So I saw KMFDM last night and HOLY SHIT it was amazing.
First off, there were 2 bands playing before KMFDM.
The first band, Chant, was some kind of industrial drum group...think Combichrist without any guitars, only drums. They were good enough, but didn't really stand out in my opinion. The main thing that struck me about them was that they were impressive for a 2 man group.
The second band to play, Legion Within, was fucking incredible; I'm definitely a fan of them now. The band was perfect as a unit, and they played their hearts out even though they just drove all the way from Seattle to Atlanta. The front man for the band was charismatic and energetic, and engaged the crowd pretty well.
After the first 2 bands got the crowd warmed up KMFDM came on and fucking rocked the place! They started off with "DIY", a fan favorite, and after that the hits kept coming - old with new. I was especially excited when they played "Son of a Gun". Also enjoyable were "Tohuvabohu", "Free Your Hate", "World War 3", "Megalomaniac", "A Drug Against War", and "Anarchy" - Which the lead singer of Legion Within joined KMFDM on stage to perform.
After the show I hung around a bit and got to converse and talk with the bands, they're all really pleasant people.
...and now we depart from my rave and come to the point of this thread: Talk about concerts you've been to, and why you enjoyed/hated them.
I have seen alot of good shows, but seeing Rush, in about 1977, 0r '78, Farewell to kings tour, was by far the most awesome concert I ever experienced. The album hadn't been released, so these were all new songs to me. Cygnus X-1 live blew me away. Of course, it helped that I was tripping my brains out. [-(
Quote from: "Jmpty"I have seen alot of good shows, but seeing Rush, in about 1977, 0r '78, Farewell to kings tour, was by far the most awesome concert I ever experienced. The album hadn't been released, so these were all new songs to me. Cygnus X-1 live blew me away. Of course, it helped that I was tripping my brains out. [-(
Rush is the greatest band in the world.
One of the last shows I went to was DOA, glad I saw them because they called it quits so Joey Shithead can run for political office.
Quote from: "NitzWalsh"Rush is the greatest band in the world.
Amen to that. I'm insanely jealous of anyone who's seen them. I've not managed it yet - I'd have loved to have seen them around the Power Windows, Grace Under Pressure, Moving Pictures era.
I saw Saxon for the second time a couple of months back. Great gig from the old fellas! Not many bands travel down to where I'm at.
I've been to more concerts than I can list! Let me try...
Van Halen (3 Times)
Metallica (3 Times)
Aerosmith (3 Times)
Styx
Kansas
Tran Siberian Orchestra (8 times)
Linkin Park
Limp Bizkit
Dave Matthews Band
Def Leppard
Angela (Japanese Singer)
Genesis
Godsmack
Bullet For My Valentine
Kill Switch Engage
Ozzy Osbourne (3 Times)
AWOL Nation
Tiesto
Kenny Chesney
Troy Aikens
Billy Joel
Various no-name bands at Toads Place New Haven, CT
I've been to a ton more, but I can't remember all of em!
Quote from: "wolf39us"I've been to more concerts than I can list! Let me try...
Van Halen (3 Times)
Metallica (3 Times)
Aerosmith (3 Times)
Styx
Kansas
Tran Siberian Orchestra (8 times)
Linkin Park
Limp Bizkit
Dave Matthews Band
Def Leppard
Angela (Japanese Singer)
Genesis
Godsmack
Bullet For My Valentine
Kill Switch Engage
Ozzy Osbourne (3 Times)
AWOL Nation
Tiesto
Kenny Chesney
Troy Aikens
Billy Joel
Various no-name bands at Toads Place New Haven, CT
I've been to a ton more, but I can't remember all of em!
Bloody hell! That's quite an impressive list!
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Quote from: "NitzWalsh"Quote from: "Jmpty"I have seen alot of good shows, but seeing Rush, in about 1977, 0r '78, Farewell to kings tour, was by far the most awesome concert I ever experienced. The album hadn't been released, so these were all new songs to me. Cygnus X-1 live blew me away. Of course, it helped that I was tripping my brains out. [-(
Rush is the greatest band in the world.
One of the last shows I went to was DOA, glad I saw them because they called it quits so Joey Shithead can run for political office.
