What Concerts Have You Been To?

I've been to hundreds of concerts so I'll just list the most memorable.

Lightning Bolt: I had no idea who they were, the show was $5 and within walking distance so I went. I had seen some great concerts before, but this was the best by far. They are a band that can only be fully appreciated in a live setting, even the live recordings don't capture the intensity of it. The sheer volume of the music coming from these 2 guys is just astounding.

Cramps: Lux Interior climbed on top of a 10 foot high monitor, wrenched the sweat out of his sock into his mouth and drank it.

Subhumans: I had the pleasure of singing a few lines of 'Rats' on stage. I get chills just thinking about it!

Pixies: Seeing them live was a dream come true, and they did not disappoint.

Superchunk: My band opened for them. They were great but being a part of it made it very special for me.

Paul Revere & The Raiders: This was in the 90s, well after their prime in the 60s and they played in what felt like a large bingo hall with bleachers. Regardless, they seriously rocked and my girlfriend gave me a BJ while they played 'Kicks'. It doesn't get much better than that!

BQ: I don't know about best ever, but for me it is Lightning Bolt.

BQ2: Jazz, because it is by nature improvisational. I think that a lot of people that hate jazz would reconsider once they have seen it live.

Opeth

Enslaved

The Black Dahlia Murder (x3)

Behemoth

Cannibal Corpse

Slayer

Trap Them (x2)

Skeletonwitch

Russian Circles (x2)

Helms Alee (x2)

Young Widows

Lazarus AD

Blackguard

Ensiferum

High on Fire (x2)

Converge (x2)

Mastodon

Dethklok

Enfold Darkness

Suffokate

Beneath the Massacre

Dying Fetus

The Faceless

Within The Ruins

Blue Cranes (x2)

Elders (x4)

Hatesphere

Augury

Obscura

Caspian

Arms and Sleepers

Eluveitie

Amon Amarth

Fear Factory

Animals as Leaders

Light This City (last show ever)

Darkest Hour

Lori Goldstein

Wolves in the Throne Room

Earth

Oxbow (acoustic set)

Fang Island

Red Sparowes (x2)

The Twilight Sad

Mono

Clipd Beaks

F*ck Buttons

Coalesce

Touché Amoré (x2)

Black Breath

Good Luck

Jakob

Tombs

Isis (farewell tour)

Necrite

Cyanic

Cormorant

Woods of Ypres

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine

Tool

Rosetta

City of Ships

Strike Justice

Litany for the Whale

Not To Reason Why

Dysrhythmia

Intronaut

Cynic

Zach Zeller

Clouds On Strings

Boris

Silian Rail

Judgement Day

From Monument to Masses (last show ever)

Tera Melos

Religious Girls

Carson McWhirter (acoustic set)

So Stressed

Kylesa

Torche

La Dispute

Loma Prieta

A Lot Like Birds

Early and Often (x2)

Journal

Keelhaul

Call Me Lightning

Every Time I Die

Howl

Summit

Converge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw80VU8Z7HQ

Russian Circles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKK1xq2h1Lc

Touché Amoré:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUoBsnbaApk

Isis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4eMPqS7Cc

BQ: My favorite performance was Arms and Sleepers, followed by Converge, the second time

BQ2: Hardcore, perhaps

Well my first concert ever was Elton John in 1992 and I loved it. My mother had to go with me.

Then Paul Mc Cartney and the rolling stones in their 1993's tours. Off the ground and Voodo lounge

Then Michael Jackson Dangerous tour. Surprisingly I din't find this show as good as the Voodo Lounge tour. Guess he went through technical problems. Sadly and it's one of the regrets I'll have forever I couldn't attend the Pink Floyd gig that same year.I also missed the Guns and roses and the metallica concerts :(

In 1997 I went to Rolling stones again this time their tour was Bridges to Babylon. Then u2's Pop mart.

In 2002 Mc cartney was touring again so I went. Then in 2006 The rolling stones a bigger band tour and U2 vertigo tour. In 2007 Rod Stewart (awful! He didn't prepare physically for his tour and kept losing his breath)IThen the police , then a latin band called Soda stereo (amazing) . The Armin van buuren and DJ tiesto.

I was in Paul Mc Cartney's and ACDC concerts this year and kelly rowland and Kylie Minogue at Starfloor. Only four songs but Kelly Rowland totally killed it! Kylie was great too but not as I was expecting.

