Top Five Live Perfomances You've Seen Other Than PJ

mookie9999

I'm sure most of us on here have been to many many shows. Pick five of the greatest perfomances you've seen and list them below. Who kicks ass live???

My list in no particular order:

Rage Against the Machine Tibetan Freedom Concert San Francisco 1996
Ben Harper Spartan Stadium openinig for PJ 11/4/1995
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Berkeley 1996
Rolling Stones Oakland 1997 Final Night
Neil Young Horde 1997 First Set: At Shoreline he played a short acoustic set which blows away most perfomances I have ever seen. It was announced the day before that he would be playing an early set on the second stage Turns out it was on a third stage under a little tent that my friend and I got over to just in time to be "third row" if there was rows. When he first came out there were about 200 people, by the time he was done there was well over 2,000! He played an amazing Homegrown, new song Slopoke (played to Harvest Moon music) and a very long Long May You Run with storyline about the song! Incredible!!! Have to move this bad boy to my top 5! If you have this recording please let me do a b&p with you! I had it but lost it!

Shit! I need some shows from this decade!

Honorable Mention:
Black Crowes 1996 Berkeley Greek Theatre
Bob Dylan Joni Mitchell & Van Morrison San Jose 1998
Chris Cornell Irving Plaza 2007
Marianne Faithfull Portland 2002
MMJ 6/1/06
Mike Watt Ball Hog Tour Sacramento 1995
Pete Townshend Bridge School 96 surprise appearance.

releeseme

Pink Floyd Death Valley Stadium 1995
Ozzy & Alice in Chains Knoxville, TN. 1993
Lollapalooza 93
NIN Halloween 06 Nashville, TN
Perfect Circle & NIN Charlotte 2000

tybird

1) Sleater-Kinney~Variety Playhouse Atlanta, Ga July 1, 2005
2) Stone Temple Pilots~Birmingham, Alabama 2001 (I believe...their last tour)
3) Drive-by Truckers~The Dirty South tour August 2005 Jupiter Bar & Grill Tuscaloosa, AL.
4) The Police (w/Joan Jett)~Ghost in the Machine tour 1982
5) U2~Zoo TV Tour Birmingham, Alabama, 1992

thunderDAN

Radiohead 2003
Radiohead 2000

both in Cleveland

musicismylife78

1. Bob Dylan-October 7, 2001. Corvallis. The day we started bombing Afghanistan. there was a feeling in the air. He played Blowin in the wind and Masters of War.

2. arcade Fire- May 2007. Portland. I have NEVER seen a crowd that into a show. It was like a religious revival. When they played Wake Up, everyone was going NUTS. I looked in back of me, at the farther away seats, at the balcony, and people were going crazy. It was an amazing feeling. There was assigned seating, but when Win sang the first note, myself and many others rushing to the front of the stage.

3. ben Harper August 2006. berkeley. Getting to visit Berkeley for the first time, it was a time of many firsts, my first ben concert and my first time seeing the berkeley campus. Ben was on fire. he was in straight up Hendrix mode. It was awesome. He brought out Radioactive from Spearhead a band that plays in my hometown alot. It was a great feeling being there

4. Radiohead June 2006. San Diego. My first radiohead show. It was a beautiful venue. It was overlooking the bay. I can specifically remember Thom singing, and the wind blowing through my hair, just as the sun is setting in the background. it was breathtaking. The show was extremely short, it ended like at 1020 or so, and there had even been a opening act, but it was a hell of a show. They had all these small video screens, placed abnormally, sort of off center and upside down etc... and it looked great. As it got dark, you could see a hotel in the background. Its lights set against the odd crazy lights at the show.

Widespread Panic June 2006 Eugene. Long long set. But it was awesome. The whole atmosphere of the show. it was like people forgot about everything for the night and just went crazy. Alot of dancing. Just a great feeling and a great experience

merkinball

1. Grateful Dead (w/ David Lindley & El-Rayo X and Los Lobos) 7/30/88 - Laguna Seca, Monterey Ca.
2. Flaming Lips (w/ Liz Phair & Starlight Mints) - 4th and B, San Diego, Ca Yoshimi Tour.
3. Drive-By Truckers - Belly Up Tavern, San Diego Ca. 4/6/2005
4. Bjork - Coachella 2007
5. Neil Young & Crazy Horse (w/ Lucinda Williams) - 7/23/2003 Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA.

frusciante89

1. 6/02/07 Ben Harper Cains Ballroom Tulsa- Insane performance and Tom Morrelllo opened and played masters of war with Ben.
2. 8/18/06- Red Hot Chili Peppers @ the Pepsi Center in Denver- Keidis sounded great flea, John, and Chad showed why they are all the best fucking band
3. February 2007- Incubus @ The Uptown Theater KC- Phenomenal peformance and Brandon showed he is one of Rock's strongest vocalists
4. 6/17/07- John Mayer @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater KC- Amazing guitar player and said some funny shit between songs
5. 9/15/06- Muse @ the Uptown Theater KC- great fucking band, amazing live show

g under p

Michael Franti and SPEARHEAD....The Funk Box, Baltimore MD...Oct 25, 2003

U2...Hampton Coliseum...Hampton, VA...March 9, 1985..The Unforgetable Tour

Mettalica, Meriweather Post, MD, Summer Tour 92-93? night after Woodstock II

The Rolling Stones, Hampton Coliseum..VA, Tattoo You Final Show Dec 80-81?

Rush... Bristoe, VA. Snakes and Arrows Tour, Last month 2007

Honorable Mention:

ACDC..Hampton Coliseum, Hampton VA...November 1984? The Flick Of The Switch Tour...After the show on the graveyard shift I waited at Denny's on the entire band and crew except for ANGUS. They gave up a bunch of tour stuff I have somewhere still today. I suck with dates or was it the wacky tabacky?

