Best concerts you've seen

[chickenman]

Seen tons of shows, some of my favorites.

The Band.. Last Waltz Winterland 1978

The closing of Winterland, New Years Eve 1978. With Blues Brothers, NewRiders, Greateful Dead till Dawn.

Bob Marley Berkley 1970s

Neil Young Cow Palace, Rust Never Sleeps Tour, the album is one of the best quality recording ever done on LP records and CD as welll.

Santana band on tour in Kobe Japan. 70s The best ever Santana band. The Japanese are way different at concerts. Carlos and band came out and delivered the absoult best Santana music ever. Check out Santana Loutus. Recorded live on this tour. The LP recording is spectacular and its also available on CD.

James Taylor, Telluride bluegrass. awesome night. James Taylor, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, Mark Oconner, Jerry Douglass, Bela fleck, all the good old Strenght In Number Boys along with James outstanding. Doing all James great songs.

The Who at Winterland. The Who were at there peak and this was a makeup concert for when Keith Moon passed out prior to concert at Cow palace earlier that year.

Rolling stones. Candelstick park, saw several shows there The Stones are Rock and Roll

Greateful Dead and The Who Amsterdam at the Rock palace small venue. Can recall the some of the dates..Not sure about some. Many more these camr to mind

 

[coloradochem]

slightly stoopid and pepper at red rocks a couple summers ago.

 

[jeffadies]

Tool at Redrocks.
Stever Miller Band..redrocks
Eagles.. fiddlers green
Dog Fashion Disco...32 BLeau
Within Temptation....Cerventas(my band opened this show)
OH and i saw MC Hammer in 8 th grade..the girl i went with later became the porn star known as Jewell De'Nyle...lmao good times.

 

[spinkus]

CM l cant believe you got to see the Band last waltz, that is just awesome right there, l watched that VHS with my dad a ton growing up

Best shows for me, although totally different genres, were

ReggaeFest 2000 and a
BLS show with Zakk Wylde. lt was in a really small venue, real personal and it was just an amazing guitar performance on the electric and acoustic, this guy is an amazing guitar player. l was very blown away to say the least

Wish l was as old as you CM just so l couldve seen HALF the shows you have

 

[Chronic Monster]

I saw The Used back around 2003, the lead singer threw the microphone/cord up about 20 feet over some scaffolding, then tied it to his leg pulled himself up to the top of the scaffolding while upside down, and continued to sing/scream..
Im not the hugest Used fan, but that was still pretty damn impressive.

 

[spinkus]

OH and i saw MC Hammer in 8 th grade..the girl i went with later became the porn star known as Jewell De'Nyle...lmao good times.

That is great stuff right there

 

[jeffadies]

I agree Chickenman has seen some badass shit in his day.. Wish i could have seen half of those shows too.

 

[Papa]

hmmmm, the best? that's a tough one. my runners-up are . . .

elton john - 1975, @ dodger stadium

george benson, 1976, and stevie wonder joined him for a two hour jam . . . with 35 of us in the audience.

pink floyd - the wall, 1980

X @ the whiskey, 1978

guns n' roses, 1989 in a dive bar with only 4 of us there

 

[jeffadies]

Papa i would give anything to see Pink Floyd. your very lucky.

 

[chickenman]

george benson, 1976, and stevie wonder joined him for a two hour jam . . . with 35 of us in the audience

Ah Yes George Benson. Incredable backin the Day. We used to go to the Keystone in SF sit in front row only whites in the joint and just be transfixed by his talent. saw nite after night at the Stone With Benson..

Funny story We were going to a show to see Benson and I had a butt itch walking down street. I itched my ass and some black fella shouted out from backseat of a car.. What you diggin your booty for? Before I could think replied FOR YOUR MOMMA, the car stopped this huge fella got out I ran to the police station and he gave up, lucky stupid kid!!!Deserved a ass whoopin for sure!!!

Also saw Flyod the wall Cow Palace

 

[spinkus]

lmao CM! lettin your alligator mouth over-run your hummingbird ass back in the day huh?

 

[Papa]

pink floyd's the wall was a huge theatrical performance performed only in L.A., NYC, London, and Dortmund.

Ah Yes George Benson. Incredable backin the Day.

i didn't mention, the concert was at a college football stadium. only 35 of us sitting on the grass in front of the stage.

george comes out, looks down at us and says, "Y'all come in one car?"

 

[chickenman]

mmm Recall seeing the wall. Will check archives. My friend has an incredable memory and records of shows we saw...

 

[Papa]

mmm Recall seeing the wall.

the first half of the concert had the band on stage, and while they played, a white wall was built across the stage in front of them by the roadies, one brick at a time, until it was about 30' high and 100' wide. the bricks were like 2' x 2' x 4', 'seemed to be out of cardboard. the wall, of course, obstructed your view of the band until, as the last note of the last song of the first half finished, the last brick was pushed into the hole where gilmour had been trying to stick his head out of.

during the intermission, the band's equipment was moved around to the front of the wall. for the second half of the show, the wall was used as a projection screen behind the band. . . three projectors, each synced to the other and each projecting 30' x 30' images. the animated films were projected so that sometimes they were three different films and sometimes they would match up to be one 90' wide image with characters moving across the entire wall. of course, the floating pig and other giant puppets floated out over the audience.

at one point, high up on the wall, a cantilevered platform projects with a chaise lounge on it and i think it was gilmour who sang one song from there.

at the end of the concert, of course, as the band left the stage the wall came crashing down.


oh, i should have included the dickies on the list. i went to many of their concerts in 1978 that were unbelievable, amazing nights, and that reminds me of an agent orange concert, and that reminds me of a dead kennedys concert, and the circle jerks . . . but most of those i don't think of so much as "concerts," maybe because of the amount of sweat involved.

then there were the don kirshner rock concerts i worked on, devo was the most memorable. and oh, i can't leave out kiss, in 1977, with cheap trick opening.

 

[Seamaiden]

I saw that show, at the Coliseum. Was raining bad that night, too. Definitely memorable, but Joan Armatrading gave one hell of an open air performance.

Been to too many U/G shows in the L.A. area to list, many were memorable but my favorite was always Butthole Surfers, any venue. Last really good show I went to was Robin Trower at the Jackson Rancheria, in the banquet hall. That was a fun show and he's still very good.

 

[coloradochem]

i would love to have seen the butthole surfers back in the day!!! thats awesome seamadien. i saw the reunited sublime with rome in denver last summer that was something i never thought i would get to see. it was pretty cool, rome does a good job, but the best is bradley.

 

[jeffadies]

I saw the butthole surfers at redrocks when i was a teen.. got to meet gibby and very thing..man was that guy piss drunk..lol

 

[Papa]

then there was woodstock..between the towers

woodstock takes the prize.

i was in cali, but i had a buddy who's brother was a sound engineer and he played us great bootlegs of woodstock in the weeks after . . . off a reel to reel.

we were awestruck.

 

[spinkus]

Sublime w/rome and 311 were here last saturday, couldnt go because of prior arrangements

 

[coloradochem]

I thought about going but i dont care for 311 too much. bet it was a great show though red rocks makes ne band good.