Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Favorite shows/concerts

For me there's too many to list, but I've got a few that stand out:

Dirty Three @ Crystal Ballroom
String Cheese Incident @ Horning's Hideout
Gong @ WOW Hall
Fat Mama in Boulder, CO
Grateful Dead @ Autzen Stadium

Darn my faulty memory bank. Can't remember much, but some that come to mind:

Joe Strummer @ Metro Chicago - He was the man, no doubt about it.
Rage Against The Machine, Kool Keith, Scratch Picklz, many others @ Coachella a few years back - All day insanity.
Some of the many indie rock or hip hop shows at Empty Bottle, Double Door, Bottom Lounge:
- Electric Six
- White Stripes
- New Pornographers
- A.C. Newman
- MF Doom

In order of occurance:

The Weakerthans, Charlevoix, [some bad Jimmy Eat World ripoff] @ The Shelter in Detroit, Michigan, August 2002 $6
Defiance Ohio, [two local acoustic artists], The Door-Keys @ the tiny (7' by 7') kitchen of some house in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 2004 $5
The Sea The Sea (final show), The One AM Radio, [some ****ty local band], The Conqueror Worm @ my friend Niki's basement in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2004 $3
Braid, Minus the Bear, Murder By Death, Rescue @ St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit, Michigan, June 2004 $12
Rosa, Books Lie, Sheryl's Magnetic Aura (AKA Meneguar), Gospel, Baby Teeth (AKA Free Republic (of Soul)), The Gibbons, North Lincoln, Hugs, The SetUp @ The Ghetto Diaper (Josh's basement) in Lansing, Michigan, July 2004 $5
Envy, Malady, Today I Wait @ The Division Avenue Arts Cooperative in Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 2005 $7

Allman Bros '73 Watkins Glenn NY - i was a stow away at 10 yrs old.
Allman Bros '86 Wildwood NJ - small crumby bar, his heroin days but I was right there.
Allman Bros '03 Camden NJ - Derek Trucks join, the next generation begins....

Pink Floyd - The Wall - Nassau Colosseum, NY - 1980 or somewhere there, too many drugs back in the day makes my mind a little fussy.

Supertramp - Breakfast in America - MSG

Yes - too numerous to mention

Lenny Kravitz - 5 - Pine Knobb - One of the best preformances I've ever witnessed.

Allman Bros '73 Watkins Glenn NY - i was a stow away at 10 yrs old.
Allman Bros '86 Wildwood NJ - small crumby bar, his heroin days but I was right there.
Allman Bros '03 Camden NJ - Derek Trucks join, the next generation begins....

Ahhhh.. Jessica, one of my favorite riding songs, still.

Cream, farwell tour Chicago, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce Ginger Baker
Bruce Springstein E Street Band's first tour, Phoenix 1975
John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra
Little Feat, before Lowell George died
The Who's Tommy concert

just to name a few....
(it's like collecting vintage bikes :D )

Phish 12/11/99 Phila. Spectrum. :)

Metallica(Jerry Cantrell opened)-second row seats, baby! I could feel the heat of the pyro.

Ozzfest '99 (Black Sabbath reunion tour w/Rob Zombie, Static-X, Fear Factory, etc.) Sweet! Of course, Sabbath was the best part. Amazing how coherent Ozzy is when he gets on stage....

Both these shows were at Starwood Amphitheater in Antioch, TN.

My Bloody Valentine-Hammerjacks, Baltimore MD
The Jesus Lizard-DC Space & the old 9:30 club
Urge Overkill-the old 9:30 club

Definitely Erika Badu. She is just awesome in concert, and she's very entertaining too. She sometimes brings out the funkiest looking instrumets and plays them for some of her songs, and that's cool. At one point, she was dating one of the dudes from Outkast (can't remember which one) and she brought him out on stage to sing, and the crowd went wild. It was all good.

Jamiroquai- the lead singer, Jason, is just such a great singer live. He is also very entertaining. I love acid jazz, so when he gets into the acid jazz stuff, I really dig them even more. Dude that plays digeridoo just jams hard.

Incognito- snap, snap, and more snap. They are really great singers, whether they're acapella or with the full band. Bluey likes to change the members but keep the songs, and no matter how many times he changes the singers, they still sound just as good as the original Incognito. They lost their American label, but I still hold out hope they'll get a new label and come back and do some more touring.

Koffee

http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/Rush-Rush.jpg at the Tweeter Center. Prob the Msot amazing concert Ive EVER, EVER, EVER been too. Considering it was my first concert ever. It was funny, the guy who introduced me to rush, was the one who took me to the concert and actually Roll the Bones or some other record was his first concert. Man It will never be forgotten. I hope to God that they decide to tour again.

Del McCoury Band,North Carolina Bluegrass festival Aug 03

Billy Joel and Elton John - together

Ahhhh.. Jessica, one of my favorite riding songs, still.

Cream, farwell tour Chicago, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce Ginger Baker
Bruce Springstein E Street Band's first tour, Phoenix 1975
John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra
Little Feat, before Lowell George died
The Who's Tommy concert

just to name a few....
(it's like collecting vintage bikes :D )

Collecting concert memories takes a bit more skill.
I saw Lowell George too. He was great.
In fact, I've seen a lot of those bands.
And many a dead concert.

Prob the Msot amazing concert Ive EVER, EVER, EVER been too. Considering it was my first concert ever.


