Good Concert Memories?

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Best show, Pink Floyd, Animals Tour at Soldier Field.

Best Warm up act, Little Stevie Wonder was the warm up for the Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers tour - '71.

Gentle Giant Warmed up for Procal Harum also back in the 70's.

Another surprise from a warm up, Elton John was the warm up for Eric Clapton on Elton's first tour.

I remember Frank Zappa played and gymnasium in Naperville, Il. The crowd was rowdy and the acoustics sucked, so Zappa played the entire show around double speed and left in about 20 minutes. didn't miss one note though.

I've been to over 20 Greatful Dead concerts, but I have to say the best was in Iowa around "75. I only caught 8 hours worth. We were late to arrive and we left early. Not bad for 35 bucks/

Concerts aren't what they used to be.

[qiphlow]

~ That was with Tomas Dolbey, UB40 and Wired right? I was there with my GF. First concert in California. I wonder if I still got the ticket stub anywhere....

close--
the openers were: wire, thomas dolby, and orchestral manouvers in the dark (OMD). that show was legendary.

[Bär]

I caught a Master's class Winton Marsallis did at UNM in '95 or so. It wasn't a concert, but it was fascinating to watch & hear him talk about technique. He did play some with the students so it wasn't just a lecture, and they improved greatly over the class period.

Pink Floyd '88 - The Palace at Auburn Hills/Detroit

[Methods]

Gene Loves Jezebel, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Echo and the Bunnymen at the Greek amphitheatre in Berkly I think in 1986 or 87.
Awesome time, Gean from Gene Loves Jezebel got pulled off the stage and sort of roughed up, laughed my ass off. Siouxsie was the best in all her grand insaneness and Echo came out so drunk he had to apologize that he was forgetting the words, all the while holding a bottle of vodka in his hand taking swig and after swig while bumming a cigarette off a person in the front row - but still did a great rock out 80's style.
Concert was great, good times were had for sure.

[chud]

Here's a list of most of the shows I've been to, I've lost some ticket stubs though so it's not a complete list. I've bolded the ones that were most memorable for me:

Sammy Hagar w/ Night Ranger (2/17/1983, My first concert! Sammy's Three Lock Box tour and Night Ranger's Dawn Patrol tour)
Def Leppard w/ Tesla (11/15/1987)
The Texas Jamm (in Dallas): Boston (first reunion show), Aerosmith, Whitesnake, Poison, Tesla, & Fahrenheit (6/20/1987)
Metallica w/ Armored Saint & Prezence (2/21/1985, Metallica's Ride the Lightning tour with Cliff Burton on bass, R.I.P.)
Metallica w/ Queensryche (2/3/1989, Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime tour)
Metallica (1/27/1992)
Ozzy Osbourne w/ Metallica (5/8/1986, Cliff Burton on bass for Metallica)
Motley Crue (10/6/1985)
Motley Crue (1/13/1990)
The Cult w/ Guns-n-Roses (11/11/1987, right before Guns-n-Roses got big)
Whitesnake (12/2/1987)
Black Sabbath w/ Wasp (4/30/1986)
Yngwie Malmsteen w/ Prezence & Mox Nix (11/10/1986)
Rush w/ The Steve Morse Band (1/18/1986)
Rush w/ Tommy Shaw (1/30/1988)
Rush (12/2/1996)
Twisted Sister w/ Dokken (2/9/1986)
Dio w/ Megadeth & Savatage (2/5/1988, Megadeth blew the circuit breakers that night, Savatage had the mighty Criss Oliva on guitar, R.I.P.)
Megadeth (8/16/1995, damn they were good...)
Pink Floyd (11/20/1987, minus Roger Waters unfortunately...)
Roger Waters (9/14/1987, The Radio Kaos tour)
Kiss w/ Queensryche (1/26/1985, Queensryche's Warning tour)
Queensryche (date?), Rage for Order tour
Kiss w/ Black-n-Blue (12/8/1985)
AC-DC w/ Fastway (10/29/1983)
AC-DC w/ Yngwie Malmsteen (10/13/1985)
AC-DC (1/27/1996)
Iron Maiden w/ Wasp (3/1/1985) I skipped out of school and drove to Waco, of all places, to see this show
Iron Maiden w/ The Vinnie Vincent Invasion (1/23/1987)
Ratt w/ Bon Jovi (7/27/1985)
Ratt w/ Twisted Sister & Mama's Boys (1984 or so, this was a damn good show)
Triumph w/ Molly Hatchet (2/15/1985) Wave of pot smoke rolled through the auditorium when Molly Hatchet's set started
Triumph w/ Saxon (11/15/1986)
Judas Priest w/ Dokken (6/22/1986)
Judas Priest w/ Budgie (8/2/2002, JP with Ripper Owens...Budgie put on a great set)
Exodus w/ Celtic Frost (11/27/1987)
Helstar w/ The Legacy (date?)
Anthrax w/ Metal Church & DRI (7/12/?)
Pantera (11/29/1991)
Celtic Frost w/ Voivod & Watchtower (date?) at Liberty Lunch in Austin
G.B.H. (date?) at Liberty Lunch. I was thrown out of this show.
Robin Trower (1986)
Scorpions (6/8/1991)
Pat Travers (7/3/?)
Stevie Ray Vaughan w/ Jeff Beck (11/26/1989, This was a great show, R.I.P. Stevie)
David Lee Roth w/ Cinderella (11/26/1996)
Metal Church (11/12/1986)
Lynch Mob (8/25/1992)
Yes (2/22/1988) Big Generator tour
Rod Stewart (7/24/1988) with my ex-girlfriend
The B-52's w/ The Violent Femmes (10/8/1992)
Skatenigs (2/12/1993)
Journey w/ Glass Tiger (12/12/1986)
Santana (6/3/1995)
George Strait Country Music Festival (9/5/1993) first date with my wife
George Strait Country Music Festival (9/1/1996)
Sade (9/14/1993)
Saxon w/ The Killer Dwarfs, Fates Warning, & Omen (3/14/1987)
Robert Earl Keen (12/23/1998, and several other times)
Shiner Bocktoberfest (Robert Earl Keen, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Ian Moore, etc - 10/19/1996)
Gwar w/ Agony Column (2/24/1990) This show was at Liberty Lunch in Austin
Slayer w/ Testament (?)
BB King (2/23/1997)
Michael McDonald & The Houston Symphony (7/6/2002)
Glenn Hughes (2/26/1999, the greatest vocalist in rock!)
Tina Turner w/ Lionel Ritchie (4/21/2000)
Poison w/ Cinderella (6/1/2002)
Kreator (date?)
Budgie, Moxy, & Michael Schenker Group (2004)
Wayne Newton at the Stardust in Las Vegas (May 2004)
Ozzfest 2004 (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Slayer, Dimmu Borgir, Superjoint Ritual)
Van Halen (reunion show a couple of years ago)

