Your #1 Concert Who?Where?Why?

The best concert You ever attended, which band, what city and what made it so special? For me it was Godsmack / Staind and Cold - Eastern Michigan University! Front row the whole concert. Last song of the night Godsmack "I'm doing the best I ever did" I played the bass guitar the whole song it was sweet. Standed on stage looking at 25,000 screaming fans. I've seen PJ seven times and they all are a close second.
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  • Unfortunatley, i've never seen PJ. So i'd have to say Foo Fighters, Toronto ,July 7, Arrow Hall. It was the one filmed for their one and only dvd. I just think thats amazing that i was there for the taping. Its also cool that they chose Canada, since their an American band, i wonder why? (Not that there is anything wrong with the U.S.)
    Leave your girlfriend on a cement floor...
    Toronto 09/19/05
    Toronto 05/09/06
  • The Rolling Stones/September 1989 in Cincinnati OH/first stones tour after 8 year break, amazing setlist, great crowd
  • Still HereStill Here Posts: 661
    I know for a FACT that this was my BEST birthday EVER!!!

    Pearl Jam in concert for my 22nd birthday...we had 2 cases of 22 oz.'s in the fridge at home...among other 'forms of encouragement'...Pearl Jam completely brought the fuckin' house DOWN...

    the only thing that could have made it better was to meet the fella's...but all in all...I cannot complain. Night to remember!

    go
    corduroy
    grievance
    state of love & trust
    tremor christ
    small town
    insignificance
    last exit
    animal
    in my tree
    i got shit
    betterman
    even flow
    daughter
    thin air
    jeremy
    rearviewmirror
    nothing as it seems
    last kiss
    spin the black circle
    crazy mary
    parting ways
    fuckin' up
    PJ: Toledo-9/22/96. E. Lansing-8/18/98. Detroit-8/23/98. Detroit-10/7/00. Detroit-6/25 & 6/26/03. Toledo-10/2/04 [VFC]. Detroit-5/22/06. Chicago-8/5/07 [Lolla]. Cleveland-5/9/10. Baltimore-10/27/13.

    EV: Honolulu-4/21 & 4/22/07 [Kokua]. Detroit-6/26/11.
  • esther1977esther1977 Posts: 540
    Coldplay july first 2003 Goffertpark Nijmegen (netherlands)

    It was raining all day but when the played Whar=t a wonderfull world from Louis Armstrong, the rain stopt and there it was a rainbow!!!!!!
    After that it didn't matter any more that you were wet till your bones and that you probably gonna bee sick the next day.
    When all your dreams turn to dust, vacuum
    When all else fails, read the instruction
  • PJaddictedPJaddicted Posts: 1,432
    Pearl Jam
    MSGII July 9, 2003
    Most energy I've ever felt in a crowd-it was electric with 8,000 fan club members!
    ~*LIVE~LOVE~LAUGH*~

    *May the Peace of the Wilderness be with YOU*

    He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
    — Unknown
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    MSG 1, 2003.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • PJPATPJPAT Posts: 399
    Pearl Jam, Alpine Valley, East Troy 2003

    Third row and Eddie tossed his Tambourine to me. Sweet!!!!
    "All the money you make will never buy back your soul" Bob Dylan

    "I need honesty, I need truth, and I need hope...I need it! That's what music means to me." EV
  • AstirdAstird Posts: 168
    pj montreal 2003....great atmosphere, great seats, close to home.

    One of my fave shows is still Nick Cave in Montreal 2002 with Neko Case opening, one of the most intense performances ever. He blew me away.
  • Lukin_ozLukin_oz Posts: 257
    Pearl Jam - Melbourne 2 2003

    Awesome seats, great setlist, great vibe between crowd and band, intense show and i got Eds tambourine

    Honourable Mentions
    Smashing Pumpkins- 1998 Mellon Cholli tour
    Nick Cave at Homebake in 2003 - awesome, didnt know any of his stuff but he was awesome
    Splendour in the Grass - 2 day festival - John Butler Trio, Powderfinger, Placebo and COldplay were awesome
    Ben Harper - Front row in 03
    Radiohead - waited so long and even though Thom was sick it rocked!
    Those who dance are called insane by those who dont hear the music
  • Pearl Jam
    St. Paul - Xcel Energy Center
    My first (and only :() PJ show...simply amazing.
    "I'll do whatever the song dictates - if it doesn't need a real lead, then I won't do one. But if it does, then I'll fuckin' go off." - Mike

    "Japan is awesome; the fans there knew all the words to all the songs...at least phonetically." - Stone

    "I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version." - EV
  • Pittsburgh 2000 and 2003......two of the most energetic concerts ive ever attended... i think eddie likes Pittsburgh!!!! yeah!
    I want to go, but I dont want to go... alone.
  • laurenmclaurenmc Posts: 39
    MSG I and II were amazing. II if only for the awesome speech Eddie gave about the fanclub before dedicating a song to us.

