What was the best concert you have ever seen?

[starbreather]

Hey what had 9 arms & sucks ....Def Leopard

To many concerts to remember farm aid in Iowa flown out by Cummings, Chicago tinley park farm aid was good as well. Jazz fest in New Orleans several years in a row. Blues fest in Memphis saw b.b. king @ his bar, great time. Saw phish a few times n the early '90's @ several bars less than 200 person venues. Roger water @ Alpine valley WI great show. Too many to tell, they all blend

 

[chraland51]

MEAT LOAF's last two visits to Deer Creek. The final visit, I was around 5 or 6 rows back from the front of the stage and could really feel the huge bank of speakers pounding on my chest. During a short break, I yelled at him and he gave me a thumbs up. I've liked him since his original BOOH album. Go Meat!!!

 

[Knife Lady]

Lynard Skynard before and after crash
38 special
Poco
Pure Praire League
Dobbie Brothers
Loverboy
Aero Smith
Joan Jett opend for Aero Smith and she sucked
Damn Yankees
Brooks and Dunn
Faith Hill
George Jones

many more I just can't think of all of them

Some of them are really old ones when I was a kid in Germany before some of them became famous like Herman Hermits, Dave Clark Five.
My dad booked bands in the Army so I got to meet so many people.

 

[KokomoDave]

Pink Floyd. 'nuff said!

 

[doubleshock]

ok here goes...don't really know where to start. i have a cigar box full of ticket stubs from every concert i have ever attended plus indy 500 race/time trials, football games (Bears, Colts, high school state championship games), ihssa state b-ball champ. game 1970 (we lost), as well as many other stubs from other events i have attended over the years.
best rock concert bar none, spring 1974, ft. wayne colesium, "free ticket"(i drove 3 of my buddies from bsu to site they had the tics but no ride), experience "enhansements"...1 'lude and many much smoke, Foghat opened for Johnny Winter.
first rock concert ever, fairgrounds colesium indy, about summer 1970, 3 dog night, smelled the herb for first time, did not personally inhale any tho.
gol dang some of us on here are old farts!

 

[Stainer]

Foo Fighters put on a damn good show, Saw Avenged Sevenfold this past weekend and they hung a roadie on stage. Literally hung a roadie on stage. It was awesome. Killswitch engage had the best moshing experience. And Nonpoint had the best show that I would go to see multiple times.

 

[jsharmon7]

The best concert was Tom Petty at Verizon/Deer Creek/that place in Noblesville. The way they would just jam and keep the songs going was awesome.

The best atmosphere for a show was Jimmy Buffett. Some people partied a little too hard and a little too early though and ended up passed out in the open trunks of cars. They missed a good show.

 

[Coach]

Garth Brooks 1988 Preble County Fair in Eaton, Ohio. The fair board signed Garth the year before then he made it big, and so it was a good concert. A local radio station was handing out neon yellow t shirts to all the hot chicks and the guy passing them out was genius. He got them all to put them on and they were all one size too small.

 

[Miller Tyme]

Jimmy Buffet, every year @ Riverbend, never a dull moment.

Eric Clapton back in 82 @ Riverfront Colusiemwould be a close 2nd.

 

[navarre1095]

Pink Floyd in St Louis.

 

[drbarnes]

roger waters the wall last fall in chicago

 

[jgressley2003]

Nickelback, Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown, and Sick Puppies at Verizon last year

 

[bman1962]

Elton John, Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. Years ago.

 

[IrishSon of Liberty]

I've been to too many shows, and like too many types of music to just pick one.

1st concert - Tanya Tucker @ Little Opry House, Nashville, IN

Best Rock - Stone Temple Pilots @ Pepsi Coliseum

Best Bang for Buck - Bush @ Union Station, Indianapolis $3!!!

Most Impressive - Allman Brothers Band @ Deer Creek

Best Show - Garth Brooks, Indiana State Fair

Most Fun/Most Eye Candy - Dave Matthews Band @ Alpine Valley, Wisconson
*Do NOT go drunk to Alpine Valley. Very steep steps, and it's work getting up out of the pavillion.

Most Recent - Yonder Mountain String Band @ Cannery Ballroom, Nashville, TN two weeks ago!


** Worst show - Metallica @ Deer Creek (walking into the OUTDOOR pavillion and all you could smell was body odor and hair spray!)

 

[littletommy]

Most Fun/Most Eye Candy

Speaking of eye candy, my wife dragged me to see Keith Urban a year or two ago at the Kentucky State Fair, HOLY CRAP!!! Out of the 17 or so thousand people in there, I'd say about 16,000 were totally smokin hot chicks! I'd go to a Keith Urban show again.

 

[revsaxon]

KISS in a few years ago. Im not a huge fan of their music, but the tickets were dirt cheap, really close up (went with friends who got them on some sort of "LEO discount" program), and when Gene flew out over the crowd playing bass with blood dripping out his mouth...

Man those guys can rock a stage show.

Most visually stunning was Dave Mathews 2 years ago. Was in an arena called "The Gourge" up in Washington state, which was literally a stage on the edge of a canyon. The band started playing just as the sun was setting and it was insanely beautiful. Of course the 3000 people sparking joints all around me might have helped with that a little :/

 

[Dr_O]

Those were fuzzy years. I don't remember.

"Dude, where's the car."

 

[dekeshooter]

Clapton @ Deer Creek in '08 and '10. The '08 show was memorable for the thunderstorm that cut loose during "Layla".

Grateful Dead @ Deer Creek in '91. A night where the music played the band.

Bob Dylan @ MSA in '86. He was backed up that tour by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

The Rolling Stones in '89 at the Dome.

George Throrogood and Little Feat at Deer Creek in '95 (I think). Second row.

 

[fullauto 45]

Alright, I saw AC/DC on their first USA tour in 1975 when they were an opening band for KISS. It was AC/DC, Someone that really sucked because I do not remember their name, and KISS. I was two people deep from the stage, no seating then. And watched Bon Scott carry a fat Angus Young around Market Square twice!
I then was pulled up on the stage with Marshall Tucker the next year and was in the 3rd row center stage for Willie Nelson the same year. Got on stage with Marshall Tucker because I was getting shoved around and Doug Grey motioned for me to get up there and pulled me up on the stage and said , "here kid, have a seat over here." I saw getting shoved around by all the drunk hillbillies and he saw I was into the music and not the drugs and drinking going around. I went and saw then again this last year at Rib Fest downtown.

 

[patience0830]

Manhattan transfer

3rd row. 1982. I was given the tickets. It was an outdoor venue that used to be close to downtown. can't even remember what the place was called. MHT live is real music. Amazing vocalists, all four members.

#2 was "Chicago" at the state fair in about 1975.