Concerts / Gigs: greatest and worst

As a big fan of ´live albums´, I´ve always been interested in watching bands play live - in whatever circumstances - and since the 80s I´ve been to enough shows to know what sucked and what was awesome.

List your favourite / worst shows ever.

For me, AC/DC blew the roof off the arena back in 2000 on the ´Stiff Upper Lip´ tour.
Sound was incredibly loud but clear and it was a hit-after-hit type affair.
Never saw them before or since.

Worst one ever was Bob Dylan on the ´Never Ending Tour´ about 12 years ago which quite frankly, was the worst, most unintersting piece of shit-of-a-gig I´ve ever heard or seen.
My friend got free tickets for about six of us and after he asked me if I liked it:
´That hotdog I ate at half-time interval? That was fucking rancid....but was the highlight of tonight´

 

Nirvana at Reading

 

That's for best, by the way Magus, before you taketh thine piss.

 

Best band I've seen play live is Iron Maiden by miles. QOTSA were excellent too and Motorhead. Chilli Peppers were good and Green Day.

 

I saw bob Dylan live too and can attest to it being absolute dogshit. Sounded like he was underwater and couldn't ever care less

The best gig I ever attended was probably The Field at the subclub, just a rather glorious confluence of the right act with the right visual accompaniment in the right venue with the right drugs. Ive seen him other times since and it never came together in anything close to the same way.

The pixies on Monday night at Kelvingrove park was also pretty great!

 

I find his music sterile but Al Di Meola was pretty amazing to watch (1998) and because it was in a proper concert hall, you could really head everything clearly... BB King was fun in 1992... I was especially impressed by his singing

I was at an outdoor festival around 1995 and one of the headliners was Blues Traveler... They were rancid.. Guitarist was trash ...

 

*Hear everything clearly

 

Saw the Pixies and Kings of Leon recently. The Pixies actually supported them. Preferred the Pixies as I'm not a fan of Kings of Leon.

 

Friend of mine saw Kings Of Leon before they inexplicably became famous and he said "that's one of the worst playing bands I've ever heard" and we were laughing about their name... Imagine our surprise when we saw them on TV a year later

 

Lol that is like The Beatles opening for Fallout Boy

 

Yeah, they just don't stand out. They have a lot of whining songs which I can't stand. Find that style so irritating. The Pixies were very good though.

 

I was surprised too. I thought the Pixies sounded better than KOL.

 

I can't wait for the new QOTSA album to come out. I plan to go and see them live again. They're playing at the O2 in London around my birthday in November so I'd love to go to that.

 

To date I've seen (in chronological order)
1981
Madness
Gillan
Thin Lizzy

1982
Blackfoot
Saxon
Status Quo
Uriah Heep
Hawkwind

1983
Eric Clapton
The Moody Blues
Rush

1984
No-one

1985
Dire Straits (twice)
Eric Clapton

1986
No-one

1987
U2 (three times)
Peter Gabriel
INXS
Guns N Roses

1988
Jethro Tull
The Firm
David Lee Roth
Santana

 

Best and worst from that list?

 

Pt2 - massive disinterest in modern music or even old acts:

1989-1991
No-one

1992
Prince & The New Power Generation

1993
Depeche Mode

1994
Living Color

1995-199
No-one

2000
AC/DC

2001
Steely Dan

2004
Bob Dylan

2006
Yes

2007-2015
No-one

2016
Black Sabbath

 

I'll probably go to more gigs in the next few months than you've been to in the last 30 years

 

Most were pretty good to be honest - some were boring, but not unwatchable.

Quo at Monsters of Rock in Castle Donington - that was a fucking long day and no ticket-limitation numbers either...
Usualy avoiding piss-in-bottles like this:

 

Definately.

Who´ll be in the list though?
Anyone that´ll be remembered by November 2017?

 

My first concert was Jelly Roll Morton in 1913

 

Insanely I think I was 10 when I went to my first proper gig. Standing room only, manic street preachers no parents

 

I don't go to many gigs but the last one I went to was John Otway, funny dude

 

Ahhh yes the totally unintentionally funny John Otway (06:00 onwards for a laugh):

 

Haha yeah he brought that up. That was literally the only thing I knew about him before the gig but it was legit one of the funniest performances I've seen. Would recommend.

 

Guitarist Wild Willy Barrett - whose volume-pedal Otway kept standing on and switching off - for some reason I imagine that's what cdogg is like.

 

Talking of guitarists playing live....
Eddie Hazel blowing the back-doors off:

 

He wasn't there actually! He had a full band behind him, they were much better to be fair and they sounded great, so fuck Barrett

 

No I'm referring to the Old Grey Whistle Test performance...

 

Mate I won't lie, I'm actually fucking wankered beyond all fuck right now but I actually meant to point out Barrett wasn't there but it was still fuckin great. Anyway yes, Otway was well aware of the OGWT performance but he was great and very self deprecating. He knows his place in music but he's a talented dude and very funny. Check him out.

 

First Concert REED Ever Attended Featured Natalie Cole (REED's Mother was a Fan)...Had to Be VERY Late 70's or VERY Early 80's...

w/the Exception of a cREED Concert, a Jill Scott Show and an Erykah Badu Show, REED's Been to Hip Hop Concerts Exclusively...

In No Particular Order, REED's Seen the Following Perform:

Run DMC (Multiple Times), Public Enemy (Multiple Times), NWA (Multiple Times), the D.O.C. (Who's FROM Dallas), Kurtis Blow, A Tribe Called Quest, Dela Soul, The Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, Digital Underground (Tupac was a Roadie Doing the Humpty Dance, When REED Saw D.U.), Common, The Roots (a Few Times), The Alkaholiks, Busta Rhymes, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Ice-T, Redman, Method Man, Digable Planets, Souls of Mischief, The Beastie Boys, The Black Eye'd Peas (Back When They were a Hip Hop Crew Instead of a Pop Group) and Many Others...





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