• Canopyflyer@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Got to see Chicago/ Beach Boys double headline back in 1989 (I think). Both bands were great. Saw the Beach Boys at the old Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, OH about 5 years later and it was a great show.

    Bad Company Holy Water tour. Brian Howe was front lining the band and he was great, but really would have preferred to have seen Paul Rodgers.

    Black Crowes opening for ZZ Top on the Recycler tour. ZZ Top had a great show, but musically, Black Crowes was much better.

    Duran Duran … I was a closet fan of theirs back in my teens. I’m not in the closet any longer. Soup Dragons opened for them and they suuuucked.

    Linkin Park opening for Metallica at the Atlanta Braves stadium in 2003. They were great, Metallica was meh, but I’ve never been a huge fan of theirs.

    Live… Not a big fan of theirs, but they did have a good live show. (see what I did there! Yes, I’m a Dad.) They opened for the Counting Crows who were great too.

    Santana is a lot better live than anywhere else. I saw him on the Supernatural tour, or at least that was the album he had just released. Funny side story about this concert. This was in 1999 and was there with a friend. 25 years later, my wife and I were talking about concerts we have attended over the years. She mentioned she went to see Santana when she first moved to Cincinnati, which is where I lived at the time… Turns out we were at the same concert 5 years before we met and didn’t realize it until last year.

    Yes, I’m old.

  • imvii@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    Pop Will Eat Itself in the early 90’s.

    Amazing fun shows with tons of energy from the band and the audience.

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    Not a band, but a DJ, Jake Beautyman, April 2024 in São Paulo. He started his set with the Severance OST and was a banger song after song. Still think about that party today

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    Sigor Ros. Saw them live and, despite their melancholy music, put on a helluva show. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed them live!

    That and The Flaming Lips. Their live shows are always spectacular, seen them twice

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    Massilia Sound System. Crowd is basically in a state of plasma from beginning to loooooong after the show ends. When it’s set on the port, you can be sure some of us will launch ourselves in the oily water for the hell of it, come back and slippery dance some more. At the start of every show they distribute a platter of pastis shots in the pit. It’s not a band, it’s a culture. A generation

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    Buddy Guy. the concert was pretty posh (think bankers in suits), with everyone having arranged seating, audience sitting still and quiet like at a classical music concert.

    he was like ‘fuck this, this isn’t a proper concert, my guitar is wireless, let’s stand up, go to the entry hall and jam’. so he’s just standing in the middle of the crowd and going nuts, at like 83 years of age. That was amazing.

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      15 hours ago

      In the vein of the second one, I saw George with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Opera House, performing with Jon Lord a symphony that wrote. Fucking incredible.

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    17 hours ago

    Dj shadow vs cut chemist at the Hollywood bowl. It was experimental but quite the experience

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    21 hours ago

    So many that my answer is just listing most of the concerts I can remember going to

    The Midnight

    Roosevelt

    Tycho

    DJ Shadow

    deadmau5

    Perturbator

    Rush (RIP Neil)

    Celldweller

    The Crystal Method

    Psychostick

    Above & Beyond

    Kodo (Japanese taiko drummers)

    Lateralis (chiptune musician and indie game dev)

    If I had to pick the three most memorable, it’d be Kodo, DJ Shadow, and The Midnight

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      21 hours ago

      +1 for The Midnight. About halfway through the show all but one person went backstage. For about 20 minutes this guy had the most killer synth solo. I was mind blown how well they incorporated the synth into a live concert.

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        21 hours ago

        Hell yeah!

        I remember the audience just absolutely losing it the first time the sax came out, and also every time after that. Such an excellent band, and I was so thrilled to see how much they blew up