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I went out to visit my friend at West Virginia University, and 311 gave a free concert. It was standing room only, and I was about 20 feet from the stage. They gave an excellent concert.
What was the greatest Music Gig you have been to?
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Drewcifer
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I saw a band that probably nobody has ever heard of here called the Dog Faced Hermans in 1992 or '93, I think they were from Amsterdam. I saw them at the Uptown Bar in Minneapolis. It was a small place but packed to the rafters. They were definitely punk influenced but played a style of music that was almost indescribable, maybe like the Gang of Four jamming with Dick Dale and Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass. Easily the tightest band I have ever seen. They were absolutely scintilating that night and must have played 7 or 8 encores.
Second best was seeing the Melvins play at a houseparty in Minneapolis before they were well known, maybe 1990 or so. They played a beautiful endless verion of Eye Flies. The Melvins are very nice people.
Second best was seeing the Melvins play at a houseparty in Minneapolis before they were well known, maybe 1990 or so. They played a beautiful endless verion of Eye Flies. The Melvins are very nice people.
Mescalhead
Vincebus Eruptum
If that happened 9 years before that would be awesome, even though Slayer started sucking in '88. Although I would leave when Iron Maiden took the stage.
funxus
Orange Cycloptic Blob
The greatest concert I've been to probably is Bruce Springsteen this summer in Gothenburg, even if I'm not a huge fan.
MightyPunkass
The Burninator!
Well...I see The Damned in precisely 7 hours, when I've recovered, I'll give you a review
MightyPunkass
The Burninator!
I promised my review, and here it is.
Headline Band: The Damned
Support: oioioi (yabastards) & T.B Announced
Venue: Torquay Town Hall
Having waited around 15 minutes outside, we got inside and T.B Announced, a local Sum 41-esque had already started playing, the first moshpit of the night flared up as the place was starting to fill, all of us around 16 to 19. About 3 songs in, we all got our asses kicked by a 6ft+ Punk with a Mohawk, I've never had so much fun having my head kicked in.
Oioioi were up next. Christ, they ruled. They did everything, from Hardcore punk to Skacore...we all got in a circle and skanked for one song to the amusement of the band.
2 other bands were up...one was pretty good, kinda like Billy Talent and Funeral For a Friend mixed together, then a weird and frankly rubbish metal band without a drummer. During the first named...the original Captain Sensible (The Damned's lead guitarist) brushed past me.
Then, they were up, the original punk legends, The Damned. Every song was a Mosh-fest, I'm bruised, Cut, Tired, Dripping with Sweat and Beer by now...but I kept going until the finale, an excellent song called Smash it Up.
as a final word: I feel so crappy right now...but give me a ticket to see em again tonight and I'd go and do it all again...I've never enjoyed myself so much in all my life.
Headline Band: The Damned
Support: oioioi (yabastards) & T.B Announced
Venue: Torquay Town Hall
Having waited around 15 minutes outside, we got inside and T.B Announced, a local Sum 41-esque had already started playing, the first moshpit of the night flared up as the place was starting to fill, all of us around 16 to 19. About 3 songs in, we all got our asses kicked by a 6ft+ Punk with a Mohawk, I've never had so much fun having my head kicked in.
Oioioi were up next. Christ, they ruled. They did everything, from Hardcore punk to Skacore...we all got in a circle and skanked for one song to the amusement of the band.
2 other bands were up...one was pretty good, kinda like Billy Talent and Funeral For a Friend mixed together, then a weird and frankly rubbish metal band without a drummer. During the first named...the original Captain Sensible (The Damned's lead guitarist) brushed past me.
Then, they were up, the original punk legends, The Damned. Every song was a Mosh-fest, I'm bruised, Cut, Tired, Dripping with Sweat and Beer by now...but I kept going until the finale, an excellent song called Smash it Up.
as a final word: I feel so crappy right now...but give me a ticket to see em again tonight and I'd go and do it all again...I've never enjoyed myself so much in all my life.
