Best Concert ?

The Decemberists 2009.

Andrew Bird opened, then The Decemberists played through all of The Hazards of Love + at least a dozen songs from their repertoire. The friends I went with said it was 10x better than Coldplay.

...and the tickets were only $30.

Devo 1983. Spud rings, energy domes, radiation suits, Booji Boy. Every solo ended in complete musical anarchy. Mark Mothersbaugh swinging from the balcony and then being carried through the audience while eliciting "we are devo" from audience members.

Taylor Swifts Fearless Tour has been bumpin!!!

Daft Punk alive 2009 show best ever

I might take some heat for this, but the Barenaked Ladies put on the best show I've ever seen. Lots of fun, good music. I saw the "last" Get Up Kids show (before their reunion tour), which was pretty awesome too.

joe carter wrote:

I might take some heat for this, but the Barenaked Ladies put on the best show I've ever seen. Lots of fun, good music. I saw the "last" Get Up Kids show (before their reunion tour), which was pretty awesome too.

c-mack? is that you?

Nine Inch Nails, Madison Square Garden, 2000

The Boss!!

Metallica at Monsters of Rock in Moscow, Russia in 1991 was ridiculous.

Phish summer tour 2009 at the Gorge.

Alice Cooper's "Welcome To My Nightmare" concert in 1976 at the old Chicago Stadium.

I saw a triple bill of Sepultura, Helmet, and Ministry that was pretty great. Snakes and Arrows Rush tour was phenomenal also.

This might pretty obscure and betraying my age but:

Camper Van Beethoven.

Truly one of the great bands that never really made it. I was still in High School when I first saw them and they just totally blew my mind. The lead singer/guitarist got some popularity later with the band Cracker.

Ryan Foreman wrote:

This might pretty obscure and betraying my age but:

Camper Van Beethoven.

Truly one of the great bands that never really made it. I was still in High School when I first saw them and they just totally blew my mind. The lead singer/guitarist got some popularity later with the band Cracker.

Great choice!

The lead guitarist is one of my best friends.

The band was/is one of those rare instances where the sum is certainly greater than the whole.

acdc now

Hmmm.

Too many to mention.

Prince in 1980, before white people knew who he was.

Elvis Costello's American debut in SF in 77.

Sex Pistols - first reunion

Ultravox, once with John Foxx, a year later with Midge Ure.

Bryan Ferry 77

Roxy Music - 83

Roxy Music - 2001

David Sylvian - 88 (w/Jansen and Barbieri)

Duran Duran, first American tour (before they were known) Ibeam SF. They were like 16 and 17 years old, and well rehearsed and took the crowd by storm and surprise. 18 months later they were massive in the USA.

Simple Minds - New Gold Dream tour, SF Kabuki center. Freaking amazing.

Others...Talking Heads, Devo, Nick Lowe, Ramones, Go Go's, The Specials.

Prince again, in Vegas a couple of years ago at his private club... Actually got my company to pay for the $300. a piece tickets...under "entertainment, sales team building event." lol.

Bryan Ferry - As Time Goes By tour, Seattle

Garbage, SF a few years ago. GREAT.

Camper Van Beethoven...many many many times.

Concert I wish had not been cancelled... The Blue Nile.

Logic and Clear Thinking wrote:

Ryan Foreman wrote:

This might pretty obscure and betraying my age but:

Camper Van Beethoven.

Truly one of the great bands that never really made it. I was still in High School when I first saw them and they just totally blew my mind. The lead singer/guitarist got some popularity later with the band Cracker.

Great choice!

The lead guitarist is one of my best friends.

The band was/is one of those rare instances where the sum is certainly greater than the whole.

Do you mean Greg Lisher? He was awesome. As an aspiring guitar player I almost approached worshipping him. I saw Monks of Doom a couple of times and they were great too. Better than CVB in some ways. I talked to Victor Krummenacher briefly after the show.

I ended up getting more into other music. But growing up in the 80s and living on the West Coast it almost seemed like a rule that anything original had to come from back east or Europe. Then I saw CVB and it blew me away that they were doing something very original. And yet not being original just for the sake of being original. They just had great ideas. And they were good if not great musicians. And like you said, they were greater than the sum of their parts.

Cream at my high school in Connecticut

Santana and Sly and the Family Stone at Woodstock

The Who in Hartford, Connecticut in 1970

Tony Williams Lifetime with John McLaughlin and Jack Bruce at the Marquis Club in London, 1971

Joni Mitchell at Royal Festival Hall in London, 1971

Roxy Music at Wamu Theatre (or whatever it was called at the time) in NYC in 2001

The Church at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC ...maybe 2003

Van Morrison Have seen him 3 times. Two were outrageous. The last being the AStral weeks tour in NYC.

Mark Knopfler in Northhampton

David Byrne