What is the best concert you have ever been to, and why??

Are we allowed to nominate music festivals? In which case it would be about equal between the Bath Festival in 1970 with Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Fairport Convention..... or The Isle of Wight in 1970 too - Jimi Hendrix's last English gig before he died; Jethro Tull, The Who, The Doors, Donovan......

Peter Gabriel was memorable - he and the band came marching down the center aisle of the theater to approach the stage. Paul McCartney was good, too. Yes, Talking Heads...so many. Went to see Robert Fripp and League of Gentleman - Fripp walked right past me at the bar.

Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I was fourth row center.

As much as I loved seeing tom petty and fleetwood mac concerts, I think I have to say trans siberian orchestra holds the top spot.

Too hard to pick a favourite, I have seen so many bands, Queensrÿche, Lenny Kravitz, Lady Gaga and Pink stick out in my mind as amazing concerts.

I just found a poster for the Bath Festival in 1970 - so many bands I'd forgotten about!

It's really hard to pick a favorite as best...Lee Perry in a small hall with a backstage invite from the soundman to hang out for a while was epic. Of the dozen or so Scratch shows I've seen,that might have been the strongest set,although emotions were running high at his first appearance back in the USA after 17 years.Mad Professor himself mixing the Robotics band leant an extra bit of gravity to that affair.

I often credit Fishbone as the best live band I've ever seen...and I stand by that statement. At the height of their powers,they ruled ! A few years ago I was telling Angelo Moore that they were to only band to send me to the ER~twice.We had a good laugh and he thanked me for not trying to sue them,haha.

Ummm,also Bad Brains. wow.

There has never been a live experience like Crash Worship in the 90's. Words fail to describe it.

Hanging out around a campfire with James Taylor and 3 other guys was a singular musical memory as well.

Seen many,many legends in big stadiums,but ummm,not my scene so much.

Best DJ set? Mungo's HiFi-4 hours straight,all killer,no filler.

oh,or Shinehead ripping the roof off a small club. Proper.

PS- I have a Goo Goo Dolls autographed CD (signed by the whole band) with a tote bag I can sell pretty cheap. They are very polite for rock stars.

Jethro Tull, New Haven Arena, 1971 or 1972.

Great musicians and show men. The arena held about 4,000 so there were no bad views and great acoustics.

They did a two and a half hours show and the encore was well over an hour.

It was a Grass Roots concert. But it was the backup that stole the show. Aerosmith!

I've never been to a concert before. Someday though...

Cream
Van Halen
Eric Clapton and Santana
B.B. King
Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton

I don’t really rate concerts, but those ones stand out in my mind as having been great shows.

Metallica

Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, ZZ Top, Alabama, The Eagles ...but the best was probably George Strait's farewell concert finally in Dallas, the only star that didn't perform was Merl Haggard, because he was sick. I was amazing 4 hours, 103,000 in a US indoor arena...New world record.

Stones!!

In Louisville, Kentucky we have an old armory that now works as a concert hall. Great acoustics. Best 2 concerts pink Floyd and Rolling Stones. Pink Floyd played "Dark Side of the Moon" straight through verbatim and did one of these days to close no encore perfect show. Tooling stone had their own star shaped stage that had these balloons shoot out that looked phallic and white smaller balloons that looked like whateversquirting water cum colored. They were between albums so they just played everything and in time on key. They were in town for the Kentucky Derby too. I was up close made eye contract even offered them a hit from this Colombian red bud. To if the line for the US at the time. I was just back from you know some little country and their p kickedot was called Budda or Thai stick. I was kinda spoiled. You talk about one toke marijuana. It was so strong you go past munchies straight into the Twilight zone.

I saw Death Cab for Cutie in 2005 and it was an awesome show. They played for about three and a half hours. :)

Rolling Stones in a small armory or Pink Floyd right after Dark Side of the Moon came out. Same armory. Pink Floyd started the show with the pulse and played the whole album in order almost exactly as they did it in the studio. Allman Brothers were just trying to get some video . Played all slow stuff I wanted to hear whipping post, one way out etc. Led Zeppelin added Louisville at least second at the end of their tour they were work out or drunk Jimmy Page couldn't keep time, plant didn't seem to mind he had his own meter. I heard some great things about other cities. People come into Kentucky thinking we're all hillbillies with no outside contact.
Sorry I get dysentery of the oral cavity even when I am typing.

