Best concert you ever went to?

Possessed · Post by **Possessed** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Pink Floyd- Pittsburgh Three Rivers Stadium. Division Bell tour. Trippin Hard!!!!!! Nothing can compare to Floyd on Cid. Messed me up for weeks.
I'll agree with the Professor on the Queensryche in J-town Building Empires tour. WOW
Queensryche's Promised Land tour I saw at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago was equally impressive.
Rush w/Primus opening two nights in a row at the Rosemont Horizon.
Slayer with Testament- Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh '89. Front row. Brutal.

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Bit*chenWomen1029 wrote:well i have'nt been to too many big concert Ex: BJC or Pitts post gaz etc)
However i will say that the most entertaingin one i was at was the janet jackson and Usher concert in '98.(BJC).... she had like 5-6 different stage sets and like 20 different outfits.i swear the tour was like 20 mil easy just in the stage performances and sets.Very entertaining..... i know you are all laughing lmao!!! haha

But i loved all my CREED concerts they're no 1 for me and
red hot chili peppers kicked ass also i'd say they would be my no 2!!

This was a great topic , its great to see the different reply's.

I didn't LOL. JJ had some good stuff. I own Control and Rhythm Nation. Usher's been popular for a while and he recently had a hit with Nelly and someone else.

Creed...I'd have loved to have seen them. You have really GREAT Topics! You go girl!

shawnsinfused · Post by **shawnsinfused** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Musically: Jethro Tull @ IUP last november

Experience: Pink Floyd @ RFK Stadium ( Division Bell Tour 94)

Honorable mention: Chili Peppers @ Bryce Jordan w/ Queens of the stone age

Also had a blast the 2 times I saw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
once @ Civic Arena, once @ Starlake now PG Pavillion

ZappasXWife · Post by **ZappasXWife** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Musically: Jethro Tull @ IUP last november

Yea that too was great, it was at the Fisher auditorium which was a small theatre...great for Tull.

MOONDOGGY · Post by **MOONDOGGY** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Mackovyak wrote: WE ARE!!!!!

PENN STATE!!!!

Dunston540 · Post by **Dunston540** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Well, nobody can pick just one. I have seen Phish 138 times, so here's my rundown on my top 3 shows I have seen Phish perform.
1.12/31/99 NYE Big Seminole Indian Res., Big Cypress, FL- They played a set from 11:45 p.m on the 31st till 7:15 a.m. on the 1st of the Millenium. I am not shitting you either, straight up 7 hr. set. I was with my band member Dustin Burley for the whole thing.
2. 9-18-00 Cuyahoga Falls, OH, Blossum Music Center- just amazing!
3. 9-30-00 Thomas and Mack Center, UNLV, Las Vegas-It was Trey's Birthday and I had front row rail baby, I waited 100 plus shows to hear Phish do Forbin's>Mockingbird, and it blew my mind. I even made the DVD titled "Phish Live in Vegas".
You all know I am a huge Phishead, so what else did you expect.

the herald · Post by **the herald** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Pink Floyd 3-rivers 94

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

shawnsinfused wrote: Experience: Pink Floyd @ RFK Stadium ( Division Bell Tour 94)

Also had a blast the 2 times I saw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
once @ Civic Arena, once @ Starlake now PG Pavillion

Dude, you've seen 2 that I'd cut off a Pinky Toe to be able to have seen...I do hope Petty Tours again.

shawnsinfused · Post by **shawnsinfused** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

YankeeRose wrote:
shawnsinfused wrote: Experience: Pink Floyd @ RFK Stadium ( Division Bell Tour 94)

Also had a blast the 2 times I saw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
once @ Civic Arena, once @ Starlake now PG Pavillion

Dude, you've seen 2 that I'd cut off a Pinky Toe to be able to have seen...I do hope Petty Tours again.

I hope he tours again too. Those shows had such a good vibe to them.
I can't believe that Bit*chenwomen didn't put down Creed for her all time favorite. I paid damn good money for thoser tickets lol

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

shawnsinfused wrote:

I hope he tours again too. Those shows had such a good vibe to them.
I can't believe that Bit*chenwomen didn't put down Creed for her all time favorite. I paid damn good money for thoser tickets lol

The first time I heard Petty and the Heartbreakers was live on SNL and then BOOM they were all over the airwaves! (Same with The Police.) The thing with Petty earlier this year, his show with the Crowes was during the week, I didn't have a car during the week then and nobody to go with.
Waaaaah! If I could have made it to Altoona, I knew several people going, but that didn't help me any.

If you re-read Bit'chen's Post, Creed IS her #1!

shawnsinfused · Post by **shawnsinfused** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Hey your right Yankee Rose, Creed was her #1. I'm glad she was at her favorite with me. Seeing that we have 3 kids together

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

shawnsinfused wrote:Hey your right Yankee Rose, Creed was her #1. I'm glad she was at her favorite with me. Seeing that we have 3 kids together

...and you were complaining about the money you spent on the tickets...I hope you feel bad!

shawnsinfused · Post by **shawnsinfused** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

I was just joking. I swear

Plastered Bastards · Post by **Plastered Bastards** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

April 16 1986-Metallica and Ozzy Johnstown War Memorial
Metallica for Master of Puppets w/the ever living Cliff Burton
Ozzy for Ultimate Sin
My friends and I were front and center,at least for Metallica

2 years ago my wife and I saw The Blue Man Group at Post Gazette Pavilion on the Complex tour.Absolutely the most brilliant show I have ever witnessed.

