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Best Rock & Roll Concert you have ever seen?
So many......but I’ve got to go with.......Monsters of Rock...... Arrowhead Stadium
Spent the day and night down front center stage. Van Halen Metallica REO Heart Scorpions John Cougar Kingdom Come |
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07-31-2020, 12:10 AM | #2 |
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My top 2 are more 1a and 1b. Eagles Farewell I and History of. Rolling Stones Steel Wheels.
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07-31-2020, 07:50 AM | #4 |
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Five really stand out:
Eagles - Hell Freezes Over, 1994 (Alpine Valley) and 1995 (United Center). Lucky enough to see this show twice. Melissa Etheridge opened for them at Alpine. She was awesome. Lynyrd Skynyrd, 1992 - Monsters of Rock (Alpine Valley). Show also featured Firehouse (good), Damn Yankees (great) and Poison (awful). I'm not a big Skynyrd fan, but **** they were flawless. Cinderella, 2005? - (Tweeter Center, Tinley Park, IL). They were amazing; it was like traveling back in time, except all the 80s fangirls' 2000s bodies were exploding out of their 80s concert outfits. IIRC Warrant opened for them. They put on a good show as well. Cheap Trick - Lap of Luxury, 1989 (Riverside Theater, Milwaukee). That place had amazing acoustics. House of Lords opened for them, and is the best opening act I'd never heard of before. AC/DC, 1998? (Tweeter Center). Far and away the best and most energetic stage show. |
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It was never a concert in a big arena with a well-known band. The most fun, and energetic times were smaller bands in venues that held a few hundred people.
Cowboy Mouth... probably ten times. Drivin' and Cryin' at the Music Farm in Charleston, SC High On Fire at the El Corazon in Seattle Neil Diamond at the Fillmore in SFO Sleater Kinney at The Swiss in Tacoma, WA Just kickass fun times. Random hot chicks on my shoulders, slamming shots with other hot chicks, body surfing, drinking with band members. |
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My three favorites were, the Swimming Pool Q's, Love Tractor and Guandalcanal Diary. GD had won the MTV Basement tapes in '84 and got a recording contract from Electra Records. The other two bands also had recording contracts. Love Tractor was an REM clone but played many songs as instrumentals with no vocals. Once about '85 Love Tractor for an encore was playing a jam and then asked if anyone in the audience could play bass. Some girl said she could, so she came up on stage and they showed her the cords and now she was playing bass. Then they asked about keyboards, and then the guitars and then finally the drums. The drums were last to go because they kept the beat. Night Flite was small, maybe 100 people was the most it could hold. Anyway, the song ended with the band sitting in the audience and people from the audience on stage playing the instruments, most unusual performance I've ever seen. Love Tractor is still around, here they are from 2016. I did see REM in 1985 and they were fantastic. The Swimming Pool Q's put on the best shows. I remember one night, I yelled out Rock N' Roll Hoochie Koo and they broke right into the song, here they are from '85. |
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Hmm....This is a hard one because I have seen so damned many. However, I am going to go out on the proverbial limb and say.......
Transiberian Orchestra I know, I know - it is a cross between classical orchestration, Christmas songs and slamming Rock. The stage show was out of this world. Hell, I put it right up there with Floyd.
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It is a sort of an"acquired" taste...I remember fondly the first time I saw them at Memorial in KCKS. Music starts and builds, and builds, and builds....back then they didn't have much of a "show". Over the years I have seen the "show" go from basically non-existent to what it is today. Damn....12-13 years now? Then I saw the "older folks" (not me obviously ) getting up and walking out..I truly think they came to see a Christmas orchestra by the KC Symphony.....pretty funny.. In all honesty - it has become a Christmas tradition for my family for several years. Hell, we usually buy tickets when they have the fan pre-sale and get the first row or two. We look at it as the beginning of the Holiday season..
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