Top 10 live songs you've witnessed (different artists)
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Not a best songs "ever" list by any means, more about feeling privileged to be in that moment in time. Something that stays with you forever.... 
1. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - 10th Avenue Freeze Out (Glasgow 13)
2. Tom Waits - Don't Go Into That Barn (Amsterdam 04)
3. Pearl Jam - Black (Berlin 10)
4. Nick Cave - Love Letter (Edinburgh 08)
5. R.E.M. - What's The Frequency Kenneth (Loch Lomond 05)
6. Mark Lanegan - Hit The City (Aberdeen 12)
7. Kris Kristoffersen - Sunday Morning Coming Down (Edinburgh 07)
8. Sonic Youth - Mildred Pierce (Glasgow 95)
9. Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (Edinburgh 86)
10. Muse - Citizen Erased (Glasgow 03)
Sorry if this has already been done to death? Peace
1. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - 10th Avenue Freeze Out (Glasgow 13)
2. Tom Waits - Don't Go Into That Barn (Amsterdam 04)
3. Pearl Jam - Black (Berlin 10)
4. Nick Cave - Love Letter (Edinburgh 08)
5. R.E.M. - What's The Frequency Kenneth (Loch Lomond 05)
6. Mark Lanegan - Hit The City (Aberdeen 12)
7. Kris Kristoffersen - Sunday Morning Coming Down (Edinburgh 07)
8. Sonic Youth - Mildred Pierce (Glasgow 95)
9. Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (Edinburgh 86)
10. Muse - Citizen Erased (Glasgow 03)
Sorry if this has already been done to death? Peace
Like a book among the many on a shelf...
Dublin 02 Arena - 22/6/10. Belfast Odyssey Arena - 23/6/10. London Hyde Park - 25/6/10. Berlin Wuhlheide - 30/6/10.
Manchester MEN - 20/06/12. Manchester MEN - 21/06/12
Dublin 02 Arena - 22/6/10. Belfast Odyssey Arena - 23/6/10. London Hyde Park - 25/6/10. Berlin Wuhlheide - 30/6/10.
Manchester MEN - 20/06/12. Manchester MEN - 21/06/12
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of the top of my head.
fade to black - metallica
hallowed be thy name - iron maiden
motorcycle emptiness - manic street preachers ( aberdeen music hall) ( gave me chill on the hairs of my neck)
black - pearl jam
light years - pear lam - London 02
get the fuck out - skid row - wembley 1991
Whole metallica set at download - the year lars was ill, and other drummers filled in.
thats all on the top of my head
PJ-Release
Radiohead-2+2=5
Heartless Bastards-The Mountain
Decemberists-Mariners Revenge Song
Conor Oberst-Big Black Nothing
Tom Petty-Honey Bee
Nada Surf-See These Bones
Rev Horton Heat-Big Sky/Baddest of the Bad
Neil Finn-Try Whistling This
Bjork-Pagan Poetry
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Geez don't know if I will get it right, probably change my mind later but here goes:
1. Grateful Dead ~ Not Fade Away/Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad/One More Saturday Night
2. Foghat ~ Slow Ride
3. Bruce Springsteen & East St. Band ~ Streets of Philadelphia
4. Bob Dylan ~ Tangled Up in Blue
5. Pearl Jam ~ Betterman/Save it for Later/Black
6. Eddie Vedder ~ ARC (more than special)
7. Alice in Chains ~ Your Decision
8. Hot Tuna ~ Walkin' Blues
9. HONOR ~ Weight on Me
10. Jefferson Starship - Wooden Ships
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"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
1. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of by U2 at the Rogers Centre on September 17, 2009: it was only Bono singing & The Edge on an acoustic guitar and sounded surprisingly good, since it was at a baseball/football stadium.
2. Your Song by Elton John at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 30, 2013: just the power of his voice during that song was amazing. I never witnessed him singing with such power and emotions before.
3. Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters on August 9, 2011: song extended, bridge performed twice, first time by crowd only and 2nd time by Dave Grohl and Dave Grohl mentioned that Alex Lifeson of Rush was at the show
4. Rockin' The Free World (Neil Young song) by Pearl Jam on September 11, 2011, which Neil Young joined Pearl Jam on stage. I mean, what are the odds?!
