Coolest concert experiences

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So, I just went to my 2nd Porcupine Tree concert in 6 months. This concert was just like every other concert. Until..Steven Wilson has a brain fart. He was singing Blackest Eyes, which is probably one of PT's most performed live song. The lyrics aren't hard at all..but a brain fart can happen when you least expect it. He actually forgot the words and sang, "i dont know the fuckin words ya da da blackest eyesssssss" It sounded JUST like the song, and none of the fans seemed to even notice anything out of the ordinary. However, the guitarist was not fooled! He was laughing like a maniac. It was pretty neat.

So..what are some cool concert experiences you have had? (Preferrably not stupid mosh pit trampling retardedness)
 
hahahahaha oh my god justin that is amazing

i've only ever been to one gig, a within temptation one, that was pretty amazing with all the pyrotechnics.
 
Ehh, this probably isn't up to par with the rest of Smogon's concert stories, but I went to a Blue Man Group concert with some friends and the performance was awesome. The show was nothing short of a light show with outstanding special effects and nice audience-interaction. Nothing particularly special happened, I just had a blast and so did my friends.
 
last year i saw daft punk live, probably the best performance i had ever seen, i'm going to see them this year again at nature one in germany

one of them ended with "thanks for listening, kiss my ass" (and he actually showed his ass)



edit: and oh yeah now that i think of it...one time at the mosh pit.........
 
Hmm, I suppose a list will do:

- going to see Weird Al Yankovic with my family when I was like 10 or 11, my first live concert ever. I absolutely adored him, and it was so cool to see him play "Jurassic Park" while the music video played on a giant screen above the stage.
- when I went to a Dropkick Murphys show a few years ago, I was kinda digging the band on before them so I got in the pit and started slam-dancing. Some douchebag behind me took offense to it and pushed me in the back and sent me into some gothfaggot with chains on his pants and I gashed me knee open right through my shorts. Well, some random dude in the pit found a bandana on the floor and gave it to me. I tied it around me knee and stayed in the pit and rocked the floor for Dropkick.
- this past winter I saw Thursday (Murder By Death opened, which is why I was there) downtown. For some fucking retarded reason the security got into the pit during the second band and wouldn't let anyone mosh/slamdance anymore; about 7 or 8 people got thrown out for trying. But during "Cross Out the Eyes," it got to the quiet little bridge part, and you could kinda feel something going through the crowd... the security never saw it coming. When the band slammed back into the music the floor fucking EXPLODED. Bodies were flying from wall to wall, with the pathetic security guys in the middle with their arms out and no clue what the fuck to do. Awesome.
- in fall when I saw Cursive, Built to Spill and Minus the Bear in an 11 day span. 3 bands from my top 5 of all time, one after another, it was incredible, and each show was more than I could've asked for.
- after that Built to Spill show, I went up to the stage and hung out with Doug and Brett and shot the shit. They obviously have no roadies so they clean up the stage by themselves, so they just sign autographs for the silly bitches who want them and talk. Doug is without a doubt the coolest fucking dude ever.
 
I saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Schottenstein Center(in Columbus) about 9-10 months ago. I had a great fucked up time. I still remember when they played Snow for the first time, people started smoking weed on the floor of the Schott. That was pretty sweet.

Also, during the break, getting to pass around a joint with people I didn't even know, some of who were parents and easily in their late 30s/early 40s.

I also had a particularly really drunk friend who was so hammered he made a scene at Applebees before the concert and got us kicked out(the manager said we were obviously impaired and was considering calling the cops). We walked next door to Quiznos, and pounded some subs. My friend proceeded to go back to our ride, puke his guts out in a bag, and pass out. He missed about 3/4ths of the show. He(luckily) slept through all of The Mars Volta, which, by the way, was the most shitty and pathetic attempt at a set that I had ever heard at the time, and half of the RHCP concert. On the way home, he also managed to threaten a Wendy's manager(who again threatened to call the cops on us). Yes, you've been thinking it, and yes, you are right: my friends are douchebags and borderline retarded. That said, they do make for some pretty crazy nights.

After the two hour drive back to Delphos, we all spent the night at my friends house, drank some Natty, and shot the shit till like 6 in the morning. Then we all passed out drunk as fuck and luckily skipped school the next day.

I really would like to see them play again.
 
