Best Concerts You Ever Saw

[O-Factor]

everyone i know who had the misfortune of seeing the foo fighters said you can't even hear grohl.

Then those people are wrong. I've seen them twice and they sound GREAT live...

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Who was the real talent in Nirvana, Cobain, Grohl, or both? Foo Fighters certainly rock!

Hunters and Collectors 9 times in 5 years, 1993-98. Best live band ever.
Radiohead @ Sydney Entertainment Centre, 1997.
Public Enemy and Ice-T @ ANU Refectory, 1992.
Dire Straits @ Bruce Stadium, 1992.
Nick Warren @ ANU Refectory, 2003.
The Church @ Tilley's.

I used to be a huge live music fan, but strangely these days I don't dig it so much. I get really sore knees standing around for hours, and that doesn't help... getting old I guess.

[ATRAIN]

Then those people are wrong. I've seen them twice and they sound GREAT live...

I agree, in fact I was there with O-factor.

lets see I have a Huge list


Metallica 4 times (Once in Austin, Summer San 1 in Dallas, Summer San 2 in Houston, and in SA summer of 08 and Retama park polo fields)
311 - 6 Times, 5 in Austin once in Corpus on the warp tour
Dave Matthews Band - 2 times, once in SA and once in Austin
Tool - Once in SA
Korn - 2 times once in Summer San 1, once in Austin
Godsmack - Austin
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Houston Woodlands
Pearl Jam - 2 times, once at the Woodlands(met eddie vedder), once in San Antonio
Radiohead - Woodlands
Lollapalooza 2005 Janes Addiction, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave, Jurassic 5, Incubus
Deftones twice
Incubus twice
Coac a 2005
Our Lady Peace
The Roots 3 times
Jurassic 5 2 times
Snow Patrol 2 times
Nine Inch Nails
Weezer 3 times
Cake
Stone Temple Pilots
Bloc Party
Death Cab For Cutie
Dashboard Confesional
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Secret Machines
30 Seconds to Mars
Rooney
Franz Ferdinand
Vans Warped Tour 2001
Disturbed
Nada Surf
Sparta
Pantera
Mates Of State
Coldplay
Travis 2 times


There are so many more, but its early can't think

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I've heard that Fear Factory is notorious for not getting a good sound out of their live shows, which is a shame cuz i really like their work.

it's ok. the past couple of times it didn't sound bad.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Seal - Bronco Bowl '99 with the ultimate who's who of a backing band.
Michael Landau on guitar
Tony Levin on bass
David Sancious on keys
Brian Blade on drums

Mastodon - Gypsy Tea Room '02. Dixie Witch and High on Fire opened. Mastodon played on an 8' by 6' stage and blew me away

Pantera - Smirnoff. I forgot the year, but it's the one where eyehategod and white zombie opened. It's also the show where Phil OD'd. The lawn was packed. There was 3 pits and numerous fires.

The Mars Volta a couple of years back in Austin. Hate the city, but loved the show. I came away with some skin rash after that show.

The Dillinger Escape Plan with The Locust opening @ Trees(RIP)

[ATRAIN]

Seal - Bronco Bowl '99 with the ultimate who's who of a backing band.
Michael Landau on guitar
Tony Levin on bass
David Sancious on keys
Brian Blade on drums

Mastodon - Gypsy Tea Room '02. Dixie Witch and High on Fire opened. Mastodon played on an 8' by 6' stage and blew me away

Pantera - Smirnoff. I forgot the year, but it's the one where eyehategod and white zombie opened. It's also the show where Phil OD'd. The lawn was packed. There was 3 pits and numerous fires.

The Mars Volta a couple of years back in Austin. Hate the city, but loved the show. I came away with some skin rash after that show.

The Dillinger Escape Plan with The Locust opening @ Trees(RIP)

Damn I forgot about the Mars Volta......have seen them 2 times.

[CuckingFunt]

Damn I forgot about the Mars Volta......have seen them 2 times.

They opened for the Chili Peppers when I saw them last summer and were great.

[SAtoDallas]

System of a Down in 200 Summer San arium Texas Stadium
My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult/ Lords of Acid '95 Woodlawn Theater (I believe).
Body Count in Hawaii '94 I think

The above mentioned shows had some of the most intense pits I personally have ever been in.

[duncan228]

I saw SD in 2000 and again last year at the Verizon.

They were always one of my favorite bands.
I went to the same college where Becker and an met and formed the band. (They wrote "My Old School" about it.) We used to look up their senior projects in the library!