Laughing Gull
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at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2001, California, USA
at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2001, California, USA
HighlandWarrior
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cannibal corpse & dimmu borgir on the springbreak-neck tour 2001.
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Bruce Springsteen, Pac Bell Park, San Francisco, August 2003
No support, as is traditional with Bruce.
Opens with Promised Land, then goes straight into The Rising and Lonesome Day, not stopping until after My Love Will Not Let You Down, Prove It All Night, and Something In the Night. A little talk to the audience, then the Standard Empty Sky/You're Missing/Waitin' On A Sunny Day bit, with an excellent sing-along on Waitin'. The we got Darlington County, which was excellent followed by World's Apart, which is a so-so song, but standard at almost every concert this tour. Then through Badlands, Out in the Street, and Mary's Place, with the band intros during Mary's Place (introducing Clarence, the saxophonist as "the next governor of California").
Then...Across the Border! Tour premiere, and a full-band version of something from Ghost of Tom Joad. A huge and welcome surprise. Then came Into the Fire and No Surrender, decent and standard songs.
Just when you thought the show was over, Bruce comes back on, goes through Bobby Jean, and has a spectacular run through of Ramrod, definitely the best version I have ever heard. Born to Run is awsome as usual, and by Seven Nights to Rock, Bruce was probably having as much or more fun as the audience.
The came the second encore with My City of Ruins, a Public Service announcement, the Land of Hope and Dreams, which was nice. Then...Rosalita! One of Bruce's greatest songs, the crowd went nuts over that, and finishing up the set right before midnight with Dancing in the Dark.
Awsome show, only the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Oakland Arena in October 2003 came anywhere close.
No support, as is traditional with Bruce.
Opens with Promised Land, then goes straight into The Rising and Lonesome Day, not stopping until after My Love Will Not Let You Down, Prove It All Night, and Something In the Night. A little talk to the audience, then the Standard Empty Sky/You're Missing/Waitin' On A Sunny Day bit, with an excellent sing-along on Waitin'. The we got Darlington County, which was excellent followed by World's Apart, which is a so-so song, but standard at almost every concert this tour. Then through Badlands, Out in the Street, and Mary's Place, with the band intros during Mary's Place (introducing Clarence, the saxophonist as "the next governor of California").
Then...Across the Border! Tour premiere, and a full-band version of something from Ghost of Tom Joad. A huge and welcome surprise. Then came Into the Fire and No Surrender, decent and standard songs.
Just when you thought the show was over, Bruce comes back on, goes through Bobby Jean, and has a spectacular run through of Ramrod, definitely the best version I have ever heard. Born to Run is awsome as usual, and by Seven Nights to Rock, Bruce was probably having as much or more fun as the audience.
The came the second encore with My City of Ruins, a Public Service announcement, the Land of Hope and Dreams, which was nice. Then...Rosalita! One of Bruce's greatest songs, the crowd went nuts over that, and finishing up the set right before midnight with Dancing in the Dark.
Awsome show, only the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Oakland Arena in October 2003 came anywhere close.
Stapel
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Normaal, a Dutch rural rockband.
Furthermore the Stones and the Salland Bach Choire / Overijssel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Furthermore the Stones and the Salland Bach Choire / Overijssel Philharmonic Orchestra.
ShiplordAtvar
Texan by the grace of God
Freshman year at Southwestern, the school hired the Austin band Vallejo to come play. It was cool.
Sophomore year at Southwestern, the school hired the Austin musician Monte Montgomery. It too was cool
But those pale in comparison to getting to hear Jimmy Vaughan & Double Trouble in concert (for free!) in Zilker Park in Austin. That was as cool as the other side of the pillow.
Sophomore year at Southwestern, the school hired the Austin musician Monte Montgomery. It too was cool
But those pale in comparison to getting to hear Jimmy Vaughan & Double Trouble in concert (for free!) in Zilker Park in Austin. That was as cool as the other side of the pillow.
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