My first real concert was Jethro Tull it was so crazy. Ian Anderson the lead singer came out with a cane and could barley walk. Then by the end of the show he was jumping around the stage.

I've also seen an eagles conert. My seats were terrible for this one. But they sounded amazing. To my amazment they still had there voices. It was such a sick show.

I saw the who which was pretty crazy everyone in the crowd was just going nuts the whole times such a fun time. It was a dry concert so it was a giant party in the parking lot before hand. Mad fun.

And one of my favorite shows had to be when i saw Eric Clapton. I had such nice seats. maybe 20 feet from the stage. Me and my bro just lit up a dutch and chilled. Clapton would just go off into 15 min guitar solo's in each of his songs. It was amazing.

I've been to a bunch of other concerts but none worth mentioning I can't wait till i see the allmen brothers i think my bro got tickets.
 
when I was about 12 my mom go free tickets to Ted Nugent. Not a fan but eh, I went. So Poison comes on first and I absolutly hate hair bands. THey finish and ted nugent comes out. With a Bow and Arrow.

A giant Osama Bin Laden comes down, he lights the arrow. Shoots said terrorist. then throws his bow into the crowd and starts playing.

Just seeing those rednecks go fucking nuts made it worth it.
 
Where do I start?

Metallica were frickin awesome when i saw them at the Sydney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne about 2 years ago.
They went off like a Frog in a sock!

The Living End gave into peer pressure at the Big Day Out two years ago and played 'Uncle harry'. One of the most intense moshes I've been in

Muse were fucking awesome when I saw them (twice) in January. At their show at Festival Hall, all these awesome giant glitter filled balloon things came down off the roof. I was on the barrier for them too, and it was sheer 'Bliss' hearing their awesome cool songs

those are 3 awesome ones.
Some letdowns:
red hot chilli peppers were far from hot when i saw them last month. Didn't play nearly enough old material. (not a fan of their new stuff).
The Mars Volta are a bunch of pretentious snobs.
 
Good Charlotte, Live, Eminem, Coldplay, American HiFi, MixMaster Mike and Mike D, Paul Oakenfold

all at the same festival in a two day span.

I got knocked out during good charlotte in a mosh pit.
 
Well, there is one thing for certain, and that is that you know you've been to a good show if the band "went off like a frog in a sock!"

About the RHCP comment, you are right, they don't play enough old material. However, you have to realize that they simply can't perform that stuff as well anymore. Kiedis's style is a lot different, and to be honest, he really can't even pull off the old stuff anymore. Maybe his voice has changed, or maybe they set the bar too high by some of the best fucking low budget production you've ever heard on BSSM, but whatever it is, it just doesn't sound that great anymore.

That said, they played Blood Sugar Sex Magik at the show I went to. I was actually getting a drink when they started playing it, but as soon as I heard that badass drum beat in the beginning, I knew I was in for a show. And it was pretty good. They also played Give it Away as an encore, and that drove everyone nuts.
 
My best concert experience was when Less Than Jake played Reading Festival last year. Their crowd interaction was just awesome. There were roughly 20,000 people in the crowd, and they made us all sit down and do one giant mexican wave. Then for "My Own Flag" they got everyone to take their shirts off and wave them around their head, it was so amazing seeing this huge field full of people - even the ones who were just standing around at the back - united with this great band. It's no wonder Reading had to install new barriers just because of them, best gig ever
 
m0nkfish said:
My best concert experience was when Less Than Jake played Reading Festival last year. Their crowd interaction was just awesome. There were roughly 20,000 people in the crowd, and they made us all sit down and do one giant mexican wave. Then for "My Own Flag" they got everyone to take their shirts off and wave them around their head, it was so amazing seeing this huge field full of people - even the ones who were just standing around at the back - united with this great band. It's no wonder Reading had to install new barriers just because of them, best gig ever
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Also when I saw Blink 182 when I was like 14, Travis Barker randomly popped up on a drumkit in the middle of the crowd and starting doing some fat solo for like 5 mins...fucking insane, then he threw his drumsticks out and I caught one, but got fucking mugged afterwards...awesome night turned into a shit one.
 
