best gigs you've been to

[minorthreat]

the best gig i've been to was jamiroquai in manchester in september, although this is closely followed by beastie boys at glasgow last december.

[Subculture]

The Roots Feb 1999 New Orleans, Mardi Gras show.

AMAZING

[Mot]

A "gig" is a paying job.

[paulb]

Beastieboys - in seattle and vancouver, sept 19,20th, 2004

U2, Vancouver, April 29th.

White Stripes, Van, August 7th, 2005

[Drederick Tatum]

once I thought I was at a Jamarouqi concert but then I realised that I was actually in an elevator.

[Funky Pepp]

Apart from the Beastie Boys last year in Berlin of course:

Radiohead on 9/11/2001. It was soooooooo sad. And really,
some people in the audience still didn't know what happned,
so Thom Yorke had to explain it. We didn't want to go first,
but it was the best concert, I've ever seen…

[Tzar]

once I thought I was at a Jamarouqi concert but then I realised that I was actually in an elevator.
pahahaha!

me, BDO last year - Beastie's + front row. also saw SOAD and Hilltops that day too.

[open letter]

The manic street preachers in glasgow in 2001 was amazing,and the first gig i went too :cool: , I saw rammstein earlyer this year, they were good.

[scotty]

Magic Dirt in the Great Hall at the BDO the year Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins headlined - I think it was the second of the national tours, 1994 or 1995, maybe. Fuckin mad as hell, people climbing up into the rafters and jumping out into the moshpit. The Dirt were going off, they had a truly fucking ferocious live show in those days. Best rock band in the country at that time by far.

[Calimero jr.]

Smashing Pumpkins in '96, Frank Black and Pavement in'97, BBoys in '98, Sonic Youth and Melvins in 2001, Pixies and Helmet last year, Downset last winter (y)

These show really had something special that make the unforgettable experiences :o

[pshabi]

This one, right motherfuckin here: http://www.beastiemania.com/gigog/show.php?g=20040828

See the pic on the left and the scary, long fingered dude? Well, that's actually thumb sticking out of the inside of his elbow!!!!

Best night of my life.

[Parkey]

In no order;

Beastie Boys - London ICA; May 2004
Prodigy - Phoneix Festival; July 1996
Radiohead - Glastonbury Festival; June 1997
Gonzales - Manchester Uni; May 2002
Beastie Boys - Brixton Academy; June 1998
Mogwai - Manchester Ritz; October 1999
Autechre - Nottingham Stealth; May 2005

[Darko]

I saw System of a Down earlier this year. Brilliant. It had twice as much energy than any other show I've ever seen.

[bigblu89]

Probably...

Rage Against The Machine-Roseland Ballroom, NYC, 1996

Beastie Boys-MSG, NYC, 4-23-1995

Beastie Boys-MSG, NYC, 10-9-2004

Stone Temple Pilots-MSG, NYC, 1996

Cypress Hill-Spirit Club, NYC, 2005

[abcdefz]

1 Julian Cope - San Francisco during the Peggy Suicide tour
2 Miami Quartet - Palo Alto CA 2005
3 Bolshy - Sacramento CA, 1990
4 Springsteen/E Street Band - Indianpolis IN, Born in the USA tour
5 Jane's Addiction - Cincinnati OH, Nothing's Shocking tour



worst shows:
3 Elvis Costello, Mountain View CA, Come Back in a Million Years Tour (Mighty Like a Rose)

2 Bruce Springsteen, Sacramento CA - Human Touch/Lucky Town tour

1 Gwar/somebody/Sonic Youth, Sacramento CA - Goo tour (I'm pretty sure)

[Mido]

Top 5:

1. of Montreal - April 23rd, 2005 @ Sneaky Dee's in Toronto, ON.
2. Les Georges Leningrad - Febuary 15th, 2005 @ Call the Office in London, ON.
3. Buck 65 - July 26th, 2005 @ Call The Office in London, ON.
4. The Blood Brothers - November 9th, 2005 @ The Docks in Toronto, ON.
5. Against Me! / mewithoutYou - May 26th, 2005 @ Call the Office in London, ON.

other mentionables:

Beastie Boys - November 8th, 2004 @ The Air Canada Centre in Toronto, ON.
Akron / Family - August 27th, 2005 @ Call The Office in London, ON.
Flogging Molly - August 2nd, 2005 @ The Pheonix Concert Theatre in Toronto, ON.
Death From Above 1979 - December 30th, 2004 @ The Kathedral in Toronto, ON., December 10th, 2004 @ Call the Office in London, ON., and September 18th, 2004 @ Call the Office in London, ON.

[DIGI]

I don't think I really have a "best gig," but the last two shows I went to were pretty dope. I saw G. Love on the 6th and Pittsburgh was the last stop on the tour. He played for 3 hours and then played an hour and a half long encore. It was good shit. The weekend after that, I saw Pennywise and Bad Religion. That show was fun cuz it felt like I traveled back in time ten years. I almost forgot how much ass Bad Religion kicks.

