Subject: Best Concert You've Ever Been To
Posted by: thewho13rd
Date: Nov 02 08
I'm sure this thread has been done sometime ago, but what is the best concert you've ever been to?
Posted by: thewho13rd
Date: Nov 02 08
I'm sure this thread has been done sometime ago, but what is the best concert you've ever been to?
107 replies. On page 1 of 6 pages. 1 2 3 4 5 6
Rumpo
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Artur Rubinstein, San Francisco, 1968 Though advanced in age he was superb. Reply #1. Nov 02 08, 5:22 PM |
missmuumuu 
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Rolling Stones, 1989 Steel Wheels tour, Atlantic City. My best friend from high school won two tickets to the concert plus air fare/hotel from a radio station! Luckily for me that she didn't have a boyfriend at the time and asked me to go :) The concert was being filmed for a special on Showtime; Mick and the boys were really "on" because of it. It was a great show. Reply #2. Nov 02 08, 7:30 PM |
spidersghost43
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The Who 1982 Shea Stadium Queens, New York Reply #3. Nov 03 08, 9:27 AM |
runaway_drive
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Foo Fighters: Wembley Stadium: 2008 Reply #4. Nov 03 08, 11:28 AM |
thewho13rd
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I recently went to a Who concert in Philly last Sunday. It's only my second concert believe it or not, and the first one I went to was, again, the Who. The first time they were okay, the second time though... they blew me away. Pete was awesome and Daltrey sounded fantastic. They also played some songs of "Quadrophenia" and the audience was into it all night. Easily my best concert so far. Reply #5. Nov 03 08, 5:06 PM |
musicteach83
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Any Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert, any year...my mom literally drug me to the first one- I thought they were completely classical (yes I teach music, but classical is not a particular favorite!)-how wrong! They are not classical at all, in fact it is one of the most energetic and high tech shows I've ever seen! Now it is a yearly tradition for my mom and I. Reply #6. Nov 03 08, 9:02 PM |
jordandog
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Pink Floyd - June, 1973 - DSOTM Tour (And every one after that I could get to!) Reply #7. Nov 04 08, 7:50 AM |
mjws1968
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Reading Festival of 1990 - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, The Fall, Inspiral Carpets and The Pixies, just total bliss. Reply #8. Nov 04 08, 11:46 AM |
lesley153
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Nikolai Demidenko, when he came to Bedford last year, and played an entire programme of Beethoven. Spellbinding. And Mischa Maisky at the Cadogan Hall. Magnificent. (That's two - sorry - hard to split them.) Reply #9. Nov 04 08, 1:24 PM |
TheRambler
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Quite a hard choice here but it would have to be Paul Rodgers when he made his comeback, at the Barrowlands in Glasgow, in 1997. Reply #10. Nov 05 08, 9:04 AM |
Rowena8482
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Probably Pink Floyd at Earl's Court - I managed to buy a ticket the day before the concert and went alone as there was only one available - I lost eyebrows to the pyrotechnics and was just lost in the music from the moment they came on stage, it was just perfect :-D Other than that, I tend to have "moments" rather than a single concert - there is nothing in the world to compare with the moment a band you like hit the opening chords of your favourite song by them, live. The first time I saw Guns n Roses sing "Sweet Child of Mine" was one, or when Love/Hate sang "She's an Angel" and the lead singer actually knelt down and ran his finger down my tattoo with the song title in it were just magic - memories to keep me warm in my old age lol. Reply #11. Nov 06 08, 5:10 PM |
| lesley153
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I've just been to a Katie Melhua concert, and thoroughly enjoyed it. The warm-up act was a bit rubbish but I was stunned by Melhua's talent and professionalism, not to mention charm. One of the people I went with had gone to see Amy Winehouse a year ago. They stood waiting for her, until at last she arrived, two hours late and blind drunk. She had to be pushed - physically - onto the stage, and managed to sing one song without falling over. Couldn't you get your money back? No, because she "made an appearance" and you can only get a refund if they don't turn up. No wonder the promoters were so keen to get her onto the stage. Reply #12. Nov 07 08, 7:09 AM |
PDAZ
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Peter Gabriel's "Secret World" tour in the early 90s. His "Growing Up" tour in 2002 or so was very good also. He's very special ;-) Reply #13. Nov 07 08, 8:03 PM |
| TheRambler
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Since we're reminiscing here, in 1970 I was at Free's first concert in Edinburgh. The vocalist Paul Rodgers, who went on to be the front man with Bad Company and has been Queen's front man in two tours, was my idol at the time. The venue was very small, in the Eldorado in Leith and they didn't have dressing rooms off to the side for them. The band had to run through the audience and Paul Rodgers ran past me and I reached out and touched his arm. I got his sweat on my hand and my friend and I cried all the way home! We were only 15 and I will never forget that as long as I live. Reply #14. Nov 08 08, 8:06 AM |
| Saberg
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It's hard to choose but probably The Rolling Stones. Reply #15. Nov 13 08, 3:34 PM |
Cymruambyth
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Tina Turner - wow! She starts where most performers peak. Such energy and such rapport with her audience. Danny Kaye at the palladium in London in the late 1940s - another spellbinder who could hold his audience in the palm of his hand. Harry Belafonte - saw him here years ago with the late, great Miriam Makeba. Another performer who relates to his audience positively. Victor Borge - brilliant. Reply #16. Nov 16 08, 12:27 AM |
romeomikegolf
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I'm with Jordandog on this one. Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon tour. I saw them at Wembley Arena around 1974. a stunning show for it's time. Reply #17. Nov 17 08, 1:52 AM |
jolana
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My best concert is always the last one. Today it was a philharmony in Vienna performing pieces by Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg - weird, but beatiful. Reply #18. Nov 17 08, 2:08 PM |
risdonus
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The concert that had the biggest impact on me was way back at the end the 70’s. The Tubes was a collection of high school friends from Phoenix, Arizona. The Beans and The Red, White and Blues Band eventually merged after relocating to San Francisco in 1969. The core band membership remained largely intact for more than a decade. At their peak, their act featured dozens of other performers, including tap dancers and acrobats. I managed to see them in this period just before Fee Waybill (real name John Waldo Waybill) (vocals) fell of the stage wielding a chainsaw. How tastes change. Paul Reply #19. Nov 17 08, 4:28 PM |
stedman
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Tricky, but I think I'll go for Leonard Bernstein conducting the Concertgeboew Orchestra, Amsterdam in Mahler's 9th Symphony in London's Barbican Hall way back in 1985. Typical Bernstein, squeezing every last drop of emotion out of the last movement, but utterly enthralling. There must have been a good 2 minutes of silence in the auditorium at the end before the applause started. Reply #20. Nov 18 08, 6:40 AM |
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