Best live show you've ever been to!/

Best PJ Show: Seattle II '00 and then the Orlando HOB show in '03 only for being so damn close to the stage and in a GA crowd following Roskilde.

Best Non-PJ Shows: NIN-Tampa '94 during the Downward Spiral Tour; Lolla '96 w/ Ramones, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, RATM, Rancid, and Metallica (sure it wasn't in the true spirit of the origins of the festival, but what a kick ass lineup); Faith No More in Australia '97 b/c I snuck in free with some Aussies I had met; Radiohead-West Palm Beach '03; Yo La Tengo-last month (an actual transcendental show if I've ever witnessed one); and Crystal Method/BT/Taylor in '98 b/c it was intense and insane and I was on some good X.

The '98 Knoxville YIELD show was great...so was Memphis '00 and Kitchener '05.

Other than that, both DBT shows last year (Nashville in Feb. / Memhis in Oct.) were great and I'm looking forward to a couple more this year.

PBM

metsfan531941 wrote:

bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuce and the e street band giant stadium 03- seats were all the way in the upperdeck in the back of giant stadium. just 3+ hours of the bruce and the band on a summer night, no stadium lights, no encores.just singing my lungs and dancing like a crazy person, coolest part is i went with my mom. no concert will ever top this for me

oh my god, what i would give to have been to a concert like that. Too me, nothing beats bruce on a nice warm summer afternoon/evening (on the east coast, mind you)

for me I'd have to say

Pearl Jam..all of them but specifically Ottawa 2005
Tragically Hip
Tool
The cure

Top 3 for me:

PJ - 7.8.95
http://www.pearljam.com/tour/setlist.php?date=199507080000

DMB - 8.31.02
http://dmbalmanac.com/TourShowSet.aspx?id=453055838&tid=58&where=2002

The Raconteurs - 8.3.06
http://littleroom.whitestripes.net/index.php?showtopic=47650

My best 2 PEARL JAMS shows were: Oct. 1, 2006 at the Borgata in Atlantic City, and OCt. 3. 2006 in Philly(Whacovia).

ROLLING STONES: SEPT. 22 2005 (TOWER THEATER)

ANDERSON BRUFORD WAKEMAN AND HOWE(YES): AUG 3. 1989(SPECTRUM)

CROSBY STILLS NASH AND YOUNG; MARCH 20, 2000(FISRT UNION CENTER)

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN:OCT. 2, 2003 (STONE PONY)

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN:NOV. 20,2005(IRVING PLAZA)

ALICE IN CHAINS:AUG. 4,2006(STARLAND BALLROOM)

ROGER WATERS:SEPT. 12, 2006 (MSG)

RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS: OCT. 24,2006(WHACOVIA CENTER)

ALICE IN CHAINS: OCT. 28, 2006 (BORGATA)

ROLLING STONES: SEPT. 25, 1981(JFK STADIUM)

THE WHO: JULY 10, 1989(VET STADIUM)-38 SONGS OVER 3 1/2 HOURS

THE WHO: SEPT. 25, 1982(JFK STADIUM)-WITH SANTANA

RUSH: OCT. 27, 2002(FIRST UNION CENTER)

ROLLING STONES: FEB 1, 2006 1ST MARINER ARENA-BALTIMORE)

NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE: SEPT. 17, 1986(SPECTRUM)

DAVID BOWIE: JULY 19, 1983 (SPECTRUM)

Trau wrote:

I've only been to three real concerts in my life, and they're were all quite good. Very different from each other.

In 2002, I saw Dio, Deep Purple, and the Scorpions in Concord, California.

In 2003, I saw Pearl Jam in Mountainview, California. Idlewild sucked.

In 2007, I saw Type O Negative at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California.

Man, I thought Idlewild were incredible. Seeing them open that show and Vancouver two nights before made me into an Idlewild fan.

i have been to so many fantastic gigs that i can't pick the best. some that spring to mind are:

pearl jam at brixton circa vs and at wembley arena circa binaural.

tool - seen them 4 times all excellent, but especially wembley last november seeing wings for marie/10,000 days live

nin - seen them 5 times all excellent (soon to be 6 times!)

rush at wembley on the R30 tour

ministry at the astoria circa animositisomina

fear factory at the astoria circa demanufacture

interpol (with bloc party supporting) at the islington academy circa antics

pink floyd at the docklands arena circa momentary lapse of reason

therapy? at brixton in the middle of the brixton riots!

muse at wembley arena last november

Pearl Jam aside..

Roling Stones and AC/DC-Hockenheim, 2003
Neil Young and Crazy Horse-Finsbury Park, 2001
The Strokes-Electric Ballroom, 2001
Bob Dylan-Brixton Academy, 2005
Prince-Hammersmith Apollo, 2003
Arthur Lee-Aylesbury Civic centre, 2004
Queens of the Stoneage-Astoria, 2002
Echo and the Bunnymen-Oxford Zodiac, 2006
Patti Smith-St James' Church, 2001

Arctangent wrote:

nooooooooooooooo! it will always be the hammersmith ODEON to me

Cool place though. He had it decked out in orange panels, and about a gaziloiyhiohdionduianillion flourescent mirrorballs.

My parents call it the Odeon, I think they went to see Bowie there while I was in the making.