I think the best I bands I ever saw live were Lamb of God, Bleeding Through, Black Sabbath, and believe it or not Chevelle..they rocked for being a alt rock band!
And worst - Dimmu Borgir, Magni Fi, and I've saw Superjoint RItual twice, the last time was good but the first time they sucked, music was good but Phil didn't serve them any justice, and between songs he wouldn't shut the heck up, and I love their music...... Oh and before I forget Hatebreed, they didn't impress me much at all for them being one of my favs.
One of the best...and most memorable... Ozzy - Diary of a Madman - with Randy Rhodes. It was at the War Memorial in Johnstown and my sister and I wormed our way through the crowd to the very front...it was her first concert - what could be better than Ozzy from the front row...sigh.
Worst..hmmm....Styx - Mr. Roboto - PAINFUL!!!
Who needs gold and diamonds when you can have chrome....
HarleyRo1 wrote:One of the best...and most memorable... Ozzy - Diary of a Madman - with Randy Rhodes. It was at the War Memorial in Johnstown and my sister and I wormed our way through the crowd to the very front...it was her first concert - what could be better than Ozzy from the front row...sigh.
Worst..hmmm....Styx - Mr. Roboto - PAINFUL!!!
WOW for Ozzy and wow...I would have loved to see Styx, for anything except "Mr. Roboto".
:cringe: Poor thing!
I saw The Who in Pittsburgh in '89 or '90. It was one of their numerous farewell tours. Townsend was playing in a plexiglass box to protect his hearing. He played acoustic on everything but a couple of songs. There was NO energy and they muffed the intro to a couple of songs and had to restart them. Lame.
You can put kittens in the oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits.
Forgot to weigh in with my favorite. I've seen my share of great shows. I'm pretty careful to pick bands that I'm really into and know their material. So, I'm going to have to pick Nine Inch Nails at the Post Gazette Pavilion in 2000. A Perfect Circle was the opener and they kicked ass too. Let me also mention TOOL, Kim Mitchell, Living Colour, and Crack the Sky to the list of great ones.
You can put kittens in the oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits.
Feelgood wrote:Worst: The Agony Scene, As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, and Wicked Wisdom
I'm suprised by that one. I've never seen as i lay dying personally but justin has and he says theyre awesome and i'll trust his judgement. i'm just going off the killswitch dvd for my judgement on them but they were awesome on it. i'll get raped for that comment i'm sure. i can hear it now, "they touched it up... blah blah blah." lol i've never seen agony scene or wicked wisdom so i'll take your word for it. one thing i can say is when we saw between the buried and me the kick drum was way too loud and it takes away from it in my opinion.
-Jeramy
I've seen dozens of great shows that just blew my mind and I have seen some that I thought plain sucked (Ozzy)
But the one I want to mention is not the best show I've ever seen by any means but instead it was the most surprising to me!
My wife (then girlfiend) took me to see Phil Collins. I really didn't want to go, but I was glad that I went. The guy has more energy than I could imagine - When I was 18 I couldn't have run around like he did at his age!!! He had a fantastic drum solo (not Neal Peart - but not that far behind Neal either) - the entire show was just unbelievable.
I would never have believed it if I didn't live it.
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Feelgood wrote:Worst: The Agony Scene, As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, and Wicked Wisdom
I'm suprised by that one. I've never seen as i lay dying personally but justin has and he says theyre awesome and i'll trust his judgement. i'm just going off the killswitch dvd for my judgement on them but they were awesome on it. i'll get raped for that comment i'm sure. i can hear it now, "they touched it up... blah blah blah." lol i've never seen agony scene or wicked wisdom so i'll take your word for it.
one thing i can say is when we saw between the buried and me the kick drum was way too loud and it takes away from it in my opinion.
JustinGelvin wrote:Loud kick drum is heavey metal!
I believe we had this conversation at the show, in the car on the way home, and i'm sure it will continue. ETID's bass drum was tamed down, tell me they didnt sound a million times better. TELL ME!!! And I'll tell you whats metal, to quote a guy (cough*Justin*cough*Gelvin*cough) I know, "eating a chicken nuggett from mcdonalds before i get my hair done." Now thats metal.
-Jeramy
JustinGelvin wrote:Loud kick drum is heavey metal!
I believe we had this conversation at the show, in the car on the way home, and i'm sure it will continue. ETID's bass drum was tamed down, tell me they didnt sound a million times better. TELL ME!!! And I'll tell you whats metal, to quote a guy (cough*Justin*cough*Gelvin*cough) I know, "eating a chicken nuggett from mcdonalds before i get my hair done." Now thats metal.
-Jeramy
Jeramy Culler - you dont understand what metal or hardcore is all about - to you.. if there aren't cauldrens of fire.. or neon guitar and music notes on walls.. it's simply not hardcore.. but you do know one thing.. well you don't, your mom does..
your mom knows how to make killer road cookies.. she don't fuck around there..
but you.. you know nothing.. except how to pawn off MGD to us, and for that, we love you hahaha
Johnstown War Memorial, around 1966-67, Dave Clark Five was just plain bad in a live setting. Their timing was off, lyrics unintelligible, played like they were wasted. The opener from Pittsburgh, I think it was The Stereos, was just kick butt good. M ix was tight, solid playing all around.
