Gigs - your most memorable.

[Serotonin]

I'm interested to see what shows people have gone to over the years. We're talking major, international acts, not your mate's band at the local pub. Even though it may not seem like a big thing for INTPs, I love the feel of a live gig. It's a huge endorphin rush and I come out afterwards feeling all tingly inside...

Big Day Out - 23 January 1999, Olympic Park, Sydney: Korn, Marilyn Manson, Hole, Manic Street Preachers, Soulfly, Regurgitator, Powderfinger...
Big Day Out - 26 January 2000, Olympic Park, Sydney: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, Chemical Brothers, Shihad, Atari Teenage Riot, Spiderbait...
Tool - July 25, 2001 Sydney Entertaintment Centre
Supergrass - July 20, 2002 Enmore Theatre
Pearl Jam - February 14, 2003 Syd. Ent. Cent.
Henry Rollins spoken word - April 23, 2003 Enmore Theatre
Nada Surf - September 3, 2003 The Metro, Sydney
Neil Young - November 21, 2003 Syd. Ent. Cent.
Radiohead - April 23 AND April 24, 2004 Syd. Ent. Cent
Grandaddy - May 7, 2004 The Metro
and currently anticipating:
R.E.M. - March 31, 2005

My favourites were the second Radiohead one, and Tool.

[Shai Gar]

it isnt that big a thing to me, but i dont spend money to go to events to hear girls squeal and scream and carry on. unless i am going to a live porn filming.

but i went to an australian hiphop show in the alley in brisbane 2 years ago in june. it was nice

[int]

The first one that made me fall in love with live shows was Primus when I was 15, right after "Tales from the Punchbowl" came out. I don't think I've ever seen so much energy in a crowd.

The next one was probably Gravity Kills and Stabbing Westward when I was 18. I saw Stabbing Westward a few months later and it wasn't the same - Chris' voice was shot and the band's energy wasn't there - I think they were on the end of their tour. Their next CD had about the same energy and it flopped.

Goldfinger always puts on an amazing show - I've seen them 4 or 5 times and am always impressed.

Bad Religion is the same. As is Lagwagon, No Use For A Name, and most of the other Fat Wreck Chords bands.

Tom Petty is always incredible too. I saw him first when I was 16 and then again at Red Rocks a couple years ago. Even though I had a cold and was loaded up on Sudafed I was glad I went. Simply amazing.

I've seen some pretty sick (in a good way) local shows too, so if anyone knows a good band coming through Denver/Boulder PM me.

And I'm jealous you've been to a Rollins "Spoken Word" ...I had the chance to go a few years ago but didn't, and have been kicking myself ever since.

[garak]

Yeah I like concerts a lot too, except that I don't really know anyone anymore that'd want to go to the shows I'd want to go to, and going alone would be kind of lame, wouldn't it? Standing in line and stuff would be so aggravating alone.

Anyways, lemme see if I can remember all of them.. (woohoo google is so helpful)

[ age 15 ] October 22 1998: Rob Zombie, Fear Factory, Monster Magnet (gag)
[ age 15 ] March 12 1999: Rob Zombie and Korn (hah)
[ age 16 ] July 1999: Mancow's Lazer Luau (big radio show in an airfield in Iowa) - Fear Factory, Static-X, and then a billion other bands I didn't care for (Slipknot, Megadeth, lots of smaller bands)
[ age 16 ] January 7 2000: Slipknot (hah) and Kittie (hah) (I was actually dragged along for this one, and I was like deathly sick and losing consciousness during parts of it)
[ age 19 ] August 18, 2002 (???): Meshuggah, Shadow's Fall and God Forbid (two bands I was glad to discover that day), Mushroomhead (bleh), and a bunch of smaller bands.

Ah shit.. I think that's it. It's been a while! :(

[garak]

Oh yeah I forgot about the Def Leppard concert my dad took me to when I was like 10. :D

[Serotonin]

Yeah I like concerts a lot too, except that I don't really know anyone anymore that'd want to go to the shows I'd want to go to, and going alone would be kind of lame, wouldn't it? Standing in line and stuff would be so aggravating alone.
I went to Pearl Jam alone. It was still great. Tool I also lost my friends in the mosh for the entire concert, so it was pointless "sharing the experience". For me it's more like it's just me and the band on stage. The rest of the crowd make no difference.

