Best Show you've ever seen

Harlock7876 · Post by **Harlock7876** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:01 pm

The last concert I went to was Dream Theater at the Orpheum in Boston when touring for Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Nothing like a band that'll play their whole 40min song non-stop w/o a miss. Then there was also the two-man drum solo with Mike Mangini and Mike Portnoy. And when they go from the middle of one of their own songs into a medley of other songs by Rush and Metallica or others.
I do kinda like going to concerts with older crowds like Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. At least you don't have to stand up the whole time to see over the rest of the people standing in front of you. Older folk realize that you don't have to stand when you've got a comfy seat right beneath yer butt. Then again, they're older.

moooooo · Post by **moooooo** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:41 pm

at.the.drive-in played in a bowling alley in Garden City, NY...I forgot when, maybe 1999. Either way, it was really intense and fun, just like every other time I saw them.

Honorable mention, Broken Social Scene at the Mercury Lounge last year, and Sunny Day Real Estate at the Middle East in Boston back in 2000. Both were great shows because of the small, extremely active crowds, amazing bands, and other people bought me beer so I spent no cash.

taeli · Post by **taeli** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:12 am

Yaay ATDI were ace cool live. "Every other time"?!?!? *jealous* - I only got to see them once; November 2000 I think it was. They broke up before they were scheduled to play my home town (Manchester/UK) again. Grrr. Have seen Sparta and The Mars Volta a couple of times each, but neither really blew me away.

And OMG I saw Broken Social Scene last November. They were ace

I've been wanting to try and make an "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-old Girl" AMV for ages. Must be perfect for atleast 25 seperate fan service anime series, but I wouldn't know which ones. :\ (well, that and cuz I've got 15 seperate AMVs to first lol)

(respect for making a fantomas amv, am currently downloading)

moooooo · Post by **moooooo** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:24 am

taeli wrote:Yaay ATDI were ace cool live. "Every other time"?!?!? *jealous* - I only got to see them once; November 2000 I think it was. They broke up before they were scheduled to play my home town (Manchester/UK) again. Grrr. Have seen Sparta and The Mars Volta a couple of times each, but neither really blew me away.

And OMG I saw Broken Social Scene last November. They were ace I've been wanting to try and make an "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-old Girl" AMV for ages. Must be perfect for atleast 25 seperate fan service anime series, but I wouldn't know which ones. :\ (well, that and cuz I've got 15 seperate AMVs to first lol)

(respect for making a fantomas amv, am currently downloading)

Yeah, I was actually really lucky to see at.the.drive-in on a few seperate occasions. The bowling alley one was best because it was just so random, unexpected, and almost surreal. I mean, there was no stage, no kids, and families bowling maybe 10 feet away from the show. I also got to see them on tour with rage against the machine in a stadium (They got boo-ed off stage) at some bar with industry dick pigs in NYC, and a club called Axis at Boston with the Murder City Devils and The International Noise Conspiracy. That show would have been sick, if it wasn't for the fact that the crowd was 1 part unresponsive hipsters and 1 part steakhead frat bro's trying to mosh. There was just a weird antagonistic vibe that brought down the show in general, which was a shame because they really played absurdly well.

I've yet to see sparta, but yeah I saw Mars Volta on their first headlining tour in the states and I was impressed by the way they played, and I really love those songs, but yeah, it just doesn't compare to a live at.the.drive-in show. Totally different band/style/fan. Not that that's a bad thing

Man, I'd love to see that Broken Social Scene video. I've been thinking about one for a little while, but it really doesn't make any sense in my head so I threw it to the back burner for good. As for the fantomas video, try and enjoy it...good luck, heh.

taeli · Post by **taeli** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:13 am

moooooo - Just stalked your past posts fer five minutes.

Ever see Trail of Dead? Saw em twice - stunning after Madonna, pretty awful after Source Tags & Codes. Which was odd cause I prefer the latter album.

(& download. not terribly original, but it's nice to see a trail of dead video done with so much effort)

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:40 am

Lesse... here are a few memorable moments.

-Weird Al in '99. The man puts on an incredible fucking show, probably one of the hardest-working musicians out there. If you have the chance to go to a Weird Al show, by all means go.

-Incubus, the Electric Factory (the biggest concert venue in Philly before you get to the sports complexes, figure it holds 1,000 or so), about a couple weeks after 9/11. Drive in acoustic.

-Dispatch, the Electric Factory, a couple months later. The General with electric guitars rather than the acoustic guitars you're used to hearing. The whole place was jumping during the entire thing, especially when they segued into 'What I Got'

-Y100 FEZtival, June 2002, Tweeter Center in Camden. My ticket was for the 26th row, all the way on the left side behind a couple giant concrete pillars. I snuck up to the 4th row, dead left-center, quite possibly the best view one can ever have. Jimmy Eat World, Papa Roach, Incubus, and System of A Down. I don't think I was able to talk for 2 or 3 days after singing along to the last two sets, and my hearing didn't stabilize for a week.

-The Crystal Method, April '04, The Electric Factory. A 'rave' concert in the 'rave scene has sold its soul' sense. $5 for a pair of glowsticks, but it was still incredible. TCM encored with what must have been a 10-minute version of Busy Child.

There are plenty of other moments, but those are what come to mind first...

-DOKool

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:02 am

Although they haven't gone live for some time, there was a Tangerine Dream concert I went to which was two and a half hours of continuous music. They had transition pieces pre-programmed into on-stage computers (Atari STs as I later found out). So they never stopped for applause or anything.

Then there was a Yanni concert I saw in Seattle. I can imagine what people here think of his music, but the guy is a perfectionist in his live performances. Everything worked, especially the three "mechanics" he brought in to play with him (in addition to a small orchestra). He was generous enough to let each one have as much time as he or she needed for solos. These were people that no one's ever heard of, but they were so good that the audience literally jumped to their feet with standing ovations after each solo run. Amazing stuff that I'll never get to hear again.

elka · Post by **elka** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 7:24 am

Uhhm... I would have to say...

Beck and the Flaming Lips, the year before last..
Cake, three years ago
and every time I've SEEN Ben Folds and Divine Comedy. Ben Folds simply has awesome stage presence. Presense? Prese..

too early to remember. Work, brain, work..

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:43 am

for me its a many band tie

black label society was ungodly loud, and zakk interacted with the crowd alot...

ozzy osbourne...the man...what can be said he still has the live prescense that makes me want to see the show over and over again

hatebreed... the pit was amazing(yeah complain or say how stupid the pit is i dont care), someone got hurt in the middle of their set and they had immediately stopped the pit for the ambulance

Down...first row with one of my favorite vocalists(philip anselmo) and one of my favorite guitar players(pepper keenan)

meshuggah...kinda funny mushroomhead came on stage and was messing around with em on stage

mushroomhead(a few bands after meshuggah)...meshuggah came on stage with boxes on their heads that had the mushroomhead face logo and was fucking with them onstage

WORST SHOWS

andrew wk...it was quite funny everyone on the secondstage(ozzfest 2002) left when he came on stage...

lost prophets...the singer was a dickhead to the audience

the used...they sucked at playing...the singer sounded like ass(like he was out of it)

FoolThemAll · Post by **FoolThemAll** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:10 am

Bad shows, eh? I can't say I've been to a bad show, really, but I've heard some terrible openers. Chevelle, Adema, and probably about half of Ozzfest 2001 were terrible.