What concert you've attended is your favorite? If the concert
was a festival of bands & artists, who did you like the best?


My favorite festival was the New York Rock & Soul Revue from a few years back. Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs, Phoebe Snow, some regional rock acts and some early '60s soul
artists made up this concert. This was Steely Dan's first comeback tour and they ruled!

Other favorite concerts- Jewel, Paul McCartney, The Who (when Moon & Entwistle lived), Blues Traveller, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder & Pat Benatar, among too many i can't think of right now.

My favorite concert ever was Bruce Springsteen!!! Yeah Bruce! Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce
Bruce is the best.

My other favorite would have to be U2. They are awsome! Love Bono
And No Doubt opened for them which was fantastic!

Doesn't get better than Bruce Springsteen and U2
except Madonna! She was also fabulous.

Joan Baez Diamonds and Rust.

Donington Monsters of Rock in 1992. My ears were ringing for a week after

There are too many to mention but Janice Joplin, Joe Cocker (Mad Dogs & Englishmen), Barry White, Diana Ross, Cleo Laine, Bo Diddley and the great Judy Garland stand out in my mind right now!

The Rolling Stones at Wembley Stadium in 1990 (Urban Jungle Tour).

My favourite was back in 1990, by Australian group Skyhooks.
I missed seeing them in their heyday in the 70's, so when they reformed and played a few club gigs, I made a point of seeing them. And I wasn't disappointed. The only complaint I had was that I was hoarse at the end of the night from singing along.
Seeing a show like they put on just highlights to me what a total shame it is that Shirley Strachan is no longer with us.

This is a toss up between Joan Baez at the Hammersmith Odeon and the Kodo drummers at Manchester's Free Trade Hall. I think Baez probably wins for the content and
the purity of her voice but the Kodo drummers are something that you have to experience if the opportunity arises. My hearing only came back fully about
twenty minutes after the concert ended and I was towards the back of the auditorium.

Rogue, not to be picky, but you've happened on a Steely Dan nut here. I saw the rock & soul review back in the early 90's and as I recall it was Fagen without Becker. Dion DeMucci sang the night we were there as did Rick Danko, who was terrific. The Steely Dan reunion concert if I'm not mistaken was a couple of years later at Madison Square Garden. Happily my brother worked there at the time and got me and mine in to see it. (Of course, "Steely Dan concert" is a bit of an oxymoron.)

I don't know about the BEST concert I ever saw, but the oddest was one I attended in 1975 or so in a parking lot at SUNY-Stony Brook, where Harry Chapin was singing... and I was just standing there wwith maybe five other people, watching him. It was terribly embarrassing. Disco had hit, and I guess the balladeers were falling on tough times. Sadly, of course, Harry got rear-ended by a US Mail truck on the LIE some years back and died a very untimely death.

Queen at Birmingham NEC 1979, 1980, 1984,
Queen at Bingley Hall 1977 &1978
Queen at Wembley Stadium 1986
Knebworth 1986
ELO at Stafford 1978
ELO at Wembley Areana 1978
ELO AT Birmingham NEC 1981
Thin Lizzy at Sheffield 1980
Rainbow at Stafford 1980

Well, I haven't really been to a lot of concerts in my time, but in the last year or so I've seen Placebo, the White Stripes and Elvis Costello...

I'd have to say Elvis was my favourite though...possibly because I've loved him longer ...

I have two favorite concerts. Elvis Costello last year. I broke my ankle the night before and actually left the emergency room to go to the show. I was in pain, but it was worth it. That man is amazing on stage.

The other was a show in 1999 featuring a band called Marvelous 3. My username comes from these guys. I was working in radio at the time and had talked to the lead singer before the show. Our drive time guy interviewed him and told him about this huge crush I had on him. So, when I met him, he knew that I thought he was the most beautiful creature on Earth. He was very nice about it, didn't tease me too much. The show was great. It was a crowd of maybe 200 people but they played like it was a capacity crowd at Madison Square Gardens. Their energy on stage hasn't been matched by any band I've ever seen. They loved being up there and it showed. It's too bad that they've since broke up, I have many a fond memory of Marvelous 3 shows.

Well, I can honestly say I've been to only two concerts in my life. The first was during frosh week at the University of Guelph. A Canadian band, Moist, put on a concert, and it sucked.

