Best gig ever?
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I am 50 years old. I blew my knees out years ago, walking through San Francisco. This year I did a big trip, I did Wacken Open Air, Brutal Assault and Sabaton Open Air. Afterwards, we rushed to Norway and saw Rammstein. I did all this thinking it's my last chance to physically be able to survive weeks in tents. Probably true. Rammstein in Oslo was far and away the best gig i have ever seen. Every 2 seconds something blew up, or there were lights or smoke. I can't imagine they'd ever bring all that gear to Australia if they tour, so I was very glad to get to see them in Europe What was your best gig ever?
For me, it's a toss up between Metallica in Philadelphia in July 1989, and Type O Negative on Halloween at the Trocadero (RIP) in Philly. I can't remember if it was 1999 or 2000 when I saw Type O, but here's an article describing the 2000 show: TYPE O NEGATIVE CONTINUE HALLOWEEN TRADITION AT TROC – The Temple News[^]
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I am 50 years old. I blew my knees out years ago, walking through San Francisco. This year I did a big trip, I did Wacken Open Air, Brutal Assault and Sabaton Open Air. Afterwards, we rushed to Norway and saw Rammstein. I did all this thinking it's my last chance to physically be able to survive weeks in tents. Probably true. Rammstein in Oslo was far and away the best gig i have ever seen. Every 2 seconds something blew up, or there were lights or smoke. I can't imagine they'd ever bring all that gear to Australia if they tour, so I was very glad to get to see them in Europe What was your best gig ever?
ZZ Top, 1984. First they played four old songs in the most boring unexciting way on a very plain stage, and failing to get people excited they simply went off the stage. Everyone was like WTF! About two minutes later the whole place was almost boiling with wtf. That's when people started pointing to the opposite side from the stage. On a big screen they were doing the first laser show I had ever seen in my life. After more than five minutes of drawing different patterns on that screen, they started drawing legs! That's when the show started! On a completely rebuilt stage.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Motorhead at the Odeon, Hammersmith, on the Bomber tour was pretty "Whoah!". The lighting rig, shaped like a WWII bomber, looked terrific. When they played Bomber and the rig started diving, banking and turning, you just thought, "oh, yes!". Then the rig's nose landed, Lemmy climbed into it, and it started climbing and flying again while Lemmy continued paying the bass, curly cable hanging down to his amps. Health and Safety? Ha!.
I hate your guts.... I saw them a couple of times, the only full headline show i saw, had terrible sound. I still have an oversize pick signed by Phil. I am still in shock that he died.... I went to his grave in LA and saw the statue at the Rainbow.
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Even though I know I'm going to be flamed for this, one of the most memorable gigs was Nickelback, 2008 at RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin. Basically a mid-size tent on a parking lot, wonderful crowd, beer, and excellent rock.
Nickelback are basically Def Leppard with good ballads. I saw them in the USA, it was a great show. The only time I ever caught a pick mid air
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On April 7, 1968, the last day of their East Coast tour
Janis Joplin and others Went to visit a Army buddy in New York City he
arranged a date with his cousin a girl who had never been out of New York City
She asked where I lived? Ohio my rural upbringing and description of the surroundings
prompted the question if we had cows seems she had never seen a cow
Janis was great and this Peter Paul and Mary die hard fan had a new music hero
If anyone is counting the other great gig was seeing Peter Paul and Mary while in the Army
And at Kent State many years latter with my kids front row seats Being Old has advantages when it comes to enjoyable memoriesOK, wow. That is amazing
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Not a great gig per se, but a fun story about a gig I enjoyed. Due to the tag line in the email, seems to fit. A few years back, I happened to be in Las Vegas for a few days. Staying at Luxor, I wandered up to Mirage the first day to get tickets for the next night's performance of Love. Afterward, I went into MGM Grand and saw that Rush was playing the next night. While wandering around, I heard a voice over by the horse-racing game laughingly say, "What a rip-off", as if his horse had just gotten nosed out. Playing the machine were Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and their manager. Don't remember if Neil Peart was around too. Being a person who values privacy myself (Limelight my favorite song), I didn't bother them, although I'm sure they would've been gracious about it. The next morning, back to Mirage to switch Love to the night after, then to MGM to get tickets for Rush. Both very enjoyable shows, that was a pretty good couple of days.
