In the same theme as the Favorite album thread,
What's you're favorite concert you've been to?
I've been to more than i can remember but,
1994 Eagles Hell Freezes Over tour Hartford Conn.
Close 2nd
1985 Live aid Philidelphia Pa.
What a party that Was!!!:gu: :gu: :gu:
Some other Favorites
1981? Journey
any one of the 10 times I've seen rush!!
any one of the 5 times I've seen billy Joel

Ron

Definately Ween last October in Boston...
They played for almost three hours, all of my old favorties included!
Best $20 I ever spent!
Later,
Rick

Ive been to hundreds & hundreds...this is tough
Bruce - Music Hall 77 (2)
KISS- PROV Civic Center 77 (3)
Rush - C.C. Collesum 80 (5)
DEVO- Orpheum 80 (1)
U2- orpheum 81 (3)
Bowie- Norfolk VA 83 (1)
SRV - Great Woods 8? (1)
STones Atlantic City 89 (1)
Lalapalooza 92
P J Harvey- Avalon 93 (3)
Soundgarden - Fitchburg 93 (3)
Page & Plant -Fleet 98 (2)
Aerosmith- Chula Vista Calf. 2001 (4)
Wilco- LUPOS 2002 (2)
Steve Earle- Avalon 2003 (1)
I'm bored & I'm reminiscing

Bruce---Alumni Hall, Providence College, spring of 1977. There were about 700 people in a 3,000 seat college gym, we sat about 50' from the stage and he played for about 3-1/2 hours.

Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen w/Dave & Sammy, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top w/Black Crowes, Clapton w/Mark Knopfler (seen Clapton about 6 times) BB King, Robert Cray, Robert Plant w/Stevie Ray Vaughn (Seen Stevie Ray Vaughn about 7 times.........alright.....after much thought......all seven times I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn were the best concerts I have ever been to....however.....THE BEST SHOW....that I have ever been to without a doubt was seeing Jeff Beck & Stevie Ray Vaughn together at the Wooster (Worcester) Centrum. Being a huge fan of guitar and blues, this was the most incendiary show that I have ever seen. These two guys in their individual sets were ablaze but when they got together for the oncore.....man the place was an inferno, especially when they did the song "Goin' Down" it was the absolute best guitar work I have ever heard. Anyone here ever hear the version of Goin' Down with Beck/Vaughn on the SRV boxed set????? WOW....nuff said.:claps: :bounce: :kewl:

Pink Floyd..... Pulse! I think they spent a gazillion dollars to make it happen.....one word *awsome*

As they played the solo at the end of 'comfortably numb', this gigantic disco ball comes up from the middle of the stadium and lites the place up with lights. One of their best lazer light shows ever. I hope they have it in them to do jsut one more, it'll be hard to beat the last one.

I haven't gotten out all that much. You guys have heard some great stuff.
I got a thing for crowds. :smash:

special mention:
AC/DC (1), Accept(3), Alice in Chains(1), Black Sabbath(2), Blue Oyster Cult(3), Cheap Trick(1), the Cars(1),Bob Dylan(1) Eagles(1), Foregner(1)Iron Madien(3), J. Geils(2), Jethro Tull(4), Judas Priest(2), the Kinks(1),John Mellencamp(1) Ozzy(2), the Police(2), Pink Floyd,(1) Deep Purple(1),outlaws , Robert Plant(2), Ramones(1) ,Rainbow(1), Santana(1) Red Hot Chili Peppers(2), Pearl Jam(1), Primus(1), Neil Young(2), Janes Addiction(1), REM(1), the who(2), Pete Townsend(1),TOOL (1), Uriah Heep(1), Van Halen.(1)Steve Winwood(2)YES (1)
this hurt me brain........
:smash:
clubbing don't count as a "concert"

hey gf
IHATE CROWDS....and LINES.....I just like live music:D

Slingah---I'm no hermit living in some small hamlet by the edge of the sea. :)
You Boston guys get all the great acts.
How's your hearing, can you still hear those bass popping on a dark night. :)

I've seen the stones three times, a bunch of Dead shows, and lots of jazz in small smokey clubs.

A few more,
- Santana 3 times
- Stevie Ray Vaughn By far the best blues guitarist ever!
- Pink Floyd 1980? or 81 Foxboro Satdium
- The who 1985? 0r 86 Foxboro Stadium

WORST CONCERT I EVER SAW,
1981 OR 82 AEROSMITH MANNING BOWL LYNN
3 songs into show, Steve Tyler passes out,(ON DRUGS)
falls on his face, END OF THE SHOW!!!