5. Dave Matthews Band at the Air Canada Centre on December 7, 2012: don't remember the name of the song, but Carter Beauford played a really good drum solo in the middle of a song which included intense strobe lights and lasers.
6. Turn the Page (Bob Seger song) by Metallica at the Orion Music and More Festival in Detroit on June 9, 2013: just because I witnessed this song being played in Detroit.
7. N****s In Paris by Jay-Z & Kanye West at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France on June 1, 2012: they played that same song 11 times in a row, a record at the time. It was broken during their 3rd show in Paris on June 18, in which they played that song TWELVE TIMES. During the later performances, Jay-Z & Kanye actually asked the crowd on the floor do to various mosh pits during the song and at one time, the producer of this song, Hit-Boy, joined them on stage and went crowd surfing.
8. Comfortably Numb by Roger Waters (both The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon Tour)
9. Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day at Copps Coliseum on July 16, 2009: the band invited a fan onstage and played guitar during the song.
10. Rammstein at the Air Canada Centre on May 8, 2011: the entire set, but the one moment that shocked me the most was during Benzin where Till Lindemann brought a gas pump and ripped a flamethrower. At the end of the song, a random guy was on stage and Till Lindemann burned him with the gas tank. I was shocked because I never anticipated it.
Honorable mention: In This Twilight by Nine Inch Nails on August 5, 2008: interesting choice of closer to their Lights In The Sky tour with a ending both intense and moving and Rimes of the Ancient Mariner on March 16, 2008: a song that I will likely never witness again.
1. Badlands - Springsteen
2. I got Id (98) - PJ
3. Gloria - Tom Petty
4. Spiders - Wilco
5. Round Here - Counting Crows
6. True love waits - Radiohead
7. Lie in our graves - Dave Mathews Band
8. Eskimo - Damien Rice
9. Sing the Changes - Paul McCartney
10. Sabotage - Beastie Boys
"Let the Ocean dissolve away my past."
Pearl Jam - Porch
Nirvana - Lithium
Guns N Roses - November Rain
Metallica - Creeping Death
Sting - Message In A Bottle
Rolling Stones - Jumpin Jack Flash
The Firm - You've Lost That Loving Feeling
Paul Westerberg - Here Comes A Regular
Todd Rundgren - Bang The Drum All Day
Tina Turner - Proud Mary
San Diego, CA 11-21-13.... Los Angeles, CA 11-23-13....Los Angeles, CA 11-24-13....Oakland, CA 11-27-13
-Pearl Jam - "Come Back" and "All Night" at Wrigley Field (Come Back for the dedication and how emotional it was, and All Night for enduring the delay and that being the first PJ song that they ripped into after "All The Way" with Ernie Banks. Also the sentiment of them going late into the night)
-Rage Against the Machine - "Wake Up" at Coachella 2007 (Zack's speech in the middle and the performance was intense)
-Foo Fighters - "Monkeywrench" at the Forum 2011 (Dave Grohl told a long story of meeting Prince and how he would bring down all the lights in the arena so the Foos did the same thing during the breakdown, then exploded into the last part of the song.)
-Dave Matthews Band - "Bartender" at Staples Center 2008 (Day of LeRoi Moore's passing, which Dave announced to the crowd after they opened with this song.)
-Temple of the Dog - "Say Hello 2 Heaven" at PJ20 (Really the whole TOTD set both nights was incredible.)
-Soundgarden - "New Damage" at the Wiltern 2013 (I won tix + access to soundcheck before the show and got to see them working out the song beforehand. It was the first time they'd played it since 1994. Gave me a whole new appreciation for Matt, who was directing the band as to how the song went)
-Paul McCartney - "My Love," "Something," and "A Day In The Life>Give Peace A Chance" at Coachella 2009 (Dedicated to Linda, George, and John respectively. His whole set was amazing and emotionally charged.)
