Best Concert You Ever Saw....Band.Musical Artist That You Wish You Did

Wish: Metallica in their prime. I'm talking the And Justice For All Tour, before the Black Album.

I saw them on this tour - they were, indeed, excellent. The show I saw was released by them in one of their "Fan Cans" (Dallas, Feb 1989).
 

Jagger69

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Wish I could have seen Led Zeppelin and The Who. I'll repeat the story from another thread about Harry Chapin at my high school gym. Mind you my graduating class was 145 students in upstate NY. I don't know how they got him but it was to raise money for world hunger. Harry comes out and does a few strums before his first song and stops. Front row of seats are about 15 feet away from the stage and he says, "What are you all doing way back there? Come on down here and sit on the floor right by me. Don't be scared, I had a shower before I got here." The bleachers emptied. "Anybody left out there that didn't get in yet? I don't care if they have a ticket or not we've got some bleachers opening up. Let them in." He brought his brother Tom to play some songs too. Just the men with their acoustic guitars and their talk. We were all digging it.

I had the privilege of seeing The Who at the Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville, IL back in 1971 right after the release of Who's Next?. They tore it up for almost 3 hours. Roger Daltrey was all over the stage, Pete Townshend was unstoppable on guitar (and, yes, he smashed one up on their final curtain call), Keith Moon was out of control and John Entwistle was his usual solid self. It was an outdoor concert in an amphitheater setting and about 30,000 people were on hand. I'll never forget it. I also love Harry Chapin and wish I could have had a chance to see him. He died way too young....no telling what he might have accomplished had he lived a few more decades. As it was, he left an incredible legacy. As he wrote...."All my life's a circle....". You were very lucky to have a chance to see him.
 
The Rolling Stones in 1981 at ASU Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe Arizona when they had about 100 ASU coeds dressed up like old west hookers and sang Honky Tonk Woman. You can see it in the concert movie "Let's Spend The Night Together"

Led Zeppelin at Chicago Stadium in 1975. It was a "contact high"
 

bobjustbob

Proud member of FreeOnes Hall Of Fame. Retired to
Jagger and kksguy, I'm going to make you feel old now. Remember what we had to do to get those tickets? No phone or internet orders. Box office or Ticketron the day they went on sale. You had to stand in line and hope the scalpers didn't get them before they were sold out. Mind you that this was the situation for any decent band back then. Forget about multiple nights in your area. The Who, Zeppelin, and the Stones could have sold out 7 nights in the same building but they only did just one night and moved onto another city. Having concert tickets back then was fucking gold.

Saw Aerosmith during the Jimmy Crespo days in a standing only general admission hall. This was at the time that Joe Perry left and the band was potentionally on it's way out. It was one of those NJ venues where you could get a drink at the bar. There were only 2 places for us to stand, just inside the door far from the stage or next to the stage in front of 16' speekers. Decent show. Very loud. Glad we chose the back of the room.
 
Jagger and kksguy, I'm going to make you feel old now. Remember what we had to do to get those tickets? No phone or internet orders. Box office or Ticketron the day they went on sale. You had to stand in line and hope the scalpers didn't get them before they were sold out. Mind you that this was the situation for any decent band back then. Forget about multiple nights in your area. The Who, Zeppelin, and the Stones could have sold out 7 nights in the same building but they only did just one night and moved onto another city. Having concert tickets back then was fucking gold.

Saw Aerosmith during the Jimmy Crespo days in a standing only general admission hall. This was at the time that Joe Perry left and the band was potentionally on it's way out. It was one of those NJ venues where you could get a drink at the bar. There were only 2 places for us to stand, just inside the door far from the stage or next to the stage in front of 16' speekers. Decent show. Very loud. Glad we chose the back of the room.

Standing in line FOREVER....at ASU the stadium has about 72,000 seats and the infield was full...........also saw the Stones the same year in Boulder, Colorado and at Soldier field in Chcago in the mid '70's.
 

Killer B

I Like Big Tits! (song by Joe Walsh)
Best: Guns N' Roses, 1993 Use Your Illusion tour. Believe it or not they were on time and played for 2.5 hours without drama.