Alright! A Ween fan out there... Got Country album?

I think my most memerable concert was Phish at the Providence Preforming Arts Center in '92.

Flaming Lips/Beck Halloween NYC '03 was a blast......

Front Row Jerry Garcia Providence Civicv center '94....... blacked out and woke up at the foxy lady........:rolleyes:

Trey Anastasio at Radio City Music Hall 2 winters ago was pretty cool.

oh... Phish playing with Carlos Santana at Great Woods was a great one....

I saw Phish in a tiny barn in Vermont. Late 80s I think. I got drunk and stumbled around.

The Clash - Combat Rock tour ('82 or '83) at UVM (onstage for the whole show!!)

Talking Heads at CC Coliseum and Rush at the Garden in Summer of 81 were wicked awesome :laughs:

I saw Trey with Les Claypool and Stuart Copeland
OYSTERHEAD gf !!!!!!
I got drunk and stumbled too:laughs:

Slingah also saw "The Wiggles" live at WGBH studios.:uhuh:

Didn't cha Slingah!:laugha:

Violent Femms 1993 in some shack Norfolk Va.

My Favorite was probably The Kinks at the Gahden '81

After that was probably the Black Sabbath/ Blue Oyster Cult tour in '80

Then Ozzy at the Orpheum for the release of Blizzard of Oz w/ Rhandy Rhodes...That was a great show

Slingah...Our paths had to have crossed sometime. I've seen dozens of concerts and a lot of the bands on your list. both the Devo and U2 concerts at the Orpheum I could have had free tix to but was wearing my Heavy Metal hat and copped an attitude about Punk Rock. Still kicking myself about those

I've seen
Van Halen @ the Gahden
Aerosmith new year's eve at the Orpheum.
the Ramones at the Metro in boston.
Alice Cooper w Joan Jett and the Blackhearts @ the CCC
David Bowie w/ the Tubes @ the Oakland Coliseum (Same Week)
The Police w/ the Fixx,Oingo Boingo, Madness and the Thompson Twins @ the Oakland Coliseum ( Same Week)
Def Leppard w/ Uriah Heep @ the Oakland Coliseum ( Same Week, and What a week)
The Scorpions w/ Iron Maiden @ the Oakland Coliseum ( NOT the same week)
Rainbow w/ Pat Traverse at the Orpheum
Nazareth @ the Orpheum
Joe Jackson @ the Orpheum
Ted Nugent w/ Blackfoot '80 @ the Gahden
Pink Floyd '87 at the Providence Civic Center
The Kinks at the Wang Center

And the List just goes on.
Got to agree I hate Crowds too but love Live Music

Clapton front row at Great Woods
Santana at the Orpheum in '81
VH '81

Greatful Dead - Buffalo 91
Greatful Dead - Philly 94
Rolling Stones - Foxboro 94
Bob Dylan - Hartford 01

Grateful Dead, Foxborogh, 89?
Phish, Hampshire College, 89?
Moe with Medeski Martin and Wood, Capital Theatre, can't remember the year, but I did have back stage passes.

Oh yeah, that Horde Tour that had Ween, Primus, Beck, Niel Young, Left Over Salmon, Ben Folds Five were there I think too.

Oh there was a Spring Fling one year at UMASS I think the Beastie Boys, Phish, and the Violent Femms all played.

ROLLING STONE'S !!! IN WORCESTER MA AT SIR MORGAN'S COVE

WITH 101 OTHER PEOPLE ! WHAT A TIME ><>

VB

most memorable
the 3 who shows I saw in 2 different countries in Nov - Dec 79
johnny and edgar winter with rick derringer at a local club 77 .
the stones at toads 89 , foxboro 98
led zepplin frankfurt germany 80
uriah heep offenbach germany 78
lorelei rock St.Goarshausen germany 80

Yes in 77
santana and tower of power 72
metallica meadowlands 91
charlie daniels 76

I dont have a favorite Ive seen way too many from 72 through present .
the dead but I dont remember anything !

I'm not much of a concert guru. Saw Kansas, Chuck Mangione, Meat Loaf, and the Outlaws in college, they were ok. What ranks up there was when I was a senior in Northport High School, middle of the winter, school should have been cancelled it was snowing so bad, and Harry Chapin shows up with his guitar, but his backup guys never made it. So classes were cancelled and we sat in the auditorium and listened to what was essentially, Harry Chapin Raw. It was awesome. He ended it asking us to crituque a new song he was working on and proceded to sing "Cat's In The Cradle".

