I Love Music - Forum & Chat Board | What is the best live concert you have ever been to?

Definitely Alice Cooper. I have seen him several times and he is still great.

Modest Mouse.

Radiohead OK Computer...I was in the second row and I was only just getting to know their music. 

Springsteen in 1984, the Born in the USA tour.  SO f'ing awesome.  I was 18. 

I would have to say Robert Plant @ the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago.

I like a lot of the concerts mentioned by everyone. Some really great ones. Of course the best is influenced by some many things. Your mood, who you are there with, etc... For me one of the best was Joe Jackson at a small venue on his birthday. Great concert. It was unbelievable.

I would have to say The Flaming Lips in Madison Square Garden during New Years Eve a few years back.  They were unbelievable.  I also have to say that everytime I see Bright Eyes I feel that it is the best live concert I have ever been to!

I saw Lordi at the Orange Peel.  They are a hard rock/metal band from Finland, and they wear crazy monster costumes.  I was standing very close to them, and they looked larger than life.  This was partly because of them being tall scandanavian types as well as their giant platform shoes.  Their music sounded incredible.  I still feel a happy glow inside when I think of that concert.

i saw streetlight manifesto live at bamboozle 2008

first time i skanked in a ska pit<3

sooo mnay .... i must go to 3 or 4 gigs a month an have done for years....

patrick wolf gigs ...all of them, he is so beautiful and talened

also idlewild, radiohead, mystery jets there are sooooo many

Alexisonfire vs Rise against in tiny Tj's Newport. Or either Download festival last year (especially Billy talent) Or Groezrock festival this year (especially Bad Religion/ Alkaline Trio). kmhseeker3 is right...it's who your with, what frame of mind that youre in and the band is in that makes it the "best" not how big the act is or how fancy the stage show...my favourite momments are with the people i love, often in small venues where you really feel part of something, the whole experience not just a name to say you've seen.

Prince...hands down. 

Sonata Arctica and Firewind at The Chance in Poughkeepsie. Gus G and Bob Katsionis soloing was just outstanding. Then when Sonata Arctica took the stage I was floored. My favorite band on stage and literally inches away from me, it couldn't get any better.

Tony Kakko is an amazing singer and is awesome on stage and makes the experience. Awesome time, and each band played longer sets then any other concert I've been to.

Oh yea Sonata Arctica is a power metal band from Finland, I recommend all their songs. They seem to have everything to fit however I feel. Firewind is a power metal band from Greece with Gus G as lead guitarist (Best guitarist around currently imo) Bob Katsionis is also in Firewind playing rythm guitar and the keys, Bob has some solo work and he plays the guitar and keys at literally the same time, it's amazing.

I've never been to a live concert besides ones at fairs with my parents. But I'm trying to get them to get me tickets to Projekt Revolution or Warped Tour.

Music Box Dancer is one title and great music played by Richard Clayerman. His concert was the best one in the world for me!  The next day I actually met him and took 2 of his band for a tour around Perth.  That was the best weekend of my life!!!

Everytime I choose a "best" concert for my answer, a different one comes to mind. For instance, Joe Jackson at the Count Basie was superb.  I saw Neil Young during the Greendale tour and sat right up front.  Closest to the stage I've ever been.  He's always excellent.  I was lucky to get tickets to Scorsese's tribute to the blues at Radio City.  Five hours of chicago and mississippi blues musicians getting down and dirty.  That was heavenly too.  But I have to be honest and say the concert that blew me most into the stratosphere was Jethro Tull at Madison Square Garden during the Aqualung tour. I was fifteen years old and  had no idea who the band was.  When Ian Anderson walked on stage, perched on one leg and played that damn flute like Pam driving rail road ties, my molecular structure changed.  I have never been the same since.

I saw Levon at The Stone Pony back when he was still recovering from his throat surgery.  I forget the name of the band,  (shame on me)  but they were very good.  Of course they were!  Levon was driving!

I don't recall the name but she was the front singer!  Maybe it was them.  Great show.  Have you heard him lately?  Got that old crochety man voice.  So soulful, so authentic.

He and that old codger Dylan should do a duet.  Now that would be a sound for the ages!!