What is your favorite concert moment you have seen live, any band?

hrd2imgn

What is  the coolest thing you have witnessed?

When I saw Ed with the WHO at one of the charity gigs in Chicago, seeing Pete Townshend do the windmill was about as cool as it gets.

hairgrowth2001

I don’t know about cool, but this has been one of the most memorable. Start at the 2:20 mark and watch the rest. Drop ceilings can’t hold a lot of weight!
https://youtu.be/wN3PLKDQZQI

Loujoe

Coolest hard to peg. One really good one I can think of now...

Chris Cornell kicking the blood soaked ceiling in over my head at city gardens nj (the og climber).
[Blood from previous gwar show]

Oh yeah, Puddles the Clown, singing the national anthem to start of les claypool show. Impressively frighteningly appropriate.

brianlux

Literally a moment:  Jimi Hendrix at Winterland, October 1968, covering Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and singing/playing like this:  "You shouldn't let other people get your...

[puts left picking hand fingers to lips and sucks as though taking a hit on a joint then quickly arcs same hand's index finger, landing it on the crook of his arm with a loud *cluck* of his tongue as though spiking a vein]

...kicks for you,"  all in one swift, perfectly times motion, never missing a beat.  So damn cool!

23scidoo

B.B. King sitting on a plastic chair, in tears, tells his own blues story for five minutes..

whoanelly15

Almost all of mine were PJ at Wrigley - go figure. Ernie Banks on stage and the Black singalong in 2013 were both incredible moments. The Gleason speech and Inside Job in 2016. We also got our request on behalf of Lake Michigan for Amongst the Waves played that night. Hard to beat that. But the Missing cover in 2018 was seriously moving. It felt like Chris was everywhere that night - all the pre-set songs played on the PA that night were his. It was over a year after his death but it still seemed surreal that he was gone. I think that for many of us, especially those who didn’t know him but grieved the loss in their own way, on their own, we’re coming together in public and talking to others about it for the first time - almost like a funeral. When they played that song, it seemed to capture all of that!

Non PJ moment - Dave Matthews Band at Alpine Valley in 2015 (?). Two Step at the end of the night and out of nowhere went into Halloween to end the night. The place fell out like no other crowd I’ve ever seen! 

vito

hrd2imgn said:

What is  the coolest thing you have witnessed?

When I saw Ed with the WHO at one of the charity gigs in Chicago, seeing Pete Townshend do the windmill was about as cool as it gets.

Yes, absolutely the first time I saw PT do a windmill was an almost out of body religious experience for my 15 year old mind to experience. Nothing could ever top it and I have seen over 500 shows since. Btw I was at that charity show and all of his charity shows for Maryville Academy at the HOB's

eeriepadave

Eddie joining R.E.M. in philly on '08 for Begin the Begin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRJS9-R95nY

Jay-Z and PJ doing 99 problems at Made in America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE6X6HGyIfE

Seeing the Arctic Monkeys in philly in '13. Some guy brought a gopro camera to the show. Alex noticed it and borrowed it and put it on Matt's head so he drummed with it on during R U Mine. Although at the time I had no idea cause I was on the otherside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owDCmU7lLN0

All I can think of for now.

iammine16

Radiohead w/ Michael Stipe - Karma Police Vancouver 2003

Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike Bridge School 2014

Tool (Dressed as Zeppelin) - Monster Mash Festival Tempe, AZ Halloween 2015

ICDragons

Airplane buzzes the crowd to start Roger Waters show with In The Flesh at The Gorge 2000. 

Felt like a little child

Indifference71

Release at PJ20.  So much hype and anticipation for that weekend and when they kicked off night 1 with Release and 30-40K or however many people fit in there all singing along...just incredible.  I get chills just thinking about it.

vito

Indifference71 said:

Release at PJ20.  So much hype and anticipation for that weekend and when they kicked off night 1 with Release and 30-40K or however many people fit in there all singing along...just incredible.  I get chills just thinking about it.