Wish: Led Zeppelin
 

Jagger69

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Jagger and kksguy, I'm going to make you feel old now. Remember what we had to do to get those tickets? No phone or internet orders. Box office or Ticketron the day they went on sale. You had to stand in line and hope the scalpers didn't get them before they were sold out. Mind you that this was the situation for any decent band back then. Forget about multiple nights in your area. The Who, Zeppelin, and the Stones could have sold out 7 nights in the same building but they only did just one night and moved onto another city. Having concert tickets back then was fucking gold.

Saw Aerosmith during the Jimmy Crespo days in a standing only general admission hall. This was at the time that Joe Perry left and the band was potentionally on it's way out. It was one of those NJ venues where you could get a drink at the bar. There were only 2 places for us to stand, just inside the door far from the stage or next to the stage in front of 16' speekers. Decent show. Very loud. Glad we chose the back of the room.

Hell yes I do. Remember this fucking nightmare?? Note Pete Townshend's quote in bold....what a horror this was! :crying:

The Who's Nightmare Concert

By Bob Cannon | Dec 04, 1992

By the late '70s, Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati had built a reputation for allowing crowds to run way out of control. Fans threw fireworks during a 1976 Yes concert there. The following year, a violent seat-seeking mob rushed a locked entrance before a performance by Led Zeppelin, resulting in 60 arrests and numerous injuries.

Blame for these incidents fell on the Coliseum's general-admission ticket policy, known as festival seating. The first-come, first-sit scheme was used at other rock arenas with relative safety, but in the Coliseum it seemed to bring on stampedes at the entrances. A tragedy seemed inevitable, and then the inevitable happened. On Dec. 3, 1979, while waiting to get into a concert by the Who, 11 fans were crushed to death and dozens injured.

More than 18,000 people had begun assembling as early as 1:30 for the 8 o'clock show. The crowd jockeyed for position all afternoon; pushed from behind, fans in front became an undulating tide. At 7:05, after the Who had finished their sound check, a paltry 5 of the Coliseum's 134 doors were opened, and the real trouble began. The 25 police officers assigned to keep order were helpless since only the Coliseum's security staff had the authority to open more doors.

For nearly an hour, people were jammed together up against the glass doors, unable to move or, in some cases, even breathe. At 7:30, partway through the bedlam, a police lieutenant asked the Coliseum manager to open additional doors but was told there were no more ticket takers available — only nine had been hired — and to enlist ushers would be a union violation. Even as the Who, unaware of the horrors outside, began their concert, ambulances were arriving to tend to the more than two dozen injured and the 11 people who died in the stampede or suffocated in the crowd.

The tragedy's effect on rock and on the Who was immediate and long-lasting. A ban on festival seating started in Cincinnati and quickly spread to other rock venues; today the policy is virtually extinct. The Who, stunned when told after the show about the deaths and injuries, dedicated the next night's concert, in Buffalo, to the victims and sent flowers to their funerals.

Like the other members of the Who, Pete Townshend was affected by the disaster. A few days afterward he said, ''If it had happened inside, I would never have played again.''

Link:

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,312557,00.html
 

Mr. Daystar

In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
I saw The Who's FIRST farewell concert...I think it was in support of the album, "It's Hard". I remember the lines, AND the wrist bands. I remember the concert in Cincinnati that ended festival setting. I think it was better back then, standing in line, and listening on vinyl, made you appreciate the concert more. It's to "clean" now...the digital remasters don't have the depth, and warmth of vinyl, and the instant gratification of music on the internet, and being able to have everything right at your fingertips, doesn't make this generation appreciate what it was TRULY like, back then...when you could blaze up in the concert hall, because EVERYONE else was, and there was no way you would get busted, because everyone was!
 

Jagger69

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
I saw The Who's FIRST farewell concert...I think it was in support of the album, "It's Hard". I remember the lines, AND the wrist bands. I remember the concert in Cincinnati that ended festival setting. I think it was better back then, standing in line, and listening on vinyl, made you appreciate the concert more. It's to "clean" now...the digital remasters don't have the depth, and warmth of vinyl, and the instant gratification of music on the internet, and being able to have everything right at your fingertips, doesn't make this generation appreciate what it was TRULY like, back then...when you could blaze up in the concert hall, because EVERYONE else was, and there was no way you would get busted, because everyone was!

