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mercury rev last year. absolutely insanely incredible gig. everything on their albums suddenly made perfect sense

 

and the dandy warhols a few years ago in perth. they had these amzing visuals on a screen behind them, very very cool. the sound coming from the speakers was turning into colours, or maybe i was just having a little too much fun

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Porno for Pyros was very entertaining...clowns having knife fights with fake blood, naked women dancers, sword swallowers and flame shooters. Perry had live chickens on the stage....it was a wild outdoor concert near the ocean on the ranch were the first Jurrasic Park was mainly filmed.

 

But the BEST, even though I was only a little kid, was Bob Marley in New York.

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Perry Farrell certainly puts on a good show. When I saw Jane's this summer he and Dave Navarro were fighting for the spotlight. Dave would stand up on the monitors and strike a rock star pose and Perry would run around to the platforms and swing across the stage. What a great headling band.

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311 at the Roseland in Portland, OR. They were on their small club tour that fall and their were less than 700 people at the show. My brother and I were front row for the whole thing. The energy between the crowd and the band was unreal!

 

Another good one; I'm not a huge Phish fan at all, actually don't even really like them. I did see them at the....some outdoor place in Portland and it was a really trippy, fun show. Great vibe in the crowd.

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It would have to be Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult doubleheading on their "Black and Blue" tour.

 

The first concert I ever saw!

 

And probably the only one I've ever seen without drugs.

 

It was 1980 at Cobo Hall in Detroit. A very good year.

 

 

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OK, not a concert as such, but live music.

 

When I was a kid we lived near a youth club. My parents told me never to go near the place in case I ran into Bad Influences. So I used to hang about near the youth club on my bike - close enough to get some of the atmosphere without getting the Bad Influence.

 

There was a band that used to practice in there and they were great - they did endless long songs with idiosyncratic lyrics that I didn't understand. They would play for hours. They sounded a lot like Spoon or Television - like total amateurs but with real talent and skill.

 

I used to sit on a cold wall within earshot of the evil youth club band and go into a kind of trance listening to their wonderful music and wondering what they looked like, who they were, and what could possibly be wrong with them. When they stopped, I just sat there on the cold wall waiting to see if they had finished and hoping they hadn't.

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Well thanks for the replies everyone, some cool and envious concert experiences there.

Wednesday night (26/11) I was lucky enough to see 'The Darkness' live at Zepp Tokyo. Not only were the band brilliant, really having fun and loving their music, but the Japanese metal/rock set were out in force and loving it! It was the best, most in-to-it crowd I have seen in this country (at least up the front anyway) and it was the most fun concert I have been to in ages. And I was pretty straight as well! Magi sugoi! \:D

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What the hell is the deal with those guys? I sat through some of their videos in Thailand. That dude is a trip.

 

Admittedly I haven't given them a fair listen, but my first impressions are far from positive. His voice is a real killer.

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Well not that a young'un like you would understand ender, but there was a time when a high pitched voice and a low-slung Gibson was all you needed to ROCK ;\)

Seriously though, I agree that it takes time to grow on you, maybe five listens before they really click, but then their songs and riffs are infectious. Also the humour in their lyrics is fairly 'British'. They don't take themselves too seriously but they are seriously good musicians, and their filmclips are a crackup. Give them a go and you will see what I mean. And if you were there on Wednesday you would have loved it too man, great sound and stage antics, not to mention zebra spandex jumpsuits!

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