis - Mama Tour

Oh, man, it's been a while since I've been-
-But I would say Radiohead at the Moore I believe- sang my fave song during the encore (Street Spirit)
-Korn/Deftones where we bumped into the band members and hung out for a few with all of them except Jonathan Davis
-both Sky Cries Mary shows I was able to attend.
-outdoor Superdeluxe concert on The Steps.
-Third Eye Blind show with video doc. that the Real World Seattle cast made to go with "Jumper"
-Endfest '97 when I worked for The End and got a press pass to take upclose pics of Radiohead, Foo Fighters, etc.
-Intimate performance by Verve Pipe via The End
-Superdeluxe concert promoted by The End
-Both Jewel concerts I've been too were so cool
I loved all of them ands there were so many more!

I went to a presidents of the united states of america concert (2 of them, actually) and at one

- a 5 year old kid was crowd surfing

- this really drunk ass guy with long hair sauntered over to where i was sitting, and stared down at me for like 30 seconds. finally, being the freaked out 10-year old i was, i screamed. he satred at me a little longer, then sauntered off.

- A Ton of good music, Gotta love the presidents.

The 2 Skinnee J's are always a great time!!! Seen them tons of times [hell My wife and I went to see them at the Wetlands in NYC the night we got married and they "married" us again on stage] My wife went to college with them and we hung a bit...good guys. Too bad they broke up!!

Oh yeah, mine would be first and every other time I saw Metallica...Motley puts on great shows too!!

This thread needs a *bump*

I just got home from the Exodus/Megadeth concert tonight, and it was awesome. It was a really small venue, but it was incredible hearing that many people screaming out the lyrics in that small of a theater.

I also saw Metallica a few months back and it was great. They played Disposable Heroes (which they haven't played live in a long time), and the best part was the pyro for One.

Malaysia doesn't get many concerts

But Hoobastank was rockin' it up :) 15 Aug 2004.

I saw the Hip in T.O. on their Phantom Power tour. It was very cool.

I also saw the Barenaked Ladies and Ben Harper on the H.O.R.D.E tour and they were both good.

Primus was one of the best concerts i've ever seen. It was in this tiny gym in the center of charlotte. it was great. i was about 20 feet away from Les at the most. It was truly a bassist's dream.

Marilyn Manson
Nine Inch Nails
Tool/Tomahawk concert
Any Mike Patton performance.

I can't order em, theyre all equally as good.

I really wish I could've seen Nirvana, but I was only 13 at the time. I'm sure that would've easily been one of the best.

Simon and Garfunkel in Central Park - free concert and was superb.

Springsteen always puts on a good show and gives you your money's worth.

I got to go to a Kansas/Bad Company concert with my Dad when he was working for our local Classic Rock station. He was a salesman for a sister-station, but for some odd reason, no one else at the damn station knew how to hook up Electonics correctly, so my Dad always tagged along to help, and being a big fan of that particular radio station and classic rock, went along. Backstage, met peoples, good times. :)

WHY DID HE HAVE TO LEAVE THE COMPANY!!! *runs and cries in a corner*

I saw Phish for the Millenium New Year's in Florida on an Indian Reservation in the Everglades. Camped out for 3 days and they played four sets over a two day period.

The last set started at midnight on New Years and continued till the sun came up! It was the craziest few days of my life. My body and mind are still not fully recovered from the copious amounts of drugs ingested during that trip!!

We had no idea what was going on around the world...whether Y2K mass hysteria had occured. Turns out everyone was freaked for nothing!!

bob marley santa barbara county bowl 81?
GWAR east berlin 91
Nirvana covered wagon saloon SF ca. 92

Saw Lenny Kravitz and Blues Traveler at HORDEfest in Pittsburgh in '95. U2's PopMart tour in Pittsburgh in '98 and Elevation Tour in Phoenix in '01. Billy Joel/Elton John Face-to-Face tour in Vegas '02.

(My mom told me she took me to a Barry Manilow concert when I was 8, but thank goodness I've successfully flushed that from my memory.)

Thursday puts on a great show.

Slipknot...sickest, most creative show i've been to, this was back in like '99 before IOWA. and System of a Down, one of the funniest, most entertaining, energy filled shows right before TOXICITY was released, but the set was a mixture of thier selftitled and that one. Daron: "stop throwing beer bottles on stage or your daughters will grow up with small tits and if you have a son he'll have a small dick"

Paul McCartney in Atlanta. The energy in Phillips that night was as if lightning was about to strike.

Hands down, The Flaming Lips.

in order of magnitude:
fela anikulapo kuti and egypt 80 (1984)
talking heads, remain in light tour
art ensemble of chicago (4 or 5 times, cant remember exactly)
sun ra arkestra

out of order of magnitude:
einsturzende neubauten--silence is sexy tour
massive attack--mezzanine tour
the congos
gregory issacs
roni size
the who (1976)
black sabbath (last tour with the original lineup)
mercury rev
p-funk (many times, each great)
ali farka toure and salif keita in paris
john zorn, fred frith, bill laswell and the drummer from slayer in paris
dahlek
l. shankar, zakir hussein and the guy who played clay pot (3/4 of shakti)
the vienna philharmonic doing berg's violin concerto no. 1
la monte young at the dream house, tribute to pandit pran nath (last year)
jaap blonk (sound poetry performance a couple weeks ago--just amazing)

latest:
dj/rupture this past weekend, 3 times--best turntablist i have ever seen, bar none.

