Concerts You've Seen

[assari]

I've seen a Madonna consert and it seemed that her voice comes from tape.

 

[kitkatkev]

Oasis
Travis
Stone Roses
New Order
Inspiral Carpets
Northside
Happy Mondays
Ian Brown
Red hot chilli peppers
Super furry animals
Roni Size
Prodigy
Coldplay
The Verve
Cypress Hill
Ocean Colour Scene
Supergrass
The Bloodhound gang
Feeder
Foo Fighters
Faithless
Embrace
Shed Seven
Snow Patrol
Primal Scream
The Strokes
The Charlatans
The Darkness
Eels
Fun Lovin Criminals
Badly drawn boy
The lightning seeds
Gomez
Basement Jaxx
Queens of the stone age
The Coral
Athlete
Keane
Doves
Radiohead
Morrissey
Beck

there are probably more but thats off the top of my head, not been to many in the last 5 years or so, but I am going to watch the eels at Manchester academy in march.

 

[osiah]

Never actually been to a concert before but going to see Ramstein in feb

 

[Prod3]

In date order starting with my very first

23/05/02 - HIM

18/07/02 - Joe Satriani on his Strange Beautiful album tour

21/10/02 - Dream Theater

22/11/02 - Avril Lavigne on her debut album (Let Go) tour

03/04/03 - Yngwie Malmsteen on his Attack album tour

19/06/03 - Evanescence on their debut album (Fallen) tour

31/08/03 - Nightwish on their Century Child album tour

27/12/03 - Lacuna Coil

29/06/04 - G3 tour with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & Robert Fripp

16/07/04 - Nightwish on their Once album tour

04/11/04 - The Rasmus

12/02/05 - Nightwish on another date of their Once tour

21/05/05 - Avril Lavigne on her Under My Skin album tour

30/05/05 - Yngwie Malmsteen on his Unleash The Fury album tour

04/09/05 - Within Temptation on their Silent Force album tour

25/09/05 - Nightwish on their Dark Passion Play album tour

06/10/05 - Goldfrapp on their Supernature album tour

10/02/06 - Goldfrapp another date on their Supernature tour

20/06/06 - Joe Satriani on his Super Colossal tour

13/10/06 - Lacuna Coil on their Karma Code album tour

23/12/06 - Iron Maiden on their A Matter Of Life & Death album tour

18/03/07 - Shakira

14/04/07 - Within Temptation on their Heart of Everything album tour

08/07/07 - Metallica on their Sick of The Studio tour with HIM, Bullet For My Valentine & Mastadon @ Wembley Stadium

22/07/07 - Steve Vai

27/11/07 - Within Temptation

27/03/08 - Nightwish

20/05/08 - Joe Satriani on his Professor Satchafunkilus album tour

04/06/08 - Avril Lavigne @ the O2

26/06/08 - Def Leppard & Whitesnake

05/07/08 - Iron Maiden on their Somewhere Back In Time world tour (Within Temptation supporting) @ Twickenham Stadium

02/03/09 - Metallica on their Death Magnetic album tour

17/04/09 - The Prodigy on their Invaders Must Die album tour

20/10/10 - Joe Satriani on his Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards album tour

25/10/11 - Joe Bonamassa

22/10/12 - I Am I on their debut album (Silent Genocide) tour

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

Here is list off the top of my head, I am pretty sure, I have seen 150+

1) The Who (3X)
2) The Rolling Stones (1st concert 1981)
3) Sigur Ros (2x)
4) Spoon (4x)
5) The Hold Steady (3x)
6) Bauhaus
7) White Rabbits
8) Band of Horses (2x)
9) Clinic
10) Neil Halstead
11) Lloyd Cole
12) Wilco (20x)
13) Skinny Puppy
14) Inxs
15) Danzig
16) Soundgarden
17) Ministry
18) Jesus & Mary Chain (2x)
19) R.E.M. (5x)
20) The Alarm
21) The Strokes (2x)
22) Interpol (4x)
23) Sugar (2x)
24) Trail of The Dead (2x)
25) The National (4x)
26) Air (2x)
27) Yo La Tengo
28) Spiritualized
29) The Police (2x)
20) Iggy Pop
21) NIN
22) Ben Folds (2x)
23) Bjork
24) A Place to Bury Strangers (2x)
25) Twilght Singers (2x)
26) My Morning Jacket (3x)
27) Radiohead
28) Doves (4x)
29) Sonic Youth (2x)
30) Rev. Horton Heat (4x)
31) The Editors (2x)
32) Death Cab For Cutie
33) Art Brut
34) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (3x)
35) Kings of Leon (2X)
36) U2 (2x)
37) Franz Ferdinand
38) Bob mould (3X)
39) Paul Westerberg
40) Travis
41) Sex Pistols
42) The Cure (2x)
43) The Replacements (2x)
44) Eels
45) Okkervil River (2x)
46) Flaming Lips (3x)
47) Jane's Addiction (3X)
48) Guided By Voices
49) Belle & Sebastian (3X)
50) Afghan Whigs (3x)
51) Lemonheads
52) Explosions in the sky
53) Magnetic Fields

