Your Top 3 Live Concerts

[razorcut]

Very simple: List the top 3 concerts you have attended in your lifetime. Include location if possible.

Here's mine:

1. The Eagles---->Houston, TX
2. Elton John/Billy Joel (and I'm a straight man) ---->Houston, TX
3. Garth Brooks---->Amarillo, TX
**honorable mention: Pearl Jam--->OKC, OK

[Anthony]

I'm not much of a concert person, but I saw the Stones this summer and it was a pretty damn good show.

[skaterdude]

Arcade Fire.
Modest Mouse.
The Shins.

Im excited to see Stars in feb.

[rdkraus]

Hard to narrow down the hundreds of concerts I've been to, but a couple come to mind:

1. Allman Bros - NYC - 1972 - After Duane died, but before
Berry died.

2. Yes and J. Geils - NYC - 1972

3. Pink Floyd - NJ - In between Dark Side of the Moon and
the next album. Surround sound in
concert.

Also saw a lot of weird stuff. I saw Peter Frampton at Spring Valley High School in New York with about 200 other people. Six months later Frampton Comes Alive came out and he was playing MSG.

Saw J. Geils and Alice Cooper in NJ long ago. People were standing on their chairs in the infield of the stadium and you would see one person sway and fall to the side, then the whole row would go down like dominoes. That was the end of chairs at Jersey City.

Saw the Dead at Jersey City too - only concert where people were dancing naked and performing interesting sexual acts in the audience (Ewww).

Saw Jethro Tull at MSG. My cousin treated me. He passed out during the first song and woke up after the concert was over. Oh well, I enjoyed it.

[getfit]

i've gone to alot of concerts when i was living in Europe, tops were U2 and the stones

[Relentless]

Ozzy, Slaughter & Ugly Kid Joe - The Castle, Charlevoix MI, late 1980s
The Tragically Hip, Rheostatics & others (Another Roadside Attraction), Molson Park, Barrie, ON, 1995
Pilate & Alfie, Lee's Palace, Toronto ON, July 2002

Runner up:
Big Sugar, The Volcano, Kitchener ON, 1996

[-TIM-]

1. Dave Matthews Band - Just an amazing performance, even if you're not into them.

2. Third Eye Blind/Eve 6 - Eve 6 was the opener, and much better, but I love 3EB so they're on my list by default.

3. Good Charlotte/Something Corporate - I can't stand Good Charlotte now, but they did put on a great show. It was after their Young and the Hopeless CD. Not their latest suckfest of an album. Cry a little more Madden. Something Corporate was amazing. Sounded just like their album in concert, and they write some great songs.

I just saw a band called All But Screaming at a club in Cedar Rapids and they are someone I would like to see again. I can see them getting pretty big in the next few years. Their singer/rhythm guitar player only had one hand. His pick hand/arm had a tight wristband with a pick fastened to it. It was kind of neat. He played really well too.

[BigCorey75]

no particular order


Cross Canadian Ragweed- San Antonio TX

Lil Scrappy- South Padre Island TX

Up In Smoke Tour- Houston TX

[RickTheDestroyer]

1.The Dwarves- drove up to see them in DC. They played with The Bouncing Souls (who were already descending into suckdom) and the Dropkick Murpheys (who I'd seen plenty of times already). The Dwarves had been my favorite band for a long time at that point, so it was ****ing great to see them.

2. Turbonegro/QOTSA. I didn't really care about QOTSA, although they were good (and Nick Oliveri also plays in the Dwarves), but it was incredible to be one of maybe 10 people in a packed club who were there to get their faces rocked by norwegian deathpunk.

3. A Perfect Circle. I like tool much more, but APC put on a good show whereas tool was a little lackluster when I saw them.

HM- The Backyard Babies were great when I saw them recently, and there were many other really good ones from my punkier teenage years.

[MrWebb78]

Slayer - Warfield, San Francisco 2004

Seether - SF Civic Auditorium 2005

White Zombie - Arco Arena 1996

I have been to tons of shows, but these three stand out as best sound, performance, atmosphere, basically all elemtns of a good live show.