    :)

    lets raise a toast to belief....
    'Alright brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so lets just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.' - Homer J. Simpson
  • ladygooddivaladygooddiva Posts: 4,169
    should i really say that it was janet jackson why couse that time i really adore her ....oh my good that´s a shame when early 90´s
  • W.M.EhW.M.Eh Posts: 133
    I was lucky enough to win backstage passes to Lollapolooza 97, I sat over the soundboard on the stage (seated on the scaffolding). I caught Violent Femmes, Ramones, Soundgarden, and Metallica.

    Pearl Jam, May 2nd 2003 Buffalo comes in a close 2nd
    The last PJ show I went to was the best PJ show ever, that is until they come around again of course

  • {[No_Code}]{[No_Code}] Posts: 4,059
    Teenage Fanclub, 1 May 2004 ... in Recife :D

    AWESOME...

    first Teenage Fanclub show in Brazil... :D
    So that is how I learned the lesson that everyone is alone. And your eyes must do some raining if you are ever going to grow. But when crying don't help and you can't compose yourself. It is best to compose a poem, an honest longing or simple song of hope.
    That is why I'm singing
  • tdlftdaporchtdlftdaporch Posts: 158
    THe best concert I have ever been to was Smashing Pumpkins/Garbage 1996 San Diego for the Mellon Collie tour. Everything was perfect. The setlist was amazing. All the musicians were on fire. Unfortunately this was after Jimmy Chamberlain was sacked but Matt Walker was great. The sports arena was full and the crowd was pumped. The visuals on the screen were kick ass and went perfect with the music. They played what seemed like a 20 minute version of "Silverf**k" and a 20 minute version of 'Aeroplane Flies High..." They were like a punk rock Pink Floyd...AMAZINGGG!!!! Garbage were really good too
    "Do you think the carpetpissers did this?" - The Dude
  • Pat HPat H Posts: 101
    A Perfect Circle and the Mars Volta, april 18th 2004

    Mars Volta played two songs during their one hour set, with only a 5 second break. They were really amazing to watch.

    A Perfect Circle played basically every song that they have, and they rocked really hard. Such an amazing band to watch live. I'd go see them again in a heart beat. Their drummer played with a broken leg and was still dead on.
  • 1) Soul Asylum/Graham Colton - On the Bricks, Atlanta
    2) Pearl Jam - Atlanta
    3) Creed

    Had front row for 1) and 3) Kicked ass...worst seats were at PJ, ironically most expensive...$300, sheeiiiit.
  • sept 1992-Dallas,Texas

    METALLICA
    GUNS N ROSES
    FAITH NO MORE

    also loved white zombie concert in 1994 and korn too a year or so after. but cant help remembering at the metallica concert, how good faith no more was live, they rocked,. metallica was my all time fave band until the day i heard pearl jam...........
    ...It's only after disaster that we can be resurrected...
    it's only after you've lost everything ...that you are free to do anything....(Fight Club)

    ... I'll ride the wave...where it takes me....
  • "Pulse", a small band of a guy I know, I was at his birthday party and they decided to play, nearly everybody was filled up to the nose, i still saw quite clear, guess I was the only one listening.
    Even the girlfriend of the lead singer did no applaud, she usally does.
    I had talked to the guitarists before, a bit about led zepplin cream and about playing guitar, you know they play awesome.
    And every time i looked at them they smiled at me.

    So to sum it up: I was in fact the only person listening, and I was extremly near to the band, so that was fuckin intense.

    I guess I prefer this short concert to a pj front row concert.
    BANZÄÄÄ

    When he was six, he believed that the moon overhead followed him
    By nine, he deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact, no trade-backs
    So this is what it's like to be an adult?
    If he only knew now what he knew then
  • sherifsherif Posts: 7
    first of all ther's no such a thing as one fav concert coz there's too many to list and each and every one has its own memories

    though i do have a comment on one of my last pj concerts @ alpine valey,east troy WI
    i really hate those sing alongs mFs i wish people have more frigin taste to realize when to sing along and when to shut the fuck up cos i didn't pay money to hear them drunk cock suckers and i didn't drive for 2 or 3 hours to listen to them pollouting the air i breath needlesly to say the way that every body behaves so stupid and so Obnoxious cos sadly most of concert goers here think it's all about drinkin and the more u drink the better it gets
    how in the fuck would you enjoy a concert when you've been drinkin and sitting in the sun from like 1pm till 8pm . by the time when the concert starts u'll be drunk off ur ass and hung over like a mother fucker i guess this applies to like 70% of the attendance still the rest would've acted the same way if they didn't have to drive
    in conclusion my best pj live ever was in milan , italy i wont tell U how it was just buy the cd and find out for yourselves
    cuz there's but u something within u .
    has taken control , let's beat it get up let's go
    why u're in your own world let's see the whole world
    plese pick up my souuuuuuuuuuul
  • EDDIEisMINEEDDIEisMINE Posts: 101
    Originally posted by sherif
    first of all ther's no such a thing as one fav concert coz there's too many to list and each and every one has its own memories

