What was your most memorable concert you've been too?

Question

Please provide the event or artists, and why was it so memorable.

I run a national musia media company and i'm a band photographer, so I go to a lot of concerts to shoot the bands.

So far my most memorable concert event I've been to was San Diego Street Scene 2006 with Tool, Social Distortion, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, YellowCard, AFI, Slightly Stoopid and many more.

That event had so much energy within the bands and the fans. Everyone was having a great time. When I was taking pictures of the crowd on front of the stage, it was definitely an MTV moment where everyone was rockin!

Answer 1

TOOL is the best concert that I have ever been to, here is the list of reasons why:

You can not honestly say that any band out there now sounds as good or better live over their albums, but....TOOL does.

During the show they take you in and out of the music with their psycadelic vids, imagery and stage presence.(Sober or stoned)

Maynards vocals are just nothing short of perfection.

Danny on drums is a machine

Any band that comes out and does an 45 min long encore just ****** rocks

They, in not so many words, are simply a humble bunch of guys

Answer 2

Kingston Trio Live in the 80s at the old supper club, Carlton Celebrity Room, in Bloomington, Minnesota
Quiet Riot at the same venue
Peter Noone taking over the show when Chuck Berry was too drunk to play and sing, same venue.
Elton John/Billy Joel in Little Rock, AR in 1995.

They were all great shows! Peter Noone, however, was beyond great! He was supposed to be the opening act, and every time he tried to quit, a stage manager would motion him to keep going! He was composing on stage, just to keep us happy! A much better show than Chuck Berry ever could have given!

I'm getting OLD!

Answer 3

I've been to hundreds of shows, but I do have a best concert and a best club date. The best concert: Jimi Hendrix Experience at Winterland, 1968. "Purple Haze" was a top-ten hit, but everyone assumed that it took of overdubs and technical wizardry to make it sound like that. We were so wrong. Four thousand of us heard and saw the guitar played in ways we had never even imagined.
The best club date: George Thorogood and the Destroyers at Sweetwater, 1977. Touring the USA in a van to promote their first album, "the world's only three man quartet" played in my home town at a tiny club. George played like a man on fire, doing every move Chuck Berry ever invented, literally jumping off the stage on to the tables in mid-solo, dancing past drinks and ashtrays in a blaze of blues-rock glory.
Of all the shows I've been to (and I'm still going) these two stand out as the best.

Answer 4

The best concert I ever attended was the Beach Boys in 1977 at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. 4 bands opened for them including ToTo.
Great concert - extremely hot day - thousands of people.

The next best was Bruce Hornsby - opening act was Tears for Fears. Also in Toronto - great concert.

I've also seen the Monkeys, the Nylons, Gladys Night and the Pips, John Denver, Ann Murray and several others....

I just missed Elvis, the Beatles and Bruce Springsteen though -- *pout

yes, I am old

Answer 5

I have been to so many great shows but I will share two here. #1 Paul McCartney. I would have paid $200 bucks just to be there as he played "Yesterday" acoustically with just him and his guitar. It was wonderful and he just kept reaching into the incredible vault of his solo work and of course the Beatles releases. #2 Yes on the Union tour... The stage was packed with current and former band members as they tore through a magical set of progressive rock... magical. OK, one more.. Two weeks ago I saw Queensryche play Operation Mindcrimes I & II back to back... so powerful. I don't think there are many bands out there that can match their musicianship or touch Geoff Tate's vocal delivery! Music Rocks!- and oh yeah, Neil Young live is pure emotion and soul... everyone should listen.

Answer 6

Madness, Liverpool Empire Dec 1983

Omg what a night, fell in love that night for the first time with Suggs the lead singer.....
Great concert ppl dancing everywhere and everyone singing, oh you've just made me open up such a great memory of childhood, gonna go now to play some Madness

Answer 7

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street band, Los Angeles Coliseum, September 1995, next-to-last show of the "Born In The USA". tour. Bruce was amazing - this was the night after his 36th birthday, and he was rested & full of energy, and could see the end of the tour coming soon. Not counting the intermissions, he played 4 hours and 45 minutes, rockin' out with 78,000 of us (and occaisionally out in the audience WITH us). The vibe was incredible, and I've never seen its equal before or since.

Answer 8

Van Halen @ San Diego Sports arena during the LA riots

Answer 9

Ramones/Social Distortion halloween 92,fun crowd,no fights and i got to see a band i loved since i was 10.All the Kiss shows from 96 cause then they werent doing it for the money.6 shows on that tour.My final and last moment was seeing Damageplan in front of my hero dimebag two weeks before he passed.It kills me to look at the photos from that night.

Answer 10

I have been to quite a few rock concerts that started when i was in 4th grade when my dad took me to see heart. I have to say that my most memorable experience was the one I didn't want to go to. My mom had an extra ticket for Tom Petty, and i couldn't bear to let her miss the concert because she didn't want to go alone. Anyway, for an older man, he still rocks! The crowd was wild, it was in an outdoor amphitheater. Then Tom Petty brings out my childhood hero, Stevie Nicks. Then he suprises us with Pearl Jams Eddie Vedder. (We live in the Seattle area.) Anyway, it was good for a concert I didn't even want to attend.