best concerts you ever been to

[poly800rock]

i'm sure we're going to have a huge awesome list...

lollapolooza 95 camden NJ (yuck), w/ superchunk, pavement, elastica, etc. this show was the last of the decent lollapolooza's

national skyline philadelphia '00 4040 club

at the drive in boston '99 karma club

dissucks stalag 13 everytime

superchunk 2001 philadelphia TLA

smashing pumpkins '99 providence Lupos secret show

lightning bolt ft. thunder 99 countless times

fugazi 2000 ft. reno washington DC, lightning show, was raining all day and lightning was everywhere.....awesome

that's all off the top of my head now

[Carl]

Black Sabbath - Portland, 1998. 20th Anniversary tour. My first real concert. So fucking badass.

Pixies - Eugene, 2004, only the 4th stop of the tour. Kim forgot the lyrics to Gigantic midway through the song. Classic.

Modest Mouse - Eugene, 1999, 2000 (like 13 times), 2001. They put on a hell of a live show when Isaac wasn't to coked up to sing.

Gillian Welch - Portland, 2003. With my dad. Good father/son bonding experince...i guess i get my tender spot for female chrooners from him.

Built To Spill - A whole bunch of times. Doug slays.

Yo La Tengo - A whole bunch of times. Ira slays.

[darkanimal]

Primus NYC 2003.

Turbonegro NYC 2005

Death From Above 1979 Brklyn 2005

[snugglepony]

wilco, jayhawks, golden smog, etc. dozens of times in minneapolis and milwaukee 94-98.

radiohead + spiritualized, salem, or, 1997

modest mouse, portland, or, 1997 (all downhill from there, imo)

fucking champs, drunkhorse, last of the juanitas, pleaseeasaur (a showcase hosted by neil fucking hamburger at the blackbird, RIP) portland, or, 2000

rumah sakit, hella, dilute, SF, 2002 (round trip from portland to SF in just over 24 hours, including the accident i got in on the bay bridge... still worth it)

mastodon, portland, or, 2004

acid mothers temple, portland, or, 2004

brian wilson, portland, or, 2005 (literally a three hour show, with the entire smile album, start to finish, sandwiched between a beach boys greatest hits selection and about four encores...)

[chromesquared]

Its all hip-hop, but...

Deltron 3030 & Blackalicious @ The Fillmore

J5 & Dilated Peoples (Word of Mouth) @ The Fillmore

Souls of Mischief @ Palookaville (Santa Cruz)

Hmm, I guess I dont go to that many concerts.

N

[faust]

Nine Inch Nails/Marylin Manson - 1994, NYC

Nine Inch Nails/Tool - 2000, NYC

Nine Inch Nails - 2005, Philly

Rage Against the Machine - 1995, NYC

Rage Against the Machine/Wu Tang Clan - 1997, NJ

Prodigy - 1999, NYC

Bjork - 2001, NYC

[minya]

Growing/Earth/Merzbow/Circle - San Francisco, Sep '05

Circle blew the motherfucking house down. God that was an incredible show.

[greentea]

some of the best shows, is when i use to go check out alot of punk/ska bands back in the hey day:

face to face

a.f.i back in 96-97

screw 32

voodoo glowskulls

the toasters

some hiphop or other shows:

kool keith - s.f

blackalicious

krs one

[airfrogusmc]

Jeff Beck with Terry Bozzio on drums OUTSTANDING!!!

Queen/late 70s

Rollins Band/End of Silence Tour

Neil Young and his band was Duck Dunn/Booker T/Steve Cropper and Jim Keltner

Sound Garden 1992

Janes Addiction 1991

Buddy Guy 6 times over the years all great shows

Willie Dixon with Johnhy Winter on Guitar.

Stones what can I say 4 times over the years.

[cheapmuthafukr]

sizzla, last year, best show ive seen. dude is fucking amazing. as soon as he hit the stage, he had all eyes on him until he left. crowd control like no other.

james brown, last year

the evens

run-dmc-2000

the roots-2000

lollapolooza- 1994

buju banton- 2004

[sybaritical]

woohaaa ..... where to start ( and stop.)

Metallica Hammersmith Odeon '88

Pixies London Hammersmith Odeon '91

Jane's Addiction Brixton Academy '91

Anthrax/Public Enemy Brixton Academy91

Sonic youth/Pavement Brixton Academy '91

Rollins band/Beastie Boys Town and country club '92

Nirvana/mudhoney London Astoria '92

Soundgarden/ Corrosion of Conformity Town and Country club '92

Alice in Chains Town and Country Club '92

Ministry/Faith no more Brixton Academy '92

God Machine Phoenix Festival '93

God Machine/Afghan Whigs/Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion Astoria 2 '93

Smashing Pumpkins acoustic gig, Raymonds Revue bar Soho, 1994.

Pavement Reading Festival '95

Boards of Canada Trumans brewery London 1999

All Tomorrow's Parties Curated by Tortoise Camber Sands 2001

Christ/ Schneider tm ICA 2003

Juana Molina Bush Hall London 2004

[damnIam]

Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival

Cotton Bowl Summer 04

Legendary performances from the Gods of Guitar

Santanna

Jeff Beck

Clapton

Buddy Guy

BB King

Joe Walsh

ZZ Top

JJ Cale

Johnny Lang

Jimmie Vaughn

What a weekend...Unforgettable

[denimdestroyedmylife]

john fahey at khyber pass in 1999?

radiohead--ok computer tour at the electric factory

bjork/matmos at radio city for vespertine/chance to cut, chance to cure

108/shelter at city gardens in trenton 1994?

greenday at city gardens (pre-dookie) in 1993?

cure wish tour

max colby/sleepytime trio/karp----some basement in DC in 1996?

juana molina for the segundo tour at the sanctuary of the uni church in philly

smog at bowery ballroom for... uh... a few years ago.

off the top

i am generally disappointed w/ hip hop shows...

