Share your concert ticket collection and the best concert(s) you have ever been to

[Decadence]

Originally Posted by Warren G

You guys have been around the block there Decadence, and mschaeffer, eh?

But as for me, way back in the sixties I went to a concert at the RKO 57th. st., where Murray the K was the emcee, and which had...

The Who

Cream (first US performance)!

The Mandela

Wilson Pickett

Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels

All in one show.

Cream blew up their amps like the Who did...

And I held one of Ginger Baker's broken drumsticks on the bus all the way back to Jersey.

Yeah.. around the block and then some. Cream AND The Who in the same show?!?! Tough to imagine how f*cking cool that had to have been. Wilson Pickett was no slouch, either. Great to see there's more than a few folks from my generation on the board!

I trust you still have Ginger's stick?

[Nelberto]

Big Country- No Place Like Home Tour-1991
stuart adamson (underrated writer/musician) and the boys in great form

Rammstein -Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da Tour -2010 Wembley Arena
what a gig !!! great songs,awesome performances all round and the pyrotechnics and effects complimented the show perfectly.Superb

[Decadence]

Originally Posted by themidlander

Of the tents in fields the first two Isle Of Wight's were the best; for outdoors the Stones In The Park

Of actual indoor concerts in rough chronologiocal order.....
Beatles Christmas Show 64 at Finsbury Park
Spencer Davis Davis Group at Birmingham Odeon 66 ish
Tyrannosaurus Rex at Mothers Erdington 69 ish
Mothers Of Invention at Birmingham Town Hall 70 ish
Pink Floyd at Mothers Erdington 70ish
Black Sabbath at Birmingham Town Hall 72ish
Arthur Brown at Worcester College? 73ish
Iggy Pop (with Bowie) at Birmingham Odeon
Tom Waits at Victoria Theatre London 80ish?
Siouxsie And The Banshees (join hands tour)
U2 (War tour)
Bruce Springsteen (River Tour) NEC Birmingham
Neil Young (several in Birmingham over the years)
Lou Reed Symphony Hall Birmingham - what a venue! Best sound anywhere
Southside Johnny at The Robin Bilston 09
Rammstein several but last year Birmingham the best

Sorry the date are hazy and some of the venues but so in my brain now!

To have seen The Mothers had to have been the hippest. By the time I got around to seeing FZ, the Mothers were gone (e.g. Terry Bozzio was drumming, not sure if NMB was still on sax, etc.). Truly amazing. Wish I were there. Didn't realize the "Crazy World of Arthur Brown" was still around in the early 70s :-)

Like you, the days WERE hazy. Many years ago, during the divorce, I found a pile of ticket stubs that I'd saved as a younger man. Couldn't remember some of the shows (example: Yes @ Chicago Stadium). Have become more refined over the years, but still enjoy at least some of what made our youth so damn much fun.

Enjoying this trip down memory lane (to the extent I can remember).

[Decadence]

Originally Posted by BigSwede

Kiss in 1997.
20 years too late,but still.

No worries.. I'm sure it was a decent show. I remember when Kiss was a warmup band-- for Sabbath!

Must admire their entrepreneurial spirit! and longevity.

[karloschaos]

Originally Posted by Decadence

in no particular order:


The Grateful Dead (1974, 1976)

Black Sabbath (1975) -- (w/ Kansas as a warmup.. yeesh)

Frank Zappa (sometime between Apostrophe and Zoot Allures)

Grrrr!!! No hint of envy whatsoever.
All I can offer is Hawkwind at The Hawkestra at Brixton Academy & the 40th birthday gig at Porchester Hall where I offered to get Dave Gilmour a pint & he said "No, you're alright mate, I'll get my own", both wonderful nights for any Hawks fan.

