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[DaeguKid]

What show made you go "WOW!"

I got three....August '93 just before i went away to Uni. Exhibition Stadium during the CNE in Toronto (where the Jays used to play). A band I had never heard at the time opened up, Blues Traveller. WOW. Followed by a double dose of Seattle content, Soundgarden and then Pearl Jam. The best part was during the set break between the two, about 50 folks rushed the gate on to the floor...security chased them, so no one was watching the fans in the stands. EVERYONE JUMPED DOWN...so my buddy and I ended up right in front of Pearl Jam just before they came on. It was between Ten and Animal and they were cooking. And to cap off the amazing day, Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Ears were sore after that night.

2) Big Sugar, December 23rd 1994. Barrymores in Ottawa. It was a last minute gig announced. Heard alot about them, yet to see...they didnt dissapoint me at all...If you never heard of them check em out. They are extremely loud. Download 500 pounds. One of the best Canadian rock CDs every produced IMO.

3) Grateful Dead, August 1st, Jerrys Birthday. Auburn Hills where the Pistons play. WOW! That is all I can say...alot of haziness, but remember going no shoes, shirt off getting down about 20 rows back from Phil's side on the floor.

Anyhow, let me know what your favorite concert was and why. Im super curious as im a big fan of live shows and in Korea we are deprived. Love to hear from ya
DK

[otis]

Jethro Tull.

[Nowhere Man]

The Tibetan Freedom Concert, 1996:

[spliff]

Pink Floyd, Animals tour...awesome, there were floating animals seemed to appear from everywhere (they were on a track on the ceiling) and the band played mostly in the dark..such a trip, joints were passed the entire show! Saw it at Madison square garden and went down to Phillie to see them again at the spectrum. It was so loud shit was falling from the roof!

Another one that was excellent was Queen!

They were back in the late 70's when I was in high school.

[tiger fancini]

Tough one to call....

Seeing (well, hearing really) Jah Shaka's sound system for the first time totally blew my mind, and eardrums too!
Damian Marley's show in Birmingham in April 2006 was also very very good.

[RACETRAITOR]

The Slackers in Seoul, March 30 and 31st, 2007.

Oh wait, they haven't happened yet...

[Woland]

I am worried by the fact that Otis and I like the same band. And while the Jethros put on a good show, I wouldn't pick any of their concerts I've been as the best I've ever been to. I was at the Replacements concert in Grant Park as well, but that doesn't make it either. Elvis Costello on his first American tour (Triangle Theater, Rochester NY) doesn't make it.

The winner is: Warren Zevon in his first sober concert ever (a point he mentioned that night), the opening show of the The Dog Ate the Part We Didn't Like tour, at Michigan State University in 1980. The man was ripping it up, bouncing all over the stage with energy, glad, I'm sure, to be done with rehab, alive, and back out performing again. He made his music sound great that night.

[coolsage]

Victoria, BC, 1989. Lucinda Williams opening for the Cowboy Junkies. Margo Timmins, I want to bear your children.

[Ginormousaurus]

Tool in Calgary last August.

I really wanted to see them when they came to Korea, but I had already bought a plane ticket to go to Canada and couldn't make it to their show. After I arrived in Canada, I noticed that they added a couple extra dates to their tour and one of them was Calgary. I guess I was meant to see the show.

It was the most visually stunning concert I have ever been to (it just might be possible that the LSD was responsible for that). I saw them a few years ago, but this show blew away the previous one. I guess it also helps that I became a much bigger Tool fan since that first concert. Regardless, it was amazing.

[dog_disco]

...Fugazi, when they played my hometown in '98.

[Kenny Kimchee]

3rd best: Bob Mould, Showbox, Seattle, late 90's

I saw this show when I was smack in the middle of a huge Husker Du/Sugar/Bob Mould binge. Bob played solo acoustic; many were the goosebump moments.

2nd best: Bauhaus, Paramount Theatre, Seattle, late 90's

I was a huge Bauhaus fan in high school and would have never thought I'd ever see them, so when they announced these shows I jumped on it and bought tickets for both nights. They were getting on in years, but fortunately Peter Murphy sang in a deep voice back in the day and was still able to nail it. The funniest part was seeing all the 20 and 30-somethings playing goth dress-up one more time.

Best show: Jane's Addiction, Centerstage Theatre, Atlanta, 1990 (?)

I had worn out Nothing's Shocking while I was in high school. Ritual had just come out but "Stop" hadn't hit it as a single yet, so they were still under the radar and playing in a small-ish venue. I was 19 and had just gotten sober, so this was the first concert I'd attended sober since I was 15. It was transcendent. This was also the night I met the only girl I've ever loved - a beautiful 17 year-old Puerto Rican who had great taste in music and read Camus (she was also crazy as a shithouse rat and would later break my heart into a thousand pieces, rendering me unable to love a woman again). Despite this, it was a great show

[Qinella]

Best show was when I saw Godspeed You Black Emperor with Bardo Pond in Atlanta. Their live show is a thousand times better than their recorded music. Plus, I had eaten about 4 tabs a bit before the show, making it incredibly intense.

[Young FRANKenstein]

1) Buffalo Auditorium, The Who, for the first or second of their "last concert EVAR~!" (can't remember when it was...'78?)

2) Toronto CNE Stadium, David Bowie (Glass Spider Tour), opening acts: Northern Pikes and Duran Duran

3) Carleton University, Toronto, in one of the residence parties The Razorbacks played some DAMN good Rockabilly/Swing

4) any and all Sarah McLachlan concerts I have seen and will see... she has a thing for drummers, I drum, perfect!

[DaeguKid]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Dylan in the early winter of '74. While "Like a Rolling Stone" had always been a great song, it took on a whole other layer of meaning in the middle of Watergate.