Memorable concerts
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@JLG:
Has anyone been to legendary shows, not just legendary to you? Mine are:
Woodstock 99
Phish 99/00 Millenium Celebration in The EvergladesAnd yes, I've read Blackheart's list. All of her early shows are legendary…..
I was at both of those as well. They were good and I had more fun at the Phish show than I was expecting, but I'm not sure they hold legendary status for me from a musical perspective, but certainly from a 'what the f is going on around me'… And obviously they're legendary (at least Woodstock) because of all of the hoopla that went down.
Not legendary? Name one other band that has ever played for 8 hours straight, no break, port-a-pottys on stage. Several epic 20-30 min versions of songs (see their cover of Rock n Roll, it's well over a half an hour). If that's not legendary, I don't know what is. Most bands don't even have the material to play 6 straight sets (with one of them being 8 hours long) without repeating one song.
Seems like a lot of you think Phish is some fruity jamband like the Grateful Dead or String Cheese Incident, but are you all wrong. They are a rock n roll band, straight up. Granted there are some corny lyrics, but when it comes to rocking, few bands can come close. Not to mention, that their light show is only second fiddle to Pink Floyd's rig (which seldom gets used). Ask Derivative666, he's into heavy shit, like all of you. He thought the same thing, but look at him now, he loves them. They are a musician's band. Please take a listen before passing judgment.
FYI, they cover heavy shit too, like Sabbath, Nirvana, Rage, etc.
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Couldnt agree more. I may be the only person on this forum to see Clutch, Phish, Converge in the same month. As Mike stated I am far from being a fan of the whole jam band genre. Phish fucking rock enough said.
"Obstacles are stepping-stones That guide us to our goals"
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I wouldn't write the Dead off as a "fruity jam band" but to each his own. I don't like Phish but I wouldn't write them off either, just not my (AC/DC) bag.
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I gotta say one of the best live bands I've ever seen was The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Absolutely floored me. Jimmy Vaughn is a bad ass motherfucker, and Kim Wilson tore the crowd a new one with his harmonica. This was close to 20 years ago and blues just wasn't on my radar really.
Also X is still to this day one of the best live bands on the planet.
I don't know if I mentioned Morrissey on the Your Arsenal tour but wow…what a show. Best line up of his band in my opinion.
recent....Grinderman.
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Agreed on Moz and Grinderman. Everything Nick Cave touches is gold.
Bands I'm dying to see:
GYBE
Tom Waits
Boards of CanadaBands I can't wait to see again
Sigur Ros the best live show I have seen in recent years
MBV"Obstacles are stepping-stones That guide us to our goals"
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One of the greatest concerts I've ever seen was Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express. He and James DePrato are the definition of guitar synergy (I know I hate that word too but can't think of a better one). Left a smoking crater where my brain was both times I saw them at the Turf Club in St. Paul.
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any time ive seen chuck ragan has been AWESOME
be it in hot water music, solo or doing the revival tour
that man kills it
truly one of the hardest working dudes in musicalso that band converge puts on a deece show too
memorable moment at a show
motorhead, dio and iron maiden
motorhead was the opener (which was total bullshit) when they were almost done there set lemmy says "okay now pretend we left the stage and you cheered and now we're back on" then blasted into ace of spadesive seen motorhead a few times, always fun
seen a tour with them, dropkick murphy's and hatebreed. super weird scene that night -
I've seen X so many times I lost count, Billy Zoom was always so nice and thanked us for coming to the gigs.
The Germs on the other hand were a different story…Pat Smear was a blast, Darby Crash was a train
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My two personal favorite all time concerts
Roger waters Doig the wall fifth row!!!
Phish IT!!! not really "one" concert, more like 7, but they played on top of an air traffic control tower. It doesn't get much Better folks.
Ill even throw in phish festival 8. The festival kind of sucked compared to other phish festivals, but phish playing the stones exile on Main Street in its entirety with Sharon Jones and the dap kings was one for the books.I'm going to add praxis at bonnaroo 04 to this list. Because honestly, how many other of you fuckers have actually seen praxis? And don't lie!!!