They toured so infrequently that I never got the chance to see them.
Glad to hear they put on a good enough show for it to be one of your favorites.

[mrsmaalox]

They were always one of my favorite bands.
I went to the same college where Becker and an met and formed the band. (They wrote "My Old School" about it.) We used to look up their senior projects in the library!

They toured so infrequently that I never got the chance to see them.
Glad to hear they put on a good enough show for it to be one of your favorites.

They have always been my favorite band. I met Donald en on the street in 1992 (a dream come true) and he invited me to the "Rock and Soul Review" which was an amazing thing. I had never seen him perform before then. Then I've been able to catch he and Walter live since then and I love them even more!

[Mixability]

Beastie Boys/Rancid- o Nasty Tour
Rage - Battle for Los Angeles Tour
Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie Tour
Tool - 97/98 Tour at Live Oak

Had tickets for Beastie/Rage Rhyme and Reason tour that was postponed then cancelled when Rage broke up.

[ATRAIN]

System of a Down in 200 Summer San arium Texas Stadium
My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult/ Lords of Acid '95 Woodlawn Theater (I believe).
Body Count in Hawaii '94 I think

The above mentioned shows had some of the most intense pits I personally have ever been in.

Where you on the field level at Summer San?

[SpursWoman]

aha! in 1986 at the Majestic (hey, I was a Freshman in high school...and I'm a chick!)

...and Matchbox 20 at the Verizon Ampitheater on 9/7/2001 ... who new.

[leemajors]

i saw rahzel open for mix master mike in 2000 or 2001. i also saw almost all of the living legends open up for the alkaholiks - both great shows. mix master mike was incredible - he had 2 crates of records, and just plowed through them.

[George Gervin's Afro]

I saw Depeche mode in New Orleans on acid... that was pretty deep..

[AlamoSpursFan]

I completely forgot about The Beasties and House of Pain at Randy's Ballroom. All I can say about that show is in' a.

Pantera with Sepultura (before they split up) and Prong at Southpark Meadows (before they turned it into a ing cookie cutter strip mall) was awesome. I wore a Dallas Cowboys hat and we squeezed up in front of the mosh pit, stage left. Dimebag Darrell (RIP) looked at me, pointed at his head, pointed at me, and held up a number one sign, which I took to mean he liked my Cowboys hat. Then he flipped a pick in my direction, but my head friend Derek caught it and to this day refuses to give it to me. sucker.

[AlamoSpursFan]

aha! in 1986 at the Majestic (hey, I was a Freshman in high school...and I'm a chick!)

No ? Cindy dragged me to that ing show. The things I went through to get in a crazy fat broad's pants before I realized I could get good looking chicks...

[Mister Sinister]

I've only ever been to six concerts (three different artists) in my 19 years. Sad, no?

I've seen Weird Al three times (Glen Ellyn, Rockford, and Chicago), Foreigner twice (One down in McHenry county, the other at Eastern Illinois University), and Queen+Paul Rodgers at Allstate Arena....I think the Queen+PR one was my favorite. I couldn't talk because I'd screamed myself hoarse.

Oh, almost forgot, I did see the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra playing music from Final Fantasy. That's up there with the Queen+PR, what with screaming myself hoarse.

[ATRAIN]

i saw rahzel open for mix master mike in 2000 or 2001. i also saw almost all of the living legends open up for the alkaholiks - both great shows. mix master mike was incredible - he had 2 crates of records, and just plowed through them.

dude where did you see that at?

[SpursWoman]

No ? Cindy dragged me to that ing show. The things I went through to get in a crazy fat broad's pants before I realized I could get good looking chicks...

I went with Karen Miller.

[AlamoSpursFan]

I'd love to see Queen with Paul Rogers. I saw him with Bad Company at La Semana Allegre and that was a blast too.

[SpursWoman]

Triumph and REO Speedwagon at La Semana was pretty bad-ass, too.

[George Gervin's Afro]

I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn at La Semana about 3 weeks before he died.. ( I think it was three weeks)

[AlamoSpursFan]

I went with Karen Miller.

I was pretty drunk...did we see y'all there? I know we ran into someone from TR. For some reason I remember it being Alan Johanningmeier. I spent most of my relationship (if you could call it that) with Cindy blasted out of my gourd.

[Mister Sinister]

I'd love to see Queen with Paul Rogers. I saw him with Bad Company at La Semana Allegre and that was a blast too.

Oh, I'd have wanted to see that. The first Foreigner concert I went to (The one not at EIU) had Bad Company as the opening act...I *think* PR was with them, but I can't remember. I was too busy nerding it up with some people.