[int]

Yea, I always lose the group to the pits, so I end up in the back or along a rail sipping a few beers. Might as well be alone.

[garak]

Hm, I always end up losing my friends too, but I have so many memories of standing around in line before the show, and with no one to talk to I'd be irritated standing around (and most people in Iowa that go to the types of shows I'd go to are fucking morons). Maybe the solution is to not go so early. :)

[int]

Heh. I don't do lines anymore. If I want to see the opening act I'll time it so I miss their first song or 2, just to avoid the lines.

[garak]

What is the general rule for that, int? Like if they say the show's at 7, what time do you show up?

[kuranes]

I'm interested to see what shows people have gone to over the years. We're talking major, international acts, not your mate's band at the local pub. Even though it may not seem like a big thing for INTPs, I love the feel of a live gig. It's a huge endorphin rush and I come out afterwards feeling all tingly inside...

Big Day Out - 23 January 1999, Olympic Park, Sydney: Korn, Marilyn Manson, Hole, Manic Street Preachers, Soulfly, Regurgitator, Powderfinger...
Big Day Out - 26 January 2000, Olympic Park, Sydney: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, Chemical Brothers, Shihad, Atari Teenage Riot, Spiderbait...
Tool - July 25, 2001 Sydney Entertaintment Centre
Supergrass - July 20, 2002 Enmore Theatre
Pearl Jam - February 14, 2003 Syd. Ent. Cent.
Henry Rollins spoken word - April 23, 2003 Enmore Theatre
Nada Surf - September 3, 2003 The Metro, Sydney
Neil Young - November 21, 2003 Syd. Ent. Cent.
Radiohead - April 23 AND April 24, 2004 Syd. Ent. Cent
Grandaddy - May 7, 2004 The Metro
and currently anticipating:
R.E.M. - March 31, 2005

My favourites were the second Radiohead one, and Tool.

Kuranes sez -
Probably my favorite show was Roxy Music at the Uptown theater in the late 70's, just before they broke up. The Miles Davis tour with both Mike Stern and Scofield on guitar was fun too. Saw it at the Park West where there had been some earlier Lou Reed shows that were energetic. Schloss Tegal at the Nervous Center was memorable, as was Godspeed You Black Emperor at the Metro. Once saw Pink Floyd in a natural setting, with speakers in the trees etc. in a gently sloping lawn ampitheater, just before Dark Side of the Moon broke and they became a stadium band forever more. For sheer fun interacting with fellow crowd members was a bar called La Mere Vipere that was one of the first punk clubs in the US. A mysterious fire burned it down eventually. An artist co-op called Charybdis had some guys from Detroit down once who were kind of like the Ramones that were fun in such a "very small club" atmosphere. The city eventually closed Gregor down using their vague zoning laws as a club. K

[int]

What is the general rule for that, int? Like if they say the show's at 7, what time do you show up?


7:15-7:30.

Doors will almost always open when they say they will (if it says 7 on the ticket, doors open at 7) but the crowd is left hanging for 30 minutes or so. This is so people can get in, drinks and merch can be purchased, and security can point out the "problems", yadda...

Most shows I go to follow that schedule. Probably depends on the region, club's management, competition, etc.

[Serotonin]

Very jealous kuranes. Pity I wasn't alive in the 70's....
My dad saw led zeppelin, the stones and creedence clearwater in the early 70s. I would have been continually broke spending my money on shows if i had existed 30 years ago.

[kuranes]

Before I get in to the rock stuff again, I wanted to ask briefly the inspiration for your name. Are you interested in matters pertaining to the quote at the bottom of your posts? And Serotonin, in particular? Bill Joy ( main guy behind Unix ) left Sun to look into this "next frontier". It is interesting. Check out www.edge.org for some philosophical thoughts. I can give you some other sites as well, as that was just one that came quickly to mind. Some are much more technical. New advances in research on consciousness itself have led people to look closer at the claustrum, a component in our brains. Also the locus coeruleus and the Raphe nucleus. Site related to experiements etc. on catecholamines is www.macalesater.edu/~psych/whathap/diaries/. Also read both books by Alexander Shulgin, PIKHAL and its sequel.