An absolutely amazing moment, I had chills going up my spine!

hrd2imgn

Indifference71 said:

Release at PJ20.  So much hype and anticipation for that weekend and when they kicked off night 1 with Release and 30-40K or however many people fit in there all singing along...just incredible.  I get chills just thinking about it.

Agreed after  hours of waiting, wondering if it was going to ever come...hearing the first notes

Edved82

Led Zeppelin hitting the stage at their final gig in 2007 in London. Those opening notes of Good Times, Bad Times. Music history.

rgambs

PJ In Vienna from 3rd "row" pit.
Vs. in entirety in Greenville.

Billy Strings covering In Hiding.

MedozK

Pearl Jam - Live at Third Man Records

Without a doubt, the best concert EVER

F Me In The Brain

^^
That would have been amazing!

eddiec

Edved82 said:

Led Zeppelin hitting the stage at their final gig in 2007 in London. Those opening notes of Good Times, Bad Times. Music history.

Nice!

tempo_n_groove

hairgrowth2001 said:

I don’t know about cool, but this has been one of the most memorable. Start at the 2:20 mark and watch the rest. Drop ceilings can’t hold a lot of weight!
https://youtu.be/wN3PLKDQZQI

This was phenomenal!  Thanks for sharing!

tempo_n_groove

I've got a few moments that I just LOVED at concerts.

1991 Nassau Coliseum.  A couple was worried that the Pit for the Metallica show might get a little rough so they traded our "taper" section seats for their floor seats.  Lights went out and we rushed the stage.  Made it to a few rows back and could see the sweat off of the band!  Thought that was how every show was supposed to be, lol.

1998 LA Forum.  First ever PJ show!

2010 MSG.  Last LCD Soundsystem show when the balloons come down and the band waved and walked off.  I was side stage and could have spilled my drink on them.  Best part about these seats were we got subbed down from the venue halfway through the show.

2013 Wrigley.  Opening notes to Release.

2016 Webster Hall.  I wanted to watch this Dillinger Escape Plan show so I went to the balcony.  After what I witnessed I would never make that mistake at one of their shows again and would be in the pit or not bother.

2018 Murmrr.  For the encore of the OCS show Dwyer asks us all to "come up" and we obliged.  I went up the steps and was side stage where no security bothered me and had a great view.

2019 Baby's All Right.  The bassist from The Weeks, Damien Bone comes and sits down with me and hangs for 30 minutes talking about the band and the music.  Never took one selfie w him.  After the show the Twins see me and they tell me "there are a few people we look for when we come to NY and you are one of them."  We chat and they sign a setlist for me.  (I've seen them a dozen times)

MissPennyLane

Gary Clark Jr. @ the Troubadour 2012...he played 3 nites in a row and i can't remember which nite I went too . But all 3 were sold out and my friend and her mom had Tix but the mom got super sick and could not go so my friend asked me if I wanted extra Tix...I was at troubadour the following week for another show and remember being at the bar and people were asking the bartenders if they worked the Gary Clark Jr shows cuz he was just starting to get huge buzz...

toolie

I’ve got two. 

First was City and Colour at a Virgin Fest in Calgary. The Tragically Hip also played and Gord came out for C&C’s set and did his part in ‘Sleeping Sickness’. It was epic, makes my neck hair stand just thinking about it. 

Second was PJ in Saskatoon. Supersuckers opened and Ed came out to sing ‘I Believe in Miracles’ in a Mexican wrestling mask.
We had third row fan club seats for that show, and the two people in front of us didn’t show up so we ended up second row. It was incredible.

hrd2imgn

MedozK said:

Pearl Jam - Live at Third Man Records

Without a doubt, the best concert EVER

That must have been the best vibe.

hrd2imgn

A close second was Jim Rose circus and Marilyn Manson moshing in the GA pit with us at NIN at Ball State 1995?  Manson was fucking unreal live...until he whipped out a foot long dildo and jerked off almost getting the whole show shut down

tempo_n_groove

hrd2imgn said:

A close second was Jim Rose circus and Marilyn Manson moshing in the GA pit with us at NIN at Ball State 1995?  Manson was fucking unreal live...until he whipped out a foot long dildo and jerked off almost getting the whole show shut down

Vintage Manson would have been awesome to see.  He was making the news in Florida before he became big!

tempo_n_groove

If anyone on here saw GG Allin play live I think that should be one and I want to hear about it!!!

