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Ye in the Netherlands The earth dome does a lot more than people think when you see it all in person
Daft punk
Words cannot express my jealousy.
I haven’t seen him in almost 15 years, but Weird Al Yankovic puts on a hell of a good show. Always has the best backup musicians with him.
I saw him close to 20 years ago and the thing that always stood out to me the most was that he sounded exactly the same as he does on his albums. I was very impressed.
I won front row tickets to his concert once, loved it! Amazing!!
Saw him 4 months ago. I was not prepared for so many costume changes.
He was just in Tiny Desk Concerts, which turned out one of the best of that series:
I think the best live show I ever saw was Good Kid. Their energy and jams couldn’t be matched.
Rammstein
Theatrics, setlist, audio quality, crowd… Just wow. Hope to see them one more time.
Easily this. They have some of the best theatrics ever. The fire and smoke are amazing to watch. They even used the smoke on stage to cover a costume change during the performance
I was at the Foo Fighters gig where Dave Grohl fell off the stage and broke his leg, after which the rest of the band spent an hour playing various covers until Dave came back on stage high on pain meds mixed with alcohol and resumed the show. A doctor had to sit on stage and keep his leg fixed for the rest of the show until they could take him to the hospital to give him a cast, and the entire crowd dedicated “My hero” to the doctor. That show was fucking awesome.
Yeah, I’ve watched that episode, it was really cool. When they came back to Gothenburg for the next tour, the doctor was ther and got serenaded again.
I saw the Foo Fighters in 2008. Nothing crazy like that happened but it was an absolutely amazing show. The highlight was Dave heading to the B-stage with his acoustic guitar for Everlong, then leading into the bridge and all the lights went down. It was silent for a good 5-10 seconds until he just starts running back to the A-stage, all the lights went up, and the whole band started going hard as fuck and he screams “YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH” and they did the last verse as hard as I’ve ever heard it. The energy was insane.
Can confirm, saw foo fighters around 2018 and it was an absolute banger show.
Die Antword at 2014 Bonaroo
They’d rotate out for costume changes, so one vocalist was constantly on stage and the music and energy never dipped the entire set.
Can’t remember if that was before/after they blew up, but for whatever reason I was able to get super close to the stage.
I was in the crowd with you on that one. Such a conflict, you also had Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Darkside a tent over.
Yeah, it was always a weird mix.
The year before I saw Billy Idol in a tiny tent like 6 feet max from the stage, which was bucket list level.
But for most of his set it was just bored teenagers waiting for Passion Pit to come on
Top two concerts of all time:
Daft Punk at Lollapalooza 2007
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at Northerly Island, Chicago, 9/1/24
I was also at the Gizz Show and I concur
Also: Woo!
I don’t know if it was the venue, the band, the sound booth, my location, the weather, or some combination but it was the best sounding show I’ve ever heard, indoors or out. Also I can’t wait for their collab with Billy 😍
I was also at that Daft Punk show! Definitely in my top 3 ever!!
It was unreal. I just relistened to Alive 2007 and it brought back memories.
Recently I discovered recordings of the Alive 2007 tour. Some are on YT. It was great fun to relive it!
Stone Temple Pilots - (MTV Unplugged) - Sony Studios, NYC, ’93
Massive Attack - Roseland NYC, ‘96
Green Day - Barbarella, Orlando, ‘95
Modest Mouse - (Baron von Bullshit Rides Again) - Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, ‘04
Paul Oakenfold - (Global Underground 006), The Tunnel, NYC, ‘94
These are just a few. I’m sure there’s a bunch I’m forgetting. I doubt that I could single any one of them out.
Maybe STP or Massive Attack
Edit: updated to include live album titles, and cities
Edit 2: confirmed: that MTV unplugged, performance of plush is available on Apple Music:
On disc four of this album
https://music.apple.com/us/album/core-super-deluxe-edition/1263219551
Otherwise, on the Stone Temple Pilots album, core, the super Deluxe Edition.
Saw STP with Scott and with Chester. Both amazing shows but different vibes.
That STP performance was the best performance of plush I’ve ever heard in my life. I think it’s on the deluxe plush album.
Bush’s performance of Glycerine, on MTV Spring Break Rocks 1996. It was raining and they were warned against performing, but Gavin Rossdale insisted, and it was amazing.
EDIT: I haven’t had my coffee, and for some reason your question translated to “live TV performance” in my brain.
I saw The Chemical Brothers play back in the early 2000’s and they were set up with racks and racks of keyboards surrounding them. They played their electronic music live on the keyboards and watching them blew my mind. Up until this concert I never thought of electronic producers as musicians, this totally changed my perspective.
Saw No Men at a tiny show once. Great energy. Friendly people. Chatted with them for a while.
Saw screaming females a few times. The singer crowd surfs while doing guitar solos.
This year saw Caroline rose at a tiny packed venue. That was great. Love good crowd banter.
Tool. Hands down.
Saw them in Brixton on the Ænima tour, they were warming up and soundchecking Hooker with a penis shaking the walls while we queued outside getting preached to by a fundamentalist. Wrong crowd for a “Jesus will save you” pitch, buddy.
But we’re exactly the right crowd in their eyes, we need it the most. Saw the same kind of people while heading into an arena for either Metallica or Iron Maiden, I forget which one. Maybe both.
I’m not a concert person. I dislike loud, crowded places by nature. Bruce Springsteen is the only one I’ve ever seen. It was great. Dude can barely walk but still can sell out a stadium. Awesome time.
I’m not really a KISS fan, but my brother-in-law was and he had two extra tickets. That concert was the best showmanship I’ve ever seen.