You people make me jealous :/. I *really* want to see Rammstein in a concert, though, with all those pyrotechnics and stuff.
 
well, i also just saw porcupine tree down at the showbox recently and all of their computer equipment went skitzo so they did an acoustic performance. i thought it was a lot cooler to see how they performed without all the electronics and was thoroughly impressed because they still sounded amazing. my best concert experience so far has been the Godsmack concert i went to down at the white river amphitheater. it was just amazing, they integrated their acoustic side with their metal, played a 10 minute long drum duet which was the shit and just rocked overall. the only thing that brought the concert down a little was that rob zombie opened for them...and he sucks
 
Being absolutely wasted and accidentally barging to the backstage of a local concert. I recall Poets Of The Fall was playing when me and the girl of that night were .. kindly asked by the guards to leave. Heh, I love summers.

Such a bummer though that some of my friends are going to IlosaariRock this summer and I just got to know Porcupine Tree is playing there, so I'm like fucked up about this, because they're going there to see HIM or something else remotely garbage.
 
Oh, hell, I've had lots. They're always because I end up getting completely fucking surprised by something I didn't expect. Case in point...

I was planning on having a quiet night in when my roommates convinced me to go to a show at the H&H, a little warehouse spot not too far from where I live. One of my roommate's best friend was playing, and he said that the band wasn't very good, but he'd pay the cover for me if I came.

So we went, getting there just late enough to miss his friend. Oh well, we were there, so we stayed. It was a pretty mellow show. The two next bands were Tall Grass and Jack Rose. I'd never heard of either, but my roommate said Jack Rose was supposed to be amazing. It was BYOB, and everyone was just sitting on couches or the floor drinking and smoking. Me and my other roommate passed around a bottle of whiskey and it was relaxing.

The first band, Tall Grass... sucked. They were just really bad. Boring, whiny, with this pseudo-country thing that just didn't work for them. I mean, it was still nice to sit there and hang out, but the band was pretty bad. Couldn't really play their instruments, couldn't really sing, had boring songwriting. So needless to say, I wasn't expecting much from the next band.

Jack Rose comes on, just him with an electric acoustic, and a girl with an electric cello. The lights kind of dim, and they start playing -

- and holy shit, I was blown away. They played for forty minutes straight, just one single "song" with no breaks, no lyrics. Part of it was build and swell, part of it was these weird ragas, it was like nothing I've ever heard before. It brought me through a whole realm of emotions, sometimes getting almost unbearable, then dropping back down. It was fucking awesome. It affected my roommate so much he literally started hallucinating.

OH YEAH! Almost forgot. I went to see Ted Leo and the Pharmacists last summer. Now, they're not my favorite band, but I think they're pretty good, and they always put on a great live show because they've got so much energy. It was my third or fourth time seeing them.

Anyhow, in the middle of the show, the power goes out. Of course, this doesn't both him. Ted Leo asks around until he gets an acoustic guitar, then keeps playing, doing sing-alongs with the crowd. Then, when the bar closes at 2 AM, he STILL doesn't want to stop, so he goes out to the middle of the street, still with his acoustic, and we all crowd out after him, and he KEEPS fucking playing, until finally they made him leave the street because he was blocking traffic (well, him and the fifty or so people who came out to watch him).

Seriously, that was majorly badass.
 
probably the first time i saw the dillinger escape plan live. theyre doing 43% burnt (with the more recent vocalist, but he still did it amazingly as its a fucking great song), and about a minute into it he stops screaming, his eyes widen, and he goes 'whoa'. and then i just see a guy running towards the bathroom with his hands covering his bloody face, and bloods gushing like crazy. but he continued the song and it kicked ass, especially since for the second half of it i was hanging onto a pipe on the cieling.

pretty much every against me! show ive ever been to is just marvelous. youre sweaty as fuck, yorue screaming at the top of your lungs, and the best part is that everyone else in the room is doing and feeling the exact same thing as you. its just too beautiful.

uhhh also i saw latterman once, in the basement of a record store, with 6 people attending, 2 of which where from the opening band. me and my friend were a foot away from the band, and it was just... unreal. theyre so fucking good.
 
Seeing Rise Against open for My Chemical Romance this year at Nassau Colliseum(sp?). It was such a great set, I enjoyed every song they played. MCR was also pretty good, but Rise Against was just insanely good.
 
