Top 5 concerts you have been to.

[Nail Polish]

This was so freaking hard, but I like these five:

5.) Peter Gabriel @ Rosemont Horizon 1986 - His albums really changed the way I looked at music in the early eighties, but finally seeing his show live was just so epic at the time. Felt like he was performing with at seventy-four piece band and it went flawlessly.

4.) Tom Waits @ Chicago Theater 1999 - Another performers whose albums I loved immensely, but never really had the chance to catch live. Worth the wait. A showman in the purest form...can have you double over in laughter and then break you heart in just a few strokes of the piano. Born about fifty years too late, but we are better people because of it.

3.) Guns N Roses @ Perkins Place 1987 - My very first trip to California and this was a side trip I had to be dragged to kicking and screaming expecting one of those lame skinhead punk shows SoCal was infested with at the time. Instead, full on Sunset Strip nastiness. I did things at that show I still not proud to admit (i.e. drugs, skanks, beat up by Santa Claus), but will never forget.

2.) "Lame Fest" @ Moore Theater 1989 - A trio of bands by a label I was doing work for. Tad, Mudhoney and Nirvana. I remember thinking, "Man, Mudhoney is going to be huge!" Also the night I met Kurt Cobain. **** you haters...that was the sweetest kid in Rock and Roll.

1.) Queen @ Popular Creek 1982 - My first high school concert. Totally got to second base with Cindy. Oh yeah....and captivated by the greatest rock n roll frontman of all time.

Tom Waits would be my choice

 

[HeHateMe]

It pays to be alert and notice things when youre out and about. Youre probably too busy runnin your mouth to observe things though

yup. just running my mouth all the time not noticing any of the shit that happened to me described in this thread and otherwise. Woe is me...

 

[Nail Polish]

yup. just running my mouth all the time not noticing any of the shit that happened to me described in this thread and otherwise. Woe is me...

You probably missed a lot more though

 

[HeHateMe]

Tom Waits would be my choice

one thing we can agree on. tom waits is awesome.

 

[Nail Polish]

one thing we can agree on. tom waits is awesome.

Ol' 55

 

[KittiesKorner]

I derped into a Kenny Rogers concert at Taste of Chicago in 2007. That was the first and last time I'll ever go to that shitty festival

 

[HeHateMe]

I derped into a Kenny Rogers concert at Taste of Chicago in 2007. That was the first and last time I'll ever go to that shitty festival

this made me chortle.

 

[bearmick]

This was so freaking hard, but I like these five:

5.) Peter Gabriel @ Rosemont Horizon 1986 - His albums really changed the way I looked at music in the early eighties, but finally seeing his show live was just so epic at the time. Felt like he was performing with at seventy-four piece band and it went flawlessly.

4.) Tom Waits @ Chicago Theater 1999 - Another performers whose albums I loved immensely, but never really had the chance to catch live. Worth the wait. A showman in the purest form...can have you double over in laughter and then break you heart in just a few strokes of the piano. Born about fifty years too late, but we are better people because of it.

3.) Guns N Roses @ Perkins Place 1987 - My very first trip to California and this was a side trip I had to be dragged to kicking and screaming expecting one of those lame skinhead punk shows SoCal was infested with at the time. Instead, full on Sunset Strip nastiness. I did things at that show I still not proud to admit (i.e. drugs, skanks, beat up by Santa Claus), but will never forget.

2.) "Lame Fest" @ Moore Theater 1989 - A trio of bands by a label I was doing work for. Tad, Mudhoney and Nirvana. I remember thinking, "Man, Mudhoney is going to be huge!" Also the night I met Kurt Cobain. **** you haters...that was the sweetest kid in Rock and Roll.

1.) Queen @ Popular Creek 1982 - My first high school concert. Totally got to second base with Cindy. Oh yeah....and captivated by the greatest rock n roll frontman of all time.

Major jealous of the Queen one.

 

[HeHateMe]

i can't stop crying. [video]http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=casimir+pulaski+day+sufjan+stevens&FORM=VIRE5#view=detail&mid=5105200B8FCA56982E905105200B8FCA56982E90[/video]

 

[KittiesKorner]

I never knew that song was him

 

[Penny Traitor]

Tom Waits would be my choice

The top three had more sentimental value to me, but as far as just a pure live show....no one does it like Tom Waits. Amazing human being.

Major jealous of the Queen one.

I did like Queen, but it was the aforementioned Cindy that got me to go to that show in all honesty. Best happy accident ever.

Freddie Mercury was a fucking force of nature on stage. I was never the same.

 

[HeHateMe]

I never that song was him

wut?

also, i'm still crying like a *****. Holy shit sometimes music is powerful.

 

[HeHateMe]

anybody got some good songs for dat feel? dat feel? gonna drift off here in a little while....

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

The top three had more sentimental value to me, but as far as just a pure live show....no one does it like Tom Waits. Amazing human being.



I did like Queen, but it was the aforementioned Cindy that got me to go to that show in all honesty. Best happy accident ever.

Freddie Mercury was a fucking force of nature on stage. I was never the same.

I saw Brian May at some festival years after Freddie died. They stuck him on a side stage. He was singing lead on all the songs. Had 4 ugly skanks dancing behind him and a big wind machine blowing his hair. It was really sad.

 

[Omeletpants]

Ol' 55

Tom Waitts original Ol' 55

[video=youtube;PejBkU4-1fk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PejBkU4-1fk[/video]


Awhile back my monhtly music thread was about the great Rickie Lee Jones. Well, Tom Waitts was her mentor and boyfriend

 

[KittiesKorner]

wut?

also, i'm still crying like a *****. Holy shit sometimes music is powerful.

feel better buddiez. I meant I knew knew that song was him.

that song kind of reminds me of this cass mccombs song (can't find anything but a live version on youtube, the recording is better)

[video=youtube;qua1-N9c5aI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qua1-N9c5aI[/video]

 

[Desperado34]

Saw them at U of I in Champaign 11 years ago. Our seats were where we could see him play from behind the kit and to the side. I hardly took my eyes off him all night. Awesome.

lmao Dave matthews.. Hemidee hemidee hemmmmmmm maaaa. Seriously all that dude does mutter some weird lingo shit.. Wanna listen to some Dave , man? Play some bags?" Got the flip flops n seashell necklace too? Lol


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[Desperado34]

one thing we can agree on. tom waits is awesome.

when I was away at college their was a period I was tired n depressed in the middle of winter( no boats, no Tecate , no bikinis make me sad) I used to get drunk and walk/stumble back home and just blast closing time by Tom.. I hope that I don't fall in love with you tugged at the heart strings a lot


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[Desperado34]

anybody got some good songs for dat feel? dat feel? gonna drift off here in a little while....

You're annoying but heres feels..Thank me 10 minutes into the song.

[video=youtube;xA82phRQ0vI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA82phRQ0vI[/video]

 

[KittiesKorner]

I always liked the piano has been drinking