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

I still want to know how they ended up being the Opening Act For The Stars. Their first two albums were so fuckin solid, and they had the necessary top 10 hit (two, even) to headline arenas. Maybe the third studio album hits no. 1 if it comes out two years earlier, instead of just as the alternative revolution is beginning in the fall of 1991.

 

Best: Live 8 in Philadelphia. Awesome, awesome show. I got chills once Jay-Z's voice was heard over "Numb."

Worst: Can't say I have one.

Next: 311/Snoop Dogg.

Last: Ludacris

 

Best: Willie Nelson walked in off the street one night at Tootsie's on Nashville.
Stones back in the mid-90s in Tampa.
B.B. King at Ole Miss in 2003-4 ish.
Last: Willie in Dothan. Not nearly as good.
Worst: Probably something at the Alabama State Fair
Next: Who knows.

 

Best: Jay-Z and Kanye West in 2003. West came out to promote his first album College Dropout that was coming out in a few months. Rapped 'Through the Wire' and a few others and he got such a strong reaction that he stayed out for a lot longer with Jay. He even took B.I.G.'s spot in 'Brooklyn's Finest'.
Worst: Some huge Christmas show in 2002 that featured the likes of Kelly Osbourne, Kylie Minogue, Nelly, and Destiny's Child
Last: George Clinton! awesome show
Next: Pepper and Slightly Stoopid in St. Augustine in early Sept.

 

EDIT: Next concert turned out to be Dropkick Murphys poolside at the Hard Rock Hotel-Las Vegas, May 16, 2008. Great, great show. Little Bird and I had a great time, even if we had a 4 a.m wakeup call to drive home for his soccer tournament that weekend.

 

Best: Bruce in Giants Stadium (night nine of 10)
Worst: Tom Petty in Raleigh in probably 2000. He was not into it, at all. Played three or four songs, then took a 20-minute break.
Last: Here comes the Mummies, a few weeks ago at a local festival. The music was good, their gimmick is bad.
Next: Not sure. Maybe a local show in a couple of weeks.

 

Best: Rolling Stones in probably the best thing to happen to Wallace Wade Stadium (Duke's football stadium) in decades
Worst: Kid Rock opening for Aerosmith in 2002
Last: REM in Raleigh...pretty phonemonal
Next: We'll see

 

In 1999 we were driving across Michigan, planning to stay outside Detroit. We were hungry and stopped in Ann Arbor. We were looking for someplace to eat, walking down a street downtown and saw a club called The Ark. Said to my wife, "I wonder who's playing," and a woman standing a few feet away said, "Jorma's playing. Want to buy my tickets?" Jorma Kaukonen has been my favorite guitarist since the mid-1970s, so, yes, we bought her tickets, got a hotel room in Ann Arbor, had a really awful dinner and watched the show. Now I prefer seeing him play electric rather than acoustic, and I know the days of the incredibly loud, four- to six-hour shows are long gone, but it was my favorite show because it was a surprise.

Springsteen has been great every time.

The last show I saw was North Mississippi All-Stars and Robert Randolph. Both were excellent.

The worst was Richie Havens in the 1990s. A bunch of local kids who had not yet released their only album took almost everyone by surprise as the warmup band -- they played for about an hour --and Havens seemed feeble and depressing in comparison. He might have been OK if the warmup band hadn't been so full of life.

 

Who were the local kids?

 

Damn. Forgot that my next will be the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Special.

 

First: Guess Who at the Kansas State Fair in 1970. Pretty good show considering the venue and the fact that I was 15.
Best: Grateful Dead at the Saenger Theater in N.O., second of a two-nite run in Oct. 1980.
Second-best: Little Feat at Memorial Hall in K.C. in June, 1978. Lowell George made all the difference.
Worst: David Crosby on the riverboat in N.O. in '82. He was completely ripped, played about 15 minutes and split. This was about a week before he was arrested in Texas.
Last: Springsteen w/the Seeger Sessions band at Jazzfest in 2006. Awesome show. Finished with a cover of "When the Saints Go Marching In," done at a much more somber pace than normal, and there wasn't a dry eye in the place.
Next: Bunch of us from work are thinking about driving to Nashville to see Bruce in late August. But w/ tickets at $85 for nosebleed seats and $4 a gallon for gas...

 

My last: Saw the Bon Jovi show in Central Park on Saturday night. Aside from the fact my friend and I are convinced Jon was high off his ass, and he kept doing jazz hands, it was a pretty fucking cool show. And the crowd was insane.