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Bob Marley - June 1980 Paris Bourget
Peter Tosh - 1981 Pantin
Black Uhuru - King Sunny Ade - 1984 Paris
Aswad - The Venue London 1982
Fela - Paris 1991
Bitty McLean + Sly & Robbie - Paris 2007
Third World - Paris 1983
Maxi Priest + Sly & Robbie - Park West Chicago 1987-8
Gregory Isaacs + Sly & Robbie - Antwerp 1985
Shaggy - Cannes Midem 1997
Kassav - Paris 1993
Sly & Robbie + Taxi Gang + Stepper + Khalifa + Bitty McLean + Johnny Osbourne + Michael Rose - Paris 2013
you can listen to the entire concert onHas anyone read this mans list??!!!!!
Marley, tosh, fela kuti in 91!!!! Holy shit balls
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what sucked about ocho for you?
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word…
ah yeah, that Suzy was impressive indeed.
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I've seen X so many times I lost count, Billy Zoom was always so nice and thanked us for coming to the gigs.
The Germs on the other hand were a different story…Pat Smear was a blast, Darby Crash was a train
wreck. No pun intended.just watching interview footage of darby crash is enough to believe you. it's pretty tragic….he really was onto something lyrically.
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any time ive seen chuck ragan has been AWESOME
be it in hot water music, solo or doing the revival tour
that man kills it
truly one of the hardest working dudes in musicalso that band converge puts on a deece show too
memorable moment at a show
motorhead, dio and iron maiden
motorhead was the opener (which was total bullshit) when they were almost done there set lemmy says "okay now pretend we left the stage and you cheered and now we're back on" then blasted into ace of spadesive seen motorhead a few times, always fun
seen a tour with them, dropkick murphy's and hatebreed. super weird scene that nightthanks buddy. i have a good hot water music story…
20 years ago i was doing my first tour with my first band, which funny enough was with Converge. Coincidentally Hot Water Music were doing their first tour at the same time. Anyways... the first show of the tour was in Atlanta at the Somber Reptile at a "fest". Copout played that day and they were amazing. HWM had just put out their first seven inch and a demo, we ended up hanging out with those guys in the parking lot all day and became fast friends. We hung out that night as well and then parted ways. A couple weeks later we were on the road driving from I think West Virginia into Ohio for another "fest"...this one was at the Agora Ballroom. Los Crudos played. We ended up getting stuck in this massive traffic jam in the middle of nowhere. A truck had overturned or something. We look a little ways up the highway and we see a van that's obviously a punk band pulled over on the side of the road and they're taking their gear out of the van and we recognize that it's HWM. So we pull into the break down lane and drive up to them to ask whats wrong. They were surprised to see us and they tell us that they were sick of sitting in traffic and they decided to just have a show on the side of the highway. GREAT FUCKING IDEA. so we immediately start unpacking our drums too. we set up two drum kits on the side of the highway make these shitty signs what say "POOR ROCK BANDS NEED GAS MONEY". We then proceeded to make the most awful fucking noise you could imagine for the people trapped in the cars for a good half hour before a state trooper showed up and told us to pack it up. The cop was stoked and told us that he met Johnny Cash the week before when he pulled his bus over. Anyways....we packed it up as traffic started moving and drove to cleveland to play the festival. i think there's video footage from that festival somewhere.
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^ Great story riff!
Yeah, Darby was a mess, off stage he was pretty low key. He'd go up to people, me
included, and want to give us Germ burns. This was by using a lit cigarette and burning the back of your hand,
if you turned him down ( I certainly did a number of times ) he'd explain in a low voice why you needed to have
one. It was like he was trying to brainwash you, very weird and it was hard to shake the guy.
On stage he was nuts, like someone flipped a switch and off he went, trying to be a poor mans Iggy Pop. -
^ Great story riff!
Yeah, Darby was a mess, off stage he was pretty low key. He'd go up to people, me
included, and want to give us Germ burns. This was by using a lit cigarette and burning the back of your hand,
if you turned him down ( I certainly did a number of times ) he'd explain in a low voice why you needed to have
one. It was like he was trying to brainwash you, very weird and it was hard to shake the guy.
On stage he was nuts, like someone flipped a switch and off he went, trying to be a poor mans Iggy Pop.yeah you could definitely see that he had problems in "decline of". it's crazy how people like that often write amazing lyrics.
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