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High as a kite at a friends house just hanging out after work. My friend just randomly picks up his acoustic guitar and starts noodling. His roommate comes home, disappears for a bit and comes out with a standup bass. For the next 2 hrs they just smoked and jammed for the love of music.
Me:
6 daysPatti Smith and Philip Glass. I’ve been a fan of hers for so long, couldn’t believe I was in the same room as her, so to speak. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01f9vrd
God Speed You! Black Emperor https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/godspeed-you-black-emperor/2016/edinburgh-playhouse-edinburgh-scotland-6bfcf2c6.html
(Added in edit) This song made me cry, it’s so beautiful and joyful and sad. A wonderful concert altogether.
Probably the most intense performance I’ve ever seen was the Japanese dance troupe Sankai Juku, in Wellington, NZ in 1988. Amazingly moving, unforgettable.
- 7 days
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.
- 7 days
NIN always does a great show, but I think of all of them I liked the Fragility Tour the most (2000). It was so well done.
KMFDM always puts on a hell of a show. I never miss a chance to see them and they always kill it. My favorite show of there’s was the Symbols tour with PIG. They had Ogre from Skinny Puppy touring with them as he was a temporary member for that album. Just so good.
Gwar was always great and fun to see live. They probably still are, but I haven’t been able to see them live in years.
Metallica, Donington Park Raceway, 2004. They were headlining Download festival, but Lars was rushed to hospital right before the show. Rather than cancel they brought out a rotating cast of drummers from the other bands at the festival, starting with Dave Lombardo from Slayer.
This was the St Anger tour… We were all jazzed to see Metallica, but let’s be honest, no one was particularly jazzed about St Anger as an album. Thing is though, their guest drummers didn’t know the tracks on St Anger. They knew old school Metallica; Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, the Black Album, And Justice For All. The good shit.
Better yet, the guest drummers were absolutely psyched to be there. For Metallica this could have been just another show. Huge crowd, but they’ve played bigger. But for their rotating cast of drummers this was the greatest night of their life. That kind of enthusiasm is infectious and it really showed. This was one of the most balls to the wall performances I’ve ever seen from any band. The energy was off the charts.
Especially when they got to Joey from Slipknot. The idea was that they were going to keep rotating drummers throughout the night, but after Joey played his first song, that went out the window. He was their drummer for the rest of the night. That motherfucker played his god damn heart out. Now, listen, if you’re one of those people who still thinks that Slipknot are a bad band, go listen to Vol 3 and then come talk to me. Joey is one hell of a drummer, and he showed up to play. And the whole band felt it.By the end of the show James Hetfield wasn’t singing to us… He was singing to Joey. I distinctly remember him standing with one foot up on the bass drum staring that little masked genius dead in the eyes, two guys basically performing for each other (an image made hilarious and adorable by the fact that James Hetfield is a giant of a man, and Joey is a pocket sized human being; it was like Dad brought his kid to work).
It was a once in a lifetime experience, and probably one of the best shows Metallica ever played. Pure lightning in a bottle.
Slipknot puts on a great show. Weird Al’s shows are always fun. If I’m within a couple of hours of where Babymetal is putting on a show, I will do whatever it takes to see them. Honey Dijon spins an amazing set. Whenever you have a chance to see an opera, go. Chances are you’ll be blown away by the talent.
- 6 days
Godspeed You! Black Emperor at Paradiso, NL on 2023-04-09
Hands down best sounding live performance I’ve been to.
It’s a bit sad because I know what the venue acoustics are capable of, and I’ve been to a ton of concerts there, but nothing ever came close.
I saw them in the late 90s or early 00s in a fairly small venue. It was an amazing wall-of-melodic-sound!
Paul McCartney and 21 Pilots, both at Bonnaroo 2013.
21 Pilots were getting popular, but this was still a year before Blurryface came out, so they were on one of the smaller stages during the daytime. Even so, their energy was amazing.
Paul McCartney just had this presence about him. It also helps if you have multiple hours of hit songs that are completely cemented in popular culture. His two hour set lasted four hours, he came back out for four encores, and I don’t think a single person left early.
And since you didn’t say musical performances: comedian Emo Philips! Saw him at a comedy club and it was probably the funniest thing I’ve ever been to.
- 6 days
This is the second time this week I’ve seen someone here talking about Emo Phillips, and before that I had never even heard about him. It know it’s probably just Baader-Meinhoff but it still feels very weird.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish6 days
tull played in grant park. The flutist society had something to do about it and it felt like they played their most flute heavy songs from the group. Its funny because it was free but the one other time I saw them in concert I payed for but it was catfish rising and I think anderson got sick as it was a big disapointment.
- 7 days
Hmm, hard to pick, but these come to mind in no particular order:
Chemical Brothers - Glastonbury Other Stage 2019
Chemical Brothers - V Festival (South) 2nd stage 2008
Faithless - V Festival (South) Main Stage 2006
Bloc Party - Alexandra Palace 2007
Nine Inch Nails - Eden Project 2022
Nine Inch Nails - O2 London 2025
Underworld - Aviva Studios Manchester 2024
Oneohtrix Point Never - New Century Manchester 2024
Massive Attack - Bestival Main Stage 2009
Massive Attack - Glastonbury Other Stage 2014
Aphex Twin - Glastonbury Temple Stage 2014
Sub Focus b2b Wilkinson - Glastonbury Sonic Stage 2019
Deadmau5 - Nation Liverpool 2009
Sigur Ros - Manchester Apollo 2022
I’m definitely forgetting a lot off the top of my head though
- scytale@piefed.zipEnglish7 days
Meshuggah’s live sound is earth shattering. And I don’t mean deafening loud. Most club music is probably louder. But theirlive mix is just absolutely heavy. Then you have the synchronized lights and you only see their silhouettes for most of the show.
Taking this in another direction, Aziz Ansari did a comedy set at my college nearly 20 years ago; he was hysterical. He did tons of crowd work and had everyone in stitches. Then, about an hour into his performance he says “oh, by the way, I haven’t even started my regular set yet”. He went at least another 45 minutes after that.
As for my favorite concert, it’d have to be seeing Coheed and Cambria play In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 in its totality on an anniversary tour. I was with my college roommates and we all love that album so much so it made the show extra meaningful as we belted out song after song together.
Aziz Ansari is incredible at improv humor. I remember the first time I noticed it was one of the Comedy Central Roasts (the James Franco one, I believe) where his set was just roasting things other comedians said during their time at the mic. Most people show up with practiced roasts ready to go. He just winged it on the spot, and I think he was better than most everyone else at that roast.
- 6 days
Billy Talent, Sydney 2007
I don’t know man, was my first time going to an actual concert of a band I liked, and it was just something special
