Best and worst rock shows?!
Question: What is the best concert you have been to? what made it so great? Details please!
What was your worst show? Details please!
Answers: What is the best concert you have been to? what made it so great? Details please!
What was your worst show? Details please!
Green Day, Sydney Australia, Dec 14th 2005.
Best concert of my life. Why? For a few reasons...
1) First concert of my life (you know, you always remember the first :)
2) extremely young girly crush on frontman (Billie Joe Armstrong) only heightened the whole experience I guess
3) Onstage masturbation, grinding against and humping the microphone stand while wearing an Aussie flag, (I enjoyed it why? #2)
4) Second last show of the entire tour - more songs, more antics ;)
5) the fact that I was listening to these songs live, thundering loud, in the open air, at night, being played right there to me by a band I adored... Songs I'd learned entire albums' worth of lyrics to, singing them day and night, in my room, in my mirror..
6) overpriced, overcooked hot chips & sauce
7) *double* encore (yes, yes, I cried)
8) Firework display & confetti at very end (anything with fireworks is automatically great, confetti = bonus)
9) After the show, playing Dookie in the jammed carpark on full volume and having hundreds (okay 50 or so) cars singing along and flashing their lights... good times.
10) The build-up. From 43 days (bought tickets), wrote the numbers on my hand until 1, the day before.
To sum it up, 14/12/05, 7:30pm, I walked in, starry-eyed and adoring. I spent my saved-up $50 stuck in my bra on an oversized concert shirt. I put it on, and witnessed the greatest show my naiive eyes had ever seen. "Deflowered" or whatever, just after midnight I left the grounds drenched in sweat, without a voice, less innocent, but even more so in love.
I have never washed that shirt, and I will never forget why.
Worst rock show? Yet to be had, although, I went to see a local band play, dropped my phone and spent half the set crawling the moshpit (remember, i'm 5ft) trying to find it :P
viva my teenage years is all I can say ;)
sorry that was a tad long, but you said details!
Best: Godsmack, Rob Zombie, Shinedown
Three of my favorite bands. All put on great shows
Worst: [some of] Sounds of the Underground 2007
Most of the first half of the show sucked. Just bad bands
ESCAPE THE FATTEE!!
best ones everr, ronnie knows how to put on a show:]:]
and he's hot.. and he's the guy I look up to to stay motivated to become as awsome as he is.
worstt... I don't know I think our local bands are really boring, but their just starting so i'll give them a break theyll get better one day.
I would have to say that the strokes put on one of the best shows that I have ever seen. The crowd was really into the music and the band was incredible. Hopefully they will put out another album soon. I recently saw Icecube play and was very impressed.
Being almost 46 I've been to My Share of Concerts, the Best that stands out for Me, though I cannot remember the Year was a Greatful Dead Concert here in Rochester, NY at a Stadium that is no longer standing today, It was called Hollander Stadium. The Concert was held on a Gorgeous Sunny Afternoon, there was a sold out croud, I went with My best friend at the time John S. and a few other people. The Beer was Cold, the Weed was Wonderful, we all donned The GD T-Shirts and I had on a Leather Cowboy Hat with a Marijuana Leaf on the front in turquoise that My Father had bought!
The Music was awesome, the crowd was wild and the concert seemed to go on forever.
It was the very last concert held in this landmark stadium and it held a special meaning to everyone there. I will never forget it.
As for worst Show. I have yet to see a show that I didn't like.
Guess I just Love Music.
Thanks for a thought provolking question!
Oh the Memories.....
Ozzfest 07: Originally my group and I were sitting on the lawn, and we got upgraded to about 3rd row right when Ozzy was coming on! We got sprayed with shaving cream and everything! My god, it was one hell of a show.
Worst: FLYLEAF! Seen them twice, that's about two hours put together of the lead singer flying around in circles screaming disastrously. My god it was awful.
Best?
Iron Maiden (well...my Fave Group, and they still put on a huge arena show, with all the spectacle. There is a reason they sell out all the biggest venues around the world 30 years later)
KISS (Saw em back in 04? Farewell tour in full attire. Just a great spectacle. Old school showmanship. great music, pyros, and they have decades of experience pumping tohe crowds. Unhloy was an unholy experience)
Metallicas Madly in Anger at the world Tour (a pleasant surprise. Saw them the first time for Puppets, and saw them adozen times before the Black album. Saw them 5 time since...the foirst being Day on the Green back in 91, when they debuted the Black album. After that, you could tell they were just going throught the motions. James had no stage banter, no charisma. And of course, load/reload pretty well sucked anyhow. Well, some o me mates convinced me to go to the last one, and Wow! Only downside was Godsmack opening. But James being sober was suddenly awesome on stage, and Rob Trujillo, playing with his fingers, was the perfect fit. Plus, they only played like 3 post Justice songs the whole show. Oh please let the newealbum be good.)
Worst?
I saw NickleBack once. Nuff Said? (ok...went cauze I wanted to see Evanesence, and they opened. Amy is a great singer..but by god, Nicklecrack sucks!)