[dave790]

Cypress Hill-Spirit Club, NYC, 2005

what sorta set they play?

[K-nowledge]

Beasties/RunDMC-Greek Theater 1987 (one of the first live shows I saw)
Tool-Ventura Theater 1994 (small venues kick ass)
Smashing Pumpkins/Garbage-L.A. Sports Arena 1997?(Shirley Manson, Wow!)
Black Sabbath/Pantera-The Forum1998?(Original Sabbath lineup (y) )
MMM-Club Ibeza R.B. pier(2 blocks from my house and an awesome show)
Primus-The Wiltern 2003(played Sailing the Seas of Cheese front to back)
Slayer- The last 8 times they played in the L.A. area.
Beasties-Long Beach Arena 2004(GA and got to the front)

[BangkokB]

Hank III and Reverand Horton Heat in Atl 2000 @ Masquerade~bc I had never heard Hank
Tool, Korn ~from their best LP Life is Peachy LP, & Snoop @ Lollapalloza
Slayer for Divine Intervention once again a head full of X
Suicidal @ Masqerade in either 99 or 00 and I talked with Mike Muir
Beasties Lollapalloza 94 in Atl on the first night and they played BBoys w/ the Freak Freak,had Biz doin' it on Do It, and played 4 Fly Guys;which at that time I'd never heard, and I had a head full of X for my 1st time
Megadeth/Testament on the Holy Wars Tour
Danzig was cool
Sacred Reich were entertaining

Pink Floyd had great movies bf and during their show

[ms.peachy]

Too, too many; impossible to choose a 'best'. Let me think: Dead Kennedys sometime in the winter of 1985, at the Showplace in Dover NJ, one of thier last shows I believe. Beasties and Rollins Band at Roseland Ballroom in NYC, I don't even remember the year, 1994ish? And the many, many, many shows at Maxwells in Hoboken, from roughly 1991-1999, as that was pretty much my second home, and I had the good fortune to see pretty much everybody I'd ever likely wanted to. Yeah so, just too too many, really.

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

Akron / Family
i really want to see these guys. have only just got into them and am quite excited.

i saw the avalanches play at some stage in my life. cant remember when. they were intense. shame that they seem to have fallen off the face of the earth.

i saw manitoba/cariobou about a month ago and there was like 50 people at the gig. i stood right at the front and got totally blown away by all the drumming.

battles are another good live band. perhaps my favourite. i think the term is "serious next level shit". seeing them again at atp's nightmare before christmas, curated by the mars volta. gonna be sex.

[jackrock]

Bruce Springsteen- April 14, 2003. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Rising tour.
AMAZING PERFORMANCE & MUSIC (y) (y)
this is actually the 2 concert ive ever been to, the first one i went to was the day before this, also BS Rising tour, in calgary.

[cosmo105]

t(i)nc, the hives, rival schools - octoberish 2002

t(i)nc, the locust - octoberish 2003

the aquabats - every show of theirs i've seen

secret machines/kings of leon earlier this year

secret machines @ coachella even earlier this year (that was probably the best of the best)

ben folds/rufus wainwright/ben lee sometime in september i believe - it was great. folds and rufus did an amazing duet of "careless whisper". i recorded some of it with my digicam. loved it.

like ms. peachy said, it's so hard to narrow them down...i've been to so many that have left me breathless. rilo kiley, death cab for cutie, and pedro the lion have always blown me away every time i've seen them. those are just the ones that stand out in my mind, i guess.

[Parkey]

battles are another good live band. perhaps my favourite. i think the term is "serious next level shit". seeing them again at atp's nightmare before christmas, curated by the mars volta. gonna be sex.

Have you heard the Battles mix of Four Tet's 'A Joy'? Fuck a duck!

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

yeah. it's an interesting one.

but

seriously...best live band ever.

[paul jones]

creme bruleee 1975, Hull town Hall

[Parkey]

yeah. it's an interesting one.

but

seriously...best live band ever.
They are amazing. That kind of good you don't see very often...

[vanillgorilla]

That would be a tie for me:

N.E.R.D at the orlando HOB/ and Bboys in tampa, both last year, both shows front row (stood two feet from cameron diaz at the n.e.r.d one)....
kanye comes in at third i guess. (y)

[Documad]

rilo kiley
I'm guessing you saw them at a good venue.

They opened for Coldplay and my friend dragged me out of the bar to see them. I didn't enjoy the female singer. It's difficult to be an opening act at a big venue.


My concert memories are too hazy to have a reliable ranking. For instance, I adored Fleetwood Mac when I saw them on the Mirage tour, but now I'm sure it wasn't a great show. My favorite concert of 2005 will probably be Beastie Boys.