Best/Worst Live Shows

Best
he is legend
as i lay dying
midtown
gym class heroes
haste the day
converge
less than jake
rx bandits
rancid
his hero is gone
august burns red
reel big fish
mychildren mybride
warzone
slayer

bad
protest the hero (awesome musicians, better off listening to the cd and staring at a wall)
hootie and the blowfish (no laughing, i was forced and i fell asleep)
haven't seen many bad shows

 

Bobby-D was never a performer but just count your blessings that you've actually seen the genius play

 

Yeah, it was my first real concert ever, I was 14. Me, two friends, and a bunch of gray-hairs rocking out to an unintelligible "All Along the Watchtower." Memories I will not soon forget.

 

Got ticket to a few great concerts coming up, like Volbeat and Metallica. Now Rammstein just have to get their asses moving again and get on tour, then it'll be a great summer.

 

Best:
Springsteen
Mellencamp
U2
The Cult
GunsNRoses
Metallica
Pearl Jam
Green Day
STP
Velvet Revolver

Worst:
Boston

 

good looks @ Gym Class Heroes, _pg.

I saw them open for...hmm...can't even remember now. Back before many people knew them. The crowd was sparse and Travis (lead) was standing in line with me. I recognized him, but only because I had looked up pictures the day of. I knew the songs, just not the faces.

So anyway- Travis is standing at the back of the line with me, and just moving with it to see how many people would not notice him.



and he was great live. Better than on record, and I loved their debut.

 

Best

Sheryl Crow
Huey Lewis and The News
Sting-84'
Big Country
Green Day(I'm not a fan but they won me over)
Simple Minds
Robbie Williams(again I'm not a fan but he was awesome)
Pearl Jam
Stone Temple Pilots
REM
Nerina Pallot
Ne-Yo
The Charlatans
U2-PopMart tour-open air gig,played for over 3 hours in non stop torrential rain and sound great.

Worst

Manic Street Preachers -(chite,short @rsed welsh bloke wailing like a sick Hyena)
U2-2nd to last gig of the Joshua Tree world tour.Played for 40 minutes,of which Bono could barely talk let alone sing.They resorted to picking people out of the audience to sing for them.A refund should have been issued.
Puddle of Mudd-just awful

Red Hot Chilli Peppers-by The Way tour,lifeless half hearted performance.Played the whole album plus two other tracks and the left.

***** Cat Dolls-It was a free ticket but that was still too expensive.

 

This is always a ***** (because I have such a bad memory). The ones that come to mind this morning are

Best

Sananda Maitreya (Terence D'arby)
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Bob Marley and the Melody Makers
Cassandra Wilson
The Sugarcubes
The Roots/Erykah Badu
Charlie Hunter Trio
Herb Ellis

Worst

The one that stands out was David Bowie on his Glass Spider tour. I walked about five songs in. All choreography, zero passion. Blech. It took me over a decade to be able to enjoy Bowie's music again.

Bob Seger was a little depressing too; pudgy old guy, playing rock and roll. He seemed to check the fly in his size "smedium" jeans every 30 seconds.

 

Best (I've seen)

Pink Floyd - The Divison Bell
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Dio / Megadeth / Savatage - Sacred Heart / SoFar,SoGood, SoWhat / Hall of the Mountain King
Van Halen - 1984
Whitesnake / Motley Crue Whitesnake / Girls, Girls, Girls
Disturbed - Indestructable
AC/DC - Who Made Who

WTF?
Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder
Tool - Ænema
Metallica - Black
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Smashing Pumpkins (acoustic @ The Opry House)

I've actually been crew on more shows than I've attended
those that stood out for me as impressive (even though I might not have actually bought a ticket) :
Garth Brooks
Celine Dion
Keith Urban
Alan Jackson
Montgomery Gentry
Kid Rock

there are quite a bit more, but these are what come to mind