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The Motherfucking Concert thread. Bitch.
Local H Jay
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So, the other night I went and saw NIN live at a local casino. The casino was shitty, and my seats were in the nosebleeds.
But holy fucking god was it great. Everysong was dead on, and I didn't like Ghosts 'till I heard it live. Now it's amazing to me. And all this happens to me in a shitty casino!
And oh god. The time I saw Local H on an assfuckin' boat! I've never seen a man struck with a guitar neck like that. And then Scott cussing out the sound guy for fucking up repeatedly. The sounds and lights of the boat reflecting off the Hudson River. And the drunks trying to touch the band. It was amazingly fun and the best $25 I've ever spent.
So basically, tell me about the best fucking concert you've gone to, and what made it so awesome.
Concerts are what make music for me, if I never could see a band live I'd never fully appreciate the music.
But holy fucking god was it great. Everysong was dead on, and I didn't like Ghosts 'till I heard it live. Now it's amazing to me. And all this happens to me in a shitty casino!
And oh god. The time I saw Local H on an assfuckin' boat! I've never seen a man struck with a guitar neck like that. And then Scott cussing out the sound guy for fucking up repeatedly. The sounds and lights of the boat reflecting off the Hudson River. And the drunks trying to touch the band. It was amazingly fun and the best $25 I've ever spent.
So basically, tell me about the best fucking concert you've gone to, and what made it so awesome.
Concerts are what make music for me, if I never could see a band live I'd never fully appreciate the music.
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I don't care if it was a hub of commercialism, it was spectacular fun. Someone was taken to the hospital before the gates even opened.
It wasn't nearly as big as the AFI concert I saw but it was way more fun.
On a more sour note, I saw the NIN concert at Rexall Place here just last month and I thought it was pretty crap, but that's probably because of the very lame crowd. Trent did make an effort, but it's hard to have a good concert when the crowd won't even clap in time when prompted by the band. Low audience participation kills a concert for me. It's all about the band feeding off of the vibe of the crowd, the crowd feeding off of that, and just spinning up into insane heights of screaming-awesome music.
And I never heard it so quiet as when Trent sung Hurt.
Also last year I got to see B.B King and it was amazing. It is like watching your grandpa on stage if your grandpa is black and a legendary blues musician and also an awesome storyteller. It was in the auditorium too so it was a nice seated show with great sound quality where you could just relax and enjoy the music (unlike NIN where although I would like to relax and enjoy the music, part of the fun is just the raw energy and the jumping around and yelling). Also I'm pretty sure I was the youngest person there because everyone else was like 40+.
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Speaking of which, Pearl Jam concert posters are so awesome.
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Notable highlights, saw a big punk show on New Years Eve '04. I remember Rufio and Yellowcard play, but not much else, except Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies had top billing. I almost caught a drumstick, and then ended the night with Auld Langs Eye. Rock.
See how many books I've read so far in 2010
Last summer, Coney Island, outdoor concert, right on the beach, it was lightly raining, everyone was dancing.
edit: Music video made with footage from that exact concert.
it should rock
I'll let you know
You should have seen Tool on the Lateralus tour. That was the freakiest shit I've ever seen in person. It's bad enough to be in an altered state, but then dancers start hanging from the ceiling and some bizarre shit plays on the screens and the band is playing behind some curtains and you have no clue what the hell is going on.
And the award for most insane crowd goes to Man Man:
Are you talking about the Mohegan Sun Arena? I live about 20-25 minutes from there and almost saw Stone Temple Pilots at the venue during memorial day weekend but saw them the day before at the Oakland Theater which was an awesome show. I had also seen Scott Weiland when he was in Velvet Revolver last year in August when they were touring with Alice in Chains (also another memorable show).
Im debating whether to see Motley Crue at that place or at the Tweeter Center in mansfield MA (where i saw VR and AiC) later this month.
I've also been to a handful of local/small scale shows and the Bamboozle Festival this year featuring various bands, all were pretty great shows.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Dallas in the middle of summer with 100+ temperatures before the show even started.
Yup, I HATE Mohegan with a passion. Not letting me go anywhere since I'm 18, and shitty layout. Signs are nice and helpful, Indians!
The verticallity of the arena makes me quesy.
If any of you have a chance to see Local H, do it, because they will absolutely blow you away. Brian is such an amazing drummer, he pounds the shit out of the drums like no one else I've ever seen.
I was going to see NIN tonight but the show got cancelled. But the Fragility 2.0 tour was nothing short of amazing.
Other great live acts:
The Pixies
The Toadies
The Mountain Goats
But there is nothing like Local H.
