Concert Thread

[Fatalfriend]

discuss your favorite concerts here.

I thought uproar festival was amazing last Friday and I am seeing Weird Al for the second time tomorrow, hope it will kick ass.


What concerts have you been to that you enjoyed the most ?

[Fatalfriend]

DAMMIT ! Lol gary when you get on can you edit out my typo on the thread name ?

[theicon77]

Jay Z-Eminem was pretty sweet.

[robbiecon]

Paul McCartney, 3 hours of pure greatness (well apart from some solo stuff).

Seasick Steve- That guy does one hell of a gig.

The Doors Alive- A tribute band, but bloody great and authentic. I'd go to see their keyboardist alone, he's that good.

Bootleg Beatles- pretty good, did get stuck between a guy who had been at an actual Beatles concert and his family on one side, and some pretty hot drunk girls on the right. I was probably the closest to one to Beatlemania there. I went crazy everytime Bootleg George did a solo.

The Saw Doctors- An Irish band, that does an absolutely fantastic concert. I've been to them twice, and am probably going again in a few weeks time.

I was front row for everyone of these gigs, apart from the Paul McCartney one.

[Jelfoss]

Weird Al live is awesome. Kinda sucks how I didn't get to see him this year.

The only other concerts I've been to are Bruce Springsteen and Keane. Bruce was awesome. Keane was good too. I'm going to see the Fab Faux in November.

[kyle]

Paul McCartney puts on a pretty awesome show.

[Fatalfriend]

looking forward to later next month (slayer, megadeth, anthrax)

[Fatalfriend]

Holy shit weird al made me lmao

[Wave57]

I've seen Alice Cooper, and Ringo Starr and his All-Starr band. (OMG he had Edger Winter in his band!)

[Soratar]

I haven't been to a ton of concerts, but out of the ones I've seen TobyMac had the best show. Relient K is my favorite concert, though.

[kyle]

Saw Rain, the Beatles Tribute, the other night. They weren't very good. The performance wasn't very tight, and they laid on the accent too thick.

[Soup567]

Joe Walsh: The first concert I have memories of. This was before I was really into music or else I'm sure I would've like it more at the time because I am a big fan of Walsh.

Blue Oyster Cult: At the Santa Cruz Beach Board Walk, which I live very close to, every year during the summer has a bunch of shows during the summer that are free. One of those I happened to see and it was Blue Oyster Cult. At the time I didn't know too much BoC but it was still an awesome show. But I didn't get to seem them play Godzilla because they did that at the later show.

Joe Cocker: He was really good. I saw him open for Tom Petty. He did a lot of good songs that had the entire crowd singing along. He has done some very impressive Beatles's covers.

Tom Petty & the Heartbrearkers: Incredible. They did a lot of their most popular songs like Refugee, Breakdown, Here Comes My Girl Learning to Fly, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and others I can't remember lol. They also did a few of Petty's solo songs like Free Fallin', I Won't Back Down, and Runnin' Down a Dream. They also did a few songs off their new album Mojo and they were all very good. They ended up encoring with American Girl. It was a great show. So many people toaked up at this concert especially during Mary Jane's Last Dance.

Dream Theater: I feel very lucky to have seen them with Mike Portnoy before he left the band. I saw them over the Summer in Washington when they were as opening act for Iron Maiden. When my dad and I walked into the stadium Dream Theater had already begun playing As I Am so we had to get to out seats quickly to hear the rest of it. The also played A Rite of Passage, Panic Attack, Constant Motion, and a few others I don't remember sadly. I think they encored with Pull Me Under. They are all amazing musicians and it was fucking epic to see them play. A few times Portnoy threw a drum stick of his into the audience and people went nuts trying to catch it.