I missed Zep, but my younger brother saw them. He said it was the loudest concert he ever went to. Page held his guitar real low like he was getting ready to set down a mortar. There's a good video of them doing some old sets out now, showing the fantastic rocks of Monument Valley, on the border of Arizona and Utah, on the cover.

I saw the Stones 3 times. They weren't bad, but didn't do much improvising, essentially playing the tunes just the same way they were on the albums. Possible exception was 1972 when Mick Taylor was still there. I was too high to remember exactly how things went, sitting there with the guy who had brought in the piano. Stevie Wonder opened, and there was a small disturbance that broke out when some people helped a guy escape into the crowd when an undercover cop tried to bust him for selling pot/or smoking it etc. The uniformed cops came back in force, marching with clubs, helmets, shields etc. into the crowd for a while in formation. Remember Kent State, just down the road, had only been a few years prior. This is the scene I always think of when I hear the CSNY song "Four Dead in Ohio' -"Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming, we're finally on our own.. ." The cops eventually backed out. The crowd was just too big for them to really want to get a big rumble going. Before I had arrived, earlier in the day, I was told that someone had tried to explode the stage, and damaged a small corner of it. That was never explained. Not your typical rock concert. Stevie and Mick sang "Satisfaction" as a duo in New York but not at this Ohio show. It was the "Exile on main Street Tour". As I say, little improv, which was disappointing. A show that DID have some improv was the Grateful Dead in Columbus Ohio 1975/76 era. Don't remember the exact year. I was doing some fairly mild Strawberry mescaline. This guy in the next seat over kept passing me a huge blunt of harsh dirt weed, and I would politely toke on it for a while and give it back, or pass it on down the line until it disappeared. I would think I was done with him and then he'd roll another. Me and Cynda were buzzed as it was on the mesc, and so I finally told him I was taking a pass. He actually got annoyed with me and said "c'mon, man. Don't you get it? This is a Grateful Dead concert", which caused Cynda and me to bust out laughing. I was feeling fairly numb at one point earlier and had told him "it's gone out" as a huge cloud of smoke billowed from my mouth, seeming to contradict what I had just said. Garcia played a very extended version of "Not Fade Away" which is one of my favorite songs of theirs, perhaps because i remember this night.

I forgot to tell you the best concert. The opening act was a group new at the time, that most of us had never heard of, who were fated to become quite famous later. It was the Eagles. The second group was the one i had come to see. John Mclaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra doing "Inner Mounting Flame." First time i'd ever heard the man at all. But he had quite a rep. The guy who had taught Page on his original guitar lessons. Another player Miles had discovered. Then came the group "Yes" which were not big favorites of mine, but OK. All for $3.50!!!!!!! Three dollars and fifty cents! Of course three dolars meant more then, and was harder to earn. Still, I think back on how things changed. I saw Lynard Skynard before the accident in Akron at the university. The Stones and Yes/Eagles shows had been at the Akron Rubber Bowl Stadium. The city was known for the mfg. of rubber and had a big dirigible that floated above stadium events advertising one of the bigger companies.

I never got to see Jimi hendrix, as that was all over before I was really getting out to concerts much. Jimi made friends with Miles, and they were going to do an album together. Miles held things up by asking for a huge advance from the record company. Then Jimi died under mysterious circumstances. Miles had heard "Band of Gypsies", though, and wanted to get into that kind of thing. He was breaking away from just doing straight jazz at the time, to the consternation of some of his fans, but he secretly envied entertainers that were more closely associated with the popular tastes, like Sly and the Family Stone, and James Brown etc. He decided that he was going to create a new kind of music that blended funk and jazz. The guitarist he picked for that move was a guy named Pete Cosey. You can hear them live in Japan on the Agharta album. People are only now, 30 years later, coming to terms with that 1975 music. Pete actually lives here in Chicago nowadays, and he's planning his comeback. I've talked to him a few times. It would be great to help him do this.

