[Aberlour10]

My choice:

In summer 1994 I visited Pink Floyd outdoor concert in Cologne/Germany.
They stopped there during their The Division Bell World Tour.
This concert was by far the best sounding outdoor concert I have ever heard.
(nearly the studio quality) Pink Floyd used all of the modern media - lights, video, lasers, effects, and props.
These guys are still one of the greatest bands of all time, the absence of founding member Roger Waters was not going to influence the greatness of this show

Pink Floyd released an album of live music from The Division Bell Tour entitled P*U*L*S*E. This album represents the joining of two great albums The Division Bell, and Dark Side of the Moon(1973), which was played entirely during The Division Bell Tour...this was for me the greatest experience in that concert.

Robert

[mike777]

1969 Rolling Stones. Univ of Illinois.

[Aberlour10]

mike777, on Jun 30 2006, 04:27 PM, said:

1969 Rolling Stones. Univ of Illinois.

wow! that was surely a real wild thing

Robert

[joshs]

1. Elton John- Saratoga Performing Arts Center, 1989

2. Over The Rhine- The Knitting Factory (Hollywood), 2006

3. Suzanne Vega - The Birchmere, 2001

4. Soul Asylum, Screaming Trees, Spin Doctors- Saratoga Performing Arts Center, 1993

5. Tribe - MIT, 1994


I saw Floyd at Giants Stadium in 1986. Twas a great show even though it was rainging hard...

[hrothgar]

1. Sleater-Kinney, Burlington VT. 07/2005
2. The Clash, Poughkeepsie NY, 1982
3. Aimee Mann / David Cross, Boston MA 2000
4. Soft White Underbelly, Poughkeepsie, NY 1983
5. REM, Athens GA 1985

[pbleighton]

The Grateful Dead - 1980 - Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA
The Who - Oakland Coliseum - 1981
The Pretenders - San Francisco Civic Center - 1983

The dates are a little "hazy"

Peter

[mgoetze]

It's a toss-up... all of these at the Musikhalle Hamburg with the NDR Philharmoniker:

- G. Wand conducting Bruckner's 8th.
- C. Eschenbach conducting Mahler's 6th.
- V. Gergiev conducting Schostakowitsch's 7th.

[joshs]

hrothgar, on Jun 30 2006, 04:45 PM, said:

1. Sleater-Kinney, Burlington VT. 07/2005
2. The Clash, Poughkeepsie NY, 1982
3. Aimee Mann / David Cross, Boston MA 2000
4. Soft White Underbelly, Poughkeepsie, NY 1983
5. REM, Athens GA 1985

Ooh, who opened for REM? They had many different great opening acts over the years...

Did anyone see the Metallica/GNR tour in the early 90's?

I am still waiting to see Aimee Mann at Largo's. I missed her there a few months ago but she plays there frequently.... (I am actually trying to get Bic Runga tickets at Largo for August for her only stop in the US, but Largo is closed for the next 2 weeks...)

I am psyched for Belle and Sebastian with the LA Philomonic next week. And the Shins are opening! Now if only I had managed to get tickets to the Radiohead show for tonight also...

[cherdano]

Last weekend, Rattle conducting the Berlin philharmonics and a brilliant set of soloists for Rhengold. It was performed as a concert, so the singers were not distracted by a funny acting etc. Maybe more importantly, they respected Rattle, so this was this was more of a team performance than every opera I have seen before; everything fit well together, pefect chamber music-like duets between vocal and orchestra soloists etc. Just brilliant.

Before that, probably Murray Perahia.

[pclayton]

The Cars - 1985 - San Diego Sports Arena.

INXS - Greek Theatre - 1986.

The Tubes - Missoula, MT - 1983

I really don't remember either one. And its not because they were 20 years ago either.

[Badmonster]

Warren Zevon at the Beacon

Second was Steve Miller at the Beacon

Disclaimer, I haven[t been to that many shows. I almost saw Junior Wells on his last tour. Went with two friends, they'd just started dating and were an hour late and we couldn't get in. I wonder if they're still together.

[bid_em_up]

1985 in Athens GA (where REM is from)....I doubt they actually had an opening act. Or...they were the opening act for someone else.

I saw the 1986 Pink Floyd tour also (ok, it was actually 1987 by the time it came to the Orange Bowl in Miami). Pouring down rain, and our seats were on the opposite end of the field from the stage, Top deck, top row. As far as you could get from the stage and still be in the stadium. Thankfully, lots of people hadnt shown up due to the rain and we managed to scarf some seats under the deck.

Bad Company/Kansas in the late 70's. Kansas was the opening act.

The Boss. Twice.

Journey.

AC/DC

Billy Joel

Elton John

Oddly enough, one of the best concerts I ever saw was when a couple of friends of mine decided we were going to take road trip from Atlanta to Athens GA to see some band that I had never heard of. It turned out to be The Psychadelic Furs.

Some others I cant remember for various reasons.

[hrothgar]

bid_em_up, on Jul 2 2006, 01:38 AM, said:

Oddly enough, one of the best concerts I ever saw was when a couple of friends of mine decided we were going to take road trip from Atlanta to Athens GA to see some band that I had never heard of. It turned out to be The Psychadelic Furs.

The P Furs are great...

Saw em 3-4 times

[jillybean]

Pink Floyd "World Tour" 1988 open air concert Auckland New Zealand

Jimmy Barnes 198? performing at a brewery Wellington New Zealand

Dont ask me if the music was any good.

[Sigi_BC84]

Very easy question: Gotan Project playing the last gig (Sunday night) during a French festival (Eurockeenes de Belfort). On the main stage it was Rammstein, and we all couldn't care less. Our group of people was quite diverse in musical taste, and most of us hadn't even heard of them before, but their gig left us in complete awe.

During the first half of their show, they're performing behind a large screen of semi-transparent material which hangs down at the front of the stage, completely disguising the band. Full-screen video material is projected on the screen, but you can see the silouettes of the band from time to time. Before the second half, the veil drops and you have your usual stage performance.

They also had an Argentinian tango pair dancing to a few of their songs.

Perfect gig for me, and we saw quite a lot of awesome performances during the three days on the festival. I will never forget it.

They have published a DVD with their concert lately, which I can recommend to everyone interested in Argentinian Tango or good music in general.

--Sigi

[luke warm]

dr. john, the warehouse in n'awlins but i don't quite remember when... i do seem to recall that very few people were sitting or standing
zebra, warehouse
rhapsodizers, same place (anybody? eh?)
grand funk, new york, early 70s (i think)
james gang, virginia beach.. they stopped in on the way up and jammed for 3 hours.. free - sometimes i can still taste the boone's farm apple wine

[FrancesHinden]

In no particular order:

Eschenbach conducting Bruckner 8 last year.

The first time I heard Nielsen 4, which was live at the proms - I can't remember the conductor or the orchestra, but it blew me away. Incredible.

The first live classical concert I ever went to - I was about 13, and it was Dorati conducting Beethoven 9. Started my addiction to classical music.

Haitink conducting Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne - must have been about 1985 or 1986 or so. I was lucky enough to see it 3 times that year.

But there's been a few other highlights - lowlights - including the two times I've been reduced to tears that I remember (brilliant performances of Britten's War Requiem and the end of Eugene Onegin)

I have high hopes for Rattle conducting the Berlin Phil in Bruckner 7 later this year (certainly costing me enough!)

[MickyB]

Iron Maiden at the Reading Festival

Queen+Paul Rodgers, supported by Razorlight, in Hyde Park

[helene_t]

I don't like concerts.

[pbleighton]

I am too old for concerts, and no longer participate in the common attendant activities

Peter