Concerts thread: Best/Worst/Next/Last one you attended?

Best: Other Ones, Alpine Valley (WI), 1998. Opened with Dark Star>Jack Straw, finished with St. Stephen>The Eleven>Box of Rain>Turn on Your Lovelight. Basically, the Grateful Dead with Bruce Hornsby and a couple of other guys. Saw them three nights later at Deer Creek and they were equally-good.
(Runner-up: Bruce Hornsby, every time I've seen him he's been incredible).

Worst: Chicago/CSN, 1996, Deer Creek in Indy. Cold, rainy night. We were on the lawn. The remnants of Chicago were pretty good, but you could tell CSN wasn't really in it. Graham Nash started yelling at the crowd for leaving early before the encore, and then yelled "Thanks for not leaving" when they left the stage.
(HM: I saw Lou Gramm after a minor-league hockey game a couple of years ago. He was so out of shape, he would leave during the extended guitar solos to take a rest every song).

Last: Bruce Hornsby at Indy Jazz Fest, 2004. Between grad school, changing careers, having a kid and the rise in concert ticket prices, I haven't had opportunity to see one since. Heavy rains delayed the show an hour. When he came out, he put out a blistering show, finishing with then-Pistons coach Rick Carlisle sitting in on piano for Rainbow's Cadillac.

Most interesting: The first concert I attended was the Grateful Dead at Deer Creek, 7/2/1995. Sat in the 7th row, had a bird's-eye view of a gate-crashing incident, happening right after Bob Weir sang "and the riot squad/they're restless/they need someplace to go" in Dylan's Desolation Row. Five weeks later, Jerry Garcia had passed.

 

Well, this is depressing - I posted on this thread nearly a year ago and I see that my last concert attended is still my last concert attended.

Outside chance that I'll see The Budos Band in LA next Saturday, but I doubt it.

 

Best: A tie between the opening date on GnR's Use Your Illusion world tour (opened by Skid Row), and a rap bonanza headlined by Public Enemy and also featuring A Tribe Called Quest.

Worst: Stryper. (I was a kid...leave me alone!)

 

He's huge and out of shape b/c of the medication he's on for his brain tumor.

I'm still mad at him and Mick for not figuring out a way to make this shit work, though.

 

I'm looking forward to Tesla at the local county fair at the end of the month.

 

If that's irony in your tone, I will hurt you.

 

HELL no. I'm serious.

The fairgrounds is actually within walking distance of my house, too. They've also brought in Foreigner, Winger and Poison over the past few years.

 

First: Bon Jovi/Skid Row in Charleston, W.Va., during the New Jersey Tour

Last: Big arena band -- Pearl Jam in Missoula, Mont., as part of a fundraiser for John Tester. Little club -- Lennon about a year and a half ago.

Best: Def Leppard in Evansville, Ind., during the Eurphoria Tour (They played my fav song, Let it go, which is an obsure track of their second LP. They almost NEVER play it) and Melissa Ethridge in Indianapolis as part of a festival (I was there to see Bon Jovi). She got up on stage in front of 25K with just an acoustic guitar. Amazing.

Worst: Korn in Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. I don't smoke dope. I think that was the problem.

Next: Depends on who comes through next on my night off

 

Do you live in 1987, Norm?

 

Edited for clarity.

 

You're a good man, Norm, no matter what dorky Mikey says.

But I think Jeff Keith's voice is shot. I saw on the Classic a benefit concert for the victims of the Great White fire and he sounded horrible. too bad...Tesla was fucking nails from '86-'90, til they laid a giant turd with Psychotic Supper.

 

Us 80s music junkies got to stick together.

That sucks that Keith's voice is gone. I'll still go, and report back on what I hear. I was just listening to their Greatest Hits CD today in the car, as a matter of fact. It pisses me off, though, that one of their most-played songs on XM is 'Edison's Medicine', which I'm not a big fan of.