-Perry Farrel, Dave Navarro, Flea, and Travis Barker playing Jane's Addiction's "Mountain Song" at Tom Morello's Justice Tour at the Troubadour 2008 (Farrel was on stage playing solo stuff, and Navarro was the last to come out before they launched into the song. Jane's was reuniting for NME's "Godlike Genius Award" but I was totally taken by surprise to see Perry and Dave together again.)
-Queens of the Stone Age - "In The Fade" with Mark Lanegan at Club Nokia in 2010 (I hadn't seen Lanegan perform with QOTSA since 2003 so when he came out for the encore and sang 4 songs, it was a great surprise.)
2. Wash- PJ
2. A Forest- The Cure
3. In the Flesh- (covered by) Primus
4. Hurt- Nine Inch Nails
5. Hunger Strike- At Alpine Valley
6. The River- The Tea Party
7. Sister Awake- The Tea Party
8. Love Song- The Cure
9. Face melting solo that Zakk Wylde did at Soundwave in Adelaide
10. I Got You- PJ and Neil Finn
Adelaide 1998
Adelaide 2003
Adelaide 2006 night 1
Adelaide 2006 night 2
Adelaide 2009
Melbourne 2009
Christchurch NZ 2009
Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
The Strokes - NYC Cops
Pearl Jam - Release (Kansas City 03)
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Stir - One Angel
Eddie Vedder - ARC
Smashing Pumpkins - Snail
Brad - 20th Century
U2 - Desire
Liam Finn - Second Chance
Off top of head. Seen alot of shows come to think of it..
Honourable Mentions:
Rush - Paint it Black (30-July-2003), Audioslave - Set it Off (24-May-2005), Audioslave - Spoonman (24-May-2005), Pixies - Where is My Mind? (9-July-2005), Pixies - Debaser (9-July-2005), Motley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart (23-Aug-2005), Radiohead - Paranoid Android (8-June-2006), Bahaus - Ziggy Stardust (26-June-2006), Alice in Chains - Grind (5-Nov-2006), The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (4-Dec-2006), The Who - Tea & Theatre (4-Dec-2006), Chris Cornell - Outshined (14-Apr-2007), Alice in Chains - Again (12-Aug-2007), Velvet Revolver - Wish You Were Here (12-Aug-2007), Ben Harper & Relentless7 - Immigrant Song (29-Aug-2009), Pixies - Hey (29-Aug-2009), Pixies - Here Comes Your Man (29-Aug-2009), NIN - The Day the World Went Away (30-Aug-2009), Alice in Chains - Rooster (17-Mar-2010), Roger Waters - Goodbye Cruel World (15-Sep-2010), Alice in Chains - It Ain't Like That (18-Sep-2010), Deftones - Engine No. 9 (18-Sep-2010), Deftones - Root (3-May-2011), Ben Harper - Not Fire, Not Ice (5-July-2011), Ben Harper - Walk Away (5-July-2011), Mastodon - Aqua Dementia (25-Nov-2011), Mastodon - Creature Lives (25-Nov-2011), The Tea Party - Dazed & Confused->The River (1-Dec-2011), The Tea Party - Temptation->Kashmir (1-Dec-2011), Tool - Hooker With a Penis (25-Jan-2012), Mark Lanegan Band - Bleeding Muddy Water (15-May-2012), Glen Hansard - Leave (16-Sep-2012), Ben Harper - Homeless Child (29-Sep-2012), Ben Harper - Like a King/I'll Rise (29-Sep-2012), Soundgarden - Burden in My Hand (16-Nov-2012), Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Fuckin' up (19-Nov-2012), Neil Young & Crazy Horse - The Needle and the Damage Done (19-Nov-2012), Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite - When the Levee Breaks (1-Mar-2013), Primus - My Name is Mud (7-June-2013), Primus - Those Damned Blue Collared Tweekers (8-June-2013), Primus - Tommy the Cat (8-June-2013), Alice in Chains - Got Me Wrong (20-Aug-2013)
Adelaide 1998
Adelaide 2003
Adelaide 2006 night 1
Adelaide 2006 night 2
Adelaide 2009
Melbourne 2009
Christchurch NZ 2009
Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
Adelaide 1998
Adelaide 2003
Adelaide 2006 night 1
Adelaide 2006 night 2
Adelaide 2009
Melbourne 2009
Christchurch NZ 2009
Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
Anything else I've seen.
