Best concert of your life?
Best concert of your life?
Orpheum
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/05
#0Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:14pm
What's the best rock/pop/opera/whatever concert you have ever seen?
For me, possibly Bette Midler's Kiss My Brass. Stunning songs, stunningly sung. Plus great comedy! What more could one ask?
#3re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:32pm
Pink Floyd - 1994 - Yankee Stadium
Phish - 1999 - Big Cypress
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:54pmBette Midler as well . . . but I am not sure which tour it was (I have seen a few). It had to be at least 10 years ago.
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#6re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:55pm
The Gipsy Kings at Radio City.
I have never, in all my life, been to a concert like this one. Everyone was singing along and dancing in the aisles the entire time.... one guy was dancing with his girlfriend and then they switched it up and started dancing with people they didnt even know. There was such a warm and festive feeling... such a feeling of comradarie that I've never gotten at any other concert.
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
#7re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:00pm
U2, Staples Center. Elevation Tour.
Garth Brooks, REM and Dave Matthews Band all runners up.
#8re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:03pmBilly Joel/Elton John Face to Face
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#10re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:18pm
Not necessarily the BEST, but certainly the most exciting: The Beatles at Cleveland's Public Auditorium, Sept. 15, 1964.
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#11re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:15pmLiz Phair
#12re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:22pm15 rows back on the floor for the KISS reunion show. Updated On: 8/28/05 at 06:22 PM
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#13re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:31pmI haven't been to that many, not counting broadway ones b/c I don't think that's the point(stars in the alley, buts, etc.), so mine would hafta be a tie between Aerosmith and a great concert featuring Eve6, Sugar Ray, and Bon Jovi. Maybe that one a bit more because I'm a big fan of all 3.
#14re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:34pm
I think it goes to show what a loser I am, in that I haven't been to an "actual" concert since the Backstreet Boys did their Black and Blue tour several summers ago. It ALSO goes to show what a loser I am that I'd put a theatre-related rock(ish) gig as the best concert I've ever been to.
HOWEVER, I'm going to see Elton John at the Garden in a few weeks, and I can't freaking wait!
#15re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:42pmGreen Day last fall, absolutely phenomenal...
#16re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:14pm
Meatloaf, but more because it was actually above the pool at Mandalay Bay in Vegas (I'm leaving for Vegas in like 10 hours -- YAY!!!) and we watched the whole concert from IN the wave pool. It was AWESOME.
Best concert for the music was Billy Joel/Elton John Face to Face, but Barenaked Ladies on their Stunt tour was pretty great also -- so sad how bad that band has become
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#17re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:21pm
U2, Vertigo, Seattle, April 25, 2005. Second row on the floor. The crowd was just as awesome as the band was.
But I think The Beatles in 1964 would have done it for me! Aerosmith and Elton John would also be high on my list, I imagine!
(BluCat, did you find that Green Day was good live? I've heard them perform 'live' on TV before and I've heard some reviews that they're not that good in person, but they're in Vancouver in a couple of weeks. I'm contemplating going.)
Oh! And there's a good chance I'll be seeing Destiny's Child's last performance Sept 10 in Vancouver, so I bet that'll be a killer show!
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#18re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:19pmMadonna, Re-Invention Tour, July 21st 2003 in Toronto.
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#19re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:21pmCranberries were superb, proper mosh pit when they played Zombie! It was superb and they were supported by aqualung... amazing atmosphere!
#20re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:25pmI agree with Blu. I saw Green Day a few years ago and they were amazing. Probably the best band I've seen live. Evanescence also blew me away. Amy Lee's voice is amazing.
#21re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:32pm
HFStival Spring 1999
Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Offspring, Live, Sugar Ray, Goo Goo Dolls, Silverchair, Blink 182, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Orgy, Lit, and Sev. Best line-up they've ever had, IMO.
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#22re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:38pmELTON JOHN.
#23re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:39pmWow that sounds like an amazing concert. I've seen Goo Goo Dolls and Blink 182. I think Blink sounds like crap live, but they put on a good show. Goo Goo Dolls are great.
#24re: Best concert of your life?
Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:40pm
I found no huge difference in the vocal quality between their album and hearing them live, Billy joe even did quite a passable version of We are the Champions...Mostly though they were just so damn magnetic, they had the whole crowd eating out of their hands...
At one point they found three people from the crowd who said they could play instruments, they showed them a couple of cords really quick, and had them playing a song and the crowd went nuts...
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