frenzal rhomb Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 The Bouncing Souls - seen them over 25 times now and I still leave happy every time - saw them last night and going back tomorrow, catch them if you can Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Saw Cheap Trick in Vegas a couple of years ago. Fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenzal rhomb Posted July 15, 2011 Author Share Posted July 15, 2011 if you want my love............you got it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildcat2334 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 last 20 years or so, easy choice here - Pearl Jam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt770 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 last 20 years or so, easy choice here - Pearl Jam +1 Â Have seen them many times and every show was unique and awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whomper Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 The Allman brothers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepinmofo Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Sevendust is good. Godsmack is great. Slipknot was really good the one time I saw them. Papa Roach always puts on a great show. Breaking Benjamin and 3 Days Grace was really good last time I saw them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexgaddis Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 The Black Eyed Peas...that halftime show was INTENSE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clubfoothead Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Gwar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbpfan1231 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Armored Saint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 best I've ever seen (at least the first to come to mind right now) was radiohead. just saw them once, early on in a pretty small venue right after "creep" came out and they were mindblowingly good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pope Flick Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I've seen Fishbone (tighter than a mosquito's ass!) more times than I can count. Â Best band last 20 years is Jane's Addiction during the first two albums. They jumped the shark for Ritual de lo Habitual but their first album and Nothing's Shocking whip anything that came out of the grunge scene blindfolded with both hands tied behind their back and a leg chopped off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I have got to break this down a couple of ways because I've seen a ton of bands and there are some that focus on the music and some that focus on the performance. Kiss and Alice Cooper definitely fall into the latter category and while both quite spectacular, I'd say the best overall show was Peter Gabriel. Not over the top but the stage portion of things was incredibly well integrated into the music (or was it the other way around?). Â Best music performance has been and until further notice will be, the Grateful Dead. Not that they were perfect every night, far from it. But when they did have it together they structured an entire evening's musical odyssey that just left you at the other end with two questions, did that really just happen and when can I do it again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whomper Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I've seen Fishbone (tighter than a mosquito's ass!) more times than I can count. Best band last 20 years is Jane's Addiction during the first two albums. They jumped the shark for Ritual de lo Habitual but their first album and Nothing's Shocking whip anything that came out of the grunge scene blindfolded with both hands tied behind their back and a leg chopped off.   Fishbone was great. Ill admit, I only know the stuff that everybody knows when the hit the mainstream for a little bit like Every day is sunshine and sunless saturday but they had tremendous energy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pope Flick Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Fishbone was great. Ill admit, I only know the stuff that everybody knows when the hit the mainstream for a little bit like Every day is sunshine and sunless saturday but they had tremendous energy  Truth and Soul is the one to get, if just one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Grateful Dead SRV Santana Trampled By Turtles Janes Addiction Kiss Deep Purple Radiators Phish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Dick Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 This one is an absolute no brainer for me, and I have seen a ton of shows: Â Stevie Ray Vaughan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rattsass Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I probably have a more narrow vision than most, I've seen a lot of concerts but the majority were in my youth. But here are the standouts. Â Kiss - Saw them in the 70s, For pure theatrics you just have to give it to them. Â AC/DC - I saw them a couple of times in the early 80s. Angus Young never stopped moving. I can honestly say I have never ever seen a performer work the stage harder than he did back then. And how Brian Johnson can talk at all after all these years is a mystery to me. Â Lynyrd Skynyrd - Okay, it may be hillbilly music to some of you high falootin city folk, but we likes it down here. Front row center tickets (which I camped out overnight for with a group of drunken idiots) probably skew my memory of the show, but I'm pretty sure I got a boner that night from the triple guitars on Free Bird. It was either that or the chick flashing her tits at the band just down the row. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 (edited) Didn't we go this category? Big John is slackin. Â Best for me has to be SRV. As a warm-up no less and he blew the doors off the place. I'd barely heard of him until then and a huge fan ever since. Â Battling for 2d (and assuming we're sticking to rock) would be REO Speedwagon (who SRV opened up for) Frampton, ARS, Yes. Edited July 15, 2011 by BeeR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nogohawk Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Over the past 30 years ... Chicago (see them about 3-4 each year) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egret Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 last 20 years or so, easy choice here - Pearl Jam   +1 Have seen them many times and every show was unique and awesome. Yes. Absolutely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpwallace49 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Pearl Jam is great . . seen them multiple times and I need to se when they play Alpine Valley again . . . I think it is this August. Â Tom Petty with ZZ Top was a great show. Â I saw the Beastie Boys at Lollapalooza back in the day . . . the do a great show too . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramhock Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Two best shows I saw were: Â Lynard Skynard (before the crash, about 1977) ELO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brentastic Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 The obvious: Phish (best live act I've ever seen) Grateful Dead Neil Young (even in the last decade) Led Zeppelin (never saw them with Bonzo but have seen Page/Plant and plenty of concert footage - they were a machine) Â Not so obvious: Paul Simon Beck Wilco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 rolling stones put on a good show in the 80's and 90's metallica rush (not a hugh fan these days but loved them in hs) radiators fishbone untouchables sammy hagar (pre-van halen) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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