What concerts have you attended?

[bryan_65]

PM5K tomorrow.

[Frag Mortuus]

Saw Alice in Chains last night!

[smoogyvonsmoogy]

I've been to very few concerts, but the ones I have gone to I've really enjoyed.
Video Games Live (some arrangements are questionable, but overall a lot of fun).
Roger Waters (The Wall is one of my favourite albums, and holy cow this concert went all out. Fantastic musicianship, stellar set design and special effects, and a super pumped crowd made this one to remember).
Paul Simon & Sting (a crowd of mostly people my parent's age, but those musicians could sure as hell play, and Paul Simon can still belt it out even after all these years).
That's it for now, but would really love to hear Outkast, Pet Shop Boys, Daft Punk, and Fitz and the Tantrums at some point.

[dunpeal2064]

Rush - Excellent. I only wish I could have saved this concert for after their release of Clockwork Angels.

Tool - Awesome.

Linkin Park/Korn/Snoop Dogg - Weird concert, think this was in 2006 or so. Park was fairly poor overall, Korn was surprisingly good live.

Deftones/Atreyu/Dredg/As I Lay Dying/otherbands - Went for Deftones, was not disappointed. This was between self-titled and Wrist. Discovered Dredg at the show, was blown away.

Ozzfests (SoaD, Disturbed, Ozzy, Norma Jean, Lamb of God, Dragonforce, etc, etc) - Hot, long days. Would probably be more fun now that I am older. Seeing Ozzy on the small stage was gold though.

Puscifer - One of the best shows I have ever seen. Tons of interaction with the audience, Maynard being a silly sonofabitch, band opened for themselves with a fo-christian act, just so much damn fun all around

Animals as Leaders - Most recent show, just went about a month ago. This show will always stick with me, I am unhealthily obsessed with AAL, so this was a dream come true. They had just released their new album 3 days before the show, and it is the greatest album I have ever heard. To go from that bliss, to hearing it live.... man. Life changing. I listen to that entire album almost daily. Will see them the very next chance I get.

Missing tons of small concerts, stuff like Mushroomhead coming to modesto, Tommy Lee (lol), Grand Funk, Pretenders, b52s, nodes of renvier, dance gavin, all kinds of random shit. If its music and its live, I'm down.

[s1mplehumar]

Really cool to read about everyone's experiences.

I've been to a gazillion shows, these stand out in my brain:

Fantomas, 2001, a couple days after 9/11. Everyone was still kind of freaked out, Patton shouted at the audience, "What are you guys doing here?!? You should all be at home huddled in your bomb shelters!!" Incredible to watch those guys play live though, so precise.

Godspeed You Black Emperor at First Avenue in Minneapolis sometime in 2002. Best sounding show I've ever heard in my life.

Melt-Banana, three times. So, so, so, SOOOO insane.

Slayer in 1998. I was only 16 and got the everloving snot kicked out of me.

Nice. Live Godspeed never disappoint.

[Reprise]

Here's a list of every band I have seen, but it includes bands I've seen in supporting roles and at festivals.

The Gallows
As I Lay Dying (x3)
Bullet for My Valentine (x2)
Bring Me the Horizon
The Haunted (x2)
Killswitch Engage (x3)
Wolf
Municipal Waste
The Red Chord
The Black Dahlia Murder
Job for a Cowboy
Children of Bodom
Machine Head
Slipknot (x2)
Hollywood Undead
The Blackout
Staind
Limp Bizkit (x2)
Korn
Faith No More
Five Finger Death Punch
Devildriver
Hatebreed
Down
Dragonforce
Suicide Silence (x2)
God Forbid
Sevendust
Dream Theater
Unearth
36 Crazyfists
Them Crooked Vultures
AC/DC
Taking Dawn
Hell Yeah
Rolo Tomassi (x2)
Lamb of God
Deftones (X3)
Rage Against The Machine
3 Inches of Blood
Nonpoint
August Burns Red
Switchfoot
Napalm Death
Slash
The Damned Things
Stone Sour
Coheed and Cambria
Sylosis
Heaven Shall Burn
Goodtime Boys
Oathbreaker
Venom & Apathy
Enemo-J
Jayce Lewis
Black Light Burns
Letlive
Three Trapped Tigers
Baby Godzilla
Nekrogoblikon
Crossfaith

[bryan_65]

Missing tons of small concerts, stuff like Mushroomhead coming to modesto

Man have you seen them before? I make sure to never miss them. I will be seeing them for the 5th time latter this month.

[BRIK]

I'm not going to fill up the whole page with what I've seen (well, I might later) but the first concert I saw was Green Day (when I was 16) and the latest was Rob Zombie, if that's any indication of how much my taste has changed over the years.

My highlights would probably be Roger Waters, Black Sabbath and KoRn. Actually come to think of it, Queens of the Stone Age was the latest thing I saw (besides from pub bands) and they were fucking amazing. Like Clockwork was easily my favourite album released last year.

[TSTR]

Rush - Excellent. I only wish I could have saved this concert for after their release of Clockwork Angels.

The Clockwork Angels tour was quite the experience, with the sick moving video screens and the steampunk stage setup. Hell of a show, but all RUSH shows are anyway.

[marurun]

I have seen very few dedicated concerts, but I've been to a bunch of Riverbend festivals in Chattanooga.

Dedicated concerts:

Jonathan Coulton (dedicated concert)
They Might Be Giants (Jonathan Coulton band as opening act)
Dar Williams with Shawn Mullins as the opening act
Rubble Bucket (it was at a garlic festival, but they sounded pretty awesome anyway)

Riverbend highlights (unfortunately, most bands kinda sound like ass at big, open music festivals):

Jethro Tull
Chicago
Collective Soul
Survivor (on a side stage, sadly, not the main stage)
Some other folks I didn't give a crap about.

Also, I've been to see the Cleveland Orchestra several times at Severance Hall. One of the best orchs in the US for a few decades running. Fantastic experience not to be missed.