Iron Maiden: What an incredible band they are. They did a great show, and had the crowed singing along and head banging for most of it. They did a lot of more recent Maiden songs so I wasn't really familiar with those ones. They played Blood Brothers and dedicated it to Ronnie James Dio, which was great. They also did Brave New World, Fear of the Dark (fucking epic with everyone singing along). They also did The Number of the Beast, Running Free, Iron Maiden, El Dorado and Hallowed be They Name and others like I said above that I wasn't too familiar with because they were newer Maiden tracks. Overall though it was epic.

Paul McCartney: The great Sir Paul McCartney. Probably the best show I've ever seen. I saw him play in San Francisco at the Giant's Stadium and it was packed as hell. He played for a solid three hours and just played great song after great song. He also had a great sense of humor throughout the show and always made the audience laugh. He opened with Venus and Mars/Rockshow/Jet which was cool because he added Jet onto it. Other solo stuff he did was Band on the Run, Junior's Farm, and when he did Live and Let Die it was like the stage was on fire from all the pyrotechnics. He also did some other solo stuff that I don't really remember lol. And of course he did a tone of Beatles material. He did I'm Down, I Feel Fine, All My Loving, Hey Jude, Day Tripper, I'm Looking Through You, And Your Bird Can Sing, Got to Get You Into My Life, Let it Be, Back in the U.S.S.R., Two of Us, Get Back, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, I've Got a Feeling, Blackbird, Helter Skelter, and well frankly others that I sadly can't remember. He also did part of Jimi Hendrix's Foxey Lady at the end of one of his solo songs and then told a nice story about Jimi. Paul also did all of A Day in the Life/Give Peace a Change which was a great and also a good tribute to George. He also did a version of Something when he started out on the ukulele and late in the song the rest of the band came in. Paul encored with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)/The End. It was an incredible show.

Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience: What a freakin' awesome show. Jason Bonham is the son of the late and legendary John Bonham, the drummer for Led Zeppelin. He is touring as a Led Zeppelin cover band in memory of his father and his father's band. The band itself sounds very much like Led Zeppelin. They really are the next best thing as to seeing the actual Zeppelin. Throughout the show Jason had some clips of his life with his father which was neat to see. They did a ton of awesome songs. They started with Rock and Roll and then went into Celebration Day and Black Dog. Then they started to play Your Time is Gonna Come, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, and then Dazed and Confused. A really cool thing about that is that in the middle of the song they added in that one old song that goes like "If your going to San Francisco", (because we were in San Francisco) all Zeppelinified and then finishing the rest of Dazed. After that the band played Thank you and finished off the first half with Moby Dick. That was amazing because of the incredible drum solo in the song and it was also synchronized with his father playing it back in the day so it was like they were both playing it at the same time. During the second half they started with Good Times, Bad Times then How Many More Times and then When the Levee Breaks. After that they went into The Ocean, followed by the epic Stairway to Heaven, followed by Kashmir. Jason and the band then encored with the epic Whole Lotta Love. It was a fucking awesome show.

Roger Waters: I saw Roger Waters perform The Wall in it's entirety. Wow. Fucking epic. It was incredible. Probably the most theatrical show someone could see. SPOILER ALERT: During the first half of the show (Disc 1) the wall gets built up and at the end of Disc 2 it all comes crashing down. They have amazing projections on the wall the whole time at are always changing. A few times they had enormous puppets attached to stage equipment on the ceiling and they walked around a bit and did some stuff. There were also some other really good special effects like the plane crash and the flying pig. The music was the most incredible part of course. The album has so many good songs like The Thin Ice, Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 1/The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2, Mother, Empty Spaces, Young Lust, Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 3/Goodbye Cruel World, Hey You, Nobody Home, Comfortably Numb, In the Flesh, Run Like Hell, Waiting for the Worms, Outside the Wall, and the rest of the album as well. It was an amazing show and 100% epic.

[fishy]

Who's seen the Heartbreakers!?

[musicalmafia]

I'm going to see the American Idiot broadway this January. I'm pumped to see Billie Joe as Saint Jimmy.

[JesusSilencio]

I've been to countless local shows, but I've only seen a few headlining acts. I've seen The Roots, Days of the New, Helmet... and yeah, that's it.