PigLick on 19/2/2017 at 09:56
holy crap what a setlist!
demagogue on 19/2/2017 at 13:09
My first concert was Duran Duran, around 1991.
Big ones I recall were Lenny Kravitz, Blues Traveler, and Dave Matthews, around 1994 or 95, which I guess was cooler then than it sounds now, and Sting in Tokyo cir. 2001.
These days I listen to a ton of live music by groups in small dives. Tokyo is teeming with a live music scene. You could go to a different place every weekend of your life and still not get to them all.
faetal on 19/2/2017 at 23:36
Quote Posted by PigLick
holy crap what a setlist!
You are telling me brother!
bob_doe_nz on 20/2/2017 at 00:18
I worked at several sport stadiums in New Zealand since 2010.
So I've been lucky enough to work a lot of music concerts.
2010: U2 (Seeing people trying to get a glimpse of them practicing was a laugh. As I sat down on the field having lunch overlooking the stage)
2011: Rammstein, Iggy and The Stooges, Lily Allen.
2012: Coldplay
2014: Aviici, Katy Perry
2015: Foo Fighters, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Ed Sheeran, UB40
2016: Coldplay again
2017: Guns and Roses (They were actually pretty good this time round)
And in five days I'll have Bruce Springsteen under my belt. With Justin Beiber (Shudder) and Adele (WOO!) next month.
heywood on 21/2/2017 at 13:16
Interesting thread. It seems like there are a lot of fans of 1980s music here.
My first concert (and second and third) was the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. I was probably around 12. My grandmother used to take me. I still like to go to the symphony, but I'm tired of hearing the old war horses and prefer more avante garde music when I can get it.
My first rock concert was either The Who reunion, or Dylan and the Grateful Dead, or maybe Phil Collins. They were all around the same time, late 1980s when I was in high school.
Most outright fun concert was probably a Jimmy Buffett show in the early 90s. I went with 12-15 college friends and we made a day of it and went full parrothead. Another fun one was the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Some ska band opened. We were into moshing.
The craziest show was the Grateful Dead in Albany, NY around 1992. They had closed off several city blocks downtown and there was a huge crowd, probably 50k people even though only 15k had tickets. Not a cop in sight except around the entrance to the hall, and it was the weirdest and most amazing crowd scene I've ever seen at a Dead show. I could go on for pages about it.
Possibly my favorite concert was seeing The Musical Box play The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway around 2004 or 2005. The Musical Box are a tribute band who faithfully re-enact 1970s Genesis tours, including playing period instruments and copying the look and style of the band members. For The Lamb tour, TMB had full support from the band, who loaned them all the original costumes and slide show from 1975. We had front row seats at the Whitaker Center in in Harrisburg, PA and the show was just awesome.
Another possible favorite was seeing Gary Burton at Ronnie Scott's in London. Burton is one of my favorites, and his band at the time included guitar prodigy Julian Lage and Antonio Sanchez who is possibly the best drummer in jazz right now. My wife and I sat at a little cocktail table front & center, and she had a conversation with the band at the back of the bar after their set, and she has indulged my jazz interest ever since.
Some of the 1990s H.O.R.D.E. festivals were awesome too. I'm usually not that big on festivals except for jazz. Most rock festivals seem to have one or two bands I like but not enough to make me want to get stuck in traffic and slog through mud and dodge the piss and puke of drunk college kids. But some of the early H.O.R.D.E. lineups were too awesome to miss.
The worst concert I've been to was Lady Gaga in Sydney, 2012 or 2013. She puts on a really theatrical show, but the sound was just horribly mixed and out of balance. We couldn't hear crap. Another bad one was Phish, at a basketball arena in Dayton, OH. I was a huge Phish fan in the 1990s and they had just released my favorite of their albums, so I was excited. But we were hung over from a wedding, had bad seats, and the mix was way, way off.
Finally, the last concert I attended was Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn at the local high school auditorium in my town.
Yandros on 21/2/2017 at 13:53
Béla Fleck played your town's HS auditorium? That's crazy! My favorite song of his is "Sunset Road".
faetal on 23/2/2017 at 18:36
Almost forgot! I went to this last Summer:
[video=youtube;zpY8Imv9-DE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpY8Imv9-DE[/video]
Tocky on 27/2/2017 at 05:23
My first was the "Some Enchanted Evening" tour of Blue Oyster Cult at the Orpheum in Memphis. AC DC's Back in Black at the Hammersmith Odeon was memorable but the best was "The Wall" performed at Earls Court by Pink Floyd. My next will be Alice Cooper at Tupelo. I've never seen Cooper but I've heard it's a hell of a stage show. He is a bit of sentiment from my teens never fulfilled. These days the lighters do not fire up as soon as the lights go down though so some of the magic is gone. I've seen a lot of good bands from Iron Maiden to Sheryl Crow but the magic of youth has faded. Too bad they have gotten so stick up the ass strict these days. Burning one would make a halfway decent substitute.