For me the best was the very first Lallapalooza tour in 1991 - Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes, Butthole Surfers, Living Colour, Siouxsie and the Banshees & Ice T and Body Count. It was Jane's Addiction's farewell, and the mood was just totally electric. Plus, I love outside shows more than I do indoor ones.
Worst....Farm Aid IV. I don't like country western but I went along to please some friends and they paid for the ticket. Never again will I go to a country western concert/festival. Once was certainly enough.
Best: Meat Loaf "Everything Louder Than Everything Else" Tour (For Bat Out of Hell II)
While he only did songs from Bat I and Bat II, he sang ALL the songs from those two albums. Meat Loaf is a performer, not just a singer. He makes you believe that even though you're in the nosebleed section, he's singing just for you.
Worst: Black Sabbath in 1992 (I think). Wasn't really a bad show, but I didn't really know most of the music at the time.
Best: Linkin Park with Coheed and Cambria (Chiodos was there, but they sucked. Their lead singer sounded like he was 12, and there was no bass at all.)
Coheed and Cambria has been one of my favorite bands for about 2-3 years now, and this was the 3rd time I saw them live (Warped Tour last year, a show in Chicago last year, and then with Linkin Park in Detroit this year.) This wasn't their best performance, but I chalk that up to them being new to the arena scene. But, they still sounded amazing.
And then comes Linkin Park. I have been a fan since Hybrid Theory, and I had heard stories about how good they are live. They didn't disappoint. They sounded simply amazing, and had such great energy, such great presence. They had an amazing set list that included every song I could have possibly wanted to hear. I can't wait to see them again at Projekt Revolution.
Worst: Blue Oyster Cult. I'm sorry, I just saw them last year at a local festival, and they were jerks. One person started moving around to the music, and the lead singer said "stop it you asshole, you're ruining the show for everyone else!" And the bassist was wearing bell bottoms, that kind of creeped me out...
Two years ago when I saw Isis with Tool, both bands were epic that night. It was only the second time I saw Tool who were just awesome as usual, but Isis impressed the hell out of me.
Worst show I went to was Ozzfest 2001 they're were some pretty good bands that year on the bill, but I couldn't take Papa Roach and Crazytown they were so bad that I actually wish I had rotten eggs to throw at them.
best concert ive ever been to was Against Me! in Gainesville. i've seen them in Miami twice but it was nothing compared to them playing in thier home town. the energy was amazing and you could feel the music and lyrics.
rock on the range 2007-best--there was a lineup of 13+ bands with two stages. kick a$$ show. cant wait for this years show. 28+ bands FLOOR TICKETS BOTH DAYS BABY!!!!
sevendust/red-worst--i like sevendust and actually got to meet them after the show, but the sound sucked and you couldnt understand a thing.
Best concert, hands down, was Van Halen last October. I had pretty low expectations, as sometimes the magic that a band once had cannot be rekindled but I was BLOWN AWAY. The songs were executed perfectly, there wasn't a moment of awkwardness that ruined the continuity or anything. It was just pure Van Halen, and I freaking loved it.
Worst concert...The Backstreet Boys in 2001. Sisquo opened for them. Do I even have to explain why that show sucked so bad?
Nearly every concert I've been to I've enjoyed immensely, but I'll choose one at random and say AIR. Well for starters it was in a giant tent at a music festival I was at at about 10pm. I was at the barrier and quite intoxicated [not drunk, just a nice happy], and AIR also happen to be one of my favourite bands..It just felt like a big wonderland with multi-coloured lights and spacey music..
Yay! Links! Terrible sound quality but you'll get the idea :)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YDBililSng...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMxuHoZCW...
Worst? Hmm, I'm saying 'worst' not because it was unbelievably dreadful, but I can't really complain about much concerts I've been to! Q.O.T.S.A, [at the same festival], they singing was pretty band, we were away at the back and couldn't really see or hear properly, but! we still started our own little mosh pit for want of something to do! It was fun :D
I'd post a link but all the recordings are awful!
Mine was probably 30 seconds to mars. For a start we were in the mosh pit, that makes it soo much better:) and the fact jared leto interacted with the crowd and crowd surfed =]
Best - Rolling Stones, Masonic Temple, Detroit, 1978
Worst - Bob Dylan, Cobo Hall, Detroit, 1980 ..during his religious phase.
Thought it was going to be the worst but was totally surprised: America. Premier Center, Sterling Heights, Mi. 1985
the best show i've been to was a Green Day show about 3 or 4 years ago when i was 10. Somehow i got on the floor.
The worst was a Meat Puppets show. I was bored the entire time. the show made me like them alot less.
Best concert- A.R.M.S. benifit at Madison Square Garden 12 8th and 9th 1983 ....Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, Ronnie Wood, Paul Rodgers, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Kenny Jones, Ray Cooder , Andy Fairweather Lowe and a few more......it was a benifit for their pal Ronnie Laine who was inflicted with mutiple sclrosis