Roger Waters was great, just epic

Midlake was intimate and awesoem the guitarist gave me a CD

The Yardbirds were zarking insane

Death Cab for Cutie was really good, made me a fan
 
A while back some of my friends and I went to see one of our favorite bands, Read Yellow. They're broken up now unfortunately, but they were amazing. Anyway, the problem was none of us were 21 at the time and it was a 21 and over venue. We decided to make the drive and sit outside the bar trying to find the band so we could ask them to get us in. We'd seen them enough times before that they remembered us by now.

They show up, we catch them outside, and they start plotting ways to get us in. First their singer, Evan, talked to the club owner, who said no way no how. Then they tried distracting the guy at the door, but it didn't work when we tried to walk in. Finally they came up with a convoluted scheme in which, as soon as they started playing, Evan would "accidentally" kick open the door behind the stage for loading equipment in. Didn't work though, so we stood outside and listened as best we could through the walls.

Afterwards, they come out and apologize to us for not getting us in, which of course was fine and we were just thrilled that they tried so hard. We help them carry their stuff out and go with a couple of them to get their van (they'd had to park a couple blocks down because there wasn't a lot of space around there.) We get accosted by a man walking down the street with a bucket of shoe shine equipment, asking if he can shine any of our shoes. Read Yellow's bass player, Michelle, is wearing a pair of awesome boots, and this guy, who claims that people refer to him as "the shoe messiah," decides he absolutely must shine those boots, but Michelle's really nervous about it and doesn't want him to. So I nobly step in and let him shine my shoes to distract him, while Michelle makes her escape.

Afterwards we all walked down towards South Street to get pizza. I got a huge crush on Michelle, who was totally paying more attention to me than anybody else. After we got back they gave us tour posters and unmastered copies of their new album that never actually came out.

They broke up a few weeks later after getting home from the tour.
 
I went to Earl's Court to see Iron Maiden in December, which was the last performance on their A Matter of Life and Death world tour. Before Iron Maiden started, some girl heavy metal band (although since I had never been to a concert, I was reluctant to enter, but I wasn't about to let the money spent get wasted that easily) was playing then Trivium were. Matt Heafy kept swearing on stage after every word almost and then creating mosh circles by telling the crowd to "make a big, motherfucking circle". It was also Dave Murray's (of Iron Maiden) birthday so Matt got us to sing happy birthday to him.

Then Iron Maiden did the whole AMOLAD album (I brought binoculars so I could see them) before going through a few more songs such as Fear of the Dark and 2 Minutes to Midnight.

I was sitting about 200-300 feet away from the stage so I could never hope to catch the drumsticks or anything.

They did a few encores but it had to end eventually. I had to get the (crowded) train home and was back home after midnight. Awesome night out it was.
 
teekay said:
A while back some of my friends and I went to see one of our favorite bands, Read Yellow. They're broken up now unfortunately, but they were amazing. Anyway, the problem was none of us were 21 at the time and it was a 21 and over venue. We decided to make the drive and sit outside the bar trying to find the band so we could ask them to get us in. We'd seen them enough times before that they remembered us by now.

They show up, we catch them outside, and they start plotting ways to get us in. First their singer, Evan, talked to the club owner, who said no way no how. Then they tried distracting the guy at the door, but it didn't work when we tried to walk in. Finally they came up with a convoluted scheme in which, as soon as they started playing, Evan would "accidentally" kick open the door behind the stage for loading equipment in. Didn't work though, so we stood outside and listened as best we could through the walls.

Afterwards, they come out and apologize to us for not getting us in, which of course was fine and we were just thrilled that they tried so hard. We help them carry their stuff out and go with a couple of them to get their van (they'd had to park a couple blocks down because there wasn't a lot of space around there.) We get accosted by a man walking down the street with a bucket of shoe shine equipment, asking if he can shine any of our shoes. Read Yellow's bass player, Michelle, is wearing a pair of awesome boots, and this guy, who claims that people refer to him as "the shoe messiah," decides he absolutely must shine those boots, but Michelle's really nervous about it and doesn't want him to. So I nobly step in and let him shine my shoes to distract him, while Michelle makes her escape.

Afterwards we all walked down towards South Street to get pizza. I got a huge crush on Michelle, who was totally paying more attention to me than anybody else. After we got back they gave us tour posters and unmastered copies of their new album that never actually came out.

They broke up a few weeks later after getting home from the tour.
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dude thats awesome, read yellow played at the first dillinger escape plan concert i went to! i like them a lot. the chick in the band is fucking hot.
 
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