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Sperghetti posted:I always go watch Local H and Valient Thorr when they come around, they always put on really fun high energy shows in smaller venues. Saw local H back in 94 before they had any cred. Blew me away. The drummer broke his sticks 6 times in a 30 minute set
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I saw Kenny Loggins at my county fair, audience of about 500 I'd guess. It was really fuckin rad.
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Jul 12, 2016 14:57
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Worst: Weezer at Summerfest back in like 2004 or 2005. Thankfully the Pixies opened for them, so it wasn't a complete waste of money. I can't really pinpoint a best, but some of the top ones were Dillinger Escape Plan, Arsis, and Fugazi.
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the great deceiver posted:haha i just remembered one of the worst shows i've ever seen. Wicked Wisdom, Jada Pinkett-Smith's screamo metal band. i sat through them so i could have a good spot for mastodon on their Leviathan tour and they were just loving embarrassingly bad lol I saw Mastadon at Mayhem Fest a couple of years ago, and I really like Mastadon, but I wouldn't see them live again. They weren't the headliners, and I knew that lately they'd been going in a more progressive sounding direction, so I wasn't expecting them to break my bones. I was expecting a little more than them standing in place for 45 minutes and slowly jamming out like five songs. And this was right after Amon Amarth threw everyone into a blood frenzy, so Mastadon kind of sucked the energy out of everything.
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Jul 12, 2016 15:39
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dee eight posted:Went to my first concert ever in 1966 when I was eleven, paid $1.25 to see Joey Dee and the Starliters. Peppermint Twist is still a nostalgic fave. Goddamn You're old! - I played Harmonica for Bo Didley once when he played the Ritz. He laughed his rear end off at the giant white guy with a purple mohawk kicking the harp better than most he had ever heard. I told him how I got into harmonica and guitar because I listened to John Lee Hooker when I was like 10 and he nodded at me like I had just quoted bible verses. Champenema posted:Henry Rollins yelling at us for an hour & a half. Hell, even when he was with Black Flag it was pretty much him just yelling the whole time. He would troll up an down Avenue A and try to get awkwardly young girls to sleep with him simply because, as he he would yell at them, "I'm Henry Fuckin' Rollins!" Maybe he needed to balance out the roids or something, but I thought he was half goofing on himself too. - Surprised at the RATM hate. I think De LaRocha (spelling that right?) can be annoying as gently caress but that's his whole purpose. Also he does a good bit with Run the jewels (who I had the great pleasure of seeing recently). On the bad side: I made it to two of the Woodstock reboots because I was given tickets and in one instance was literally on a trip passing by the area anyway. I am not a festival person, especially a multi day one, so my perspective is off. Anyway, they both sucked massively, and I can't imagine why anyone paid to be in the inhuman conditions, bad music, and insufferable mass of people. I suspect the same could be said about the original but history has a funny way of removing terrible odors and becoming fodder for Toyota commercials.
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Jul 12, 2016 16:53
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Odd that so many people mention tool as being a bad show. I've seen them twice and it was amazing both times.
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jonathan posted:Odd that so many people mention tool as being a bad show. I've seen them twice and it was amazing both times. Maynard is old now and sells wine , he isn't the same old angry 20 something hoping LA sinks into Arizona bay !!!!
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Jul 12, 2016 17:25
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jonathan posted:Odd that so many people mention tool as being a bad show. I've seen them twice and it was amazing both times. The singer hides in the back and faces away from the audience and never engages. The whole band looks like they are in a practice studio thinking about car payments. Like their recordings, the music is impeccably accurate, but if their are going for an austere emotional disconnect, then they are hitting it on the head.
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Jul 12, 2016 17:50
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ghlbtsk posted:Sade 2011 Sade 1993. I was on LSD. Spiritualized (late 90s) was another one I will never forget. Worst was probably Steve Miller. I just went to get high. I loving hate Steve Miller and people who jam to Steve Miller.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:System of a Down. I was pretty hungover and their music sucks.
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Jul 12, 2016 20:51
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Best: I saw Rush a few years ago and they are still the best live act I've ever seen. While I had only listened to the popular singles previously that show certainly contributed to making me a fan. Worst: Sevendust at the Webster theater in Hartford, CT (this may be the worst venue in the whole world)
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Jul 12, 2016 21:00
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Wicker Man posted:I was a little surprised too, since I kinda remember them getting some poo poo from those old "Your band sucks" stuff we used to have. Even if the music isn't your type, they know how to put on a performance. I like when the keyboardist has his dance solo.
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Jul 12, 2016 21:19
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symbolic posted:their self-titled debut album is great, fight me Nah, you can like them. It's cool.
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Jul 12, 2016 21:53
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Best: Devo in 1982 PIL in 1984 Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1986 Echo and the Bunnymen in 1987 Sub Pop Lamefest - Mudhoney, TAD, and Nirvana in 1989 Soundgarden with Screaming Trees and TAD in 1989 Pavement in 1997 Afghan Whigs in 1998 Shudder to Think in 2008 Worst: Haven't been to any bad shows but one time in college a lovely local punk band was playing on campus and took a break halfway through their set. A guy came onstage with a saxophone and 90% of the crowd was like "What is this poo poo?" and left until the band came back. It was Kenny G when he was just starting out
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Jul 13, 2016 03:51
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Keith Atherton posted:Devo in 1982 
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i unirnically like system of a down but they seem like they would suck live especially for the later two albums they do some cool stuff there that sounds like it took a lot of takes to do right
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Jul 13, 2016 04:16
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Best Show: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Hometown Throwdown 2010. 3 days of ska and drinking with my old college roommate. Every night we ended up next door to the House of Blues drinking with some of the security staff. The morning after the final show, I woke up with a giant plastic Blanta in my hotel room. It was fun trying to get him back to St. Louis. Worst Show: A Switchfoot show I worked in college. Weird rear end crowd. Did not mesh well with Cavo as one of the openers. Honorable Mention: Getting to introduce The Urge at a show I put together. Dream come true.