Eddie Vedder - Arc
Wilco - Impossible Germany
DMB - Don't Drink the Water
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song ( Flea on bass )
Chris Cornell ( solo ) - Fell on Black Days
Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
Black Crowes - Wiser Time
Page & Plant - Going to California
-Pearl Jam, "Wasted Reprise">"Better Man">"Black," Madison Square Garden, 5/21/10: Ed's speech into the gorgeous Wasted Reprise into the most incredible version of Better Man and Black. I just remember having gone crazy those past 2 days, but during Black just simply closing my eyes, singing along ever-so-quietly to myself, and just being in awe of my first PJ experience. It meant so much to me. The cheer we gave Ed during Better Man and the 'do do do do do do do' during Black will stay with me forever!
-Dave Matthews Band w/ Vusi Mahlasela, "Everyday," Madison Square Garden, 11/13/10: I have never experienced such pure joy as I have in that moment. One of those concert moments nobody will come close to understanding unless they were there. The way DMB fed off Vusi and vice versa and how they in turn fed off the crowd was in perfect alignment. I've never been a part of a moment so happy...truly incredible to witness.
-Eddie Vedder & Glen Hansard, "Falling Slowly," Beacon Theatre, 6/22/11: When I say it was breathtaking, it was literally breathtaking. My heart swelled and it was hard for me to breathe I was so in awe of how beautiful this was.
-Paul McCartney, "Hey Jude," Yankee Stadium, 7/16/11: Nothing much needs to be said here...hearing that legendary song live with 50,000 people singing along was unforgettable! One of those 'is this really happening?!' moments!
-Foo Fighters, "These Days," Global Citizen Festival, 9/29/12: Huge Foos fan. Always thought "These Days" was the dopiest song on Wasting Light. But took on a whole new meaning when I heard it at this festival. It was just 2 and a half weeks after my father died. Listening to the words of that song hit home so much...almost had a breakdown. I was so thankful they played it that night.
-The Avett Brothers, "A Father's First Spring," Pier Six Pavilion, 9/23/12: Another song so memorable because of one of my favorite bands singing a song that hit so close to home after the death of my father a week and a half before. It's a song about a father loving his daughter, and remains the only time I have cried at a concert. Couldn't keep the waterworks back for that one.
-Neil Young, "After the Gold Rush," Hippodrome Theatre, 4/28/11: Just Neil and a pump organ and goddammit you could hear a pin drop. Gorgeous is an understatement!
-The Black Crowes, "Hard to Handle/Hush," 9:30 Club, 4/8/13: One of the most fun I've ever had at a concert. Non-stop dancing and this mash-up to end the show left me with the stupidest smile on my face that I couldn't wipe off for days!
-The Who, "Love Reign O'er Me," Izod Center, 10/29/08: The one and only concert I ever attended with my dad. The Who was a very special band to my dad, and he raised me on them. So for him to take me to see them for my 16th birthday was amazing. It was also the show that made me want to go to concerts religiously for the rest of my life! I distinctly remember being amazed by this LROM performance in particular. After the show, he told me, "Sam, that's the happiest I've ever seen you!"
-Local Natives, "Sun Hands," 9:30 Club, 4/6/13: After wanting to have seen them for a couple of years, they did NOT disappoint! Everyone going batshit for this song was really memorable. I had so much fun jumping around!
~not a dude~
2010: MSGx2
2012: Made In America
2013: Pittsburgh, Brooklynx2, Hartford, Baltimore
2014: Leeds, Milton Keynes, Detroit
2015: Global Citizen Festival
2016: Phillyx2, MSGx2, Fenwayx2
2018: Barcelona, Wrigleyx2
Echoes-David Gilmour 06...doesn't get more epic
Impossible Germany-Wilco 2011
Black-PJ...particularly 8/18/00 and 4/22/03
10k Days/Wings For Marie-Tool...coolest lighting I've ever seen
Thorn Progress>Thorn In My Pride-Black Crowes 2001
Dondante-MMJ 2011...18 minutes of bliss
Comfortably Numb-Gilmour 06...that guy playin that song, just DAMN!!!!