OK, enough for now. K

[Serotonin]

Man, kuranes, you've got around. V. impressed.
And here I am sitting in a university office in Australia, at the age of 22, getting no work done, with a biology honours thesis to hand in in 3 1/2 months!!!
Ok one thing at a time.
The inspiration for my name comes from a passing interest in brain biochemistry, sparked by an unfortunate bout of panic attacks and depression a little over a year ago, which has now been kept at bay with antidepressants. I am fascinated with mood, and what influences it, essentially a combo of brain chemicals/genetics/environmental upbringing. Since a lack of serotonin was causing my mental illness, and its return via antidepressants has brought happiness and a new outlook on my life, it was natural that I name myself after the chemical that has influenced my life so greatly.
Thomas Pynchon's worldview seems to match mine. My favourite book of all time is his "Gravity's Rainbow", a bloody hard read, but essentially a string of multiple cerebral orgasms is the way i would best describe it. I am a science student 6 months off graduating in my bioinformatics degree, so naturally i'm interested in the synthesis of genetics, biological systems and computer science.

p.s. the second link didn't work, but no worries, i'll find the stuff you were talking about in my spare time.

[purple13]

Eagles (w/ Steve Miller, Pablo Cruise)
Deep Purple
Jethro Tull
Bob Dylan / Santana
Rolling Stones
Paul McCartney
Paul Simon / Bob Dylan

... these are the most memorable. There were likely more.

[crule81]

Unfortunately, I am too young to have seen the great bands in their prime, but I believe I've seen some pretty good performances. Here's probably my top 5:

1. The Who - Quadrophenia tour 1997 - Pine Knob, Michigan.
2. Simon & Garfunkel - 2003 - Palace, Michigan.
3. Rush - Vapor Trails tour 2002 - Pine Knob, Michigan.
4. Bruce Springsteen - 1992 - Palace, Michigan.
5. Rush - Test for Echo tour - 1996 - Albany, NY.

If I had been born 25-30 years earlier, I would have loved to seen the Who and Zep in the early 70's. Seeing Plant and Page or Townsend and Daltrey today I'm sure pales in comparison to the full line up in their primes.

[Johnny]

My first stadium tour experience was my favorite: U2 Joshua Tree tour in '87.

[kuranes]

Man, kuranes, you've got around. V. impressed.
And here I am sitting in a university office in Australia, at the age of 22, getting no work done, with a biology honours thesis to hand in in 3 1/2 months!!!
Ok one thing at a time.
The inspiration for my name comes from a passing interest in brain biochemistry, sparked by an unfortunate bout of panic attacks and depression a little over a year ago, which has now been kept at bay with antidepressants. I am fascinated with mood, and what influences it, essentially a combo of brain chemicals/genetics/environmental upbringing. Since a lack of serotonin was causing my mental illness, and its return via antidepressants has brought happiness and a new outlook on my life, it was natural that I name myself after the chemical that has influenced my life so greatly.
Thomas Pynchon's worldview seems to match mine. My favourite book of all time is his "Gravity's Rainbow", a bloody hard read, but essentially a string of multiple cerebral orgasms is the way i would best describe it. I am a science student 6 months off graduating in my bioinformatics degree, so naturally i'm interested in the synthesis of genetics, biological systems and computer science.

p.s. the second link didn't work, but no worries, i'll find the stuff you were talking about in my spare time.


Kuranes -

Good luck on the thesis. What's is its subject? You're already going for a masters at 22? Now it's me who's impressed. But regardless which level you're currently on, not many people your age know or care what makes them tick like that. ( The ratio of people who look into this vs. the people on automatic pilot is still pretty small as they get older, too, in case any young people think I'm picking on their generation. ) There's a book out you might like by a professor named Terrence J. Sejnowski and Steven Quartz called "Liars, Lovers, and Heroes ; What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Became Who We Are" and who also wrote "The Computational Brain; Thalamocortical Assemblies; How Ion Channels, Single neurons, and Large Scale Networks Organize Sleep Oscillations". I just discovered it at that edge site I gave you, so don't ask me to summarize it yet! Ha Ha. But i've read a number of things related to this. I'm not a bio-scientist myself, and so i usually get books that are written for laymen until I get on the scent of a particular aspect that interests me. Then I may drill down for detail. Getting computers that can process the calculations to come up with new drugs and other complex actions is another related area. I almost got a job selling for a company that specializes in Mac networks. ( I own a Mac myself, and believe in the company. ) Although I ultimately wasn't hired there, it was interesting to find out that one of their best sales prospects was these bio-tech or drug companies that are in need of supercomputers to try and cover all the variables in their questions about upcoming development. Of course many people have heard about Beowolf clusters working as a supercomputer, but there are some Mac features that make them particularly good choices for similar methods of creating a cluster-driven supercomputer. The edge site gave me info on a guy named Piet Hut, too. He's at Princeton, working with a computer project centered in Japan called GRAPE. This will be the seventh generation of GRAPE computers. Instead of many parallel pipelines, each chip will contain several hundred processors. Unlike pipelines with a predescribed data flow, these processors will be fully programmable. They will be designed to optimize calculations of gravitational N-body simulations as all previous GRAPE computers were, and so therefore moderately optimized for this application,. However the seventh generation GRAPE can function as a general purpose computer! CM-1 and CM-2, built by Thinking machines in the 1980's, had similar architectures, but each new GRAPE chip will carry an amount of logic comparable to that in a full CM-2, enabling things such as a speed exceeding that of 1 Petaflops.

