Best concert of your life?

[Orpheum]

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?

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:16pm

Cassie Steele!

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:29pm

Blues Clue

[Forester]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:32pm

Pink Floyd - 1994 - Yankee Stadium
Phish - 1999 - Big Cypress

Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:44pm

does anyone REALLY have to ask!??

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:54pm

Bette 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]

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.

[Patronus]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:00pm

U2, Staples Center. Elevation Tour.

Garth Brooks, REM and Dave Matthews Band all runners up.

[bythesword84]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:03pm

Billy Joel/Elton John Face to Face

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:17pm

Lennon

[iflitifloat]

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]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:15pm

Liz Phair

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:22pm

15 rows back on the floor for the KISS reunion show. Updated On: 8/28/05 at 06:22 PM

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:31pm

I 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.

[luvtheEmcee]

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!

[BluCat500]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:42pm

Green Day last fall, absolutely phenomenal...

[jasonf]

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]

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!

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:19pm

Madonna, Re-Invention Tour, July 21st 2003 in Toronto.

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:21pm

Cranberries were superb, proper mosh pit when they played Zombie! It was superb and they were supported by aqualung... amazing atmosphere!

[WesternSky2]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:25pm

I 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.

[orangeskittles]

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.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:38pm

ELTON JOHN.

[WesternSky2]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:39pm

Wow 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.

[BluCat500]

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...