Based on what I've seen I would say that ACDC is better live it was hard to choose between them and THe rolling stones but they are my second place and u2 vertigo tour comes 3rd

The genre that benefits the most from being played live is Rock.

Radiohead

Opeth (x2)

Mastodon (x2)

Gojira

Isis

Nevermore

Obscura

Nile

Devin Townsend

Carcass

Pelican

Machine Head

The Ocean Collective

Cynic

The Young Gods

Swallow The Sun

John Garcia Plays Kyuss

Yawning Man

Dillinger Escape Plan

Porcupine Tree

Biffy Clyro

Swans

Godflesh

The Faceless

Between The Buried And Me

Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival 2010 Phoenix, AZ

Main Stage:

1) Five Finger Death Punch

2) Lamb of God

3) Rob Zombie

4) Korn

Silver Star Stage:

1) 3 Inches of Blood

2) Norma Jean

3) Atreyu

4) Winds of Plauge

Jagermeister Stage:

1) In This Moment

2) Shadows Fall

3) Chimara

4) Hatebreed

BQ: Korn

BQ2: Metal

Concerts I've been to:

1. New Found Glory/Senses Fail - Nov. 2007 The Fillmore San Francisco

no footage

2. Queens of the Stone Age - Dec 2007 The Warfield San Francisco

Make it wit chu- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqzDimY9MgQ

3. Jimmy Eat World/Paramore - April 2008 San Jose State Event Center

The Middle- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QA136WqUgQ

Let The Flames Begin- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg81zi0pheg

4. SlipKnoT/Trivium/Coheed and Cambria - March 2009 Arco Arena Sacramento

Surfacing- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Nv7dn16EU

5. Green Day/Franz Ferdinand - Aug 2009 HP Pavilion San Jose

21 Guns- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf_MPQVtuIE&feature...

6. SlipKnoT/Deftones - Oct 2009 San Jose State Event Cente

(SIC)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjq4BomRGWc&feature...

7. Dethklok/Mastadon - Nov 2009 San Jose State Event Center

Hatredcopter- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-b2C_fA0N8

8. New Found Glory - March 2010 Regency Ballroom San Francisco

My Friends Over You-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boH2ta-CV0Q

9. Summer Slaughter Tour 2010 - Aug 2010 The Fillmore San Francisco

Spheres of Madness (Decapitated)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bD5WxM5ZO4

10. Green Day/AFI Sept 2010 - Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View

Intro/21st Century Breakdown- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Ys7F1WLUQ

BQ: Tough question, and I can't really give a straight answer because I haven't seen a lot of people. But in my experiences, Green Day by far has put on the best show. =D

BQ2: Eh, idk lol

Aerosmith

Allman Brothers Band

Alice In Chains

Buckethead

Deftones

Dream Theater

Interpol

Intronaut

Opeth

Prefuse 73

Ratdog

..Were a few of the best.

BQ: Grateful Dead. no doubt.

BQ2: Jam. Just because.. It's experimental and really interesting. They f*ck up alot sometimes, but at least it's not some boring rehearsed bullsh*t.

A LOT. too many to count. I've been going to punk shows and hanging out at punk venues/parties where there's a punk show almost every weekend since I was 15.

BQ: GWAR. not my favorite band, but definitely the funnest band to see live. go to one of their shows and you'll see what i mean.

BQ2: punk and any of its sub genres, or any kind of extreme metal (excluding all that core bull sh*t)

there's so much energy, such small venues, such a cheap budget, yet more fun than any arena show you'll ever go to.

ac/dc

aerosmith & zz top

megadeth x2

slayer

ACL festival which had a shitton of bands

motley crue x2

KISS

slipknot (meh. it was a gift.)

social distortion (just a few nights ago. ohhh so amazing. ♥)

the cult like 4 or 5 times. my dad aaaalways takes me to see them every time they come here. lol.

iron maiden

sublime with rome

vains of jenna

cheap trick, def leppard & poison (mehhh. it was a gift, yet again. cheap trick was alright though)

alice cooper

311 (when i was in my mommy's tummyyy. haha.)

metallica x2

no doubt

& i think that's it?

i'm also going to see ozzy & slash & then nofx in january, which should be lurvelyy.

Cheap Trick

Backstreet Boys

Poison

Styx

Journey

Def Leppard

Trapt

Def Leppard is always the best. seen em 4 times now and don't plan on stopping.