2007-07-14 08:42:45 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Newsboys - Great live in concert and a great message
Some of their best songs:
Something beautiful, Who, Joy, Thrive, Breakfast, Live in Stereo, It is you, He Reigns, Wherever we go, I am Free
2007-07-17 08:41:43 · answer #1 · answered by SoccerClipCincy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have seen so many that were so great, but the best? I wish I could say Sisters of Mercy, as they were amazing, or Bauhaus, but I think the absolute best were Redd Kross at the On Broadway in San Francisco in 1983. I was a silly 12 year old in a leather mini skirt at a punk rock club and they were all in blue lame suits and so fabulous. They were more fun and sounded better live than any other band I have ever experienced! I saw them many more times after that and they were always great.
But there have been some that came so, so close. Including Nirvana, David Bowie, Alice In Chains...
2007-07-14 12:48:04 · answer #2 · answered by pookabun1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best live band for me: Particle by a landslide. I'm talking about the original lineup before the guitarist Charlie left the band. If you never saw/heard of Particle - you missed the boat! Fantastic building instrumentals that seem to keep reaching higher and higher levels until it's impossible not to dance.
2nd place: A Kings of Leon gig I saw in Bloomington, IN, in a little bar called the Bluebird. There were probably about 200-300 people packed into a very small space, w/ a very small stage, and the Kings just killed it. I love small, intimate concerts.
2007-07-14 08:50:12 · answer #3 · answered by madcaplaughs30 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not many people have heard about this band, they do a small show on a side stage @ glastonbury every year and back about 20-30 years ago they were the next big rock/indie band to come out of ireland then they just flopped but whenever they play at the manchester apollo it is always amazing and they did a live album/dvd live at the black box in Galway you should buy it in most hmv shops they are pretty good and real performers who do lots of crazy things. I remember they have a popular song (their first hit) called N17 (named after a road that goes through their hometown tuam from galway to sligo) and the last time they were over they had robbed a roadsight that read N17 Tuam and it was just their slapstick humour on stage that makes them geat
2007-07-15 02:12:36 · answer #4 · answered by strettyford 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Band of the Goldstream Cards
2007-07-14 08:48:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1996 Smashing Pumpkin and Garbage/ Phila,PA The Spectrum
1997 Meatloaf/ Phila, PA, The Mann Music Center
2001 AC/DC/ Denver, CO The Pepsi Center
2006 Def Leppard and Journey/ Red Rocks Amphitheater Denver, CO
2007-07-14 14:10:41 · answer #6 · answered by carebear 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best:
Green Day - very interactive with audience and sound as great live as on their CD's.
The Aquabats - ohhhh these guys are SO fun! It's like watching a cartoon!
The Stray Cats - saw them way back in 1983. They played for four hours and my friend got one of Slim Jim Phantom's drumsticks. We were right at the stage and went to school the next day with our ears ringing lol
The Who - just saw them and saw them last in the 80's. They STILL have it!
Ben Lee - saw him first at a bigger show then at a small bar in Seattle. Last song he came out in the audience, climbed up on the bar and played his acoustic guitar and sang one more song. Awesome, awesome, awesome!
U2 - I've seen them three times but best was their very first tour in the States back in 1981.
Rancid - Showbox in Seattle - AMAZING!
Death Cab for Cutie/Harvey Danger - Showbox in Seattle. GREAT intimate show.
I definitely prefer the smaller venues where you know the band can actually see you - you're not just a speck in the crowd! Plus acoustics are far better than the monstrous venues.
Horrible:
New Found Glory - lead singer sang off key. Band's timing was off
Good Charlotte - I was a fan until I saw them a second time. Off key, bad timing, realllly bad. Sounded like a bad high school band.
Jason Mraz - I LOVE Jason but he opened for Rob Thomas on a tour here. I payed about $60 a ticket just to see him and he did a THIRTY MINUTE set then jetted. No encore. Didn't even have tshirts for sale. Lame, lame, lame.
2007-07-14 08:54:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evanescence, Godsmack, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin
2007-07-14 09:37:26 · answer #8 · answered by Sacrifice Yourself 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Beatles at The Cavern Club in Liverpool. Very noisy and sweaty but will never forget it. have seen many bands over the decades since, some outstanding, some musically better, but none came close to the feeling of something new happening before my eyes.
2007-07-14 09:01:57 · answer #9 · answered by ahoneyaugust 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Stone Roses at Spike Island.Not just a gig it was like the start of something really special,nearly all of todays guitar"brit"movement was influenced by this.
2007-07-15 08:39:33 · answer #10 · answered by mike&rach 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pink Floyd
2007-07-14 11:18:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