ok, post 'em ... Epic Concerts You've Been To

Good to Epic Ones:

Jane's Addiction
The Who (Who are You Tour)
Frank Zappa (his band was great, his guitar playing amazing but Frank was a condescending asshole)
Buzzcocks (amazing - at the old 9:30 club on F st.)
Dinosaur, Jr.
Stranglers
Meat Puppets (Cant believe they're gonna play Dogfish Head next month - expecting a letdown)
Pretenders
Pavement
Ramones
Henry Rollins Band

Forgetting many good ones and remembering many forgettable ones (ZZ Top, Rush, the Who in the 1980s)

 

Lollapalooza 1996 - Ramones and Soundgarden
Lollapalooza 1997 - Devo and Tool

 

That is an awesome list. I would love to see many of those band.

 

Sublime at the TLA before Brad Odeed
Beck
Run DMC
RHCP
Beasties
U2, Muse opened and was better
the cure
Rolling stones last show at the vet
Reverend Horton Heat
A bunch more but you said epic

 

starting in '70
Allman Bros Band 4 times while Duane was alive, none since
Rare Earth
Iron Butterfly
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Mountain
Pink Floyd
Joe Cocker, AeroSmith and Little feat opening
Rolling Stones 3 times
Bob Marley (no woman no cry tour) at Georgetown U Gym
Robert Fripp
Alice Cooper twice
the Kinks
the BeeGees
9 inch nails
PIL
B52s
Devo
Elvis Costello (Rockpile and Mink Deville opening
ICP 2 times
The Call
gang of 4 opening for Peter Murphy
Buckethead with That 1 Guy openning
Michael Franti and Spearhead, twice
Kid Rock

to name a few. My son's best friends mom was head of security for the BoatHouse. I was often on 2 or more guest lists and now have 2 concert venues as clients.

 

Well rather than list em all I 'll list a few tops ones

Dexter Romweber opening for Black Joe Lewis this past Tuesday (awesome show in a small club with about 25 other people) both bands rock!

Clapton in 92
Allman Bros 97,98,99
Widespread Panic 96,98
Phish 95

 

Live Aid in Philly
Talking Heads during Stop Making Sense tour
The Who Quadrophenia 2013
The Specials 2013 NYC
Stones, Journey, Thorogood
Dead at JFK, last show before it was condemned
U2 at JFK
The Kinks many a time (saw a guy get laid when girl jumped on his lap)
The Cure at Spectrum

Ah, the 80s when you could puke on the floor and keep on watching with an illegal smile

 

wow lol.i cant remember half the shows iv been to.i seen black Sabbath 100 times.rob zombie,slipknot,uhhhhhh seriously cant even remember. a lot of those small bands that were big in the early 2000s that go on before the main concert.i was usually on drugs at all the concerts,its been a long time lol,been to a lot of ozzfests,warpedtour...I havnt heard a good song in a while.todays music sucks from the rock to rap to rnb to pop or whatever they call it.

 

RaTM and Public Enemy (97 tour)
Tool
Metallica
Pantera
GWAR
Black Crowes
Pearl Jam (go ahead and rip me if you want)
Floyd
Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia Band

were all amazing shows, but the most epic shows were seeing Phish

 

Wow, i'm really impressed by some of your lists guys!
Zeppelin in concert....f$&k yeah!

In no particular order:

G. Love & Special Sauce
Tool
Metallica
Dave Matthews Band (twice) & 1 time on lower slower delaware
311
The Wailers
Incubus
Primus
Charlie Daniels Band (twice)
Alice In Chains
Widespread Panic
Godsmack
Korn
Black Sabbath
Phil Lesh & Friends
Rat Dog
Faith No More
White Zombie
Pantera
John Brown's Body
SOJA
Allman Brothers
The Mars Volta
Sevendust

I know there's more, but I can't remember right off the bat.