:) Yeah, I've found this is often the case... All my firsts were so memorable. KMFDM was my first real show when I was a teenager. I'm not really into industrial butt rock anymore, but it was still a great experience. Also, my first Dead show was magical in indescribable ways.

If Rush doesn't tour again, just be glad you got to see them while they were!

Diana Krall

Joe Jackson

David Bowie

Neil Diamond

Violent Femmes

Clannad

T-Bone Burnett

Elvis Costello

Hoodoo Gurus

Gangajang

Bob Dylan

Spandau Ballet

Tom Petty

The Saints

And lots of others too numerous to mention ....

Cheap Trick at Pecatonica Fairgrounds w/ Molly Hatchet, AC/DC(Bon Scott), 1978
REO Speedwagon at the Rockford Speedway w/ The Cars, Head East, Ian Hunter 1979
Bon Jovi w/ Cinderella 1985
John Mellencamp in Peoria 1988 (no opener, just him for 2 1/2 hours)


I never been able to see Rush :(
And still haven't seen Alice Cooper :mad:
And trekke, I hate you, for I still haven't seen Elton John and would KILL to do so.
And shifty those concerts (all of them) would have to have been awesome.


[edit] I forgot Dr. Hook at Peoria ( I did get the red heads autograph)

And still haven't seen Alice Cooper :mad:

He's playing a couple of shows in Perth, Western Australia soon (4th and 5th July) and I'm hoping to be able to interview him for my radio programme.

I've never seen him in concert but I saw a film of one of his concerts on a HUGE screen many years ago.

Collecting concert memories takes a bit more skill.
I saw Lowell George too. He was great.
In fact, I've seen a lot of those bands.
And many a dead concert.

My kinda girl! Bonnie Raitt fan I suppose, also my kinda girl.

Bruce Springsteen - 1984
Eric Clapton - 1986
Bob Seger & Ted Nugent - 1976
Jethro Tull - 1977
Beach Boys - 1976
Santana - 2000
And many more....

My kinda girl! Bonnie Raitt fan I suppose, also my kinda girl.


ya. I saw her New Year's eve in New Orleans, I think it was '92.
Later I had a few cocktails with her and some of the band at the hotel bar. That was neat..
good idea for a thread... how you met up with someone famous.
I met Sharon Osborne in Bergdorf's not long ago. That was neat...

Steve Vai at The Vogue in Indy. Fire Garden Tour w/Beer for Dolphins opening.
Joe Satriani ~ The Vogue, Crystal Planet Tour
Jack Johnson ~ Brushfire Fairytales tour

He's playing a couple of shows in Perth, Western Australia soon (4th and 5th July) and I'm hoping to be able to interview him for my radio programme.

I've never seen him in concert but I saw a film of one of his concerts on a HUGE screen many years ago.


Was it Welcome to my Nightmare? I saw it years ago(1977) at a local theater and I loved it, I own it on DVD. Its such a bad recording though. Get pictures if you can and post them :D

My post just got eaten and it was about Alice!

He's out on tour in North America at the end of the summer. Check out SickthingsUK for dates. He's also got a new album coming out in June. And on that note...

Alice Cooper, Vancouver 1977
Alice Cooper, vancouver 1979
And hopefully, Vancouver '05!

Defiance, Ohio; SMUT; TEAM: Challenger Explosion; Two-Dollar Breakfast @ Trumbullplex Anarchist Collective, Detroit, Michigan, April 16th, 2005:

The best night of my life. For the above reason and many others involving the house, the people there, and the people I went with, specifically the girl I went with. License plates that say "puebla," Gabriel Tecon Hovey, The Promise Ring, tapes, Nik Vinsant, unknown highway construction, crazy black dudes who show up to Punk shows and have a ****ing AWESOME time, bums, spending all yer money, shoulders, knees, "the spot," lovehandles, beards. Kisses on cheeks. Singalongs. Screamalongs. Losing your voice, but not enough so you can't say, "C'mon, play Lullabies!"

If Rush doesn't tour again, just be glad you got to see them while they were!

Good point

For entertainment/good music/humor..ANyone attended the "who the Hell is John Eddy" concert..featuring John Eddie..
we all had a great time.

Bruce Springsteen - 1984
Eric Clapton - 1986
Bob Seger & Ted Nugent - 1976
Jethro Tull - 1977
Beach Boys - 1976
Santana - 2000
And many more....

I saw Springsteen back in 1984, too, and saw him play a couple times on his most recent U.S. tour a couple years ago. He still slides across the stage on his (now, surgically reconstructed) knees, and the boy can still rock. He may just have career ahead of him...

In no particular order:
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run tour small club in NY. and 84 tour
Jethro Tull, 68,69,70,71
Who Tommy, Who's Next, Reunion (post keith Moon)
Philadelphia Rock Festival, 69
in this order:
Al Kooper
Buddy Guy
Jethro Tull
Led Zepplin
Johnny Winter.
Little Feat show in DC (waiting for Columbus lp)
went to work at hospital where they brought
Lowell George after his heart attack (I was in ER)
I forget the rest (uh it was the 60's/70's OK?).

Marty

Canvas - couple of weeks ago
Jimmy Buffett
Sunset Heights and Jo "Guitar" Hughes circa 1992 at Fitzgerald's.
Social Distotion

Bonnie Raitt (W/ Keb Mo opening) at some outdoor venue on the Willamette River - Portland OR. Very good performance.
Joan Baez Paramount Theatre - Seattle WA - in '74 or thereabouts. Cannot describe that show (or that woman) adequately.