The best concerts of 2007

Well, the year is almost at a close. What are some of the best concerts you've seen this year? Anything good?

My fave shows have been:

1. Nightwish (I just caught them live last week and my booty was kicked all over that place. Concert of the year for me)

2. Leaves' Eyes (I got to meet Alexander Krull and Liv Kristine - that was cool. Plus the show just kicked ASS!)

3. Kamelot (great stage presence)

4. Shadows Fall (This show actually turned me into a fan. I wasn't a fan before and had came to see another band. In the process I got really into these guys and picked up their new album)

5. Mathematicians (Very obscure band from New York, I caught them at a local club and was very impressed. I hadn't heard them before and ended up getting both of their cds. I met the band and they were quite cool.)

6. Lacuna Coil (My interest in this band is fading, but they put on a pretty good show)

7. Paradise Lost

8. Leiahdorus (A local synthwave band here in Albuquerque produced by Joey Belville of the Echoing Green)



Biggest disappointment of the year:

Metal Church - they cancelled.

I didn't go to any concerts in 2007. I suck.

Fat Freddy wrote:

I didn't go to any concerts in 2007. I suck.

Dont feel bad,Freddy.I didnt either.I guess its part of having kids,getting old,you know the usual.

thrasher73 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

I didn't go to any concerts in 2007. I suck.

Dont feel bad,Freddy.I didnt either.I guess its part of having kids,getting old,you know the usual.

Yea, I know. I kinda consider myself "retired" or at least "semi-retired" from that scene nowadays. Although when a band comes thru that I really would like to see, it sucks not to be there... still kicking myself for missing Heaven & Hell this past Summer

thrasher73 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

I didn't go to any concerts in 2007. I suck.

Dont feel bad,Freddy.I didnt either.I guess its part of having kids,getting old,you know the usual.

Hey! I have kids, a job, mortgage, etc. I went to a bunch of concerts this year.

The first one that sticks out in my mind:
HEAVEN & HELL & MEGADETH!
Dio and Black Sabbath were fan-freakin'-tastic! Megadeth were equally great. Totally enjoyed this show.

TED NUGENT
Can't beat having front row tickets and back stage passes to see the Motor City Madman.

CORNERSTONE CALIFORNIA
Bloodgood, Barren Cross, Tourniquet, Recon, Glenn Kaiser, etc.

Ult-You're just not a big loser like me

I have a son, but my wife stays home with him when I go to shows. She was really sad that she missed Nightwish - but such is life. She also goes out when I watch our son.

I don't think I could handle not seeing shows. I'll be going when I'm old and gray. Heck I'll probably look like Gandolf at that point.


LOL

ultmetal wrote:

thrasher73 wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

I didn't go to any concerts in 2007. I suck.

Dont feel bad,Freddy.I didnt either.I guess its part of having kids,getting old,you know the usual.

Hey! I have kids, a job, mortgage, etc. I went to a bunch of concerts this year.

Yea, but you have an excuse, you're in a band!!

Maybe I should join one!! That way I can tell my wife "I have to go to (name of show), I need to see 'em cuz we're hoping to open for'em"

Fat Freddy wrote:

I didn't go to any concerts in 2007. I suck.

Don't be sad, I only went to the following concerts:

311
Ani Difranco
Dave Matthews Band
The John Butler Trio

I'm a damn hippy!

The only one I went to was Kamelot/Leaves' Eyes. I don't have many friends (actually none outside of Church) and I don't like going to places like that by myself (makes me feel a little like a loser). But I got tired of being a home body so I finally went to a concert by myself and had a great time and got to converse with many metalheads. Now I would like to go to MANY concerts, but I am working two jobs and trying to pay off MUCH debt so for the next year it looks like I will be limited to a few (I WANT to go see Maiden next year and I might see Opeth w/ Dream Theater). Once I get financially stable and have a "normal" work schedule then I will probably go to a show at least once a month.

KEEP IT TRUE 8 -->
: Sabbat (UK) great show in original Dreamweaver line-up
: The Exalted Piledriver
: Defender (HOL)
Other bands, which weren't so good as those three: Laaz Rockit, Diamond Head, Lethal, Destructor, ...

WACKEN 07 -->
: Overkill only 50 mins but fantastic show!
: Possessed - truly a memorable show!
: Sacred Reich
: Sabbat - this time without the org. bass player
+ Destruction, Sodom, Grave Digger, ...

VENDETTA (on MMOA festival)
VICIOUS RUMORS / AGENT STEEL

+ a bunch of little local concerts

Ozzy
H&H
Tublatanka
Uriah Heep - The Sweet

i'm waitin for December's Gamma Ray w Helloween shows and that's gonna be over of '07

I wanna be Sovdats buddy.Maybe then I could go to some good concerts

1. Metallica ay wembley stadium
2. iron maiden at download
3. trivium at cambridge corn exchange

these are the ones i went to this year:

Metal Church/Meliah Rage
Destruction/Into Eternity/Hirax
Heaven & Hell/Megadeth/Machine Head
Symphony X/Sanctity/Echoes Of Eternity
Rush
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Heaven & Hell/Alice Cooper/Queensryche
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush

im gonna see more in the next couple months

EvyMetal wrote:

these are the ones i went to this year:

Destruction/Into Eternity/Hirax

I flew out to Phoenix to see this one, but the stinkin' show was cancelled. GRRRR!!!!

Trouble with Confessor
Mastodon
Enslaved with Arsis and The Agonist
Ozzfest

Prince 7.7.07
Rollins - a couple weeks ago in Chicago
Weird Al in August
BB King, Etta James, Al Green 2 nights later
Took Auntie Saxon to see Impaler for the first time, she was not impressed (chicks!)
Crowded House in Milwaukee
Overkill for my b-day in Feb.

SAUNA OPEN AIR METAL FESTIVAL
Megadeth
Dark Tranquillity
Heaven And Hell

TUSKA METAL FESTIVAL
Immortal
Emperor
Vader

And I'm going to see Motörhead in December, so that would probably be on that list.

My one and only concert this year....

Deep Purple on 07-15

Had to see them while they were in America.

Heaven & Hell/Megadeth
Van Halen

I'll have to check my tickets stubs when I get home. I feel like I've seen more than just 2 shows this year, but I can't recall at the moment.

Heaven and Hell was by far the best to see for me!

Only 1 this year - Def Leppard, Forienger & Styx

Doro/Vainglory

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