Peace

Brisk.

AIC
SP
Cornell
metallica
Ben harper

drew0

Tom Petty/Allman Brothers Band
Bruce Springsteen/REM/John Fogerty
DMB/Gov't Mule

zircona1

1. The Rolling Stones - 9/18/94 Columbia, MO. Instead of playing a bigger place like KC or St Louis, they decided to come to a college town and play at the football stadium. This was a huge deal for our city. I decided to go because I figured "well, it's the Stones, I like their stuff". I had no idea it was going to be huge screens, explosions, thousands of lights, Mick dancing around, fireworks at the end, it was an absolute blast.

2. Gloria Estefan - 8/22/96 St Louis, Riverport Ampitheater. This was like a huge party. Gloria was really friendly and energetic, her backup band was fabulous. There was a video scrapbook to accompany "Along Came You", and confetti was flying everywhere during "You'll Be Mine (Party Time)". Just a lot of fun.

3. Lilith Fair - 8/4/98 - St Louis, Riverport. Mostly because I got to see Liz Phair and meet her afterwards (she was signing promo posters for whitechocolatespaceegg, I got mine framed). Had a seat in the first 10 rows and also got to see Bonnie Raitt, Natalie Merchant, and Sarah.

4. Prince - 1/4/98 - Kansas City, Kemper Arena. Back when he was known as "The Artist" (it's actually printed on my ticket). I had will call tickets and had to wait in a long, slow-moving line to get mine outside. I figured the show started at 8, when I finally got my ticket, it was 9:15, so I went in thinking "well, guess I'll catch the rest of it." But when I got in, the house lights were still on - the show hadn't even started yet! My seat was about 10-15 rows up from the right side of the stage, had a great view. Prince put on a fantastic, crowd-pleasing show, playing guitar, piano, dancing, rolling around on the stage, etc.

5. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - 8/30/02 - Savvis Center, St Louis. My first Springsteen show (and hopefully, not the last). There is nothing like singing along and pumping your fist to the 'whoa's in "Born to Run".

robfest2

The Hold Steady
Cold War Kids
The Weepies
Linkin Park
Hovercraft

Boomer

Muse at Lolla blew my mind.

FinsburyParkCarrots

They'd all be John Martyn gigs. Some of the worst gigs I've seen have been John Martyn gigs, too. You never know what you're going to get, with that fakka.

SomethingCreative

5.Ben Harper @ Lolla 07
4.Queens of the Stoneage @ Endfest (cant remember what year
3.Foo Fighters @ Key Arena 2005
2.U2 @ Key Arena 2001
1.Muse @ Lolla 07

snipes824

Rage Against the Machine - Randalls Island - 7/28/07
Chris Cornell - Beacon Theatre - 7/31/07
Rolling Stones - Giants Stadium - 9/03
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Pimlico Racetrack - 9/06
The Who - Pimlico Racetrack - 9/06

surferdude

The Who - Kids Are Alright tour, about 1982, it was unreal, rock and roll that mattered
Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls tour, sick stage show and so loud
Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife Tour, he played in a university cafeteria, 700 people in a room made for 500, there was an awards show in town the nextday so about every third song someone joined him on stage
U2 - Vertigo tour, Last show of the 2005 leg, crowd was insanely loud and was front fucking row with a great group of friends and my kid
Robert Cray - Sweet Potato Pie tour, just some serious laid back blues while sipping jack and cokes

Fender_Man

In no particular order.

1) Thin Lizzy - Rainbow Theatre London 1978 - I you've ever seen the Live And Dangerous video, this was the show filmed for that.

2) Van Halen - Rainbow Theatre London 1978 / 79? - I think this was there first headlining show in the UK (saw them support Black Sabbath in '78). I remember the tickets being misprinted "The Mighty Van Halem". The first 3 rows of the stalls collapsed under the rush to the stage, still the loudest gig I have ever been to. I came out with my shirt splattered with blood, none of it mine!

3) Led Zeppelin - Knebworth 1979 - Not their greatest performance, but an event I could write a book on.

4) Alice Cooper - Hammersmith 1980 / 81? - This was the Special Forces tour. Never experienced an atmosphere at a gig like this one. Stripped down show, seemed like the whole crowd sung every word from start to finish.

5) David Bowie - Milton Keynes Bowl 1990 - This was a greatest hits show. If memory serves me right the set list was made up from a fan club poll? Apparently Laughing Gnome came in at number 1, but he still wouldn't play it.

oppie1

1. boyhitscar - houge barmichaels - irvine, ca 2006
2. Mudvayne - Ozone Studios - Philly, Pa 2003
3. 36 crazyfists - Palladium - Worcester, Ma 2004
4. Deftones - Trocadero - Philly, Pa 2005
5. Ozzfest - Tweeter Center - Camden NJ 2002 (got to see Drowning Pool 2 weeks before Dave died)

12345AGNST1

considering ive only been going to concerts for about 1.5 yrs my choices are pretty small.....

1. Rush @ pnc 7/9
2. AIC @ nokia theater 11/9
3. Incubus @ pnc 8/10
4. Bussel in the Hedgerow @ mexicali blues (i think thats the name, its the benevento russo duo with a guitarist)
5. Primus @ roseland ball room 11/1

wouldve had allman bros but i couldnt see them last night at pnc.

boroff89

Four of them would be Arcade Fire shows, topped by their first Coachella apperance in 2005. That was unreal. The fifth would probably be Fleetwood Mac the last time they toured. Lindsay Buckingham is worth the price of admission by himself.