If you're into Math at all, which I always stank at, you might be interested in this guy Brian Rotman, who wrote a book called "Mathematics as Sign" which supposedly gives an entirely new perspective on that field. Coming from Stanford University Press. It would be interesting to see if any ideas in there shed light on the famous EPR paradox of Quantum Mechanics theory. Also a book out called "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram, the guy who created the Mathematica software.

Well, enough on that. Strangely I haven't read Pynchon yet, although his kind of writing ( the way i see it described ) falls squarely into the middle of my interests. I think I bought "Gravity's Rainbow" right before moving, once, and so it is still in one of those many boxes yet to be unpacked. I was not crazy about James Joyce's "Ulysses" though, as i had a hard time getting interested in the story, as much as the book had been praised. i never finished it. Someone had told me that they thought GR was interesting but not worth the effort required. Obviously you would beg to differ. I'll have to look for it. Remind me to tell you about the Oulippo movement sometime, which I think may tie into this same kind of need being met.

I'm off now to see the Doc. Signs of high blood sugar. I'm feeling like the Addams family "Lurch" when Gomez springs some new zany idea on him, shaking my head in disgust at this new disruption. One more thing to worry about.

K

[MacGuffin]

I have seen

En Vouge/Vanilla Ice/MC Hammer (stop laughing)
Debbie Gibson (I said stop laughing! I was in junior high!)
Paul Simon/Bob Dylan
Simon & Garfunkel
Smashing Pumpkins (twice)
Pavement
Sleater-Kinney
Mission of Burma (Fiery Furnaces opened)

and the best of them all:
Radiohead

[crule81]

I saw Radiohead at a small venue back in 96 or 97 before they got really popular in the states. I was very close to the front in the "mosh pit." I wasn't really a fan, but they put on a great show. But I didn't like the concert as a whole because I kept on being pushed around and it became very distracting. Moreover, the fans were annoying and most of them only wanted to hear "Creep."

I hate mosh pits and festival seating because one is constantly being distracted from the music by the behavior of the crowd. Not only that, it is dangerous. I still think I have a loose tooth from a Violent Femmes concert at Colgate University in 98.

[int]

I have seen

En Vouge/Vanilla Ice/MC Hammer (stop laughing)



When I was 11, I would have killed to see that show. You're lucky, in an odd sort of way.

[sbw]

I'm interested to see what shows people have gone to over the years. We're talking major, international acts, not your mate's band at the local pub. Even though it may not seem like a big thing for INTPs, I love the feel of a live gig. It's a huge endorphin rush and I come out afterwards feeling all tingly inside...


I definitely feel like that. (don't have the dates but) good shows I've seen include oasis (twice--the 2nd time was a GREAT show), pearl jam, dave matthews band, interpol, radiohead; went to the reading festival in england last summer, which was great: beck, black rebel motorcycle club, the libertines (now deceased), and especially primal scream. They were (and are) awesome.

Scott

[Birdsnest]

It would be hard to list all of the concerts I've seen, but I will post the major ones:

Cal Jam II, (1/4 million people in Southern California). Had to camp all night the day before and the day after, and parking lots had people camping in their cars all night. (I can't remember all the bands, some included Santana, Heart, uh, forget maybe 8-10 bands).