I saw Billy Gibbons in Vegas. Same thing, left him alone
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For me, it's a toss up between Metallica in Philadelphia in July 1989, and Type O Negative on Halloween at the Trocadero (RIP) in Philly. I can't remember if it was 1999 or 2000 when I saw Type O, but here's an article describing the 2000 show: TYPE O NEGATIVE CONTINUE HALLOWEEN TRADITION AT TROC – The Temple News[^]
I could have seen the Justice tour and didn't go :(
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ZZ Top, 1984. First they played four old songs in the most boring unexciting way on a very plain stage, and failing to get people excited they simply went off the stage. Everyone was like WTF! About two minutes later the whole place was almost boiling with wtf. That's when people started pointing to the opposite side from the stage. On a big screen they were doing the first laser show I had ever seen in my life. After more than five minutes of drawing different patterns on that screen, they started drawing legs! That's when the show started! On a completely rebuilt stage.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
I've never seen ZZ Top. Last time I tried, they were opening for Jimmy Buffet. I bought expensive scalped tickets to be close. This fat dude walks out, yells 'its good to be in Republican country' (this was Dallas) and play some awful country music. As it ended, it dawned on me. ZZ Top had cancelled
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I am 50 years old. I blew my knees out years ago, walking through San Francisco. This year I did a big trip, I did Wacken Open Air, Brutal Assault and Sabaton Open Air. Afterwards, we rushed to Norway and saw Rammstein. I did all this thinking it's my last chance to physically be able to survive weeks in tents. Probably true. Rammstein in Oslo was far and away the best gig i have ever seen. Every 2 seconds something blew up, or there were lights or smoke. I can't imagine they'd ever bring all that gear to Australia if they tour, so I was very glad to get to see them in Europe What was your best gig ever?
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I hate your guts.... I saw them a couple of times, the only full headline show i saw, had terrible sound. I still have an oversize pick signed by Phil. I am still in shock that he died.... I went to his grave in LA and saw the statue at the Rainbow.
My recollection is that the sound wasn't as bad as you might have expected, but that could be roughly 40 years of memory myopia. Certainly not the loudest band I saw at about that time - that honour goes to Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Music Machine, Camden (now KoKo, just gone up in smoke this week).
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I am 50 years old. I blew my knees out years ago, walking through San Francisco. This year I did a big trip, I did Wacken Open Air, Brutal Assault and Sabaton Open Air. Afterwards, we rushed to Norway and saw Rammstein. I did all this thinking it's my last chance to physically be able to survive weeks in tents. Probably true. Rammstein in Oslo was far and away the best gig i have ever seen. Every 2 seconds something blew up, or there were lights or smoke. I can't imagine they'd ever bring all that gear to Australia if they tour, so I was very glad to get to see them in Europe What was your best gig ever?
That's a tough one! I've been to quite a few great gigs, but I'd say the most rewarding was Nightwish in 2005. They kicked butt and it turned out to be the one and only chance to see them with Tarja Turunen in my country. The very first Stratovarius gig I saw in 1997 and the Gods of Metal festival in 1998 in Milan were also great. Latest but not least, in 2018 I saw Epica during the Unicorn Festival in Vinci, and the location was simply awesome! Just out of the medieval city centre, on a clearing with small hills on the sides. We went there by motorbike and both the whole experience and the concert were super!!! Awesome metal trip you had btw!!! I always skipped Wacken cause camping is not really my thing, but I kinda regret it (I'm also 50 and won't probably go, like ever)! :-D
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I am 50 years old. I blew my knees out years ago, walking through San Francisco. This year I did a big trip, I did Wacken Open Air, Brutal Assault and Sabaton Open Air. Afterwards, we rushed to Norway and saw Rammstein. I did all this thinking it's my last chance to physically be able to survive weeks in tents. Probably true. Rammstein in Oslo was far and away the best gig i have ever seen. Every 2 seconds something blew up, or there were lights or smoke. I can't imagine they'd ever bring all that gear to Australia if they tour, so I was very glad to get to see them in Europe What was your best gig ever?
Sunn0))), at The Asylum, Birmingham, UK, 10th December 2009. There are clips on YouTube, but they can't do justice to a) the atmosphere (full of dry ice), b) the volume, or c) the overall spectacle that can be achieved by a few blokes dressed up in robes with one playing guitar, one playing bass and one vocalist - that's right, no drums. [This clip](https://youtu.be/jegJ8W5IOpE) does highlight the alarms being set off, either by the smoke machines or the subsonic vibrations, but can't convey coming home from a gig being able to hear, but unable to stop shaking, for some reason...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I am 50 years old. I blew my knees out years ago, walking through San Francisco. This year I did a big trip, I did Wacken Open Air, Brutal Assault and Sabaton Open Air. Afterwards, we rushed to Norway and saw Rammstein. I did all this thinking it's my last chance to physically be able to survive weeks in tents. Probably true. Rammstein in Oslo was far and away the best gig i have ever seen. Every 2 seconds something blew up, or there were lights or smoke. I can't imagine they'd ever bring all that gear to Australia if they tour, so I was very glad to get to see them in Europe What was your best gig ever?
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I am 50 years old. I blew my knees out years ago, walking through San Francisco. This year I did a big trip, I did Wacken Open Air, Brutal Assault and Sabaton Open Air. Afterwards, we rushed to Norway and saw Rammstein. I did all this thinking it's my last chance to physically be able to survive weeks in tents. Probably true. Rammstein in Oslo was far and away the best gig i have ever seen. Every 2 seconds something blew up, or there were lights or smoke. I can't imagine they'd ever bring all that gear to Australia if they tour, so I was very glad to get to see them in Europe What was your best gig ever?
Grateful Dead concert one hot summer day in 1981 at the Cal Expo fairgrounds in Sacramento Ca. I especially liked the wet T-shirts in back at the free showers. A lot to see.