 

[mikexmoran]

Billy Joel (Nassau Coliseum, Madison Square Garden, Meadowlands, Shea Stadium, CW Post, and My Father's Place in Roslyn - Beat that!)
Elton John (Madison Square Garden)
Billy Joel/Elton John (Nassau Coliseum, Madison Square Garden, Meadowlands)
Bruce Springsteen (Meadowlands)
U2 (Meadowlands, Nassau Coliseum)
Jimmy Buffett (Jones Beach - many times, The Hamptons, and somewhere in Massachussets)
The Corrs (Jones Beach)
Stray Cats (Jones Beach)
The Who (Shea Stadium)
Rolling Stones (She Stadium)
Boston - Madison Square Garden
James Taylor - Planting Fields in Westbury, NY
Meatloaf - Nassau Coliseum
The Cars - Nassau Coliseum
Huey Lewis & The News - Jones Beach
Barry Mannilow - Nassau Coliseum (She was so worth it...red hair...very hot 1985 I think )

 

[mikexmoran]

Great list!
I saw the Glass Houses Tour at the Nassau Coliseum.
Harry Chapin - OMFG! I would have loved to. Poor guy, on the way to Eisenhower Park. A shame.
Would have loved to see Don Rickles. Saw Gallagher at Governer's Comedy Shop in Levittown if you can believe that!

Let's go back to when dinosaurs ruled the earth:

Jefferson Starship - No Grace Slick. Bummer but great light show.

James Taylor - Seemed like he was just walking his way through the show.

Twisted Sister - In a bar in Middletown, NY just as they started to release albums. Great show.

Billy Joel - Doing the Glass Houses tour in Buffalo, NY. I was in college and we talked this dumb fuck into driving us 6 hours there and back. On the way back he got a speeding ticket in Horseheads, NY (I'm not shitting you. Horseheads. You can look it up). And hit a deer 15 miles from campus. Not to worry. 351 engine in a 4000 lb Torino with 5 of of us in it. Bambi never had a chance.

Jethro Tull - The Hudson Valley Winery was a cool place to do the winery tours and they would have bands play during the summer. They became infamous for having surprise guests. The dude that owned it was big in the music industry. He advertised Eric Anderson for a $10 admission and word got out that it was actually Ian Anderson.

Harry Chapin - At my fucking high school. Set up in the gym. Bleachers open with all of the folding chairs on the basketball floor. Harry came out alone on stage and saw that the closest seats were about 20' away from him. First thing he said was,"What are you all doing so far away from me? Come on up by the stage so you can hear me." He just waived people down to fill up the front and sit down on the floor. Brother Tom came out too. Very, very cool.

Aerosmith - Standing room only in a ballroom. It was that early 90's time when they had a lull. Stood by the 16' speakers on stage for one of the loudest bands ever.

Don Rickles - That man is dangerous live. We sat in the back and were safe.

Gallagher - Small room and I had 2nd row seats. One of his many retirement tours. Came out before the show for meet and great. I was 50-50 about getting the mess so I sat at the bar. The show was,"I don't smash watermelons any more." What he did was an hour of stand up, Half hour of how to prepare different messy things to smash, then invited up everyone to smash the stuff. With my jacket and tie on I went up. What a fucking mess. Before I was allowed to smash anything I had to get some cake in my face. Done deal. I got to smash a watermelon with the prized Sledge-O-Matic that will some day hang in the National Archives.

Clarence Clemons - Stone Pony. From ticket we were only able to walk 10'. Frozen in the bar we were against the stage at the big man's feet like grab his ankle close. He sweat on us.

Meatloaf - Remember him? Back at the Stone Pony he did a show. Now remember, during these early 80's The Pony was only half it's present day size and had a foosball table. Drunk soap opera star chick jumps on stage with him and can barely stand much less sing. A good time had by all.

 

[Sir_Fartsalot]

^

Is James Taylor as good as Springsteen live?

 

[Prod3]

^

Is James Taylor as good as Springsteen live?

Why dont you start a thread on them!? :rofl2:

 

[bobjustbob]

Great list!
I saw the Glass Houses Tour at the Nassau Coliseum.
Harry Chapin - OMFG! I would have loved to. Poor guy, on the way to Eisenhower Park. A shame.
Would have loved to see Don Rickles. Saw Gallagher at Governer's Comedy Shop in Levittown if you can believe that!