 

We used to have the Florida Jams back in the mid to late seventies, they would have at least 15 top recording rock bands at the Tangerine Bowl, from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. way to many band to list.
Best bands...
Led Zeppelin Tampa 75'
Frank Zappa W.P.B. Auditorium 82' & 83' w/ Be Bop Deluxe in 82'...what a show
Z.Z. Top cant remember where...what a night
Lynard Skynard W.P.B. Another great show
Sly & Family Stone Disney World 79' Graduation Night...got caught puffing in the haunted house almost got kicked out but the dude let us go...so don't puff in there ...cameras....lol

 

Great lists, fun to read!

heres mine:

Motörhead
Plasmatics (ears rang for 3 days after)
Nashville pu$$y
Link wray
Dead Kennedys
Jody fosters army
Salem 66
Insect surfers
Replacements
Husker Du
The cramps
The nomads
Saw nirvana in a crappy bar in L.A. called
Rajis, had no idea who they were.

 

http://outofstepnw.blogspot.com/2013/06/ten-shows.html

Short list if you don't want to read:

Phil Lesh/Bob Dylan 6/30/2000
Dead Weather 7/24/2010
The Doors (of the 21st Century) 12/31/2003
Grateful Dead 6/26/1994
Bad Religion 11/15/1996
Lollapalooza I 7/20/1991
Alice in Chains 12/16/1992
Phish 9/19/1999
Jerry Garcia Band 5/17 and 5/18 1994

 

One time when I was like 10 or something I saw Foreigner and the Doobie Brothers play together - it was sick
That's all

 

One night in June 1984, while in port at NAS North Island (San Diego), the aircraft carrier USS Constellation hosted a country music concert with the following performers: Hank Williams Jr., Alabama, Waylon Jennings, Earl Thomas Conley, Mel Mc Daniel, Sylvia, and Gus Hardin. It was quite a show, held on the flight deck under a full moon, with the lights of the city and the harbor in the background. I actually found a portion of the concert on You Tube.

 

Very Cool! One question though, was it winter, was it Cold as Ice?

That must have been one sick show for sure. Youtube link perhaps?

 

Lollapalooza 1992: Ground Zero - Bayfront Park Miami August 23: Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, MINISTRY RULED !!!, Pearl Jam, and more...got home at 3 a.m. and looked at the radar...told my wife to get some sleep, because we have 3 hours until we have to evacuate. Woke up at 6 a.m. and looked at the radar...Hurricane Andrew on the rampage..Go Time!!!!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-pOd0Ep4V4

 

Tampa Stadium - June 1977 - Led Zepplin ( just graduated High school) -They only played three songs: The Song Remains the Same, Custard Pie, NoNoNoBodys Fault But Mine - sky opens up - guy throws a bottle at the band for taking a break - cops start a riot - mayhem. No refunds.

U2 a month after 9-11 - Bono draped in the American Flag at AA Arena in Miami singing One.

The White Zombie and Pantera at the WPB Auditorium in July with no A/c - it was hidieous but epic - nasty pit.

Pennywise at Warped Tour Miami, Sunfest WPB, Buzz Bake Sale WPB

A/c - D/C opened for Van Halen at the WPB Auditorium in the late 70s. The little guy got on the big guys shoulders and they waded into the crowd singing Hells Not a Bad Place to Be and everyone went nuts. Van Halen was anticlimatic.

Stone Temple Pilots
CDB/Grinder Switch/ Marshal Tucker Band/The Outlaws/ Lynerd Skinnerd 1975 Miami Baseball Staduim
Pink Floyd Animals Tour 1977 - Miami Baseball Stadium
Dropkick Murphys - Spankys Downtown WPB
Rancid - Casablanca - Ft. Liquordale

Iggy Pop - Summers on the Beach - Ft. L - when I got there with my crew, nothing but a pile of beer cans on stage that were thrown at the band as they were performing. Spent too much time copping **** before the show, got there too late. I still am pissed at that one.

Al Demiola and Roger McLaughlen and Carlos Santana at the Gainesville Gym - 1977 - tripping on cid - thought I had actually died and gone to heaven.

Thank You Yankee for bringing back what little memory is left.