Best concert ever

Yep, loved it - had a GREAT time.
Have an 18 year old now that I don't think will ever get to do what we did.

U2 - ZooTV tour, Saratoga, NY 1992 - before U2 went soft... ZooTv tour and its symbolism was 20 years ahead of its time.

Stone Temple Pilots - Orpheum Theatre, Boston, 2002

Scott Wieland was as good as a rock n roll front man as there ever was... until he went totally off the rails.

Yeah, Wieland was awesome.
Went like Cobaine . . .

if you don't live in boston the Orpheum is hard to find

Yep... down that little side lane.... cool place to see a concert, though.

Slayers last tour with Lamb of God , Anthrax ,Testament, Napalm Death. San Antonio

Korn / Disturbed. 2002? Sacramento

Jefferson Starship in the summer of 1981 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.

i was lost and confused, Boston is a pain for visitors

just driving around is a pain, skinny roads and one ways

Wish I would've seen Van Halen "Live Without a Net". THAT looked like a good time!

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Pink Floyd, County Stadium in Milwaukee 1987

Saw the Clash on their first West Coast show at the Berkeley Community theater in 1979. Bo Diddley opened. They tore the place up.

UFO (with Schenker) opened for Rush, 1978. UFO slayed Rush that night.

Saw KISS on the Kiss Alive tour. They nearly burned down the Oakland Auditorium. Bob Seger opened for Kiss. He was amazing.

I used to see the Tubes all the time in the Bay Area in high school. They always put on a great live show.

But I've seen lesser known artists play some amazing live sets.

Mink DeVille was incredible.

Saw Bruce Cockburn at a roadhouse in Mass in 84. He kind of blew me away.

MuteMath SXSW 2007.

Siouxsie and The Banshees circa 1980, I-Beam, SF.

But maybe the best was U2, one of their first shows in the US on the "Boy" tour. They were amazing. About as close to religion as you could get with Rock.

Shame what happened later.

The Jesus Lizard - Victoria, BC, 1992

The Doors 1970 at the West Valley Music Theater in Woodland Hills California. $3.50 Openers were The Buffalo Springfield and Peter, Paul, and Mary.

I've been lucky - got to see Pink Floyd twice, four Roger Waters solo sows, and three David Gilmour solo shows.

Each was the best show I had ever seen :)

Couple years ago at Bonnaroo I saw MUSE and was pretty damn impressed.

I love all Muse songs especially this one where they trick you into thinking they are saying "thought contagion" but they are really saying "fucking satan". Been six front row concerts for that album and saw Bellamy mouth the words. And what are the odds it has demons at that point in the video.

I try to hear thought contagion but I am sorry Contagion start with a K sound not an S sound as he sings.

Pink Floyd at Cleveland Stadium 1987- went both nights
Motley Crue 1989 Richfield Coliseum in the 2nd row that was the most fun concert

I saw Pink Floyd Animals tour in Cleveland Stadium in 82.
I saw the Stones in Cleveland in 78. (with Kansas and Peter Tosh)
Saw them in Cincinnati in the 80's too.
I saw Zeppelin in Cincinnati Riverfront stadium in 77.
I was at the infamous Who concert in Cincinnati in 79.
I saw Who before that in Cincinnati in 75. And saw them again in Lexington in 84.

I have seen Rod Stewart with Faces. (Ronnie Woods on guitar, Kenny Jones on Drums) back in 74. Killer band.

I saw Yes, Jethro Tull multiple times in the 70s. (These bands were great in concert back then).
I saw Black Sabbath.
I saw Styx in Dayton Ohio.

I saw Greg Allman play solo acoustic in a small hall (Bogarts)

I saw reggae legend Jimmy Cliff there, went back stage and met him because I was with an African buddy who knew him.

I saw the Electric Light Orchestra play with clear acrylic instruments that they bounced Lasers through.

Iron Maiden 80-81-82-83-84-85-87-2006 - Best concerts ever

Metallica - Wasp - Merciful Fate 1985? i think...was a great show...before metallica went soft.

Pink Floyd 87
van halen 84 and 85
solo david lee after he left

Motley crue several times in the 80's
Tons of other metal bands in the 80's

of note...watching def leppard getting booed headlining, after Krokus blew them away as the opener.

Watching quiet riot get told to get off the stage so the Scorpions could start.

Watching poison later 80's and realizing just how fucking awful they were. Especially the guitar solo...bad bad bad.

Kiss with make-up and then right after they took it off...much better with. LOL

Pink floyd and the floating pig...amazing show.

Several thrash concerts, slayer and others.

--correction Zeppelin was not in Riverfront Stadium, they were in Riverfront Coliseum (where the Who tragedy happened). They had a policy back then...opened arena with no assigned seats, and they didn't open the doors up until about an hour before the show. I remember the crush of people trying to get into that show and my buddy telling me 'dude..my feet are not on the ground right now'.

It was really dangerous. and that was two years before the Who tragedy. (I had no problem getting into that one, but did see the bodies on the ground covered with blankets...didn't know what had happened until the show was over).

I always felt the people who ran the city should have been charged with a crime for the way that they let that shit operate...

I saw others back then too....

Jackson Browne. Kiss, etc. concerts and weed were both cheap in the 70s