[floyd1971]

for me it has been..
Pink Floyd 80;s
Rory Gallagher 80;s
Stevie Ray Vaughan 80's
Deep Purple 70's 80;s and last year
and Metallica 2010

[themidlander]

Originally Posted by Decadence

To have seen The Mothers had to have been the hippest. By the time I got around to seeing FZ, the Mothers were gone (e.g. Terry Bozzio was drumming, not sure if NMB was still on sax, etc.). Truly amazing. Wish I were there. Didn't realize the "Crazy World of Arthur Brown" was still around in the early 70s :-)

Like you, the days WERE hazy. Many years ago, during the divorce, I found a pile of ticket stubs that I'd saved as a younger man. Couldn't remember some of the shows (example: Yes @ Chicago Stadium). Have become more refined over the years, but still enjoy at least some of what made our youth so damn much fun.

Enjoying this trip down memory lane (to the extent I can remember).

It wasn't the Crazy World at that time it was Kingdom Come about the time of their second album. Saw CWOAB at the Isle of Wight when Carl Palmer's drumming was superb

Forgot Madness in Canterbury I think
And a very early Wishbone Ash in Weymouth 70ish

As the haze clears more will come back - I hope!

[Dave666]

Eddie & The Hot Rods The Marquee 1983.
& The First Gig I ever Saw The Damned Supported By the Adverts Southampton University 1977.

[Nylon]

One of the best concerts I've been to recently was Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Birmingham (UK) in 2001 (ok so not so recently then! )
Extraordinary. Played 3 new tracks, 2 of which have never been officially released to this day.
Highlights? A sublime After The Goldrush and an incendiary 20 minutes of Like
A Hurricane. Replete withe the obligaory feedback firestorm.
I do not expect to go to a better concert .. Ever.

[wil160]

This is my first post, so I figure I may as well make it a long-winded one. My most memorable concert experiences are (in no particular order of preference):

1) Blue Oyster Cult with Foghat (September 2010 at the Lawrenceburg Indiana Fall Festival). It was perfect weather for an outdoor concert, evening temperatures in the seventies with low humidity, no mosquitos, and a bright first quarter moon to light your way on the walk back to the car (not to mention the thirty mile drive back home with a pretty girl at your side). Blue Oyster Cult sounded exactly the way they did thirty years ago and didn't miss a beat, and they have more hits than a lot of people realize. As a bonus, they even did "She's as Beautiful as a Foot"!

2) Al Stewart, St. Louis Missouri (Oct. 2010)- A cozy get-together at a casino who's name escapes me now (Great America, maybe?). I got at-the-door tickets for half price because they were sold out of the ones that were advertised and the lady felt sorry for me I guess. Again, he sounds exactly the way he did in the seventies. A great lyricist and storyteller rather than a rock-out kind of guy, he had enough back catalogue to take a twenty minute break and come back for more (my bladder much appreciated that). Just an all around pleasant experience- no fighting drunks, a nice venue, laid-back atmosphere, and after the concert we walked down the hall to the casino proper where my girlfriend won a little money that paid for a nice breakfast the next morning and the gas for the four-hundred mile trip back to Ohio.

3) Mercyful Fate, Annie's Cincinnati Ohio (May 1999)- If you've never seen Alice Cooper live, King Diamond and Mercyful Fate are the next best thing. He delivered his trademark crotch-kicked falsettos- WHILE ILL WITH THE FLU! A real showman, a legendary operatic singer that is, admittedly, an acquired taste. Too bad they're not making albums anymore, I think he had triple-bypass surgery not long ago.

4) Yngwie Malmsteen & Rising Force, Bogart's Cincinnati Ohio (June 1994)- This was interesting, a riot nearly broke out. A prodigiously talented guitarist, he got in a fistfight with his own drummer onstage which stopped the show for a half hour while they patched him up, then they came out and he made his band start the set all over again! By all accounts he has an ego and a temper, but he's still deserving to be called one of the greatest guitarists ever, and at that concert you got a dizzying display of musical over-achievement. In this age of lo-fi three chord slacker crap, that may sound like blasphemy, but for his style of classical-influenced heavy metal you have to forget that twenty years of rock tainted by rap and alternative ever existed.