Pushit-Tool 2001
Pink Houses-Johnny Cougar at Farmaid a few weeks after 9/11...don't laugh, the goosebumps lasted for days
Jimi Hendrix, 1968 Winterland: well, honestly everything but listening to Jimi sound check before the show was mind blowing. It was like listening to the Gods make love.
Crosby Stills Nash and Young (electric) Winterland, 1970: "Cowgirl in the Sand". A very emotional time for the band and big group hug with guitars at the end of the song.
Sandy Bull, 1970, "No Deposit, No Return Blues". Stunning.
Violent Femmes/ Gordon Gano: A Christian hymn- I don't remember which one but right in the middle of their fiery punk set, Gano played this beautiful hymn solo and it incensed the idiot crowd. Well done, Gordon Gano!
The Who, 1966 or 7- the show was like one endless mind blowing song.
Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Introduction, Planetarium, Golden Gate Park. The band walked into the venue (and yes, the planetarium night sky was lit up) stwirling hollow plastic tubes over their heads making an unearthly, marvelous sound and sat down one at a time, taking up there horns and transitioning into a free jazz motif. Spellbinding to say the least!
It's a Beautiful Day: "White Bird", in Golden Gate Park, 1969 or so. The rendition I saw was simply gorgeous. I looked up David LaFlamme's number in the phone book the next day and told him how much I enjoyed it and he didn't mind the call in the least.
King Crimson (the later incarnation with Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew, Sound Check- yes, once again a sound check. Fripp was cutting loose for several minutes before the show and from where I was standing, the sound was intense and inspired. The show was great but the sound check was totally uninhibited.
Paul Westerberg and His Only Friends, Great American Music Hall, 2004 "Left of the Dial" They had to play that in San Francisco... and they did!
Pearl Jam, Missoula, 2012: "Ghost" Ok maybe not the best song of the night... but THEY DID GHOST!
Bon Iver- the Wolves- pure brilliance
Bruce Springsteen and E-Street and- Your Missing
Ben Harper- never Tear us apart
Rage against the machine- Bulls on Parade- best set opener
Matt Corby - Souls a fire
Gaslight Anthem - backseat
Paul Kelly - Bradman
Liam Finn - Second Chance
Arcade Fire - Wake up
Sepultura- Arise
*BEC, Brisbane, March 1995
*BEC, Brisbane, March 1998
*BEC, Brisbane, November 2006
*QSAC, Brisbane November 2009
*EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane March 10 and 12 2011
*Big Day Out, Gold Coast, 19 Jan 2014
*EV Solo, QPAC, Brisbane, 22,23 & 25 Feb 2014
WOW! Just WOW!
jo
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"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
Pearl Jam - Release or Black
The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues
My Morning Jacket - Golden or Dondante
BB King - The Thrill is Gone
Built to Spill - Liar
The Black Crowes - Remedy
John Butler Trio - Ocean
The Who - Baba O'riley
JJ Grey & Mofro - Lochloosa
THIS ^^^^^ 1973 believe it or not
jo
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"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
Excellent!