The second concert I attended was what was affectionately referred to as SARSstock in Toronto last summer, and while the music was undeniably good, the whole concert was poorly planned. There weren't enough food vendors to accommodate the 400,000 people that bought tickets. Free water was promised, so they restricted the number of bottles of water each attendee could bring into the park. Then they couldn't offer free water due to some last minute health issues. That sucked. And finally, there were signs EVERYWHERE informing people to respect the environment and to please use the waste receptacles provided. Unfortunately, nobody actually thought to provide waste receptacles. The whole park was FILTHY at the end of the concert, because people had only 2 options: carry all your garbage with you until you leave the park, or chuck it on the ground.

The music was good, though.

I would appreciate it if you could tell me what a frosh week is? Is it like freshers or is it something else.

Frosh (slang for freshman) week is the first week of college before classes start. All the new students get together to meet one another and to tour the campus, and there are lots of events that the school schedules to help accomplish this. ... What's a "fresher"?

I think my two favorite concerts were probably Jethro Tull and Nine Inch Nails. Couldn't tell you the years, except that they were both when I was in high school, so it would be early 90's. Ian Anderson is probably the best showman I can think of, and Trent Reznor... well... that was back when I moshed, and Nine Inch Nails is great for that...

Trent Reznor....mmmmm....

One of my friends went to a NIN concert years ago, and one of the highlights of her life was that night because Trent Reznor laughed at her...

(it was a longish story involving crowd surfing falling on her head and then tripping up right in front of the stage.... )

I'll see your mmmm Trent Reznor and raise you one mmmmm Henry Rollins. I haven't seen Henry live yet, but the next time he's in Pittsburgh I have to go. He promised me an autograph, so I'm taking him up on it.

This is an easy one, back in the 70s there was a group of doo-wop enthusiasts in my class, and they introduced me to Shanana, who did covers of Dion and the Belmonts and similar 50s groups. Then a British group, Rocky Sharpe and the Razors did the same sort of thing, and their concert in 1976 in the Camden Roundhouse was easily the best concert I've seen as this was by far my favourite music at the time.
The year after, I was lucky enough to see Bill Haley and the Comets when they came to London, as he died soon afterwards. We were dancing in the aisles, and it had to be stopped half way when a fight broke out, and Bill himself asked everyone to behave themselves.
I also saw Freddy and the Dreamers and Roy Orbison in the 60s, but being about 4 I remember little about them.

IndieQueen that was just mean !!

One of the girls who used to work with me said "I'm going to this spoken word concert...sounds pretty boring...some guy named Henry..."

I almost cried...Henry Rollins...so cute...so witty...so talented...so covered with pretty pictures... ...and here she was, lovely girl, but she was going to see him...and hadn't even heard of him...and I love him...but was not going...

And Satguru, man I wish I could've seen Roy Orbison! He still remains one of my favourite singers of all time...of course, I think it's fair to say I missed that chance!

Freshers (week) is exactly the same thing as Frosh week. At some Unis the freshers (new students) arrive before the other students and have that week to themselves but at most they arrive at the same time. They register, find accomdation, join (atheletic and social) clubs, get drunk and have tentative romantic involvements. Most of which seems to happen outside my office!

Too hard to name one gig so, in chronological order:
Jethro Tull – 1977 (Lothruin is right about Ian Anderson)
Joe Cocker – 1977 (he was blind drunk but great)
Magazine and XTC – 1980 (Magazine supported XTC, but should have headlined)
Talking Heads – 1984 (Narara ’84)
Pink Floyd – some time in the 90’s (unfortunately without Roger Waters)
Peter Gabriel – some time in the 90’s (supported by Hunters and Collectors)

Eraserhead, I saw Pink Floyd in the 90's too. Without Roger Waters. It was the Division Bell tour, and the show was great. A group of six of us had bought tickets for the show, but my mom and dad, as a graduation gift, won me a limo ride for six and an additional two tickets. So, I sold the other two tickets, the six of us went in the limo (A three hour drive to where the concert was,) and I spent all the money I got from the tickets on T-shirts and munchies. That was a great concert too!

Lothruin, I saw the “Pulse” tour, but I imagine it was part of the same tour or at least a very similar show. I had high expectations, having been a fan since the early 70’s, and I certainly wasn’t disappointed in any way.

Pink Floyd
1974-Capitol Centre-Largo Maryland
Floyd opens the show by performing Dark Side of the Moon in
it's entirety. After a short break they come back and do the
Wish You Were Here lp in it's entirety. The oncoure was
Echoes. Their performance was absolutly electrifing. It's one
of those moments in my life I'll never forget.
I have goosebumps just thinking about it.