The Rick Copeland was unaware DOA broke up. That's too bad as they are a great band and a great live act. True story (seriously): About ten years ago The Rick Copeland was in the store buying some beer when who was behind him buying some beer as well? Joey Shithead. The Rick Copeland asked him if that's who he was and Shithead confirmed it was him and they were set to go on stage at a Salt Lake club in a few hours. The Rick Copeland missed the show; he was unaware DOA were even coming. But he has seen them enough times to know their studliness...
NoMeansNo are great as well...
Quote from: "Jmpty"I have seen alot of good shows, but seeing Rush, in about 1977, 0r '78, Farewell to kings tour, was by far the most awesome concert I ever experienced. The album hadn't been released, so these were all new songs to me. Cygnus X-1 live blew me away. Of course, it helped that I was tripping my brains out. [-(
Did you get a souvenir kimono?
Quote from: "rickcopeland648"Quote from: "Jmpty"I have seen alot of good shows, but seeing Rush, in about 1977, 0r '78, Farewell to kings tour, was by far the most awesome concert I ever experienced. The album hadn't been released, so these were all new songs to me. Cygnus X-1 live blew me away. Of course, it helped that I was tripping my brains out. [-(
Did you get a souvenir kimono?
If only. I'd be wearing it right now.
Quote from: "Youssuf Ramadan"Bloody hell! That's quite an impressive list!
That ain't fucking shit. Of course I'm an old man, relatively speaking, I'm 52. I can't really count how many concerts I've been to, but, my first "major" concert was Styx Pieces of Eight tour around 1978. Since then, I've attended probably an average of 10 shows a year, for around 300 concerts.
I copied from the earlier list just to have something to start with. Then I will add what I can remember, but, I won't be able to remember any where near them all.
Van Halen (3 Times) Early with DLR, then with Sammy, then the last tour back with DLR
AC/DC (with Bon Scott Highway to Hell, plus Brian Johnson Back In Black tours)
Rush - twice
Metallica
Aerosmith
Styx
Tran Siberian Orchestra
Def Leppard
Genesis
Peter Gabriel post Genesis
Phil Collins post Genesis
Billy Joel
U2 - about 7 times since the War tour
Police - 3 times
Rush - twice
Heart - around 5 times
Rammstein
Supertramp - 4 times
Yes - twice
Pat Benatar
Boston
Moody Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughn
John Mellencamp - around 5 times
John Fogerty - twice
Depeche Mode
Cranberries - twice
Pink Floyd - twice
Roger Waters - twice
Dire Straights - 3 times
No Doubt
Garbage - 3 times
Blue Oyster Cult - twice
Black Sabbath with Dio during original Heaven and Hell tour
Alice Cooper
Robert Plant solo
Robert Plant/Jimmy Page quasi Zep tour
And now for something completely different from the rest of this list:
Alison Kraus & Union Station (Hey, HBA, something for you!)
Seriously, the list needs to be around twice as long or more to cover everybody I've seen.
Alice Cooper back what that was the name of the band or after it was just Vinny Furnier?
Quote from: "rickcopeland648"Alice Cooper back what that was the name of the band or after it was just Vinny Furnier?
Its been a long time, but not that long. There was an outdoor stadium show in Houston with Black Sabbath (Dio), Blue Oyster Cult and Alice Cooper. Since Cooper was an opening act, I'm sure it wasn't his best show.
Just a handful more that come to mind:
Pretenders - three times
Rolling Stones - Three times
The Who - three times (all post death of Keith Moon)
Beach Boys.
Rise Against and Bad Religion at Stubb's was probably the coolest line-up I have been to. Bad Religion was fucking amazing, and there is no need to even say how good Rise Against was.
The latest concert I went to was a Tegan and Sara + The Black Keys concert. Tegan and Sara... could have been much better, I was let down by this. At the time, I didn't know The Black Keys outside of one song from FIFA, and I didn't recognize the name.
Hands down the best concert I have ever been to. The atmosphere was absolutely insane, the music sounded even better than it does on the albums... everything about this concert was insane. And for the encore, as the entire stadium is chanting their name, a giant disco ball slowly rises from behind the stage, and as it gets higher and higher the crowd gets louder and louder. Then "Tighten Up" plays, and everyone loses it.
It was a good day.
Is Rise Against the band with the singer dude who's gettining the sex change or is that Against Me!? Or is it Rise Against Me!?
