Top 5 Concerts You've Ever Seen

[michigancat]

1. Manu Chao in Austin TX
2. ACL '09
3. ACL '11
4. Ozomatli and Chali 2na on Hollween in Lawrence
5. Death Cab for Cutie in Omaha

i am going to ACL this year. post or pm great tips. tia.

to get close to the stage, go to far stage right or left and walk forward as far as you can. Then make a 90 degree turn and you can get pretty close, although you might not see the entire stage. Even if you have a somewhat obstructed view, this is far better than just standing way at the back in the middle.

[Mikeyis4dcats]

1.  Roger Waters presents The Wall - Sprint Center 2010
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4.  FUN. - The Pagaent STL  July 2012
5.  Aerosmith / Fuel  - Sandstone  Mid 2000s.      Mostly awesome because I was 3 rows back and they put on a great show.
6.  Aerosmith / Kid Rock - Sandstone  Early 2000s      Kid Rock is awesome live, had sopme hot cage dancers.

[nicname]

311/ Matisyahu - KC City Market

Pretty sure this was in the parking lot across from the Beaumont Club, not City Market.  Was an awesome show.

You're correct. 

[michigancat]

I'm pretty sure 311 was part of the worst concert I've ever seen.

Modest Mouse was my least favorite headliner ever. (there was an entertaining thread on ksufans)

[j-dub]

did anyone catch dylan at the bram back in 04/05ish.. my gosh it was awful.

[slobber]

did anyone catch dylan at the bram back in 04/05ish.. my gosh it was awful.

He was awful when I saw him, but it was still Dylan, so it was pretty awesome. Santana wasn't mainstream at the time, but he was awesome.

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

I'm pretty sure 311 was part of the worst concert I've ever seen.

Modest Mouse was my least favorite headliner ever. (there was an entertaining thread on ksufans)

Yeah, 311 is an awful band.  There are lots of reasons a concert can suck, but the worst is if the band just blows.  Like 311.  Even then, you can pull it off if your band is having fun rather than trying to be "cool" -- like, I had a blast watching no-talent Dread Zeppelin at the old KSU stadium, because it was just fun.  But 311 sucked and they didn't realize it.

Other bad concert experiences:
1)  De La Soul/Tribe Called Quest @ KU Ballroom (2 of my favorites of ALL TIME, but it was a horrible set-up and it sounded like Radioshack speakers)
2)  Cake @ Highline Ballroom (walked off after 4 songs because people were taking pictures, wtf!  you ain't THAT big time)

[pissclams]

once they got the tech issues fixed at the De La Soul/Tribe Called Quest show, it was great. 

[pissclams]

i saw danzig play at the bottleneck, it was incredible

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

once they got the tech issues fixed at the De La Soul/Tribe Called Quest show, it was great.

Oh.  It's possible I was drunk by that time.  (Another reason a show can suck.)   

Also, kinda weird that there only like 200-250(?) people at that show and we were two of them...

[nicname]

I'm pretty sure 311 was part of the worst concert I've ever seen.

Modest Mouse was my least favorite headliner ever. (there was an entertaining thread on ksufans)

Yeah, 311 is an awful band.  There are lots of reasons a concert can suck, but the worst is if the band just blows.  Like 311.  Even then, you can pull it off if your band is having fun rather than trying to be "cool" -- like, I had a blast watching no-talent Dread Zeppelin at the old KSU stadium, because it was just fun.  But 311 sucked and they didn't realize it.

Other bad concert experiences:
1)  De La Soul/Tribe Called Quest @ KU Ballroom (2 of my favorites of ALL TIME, but it was a horrible set-up and it sounded like Radioshack speakers)
2)  Cake @ Highline Ballroom (walked off after 4 songs because people were taking pictures, wtf!  you ain't THAT big time)

  <---- GOSP's post not 311, ATCQ, or Cake. 

[pissclams]

once they got the tech issues fixed at the De La Soul/Tribe Called Quest show, it was great.

Oh.  It's possible I was drunk by that time.  (Another reason a show can suck.)   

Also, kinda weird that there only like 200-250(?) people at that show and we were two of them...

i can't begin to tell you how much i love those two bands.  (truthfully i could but it would take too long). 

[star seed 7]

Fat Elvis, Bill's Gambling Hall, Las Vegas, NV

   i'm wearing a bills gambling hall t-shirt at this very moment 

[ChiComCat]

I'm pretty sure 311 was part of the worst concert I've ever seen.

Modest Mouse was my least favorite headliner ever. (there was an entertaining thread on ksufans)

Yeah, 311 is an awful band.  There are lots of reasons a concert can suck, but the worst is if the band just blows.  Like 311.  Even then, you can pull it off if your band is having fun rather than trying to be "cool" -- like, I had a blast watching no-talent Dread Zeppelin at the old KSU stadium, because it was just fun.  But 311 sucked and they didn't realize it.

Other bad concert experiences:
1)  De La Soul/Tribe Called Quest @ KU Ballroom (2 of my favorites of ALL TIME, but it was a horrible set-up and it sounded like Radioshack speakers)
2)  Cake @ Highline Ballroom (walked off after 4 songs because people were taking pictures, wtf!  you ain't THAT big time)

I enjoyed my 311 concert but it wasn't great.  I was just at the point of getting past the 311 phase and getting into good music though.  I've wanted to see Cake (though pretty well past their prime), the walking off seems weird

[steve dave]

Fat Elvis, Bill's Gambling Hall, Las Vegas, NV

   i'm wearing a bills gambling hall t-shirt at this very moment 

how did you come about owning such a fine piece of apparel?