Four concerts I can think of:

Kansas Leftoverture tour, just before Kansas made it big, 1975 or 1976. Small theater in Waterbury CT, sitting in the rafters. Pot smoke rose to the rafters and I got buzzed. At the time, Kansas was hot. Saw them a couple years later in Springfield Ma on their Point of Know Return tour and wasn't impressed.

Woodtsock '94 and Woodstock '99 (left just before the riots) lots of good bands and the whole crazy weekend.

Nine Inch Nails in Albany NY Dec 1994. Probably the wildest concert I've been to other than the Woodstock concerts. At the end of the set everybody was waiting for the encore. After about 10 minutes the lights come on and somebaody made an announcement that the show was over. Somebody had thrown a shoe at the drummer and gave him a concusson.

Lots of other good concerts over the last 15 years but those were the best.

Fleetwood Mac....last summer....GREAT

Trans-Siberian Orchestra, in December '03. They played at a rather smallish-to-medium-sized venue, but had pyro and the works. The music was amazing, themed for Christmas, and brought out very positive emotions. It was an amazing show.

I was going to see them this year, but they are playing at the huge stadium in Madison Square Garden, which I can't stand, and the available seats are just awful, so I guess I'll have to miss out.

1. The Cure - Disintegration Tour at Dodger Stadium 1989.
2. Depeche Mode, OMD, Thomas Dolby, and Wire -
Concert for the Masses (Rose Bowl June 18th, 1988)

POD, Blindside, Lacuna Coil, and Hazen Street, June 2004 at Bogarts in Cincy.

OAR day before Halloween 2004 at Taft Theater in Cincy. If you haven't seen them, they are totally different from their recordings and anything else you've ever seen before.

The Beach Boys when I was 5 at Polaris Ampitheater.

Frank Zappa through the 70's and up to the 1988 tour. Never the same show twice, always entertaining. In Detroit in 83, he came on stage an hour before the concert, grabbed his guitar and just played. It was a beautiful thing...

Anything at the Wetlands (RIP)

Standing on seats in the second row of a Wyclef/De La Soul/Black Eyed Peas concert, after Wyclef told security to get lost.

Bad Religion, their being soccer dads only enhances their punk rawk vibe.

Robin Black and the Intergalactic Rock Stars on Holloween 2003. They played at my favorite bar (Zaphods in Ottawa). They put more energy into their show than anybody else I have ever seen. They also had some girl mixing and giving out (free) shots on stage to people in the audience. I got seriously trashed.

Heh, I was at a local concert with Emery and Boys Night Out.

1. I got kicked in the stomach by a hardcore dancer.
2. Two crowd surfers landed on my neck.
3. Being pushed around by a guy twice the size of me.

It was awesome.

End of this summer I saw Bela Fleck, Keller Williams, and Yonder Mountain String Band in Chicago and they never had a break, they would bring in other members and at the end it was one big ass jam session and when wooten started playin Come Together I was extatic.

Some other great ones:
Galactic (Bonnaroo with the thunderstorm rolling in and the guys continue to tear it up SURReAL)
G. Love and Special Sauce followed by 311 was amazing but I liked em both better solo
Slipknot was one of the more intense shows
Sevendust totally kicks all ass
Cut Chemist (also Bonnaroo) was some of the best DJin I have seen
INCUBUS damn that belonged higher up
Cypress Hill watchin them take bong loads on stage
Phish has been amazing a few times
Oh and OAR is NOT that great live but BY FAR the most hotties in the audience I have ever seen!

oh and to the dude that saw DJ Shadow on the first page, I almost broke out in tears thinking what that would be like :( I wish he would tour

Slayer in Oakland during the Divine Intervention tour.

Anyone in the Baltimore-Washington are should try to go to an Hfstival. The quality of the bands attending has been declining but there are usually at least a few good bands there. But its really the atmosphere of the place. It's very laid back and if you want to mosh even though youre a little guy (like me) it's no problem cause if you fall down there will be 20 people picking you up before you hit the ground. There are multiple stages with local bands and lesser known bands. As well as a tent that plays electronic music incase you bring any hallucinogens.

i haven't been to too many concerts, but Cross Canadian Ragweed put on the best show i've ever seen. they play a genre of music known as "red-dirt" that orginated in Texas/Oklahoma. i think they're kinda pigeonholed by not fitting into existing established genre's, but they make some good music and put on a damn good show.

a few years ago we had a FREE underage concert where 28 Days played... that was GREAT!!!!
last year we had the same thing and Spiderbait played... not the best, but its a small town and we don't get many big names here!!