whats the best band you ever saw live?

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  • voodoopug
    voodoopug Posts: 1,011
    Rolling Stones Sept 2002, Aragon Ballroom Chicago.
    There's Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson......and then everybody else.
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    the mountain goats.

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  • Survo-
    Survo- Posts: 72
    I havnt had a chance to see PJ live.
    My favorite band to ever see live was Metallica.
  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    To be totally honest, PJ/Radiohead/U2 will always be my favorite shows to go see, however, there is one band that I also love when they come around just because of their live show and how entertaining of a show it is. Better Than Ezra. The music is great and upbeat, they have some great fans, and you can really tell that they love playing together and have a lot of fun
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  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Mogwai - by FAR the loudest/best band I have EVER seen, you have to hear it to believe it

    followed closely by Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sonic Youth, Interpol, the Cure, Doves, Spiritualized and Broken Social Scene

    WORST band - STP (Weiland was such an asshole....challenging people in the crowd to a fight.....in hindsight I can't believe I ever payed money to see them live - I was young and stupid back then) and RHCP (but it was a free show - so all I lost was precious time)
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  • TooMuchBlood
    TooMuchBlood Posts: 312
    In order:
    Pearl Jam
    Sleater-Kinney
    mewithoutYou
    My Morning Jacket
  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    OneLove wrote:
    Mine is probably an odd choice, since I am not a fan of the bands music per say.

    I saw green day at a festival once, they put on a great show. they sounded OK, and pulled a random guy (who I happened to be sitting next to, but did not know) up on stage to play guiar with them for a song.

    Green Day does put on a great show. They're so much fun on stage and the music is actually great if you're into 90s punk. My only beef is they tend to play only radio hits and a few oddities. I'd love to hear Sassafras Roots or Armatage Shanks next time I see 'em (0/2 for both :(). I'd rank them third under Pearl Jam and Metallica.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Fun fun fun even in Tacoma, Washington!

    Paul Simon and whoever played with him in 1991. It was incredible!
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  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    Hot Snakes. I have never seen energy like that.
  • StoneG82
    StoneG82 Posts: 806
    tom waits.
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  • funkymonk
    funkymonk Posts: 279
    Rolling Stones - Moncton '05
    U2 - Boston 10/05
    Red Hot Chili Peppers (whenever I see them they kickass, I don't understand all the hate)
  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Nine Inch Nails is the best live show I've ever seen. Reznor is nearly flawless the entire show, there are no breaks, the stage presentation is amazing, many many visuals, etc. They perform just as well as Pearl Jam, and their stage show is obviously beter. Tool's stage probably tops NIN, but they don't perform as well.
  • I Am Gone
    I Am Gone Posts: 831
    Audioslave - small(ish) club in Glasgow in 2005 - they said it was the best show they played that tour - it's hard to argue - just rocking from start to finish, with a tiny Hunger Strike teaser thrown in for good measure.
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  • writersu
    writersu Posts: 1,867
    Of course, Pearl Jam, but others are...

    Alice Cooper, Judas Priest when they played years ago in Chicago with a band called The Boyz, and Iron Maiden
    oh and I almost forgot, Everclear
    Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......


    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    my morning jacket
    black crowes
    flaming lips

    all standouts for me.
  • surferdude
    surferdude Posts: 2,057
    The Who by a landslide. Bruce Springsteen 25 years ago next.

    Then tied for next tier;
    U2
    PJ
    Page and Plant
    Headpins (small Canadian band 25 years ago)
    Bryan Adams in his early days
    Van Halen in the Roth days

    Next;
    Scoprions
    Judas Priest
    Accept
    Bon Jovi
    The Cult
    “One good thing about music,
    when it hits you, you feel to pain.
    So brutalize me with music.”
    ~ Bob Marley
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Oops, forgot to mention Wilco. Those guys are incredible live.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    1) Pearl Jam
    2) Sleater-Kinney
    3) The Police
    4) Drive-by Truckers
    5) Stone Temple Pilots
    6) U2


    In order............
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  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    surferdude wrote:
    Headpins (small Canadian band 25 years ago)


    Did it make ya feel like dancin'? :)

    What a surprise to see that name on here.
    You've changed your place in this world!
  • Toshala
    Toshala Posts: 200
    I'll go with the most recent PJ shows I saw in SF (all 3 were outstanding!) then go back to last year when Audioslave played at the Roseland Ballroom (?) in Portland OR........then go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back to I think 1980 when I saw Weather Report with Wayne fucking Shorter!!!!!!! This was mind blowing jazz in the very best sense.....

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