First, Worst, Best, and Last Concert?

1st- Van Halen 1997
Best- Tough to choose Dream Theater over Rush- but I have to- I think it is due to the intimacy of the venue.
Dream Theater at Sheppards Bush with Spock's beard- London 2000 SFAM tour
Worst- Too many to mention? Slipknot was horrible, I'll go with that one
Last- Rush- Concord 2008

Best: probably SWANS on their farewell tour
Worst: probably one of the times I had to see Nile, eh...
First: D.R.I., Thrash Zone tour 1989/90
Last: Animal Collective, Sir Richard Bishop, I rarely go to shows anymore this was over a year ago

First concert: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Blonde Redhead. It was awesome as it was two of my favorite bands at the time and it was my first concert. Blonde Redhead were a bit too feedbacky and screechy for my tastes then.

Worst: hmm....I played a horribly organized show that my band was supposed to open for, then ended up headlining for some wack-ass reason. It was awful. Because we the opening act, closed the show, everyone had left by the time we set up. You know how a lot of people come to shows late because they don't want to sit thru the opener? Well the same rule apparently applies when the dumbass band that organized the show schedules you to close it. It was awful. We played to the sound guy and a couple members of the previous band. In a cramped bar.   

Although at least we were allowed to "rock". We had a show after that where we had been ASKED to play for an employee appreciation party at the campaign I was working at. So of course we said we'd play. It was during the day, at a bar. Two nice settings for some rock and roll. After 4 songs we were asked to play quietly so people could talk. Not because we were bad or anything. We were good, but the organizer didn't want a rock band to play in actuality. They wanted a lame acoustic guitar singer/songwriter person.   Or Muzak I guess. Either way that was equally frustrating and bad.

Best: tie between Boris, ACid Mothers Temple w/ Danava, and The Ex w/ Getatchew Merkurya. All three shows were absolutely incredible. Couldn't pick one out as being better than the rest.

Last: The Ex w/ Getatchew Merkurya. An amazing show that I wish I could see almost everyday, again. Old punk rockers playing with an even older Ethiopian Jazz Sax legend = the best thing ever. IF they're coming to your city GO SEE IT.

First Concert - The Who, Manchester Apollo approx 1979, impressive first gig eh?

 

Worst - too tough to decide, I've seen loads of bands and couldn't pick out a worst one. Most disappointing however was Yes at Birmingham NEC on 90125 tour. Awful setlist.

 

Best - Pallas at Manchester Gallery circa 1982/3 stands out. About 100 punters in, Euan Lowson scared me half to death. The set included a 20 minute Atlantis/March on Atlantis ( mostly instrumental ) and I was totally blown away.

 

Last - Def Leppard at MEN Arena. 

rushfan4 wrote: Edit: I saw Neil Diamond  last night.  He is quite the entertainer and puts on a really good show.  And everybody can sing along to Sweet Caroline.  Coming to America is an awesome song.  Almost kind of proggy pop.  He uses 2 guitarists, a bass player who uses both an electric bass and at times a stand-up bass.  Two keyboardists-I think 1 might have been using a Moog but I'm not too up on equipment stuff.  He also has a drummer and a percussionist who were quite good.  He also has 4 horn guys playing various brass and 3 back-up singers.  I think he is probably my biggest guilty pleasure.  Definitely not my normal musical fare.  I don't own any CDs from him, and yet this was the 3rd or 4th time I have seen him live and I always seem to enjoy it.  Sorry.  I hope that I haven't further shattered/soured the rest of your opinions of me.

I saw Big Neil a few years back and he was excellent! He had a revolving stage!

My first was Iron Maiden in 81 with Paul Di'Anno

Last was my mate's band Battle of the War Machines

Worst was Ozric Tentacles at the Reading Festival. I fell asleep.

MisterProg2112 wrote: Pretty easy to understand, what was your first concert, worst concert, best concert, and last concert?   As for me:     First: Journey 2003 or 04   Worst: ^, I didn't know any of the material, and I don't like it now a days anyway.   Best: Progressive Nation 2008 (Dream Theater, Opeth, BTBAM, and 3) NYC 2nd night Terminal 5   Last: Rush Jones Beach 2008

First Concert: KoRn - Issues Tour 1999
Worst Concert: Styx (dad brought me, didn't know the songs) - 2000ish
Best Concert: Roger Waters - The Dark Side Of The Moon Tour 2006-07
Last Concert: Coheed & Cambria - No World For Tomorrow Tour 2007

Edited by erik neuteboom - August 03 2008 at 15:49

First - AC/DC (Back in Black Tour)

Cool topic, I think a good added category would have been most.

First: The Eagles on their first farewell tour 2004.

Worst: Strangely, The Eagles on their latest Long Road out of Eden tour, terrible set list combined with their not being exactly the best performers ever made its placement here.

Best: The Mars Volta on their second show in Philly 2005. Amazing set list, incredible performance by far the best on stage antics I've seen, I was a foot from the stage, crowd was full of energy.

Last: The Eagles as of now, The Dear Hunter as of 24 hours from this post.

I've seen a lot of concerts despite what The Eagles grabbing three categories might suggest.