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Thievery Corporation is absolutely fantastic live, as is Wax Tailor. Grandson had the best recent moshpit, I caught him after he jumped down from the rafters lmao
I haven’t seen him in almost 15 years, but Weird Al Yankovic puts on a hell of a good show. Always has the best backup musicians with him.
Saw him 4 months ago. I was not prepared for so many costume changes.
I saw him close to 20 years ago and the thing that always stood out to me the most was that he sounded exactly the same as he does on his albums. I was very impressed.
He was just in Tiny Desk Concerts, which turned out one of the best of that series:
I won front row tickets to his concert once, loved it! Amazing!!
I was at the Foo Fighters gig where Dave Grohl fell off the stage and broke his leg, after which the rest of the band spent an hour playing various covers until Dave came back on stage high on pain meds mixed with alcohol and resumed the show. A doctor had to sit on stage and keep his leg fixed for the rest of the show until they could take him to the hospital to give him a cast, and the entire crowd dedicated “My hero” to the doctor. That show was fucking awesome.
I saw the Foo Fighters in 2008. Nothing crazy like that happened but it was an absolutely amazing show. The highlight was Dave heading to the B-stage with his acoustic guitar for Everlong, then leading into the bridge and all the lights went down. It was silent for a good 5-10 seconds until he just starts running back to the A-stage, all the lights went up, and the whole band started going hard as fuck and he screams “YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH” and they did the last verse as hard as I’ve ever heard it. The energy was insane.
Can confirm, saw foo fighters around 2018 and it was an absolute banger show.
Yeah, I’ve watched that episode, it was really cool. When they came back to Gothenburg for the next tour, the doctor was ther and got serenaded again.
Stone Temple Pilots - (MTV Unplugged) - Sony Studios, NYC, ’93
Massive Attack - Roseland NYC, ‘96
Green Day - Barbarella, Orlando, ‘95
Modest Mouse - (Baron von Bullshit Rides Again) - Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, ‘04
Paul Oakenfold - (Global Underground 006), The Tunnel, NYC, ‘94
These are just a few. I’m sure there’s a bunch I’m forgetting. I doubt that I could single any one of them out.
Maybe STP or Massive Attack
Edit: updated to include live album titles, and cities
Edit 2: confirmed: that MTV unplugged, performance of plush is available on Apple Music:
On disc four of this album
https://music.apple.com/us/album/core-super-deluxe-edition/1263219551
Otherwise, on the Stone Temple Pilots album, core, the super Deluxe Edition.
Saw STP with Scott and with Chester. Both amazing shows but different vibes.
That STP performance was the best performance of plush I’ve ever heard in my life. I think it’s on the deluxe plush album.
Top two concerts of all time:
Daft Punk at Lollapalooza 2007
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at Northerly Island, Chicago, 9/1/24
I was also at the Gizz Show and I concur
Also: Woo!
I don’t know if it was the venue, the band, the sound booth, my location, the weather, or some combination but it was the best sounding show I’ve ever heard, indoors or out. Also I can’t wait for their collab with Billy 😍
I was also at that Daft Punk show! Definitely in my top 3 ever!!
It was unreal. I just relistened to Alive 2007 and it brought back memories.
Recently I discovered recordings of the Alive 2007 tour. Some are on YT. It was great fun to relive it!
Daft punk
Words cannot express my jealousy.
Rammstein
Theatrics, setlist, audio quality, crowd… Just wow. Hope to see them one more time.
Easily this. They have some of the best theatrics ever. The fire and smoke are amazing to watch. They even used the smoke on stage to cover a costume change during the performance
High as a kite at a friends house just hanging out after work. My friend just randomly picks up his acoustic guitar and starts noodling. His roommate comes home, disappears for a bit and comes out with a standup bass. For the next 2 hrs they just smoked and jammed for the love of music.
Me:
Gogol Bordello
Absolute manic fun.
