What was your most memorable concert?

[dmc]

Clash - Bonds Casino
Floyd - Doing the Wall at Nassau
Van Halen - Fair Warning Tour MSG
Stevie Ray Vaugan - Pier NYC
GD - MSG with Bruce Hornsby
Phish - Roseland
Dave Mathews Band - Wetlands(NYC)

Many many more...

 

[gorgonzola]

more...

LOUDEST...hot tuna capital theatre passaic nj
worst...Neil Young phila spectrum '82ish pink cadllacs or something rockabilly tour - just horrible
first...outlaws / molly hatchet '79 phila rectum - i think i puked some jack daniels on the way
longest....pat methany state theatre easton pa maybe '00 - first stop on the tour, 4+ hours covering the material for the whole tour. mrs snowbunski had enough after the first 2 sets went home and came back to pick me up

 

[campgottagopee]

Too many to list but here's a few

The most fun was Van Halen 1984 Jump---Syracuse Dome--David Lee Roths B-day, came out on stage chuggin' bottle of JD.

JT @ SPAC---just darn good weed

Reggea Fest in Burlington 86-89---good weed

Saw Rush somewhere in Canada sometime in the 80's

Phish so many time in Burligton before they were anybody---just another bar band

:wink:

 

[hrstrat57]

I've been thinking about a reply for this. No doubt there are shows I can't recall at the moment.

Top 10?

1. Bruce Springsteen, Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, PA, summer '78- 5th row, small theater, 4+ hours, never forget the first time

ooops, how could I forget Springsteen, 1973 in Providence.....surprisingly dude could really play that Esquire....and played solid for 4 hours.....

another good one.....

Joan Jett at 9:30 club in DC 1980 or 81....out of her mind she was!!! Saw Marshall Crenshaw and the go gos there too.....but Joan Jett was outta control......

 

[mondeo]

Saw Rush somewhere in Canada sometime in the 80's

This is the memorable concerts thread, not the vaguely recall a few of the details thread. :wink:

 

[dmc]

This is the memorable concerts thread, not the vaguely recall a few of the details thread. :wink:

Saw Rush on the "Moving Pictures" tour... good stuff...

 

[JD]

Derek trucks band used to play a small bar in Clemson. Ussually 30-40 ppl when he started. Love that!
Seth Yakavonne (sp) used to play Tuesday nights solo and scoustic at rim Rocks in Stowe about 100 feet from my apartment. I was often times the ONLY person there. I would pull a chair up and make him play old blues songs for me for 2 sets. That was a treat.
Best stadium show was Metalica at Giant's Stadium.
Best outdoor/festival experience was at the Atlanta Music Festival....First we stood at the edge of the stage for String Cheese's last set, Nn one knew them back in '96, and they were rippin it up! Then when Santana came on the main stage and the Boomers kicked in I pushed way up front. I lost my shoes, my shirt, and my friends but felt like I found about 10, 000 new ones. I think my feet were litterally off the ground for the entire "jingo"/drum solo. In the middle of the solo Carlos Started throwing drum sticks at the drummer on the kit. W/o missing a beat he would toss his stick over his shoulder and catch the new one out of mid air. Great performance!

Others of note was G love stealing the show as an opener for Blues Travler on New Years at Irving Plaza, and the Black crows at the Beacon Theater, NYC. I like small venues. I feel like intimacy makes the show as much as who's playing.

 

[deadheadskier]

I like small venues. I feel like intimacy makes the show as much as who's playing.

While I disagree with the later half of your statement, small venues are where it's at for me. Aside from a music festival, the last show I've seen in a large venue was the final show of the 2004 Dead tour in Atlanta.

I guess when I think of 'concert' I associate it with a large venue. 99 times out of 100, I'd rather see a 'show' at a night club with a capacity of 500ish or less. I even find the new Higher Ground Ballroom to be too big, though the showcase lounge is pretty sweet.