The light-show was AMAZING. I'm not one to care about lasers and strobes and other shit like that. But they had these giant tubes hanging from the rafters down to the stage, and they basically framed the band so that it looked like they were on a much smaller stage. These things must have been filled with LEDs or something, but they flashed and strobed and changed color and made crazy checker patterns and all kinds of other stuff, all to the beat of the music. I would have loved that concert even if I was deaf. It was like what I imagine a really good acid trip would look like, while listening to Radiohead.
It was also very cool because when they played "Everything in it's Right Place," rather than using pre-recorded tracks for all the weird techno stuff, Thom Yorke sat down at a mixing board and spend a couple minutes recording loops for the song right there. That was very neat.
Also the Toadies are back together and touring again.
01. O.K.
02. Dick Jones
03. Eddie Vedder
04. Bearer Of Bad News
05. No Problem
06. Dead Flowers
07. Lucky Time
08. All The Kids Are Right
[Local H - main set]
01. Halcyon Days (Where Were You Then?)
02. Money On The Dresser
03. Fritz's Corner
04. All-Right (Oh, Yeah)
05. Hey, Rita
06. High-Fiving MF
07. Heavy Metal Bakesale
08. Buffalo Trace
09. Heaven On The Way Down
10. (President Forever) > Fine And Good
11. California Songs
01. Hands On The Bible
02. Bound For The Floor
03. Auf Wiedersehen
04. ~ Encore ~
05. Southern Girls
06. He's A Whore
07. Surrender
08. Tame
09. Breed
10. Everyone Alive
11. Fuck Yeah, That Wide
I am really digging the Local H love, I am glad other people are getting the word out. So great.
Live there are nothing short of amazing. Imagine a guy crowd surfing from one floor of a boat to the next. While playing.
And the extended Hands on the Bible with stay with me forever. 8-)
Closest there is
01. Intro
02. Creature Instrumental
03. Hello, Everyone
04. Payback Is A Mother
05. Money Shot
06. Lead Pipe Cinch *
07. Summer Movies
08. Bigger
09. Stoner
10. Stick To What You Know
11. Tag Along
12. Lazy Crazy
13. Talking Smack
14. Halcion Daze
15. Congressman
01. ~ Encore ~
02. No Fun
03. President Forever
04. Cooler Heads
05. I Just Want Something To Do ^
06. Birth, School, Work, Death #
07. Fuck Yeah, That Wide %
Th....
Thanatos?
The Pat Metheny Group is also fantastic in concert. I've seen him and the group a few times, but the best was during The Way Up tour. They played the entire The Way Up album (it's one long piece). Then a whole bunch of other tracks. The show was easily close to three hours long and they didn't stop for a second. So good.
Recently I saw Hayden in this older church here in Ottawa. He always does a great show but the accoustics were so unbelieveable in this church. And Basia Bulat opened for him, so that made the show even better.
But Radiohead next friday..... I'm sure that'll be up there.
took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer
1) Yo-Yo Ma. But I guess we're talking more of the fucking rocking, here.
2) Porcupine Tree. It was fucking great, except for the encore they played Halo instead of Trains. What the fuck, fuck you guy who kept yelling "HALOOOO HALLOOOOOO"
Open Car is about 1000% better live, for the record.
There were signs all the way up the highway: "Special event, expect police road checks." There were none. And then we got there, and we basically walked right in. Very little security, no crowd control, staff was completely disorganized, and they didn't even scan our tickets. Some dude came up to us in the parking lot, tore the barcodes off, and gave us wristbands in exchange. We could have gotten in for free. Apart from having to wait in line for 2 hours to park our car, and then standing for another 2 hours to get on the bus to take us to the festival, that was the extent of our difficulties getting in. So we got up bright and early the next morning, drove into town and filled a couple coolers with booze, which we again carried into the campsite with no difficulty.
It turned out, several of the world-class DJs that had been announced -- including The Crystal Method and DJ Shadow -- would be playing inside a 2500-person Bacardi B-Live tent. Potentially 40,000 people paid hundreds of dollars under the impression that they would get to see these acts. There was a five-hour lineup to get into the tent, so you can probably imagine how some of those in the line reacted when they stopped letting people in.
The campsite was a gong show, everyone was wasted, but apart from the one incident at the Bacardi tent, amazingly very well behaved. And the music was awesome.
Reese gave the crowd a mattress to surf on.
And random peanut butter cups.
(Also, his side project band, Brave Saint Saturn, were the openers, who warned everyone not to stay for FIF since they sucked.)
I later saw them when they played Warped Tour, but it wasn't quite as awesome.
(New Found Glory stole the show there.)
I wish I could say it was BT at Ultra Music Festival, but someone had stolen all his gear the night before. Roni Size / Represent and some local break artists called Prizm & Eclipse made up for that, at least.
This, a thousand times, this.