Day on the Green (Oakland Colliseum), The Who and the Dead all day concert

Cow Palace, SF: Lots of concerts, Dylan, Electric Light Orchestra, Who, oh, I've forgotten all of them now.

Great American Music Hall, SF: Van Morrison, Randy Newman, others.

Jacksonville: Judy Collins, Meatloaf, Bob Dylan

Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mtn. View, CA: Jazz show with assorted musicians, some pretty big.

Santa Cruz: Neil Young
San Jose: Dylan

Berkeley Greek Theatre: Al Dimeola, Paco DeLucia, Bob Dylan

SF theatres: Dylan, Who, Dead, Talking Heads

Tiny Blues Club: Various blues folks every Friday night

I will add more if I think of them.

Stanfords Grassy Steps (Frost amphitheatre) had a lot of concerts, I remember seeing Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Ry Cooder, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, many others.

[indie]

10,000 Maniacs Outdoor Concert in San Francisco CA
Pet Shop Boys @ the Joint Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas NV
Screaming Trees/Depeche Mode @ Theater of the Clouds in Portland OR
The Cardigans/Some other Band @ La Luna in Portland OR
Agnes Poetry/Someother Band @ Bricks in SLC, UT
Buffalo Tom!/The Goo Goo Dolls @ La Luna in Portland OR
Tori Amos @ Theater of the Clouds in Portland, OR


Maybe a couple more. The very best show was the Pet Shop Boys show because it was on Halloween (I dressed up as a fairy). The Cardigans show was in a close second; Nina Persson is absolutely stunning in the flesh.

[sbw]

It would be hard to list all of the concerts I've seen, but I will post the major ones:

Cal Jam II, (1/4 million people in Southern California). Had to camp all night the day before and the day after, and parking lots had people camping in their cars all night. (I can't remember all the bands, some included Santana, Heart, uh, forget maybe 8-10 bands).

Day on the Green (Oakland Colliseum), The Who and the Dead all day concert

Cow Palace, SF: Lots of concerts, Dylan, Electric Light Orchestra, Who, oh, I've forgotten all of them now.

Great American Music Hall, SF: Van Morrison, Randy Newman, others.

Jacksonville: Judy Collins, Meatloaf, Bob Dylan

Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mtn. View, CA: Jazz show with assorted musicians, some pretty big.

Santa Cruz: Neil Young
San Jose: Dylan

Berkeley Greek Theatre: Al Dimeola, Paco DeLucia, Bob Dylan

SF theatres: Dylan, Who, Dead, Talking Heads

Tiny Blues Club: Various blues folks every Friday night

I will add more if I think of them.

Stanfords Grassy Steps (Frost amphitheatre) had a lot of concerts, I remember seeing Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Ry Cooder, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, many others.


that's a helluva list. I'm a little jealous (as I wasn't alive for much of that).

Scott

[sbw]

Very jealous kuranes. Pity I wasn't alive in the 70's....
My dad saw led zeppelin, the stones and creedence clearwater in the early 70s. I would have been continually broke spending my money on shows if i had existed 30 years ago.


My boss saw jimi hendrix play 3 songs before he passed out. (Jimi, not my boss.) He saw the allman brothers in their heyday as well. I'm way jealous.

Scott

[lexiphanic]

I have seen: none. But would like to see: some.

[Edmond Zedo]

I think my best is still L7, in 1997 at a small club. I wasn't that familiar with their music until afterward, but was totally blown away. It was the tour for Beauty Process.

I can get truly intoxicated by live performances if they are exceptional. Other times it's happened--Other L7 shows, Rammstein, Frank Black, Green Day, Robert Cray...There might be one or two more.

[Last Song]

I've only seen John Mayer live when he was in Sydney in April last year. When I saw him I had already grown out of listening to his stuff and wished he'd play more solos and sing a lot less. Meh. Was a good show I guess, when he was playing his electric. =/
(cover of Hendrix's Machinegun was cool)

[Spartan26]

OK, so I have seen a few memorable gigs. Some memorable for different reasons. I'll break them up into categories in different posts. But, true to my nature, I'll start off with a couple that I most regret NOT seeing.
A) Triumph - not only because they were one of my favorite bands but because their light show (haha, you don't know what that is!) was reputed to be one of the best, all-time, period. Not really my fault since they didn't come to my home town but I could've flown out to see my sister in college and gone to one of their shows about an hour away. At the time I was not only still holding out hope that I'd see them on another tour but was afraid of the long-term debt I would've been into my parents. Looking back, I should've cashed it in.

