Whats the best live music show you've been to and one that wasn't the best but still important and why.
Would even like to read about ones that totally sucked.

For me, hands down... Iron Maiden few weeks ago at white river Ampi. To this day they still know how rock is done! you should have seen all the cool costumes bruce put on and all the cool things they did with the stage...its been like two weeks and im still so pumped I might punch some ne in the face.

And then there was Atmosphere at the showbox Seattle.
My brother in-law, my sister, and me got smashed off three doller PBR and watched as slug did a hard rock version of shrapnal...it was amazing!

I love jam bands. Allman Brothers, Blues Traveller, Phish, etc. I'd really like to see Umphrey's McGee.

I think the best concert I've been to would have to be Santana with Jeff Beck opening. Amazing.

I am not a huge fan of Santana but I can see where they would put on one damn fine show.

Best show ever? Manu Chao with an oppening by Gogol Bordello... the power of punk is amazing, and Elijah Wood was there, right next to me.

Most meaningful Concert ever? Mago de Oz, each and every one of their songs is designed to have a message, and the fact that they also make a story when played in a certain order is just... wow.

Total Suckage? Seis Pistos, they sound pretty good on CD, but they just can't keep up eith each other when playing live, the base was always ahead of everyone else, the drums kept breaking the rythm, the guitar was completely out of tune, and the vocalist kept loosing his breath in the middle of one of his signature long-winded raps. It pretty much reeked all the way trhough, we left on the fourth song.

I prefer dead music. Much quieter.

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*snerks*

Not lez out but the BEST live show I ever went to was an Indigo Girls show. It was a bare bones show in a smaller setting. The IGs were the only ones on stage, just them and their guitars and the audience. Freaking amazing. The audience participated and the mood was just light and happy.

I've been to numerous concerts at Wolf Trap in Virginia and the Nissan Pavilion there but none of them came close to this one. Even the Dave Mathews Band. Although the cloud of pot smoke that rose from that concert certainly was happy.

I do have to say I enjoyed seeing the Mikado. I know it isn't a band but the performances were FABULOUS and sitting on the lawn with a picnic dinner and a bottle of wine was fun.

I insist that Colorado has the most amazing concert venue in the U.S., if you don't believe me google the Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

Red Rocks is the cream of the crop. But I'm an East Coast gal. So I'll take my Wolf Trap happily! Although if I ever do get out that way I would try and get tickets to see SOMETHING. But ticket prices aren't exactly in line with my view of most musical acts. Which is that I like them but I won't pay $80 to see them.

Thats about how much I paid to see Maiden but It had to be done, most of the songs they played where written before I was even born. who knows if ill get another chance to see them live.

My only regret is not shelling out the greenbacks to see the Police live...that show must have been amazing.

I kind of enjoyed a Robbie Williams concert I went to. I gather it was one of his better performances being it was the final encore show in the last city of the last country of his some-years world tour and it made Australian records for a crowd at a non-sports event but it was still pleasant enough.

Of course, I did spend a good part of my time there deliberately trying to keep separate from the group mentality. I don't often find losing myself to be a pleasant experience.

This year doesn't look that good for Red Rocks... but the previous two years were pretty awesome. The furthest I've travelled just to go to a concert was Mago de Oz, from Aspen Valley to Monterrey in Mexico... but it was worth it.

the best live shows i saw in the past 6 months would have to be the smashing pumpkins, the gin blossoms and live

the pumpkins seriously rocked out the show for like 3 hours. it was insane. and i was extatic because they were back together and i got to see them live!

the gin blossoms are an amazing live show. they are very audience interactive and play all of their hit songs. another band i was so happy to see back together.

live was insane! the venue was really small and they just rocked the room. they played all of my favorite songs and did two encores. ed even took off his shirt and made me happy!

man those were good shows. :-D

Went to Clapton's Crossroads Festival last July, rocked out there for the entire twelve-hour show, AND I got to try out a stell pedal guitar. That would have been badass in and of itself, but as I was finishing up Robert Randolph himself said I sounded good.

... I'm now a fanboy.

Family Values 99 in St. Louis, talk about a weird city. All of the people for the concert were put on two floors of the hotel, which was right across the street from the F.B.I. headquarters. It still didn't stop people from partying in the hallways after the show, and having what amounted to an open house for those two floors.

Had to walk from the hotel to get cigarettes, because the delivery guy only remembered the pizza, and liquor when he finally showed up and then the next day when we were sober we discovered we had paid for, and taken someone elses order(our own never arrived). Walking down to the lobby we were told if we had a gun to bring it(and we did), because the street we walked up had nice high fences, bmw, and mercedes cars on the other side of the fencing along with nice looking buildings.

Look across the street though and it was abandoned buildings with busted windows, a car up on blocks, some crazy guy in the road yelling "Hey!" to no one in particular, etc. It was a sudden drastic change, on the way back from spending $6 dollars for cigarettes we were shadowed by a couple of people on the next street over so we picked up the pace and slipped through the chainlink fence seperating the off ramp from the hotel.

Plus I won a bet, I wondered on the price to go up in the arch and it was argued the arch had no interior elevators taking people up. Sure enough though it has a custom elevator system, and I won $15 dollars(which I didn't waste going up in the overpriced elevator).

Meh, only live conert that came here and i actually wanted to go was "Jarabe de Palo"...love their music!!
But that was just an island in a sea of salsa and reggaeton festivals oh well, maybe one day Weird Al Yankovic will bless us with his prescence and cast the darkness away seriously though, though not a metal or heavy rock fan, ive always wanted to go to a lead zeppelin or limp bisquit thing...oh well one can dream...
*walks away singing "Bonito"*

Jarabe de Palo is awesome. I went to an Enanitos Verdes and Cafe Tacuba concert in Denver... it was the very definition of PWN

Living in the middle of nowhere, I haven't been to as many concerts as I wish I had, but the most meaningful concert is still vivid to me, after more or less exactly a year.

Where I live, you get to know the details of your exam two days before the actual exam, and you're supposed to spend that time preparing a presentation or something. Well, I spent those two days traveling and going to an Evanescence concert. That was wonderful. They performed almost the entire Fallen album, even though it was a The Open Door tour. Sigh. I screamed my voice out and didn't notice until I was trying to tell the guy selling merch I wanted a shirt. Embarrassing Good times.

Verb reads music sheets

I have never seen music live, other than in a small jazz bar in Leeds. Is it fun? I have heard good things but that is mainly from people who have also enjoyed a large amount of hash at the same event.

'tis great! The mood, the music... There's not much that compares to a good concert.

the only live concert that I've ever been too is a Wierd Al one...

I've never been to one. I'm not huge on music, and don't have a lot of cash laying around, so it make sense. Still, i've wondered what being at a live show of anyone would be like.

I love live concerts, and try to go to at least three a year. Personally, i seem to go to a lot more of the classic rock ones too, which is weird due to the fact that im more of a metal/alternative sort of guy.

Best concert I saw was the Chronicles of the Black Sword concert at Magic Mountain. There was a harvest moon and they used lasers to make it look like it was bleeding.