Greatest Concert You Saw Or Never Got To See

[Walker]

Mine are ones I never got to see.

Pink Floyd --- Either the Wall or when it was just Gilmore and they performed the concert on the Pulse video. Just a stellar performance.

Metallica & Guns N Roses-- preferably one of the shows that Axl actually performed. Metallica had the Black album, Guns had Use Your Illusion 1&2 i'll bet you walked out of there with a smile on your face.

How about you?

 

[Prince]

Mine are ones I never got to see.

Pink Floyd --- Either the Wall or when it was just Gilmore and they performed the concert on the Pulse video. Just a stellar performance.

Metallica & Guns N Roses-- preferably one of the shows that Axl actually performed. Metallica had the Black album, Guns had Use Your Illusion 1&2 i'll bet you walked out of there with a smile on your face.

How about you?

Wow. Hard for me to top either of those.

The best I saw was a ZZ Top concert in the early '90's. They got up there and just jammed for 3 hours. Not as big of a production as their Recycler tour, but musically, it was fantastic.

 

[Proinsias]

Neil Young last year at Glastonbury is up there with the best of them. Won't forget that in a hurry. Didn't realize he still had that much energy left.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3sBAgDTanA[/YOUTUBE]

 

[bamafan64]

Steely Dan last year in Orange Beach. Hands down.

 

[Cuttingboard]

TOOL and MUSE.

 

[Tony_B]

Zepplin at Knebworth, unbeliveable

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[Shane]

Got to see John Cale at the 9:30 club in D.C. He played all of his Paris 1919 album. Great, great show.

 

[Beast]

It's gotta be a three-way tie, sorry.
Morrissey. The Backyard in Austin
James Brown. Stubb's in Austin
Depeche Mode. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston. Devotional Tour.

 

[Grudge5]

Pink Floyd- The Wall

 

[dklaiman]

Los Lobos, any outdoor venue (I've seen them at 3)
Jonothan Richman, at some hole in the wall bar in Detroit.
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, at my college gym. It was a 4 hour dance party.

 

[shm]

Aerosmith's opening concert of their 2007 European Tour, the warm-up band was the Danish rock band D-A-D (and they where actually the best band that night)

 

[sodajerk]

Don't know that I could nail one but i do have three memorable groups or concerts. Showing my age, all were in mid to late 70's.

-- Any of the northern California Grateful Dead concerts (around six)
-- Leonard Cohen in Berkley
-- An outdoor concert in Oakland that had the Grateful Dead, the Who, Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young? - can't remember if he was with them then). There were several other "name" bands of the time that I don't recall but this was a really long, really good concert!

 

[taprater]

I would have given my right arm to see Metallica's S&M concert.

 

[Greybeard]

Greatest I never got to see.... Woodstock. We were driving down from Montreal and got turned back at the New York border because the police had closed all the roads due to the traffic jams.
Greatest I ever saw.... Frank Zappa, 1971, at the Paul Sauvé Arena in Montreal.

 

[Walker]

Greatest I never got to see.... Woodstock. We were driving down from Montreal and got turned back at the New York border because the police had closed all the roads due to the traffic jams.
Greatest I ever saw.... Frank Zappa, 1971, at the Paul Sauvé Arena in Montreal.

That had to suck about woodstock!

 

[mkeyslehman]

Coachella 2004: Kinky, Beck (packed and HOT!), Stereolab, Pixies, Radiohead headliner

A few other notable favorites of mine (all in AZ): David Gray @ Dodge (2003), Sigur Ros w/ Album Leaf @ Nita's Hideaway (2003), Phoenix @ Martini Ranch (2006), Bon Iver @ Mesa Arts (2009)

 

[EvilGobi]

Best I got to see were the SARS concert in Toronto in 2003, Heaven and Hell locally, Neil Young also locally, and Alice Cooper pretty locally.

I never got to see James Brown, he played at the casino across the river (I live in a bordertown). I just put off buying a ticket and forgot about it. I figured eventually he would come back, then he passed away. I also will never get to see Zeppelin or Sabbath.

 

[wizlo]

This is too hard for me to pick, but I will have to agree with the gentleman remarking about the Leonard Cohen show. I had the opportunity to see him last year at the Fox Theatre in St Louis while on an extended business trip. He was phenomenal and the Fox Theatre is a second-to-none venue. It is a terrible shame why he had to tour again, but I am so thankful I had the opportunity to see him play.

 

[proxymoron]

The Pixies at Fuji Rock in 2004. First time they ever played Japan but the crowd--despite most of them probably speaking little English--sang along to every song. Frank Black came out after the last encore and raised a beer in a long salute. Very cool.

 

[Angus Young]

Floyd at Earls Court, London was the best I ever saw. An honourable mention to REM at Stirling castle. Good show.