Club, location (capacity) memorable shows

Club Toast, Burlington (150) Greyboy All Stars, Charlie Hunter, Medeski, Martin & Wood,
Club Metronome, Burlington (200) Walter Wolfman Washington, Viperhouse
Nectars, Burlington (150) Seth Yavavonie and friends doing the entire Exile on Main Street album
Old Higher Ground, Winooski (550): SCI, moe, Disco Biscuits, Gov't Mule, Strangefolk, Soulive, Jurrasic 5, Trey Anastasio and the flourescent tubes, Keller Williams, The Slip, David Grisman, Hot Tuna
Big Easy, Portland (225), Ryan Montbleau, Nate Wilson Group, Raq, Lettuce, Sam Kinninger
Asylum, Portland (450), RMB, AOD, Strangefolk
Stone Church, Newmarket (197) Max Creek, RMB, Raq, Umelt, Percy Hill, NWG, Teal Leaf Green, AOD


I could go on and on. I guess the point is and my handlesake should hint at it that I'm equally as passionate about seeing live music as I am about skiing.

Seeing numerous shows was the only thing that really got me by during my 'exile years' of 2001-2003

 

[frozencorn]

Ah, Club Toast. Caught moe. there in '95 on the suggestion of my roomate. Who knew? Coupla Belizbeha shows too, for anyone who remembers that name.

 

[deadheadskier]

Yep, remember Belizbeha

 

[2knees]

GD Knick Albany spring of 91 i believe.

first time i heard althea and the mighty quinn live. both were just sick.

 

[ctenidae]

I don't recall.

It was that good.

 

[MichaelJ]

Pink Floyd
Division Bell Tour, Foxboro Stadium, 1994
Floor seats in front of the sound board

 

[ChileMass]

Grateful Dead in Rochester 11/5/77 (Dick's Picks 34). My 1st Dead show during one of their best tours. Best concert I will ever see and nothing else even came close. This is what happens when your brain gets hit with 20 megatons of psychedelic drugs combined with an earth-shaking version of The Other One.

Honorable Mention:
Talking Heads in Saratoga 1983. Speaking in Tongues tour.
The Who in Syracuse 1982. The first farewell tour.
Little Feat at Siena College 1978. With Lowell George.
B-52s and the Tubes in Saratoga 1984? Crazy double-bill.
U2 at SUNY Albany 1983. Right before they got really huge.



Smaller venues:
Commander Cody at JB Scott's in Albany 1980. The best club band ever.
The Blasters at SUNY Albany campus center 1986. We sweated thru our clothes.
Frank Zappa at the Palace Theatre in Albany 1980. Weird and hilarious.
REM at JB Scott's in Albany 1984. Also right before they got huge.

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

Metallica 1989 Lake Compounce of all places..

 

[dmc]

 

[Euler]

Phish @ Nectars in the late 80's many times.
Frank Zappa in Burlington, late 80s
The Iguanas - Maple Leaf Bar - New Orleans

 

[andyzee]

Ahh, just remembered a good one. Aerosmith at Joint in the Woods around 75-76. This was a small club in Parsippany, NJ and for awhile there Aerosmith was playing weekly.

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

Great Big Show: Allman Brothers Band - Music Inn, Lennox, MA 8/1979

Theater size: Little Feat - Orpheum Theater, Boston, 5/1978

Large Club: Dixie Dregs, The Paradise, 1980 (I believe)

Small Club: Roy Bucannan - Johnathan Swift's, Cambridge, MA 1979

 

[powhunter]

GD Knick Albany spring of 91 i believe.

first time i heard althea and the mighty quinn live. both were just sick.

Nice!!!!


Mt first GD show Colt park in Hartford 1976...got real crazy at the end!!

1: Promised Land, Mississippi Half Step, Mama Tried, Deal, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed, Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Looks Like Rain, Loser, Lazy Lightning-> Supplication
2: Might As Well, Samson & Delilah, Candyman, Playin' In The Band-> Wharf Rat-> Drums-> Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad-> Playin' In The Band-> Around & Around, E: U.S. Blues, E: Sugar Magnolia