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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 21, 2022 8:39:33 GMT
I'm not gonna answer this myself because it will make me seem old (stfu) but let's just say that I saw the Dirty Mac in 1968 when Lennon / Clapton / Richards and "some other dude on drums" (j/k - Mitch Mitchell) shouted from the stage "this is how replaceable you are McCartney ........ Keith doesn't even play the bass!"  ............................and in a rare sighting that is pacinoyes - not Yoko Ono - crawling into the bag at the front of the stage at the start. What are your best live artists / concerts? |
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Post by themoviesinner on Mar 21, 2022 9:32:41 GMT
I've seen Rotting Christ live about four times and they are definitely the best metal band I've seen live. Great live performances, very energetic and their shows are lengthy (nearly two hours). But the best part is that their concerts here in Greece are, by far, the cheapest anyone can go to (last time they charged only 10 Euro. I mean nightclubs with Dj's and such charge more than that). Overall awesome band live.
But, the best concert I ever attended was Goran Bregovic and his orchestra. Overall an unforgettable experience.
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Post by mhynson27 on Mar 21, 2022 13:29:00 GMT
Eminem
Hard to top seeing your favourite artist of all time live.
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Post by stephen on Mar 21, 2022 13:32:30 GMT
Springsteen in Wembley in 2016. Four hours of bliss.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 21, 2022 20:14:06 GMT
As far as rock concerts, The Flaming Lips in Raleigh in 2007 - small venue where I was pretty close to the stage, and there was just great energy and interaction between the band and the crowd. Probably the most purely fun experience I've had at a show.
Also been to a lot of great symphony/orchestra performances, but one that was particularly special for me was seeing the Greensboro Symphony play a whole concert of John Williams music back in 2008.
Another really memorable concert was seeing Philip Glass perform at my college in 2015. He played piano underneath glittery stars hanging from the ceiling on stage... it was kind of magical. There was also a Q&A afterward where I got to ask him about working with Woody Allen, so that was cool.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 21, 2022 21:31:48 GMT
As far as rock concerts, The Flaming Lips in Raleigh in 2007 - small venue where I was pretty close to the stage, and there was just great energy and interaction between the band and the crowd. Probably the most purely fun experience I've had at a show. They're one of the very few bands I've ever seen who gets how to play to a big crowd too - that is also wildly entertaining at festival shows with a million people - Wayne Coyne is one of the few frontmen who really understands the importance of a beach ball at an outdoor arena tbh. He's also very childlike - not childish - but everything sort of fascinates him and invites his curiousity - he notices all sorts of things and his mind goes off on a million tangents at once........he never seems on autopilot or walking through it. That guy literally loves life ....... |
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Mar 22, 2022 1:54:50 GMT
Prince
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Post by urbanpatrician on Mar 22, 2022 7:30:24 GMT
Eminem Hard to top seeing your favourite artist of all time live. Lol... your favorite artist is Eminem? He was my favorite like 22 years ago........ 2000. Real Slim Shady, baby!! |
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Post by mhynson27 on Mar 22, 2022 11:01:33 GMT
Eminem Hard to top seeing your favourite artist of all time live. Lol... your favorite artist is Eminem? He was my favorite like 22 years ago........ 2000. Real Slim Shady, baby!! Who knows, maybe when I'm as old as you, my tastes will get more cultured. |
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Post by DaleCooper on Mar 23, 2022 23:25:22 GMT
The best concert for me was John Mayer at Royal Arena in 2019, incredible stuff. Behind that would be Roger Waters and The Cure at Hyde Park a few years back, Radiohead on their last tour and Iron Maiden on their second classic tour back in 2008.
Biggest surprise? When I stumbled in on Chelsea Wolfe after The Libertines cancelled (Pete Doherty missed his plane apparently, thank fuck for that, I think I saw them the day after but I can't really remember anything of it) and she's just bloody brilliant. Hadn't heard a song of her at that point, but the music is just so heavy and it's so easy just to get swept away in it. Saw her live again a couple of years later and she started with Carrion Flowers - one of the most memorable live perormance I've ever been at.
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