Rickles in the area this summer. He's doing Westberry, Bergan, and the Taj. Taj seats go on sale Feb 9. $30 50 70. That's where I seen him.

 

[bobjustbob]

How did I forget The Jerry Garcia Band. Sure it was a great show but did we ever pay for it. Our college student union gave Jerry a blank check for his expenses. He flew in and put up a dozen of his friends and stuck us with the tab. The dumb fucks that booked them nearly bankrupted our student activity fund.

 

[squallumz]

saw nine inch nails last night. fucking. amazing. worth every fucking penny.

 

[gunslingingbird]

saw nine inch nails last night. fucking. amazing. worth every fucking penny.

Well, what do you know! I did their rehearsals for this tour, and the first show back in August.

Anyways, I just got done loading out Foreigner. None of the original members are left, but they're still Foreigner. :wtf:

 

[squallumz]

Well, what do you know! I did their rehearsals for this tour, and the first show back in August.

i thought of you at the show. then i thought better of it and hid my boner.

his lights were amazing though. trent put on an amazing show. 26 songs, from a shit ton of albums. best show i've seen.

 

[xfire]

Is Papa Roach as good as Springsteen live?

I swear, if you are trying to hijack my thread so it becomes one of your stupid "Is X better than Y better than Z" questions, I will make it my life's goal to see you banned from this board.

I had forgotten this exchange and I don't know how much Apollo had to do with getting that shit stain banned, but haha, Mission Accomplished.

 

[Lacey Black]

All the ones I can remember off the top of my head.

Mötley Crüe
Papa Roach
Trapt
Tool
Disturbed
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
Seether
Hell Yeah
Nine Inch Nails
Live
Neurosonic
Korn
Evanescence
Linkin Park
10 Years
Staind
FlyLeaf
Nonpoint
Buckcherry
Six A.M
Trivium
Puddle of Mudd
Collective Soul
Static-X

 

[Lacey Black]

saw nine inch nails last night. fucking. amazing. worth every fucking penny.

I saw them a few weeks ago! Definitely the best light show I have ever seen, and they played a ton of songs.

 

[CrimsonBolt]

kansas of elsass
nada surf

 

[ApolloBalboa]

I had forgotten this exchange and I don't know how much Apollo had to do with getting that shit stain banned, but haha, Mission Accomplished.

I don't know either, but I can't say I'm sorry he's gone. To be honest, I'd forgotten about this thread.

This year, I saw a couple repeat acts (AIC, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam), but the biggest and newest one for me was seeing Living Colour last night. They were touring celebrating the 25th anniversary of Vivid, and have all the original members aside from Muzz Skillings the bassist. They were awesome, and a group that I'd wanted to see for a long time. I'm glad I now have the memories (and a t-shirt to boot) from seeing them.

I'm also trying to wrangle up some tickets for Gary Clark Jr. He's going to be here in a few days and I haven't browsed around yet, mostly because I'm waiting to see if my friend would be going or not.

 

[gunslingingbird]

This year, I saw a couple repeat acts (AIC, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam), but the biggest and newest one for me was seeing Living Colour last night. They were touring celebrating the 25th anniversary of Vivid, and have all the original members aside from Muzz Skillings the bassist. They were awesome, and a group that I'd wanted to see for a long time. I'm glad I now have the memories (and a t-shirt to boot) from seeing them.

Just out of curiosity, other than the sound being good, was the show visually appealing? By that I mean was half of the band in the dark half of the show? I ran a spotlight for them 2 weeks ago when they opened for Satriani. Their LD was this young kid who I think was on his first tour, and he had no idea what he was doing. Firstly, he had 4 spots, but decided that he only needed 2, so there were 2 guys in the spot booth who literally got paid to sit there watching the show while the other 2 of us worked. Fine, whatever, it wouldn't've mattered if the lighting was designed to actually see the band. However, he had no front wash of any kind on stage, so the only members who were visible to the audience were the singer and the guitarist because they were the 2 that had follow spots on them, and the lights had no color gels, so they were lit by a dull, plain, stark white light, which is about the most visually unappealing thing you can do. Before the show, the guy told us that it would be very mellow and self explanatory, but a song and a half into the show he informed us that being on com annoyed the fuck out of him, so he was going off headset. Problem is that when you're the LD and you have spotlights you must imperatively be on headset calling the show, otherwise the spot ops start freelancing and fuck up your show. The whole point of having a touring LD is so there's someone traveling with the band who knows the show and makes it look good every night, as opposed to having someone who doesn't know the show trying to pull it out every night. So long story short, even thigh the band sounded great, visually it sucked donkey balls because the guy in charge of making it look good totally dropped the ball and not only left the band in the dark, but didn't use the spotlights in any way which might've improved the visual aspect of the show.

/rant