Behind Rammstein, Gogol Bordello and Flogging Molly were my two favorite concerts.
Rammstein blew my 16 yo mind.
Saw him at a free show in an outdoor venue. It started raining halfway through and turned into a massive, muddy mosh pit.
10/10.
Primus. Mesa Amphitheater.
My first I introduction to Primus was live, I was very confused by the audience chants. The bassist was an absolute artist.
Primus sucks!
Exactly! I was so confused at the time.
A heckler once shouted “Primus sucks!” at one of their shows, and their reply was “Hey, we’re Primus and we suck!” and they started playing. It’s been a meme at their shows since then.
Nothing beats a spot on the rail getting your frizzle frazzled by primus
Tool. Hands down.
Saw them in Brixton on the Ænima tour, they were warming up and soundchecking Hooker with a penis shaking the walls while we queued outside getting preached to by a fundamentalist. Wrong crowd for a “Jesus will save you” pitch, buddy.
But we’re exactly the right crowd in their eyes, we need it the most. Saw the same kind of people while heading into an arena for either Metallica or Iron Maiden, I forget which one. Maybe both.
Lol absolutely.
I think the best live show I ever saw was Good Kid. Their energy and jams couldn’t be matched.
Metallica, Donington Park Raceway, 2004. They were headlining Download festival, but Lars was rushed to hospital right before the show. Rather than cancel they brought out a rotating cast of drummers from the other bands at the festival, starting with Dave Lombardo from Slayer.
This was the St Anger tour… We were all jazzed to see Metallica, but let’s be honest, no one was particularly jazzed about St Anger as an album. Thing is though, their guest drummers didn’t know the tracks on St Anger. They knew old school Metallica; Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, the Black Album, And Justice For All. The good shit.
Better yet, the guest drummers were absolutely psyched to be there. For Metallica this could have been just another show. Huge crowd, but they’ve played bigger. But for their rotating cast of drummers this was the greatest night of their life. That kind of enthusiasm is infectious and it really showed. This was one of the most balls to the wall performances I’ve ever seen from any band. The energy was off the charts.
Especially when they got to Joey from Slipknot. The idea was that they were going to keep rotating drummers throughout the night, but after Joey played his first song, that went out the window. He was their drummer for the rest of the night. That motherfucker played his god damn heart out. Now, listen, if you’re one of those people who still thinks that Slipknot are a bad band, go listen to Vol 3 and then come talk to me. Joey is one hell of a drummer, and he showed up to play. And the whole band felt it.By the end of the show James Hetfield wasn’t singing to us… He was singing to Joey. I distinctly remember him standing with one foot up on the bass drum staring that little masked genius dead in the eyes, two guys basically performing for each other (an image made hilarious and adorable by the fact that James Hetfield is a giant of a man, and Joey is a pocket sized human being; it was like Dad brought his kid to work).
It was a once in a lifetime experience, and probably one of the best shows Metallica ever played. Pure lightning in a bottle.
I was there, man, such a fucking great show.
- TOOL
- Roger Waters
- Muse
Waters might be a dickhead, but he puts on great shows.
Don’t laugh, but Collective Soul. They did that song “Gel” back in the day. I wasn’t a huge fan of their music and still am not. But it was a great live concert.
Free tickets got passed to me from one of my mothers friends, and it was at an old theater with chandeliers and padded seats.
Was very surprised at how engaging they were with the crowd.
Powerman 5000 was that way for me. Wasn’t there to see them and didn’t really care for their music but they really put on a great show.
Collective Soul and Fuel did a show a couple years back together. Holy shit does CS put on a show. They were just as good now, as they were back in their hey day. Fuel was surprisingly good still too.
This amuses me because they are (well, were; I haven’t seen them in concert for 20 years but saw them several times back then) a good live band but ‘Gel’ was barely even a radio song for them, much less a hit. ‘Shine,’ ‘December,’ and ‘Heavy’ got the most radio play.