[skaterdude]

Rober Eral Keen - woodlands Texas.

[Rock]

ACD/DC OSLO 2000

It was amazing

[Roark]

1. Jane's Addiction - International Ballroom, Atlanta, 11/97

Beautiful night all around

2. Tool - The Ritz, Raleigh, 11/96

Seeing Tool play fresh off the 2nd album in a TINY venue.....sick

3. Pink Floyd - Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh, 5/94

Couldn't have gotten a better graduation present

[RickTheDestroyer]

2. Tool - The Ritz, Raleigh, 11/96

Seeing Tool play fresh off the 2nd album in a TINY venue.....sick

I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!!

I actually liked tool at the time, too, but in all honesty my mom probably would not have let me go, as I was like 14 and she HATED tool and sure wouldn't have gone with me.

[Beholder]

Van Halen - Anaheim, 1996
Def Leppard - Calgary, 1994
Strapping Young Lad - 2002

[mikey4402]

1. foo fighters and weezer-2005 wofenstein center, Cleveland Ohio(GOOOOO if you have the chance to see either of them play!!!)
2. X fest 2002(godsmack, trapt, taproot, evanescence, staind, disturbed...) - post gazette pavilion, Pittsburgh PA
3. oasis and jet-2005 blossom music center, cuyahoga falls ohio

i seen alot of great concerts when i worked at post gazette pavilion, dave mathews, van halen, def leppard, john mayer... but the two best by far and ones i actually attended are up top

[meltedtime]

Pink Floyd - Toronto, JUly 6th 1994 (Symphony of Fire on same night, delayed concert by 2hrs.) Man, those were some good 'shrooms

Lollapalooza II - Barrie, Aug. 5th 1992 (Pearl Jam, Ministry and Soundgarden were amazing, RHCP sucked ass).

Aerosmith - Mannheim, Sept. 1st 1990 (amazing show, very small venue, The Cult opened for them)

[-TIM-]

Van Halen - Anaheim, 1996
Def Leppard - Calgary, 1994
Strapping Young Lad - 2002

I saw them at the Mississippi Valley Fair about 7 years ago and it was a great concert. And I'm not just saying that because there was a sea of boobies being flashed for 2 straight hours. But that's a definite plus when you're a teenager.

[Roark]

I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!!

I actually liked tool at the time, too, but in all honesty my mom probably would not have let me go, as I was like 14 and she HATED tool and sure wouldn't have gone with me.

hahaha

yeah, i missed the 1st lollapalooza for the same reason

it was a great show man

the place was insane that night

the ritz used to have killer shows all the time

saw COC, clutch, manson, and a few others there

[razorcut]

Cross Canadian Ragweed- San Antonio TX

Great band that most people outside the southwest have never heard of. I saw them in Stillwater, OK a few years back. They'd probably crack my Top 10.

[galileo]

Van Halen - Anaheim, 1996
Def Leppard - Calgary, 1994
Strapping Young Lad - 2002

Lucky! You got to see SYL live. Def Leppard and SYL don't seem to be complimentary sounds, however...

[Invain]

1. Gigantour, 2005 - DTE Energy Music Theater: Megadeth, Dreamtheater, Slayer, Fear Factory, Symphony X

2. Ozzfest, 2005 - DTE Energy Music Theater

3. Lynard Skynard, 2004 - Soaring Eagle Resort

[Mik]

Lollapalooza II - Barrie, Aug. 5th 1992 (Pearl Jam, Ministry and Soundgarden were amazing, RHCP sucked ass).

That was an awesome show! Did you punch me in the mosh pit?

[MM]

Great band that most people outside the southwest have never heard of. I saw them in Stillwater, OK a few years back. They'd probably crack my Top 10.

I love them. Wish they'd get some more exposure.

[MM]

Saw Garth in 2000, Bob Dylan, and Ray Lamontange (what a ****ing concert -- guy was an animal).