[mocat]

I'm pretty sure 311 was part of the worst concert I've ever seen.

Modest Mouse was my least favorite headliner ever. (there was an entertaining thread on ksufans)

Yeah, 311 is an awful band.  There are lots of reasons a concert can suck, but the worst is if the band just blows.  Like 311.  Even then, you can pull it off if your band is having fun rather than trying to be "cool" -- like, I had a blast watching no-talent Dread Zeppelin at the old KSU stadium, because it was just fun.  But 311 sucked and they didn't realize it.

Other bad concert experiences:
1)  De La Soul/Tribe Called Quest @ KU Ballroom (2 of my favorites of ALL TIME, but it was a horrible set-up and it sounded like Radioshack speakers)
2)  Cake @ Highline Ballroom (walked off after 4 songs because people were taking pictures, wtf!  you ain't THAT big time)

I enjoyed my 311 concert but it wasn't great.  I was just at the point of getting past the 311 phase and getting into good music though.  I've wanted to see Cake (though pretty well past their prime), the walking off seems weird

Cake played last year at City Market right after the Joplin tornado and in between songs said the following: "Oh man, it's great to be in the midwest, where there's no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no tsunamis, no natural disasters at all"

[star seed 7]

1-10.  every urge show
11.  less than jake/the decendents/guttermouth/22 jacks/bubble boys 1998 liberty hall
12.  weezer/some other band 1998 the granada
13.  less than jake 1999 the bottleneck
14.  311/2 skinnee j's early 2000's city market
15.  family values tour, korn/limp bizkit/rammstien/orgy/ice cube 1999?  kemper arena


cake was easily the worst band i've ever seen live(out of around 100+ shows), fwiw.  threatened to walk off because people were crowd surfing and taking pictures.

[star seed 7]

Fat Elvis, Bill's Gambling Hall, Las Vegas, NV

   i'm wearing a bills gambling hall t-shirt at this very moment 

how did you come about owning such a fine piece of apparel?

i have 3 actually.  2 whites, and 1 red.  they are very comfortable shirts.

and my mom bought them for me, that's where she stays in vegas, i haven't been back to vegas since it opened.

[Dr Rick Daris]

once they got the tech issues fixed at the De La Soul/Tribe Called Quest show, it was great.

Oh.  It's possible I was drunk by that time.  (Another reason a show can suck.)   

Also, kinda weird that there only like 200-250(?) people at that show and we were two of them...

i can't begin to tell you how much i love those two bands.  (truthfully i could but it would take too long).

de la was the gobot version to the transformers tribe imo.

[EMAWmeister]

Top 5 people I want to punch in the face for waking me up at 2:08 AM on a Monday morning so they can get into the house and start a stupid rough ridin' thread about concerts:

1-5: EMAWMeister

Thanks again, Kelly Klarkson Kreep!

[Emo EMAW]

1.  Jason Boland & the Stragglers @ Knuckleheads, 2010
2.  Reckless Kelly, Diamond MO, 2010
3.  Incubus, City Market, 2007
4.  Jason Boland & the Stragglers/Turnpike Troubadours, Granada, 2011
5.  Reckless Kelly, The Wormy Dog Saloon, 2010

[LickNeckey]

TOOL (anywhere)
My Morning Jacket (anywhere)
Widespread Panic (especially at Red Rocks)
RATM (reunion show at Coachella)
Goodie Mob with Andre Benjamin in McCain when I was fourteen

Split Lip's last few shows were amazing
Everyone should see the Flaming Lips once
RHCP are good but shows are somewhat uninspiring a little to over produced/corporate
Black Keys are awesome in small venues in large settings they are pretty meh
Old Crow Medicine Show is always a good time

[LickNeckey]

What are they? (PS suck it Ron Prince's Goatee) 


1. OAR
2. Eric Church (KC)
3. OAR (KC again)
4. Eric Church (Topeka)
5. Something Corporate

This is assuming that local bands signed to major labels don't count.


Edit: Woof, great list, 'Meister. 

This list is gross.

OAR rough ridin' blows live I went to a show super pak'd and it sucked so bad I left.  Then later at a festival felt guilty that maybe I didn't give them a chance, they sucked so bad at the festival that I left and watched some less shitty euro DJamer.

[p1k3]

I'm pretty sure 311 was part of the worst concert I've ever seen.

Modest Mouse was my least favorite headliner ever. (there was an entertaining thread on ksufans)

Yeah, 311 is an awful band.  There are lots of reasons a concert can suck, but the worst is if the band just blows.  Like 311.  Even then, you can pull it off if your band is having fun rather than trying to be "cool" -- like, I had a blast watching no-talent Dread Zeppelin at the old KSU stadium, because it was just fun.  But 311 sucked and they didn't realize it.

Other bad concert experiences:
1)  De La Soul/Tribe Called Quest @ KU Ballroom (2 of my favorites of ALL TIME, but it was a horrible set-up and it sounded like Radioshack speakers)
2)  Cake @ Highline Ballroom (walked off after 4 songs because people were taking pictures, wtf!  you ain't THAT big time)

I enjoyed my 311 concert but it wasn't great.  I was just at the point of getting past the 311 phase and getting into good music though.  I've wanted to see Cake (though pretty well past their prime), the walking off seems weird

311 puts on a good show. You guys are just too old. lol at transitioning into Cake as good music

[steve dave]

311 puts on a good show. You guys are just too old.

lol