B. And the one everyone asks me about but no I chose not to go...U2 at Red Rocks for their infamous Sunday Bloody Sunday concert <GASP!>. Yes, the one that was recorded for MTV and basically launched them to superstardom. At the time I LIKED U2 but didn't LOVE them and because this 9th grade girl (an older woman!) asked me to go with her, which, even though it was a couple of years later, I know asking the 'rents to be able to go see that show would've taken more bargaining concessions than skipping a couple of days of school to fly to Oz to see one of my favorite groups of all time.

Anyway, to this day, I can still hear Tiffany clear as a bell all excited when she asked me to go with her and her friends. Ninth row! U2! Tiffany Ch-better not say her last name. Oh, how my life would've changed!!!

C). Which leads me to Deepche Mode. I think I went to subconciously make up for missing U2 earlier in life. Horrible! Awful! God-forsaken comes to mind. Went with friends of my "girlfriend". Ones I didn't particularily care for. Ones she didn't particularily like either but was always back and forth with them. I tell ya, the things you'll allow yourself to go along with when you're an intp in high school...

I can't remember too much. Bad weather, people yakking in the parking lot, friends of her bawling, bickering, horrible music - all of which I predicted but didn't bother to write down. I was just glad I wasn't part of the drama directly. That was one where I wish I were younger and would've needed my parents permission to go. Maybe they would've had the sense to say no.

[Edmond Zedo]

What year did you see Depeche Mode? I've seen some live footage from the early 80s, and I liked it. But I like Depeche Mode.

[Spartan26]

What year did you see Depeche Mode? I've seen some live footage from the early 80s, and I liked it. But I like Depeche Mode.
I wanna say '86, maybe??? Couldn't tell you the tour. Was never a fan of theirs and that evening didn't help.

[EdwinJefferson]

Ah..

Cooper Temple Clause supporting Muse (29th May 2001) - first gig.. was in reasonably good company 'girlfriend' and friends.

Seafood - March 2002 - Little tiny venue.. great atmosphere.. amazing sound

Muse (December 2003) - at the front and great songs..

Ikara Colt / Yourcodenameis:milo / Help She Can't Swim (May 2003) - little venue and the femasle bassist for Ikara colt kept sticker her bass in my face..

[CoHo]

Marylin Manson - Antichrist Superstar Tour (thinking 96 or 97)
Bush 1997
Rage Against the Machine 1997
Pantera 101 Proof Tour 1997
Ozzfest 98
Ozzfest 01
Korn ?? (couple years ago)
Rob Zombie ?? (Same as Korn)

And a scatter of about thirty-fourty small band shows like Sister Machinegun, Chemlab, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Spahn Ranch, Spacebike, Savage Aural Hotbed, and many others who's names probably mean nothing by now.

It isn't even that I like metal music. I'm more of a trip-hop person. I do like some of these bands but the real reason for going is for the atmosphere. I'm just not sure if you can bottle up that gothic/punk/industrial atmosphere and put it in a low-key environment.

Maybe you could with enough pot.

My concert going has really dropped in the last few years... and it doesn't even cost that much. I'm going to go sign up for the next 8 shows right now!

[kuranes]

What year did you see Depeche Mode? I've seen some live footage from the early 80s, and I liked it. But I like Depeche Mode.



I likd their "Violator' album real well, but I couldn't ever find other stuff by them with that sound. Seemed almost like a different group or something.

k

[Edmond Zedo]

I likd their "Violator' album real well, but I couldn't ever find other stuff by them with that sound. Seemed almost like a different group or something.

k
Yeah, it is. They changed, but I like both. I only got into the old stuff within the last year. It's very Kraftwerk influenced, very "Techno Pop."