I was 10 at the time, but remember Woodstock was a lot of fun. More recently, Yoji Biomehanica and the Euphoria Fest were great.
Also had to see Babymetal when they came by, liked the novelty of hearing mosh music that wasn't about demons, nazi butchers and cruelty'

metallica "master of puppets" tour 1986...because it was played in a small venue and hetfield was a beast.

Jimmy Buffett in the 80's in Houston

Saw van halen back in 92

I've never been to many shows, sadly, just mainly the local things in bars. Intimate. Guys, or girls, with an acoustic. That type of thing.

The only shows that I have ever been to, apart from that, have been to see The Spice Girls. Mum is a big fan and we went to one of their reunion shows some years back.

Like, 80'000 people. Took my breathe away. Such an audio/visual assault on my senses.

Many but the most unexpected was the BOC Agents of Fortune concert.
It got downright bizarre and the Mr. Natural that I took didn’t help matters.

Roliing Stones, Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Maybe suitable for this weekend but playing at the Menin Gate in Ypres. There was a thunderstorm happening at the time followed by a rainbow afterwards. Never forgotten it.

soooo many..i went to 37 one year. hard to chooose. some of my many favorites: neutral milk hotel, alt-j, damien rice, pixies, arcade fire, sigur ros, atmosphere, modest mouse, oasis, death cab, a perfect circle, nas

Paul McCartney in 2002. I've seen hundreds of concerts, but this one was just...right in so many ways. I was lifted off the ground, the band was firing on all cylinders.

PS I met Johnny outside ABC Studios in NYC in 2003 after they played "Sympathy" on the Regis and Kelly show. He signed my Black Balloon CD single.

EDIT: Found the video. It was minutes after this performance.
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not fond of concerts. i like the music, hearing it live is amazing but then it gets drowned out by the cheering crowd, you're constantly being nudged, drinks get spilled (hopefully not on you)

i'll support my fave musicians by buying the CD's

probably the music festivals I went to in mid to late 90's; Bands like soundgarden, creed, staind, filter, fuel, godsmack, nickelback, etc.

Pink Floyd, the Wall at the Nassau colosseum in 1980.

It was an amazing experience.
The stage show was incredible

KISS Farewell tour.. And YES it was all the originals NOT the new people.. GENE Simmons got up on this platform and they raised him up above the crowd and he was sticking that tongue out and playing his Bass spitting fake blood everywhere.. It was AMAZIN LMAO 😈😈 🤣🤣🤣

Muse were pretty good. It was just a great concert and the people were feeling the music. I have a piece of the silver confetti that fell from the ceiling somewhere.

I've been to two* which means neither was the best. 😁


* Crowbar (the Canadian band) as well as Teenage Head.

Bob Dylan and The Hawks in St. Louis, March 1966. The Hawks became The Band. I was never much of a Dylan fan but The Hawks were incredible.

Elvis Costello.

He was doing a warmup concert near me. Quite magical. I love his Juliet Letters, and his rendition of She.

Rammstein in Coventry last year. The pyrotechnics were so awesome the locals thought it was a terrorist attach and called the emergency services.

Roger Waters The Wall. Music was fire and not to mention it's like a whole stage production as well. Plus, Roger looked at me during Comfortably Numb and jumped a little bit because I was only 10 and at that concert lol.

Bauhaus at Rock City in Nottingham in 1982. Best music venue I've been to, packed out way over the fire limit.

Elton John, Black Sabbath, Status Quo, The Who, Iron Maiden, Genisis, Gary Numan to name but a few, all excellent

Yo La Tengo performing The Sounds of Science (films included) outdoors in Prospect Park.

Pink Floyd back in the 90s. One of those experiences one needed to be there to understand.
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Probably be a toss up between The Eagles, Van Halen and Jimmy Buffett

I'd love to see The Goo Goo Dolls

Actually, Bruce Springsteen years ago was so good

Wardruna , Amon Amarth and Dimmu Borgir.

they simply put on the best shows i have seen

I’d say the Moody Blues
A lot of their songs just have this electric energy live

Muse, Drone tours in Paris, it was amazing

Never went to a concert. Sigh 😔

Nine Inch Nails. Pure intensity.

Bruce Springsteen

amazingly talented