I've been to two suzy bogguss concerts. I love them because they were small, and you got to meet her afterwards.. She also had a simple acoustic act. nothing fancy. just songs and stories and jokes.
I haven't been to too many, money is tight, and when I was in Oklahoma, I had no way to get to any.
I was planning to see Emmylou Harris last week, but went to the atheist camp in South Dakota instead.
I'll have to see her next time she's in town.
I plan to do more concerts, as I get more money, now that I live in Denver where they have good transit, and now that I'm free from Dish Network, who never gave me enough time off to go to any. (mandatory overtime, every week)
Quote from: "rickcopeland648"Is Rise Against the band with the singer dude who's gettining the sex change or is that Against Me!? Or is it Rise Against Me!?
That's Against Me!.
I'll add more to try to answer the OP's question about favorite concerts and why. But, I'll just post one simple anecdote about the first time I saw Van Halen. It was the Van Halen II tour, and, their first headlining tour. In fact, during the show, DLR told us to remember this night, the first time Van Halen has ever headlined anywhere. Maybe 15 years later, I ran into someone who saw the Van Halen II tour in Midland TX. I mentioned that DLR told us about it being the first ever Van Halen headline show. He responded, "that asshole, he told us the same fucking thing". I recently looked up the tour dates on Wikipedia and neither Houston (where I saw them) nor Midland were the first night of that tour, nowhere close. We didn't have the Internet to fact-check back then.
Ever headlined anywhere? Not even during their club days?
Quote from: "rickcopeland648"Ever headlined anywhere? Not even during their club days?
At the time, I didn't know they had any club dates. But, yes, I now know they had headlining shows prior to the VH II tour. So, that made it an even bigger lie.
Okay, so now, what about what are the best shows I've ever seen? Well, sad to say, I do not classify Rush among them. Their sound wasn't that good at the venue. It was a good show, indeed, but, at least the Rush shows I've seen I can't classify among the best shows I've seen.
At this time, I don't care for Styx, I've long outgrown them. But Styx Pieces of Eight tour was my first major concert, and, at the time, it totally blew me away, never seen anything like it. I would never consider them good now, but, it was, for me a the time, kick ass, and why I still go to concerts so often to this day. So, yeah, I have to list Styx as a favorite concert.
Supertramp Breakfast in America tour. It was my first date with my high school sweetheart. And, I really love that album. Interesting tidbid. Thousands of people wouldn't leave after the lights came on after the oncore. They eventually came back out and did a second oncore, they said the first time they had done so in years. I, on the other hand, had no idea. Lights came on, so, I left. Goddammmit.
Roger Waters Wall tour. The sound was fantastic, the visuals were fantastic. Its not my favorite Floyd album, but, it was one fucking hell of a concert.
U2 War tour, in the 3000 seat Music Hall in Houston. Now that was something, seeing them when they were still a "small" band. Never forget that.
U2 Joshua Tree tour. U2 was a lot bigger then, of course, but I still remember the red stage lighting during Bullet the Blue Sky. It was the first time I heard the song, it wasn't a single yet.
U2 Zoo TV tour. Really the Achtung Baby tour, my favorite U2 album. There was something magical about hearing the Edge's guitar solo on Until the End of the World filling the stadium.
U2 No Line on the Horizon tour. Great sound, stunning visuals. And a buddy of mine is a volunteer for Bono's One organization and was one of about 100 people to be given a chance to walk on the stage during Walk On.
Okay, enough U2 shows...
Police - Ghost in the Machine tour. First time I saw them. And, one of my favorite Police albums. Show fucking rocked.
AC/DC Highway to Hell. Bon Scott. nuff said.
Oh, and some more bands I've seen:
Paul McCartney
Sheryl Crow
Lynard Skynard
.38 Special
Cheap Trick (The band Sweet, "Love is Like Oxygen" opened the show)
Foghat
Triumph
ZZ Top
Steely Dan
Queensryche
Bob Seger
Bruce Springsteen
Creed (yeah, yeah, I actually still considered myself a Christian when Creed first came out...)
Ted Nugent/Scorpions/Def Leppard. That was Nugent's Wango-Tango tour I think, and before Def Leppard was big, High and Dry era
And a couple more non-rock shows:
Sade (she does a really good show)
Kenny G (Toni Braxton opened)
Some Houston Pops symphony shows, like "Bond and Beyond"
Public Enemy opened for U2 once. (why?)