Phish (50) Starting in 93. Best show Worcester 11/98.
Grateful Dead (15)
U2(4)
REM (6)
moe. (15) All time favorite concert 11.5.98 Somerville Theater
or Orpheum Theater, 9.14.2001
Morrisey (4)
The Cure (6)
Pixies (4)
Primus (4)
morphine (3)
The The (4)
O Positive (many many many times)
Tribe
The Alarm (5)
House of Love (4)
Pink Floyd (Foxboro 94)
Black Crowes (15)
The Waterboys (7)
The Pogues (3)
Aerosmith (Great Woods 93) too much Jager...


I have seen over 300 concerts, but I too mostly got drunk and stumbled around.

BN
:gu: :gu: :gu: :gu:

Nice to see some other people on the board with some hippie music tastes.

Now, my favorites:

Grateful Dead - 9/10/91 - Madison Square Garden - Branford Marsalis joined for the whole show, and the show contained the best Franklin's Tower ever in my opinion.

Rage Against the Machine - Fall '93 - Saw them in a tiny club in Atlanta just before they hit big time. Maybe like 200 people there, and the show was just intense. Walked out of there blown away.

Phish - Seen too many shows to count, but 12/31/95, 10/31/96, and 12/30/93 stick out as my favorites. However, I've got quite an impressive Phish resume, and have seen many many great shows from them and their side projects.

The Black Crowes - Orpheum Theater sometime around their first album. They blew the roof off the place, and were really on their game at the time.

I also saw a ton of other shows (Nirvana, Dave Matthews in a bar with 100 people in it), but these were the best I saw.

hippie ? whach ya talking about willis ?

huh what??? speak up!!!! (sorry never wore earplugs to a concert:( )


any way:rolleyes: metallica twice on the justice tour, Judas Priest, marty stewart w/ travis tritt (those two are high energy!)
marty he played local,very low key and down to earth, motley crew (wow was THAT a long time ago) hmm...there are plenty more but those are among the most memorable......of and the beach boys when six flags was riverside and they played on the race track!:D

CAL....did you ever see Stevie Ray Vaughn live???? Clapton is awesome but as far as intensity, he can't hold a candle to SRV live. (Naturally when he was alive) God I miss that guy!

Pink Floyd-Animals tour in the 70's Bruce a bunch of times in the 70's Tubes and Squeeze 70's, Lou Reed at the Paradise- 70's, U2 in the 80's so many concerts not enough live brain cells left!

Originally posted by Jimbo
So classes were cancelled and we sat in the auditorium and listened to what was essentially, Harry Chapin Raw. It was awesome. He ended it asking us to crituque a new song he was working on and proceded to sing "Cat's In The Cradle". Dude - you're old :hihi:

In order of favorites:

Tie: Floyd - Foxboro - 94 (two nights - row 12 for one)
Floyd - Foxboro - 89(?)
Peter Gabirel Woostah Centrum - 95

the rest not in order:

KIX - Pasadena MD, 83
Judas Priest and Ted Nugent - Sindlefingen Congresshalle - 83
Monsters of Rock (VH, AC-DC, Ozzy, Accept, Dokken, Dio, Quiet Riot, Motely Crue and some others I don't remember, well i don't remember all of them- Karlsruhe Stadium - 85 (84?)
Monsters of Rock - Heidleberg (I think) 86 (85?)
Springsteen - Munich - 86
Hewey Lewis - Munich - 85
Nena - Stuttgart - 85
The Hooters - Roger Williams College 91
Van Halen - Boston Garden - 90
--- I'm drawing a blank on some of the others
Heart - :rollem: Great Woods - 90 something
Skynard - Great Woods - 90-91 (twice)
Neil Young - Great Woods - 91
Jimmy Buffet - Great Woods - 90, 92
Earth Day concert (The Kinks - awesome, INXs, Midnight Oil, Steve Miller Band, others I forget) at Foxboro - 90 something

Others - big ones too - I know I'm missing but can't recall

Ted Nugent I think it was 1978 at Boston garden. Between 1978 and 1985 I saw a bunch of Boston bands. I worked for a band as the sound man. Great time.

OK, I can take it, so I got a few miles on me, I may be one of the few here who remember Don Kirschner's Rock Concert, I can even take being called an old dude, but do me one big favor (remember, I'm old, I may forget between now and then). Don't forget the hat Saturday night.

:D :D :D

Originally posted by JohnR


Earth Day concert (The Kinks - awesome, INXs, Midnight Oil, Steve Miller Band, others I forget) at Foxboro - 90 something

I was there:D

I'm a rush head and seen a bunch, best one IMHO or due to my condition:), was the last fleet center aka garden show.

