What were some concert events you attended

[OldSchoolWrestling 0]

KISS Reunion Tour-Fleetcenter in Boston, 1996. Went there with my cousin and had floor seats, center stage vicinity, 7 rows back. Between the music and the energy they put forth in that concert, it was a blast.

 

Freestyle Rush Tour 2003-Just a few weeks back. To say I'm a big fan of freestyle music is an understatement. To this day it eats up about 80% of my playlist, and I'm always looking for more of it to add. Growing up, my cousin was a backup performer (vocals, dancing) for Stevie B., one of the major freestyle artists who crossed over and had quite a few Top 40 hits in the late 80's-mid 90's. So the lineup included Stevie B., TKA, K7 (who is one of the TKA guys, but had a smash single in the mid 90's with "Come Baby Come"), George Lamond, Lisa Lisa, Coro, and Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock. The venue was the Providence Performing Arts Center, which is by no means a small place. I went there with a friend of mine and my cousins, and this had to be the best concert experience EVER. The place was sold out, packed to teh rafters, and every single act kept the energy flowing, to the point where not ONE PERSON was sitting down. Instead they were dancing, singing, even filling up the aisles and being allowed up on the stage to dance with the artists at various points. Just a tremendous scene.

 

BTW, OldSchool, you saw The Cover Girls and BBD? You have no idea how much I envy you right now.

I envy you right back since you got to see Lisa Lisa. I just recently started listening to her 80's stuff again. And she had quite the funky mullett in her time. Rob Base and EZ Rock's "It Takes Two" is one of the greatest rap songs of all time. And Stevie Fucking B was the man. He didn't get enough credit for his shit because he was ugly, but the man had some awesome songs.

[King Kamala 0]

October 31st 1999- Weird Al Yankovic. After the Jewel wannabe opening act silenced the crowd (I still don't know why she was on the bill). Weird Al Yankovic came on and blew the roof off the place with one of the best stage shows I've ever seen- the man had more costume changes than frikking Cher. And this whole concert was in a small 1500 seat porno theater turned concert hall.

 

 

November 7th 2002- SR-71 and the Exies. Not for the actual concert mind you (Which was surprisingly decent) but the whole experience. A 50 something year old hanging out with the teenage girls at the front( And he wasn't security) and later punching out a teenage mosher mosher. SR-71 entering through the crowd and nobody noticing. And me elbowing the bass player for the Matchbox 20 ripoff that started the show.

 

June 28th 2003- Paul Rodgers and Kansas. The show started off with a cover band that's only redeeming quality was a frontman that was a dead ringer for Sam Kinison. Kansas shocked the hell out of me and actually ended up half decent. Paul Rodgers had the crowd on their feet playing hit after hit (The man knows how to play a nostalgia concert)

 

September 3rd 2003- ZZ Top and Ted Nugent. Two top notch live acts on one kick ass bill. Ted Nugent kept the red necks rolling with his extremely conservative mid song banter and kept the rest of us on our feet by rocking the fuck out (Boy I sound like Metal Ed). While ZZ Top played hit after hit, sounding exactly like the album (Which is a good thing in this case).

[spiny norman 0]

Last night I saw Prince live. Absolutely awesome. He started 90 minutes late, but the crowd was *hot* and Prince just lapped it all up and gave us a great show where everyone just really enjoyed themselves. It didn't have the flashiness of Prince's concerts in the past, but his band was so well-oiled and the interaction between Prince and the audience was awesome.

 

Also, Tuesday night, performing at the ARIA Awards was awesome. Backstage, you could hear how loud the crowd was and it was extremely nerve-wracking. But once you got out there it was such a high that you forgot the nerves and just wished for this moment to last forever.

[converge241 0]

seeing Queensryche perform "mindcrime" in its entirety (providence civic center Empire tour june 1991 with suicidal)

 

NIN with David Bowie (great woods sept 1995)

 

Powerman 5000's farewell show in boston at the middle east (before they left for california)

 

seeing Korn before the first album came out (at the strand with house of pain, biohazard, gravediggaz 1994)

 

Green day free concert at the hatch shell 1993(?) not a big GD fan but something to be part of

 

seeing the cure twice with no opening act for 3 hours plus (and their BCN xmas show in 97 was cool because thats where they started playing a lot of older stuff again)

 

NIN/jim rose/Manson at boston garden dec 94 last show at the garden (REM/grant lee buffalo was the first at the new garden/fleet center)

 

Ramones on the farewell tour at the strand

 

Pantera/Zombie/deftones/anal cunt at the worcester centrum..just an over the top experience..to think that zombies intense audio visual overload could be followed up by pantera and a wall of amps

 

bon jovi/skid row june 11 1989 prov civic center..hey my first show

 

2 concerts att he same place that have a connection

Nirvana/Breeder/Half Japaneese

and

Pantera/crowbar

both at Fitchburg State

 

significant for the fact that pantera was the second show i saw at that arena..on the day they discovered kurt's body..just eerie to hear all the nirvana songs and stories before and after when last time we were there (same group of people) we saw him play live

 

the first touring ozzfest (second overall)

pantera, type o, fear factory, machine head, PM5K all together and sabbath..plus phil playing with type o on "kill all the white people"

 

then there like a whole list of "seeing x band before they hit it big" mostly local guys who blew up like staind, godsmack etc and people who opened up for another act then hit it big

[converge241 0]

"Seeing Roger Waters do 3+ hours of material in 2000 was my crowning concert achievement. I marked out HARDCORE when he did all 9 parts of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" with old pictures and video footage of Syd Barrett. it was definitely creampantsworthy."

 

damn i almost went to that when it hit providence..thats so friggin cool

 

*curses self*

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

See the Jagermeister Tour thread for my most recent one.

 

Previous to that, I caught Type O and Lacuna Coil. Type O was pretty mindblowing. Mellow crowd overall, but it got vicious during Kill All The White People. That would be sick with Anselmo singing with 'em.

[snuffbox 0]

My first rock show was a pretty cool event. The 'Big Fucking Show' featuring Mudvayne, Hatebreed(both under the radar at the time), Coal Chamber, Sevendust, and Slipknot. It was crazyness.