    though i do have a comment on one of my last pj concerts @ alpine valey,east troy WI
    i really hate those sing alongs mFs i wish people have more frigin taste to realize when to sing along and when to shut the fuck up cos i didn't pay money to hear them drunk cock suckers and i didn't drive for 2 or 3 hours to listen to them pollouting the air i breath needlesly to say the way that every body behaves so stupid and so Obnoxious cos sadly most of concert goers here think it's all about drinkin and the more u drink the better it gets
    how in the fuck would you enjoy a concert when you've been drinkin and sitting in the sun from like 1pm till 8pm . by the time when the concert starts u'll be drunk off ur ass and hung over like a mother fucker i guess this applies to like 70% of the attendance still the rest would've acted the same way if they didn't have to drive
    in conclusion my best pj live ever was in milan , italy i wont tell U how it was just buy the cd and find out for yourselves

    LOL funny but so true about the drunks at the concerts.
  • Yeah I hear you. The last and only PJ concert I went to, the guys around me were drunk. They would put their arm around me and sing along with their songs and stuff. They weren't rude or obnoxious or anything. I didn't even know who they were. When they put their arms around me, I was like "This ain't Cheers mofo, I don't know your name"
  • Originally posted by PJPAT
    Pearl Jam, Alpine Valley, East Troy 2003

    Third row and Eddie tossed his Tambourine to me. Sweet!!!!
    I agree best show i've seen. worst part though was pjpat playing with the tambourine all the way to the nexty show in Indiana.
    "one good thing about music when it hits you feel no pain" Robert "nesta" Marley
  • releaseNYreleaseNY Posts: 153
    it's certainly tough to pick just one. different shows are #1 for a variety of reasons.

    a few are #1-like because of kick-ass seats (front row in philly and dc last year). one was #1 for emotional intensity -- knowing you're going to end a relationship with the person you are currently wrapped around crying to black in the pouring rain (randall's island 1 '96). one was #1 for the fans around me sharing the feeling of being one in the only place any of us wanted to be (well, i guess that can be all the pj shows, but particularly BN2 '03). one was #1 for seeing pearl jam on my birthday (jones beach 2 '00).

    but i guess you can only have one #1. so i'd have to say it was msg2 in '98. that show fucking brought the house down. i felt that floor move years ago... just took a while for pj to feel it, i guess :)
    you paid to get in, you're free to leave.
  • PJPATPJPAT Posts: 399
    Originally posted by chicagohitchhiker
    I agree best show i've seen. worst part though was pjpat playing with the tambourine all the way to the nexty show in Indiana.

    You loved it! I play 1 good tambourine baby!!!! Listen to the boot during YellowLedbetter and little wing.
    "All the money you make will never buy back your soul" Bob Dylan

    "I need honesty, I need truth, and I need hope...I need it! That's what music means to me." EV
  • igotpjigotpj Posts: 187
    Pearl Jam
    1996
    Charlotte, NC
    It was my first PJ show and had the best energy ever. Plus, this was a special show that Ed wanted because it was an election year and Jesse Helms was running again.

    if I could only get this show on CD or DVD...Can anyone help me out?? <<BIG LARGE SMILE>>
    Charlotte(10-4-96)
    Raleigh(8-31-98)
    Greensboro(8-6-00)
    Raleigh(4-15-03), Las Vegas(6-6-03)
    Boston(9-28-04),Toledo(10-2-04),Asheville(10-6-04)
    Pittsburgh(6-24-06)
    Columbia (6-16-08)
    Austin (10-4-09), Philadelphia (10-28-09, 10-30-09, 10-31-09)
  • CarolinaCarolina Posts: 19
    I can imagine how amazing it was for you... I wish somaday watch a Pearl jam concert..God..what incredible must be...
  • Still HereStill Here Posts: 661
    Originally posted by Carolina
    I can imagine how amazing it was for you... I wish somaday watch a Pearl jam concert..God..what incredible must be...

    I've seen them 6(and counting...) times but that had to be my favorite just because it was the BEST present i could EVER get...though the other times I saw them come in a close 2nd...I highly recommend seeing PJ live.
    PJ: Toledo-9/22/96. E. Lansing-8/18/98. Detroit-8/23/98. Detroit-10/7/00. Detroit-6/25 & 6/26/03. Toledo-10/2/04 [VFC]. Detroit-5/22/06. Chicago-8/5/07 [Lolla]. Cleveland-5/9/10. Baltimore-10/27/13.

    EV: Honolulu-4/21 & 4/22/07 [Kokua]. Detroit-6/26/11.
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