U2....Bad, Gloria, Bullet The Blue Sky, Lemon, Elevation many more
ACDC.....Back In Black, Dirty Deeds, Let There Be Rock
RUSH....The Camera Eye, Red Sector A, LaVilla STRANGIATO, The Garden, Xanadu, Earthshine, Between The Wheels
Michael Franti and Spearhead....Yell Fire, Never Too Late, Pray For Grace, Lostener Supported, Stay Human, Time To Go Home, What I've Seen
Metallica...Welcome Home Sanatarium, Harvester Of Sorrow...nothing like seeing 50,000 mop heads head banging at RFK Stadium all at once, No Remorse, The Frayed Ends Of Sanity
PRONG...Prove You Wrong, Brainwave, Steady Decline
PJ...Yellow Ledbetter
Ben Harper...Morning Yearning, Younger Than Today, Burn One Down, Alone
Talking Heads...Take Me To The River, Crosseyed And Painless, Once In A Lifetime, This Must Be The Place
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Radiohead - Reckoner
Biffy Clyro - Machines
Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Coldplay - The Scientist
Oasis - Don't look back in anger
Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want
Stone Roses - I am the resurrection
Tom Petty - Learning to Fly
2012 - Manchester 1 - 20/6
2014 - Amsterdam 1 - 16/6, Amsterdam 2 - 17/6, Milan - 20/6, Leeds - 08/07, Milton Keynes - 11/07
2015 - Bogota - 25/11
2016 - Philly 1 - 28/04, Philly 2 - 29/04, NYC 1 - 01/05, NYC 2 - 02/05
2018 - LDN 1 - 18/06, Krakow - 03/07, Berlin - 05/07, Madrid - 12/07, LDN 2 - 17/07, Missoula 13/08
2022 - LA 1 - 06/05, LA2 - 07/05, Berlin - 21/06, Frankfurt 28/07, London 1 - 08/07, London 2 - 09/07, Budapest - 12/07, Krakow 14/07, Amsterdam 2 - 25/07, NYC Apollo - 10/09, NYC MSG - 11/09, OKC - 20/09, Denver - 22/09.
2023 - St Paul 2 - 03/09, Chicago 1 - 05/09, Chicago 2 - 07/09
EV
2012 - Manchester - 28/07/12, 2017 - Amsterdam - 29/05/17, 2019 -Amsterdam - 09/06/2019, Madrid - 22/06/2019
Particular order, excluding PJ
1-) Plant & Page, Whole lotta love, Istanbul, 1998
2-) Metallica, One, IStanbul, 1993
3-) U2, Beautiful day, Moscow, 2010
4-) Guns n Roses, Knocking on heaven's door (Sit-down acoustic), Istanbul, 1993
5-) Iron Maiden, Revelations, Nurburgring (Germany), 2004
6-) Alanis Morrissette, Thank you, Frankfurt, 2005
7-) Iron Maiden, Fear of the dark, Moscow, 2013
9-) Brian May, Too much love could kill you, Istanbul, 1993
10-) Richard Ashcroft, Bitter sweet symphony, Munich, 2005
Looks like that is all I have...
2012: Arras, Berlin 1-2
2013: Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires
2014: Milano, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin
2016: NY MSG 1
Nice list. I see you are a Gilmour guy rather than Waters.
2012: Arras, Berlin 1-2
2013: Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires
2014: Milano, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin
2016: NY MSG 1
Waters is awesome in his own right, but being a guitar player I do lean more towards Gilmour. Dude still totally has it, vocally and guitar wise and his band was incredible.
If I'd everhad the pleasure to see him, I'm sure Dogs or something from The Wall would make the cut.
In no particular order, just as they come to mind:
Eddie Vedder debuting "Unthought Known" in Newark
The Style Council -- Berlin, 1985. I'd have to say "the whole show," but "My Ever-Changing Moods" is a good choice.
Peter Gabriel -- "Solsbury Hill," WOMAD, San Francisco, 1993. He couldn't have been more than fifteen feet away from me.
Paul Weller (yeah, he's kind of on here twice) -- "Bull-Rush," also San Francisco 1993.
The Church covering "Dancing Barefoot" at the Orpheum, Boston, 1990. I had fourth-row seats. These guys are guitar gods.
David Zinman conducting the New York Philharmonic's performance of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, my favorite piece of music.
Alisa Weilerstein playing Bright Sheng's "Northern Lights," a piece that opened my mind to modern "classical" music.
Saving the best for last -- Augustin Hadelich, Sibelius Violin Concerto, last year. Jaw-droppingly good.
2. Queens of the Stone Age - Song for the Dead w/ Oliveri, Grohl, & Lanegan 2002
3. Mike Watt - Piss Bottle Man w/ Grohl 1994
4. Beastie Boys & ATCQ - Get it Together 1995
5. The Fugees - Killing Me Softly 1995
6. Nirvana - Serve the Servants 1994
7. Ice Cube - Steady Mobbin' 1992
8. Page & Plant - Kashmir 1994
9. Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven 1994
10. Modest Mouse - Trucker's Atlas 1997