And all the times I have seen Neurosis since 1992

And seeing U2 ranks up there,especially Zoo Tv Tour in '92

YankeeRose · Post by **YankeeRose** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

shawnsinfused wrote:I was just joking. I swear

If you were just joking, then by all means, so was I. I swear.

Besides, you did say you were glad she was at her favorite with you.

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Hawk wrote:Emerson Lake and Palmer

The "Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends" tour.

At the (then called) Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. The sound was in QUAD and the roof was OPEN on a starry night. Everything was perfect and ELP just kicked ass.

Chick Corea with Peter Erskin playing drums.

Hawk, was that around 73 or 74? I saw ELP up in Buffalo Rich stadium in quad sound, Lynard Skynard opened (we did not know them then), THe James Gang w Joe and ELP. Keith Emerson was falling down drunk by the end.

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

undercoverjoe

Yeah that would have been around 1974. I wore out a cassette tape of that concert. Stepped up to the CD, but lent it out and never got it back (yet).

Don't remember who opened.

Big Jimi Cee · Post by **Big Jimi Cee** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Over the years there have been so many, but here are a few that really as one of a kind.

John McLaughlin & The Mahavishnu Orchestra at St. Francis College, front row 10 feet from the stage.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer with YES as the opening act.

Robin Trower and King Crimson at the Stanley Theater, now the Benadum Theater in Pittsburgh.

Frank Zappa and the Mother of Invention at the Stanley Theater

Robert Fripp and Bill Bruford in separate shows at the Decade in Oakland which is now closed. This would be like seeing them at the Hitching Post except closer.

King Crimson at Rec Hall, got back stage passes, met the band after the show.

Floyd, at Three Rivers

Oh I almost forgot Clapton at the Mellon Arena (Civic Arena), dead center on stage, ten rows back on the floor, Mark Knofler as his rhythm guitarist. Bought my ticket 20 minutes before Clapton and the band hit the stage what luck.

Last but not least, Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the holding company in New Jersey - 1969

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

Damn, Big Jim Cee, Why didn't you call me when you were going to those shows ? LOL

RamRod 1 · Post by **RamRod 1** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

So am I the oldest person on this board or what! (I know John Homerski is older that me!) LOL!!!!!!!!
My best concert was the original BYRDS in 1966 at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. I was 13 years old, had never even been kissed and was wearing a "crew cut". I had never even seen long hair. Then we're standing in front of a stage for about a half an hour and the some cat comes out with hair down to his shoulders and starts talking over the microphone about some "up coming" events but is actually doing a sound check. Then 4 guys with hair down to their shoulders walk out on stage with guitars on and plug into Fender Dual Showmans and blast off at about MACH 10! I never heard anything so loud in my life. My patents freeked and headed for the "Bomb Shelter". They "nailed" all their hits. I was in shock!

Bit*chenWomen1029 · Post by **Bit*chenWomen1029** » Tuesday Nov 08, 2005

WOW! i didnt think people on here were that old.... not that theres a problem with that.

Big jim .... if i were born when you went to see janis i would have went with you!!! lol

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Wednesday Nov 09, 2005

The Byrds were the first concert of my freshman college year at U of Scranton. John Hartford opened, then the Earl Scruggs review with Vassar Clemmens on fiddle, and then the Byrds. this was early Sept. , 1972.

for the encore, Hartford came onstage with his fiddle, and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds had his banjo, so there was dual fillles with Vassar and Hardford and dual banjos with Earl and McGuinn. the last song of the night was about a 20 min jam of the "Beverly Hillbillies" song with all 2000 of us sing along.

This was my first major concert, and I thought, I am going to really like going to college. lol

jim bagrosky · Post by **jim bagrosky** » Wednesday Nov 09, 2005

PANTERA - Vulgar Tour - PANTERA - Far Beyond Driven Tour - PANTERA - Great Southern Trendkill Tour. (Everything after that was Phil just being a little too messed up.

FatVin · Post by **FatVin** » Wednesday Nov 09, 2005

1. Most fondly remembered....First Concert....Blue Oyster Cult w/ Blotto at The Stanley Theater in Utica NY Jan '82

2. Best SFX Are you kidding...Pink Floyd Oct 94 Oakland Colliseum Free tix from Radio Station

3. Most Rockin....KISS BJC Saw them twice but it's KISS

4. Best seats....Allman Bros w/ Sister Hazel, BJC 4th Row (The downside of this show was that the Seat Nazi's at BJC asked me to show them my tix every 10 minutes.)

5. Best overall experience B.B. King @ Witaker Center, Harrisburg '04, Met the man

Honorable mentions

The Police, Carrier Dome Syracuse NY '85

Billy Joel, (Don't underestimate the piano man, it's a good show) Carrier Dome Syracuse NY, '89

Black Crowes w/ Jimmy Page Special Guest Kenny Wayne Sheppard at Starlake

UncleScabby · Post by **UncleScabby** » Wednesday Nov 09, 2005

#1 Gwar on their Carnival of Chaos tour in 1996. It was my first REAL concert that I went to on my own, and it locked them in as my favorite band forever.

#2 KISS on the first leg of the multi-multi-multi legged reunion tour at the Civic Arena, my first arena show.

#3 Slayer/Pantera/Skrape/Morbid Angel in Philly--enough said, hehehe

Honorable Mention - Reel Big Fish, Frenzal Rhomb, Hatebreed, Testament (met Chuck Billy, what an awsome dude!) Diamond Head, Manowar for the sheer absurdity and pompousness (Don't tell anyone, but I really do like their songs) and Static X. I'm sure there are more, be back later...

PS - did anyone catch Tattoo The Earth the one year it ran? Slipknot, Slayer, Sepultura, Muvayne + more, excellent outdoor metalfest

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