And many more (I've lost a lot of my ticket stubs...)

[Chris Fleming]

In my younger days (LOL) we would go to Anti-Flag shows before they went and got popular. On two different occasions I did a stage dive.

Saw one of the last shows done by the Misfits before everyone went their own ways. At the end of the show Dr. Chud tossed one of his drum sticks into the crowd and I caught it! Still have it. Great show. GWAR played before them and that's always interesting. One of their props was shooting fake blood into the crowd and I caught a direct hit to the face, so I was in the show for the Misfits looking the part well.

Had a good time at a Wu Tang Clan show too. Was just standing around waiting for them to come on and people were coming up to me asking me questions, thinking I was the club owner.

[jwalker]

chud's list is great, love tina turner sneaking in there. the rest of you are a bunch of dinasaurs because most concerts involve drinking, they've all been good. starting from 95

pearljam
soundgarden
BDO feat NIN and Atari Teenage Riot
David Bowie
Rod Stewart
The Strokes
Franz Ferdinand
BDO feat White Stripes
Joe Cocker
NIN
Lostprophets feat KIGH

think i'm forgetting some but w/e

going to see this year stereophonics and pearl jam, just missed fear factory which sucks

wish i could see but never will

life of agony
nirvana
the doors

[meeks]

Chud - I think you and I would have been best friends back in high school...

Vancouver:
Judas Priest - defenders of the faith - 1984
Iron Maiden/Twisted Sister - powerslave 1984
Motley Crue 1985
Judas Priest/Bon Jovi - turbo lover 1986

Phoenix:
David Lee Roth/Yngvie Malmsteen (spelling?) 1986
Queensryche 1987 (lip synching)
Cinderella - opened up for someone, can't recall who... 1987 - most likely Bon Jovi
Iron Maiden - somewhere in time tour

Vancouver:
Judas Priest/Megadeth -1992? Hallowe'en night
AC/DC
Motley Crue Dr feelgood
Aerosmith/skid row 1991?
Peter Gabriel - wow...
Elton John - wow...
Judas Priest Nostradamus tour (recently)
ACDC (last year)

probably a handful more - I know I've seen iron maiden 3x and there were a few beach concerts at the wave pool in Mesa/Tempe in '87 and '89 I went to...

also worked in a bar from 88-92 and met metallica, acdc, aerosmith, partied with Bad Company (bunch of cokeheads) at their hotel. Got a hummer from Lita Ford that night so it's all good.

[chud]

Good times man!

[chud]

GWAR played before them and that's always interesting. One of their props was shooting fake blood into the crowd and I caught a direct hit to the face, so I was in the show for the Misfits looking the part well.

Yes, Gwar was an experience to see live.

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Cool thread. Here's a few that I remember.

1. The Police, Synchronicity Tour. My first concert, and probably best one in my mind.
2. Amnesty International, Atlanta show. Police did a brief few songs. U2 was good.
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers in Philadelphia - people wrecked the chairs so it had to end early, which somehow seemed appropriate.
4. Sonny Rollins in Philadelphia - unbelievable.
5. Fishbone in Philadelphia.
6. The Police reunion in 2007 in Seattle.
7. Madonna at MCI Center in DC. Great show, not as rocking as the above.
8. SRV at Red Rocks.
9. Various Grateful Dead shows. Not as great as the above. Just the overall experience of these shows was something else.
10. Various U2 shows. Always pretty good.

[fisherman]

I am jealous about some of the shows I am seeing people post here.

I really wish I could have caught the Police when they went through on their reunion tour.

[Michael]

I really wish I could have caught the Police

In Soviet Russia, The Police catch you.

[chud]

[fisherman]

I really wish I could have caught the Police

In Soviet Russia, The Police catch you.