Your favorite Concert/Live show!

**texdirect6** · 05-13-08, 01:42 AM

BLUE MAN GROUP!!

STOMP!!

**ninja|oaklandr** · 05-13-08, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by dustyCALIBER

New Kids on the Block .. C & C Music Factory.. LMAO

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When I was 12 I went to a MC Hammer / Vanilla Ice concert.

I have a strange list of concerts that I have been to. From the above to Garth Brooks, Motley Crew and ones that you wouldn't believe.

Strangely the one I enjoyed the most (I am going to get shit on soooo much for this) was 2 years ago when I surprised my wife by taking her to Kenny G. She had no idea who we were going to see all the way until we sat in our front row seats. That was part of the enjoyment because she was so happy. I wasn't overly excited to see him at all, but he had a real personable show (The place only held a few hundred.) and talked to the audience. I do think we were the youngest people there.

I know that in a thread with Slipknot and Van Halen this seems pretty gay, but they wouldn't have wooed my wife the same way.

**Rooster050** · 05-13-08, 08:22 AM

went to Opeth and Dream Theater Last night. It was a great show, but Incubus still takes the Gold in my opinion

**WileECyte** · 05-13-08, 08:38 AM

Hard to pick just one... So here's my top 5...

My first 'arena' show was Van Halen in October of 1991. It was the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge tour at the Philadelphia Spectrum.

Front row tickets to Rush at the Spectrum for the Counterparts tour in 1994.

Seeing Rush in Toronto on the last night of the Counterparts tour.

Seeing Rush 5 times in 10 days on the Counterparts tour (Philly twice, Albany, Rochester, & Toronto).

Seeing all 3 shows Pink Floyd performed at Veteran's Stadium on the Division Bell tour in 1994.

1994 was an absolutely amazing year for concerts. In the span of 2 months, I saw Rush 5 times and Pink Floyd 4 times. (Philly 3 times and San Antonio once)

**DJ Ms. White** · 05-13-08, 08:46 AM

Leahy about 4 or 5 years back when they played at Interlochen

or maybe

Barely Blind at a private concert they did for my radio station

or the PESH Chamber Orchestra performing Vivaldi's Allegro from Spring of the Four Seasons my sophomore year. It's one of the few times my jaw actually dropped for anything. That year the PESH Chamber Orchestra was named the best high school orchestra for the 4th consecutive time and the best high school orchestra in the nation for the first time. My senior year, they set an all time record for consecutive "championships" in the state of Texas winning the top award for orchestras for the 5th consecutive time and were named the best high school orchestra in the nation again. Good memories.

**Pineapple!** · 05-13-08, 08:58 AM

Hmm...ok, I've got a tie for two:

1. Jason Boland & The Stragglers @ Texas Uprising......the previous year, we threw a party when The Stragglers were in town and Noah the fiddler came back to the party with one of my buddies who had known him prior. Then, when Texas Uprising came around, I saw Noah and he brought me backstage where I hung out with the band and got to meet a few people from other bands (Cody Canada from Cross Canadian Ragweed, Robert Earle Keen...). Not to mention, I drank shiner bock for free from noon till the end of the concert....

2. Spoonfed Tribe - BEST LIVE ACT I have ever seen, period. Saw them at a local venue (Dr. Rockit's blues bar) and they rocked the house like crazy. I have seen them perform 4 times since and everytime the concert is just as good. These guys stage performance and the reaction the crowd gives them is...nuts. The whole crowd almost goes into a primal trance when they play. I tried listening to their music through myspace, but it just doesn't give the same effect.

Here are some upcoming shows of theirs, I HIGHLY recommend checking them out.

Upcoming Shows
May 17 2008 11:00P Last Concert Cafe - w/ Muchos Backflips Houston, Texas
May 18 2008 11:00P Dr. Rockit’s Corpus Christi, Texas
May 25 2008 9:30P Geronimo Beta Music festival Lafayette, Louisiana
May 26 2008 10:00P Mimi’s in the Marigny New Orleans, Louisiana
Jun 6 2008 11:30P Blue Bubble Ballroom San Antonio, Texas
Jun 13 2008 11:30P Antone’s Austin, Texas
Jun 28 2008 7:00P Verbal Anarchy Music Festival New Braunfels, Texas
Jul 19 2008 11:00P Goathead Saloon Mesa, Arizona
Aug 9 2008 11:30P Lola’s Ft Worth, Texas
Aug 16 2008 11:30P Dos Amigos Odessa, Texas

**dex71** · 05-13-08, 09:17 AM

Tough enough to get my list to five,much less one.

1.Pink Floyd-Division Bell Tour.....You don't "watch" Floyd,you experience them....
2.Black Sabbath-1992 Dio lineup...It was Halloween night at a small venue in Minneapolis.We had 10th row seats,you could tell the band was having a good time.It was Halloween and people were throwing parts of their costumes on stage.At one point the whole band was wearing glowing devil horns.
3.Deep Purple-Perfect Strangers Tour....Streight up unbeliveable musicianship.Between Jon Lords keyboard solo and Ian Gillens vocal solo,I've never seen anything like it.
4.Clash of the Titans Tour-Slayer,Anthrax,Megadeth with Alice in Chains as the opening act.All outdoors,general admission.Complete mayhem.....
5.Billy Joel/Elton John-Again unbeliveable musicianship...Just such a rare thing to have two mega stars tour and play together.

**MotoZ** · 05-13-08, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by dex71

1.Pink Floyd-Division Bell Tour

That tour has been mentioned before in this thread. I saw it in the Pontiac Silverdome, which has to be an example of bad acoustic design if there ever was one. It could not do the band justice

**DJ Ms. White** · 05-13-08, 09:43 AM

Acoustic design can actually be pretty tough, but I think it says something about Pink Floyd when they play in a bad venue but are still loved.

**WileECyte** · 05-13-08, 09:48 AM

When you're dealing with stadium shows... acoustics are almost never good. I forgot to mention another awesome show I saw (probably should be in the top 5). I saw Rush at Radio City Music Hall on the R30 tour. Absolutely amazing show and the acoustics were PERFECT in that venue. Not surprising since it was designed for musical performances.

One place I really want to see a concert someday (soon) is Red Rocks.