The 3 Best Current Live Bands

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  • i am a target
    i am a target Posts: 808
    i LOVE threads where people get pissed off and call each other idiots over completly subjective stuff like this. the amount of laughs i've gotten here over the years.. i feel like i should pay some of you (but I won't).
  • TEEJAM11
    TEEJAM11 Posts: 335
    Pearl Jam
    Metallica
    U2
  • tomtin
    tomtin Posts: 48
    The Cure
    Pearl Jam
    NIN
    Radiohead

    I know there aren't a lot of cure fans on this board but if you are into them, they are so amazing live. I saw them twice right before I saw PJ in June and they played 3 hours each time. They switch up setlists like PJ too. On the 2nd night, I heard at least 20 different songs from night 1 (and I believe they played 35 songs each night).
    I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    PJ
    Foos
    Sigur Ros
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

    I wave to all my Friends... Yeah!
  • Dissident67
    Dissident67 Posts: 570
    Pearl Jam
    My Morning Jacket
    Radiohead

    RHCP a very close fourth
    "Change don't come at once, it's a wave, building before it breaks"
  • bicyclejoe
    bicyclejoe USA Posts: 1,203
    1. Arcade Fire
    2. Pearl Jam
    3. Tie -- U2/Radiohead

    Honorable Mention
    My Morning Jacket
    White Stripes
    My Pearl Jam Road: 10/22/90 Seattle | 12/22/90 Seattle, Moore Theater | 9/29/92 Seattle, Magnusson Park, Drop in the Park | 9/5/93 The Gorge, with Neil Young and Blind Melon | 7/20/06 Portland, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with Sleater-Kinney | 7/22/06 The Gorge, 10/21/06 Mountain View, Shoreline Ampitheatre, Bridge School Benefit | 9/21/09 Seattle | 9/22/09 Seattle | 9/26/09 Portland, OR | 7/14/2011 Eddie Vedder, Portland, OR | 11/29/13 Portland, OR
  • evenflow82
    evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    Of the bands I've seen and can actually speak for

    PJ
    MMJ
    Black Keys
    I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.
    -Christopher Walken

    you're=you are
    your=showing ownership

    The truth has a well known liberal bias.
    -Stephen Colbert
  • like.echoes
    like.echoes Posts: 582
    tomtin wrote:
    I know there aren't a lot of cure fans on this board but if you are into them, they are so amazing live. I saw them twice right before I saw PJ in June and they played 3 hours each time. They switch up setlists like PJ too. On the 2nd night, I heard at least 20 different songs from night 1 (and I believe they played 35 songs each night).

    I've been a Cure fan since high school - never saw them live, though. My dad wouldn't let me go to a concert because he didn't like the looks of Robert Smith. :rolleyes:

    I can't believe they're still touring.
    nothing's changed but the surrounding bullsh1t
  • tmud91087
    tmud91087 Posts: 97
    1) PJ
    2 MMJ (after their 4 hour bonnaroo set its hard not to put them up there)
    3) Black Keys (made me dance all night long)
    5/24/06 - Boston
    5/25/06 - Boston
    6/28/08 - Mansfield
    6/30/08 - Mansfield
    8/2/08 - Eddie in Boston (FRONT ROW!)
  • jamminpearls
    jamminpearls Posts: 7,078
    pearl jam old school korn shows and limp bizkit. The engery for the other 2 are rediclious.
    Go Birds!!!!
  • ahn375
    ahn375 Posts: 16
    in no order -

    pearl jam
    U2
    the frames (i have a feeling i'm going to get some flack for that one...)
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,004
    Gmoney wrote:
    pj
    mmj
    the roots
    Ding Ding Ding. Radiohead is in that mix too.
    severed hand thirteen
    2006: Gorge 7/23 2008: Hartford 6/27 Beacon 7/1 2009: Spectrum 10/30-31
    2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
    2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
    2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
    2017: RRHoF 4/7   2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4   2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18 
    2022: MSG 9/11  2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
    2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
  • melodyman22
    melodyman22 Posts: 326
    -Pearl Jan
    -Chris Cornell
    -The Tragically hip
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    Pearl Jam
    Foo Fighters
    Queens Of The Stone Age/Radiohead
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Pearl Jam
    Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
    Foo Fighters OR The White Stripes
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,004
    tmud91087 wrote:
    1) PJ
    2 MMJ (after their 4 hour bonnaroo set its hard not to put them up there)
    3) Black Keys (made me dance all night long)
    Black Keys were pretty good but their sets are WAY too short for me. Because of it I'll probably never see them again.
    severed hand thirteen
    2006: Gorge 7/23 2008: Hartford 6/27 Beacon 7/1 2009: Spectrum 10/30-31
    2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
    2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
    2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
    2017: RRHoF 4/7   2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4   2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18 
    2022: MSG 9/11  2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
    2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
  • edvedderrocks
    edvedderrocks Posts: 1,001
    Pearl Jam
    Radiohead
    Foo Fighters
    "I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me. Guaranteed."

    1996 Merriweather, MD; 1998 Camden, NJ; 2000 Camden, NJ; 2003 Camden, NJ; 2005 Philly, PA; 2006 Camden, NJ(nights 1 & 2); 2006 Arnhem, NED; 2008 Camden, NJ(nights 1 & 2), Washington DC, MSG(night 2) 2009 Philly Spectrum Shows(nights 1,2,3,4) 2010 Hartford,CT and MSG(night 2)

    ED Solo - 2008 Washington DC, 2009 Philly, PA(nights 1&2)*Met Eddie =)
  • ScreamHello
    ScreamHello Posts: 19
    Well, Pearl Jam has to be the easy #1, so how about a 2-3-4....

    2 - The Flaming Lips
    3 - The Polyphonic Spree
    4 - Still love them Rolling Stones...
    95: San Francisco, San Jose
    96: Seattle
    97: Oakland
    98: Sacramento
    00: Sacramento, Mt. View, Portland
    02: Seattle (2)
    03: Mt. View, Las Vegas, Phoenix
    05: Vancouver
    06: Albany, Hartford, Denver (2), LA (2), SF (3)
    08: Santa Barbara & San Diego (EV), Camden II, Washington DC, MSG II
  • jackrabbit slim
    jackrabbit slim Posts: 565
    from what i've personally seen over the last couple of years

    1. Pearl Jam
    2. The White Stripes
    3. Foo Fighters
  • Ewank
    Ewank Posts: 108
    1. Iron Maiden
    2. Pearl Jam
    3. Nine Inch Nails

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