Best concert I have ever seen was Eagles, last year as a birthday present from my wife. Close your eyes and you would have sworn it was the cd, they sounded so good.
We also saw BonJovi/ Goo Goo Dolls tice. Second time was at the Razor, and Sheryl Crow was opening, can you say hottie.

Trivia for all u tubes fans, name the keyboardist, and what tv show did he play on???

The Specialist,
I saw the Eagles last year also (fleet Center)
I was pretty dissapionted in that show!
I've seen the eagles 3 different times
1978, Great show but, that was in their partying days
1994, Hell freezes over tour, by far the best show!!!
Last year, Fleet center, No Don Felder on lead guitar:(
While Goe Walsh is a great guitarist and the life of the show, his playing dosn't compare to Don felder!!! and the sound of the band was nothing like their albums! Ron

They also looked pretty old (accept Glenn Frey) and tired half way through the show!

Okay, I've said it before, but:

1. Jimi Hendrix and the Experience, Rhode Island Auditorium, 1968.

2. Eric Clapton and Cream, ditto.

3. Carlos Santana, Woodstock.

4. Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company and yes, she really did keep a fifth of Southern Comfort behind the Marshalls. Newport Folk Festival, 1968....ummmm, maybe '69...I dunno, I've heard it said that if you remember the 60's you weren't really there.

5. Led Zeppelin, same year, same place.

6. Sly and the Family Stone, ditto.

7. The Great One I Missed: Third Row Box Seats (Seats 48, 49, 50 outta 100) for The Allman Brothers at the Newport Festival. The show was cancelled due to the riot.

Well, Sherman, how's that for a trip in the Wayback Machine?

How could I forget this one?
The Tower Of Power
Not one of the most popular bands as far as songs in the charts,
But one of the most talented group of musicians ever!!!
Saw them about 10 times from the late 70s- 1990
One show they had Chester Thompson with them, he played most every instrument!

Oops, just remembered two more:

Saw some guy sing outdoors on the quad at Wheaton College on a sunny afternoon in 1968, had no idea who the hell he was :huh: - there were like 300 coeds and me and one other guy there in the audience sitting on the grass. He just played by himself on a small platform with an accoustic guitar and only had one small Fender amp. Found out he had just released his first album on Apple Records titled "Sweet Baby James."

Needless to say, me and the other guy pretty much went largely unnoticed by the 300 panting coeds. :doh:

Saw all the Taylors, Kate, Livingston, Alex et al. minus James at a wedding my wife and I went to on the Vineyard in the mid-Eighties - they sang backup to Carly Simon, who sang the Everly Brothers' "Devoted to You" to the newlyweds at their reception. That really was pretty special - Carly even brushed right against me as she departed the stage and I smiled at her - and again, I went largely unnoticed. :doh:

Hey, wait a minute - what the hell, what am I, Claude Raines?

Awww, it's probably just as well - Mrs. Crafty woulda been pissed if Carly started hittin' on me. :laughs:

Dead - Cape Coliseum October 1979

Clash - same place- 8/82

U2 - Toads Place 12/80-


You said memorable right ?

VB,

I used to catch the Fools at the cove quite a bit out in Worcester years ago...

My favorite concert was J.Geils at the Boston Garden during the Love Stinks Tour...

The energy was unbelievable for a Boston Garden concert event, and Peter Wolf went long into the night as the band stayed for hours...

Best show I have ever seen for the money, and the band was pumped up through the entire event...

It's always a blast catching local bands at concert events!

I saw Boston during a long run they were doing at the Centrum, (13 concerts there or something like that?...)and it was similar to seeing J.Geils at the garden...

for Boston to do so many nights and carry the intensity as they did was well worth the cost of the tickets...

Originally posted by TheSpecialist
Trivia for all u tubes fans, name the keyboardist, and what tv show did he play on???

The Keyboardist was Mike Cotten but you have me on the TV show :huh:

Good question!... loved the Tubes!... great band!

Fee Waybill

Many, many Dead shows
Neil Young (2)
Garcia (5)
Ozzy- Orpheum in '81
Ted Nugent - Garden '81 '82
Sabbath \ BOC Garden '81
REM Great Woods
Devo - Orpheum
Springsteen- Prov '85 Gillette '03
AC\DC Garden '82? '86
Van Halen - Garden '82
Robert Plant - Woostah Centrum '83
Morrissey -Great Woods '95
Buffett (3)
Aerosmith (6) My 1st concert - Music Hall '78- Summerthing Benefit
Zappa - -Orpheum '81
Iggy Pop Orpheum '81

I've been to alot more but can't remember right now:smash: