best LIVE music act you have ever seen?

hey guys did anyone mention Nickleback yet?

RJ McMullin Jr wrote:

I've seen Huey Lewis 57 times!

Hits it "out of the park" everytime.

I'm not sure if you are trolling, but my first concert was Huey Lewis and the News at the Oakland Coliseum during the Fore! tour. I was in 5th or 6th grade. My parents took my brother and I, and honestly, it was pretty fun. The guy next to us smoked a very strange smelling cigarette.

Damaged wrote:

Black Flag on their last tour in 1986.

Saw Rush on the Moving Pictures tour, and they put on a great show. So did Jesus and Mary Chain.

REM were easily the least interesting band I ever saw.

Love REM, saw them at the Hollywood Bowl and the speakers in the back were not even on. People kept chanting "turn it up." Super disappointing show.

The Airborne Toxic Event: Amazing band. So, so good live. I've seen them four times. Each concert was super energetic.

Arctic Monkeys: love the band, but I was expecting so much more live.

Rod Torkelson's Armada featuring Herman Menderchuck.

Damaged wrote:

Black Flag on their last tour in 1986.

Saw Rush on the Moving Pictures tour, and they put on a great show. So did Jesus and Mary Chain.

REM were easily the least interesting band I ever saw.

Yep. I saw them in the early 80s on campus, after running my first track 10000m. The consensus was that they weren't that great.

mr. obvious wrote:

The Grateful Dead-- wildly inconsistent but when they were on they were simply the best ever.

Ahhhhhhh yes. Quite simply, there was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert. Nothing else was even close.

Best: Dream Theater when Portnoy was still drummer

Worst: Counting Crows

ball zach wrote:

Best: Dream Theater when Portnoy was still drummer

Worst: Counting Crows

Best: Roger Waters / The Wall @ Fenway Park 2012

Worst: Led Zeppelin / The Aud, Buffalo, NY 1972

I went to a LOT of shows back in the 70's (Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Rush etc, etc, etc) and the best I ever saw live was ZZ Top. They were the best live bar NONE.

yuiop wrote:

Angelo Mysterioso wrote:

The Rolling Stones, 1972.

When they truly were the "World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"!

Damn. That's my dream show. Stones in the early 70s.

My 3 favorite shows:

The Avett Brothers - 3rd row, center stage Red Rocks

Bruce Springsteen - his live shows are as good as advertised

U2 - 10th row, McNichols arena, Joshua Tree tour

At this point in my life, I get a big kick out of relatively unknown artists playing in small venues. There's some great music being played these days.

You both probably know this, but check out the Rolling Stones Brussels affair album on you tube- greatest live recording I've ever heard- it'd from that period.

Second this wrote:

mr. obvious wrote:

The Grateful Dead-- wildly inconsistent but when they were on they were simply the best ever.

Ahhhhhhh yes. Quite simply, there was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert. Nothing else was even close.

Wasn't it the great Bill Graham who said of the Grateful Dead: "They're not only the best a what they do. They are the only ones who do what they do."

Easilly Kanye his concerts are insane

dillinger escape plan.

watching them on yt is better than seeing other bitch bands in the flesh.

PJ Harvey.

I was at my first U2 show in Indianapolis in 2003 (? pretty sure...too lazy to look it up), and PJ Harvey was the warm-up act. Her performance totally ruined the U2 show for me (in the best way possible). I had been a U2 fan since 1987, but had never seen them live, so it was unexpected to be dwelling on the opening act following an excellent show by Bono and the boys.

trackandbacon wrote:

Easilly Kanye his concerts are insane

The folks at Bonnaroo love him...

Blind Faith

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Second this wrote:

Ahhhhhhh yes. Quite simply, there was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert. Nothing else was even close.

Wasn't it the great Bill Graham who said of the Grateful Dead: "They're not only the best a what they do. They are the only ones who do what they do."

Yes. They invented an entire genre. It is true that there are now a lot of jam bands, but there is still nothing like a Grateful Dead concert. I've been to a lot of great concerts of many different types and genres. Still hte best live experience

All shows in the 70's cost approximately 7-8 bucks.

STAGE SHOW: Alice Cooper 1978 Great piece of musical theater.

MUSIC AND GREAT LASER SHOW: Yes, 1975

ONE THAT MADE ME FEEL THE MOST EMOTIONAL: Paul McCartney 1990

OLDER GUY BLOWING AWAY THE YOUNGER BANDS: Neil Young 1993 with backing band Booker T and the MG's (opening bands: Blind Melon and Soundgarden)

FIRST CONCERT: Aerosmith 1974

2nD CONCERT: Black Sabbath 1975

BEST INTIMATE PERFORMANCES IN SMALL VENUE: Suzanne Vega 2005, Dan Hicks 1998, John Renbourn, Celtic Fiddle Festival,