[shoreman1782]

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lollapolooza 95 camden NJ (yuck), w/ superchunk, pavement, elastica, etc. this show was the last of the decent lollapolooza's

national skyline philadelphia '00 4040 club

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I was at both of these shows, and I'm guessing some others you attended, poly. Don't forget Redman, Helium, Cypress Hill, Beck, etc. at that lolla.

Morrissey - DAR Constitution Hall DC 2004

Ted Leo - pretty much any show between DC and Philly 2000->

GBV, Sloan - TLA PA 1999?

Twilight Singers - Fletchers Baltimore 2004

Fugazi, The Ex - Electric Factory PA 2000

Lifetime - Troc PA 1997 *actually a crappy show, lots of tech problems

Beulah, Apples in Stereo, Shannon Wright - Middle East Boston 1999

The Who - Wembley Arena (?) 2000

Thievery Corp - 9:30 DC 2005

Franz Ferdinand, Sons and Daughters - Shampoo PA 2004

My Morning Jacket, Citizen Cope, Dr. Dog - 9:30 DC 2004

Promise Ring - West Chester U 2000

Doves - 9:30 DC 2002

[denimdestroyedmylife]

oh, yes! MOZZER every fuckin' time!

sybaritical-------i'm extremely jealous that you've seen BOC. damn.

broadcast are great live, incidentally.

[sybaritical]

Yeeeeeeah.

Broadcast/ Yo La Tengo Shepherds Bush Empire 2001.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

the sun ra arkestra on stage w/ Yo La Tengo in the year two-thousand and something

naaaameen?!

[sybaritical]

... uhmmmm ...

Sun ra Arkestra/MC5 Royal Festival Hall 2005

[greentea]

its not the best, but my first concert was a L7 and Melvins show in 95 one fo the girls jumped to the crowd and i grabbed her boobs.hah. then more memorable is whne iw ent to see Hole in 96. courtney love jumped to the crowd and i gropped her also and one people in the crowd took one of her rings probably given to her by kurt. yeah fun times *sigh*

[mspark]

Cro-Mags,Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law, Sick of it All - The Ritz 1986

Def Jam Tour(Beasties,Run Dmc,LL Cool J) Madison Sq Garden 1987

Tricky-Irving Plaza 1997

The Meters(reunited) Nokia Theater 2005

all in NYC

[will_i_am]

eh flame me.

bloc party roseland ballroom -05?

[denimdestroyedmylife]

... uhmmmm ...

Sun ra Arkestra/MC5Royal Festival Hall (with MC5) 2005

that's sick! i remember that bill came around to NYC, but i was on the other side of the country-----apparently they coexisted on the same bill in the 60s. crazy.

[greentea]

eh flame me.

bloc party roseland ballroom -05?

hey ill go where the ladies go. hehehe

[shoreman1782]

Wow, I was just doing some googlin' to confirm years of those shows and found R5's archive page. Apologies to non-Philly folks, but this is a trip down memory lane.

http://www.r5productions.com/oldshows.html

The last Plow show... I Hate You... Rizzo Machine... The end of ska... I know there's a few shows missing there... I'm sure I went to a leatherface show there at some point.

[poly800rock]

Wow, I was just doing some googlin' to confirm years of those shows and found R5's archive page. Apologies to non-Philly folks, but this is a trip down memory lane.

http://www.r5productions.com/oldshows.html

The last Plow show... I Hate You... Rizzo Machine... The end of ska... I know there's a few shows missing there... I'm sure I went to a leatherface show there at some point.

yeah, there are a ton up there....i've been to a lot of them....but not so much anymore.

wow, there is a promise ring show i went to in 99 on there, some kid yelled out "Zepplin" during rye coalition's set, they busted out dazed and confused, the long version.

i'm also adding godspeed you black emperor in boston in 2003 also

[sybaritical]

Saw GYBE in 2000 at the Scala ... Their visuals where amazing. For the second of the three encores they played "Raise yr fists..." and projected a time lapsed loop of a freeway on the back of the stage at the crescendo. I wept it was so beautiful.

[showbiz00ditc]

Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop, X to the Z xzibit, warren g - Up in Smoke

Kweli

J-Live

The Roots

[sam113]

Soundgarden / Living Color - Okay'z Corral Madison, Wi. 1990

Soundgarden / Faith No More - Headliners Madison, Wi. 1991

Steel Pole Bathtub / Shorty / Lubricated Goat - Okay'z Corral Madison, Wi. 1994

Fu Manchu / Zen Guerilla - Okay'z Corral Madison, Wi. 1999

Nebula / The King Salmon - Okay'z Corral Madison, Wi. 2000

Pretty much every single Jesus Lizard show ever

all dates approximate- it's been a long time

[sybaritical]

I concur that the Jesus Lizard where incredible.

David Yow at the end of the Reading festival set:

"This our last song. We're gon' play this, then go backstage, and take more drugs than anyone of you can carry "

[phr]

gangstarr @ tramps NYC