The best band you've seen live?

[ianrauk]

Brian Setzer - Hellbent.

Enjoy!!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Totally agree that he is one of the most underrated guitarists of all time. He's never in any of the rankings. He'd easily make my Top 20 and he was one of the biggest influences to me picking up the guitar.

Reverend Horton Heat is another rockabilly guitarist who is not well known but is amazing. Just saw them live last month.

Mark Harman from Restless is another (formerly of Dave Philips & The Hot Rod Gang)

 

[User169]

Some kind soul has just posted an entire Pixies gig which I remember as being one of the best I ever went to...


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr31lqMyaRE

 

[User169]

How about this one. I saw Throwing Muses at the same venue a few months later. When they played this track, we jumped around so hard I thought I was going to have a heart attack.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgTHbKtBAGM

 

[HLaB]

The U2 2005 Vertigo Concert

 

[Stringy Bob]

Just found the T shirt bought on the night.. December 15th, 1986, Manchester International....................The Pogues.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Well, as of last night I have another contender to add to my list. My ears are still ringing from hours of improvised mayhem with Damo Suzuki (former singer of Can) and his 'Network' at SuperDeluxe in Roppogi (Tokyo). Basically he turns up somewhere and invites local musicians to play with him. A shifting cast of musicians drifted in and out, but highpoints included one section where someone in a gasmask was producing sounds from a guitar-triggered midi set-up that sounded like a digital pig being tortured with an analog crowbar, accompanied by two drummers, a keyboard player in 7 inch spike heals and a black Morticia Adams gown, and a bouncy, smiley bassist wearing a floral dress and kinky boots laying down some serious lines, and a guy with very long grey hair who just came on and screamed. Later, the same grey-haired guy came on again with a guitar and played about an hour of pure noise with the most tattooed bloke I have ever seen playing a sax worn on a hangman's noose through multiple effects pedals, another guitarist and bassist, two completely different drummers and a guy in traditional clothes calmly adding flutes, gongs and temple drums. And through all this rolling noise, Damo Suzuki drifted in and out like some shamanic figure: narrating, shouting, growling, coaxing, pleading... just awesome. If you ever get the chance to see (or even play with) Damo Suzuki, do it!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

...someone in a gasmask was producing sounds from a guitar-triggered midi set-up that sounded like a digital pig being tortured with an analog crowbar...

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Queen at the Manchester Apollo 1979 , just before they went global and started doing stadium tours.

 

[MontyVeda]

Well, as of last night I have another contender to add to my list. My ears are still ringing from hours of improvised mayhem with Damo Suzuki (former singer of Can) and his 'Network' at SuperDeluxe in Roppogi (Tokyo). Basically he turns up somewhere and invites local musicians to play with him. ...

I'm still kicking myself for missing Damo Suzuki playing with Lancaster's 3D Tanx in Preston a few years back... the sooner i get my hands on a time machine the better.

Another contender for my best gig ever has got to be Zappa Plays Zappa on their first tour... with Napoleon Murphy Brock and Steve Vai as special guests. I also went to see Chic this summer, brilliant.

I think Nile Rogers and Napoleon Murphy Brock are a tie when it comes to 'most charismatic' stage performer I've seen.

 

[Fnaar]

Too many to think about! And I get the dates and venues mixed up! Threads like this make my head hurt! Go away!

 

[Booyaa]

Blur @ Leeds Town & Country
Puressence @ Rochdale
Oasis @ Barrowlands
Pearl Jam @ Astoria
Courteeners @ O2 Glasgow

So many others I have missed though.

 

[Profpointy]

Bournmouth Symphony Orchestra at the Colston Hall - Mahler's 7th (as used in Castrol oil advert some years ago) & Strauss Don Juan as the "filler"

Probably done a couple of hundred classical gigs, and this was a bit special

 

[XRHYSX]

Duran Duran @ Plymouth Pavillons circa 1998 the only band I have ever seen live
came close to seeing Eminem at MK bowl in 2003 but couldn't make it and had to sell my ticket
I bet that would have been a good night

 

[shouldbeinbed]

The Waterboys at Manchester Apollo on St Patricks Day about 15 years ago.