Best band you ever seen live.

[pasty]

Queen at Knebworth (turned out to be last gig in the UK - biggest Gig ever in the UK at that time - supported by Big Country and Status Quo)

You forgot Beloius Some

Quote from Freddie: "This is an enormous place, even by our standards, I'll tell you! It looks beautiful from up here; let me tell you! It's frightening, I'll tell you. It looks beautiful!"

 

[Fungus]

Off to see Springsteen at the Emirates tonight. First saw him at Brighton Centre in 1981 - probably the best ever for me. Followed by Jackson Browne solo and acoustic at the Theatre Royal Dury Lane.

Also saw Bruce in 81, and got the band's pix and autographs outside a restaurant afterwards. Pete Townshend thought it was "f***ing brilliant", so it must have been. As I then drove home, had the surreal sight of mega-star Springsteen strolling along Brighton seafront all by himself.

Anyone else going to see him at Arsenal tomorrow?

Jackson Browne is great solo - the whole evening is audience requests!

 

[vegster]

There are quite a lot of common threads running through here..I'm glad I have tickets for REM @ The Rosebowl in August now....

I forgot earlier, I saw Maximo Park on the NME tour @ The Guildhall in Pompey on the same line up as Arctic Monkeys.... well, the Monkeys were very average and Maximo headlined and blew them away...." Lord, thank you for giving me that pleasure !"

 

[Wienergull]

Oh,

And Giant Sand Twice, once at Market Theatre once Concorde 2.

Howe Gelb is a living legend.

Did you see Howe Gelb at that venue in Kemp Town (the Hanbury Club?) last autumn? Good gig, but rather marred by a pissed American female heckler! I saw Giant Sand in Vienna in '92, but was rather puzzled at the time by their rather stop-start spaghetti western soundtracks. That reminds me, Calexico are another corking live band. Saw them two years running in Vienna at an outdoor venue. Their cover of Love's "Alone Again Or" is superb live.

 

[dougdeep]

Led Zepp.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Horrible I'm more-elitist-than-you thread. If you want to play that game, have seen New Order at The Art College Basement and U2 at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street. & Seen The Clash all over the place. Ya boo sucks.

But the best band - judged on how it felt on the day - remains seeing Underworld at The Essential Music festival (Dance Day) at Stanmer Park sometime mid-nineties. It was f***ing BEAUTIFUL

 

[m20gull]

Horrible I'm more-elitist-than-you thread.

Motorhead? Elitist?

 

[Fungus]

Motorhead? Elitist?

I've seen Gilbert O'Sullivan, Neil Sedaka, Sad Cafe and Dr Hook.

 

[m20gull]

I've seen Gilbert O'Sullivan, Neil Sedaka, Sad Cafe and Dr Hook.

Sadly I can't match that, but I have seen Celine Dion, Madonna, Beverley Craven and the Corrs.

 

[Superphil]

I am hoping that Dolly in July will be included in my top 10 gigs

 

[medicine man]

Right, been to a fair few (so far) in my life- Pixies at The Top Rank in 90 were fantastic,
Pop Will Eat Itself were ALWAYS such a great laugh,
Motorhead exhilarating,
Happy Mondays so goddam baggy,
New Fast Automatic Daffodils so great to dance to,
Revenge playing Dreams Never End at Martin Hannett's Memorial Festival in Manchester was great on all sorts of
levels
The Who last year in The Carrot Cruncher stadium made me not care about what I looked like or sounded like.
Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Dub Band at the Astoria- Irie.
Pink Floyd at Earls Court doing all of DSOM mouth droppingly great
Buzzcocks every time I see them
New Model Army- stupendous
I could go on
Mikey Dread, Mikal Rose, Jah Shaka, Third World, Dub Syndicate, African Headcharge, Jah Wobble, Ice T

Johnny Cash at Glastonbury

Really love them all
But,
But
the best I have ever seen live by a country mile by who he made me feel

PRINCE!
True genius.

 

[Questions]

I've seen Gilbert O'Sullivan, Neil Sedaka, Sad Cafe and Dr Hook.

 

[coventrygull]

Uk Subs Lyceum Ballroom
The Ramones Top Rank
Sisters of Mercy Top rank
Spear Of Destiny The Dome
Depeche Mode St Petersburg

 

[NMH]

King Crimson......
Thin Lizzy...lots of times up till the end
Budgie........No they were good....honestly
Motorhead....Nuff said
.
.
.
Spandau Ballet....Me and my man Gary at Heaven.

What went wrong?

Since then....Fun Song Factory on DVD

Budgie were GREAT at Concorde 2 last year. Even better than 1974 or 5, when I'd seen them last.
Crimbo were great 2 times out of the 3 I saw them play. 1971, not 1974 (they were shite with Jamie Muir) and great again in about 1997.

I have to say though, Shriekback were an astoundingly good time when I saw them in Hollywood around 1988.
Doctor John in 1974 at The Dome was like a spiritual experience.
Buddy Guy at The El Rey on The Golden Mile L.A. was like being in church!
The Blue Aeroplanes and Jazz Butcher on the same bill in Long Beach were brilliant.
Zep at The Dome in '73, and Floyd playing DSOTM the first ever time, at our very own Dome in 1972.
Cockney Rebel at Reading Festival around 1976, TYA at Ali Pali 74.
Dr Feelgood at The Greyhound in Richmond before they'd even recorded, Eddie And The Hot Rods at the Nashville around 1977.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

L/B. ever seen Bruce ?

As I said above ... no.

But I discovered this evening that the young Miss Bracknell has tickets for the gig at the Emirates stadium.

 

[Beach Hut]

Probably Bowie, Greatest Hits Tour at the MK Bowl although I say him at Brixton Academy on the Serious Moonlight Tour - he is the god of rock performers.

 

[defrocked priest]

Judas Priest 1980 Doncaster


:yahoo:

 

[withdeanwombat]

The Haywards Heath Town Band.

The End.

 

[cheeseroll]

The Clash in 78,79,80 - saw them a number of times in those years, best live band i ever saw, so much better than on vynal (sp? that doesn't look right somehow). Then they sort of lost it and Pete Wylie/Wah! took over for me, back to the smaller venues, sweat and spilled pints.

Echo and Bunnymen were great live but wank in the studio.

 

[Eggmundo]

Roger Waters-Earls Court 2007.