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    Best live music show?

    Since the movie thread seems to have gotten people's attention (thank you Jdark34) let's try a new question..

    What's the best large or small venue music act you've seen?

    I've got a few, but keep coming back to one.

    In 1985, I worked part time as a stagehand in Champaign, IL, and one of the jobs I did was the first FarmAid, held at the University of Illinois football stadium.

    With the stagehand pass, we had mostly unlimited access to the stadium, so I was able to be at stage level for Willie Nelson and Don Henley, but also got to catch a few acts from the field, including Billy Joel, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash all on the same ticket. A younger Tom Petty and John Mellancamp were also there...

    Getting paid for the show was icing on the cake. I would have done that show for free had I realized the full lineup in advance. Acts just kept showing up....
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    #2
    i went to a concert in boxili mississppi with my dad and brother to see the grandfunk railroad that was back in 2012

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      #3
      They Might Be Giants is my current favorite, I saw them on their most recent tour, first show of it actually. I absolutely love it when bands perform in tiny venues, it makes the concert feel way more "personal", and a little bit more relatable. They actually memorized one of their songs completely sonically backwards, lyrics and instruments, record it live, and then after the intermission they play it in reverse so the song sounds forwards again. They also use a stick as percussion in one of their songs, they put a board with a mic attatched under and smack the stick on it, it creates a sound kind of like a guitar being thrown at a wall. Not to mention a section of a few horns and a sax, an accordion, synth, they really utilize a lot of different instruments.

      My second favorite has to be Oliver Tree. Me and a few of my buddies saw him when he was still relatively new, so we got to see him in a different small venue. It was actually after he broke his leg filming a music video, so he was wheeling around the stage in a wheelchair and cast, but he still put on an insane show. Honorable mention to Sublime with Rome, I've seen them 3 times on their yearly tour, and they put on a small music festival with how many openers they usually bring along, and it's always funny watching this fog of pot smoke descend over the crowd shortly after the show starts.

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      Last edited by ngc427; 07-18-2024, 12:06.

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        #4
        A friend of mine had a corporate box at the Rosemont Horizon right next to the stage were I saw Bob Seger and another time Mellencamp. Both shows were amazing as the artist was sometimes 15' away. But I think the best show was Chicago's own Styx at that dump the Ampitheater for the Cornerstone tour in 1979
        Kevin Kelleher

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          #5
          Winter 1980. Sha-Na-Na live at Madison Square Garden.
          On the same night, the USA hockey team defeted the USSR at the Lake Placid Olympics.
          The band had taken an intermission when the score went up on the scoreboard - and the Garden went absolutely nuts!

          Unforgettable.

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            #6
            Hi Folks,

            Naval Base Groton CT - open to the public - The Hooters - late 80's - - - had a cute little blond girl who couldn't see well while standing up front - she sat on my shoulders for much of the concert - I'm 6'5" - she chose well.
            😉

            Regards,
            Scott
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              #7
              By far the best show I've ever seen was Queen, August 30 1980 at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. Nobody did a show like Freddy Mercury.

              Best free concert was the time I walked in to an Iron Maiden show at Downsview Park and watched from back stage. I was working at the aerospace museum there. I was dressed in business casual and wearing my work ID tag. Saw them setting up and just walked in the gate. Security took a quick glance at my ID, and waved me through.

              Saw P!nk last summer. She does an amazing show. Even if you don't like her music, the performance is stunning.

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                #8
                Shows, in chronoogical order, not order of preference......Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Chicago.
                All in Sydney except Chicago, which I saw in Canberra.

                Live music acts/artists..... no order, just from memory.......Gene Pitney (3 months before he died, in fact), Dudley Moore and umpteen Aussie artists over the years, many of who became known internationally (such as the Bee Gees, Seekers).
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                  #9
                  Honestly, Rammstein put on a really fantastic show when I saw them in Foxboro Stadium of 2022. First time I saw them live, and it was absolutely worth the two year wait.

                  Slayer also put on a really good show for their final... "Final" tour, with Anthrax, Lamb of God, and another band I am apparently forgetting at the moment..
                  -Shawn K-
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                    #10
                    I've been privileged to attend a lot of good concerts over the years. Just a few of the best: The Boston Pops July 4 concert, which I went to a few times in the 1970s or 80s; Carole King in Boston, also in the 70s or 80s; the Oak Ridge Boys and the Judds in New York in the 80s; and Dec. 2023, the award-winning Lansdowne (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra at Upper Darby (Pa.) High School, with more than a hundred choir members from the high school and a few student musicians playing with the orchestra.
                    Steve Dunham
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                      #11
                      I'm not an avid concert-goer, but Bob Dylan's concerts just pre-COVID were outstanding. Back in the day, Pink Floyd- oh, wow.

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                        #12
                        I had a teenagers dream job (1979-1981) selling merchandise; shirts/sweatshirts/hats at concerts - outside. I got to drive a van with a crew of shlubs, and we'd follow the big name tours around the country. Boss frequently got us tickets and backstage passes. Saw most every iconic Rock/Pop/Soul/Funk band of the 60's and 70's at both indoor and outdoor venues. Too many to rate, but if you are keen on that era of music, I'm sure you can appreciate it. Made tons of cash, partied like hell, got chased by Biker dudes (Nugents roadies), thrown in jail for breaking copyright laws......and am alive to talk about it!
                        Neil

                        Chicago Railroading Fan

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                          #13
                          Best concert I have attended was Stevie Ray Vaughn at the shoreline amphitheater in 1990. I was in the USN stationed at NAS Lemoore at the time and it was scheduled to be Dr John and Joe Cocker as opening acts. Stevie had just finished his tour with Jeff Beck and after playing for over an hour when he came back out to do an encore show both Jeff beck and Carlos Santana had shown up to see him and he convinced them to come and jam out on stage with him. The oncore ended up lasting almost another hour and the concert went past midnight.

                          the most Iconic concert was my very first, which I attended with my mother because her sister was unable to attend. and that was Elvis Presley when he came to McArthur Court​ (the old one not the new one) in Eugene Or.

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                            #14
                            When I was in the Air Force stationed in Cheyenne. 3 concerts in Red Rocks Colo. Chicago, Beach Boys, & John Denver. I also saw the Beach Boys again at the old King Dome in Seattle. Awesome.

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                              #15
                              2002 - Neil Diamond - NY Nassau Coliseum - A non-stop performance of nearly 3 hours of his hits. With post 9-11 security concerns the arena was keeping fans from getting close to the stage. When a number of ladies tried to get close and security stopped them, Neil waved them to the stage, given each a handshake. Thought that was awesome given the security concerns at the time.
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