Loujoe

^^^man. I was at a club in nyc seeing a local band sweet lizard ill tet. Idk if you know them. But they were playing gg allen on some tvs around the club...f...king nasty man...dude squirming around covered in god knows what. Missed the boat on that one. I can dig how it can be captivating. Never even heard his music. Just that brief introduction.to him grossed me out...and I've survived/enjoyed a few gwar shows...I guess because thats just fake stuff. GG was real.

tempo_n_groove

Loujoe said:

^^^man. I was at a club in nyc seeing a local band sweet lizard ill tet. Idk if you know them. But they were playing gg allen on some tvs around the club...f...king nasty man...dude squirming around covered in god knows what. Missed the boat on that one. I can dig how it can be captivating. Never even heard his music. Just that brief introduction.to him grossed me out...and I've survived/enjoyed a few gwar shows...I guess because thats just fake stuff. GG was real.

I know one person that saw him live.  It was riveting to hear him talk about it.  He says that "Allin preyed on the scared ones.  Those are the ones he chased around in the crowd.  If you were in Allin's face he wouldn't come at you, he wanted that rush of fear."

This was during Allins early career so who knows how he was towards the end?

Loujoe

Sounds fun! Flashback. I brought my gf to see the mentors, revolting cocks and ministry. Being full of testosterone I did the right thing and ditched her for the pit. She got scared when the mentors singer wearing an executioner mask and chains singled her out! I think the necros were on that bill too. Singer kept pulling out huge realistic  fake pen.s and shooting junk everywhere. I jumped on stage, before bouncers got set up, during revco, opening song steers beees and queers, knocked over alien Jorgensens bottle of booze. They had all this hard liquor lined up on stage. He was surprised that I was on stage with them. Gave him a high five and launched off the stage into the crowd! Nyc at The Ritz back maybe early 90s.
What a sick concert history I have...blessed

tempo_n_groove

Loujoe said:

Sounds fun! Flashback. I brought my gf to see the mentors, revolting cocks and ministry. Being full of testosterone I did the right thing and ditched her for the pit. She got scared when the mentors singer wearing an executioner mask and chains singled her out! I think the necros were on that bill too. Singer kept pulling out huge realistic  fake pen.s and shooting junk everywhere. I jumped on stage, before bouncers got set up, during revco, opening song steers beees and queers, knocked over alien Jorgensens bottle of booze. They had all this hard liquor lined up on stage. He was surprised that I was on stage with them. Gave him a high five and launched off the stage into the crowd! Nyc at The Ritz back maybe early 90s.
What a sick concert history I have...blessed

Anybody that got to see the Mentors is all right in my book!

Awesome story!

cutz

brianlux said:

Literally a moment:  Jimi Hendrix at Winterland, October 1968, covering Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and singing/playing like this:  "You shouldn't let other people get your...

[puts left picking hand fingers to lips and sucks as though taking a hit on a joint then quickly arcs same hand's index finger, landing it on the crook of his arm with a loud *cluck* of his tongue as though spiking a vein]

...kicks for you,"  all in one swift, perfectly times motion, never missing a beat.  So damn cool!

23scidoo said:

B.B. King sitting on a plastic chair, in tears, tells his own blues story for five minutes..

Edved82 said:

Led Zeppelin hitting the stage at their final gig in 2007 in London. Those opening notes of Good Times, Bad Times. Music history.

MedozK said:

Pearl Jam - Live at Third Man Records

Without a doubt, the best concert EVER

Legendary moments indeed !!!!

Nice !!