:goodpost:

Totally agree! :thumbsup:
 

L3ggy

Special Operations FOX-HOUND
Faith No More in Dublin's Olympia Theatre was the best for me, closely followed by Jethro Tull at Belfast's Waterfront.
would have loved to have caught Talking Heads or Mr. Bungle though; or Newsted or Burton-era Metallica.

I am old enough to have seen Jethro Tull back in the middle to late 70's as that's when i started to drive. Not sure what tour, maybe the Too Old To Rock 'n Roll : Too Young To Die album ?

Never saw Faith No More but i vaguely remember i think seeing JERRY Harrison on the same bill with Deborah Harry at The Nautica in the flats here in Cleveland back in the 90's. Thank you for replying !
 
Testament, Nuclear Assault and a band called Wrathchild America. It was in a hotel ballroom. It was outta control!


I can only imagine. My tastes changed throughout the years so i'd have to go back in time to refresh my memory on how heavy these bands were. I am not familiar with Wrathchild America though. Nuclear Assault just sounds like pure pandemonium and 100mph maybe ? Some of these bands played in smaller clubs which made it better even though no breathing room at times lol.
 
AC/DC, three years ago. I would've loved to have seen Bob Marley, Hendrix and Rory Gallagher.


I was lucky enough to have seen the late Bon Scott with AC/DC and then see Brian Johnson w/ AC/DC. Still remember Angus Young playing his guitar as he pranced around all over the stage in his usual outfit, head banging as he played away nonstop. Both shows were at Cleveland Public Hall if memory serves me right. Never thought Bon Scott could be replaced but they didn't skip a beat with Brian Johnson. Thanks for posting those artists and replying !
 
I can't name one specific concert but a few of the top ones were Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, The Tea Party, Tool. And I would have loved to have seen Jimi Hendrix in his day, especially around the Band of Gypsies era.

Thanks for replying.....................you named some good bands there and as for Jimi well...........................nothing needs to be said on that !
 
Hmm. I have a few.

Limbeck, Piebald, Steel Train, the Format: 2007
Motion City Soundtrack, the Matches, the Format, Men Women and Children: 2006
The Menzingers, Broadway Calls, Dave Hause: 2009
Basically any time I've seen the Menzingers between 2007 and now.

Motion City is great live. I saw them in Detroit and they had a fan come up and propose to his gf between songs.

I think I may have seen Piebald and The Format on that same tour. I can't remember who else they played with though.

Long nights, hard times. Everything that makes you feel tired.

MWC are good live too. They're songs translate well.

Best concert I ever saw was Rancid. They covered everything from indestructable to operation ivy and a bunch of Bastards stuff too. Then they capped it off with an acoustic set.
 
I have seen a lot of great shows. The original Black Sabbath reunion was up there, I got to see Stevie Ray Vaughan two months before he died and seeing the Highwaymen (Cash,Kristofferson,Waylon and Willie) was a high point. I wish I could have seen the Allmans with Duane and Barry as well as Skynyrd with Ronnie. Of course it goes without saying that I would have loved to see Jimi and I was just a little too young to Zepplin live.

Damn, i had 8 track tapes of the Allmans,Skynard...............of course the others you were/all all legends. Vaguely remember seeing Sabbath many many years ago with Boston opening up when the Richfield Coliseum was still around. A friend of mine who since passed away a while back loved Stevie Ray Vaughn. We were in a basement band getting together once a week. I miss those days ! Thank you for posting those artists !
 
Hmm. I have a few.

Limbeck, Piebald, Steel Train, the Format: 2007
Motion City Soundtrack, the Matches, the Format, Men Women and Children: 2006
The Menzingers, Broadway Calls, Dave Hause: 2009
Basically any time I've seen the Menzingers between 2007 and now.

As i am not familiar with these bands, i will have to You Tube them in hopes of listening to them. They sound very interesting after reading a bit about them. Thank you for replying and posting these bands. Used to listen to college radio stations here who played every type of music at different times different days. Mostly stuff you'd never hear on commercial radio which made college stations great !
 
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