Best show you ever went to.

I'm just curious what was your favorite show/concert whatever you wanna call it that you ever attended? Who played? and what put it over the top for you?


I'm compiling a list of stories and experiences to hopefully put into print in the neasr future. Your input is greatly appreciated.

The more you can write about your experience the better.....thanks again!

Twisted Sister 2008. The band blew the roof off the joint. Dee Snider is the best frontman in rock. Period.

Snider does have an awesome stage presence.

SpectreFate wrote:

Twisted Sister 2008. The band blew the roof off the joint. Dee Snider is the best frontman in rock. Period.

Small venue: Savatage w/Trouble at L'amour in Brooklyn, September of 1990. Savatage were at their absolute peak (GUTTER BALLET tour) and Trouble were pimpin' their best album (the self-titled 1990 debut for Def American). Simply a fantastic show all around.

Large venue: Metallica's AND JUSTICE FOR ALL TOUR @ Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey, July of 1989. I'd seen Metallica once previously (and three more times since) but this particular show was the last time I could really think of Metallica as a "big METAL band" as opposed to a "big BAND," period.

I've been to sooooo many great shows, it's impossible to pick only one.

1. U2 = KiSS same position.
2. Alice Cooper
3. Ozzy
... long time of black hole and than other bands.

Loudness, 2006, still when Munetaka was still around. Some of the best concerts I've ever been to have been at crappy venues.

O man, that is tough, seen so many awesome shows!!!!!!! Memorable ones include KISS reunion tour, Iron Maiden in Mexico City on the last tour (with 60,000 metal heads in a baseball stadium!!!!), U2 Zoo TV tour (Achtung Baby album tour), Queensryche Building Empires tour, Megadeth/Testament Rust In Peace/Practice What You Preach tour, Stryper THWTD & IGWT tours - THWTD show was my first concert, IGWT was the my first show at the barrier during an arena show, and the list goes on and on and on........

Easy one to answer, and it is a tie, Deep Purple 'Perfect Strangers tour' in 1985. I even remember the opening act: Giuffria

and in 1989 The Rolling Stones 'Steel Wheels Tour' with Living Colour as the opening act.

Operation Mindcrime. If you saw it you know why.

1. Depeche Mode in 2001 in Denver, Colorado. Simply incredible. No other words can do it justice.

2. Testament/Savatage/Dark Angel in 1990 in Phoenix, Arizona. It was Testament's "Practice What You Preach" tour and Savatage's "Gutter Ballet" tour rolled into one. Simply INCREDIBLE!!! I was just a kid at the time, but I was awe-struck for about a week after this show. Still gives me the chills when I think about it.

3. Nightwish live in 2007, Albuqueque, New Mexico. This was their current tour. Great show. Simply one of my favorite bands -and one of the best live bands out there.

4. Leaves' Eyes/Kamelot in 2007 - Albuquerque, New Mexico.



Those would be my top 4. I've seen many many great shows though.

Metallica in 93.

i do not go to many shows... so Deicide, Adrift, Malevolent Creation.

ultmetal wrote:

I've been to sooooo many great shows, it's impossible to pick only one.

Ditto. Here are some favorites:

Savatage (all 4 times!), Kiss on the first reunion show (2 times), Iron Maiden on their Somewhere Back in Time tour. Stryper last month! Candlemass w/Messiah Marcolin at Sweden Rock Festival.

Candlemass with Messiah at the Arnhem Metal Meeting (pretty big festival in my hometown) in 2005, and Pagan Altar at the Dutch Doom Days in 2007. I'm gonna see both of 'em again later this year at the Roadburn festival (Candlemass will be performing Epicus in its entirety... with Johan! ). Can't wait!

It's hard to pick but Dio/Iron Maiden at Irvine Meadows was cool.

TheNazgul wrote:

Operation Mindcrime. If you saw it you know why.

Yep!!! That was in my list - the Building Empires tour for Empire where they played all of Operation:Mindcrime!!!! AWESOME show!!!!!!!!! They opened with Walk In The Shadows, played Roads To Madness and all the awesome, awesome hits!!!!!

Alice Cooper w/ BOC at the Ohio State Fair in August, 2009. Blue Oyster Cult's set was impressive. I had never seen them and they played very well. Rudy Sarzo was on bass and was phenomenal. Alice Cooper was at the beginning of the "Theater of Death" tour, which was basically a greatest hits live. He did fan favorites from all eras woven into a storyline about a killer who kept coming back after execution. He was guillotined, hung and shoved into an iron maiden throughout the course of the concert. It was an incredible show. As always, he surrounded himself with great musicians! Loved every minute of it. The fact that I shared the experience with my sons made it even better!

I have seen alot of shows in my time...but the best ever goes to 16 HORSEPOWER. Just an all out amazing gig.

I am not gonna get into any club stuff.

My favorite was Day 2 of US 83' in Devore ( San Bernardino) Calif on Labor Day week-end at Glen Helen Regional Park. Over 250.000 heads were there.

Quiet Roit, Motley Crue, Ozzy (first gig w/ Jake), Triumph, Judas Priest. Scorpions, and Van Halen.

My very first concert at California Jam in 74' was a close second

Aerosmith

PRIEST FEAST - Testament, Megadeth, and Judas Priest in one night of serious metal madness!!

Nigel Shaw & Carolyn Hillyer
Inkubus Sukkubus
Satyricon
The Cult
Iron Maiden
Katatonia
Black Sabbath
Billy Idol
Carcass
Saxon

Deliverance in 1991

Stryper in 2003