First, Worst, Best, and Last Concert?

^ n00b, the DT Jones Beach show was killer, you just weren't close enough

First: Dream Theater Chaos In Motion, 2007 @ Jones Beach. Great show.

1. Kenny Rogers with my parents in Washington DC one year . let's say it was that great...
2. See the one above, but I don't really remember much! But I'm sure it wasn't great.
 But there was this band that opened for Dax Riggs that probably the worst band I've ever seen live...So bad... Oh god....
3. Nearfest X- Surely. Banco, Peter Hammill, Koenji Hyakkei, etc. 'Nough said.
4. At the Gates!

I've only been to five concerts: Neil Young, Deep Purple (with Steppenwolf), Rush (twice, last year and this year), and Gigantour 2008.

Most recent: Rush, Snakes and Arrows 2008 in Atlanta. It was cool.

First: Neil Young, 2002. It was good, but I don't remember half of it.

Best: Half of Gigantour 2008. I saw Children of Bodom and Megadeth. It was the coolest thing to ever exist The only two concerts that would have been better for me would be a Frank Zappa concert and a Pantera concert. Deep Purple with Steppenwolf and 2007 Rush tie in second place.

Worst: The other Half of Gigantour 2008. I don't know how much modern metal you guys know of, but seeing High on Fire, In Flames and Job For A Cowboy in concert is like a musical Guantanamo Bay. High on Fire has the same exact random chord progression in every song they do, Job For A Cowboy was so bad that they dropped out of a  guitar solo because the guy forgot the notes, and In Flames was just plain bad and boring. The worst part about In Flames was that me and my friends had people moshing all around us to crappy death metal power ballads they were playing, and at one point it seemed like In Flames would steal the show from Megadeth. At least I got a kick out of the Job For A Cowboy pig squeals (listen to one of their songs and you'll know what I'm talking about).

first: ELO 1978 Oakland Ca.   with my mother who was (is) an ELO freak.

worst:  New Kids on the Block 1990 RFK stadium DC...    chaperoning 2 teenage girls and the sister of my girlfriend at the time.  The ticket was free.. and nothing rules more than seeing girls trying to rip each others hair out... the whole experience ruining by the music though.  Oh well....I was well rewarded for my auditory sacrifice though
Best:  Dave Brubeck and sons.  Marquette Mich 1993     in a small college auditorium with maybe 20 people. Got to meet and discuss music with a living legend.  Hell of a nice guy as well

Last:  Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Mastodon, and some sh*t band called Machine Head in Rome's Olympic Stadium last summer.  A real experience... and with great company.

First: Franz Ferdinand

Best: The Flaming Lips or The Cure

Worst: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (Opening for Pearl Jam, they were awful and had no originality)

The worst audience would have to go to the folks at the Lou Reed show I saw in April. Very rude and wouldn't stop talking through the show. At one point Lou stopped mid-song and asked "Would you rather me play the song or do you want to keep talking?"

Last: Pearl Jam

Next: Kill Hannah (Don't worry, it's a gift for my girlfriend, but I'll be seeing King Crimson the next day on the 11th, and Radiohead on the 12th!)

I wish I were born earlier though. I'd love to have seen the shows the other users have been posting about about!

Other Groups I've seen...

Smashing Pumpkins
Roger Waters
Explosions in the Sky
Sons & Daughters
Cut Copy
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
65daysofstatic
Disco Biscuits

I will be seeing Radiohead, King Crimson, and Nine Inch Nails as well.

And hopefully ROSfest and NEARfest next year!

First: A Finnish funkmetalrocketc. band Rasmus in my then-hometown Kuopio the year 1997. Later they changed their name to The Rasmus and started making poppier material, which some of you might even have heard.

Worst: Dream Theater in Helsinki on the Systematic Chaos tour. They did actually play a few good songs, but raped them all in the shredding sections or did only small parts of them in a medley. I've never yawned so much at a rock show, and I wasn't even tired.

Best: The three times I've seen Sigur Rós, twice from the front row (one of them an acoustic mini performance in a movie theatre). Fourth one coming in a month, we'll see if it lives up to expectations.

Last: It was either Iron Maiden or Circusfolk in July, both very good.

First: Dave Matthews Band in 2003
Worst: I've yet to attend a bad concert, actually. (Though I've witnessed a few dreadful opening acts ).
Best: Fish in DC this year. Ween and Neal Morse were just as good as that show, but they were all very different experiences.
Last: Fish

Next: King Crimson in Philly, then the Flower Kings in New York, and then Opeth in Philly a month after that.

It's been a great year for prog concerts.

First: Unless opera counts, Wise Guys in 2006. Great performance, though the bass vocalist was unable to contribute to the show, as he had bad bruises.

rushfan4 wrote: 1st: David Lee Roth w/Poison - August 13,1988 Palace of Auburn Hills Monsters of Rock Festival - Kingdom Come, Dokken, Metallica, Scorpions, Van Halen - June 17, 1988 at Pontiac Silverdome. Worst: I'm not sure.  There were a couple that turned out disappointing because of other circumstances.  Not sure of a worst.   Best: Rush - 1994 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkUre8FWIQ  I was at this one. Latest: Rush - 2008 Joe Louis Arena, Detroit (It would have been Yes, but it was cancelled).

Edited by rushfan4 - August 01 2008 at 16:53