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Jul 13, 2016 04:39
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Best: At the Drive-In with Le Butcherettes at the Hollywod Paladium. Energy was awesome, everyone was pumped - was right in the pit and had a loving blast. Drank a metric shitton, didn't get sick, didn't have to babysit anyone else and got a sweet sweet BJ after. Worst: Boston Calling Music Festival a couple years back. Flew out to Boston and was excited to see Brand New, Death Cab, The Neighborhood and Modest Mouse, but dealt with the insufferable Bastille and got punched in the face by a random drunk Bastille fan who previously elbowed my girlfriend in the face. Clocked the guy after getting my bearings, which felt amazinggggg - except I was then walked out by security. Spent the next 2 loving hours dealing with security about getting back in, and luckily a friend from the guy who punched me's group told security about the situation and they let me back in. What a loving mess. gently caress Bastille.
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Jul 13, 2016 04:40
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I forgot about what was probably the most entertaining concert I've ever been to - I was pretty drunk so my memory isn't great, but... for some reason Evan and Jaron came to my college to do a free concert. They were playing stupid bs songs and the entire loving time one of my buddies just kept screaming "Play Crazy for this Girl!! Crazy for this Girl!!" Well they finally played it at the very end and they actually invited my buddy onstage to sing it with them since he was so excited about that drat song.
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caligulamprey posted:Was that on the Oh No! It's Devo! tour? Man, the music was kind of homogeneous, but Christ, they were at the loving height of their paranoid freak-out coke addiction. Yeah! It was a great show My dad drove me and 7 of my friends from eastern Washington to Seattle to see the show He bought a ticket and sat with us and was Cat Hassler fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jul 13, 2016 |
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Best: KMFDM, hands loving down. They came to a relatively small venue to support WWIII in 2003/4 I think and just rocked the poo poo out of it, Sascha is such a boss. Other good shows were Wide Mouth Mason, Matthew Good Band, Bush, Guns n' Roses, Worst: Robin Black. They loving sucked rear end, and I had to go early because for some insane reason my friend was a huge fan of theirs. It was a double bill with Bush, strange combination of washed up grungers and fat goth chicks. It's weird that dude does UFC commentary now.
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Jul 13, 2016 22:25
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Best had to be Slayer back on the gog hates us all tour, and the worst would have to be Taproot back when they were new on the scene.
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Jul 13, 2016 23:02
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Keith Atherton posted:Yeah! It was a great show 
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I'll add to the Tool complaints. Sat through about 4 songs before leaving. I wasn't super into tool anymore when I saw them but decided to go because everyone said they were great live. Maynard didn't sing half of the songs that I caught. Another bad show was a recent Octopus Project show. This was like my 6th or 7th time seeing them and they were just absolutely terrible. One of the members looked really high and couldn't play her parts, tech problems, lack of togetherness, they just looked like they were having the worst show of their career. Best shows: Jaga Jazzist last summer (thought I was going to cry), Fiery Furnaces in like 2009, TMBG around 2001, Primus on the Brown Album Tour (first show without supervision), Flaming Lips NYE 2010 maybe? They played all of Soft Bulletin, Super Furry Animals w Caribou, Spoon and The New Pornographers. Great shows.
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I helped the quintessential tool fan move in as a favor to a friend. It was fine, i got really high and a lapdance out of it, but he was playing Tool in the car talking about how fuckin' deep it was while we were in the car at taco bell and me and my friend were just laughing at him which was mean but making a song out of the fibbonaci sequence or whatever is a gimmick it's not depth so it must've been bad live to start bad.
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Jul 13, 2016 23:38
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Has anyone seen Mr Gordon Lightfoot, because he's on my list before he kicks the bucket. I did some m before seeing Modest Mouse and that was beautiful.
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Jul 14, 2016 02:18
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best was probably seeing Earth, Wind, and Fire and Chicago together last summer. worst might have been steve winwood who was just boring but it was alright because he was just the opening gig for Steely Dan, which was amazing
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diabeetz posted:Has anyone seen Mr Gordon Lightfoot, because he's on my list before he kicks the bucket. My parents saw him a long time ago. They said he was drinking from a bottle of southern comfort and was so drunk he could barely sing.
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Good: Rush in the 80s, holy poo poo. Awesome. Journey before Steve Perry bailed. U2 for Achtung Baby was fantastic. Later, Skinny Puppy late 80s early 90s, along with Ministry and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. Meat Beat Manifesto was tippy and amazing. All the NIN shows we saw were fantastic - Trent hit me in the head with a water bottle at one of the Self Destruct tour shows. Honorable mention to the local band some Christmas eve 20 years ago that did a hilarious and inappropriate rendition of Feliz Navidad - that was killer and we laughed like we were dying. I guess the only band I've walked out on was some never-famous industrial band, their schtick was wearing ski masks and the songs were dumb, so we left.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Best: KMFDM, hands loving down. They came to a relatively small venue to support WWIII in 2003/4 I think and just rocked the poo poo out of it, Sascha is such a boss. Also Raymond Watts was there, who is the greatest. And he's touring later this year for PIG.
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Keith Atherton posted:Soundgarden with Screaming Trees and TAD in 1989  I saw the Soundgarden, TAD, Eleven tour back in the day. Because we thought (or were told) that Eleven was going on first, we stayed in the parking lot for a couple extra beers. We got in to the venue to the sight of Eleven setting up their equipment to play - we missed TAD completely. Me and my buddy were looking forward to seeing TAD more than Soundgarden. Because of that, I've never seen TAD live. 
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