[kuranes]

Amazingly enough, I haven't actually heard much Kraftwerk. They came out about the same time as a lot of groups I liked, and were roughly considered to be "coming from the same place", but I just never got round to buying their albums. I heard a few tunes, though. In those they had a little Krautrock, a little Motorik, and some other tendencies all kind of going on. If you like Motorik you should check out Neu. DAF was kind of neat, too. K

[RomanNoseJob]

my most memorable gig would be The Mountain Goats, who are my favourite band ever and loved all the more because not many people have heard of them. The reason the gig was so memorable was they wouldn't let me in intially because I looked to young (I'm 23 and still get I.D'd everywhere) so I had to drive back to my house (which is about 25 miles away) to get my passport. Still he blew me away though.

[Last Song]

I'm seeing Satriani in a few days ... I hope it lives up to expectations.

[songbird36]

Wow Simon & Garfunkel sure got around - almost everyone on this thread has seen them live.

The concert in Wellington, NZ on their final tour (around 1985 I think) was my most memorable gig I think. Mainly because I was standing right up in front of the stage with my friend - gazing at our idol Paul Simon, and at the end of the concert when they asked for requests I yelled "Feeling Groovy" at around 100 decibels when everyone else was yelling some other song, and...

THEY PLAYED FEELING GROOVY!!

[songbird36]

Hey is anyone on here old enough to remember KISS? Their concert was the first I ever went to (aged around 10). They were made up in black and white, huge hair, and tight glitter suits, and I thought they were living gods.

"I was made for loving you baby, you were made for loving me..."

I remember my incredible sense of disillusionment when they went "Unmasked" later on and looked so fucking *ordinary*. There have been lots of imitators since then..

[Last Song]

Not long home from the Satriani concert ... amazing stuff.

[earwax]

Seen too many to remember them all. And I am apparently older than a lot of y'all. But the most unforgettable highlights are... (Most are in Ft. Worth or Dallas)

George Harrison - 1974
The Who - 1976 (seen them several times, but that was the first and the best)
Pink Floyd - 1977 (Animals Tour)
Stones - 1978 in a tiny 3,000 seat theater.
Elvis Costello - 1979 (seen him multiple times - all great! Last time was two nights ago, still amazing.)
U2 - Unforgettable Fire Tour. (Also multiple times, always great.)

[crule81]

Wow Simon & Garfunkel sure got around - almost everyone on this thread has seen them live.

The concert in Wellington, NZ on their final tour (around 1985 I think) was my most memorable gig I think. Mainly because I was standing right up in front of the stage with my friend - gazing at our idol Paul Simon, and at the end of the concert when they asked for requests I yelled "Feeling Groovy" at around 100 decibels when everyone else was yelling some other song, and...

THEY PLAYED FEELING GROOVY!!

Everytime a band asks for requests, someone always yells "Stairway!" or "Freebird!"

[Star]

Legendary Pink Dots 1998 tour.


Still, at moments like the final encore, when the band works itself into a Pink Floyd "Interstellar Overdrive"-like frenzy, spotlight lash out at the transfixed audience and Qa-Sepel stares up at the Opera House's high ceiling, belting out "IT'S A LONG WAY TO ANDROMEDA," the prophet's got as commanding a presence as anyone. "The Andromeda Suite" brought to mind the theme song to a lost late-seventies animated science fiction movie. It also suggested that if there's anyone today capable of leading a millennial suicide cult to send people to the stars, it's Qa-Sepel. Of course, he'd probably fake death, wait for his followers to off themselves, and walk around pillaging their wallets, then sell the movie rights to David Lynch.

I'll never forget that show.

[Crispy]

Death in vegas - leeds festival 2003
Squarepusher - leeds festival 2003
Mettalica - leeds festival 2003
Amon tobin - leeds festival 2003
2 many djs - leeds festival 2003 (High light of festival)
Radiohead - 2004
rammestein - 2005 great pyrotechnics
Chemical brothers - 2005 (Last gig I went to)

[athman]

The Cure - roughly 1979/80 - they played A Forrest, I love that song.
The Buzzcocks - 1989 - my favourite punk band finally made it to Australia
Johnathan Richman - early 80's
A whole bunch of bands in the early 80's, most memorable were Elvis Costello, Magazine, Ramones, The Go-Betweens, The Hoodoo Gurus, The Sunnyboys.
I saw many emerging bands go on to greater things (I saw a lot of crap bands too). I liked the pub circut but never really got into going to major stadium concerts.

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