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Favorite (or Worst) Live Performance of Any Band?

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In order of greatness:

California Jam, Ontario Motor Speedway, April 1974

The Last Waltz, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco Thanksgiving Day, 1976

Eagles (Hell Freezes Over Tour 1994-1996) Greensboro Coliseum.

Bruce Springsteen, UNC Chapel Hill 2003

Metallica, San Diego Sports Arena 1992

The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, 1999, some little bar in Asheville with about 40 people in attendance (amazing)

Gov't Mule, 1998, another little bar in Asheville before their first major CD release

 

Been to many shows that were far from great, but since I don't mind paying good money, I always try to find the best in any performance, although I did walk out of a "concert" once in Greensboro. Springsteen did a show there, solo with a guitar, in the round. The ushers refused entrance or exit while he was playing and between every song we were treated to his political ramblings. He played a lot of really obscure stuff, including a lot of covers he's never recorded and it really wasn't all that good. Place was dead silent and every tune got a golf clap. Aside from the fact I paid to see a concert not to listen to his political opinions, regardless of party affiliation. We left after 45 minutes of waiting for a real concert to break out...

 

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That's one of my dream concerts. The pure amount of soul he puts into his songs and the performances I've seen on Youtube blows my mind. I wanna hear him do Belief and Waterfall on the piano so badly.

My favorite solo musician. He is as every bit good live perhaps better than his albums. His Chariot album has a live version and you could barely notice the difference from the studio version.

The only thing that turned me off from his concert was he showed up almost 2 hours late. Everyone was standing around like where the hell is this guy. He didn't start singing until around 10.30pm

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lol how about this. I've seen Backstreet Boys twice and Hanson once.... :startle:

I'm not proud of it.

So much estrogen at the Kelly Clarkson concert I felt like A turtle wanting to go into my shell.

I was 12 or 13 when I saw backstreet boys. Went with a bunch of tweens.

Oh and I saw Dru Hill before Sisqo went solo. It WAs ok.

Jana Kramer is a better singer live than I give her credit for. She's even hotter in person.

Looking forward to going to Stagecoach this year. Hoping to catch Jake Owen.

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That's one of my dream concerts. The pure amount of soul he puts into his songs and the performances I've seen on Youtube blows my mind. I wanna hear him do Belief and Waterfall on the piano so badly.

 

I saw him at World Memorial Stadium in Greensboro back when he first came onto the scene.  I think it was put together by 107.5 or 98.7 at the time.  I didn't realize it at the time because I was there with a bunch of high school friends, but he did sound very, very good live.  I haven't listened to him in forever.  I'll check him out on Spotify again.

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Slipknot's main drummer was awesome, it became the reason I saw them (I'm a drummer), though I love their 87062134 album and Iowa was ok. Corey (lead singer) sounds great for one or two songs, after that he just dies out in not sure why. Some bands that yell a lot and have intensity record one song at a time, then go live and suck. Others however do quite well, yelling like that takes practice and can really fug up your vocals. Perhaps the reason Slipknot pussified their music after Iowa. The lead singer of Otep and Staind as well as 90s Manson are the best at upholding intense energy throughout a 2-3 hour show.

Incubus was boring. They played acoustic versions of any song slightly heavier or faster than their normal stuff. It was really annoying. Sounded like crap too. The best thing about their concert was when they asked for the girls to throw their bras on stage...some lots of great boobies.

I saw Eagles somewhat recently and they were old. The atmosphere sucked because it was a bunch of old people lol. The Eagles to me though influenced a lot of my favorite bands now days. Brian Warner (lead singer of Marilyn Manson's favorite band is the Eagles. So maybe it was just mean but everything about that concert was slow paced.

Best all around concert I have ever been to date was Pantera in Dallas Texas, Staind and 1999 Marilyn Manson-great music and visuals. Nine inch nails has had some great ones too. Eric Clapton was just amazing. He really knows his music.

 

Yeah Corey Taylor's voice is fuged. We went and saw them in Dallas last Halloween and I was really disappointed. Great stage show, theatrics and pyrotechnics,  but the music was meh, IMO. Ever since Grey died and now with Joey gone they just aren't the same. I really with I could have caught them live during the Iowa days.

 

Korn opened for them, and I have to say that I liked their set better than Slipknot's. Jonathan Davis huffs oxygen between every song and still goes hard. It was the second time I've seen them.

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In order of greatness:

California Jam, Ontario Motor Speedway, April 1974

The Last Waltz, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco Thanksgiving Day, 1976

Eagles (Hell Freezes Over Tour 1994-1996) Greensboro Coliseum.

Bruce Springsteen, UNC Chapel Hill 2003

Metallica, San Diego Sports Arena 1992

The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, 1999, some little bar in Asheville with about 40 people in attendance (amazing)

Gov't Mule, 1998, another little bar in Asheville before their first major CD release

 

Been to many shows that were far from great, but since I don't mind paying good money, I always try to find the best in any performance, although I did walk out of a "concert" once in Greensboro. Springsteen did a show there, solo with a guitar, in the round. The ushers refused entrance or exit while he was playing and between every song we were treated to his political ramblings. He played a lot of really obscure stuff, including a lot of covers he's never recorded and it really wasn't all that good. Place was dead silent and every tune got a golf clap. Aside from the fact I paid to see a concert not to listen to his political opinions, regardless of party affiliation. We left after 45 minutes of waiting for a real concert to break out...

 

last waltz...?  impressive

 

 

 

 

 

personally:

 

-string cheese incident - rothbury festival 2009

-the dead - rothbury festival 2009

-beastie boys - bonnaroo 2009 (very memorable because my wife and i distinctly noticed a strange vibe to the guys, no energy... pretty much the following month they announced MCA had cancer)

-flaming lips - all good festival 2012 (less to do with music and more to do with my less than sober-ness_

-furthur - all good festival 2013 (surrounded by some of my favorite people and a whole lot of love... great night)

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If you haven't got to see Steel Panther, I beg you, please do. They're terrific.

I also go to see Styx and Def Leppard in Charlotte in June/July.

I'm heading to Nashville in October for a Foo Fighters concert.

 

I would love to see the Foo Fighters live.  There's no way their concert would not be fun as hell and full of intensity.  I'm jealous.

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I witnessed a best and worst performance in a single concert

RATM and WuTang circa 1997

RATM was awesome

WuTang spent most of the time yelling at an audience member who wouldn't give one of their kids the mic back after they Subjeced us to his poo rap for 10 minutEs

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Not Great Concerts

J Cole (Was just awful. He didn't seem to be enjoying himself and was just rolling through the motions for his home state crowd)

The Underachievers (They were absolutely stoned, and as hilarious as it was, the performance was very lackluster)

Curious, which concert did you go to? I went to the one at Halton Arena last year at UNCC. He was taking liquor to the head on stage, but I was front row so I had a good time. Seemed kinda out of it though.

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