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Groke
Jul 27, 2007
New Adventures In Mom Strength

WILDTURKEY101 posted:

i smoked weed with claude coleman from ween

Oh, that reminds me of one of my favourite good/hilarious concerts. Ween, in Oslo, Norway, must have been 2003 (after they released "Quebec" which remains my favourite of their albums, and before they broke up/went on hiatus). The show itself was quite good, fine energy, medium-sized venue, decent-sized crowd and all. What made it extra hilarious was that the venue in question had some kind of anniversary thing going on at the time so they'd given out a lot of free tickets as a promo deal; so maybe half the crowd was random people who were there on free promo tickets and had no loving clue about Ween beforehand, there were a few rather confused faces to observe.

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Planet X
Dec 10, 2003

GOOD MORNING
Weenchat: They did a surprise (?) or last minute show sometime just before the Mollusk came out in the basement of a sushi bar. It was great. Man, they were loud and I've never seen two people drink jack daniels straight out of the bottle like that.

My buddy saw Rush when the Melvins were opening up for them. He said that when Buzzo came on and struck the opening chord VRRAAUUGGGGHHHHHH, the Rush crowd parted, my buddy walked right up front and saw The Melvins, then now had a front row seat for Rush lol

Disco Pope
Dec 6, 2004

Top Class!
I saw Covet in Glasgow on Monday and they were pretty good, but the crowd managed to kill any vibe completely. loving Oasis fan level moshpits and chants to sparkly math-rock, every 6.5ft tall goon looking motherfucker with unconditioned Christmas tree hair decided to stand stock-still at the front or do that lovely thing where they create a grumpy barrier around their fragile girlfriends and clasp the rail in front of tye stage while vaping. Mobile phones constantly up everywhere. Just an incredibly lovely vibe.

Saxon
Jan 21, 2006
NEEDS MORE CRIT
Best:
BB King
Matt and Kim (best energy/most fun show I've been to, everyone was having a blast)
Coheed and Cambria and Andrew Bird are probably my favorite shows that I've seen at a festival


Worst:
Kid Cudi
Aquabats
Cake (worst crowd ever)

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

Best concert I've been to since live music resumed was on 4/20 this year, here's a picture



That bass is loving gigantic lmao

The Walrus
Jul 9, 2002

by Fluffdaddy
Oh seeing the tragically hip at a 1000 person venue shortly before their last tour was one of the most powerful things I've seen.

Vastarien
Dec 20, 2012

Where I live is nightmare, thus a certain nonchalance.



Buglord
Best would be Skinny Puppy. Sounded amazing and put on a hell of a live show. I got a face full of guacamole that Ogre was spitting into the crowd from a gas mask.

Worst was Tool sometime in the late 90s. They sounded like a group of kids who didn’t know how to play Tool songs trying to cover Tool songs. I’ve always wondered if they sounded so awful on purpose as a joke or something.

20 Blunts
Jan 21, 2017
You know when your cat or dog spins in circles before they lay down, pawing the area so it's just right?

I think it's the same thing with otherwise pro bands being totally dependent on their tones and monitors.

Planet X
Dec 10, 2003

GOOD MORNING

The Walrus posted:

Oh seeing the tragically hip at a 1000 person venue shortly before their last tour was one of the most powerful things I've seen.

When I lived in California, I worked with a guy who was from Canada. He said that Tragically Hip was playing at the Fillmore, and he loved the band and would basically buy a ticket for anyone that was interested. I had heard of the band, but had no idea about their sound or anything.

I went, and the only thing I really remember or could say is "wow, that is one charismatic lead singer!". Apparently, they are the darling of Canada and there were SO many people in the audience in red and white.

When we filed out of the venue, people were singing the Canadian national anthem. That was something.

I was sad to hear about the fate of the lead singer and his cancer diagnosis. Way too young.

MrQwerty posted:

Best concert I've been to since live music resumed was on 4/20 this year, here's a picture

Hell yeah. I saw them a while back. Before they went on, there was a picture of Iommi projected on the stage backdrop that said DEITY :420:

Adjacent to Sleep, I saw Shrinebuilder when they toured, that was pretty great

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

Planet X posted:

Hell yeah. I saw them a while back. Before they went on, there was a picture of Iommi projected on the stage backdrop that said DEITY :420:

Adjacent to Sleep, I saw Shrinebuilder when they toured, that was pretty great

man, I wish. Reminds me of a quote from Wino about the future of Shrinebuilder, a band I very much want to see perform live: "Cisneros is insane so Shrinebuilder is not going to happen." I've met Al a few times when I was a roadie/drum tech for a local band my buddy was in for 7 years, cuz he lives in Rio Rancho at least part-time cuz his wife was at UNM, and he's a cool dude, but yeah.

I've seen Sleep at the Sunshine theater, Launchpad, and El Rey theater (that's where the show this year was) and every time, ESPECIALLY the Launchpad show (Launchpad is a very, very, very small venue, my buddy and I stood on the balcony and were like 30 feet from the pit) it just feels like, "a warrior, a wizard and a bard come into a tavern and set up amplifiers and drums."

Gonna go see Om at Sister on Oct 15, haven't seen them in a while and that should be killer, Al loves playing at Sister for some reason.

surf rock
Aug 12, 2007

We need more women in STEM, and by that, I mean skateboarding, television, esports, and magic.

Riatsala posted:

Honorable Mention: Aaron Carter at the Alabama Hot Air Balloon Festival. Really the title card is it's own punchline, the concert itself was immemorable.

Oh gently caress, I forgot about this until I read your post, but Aaron Carter performed at my extremely small college in 2014. I'll give him this: he was energetic and didn't mail it in. Unfortunately, he's Aaron Carter so that didn't mean it was a good concert. People still got real lit for Aaron's Party; I can't remember if he did the Shaq song.

I'm extraordinarily jealous of the people who got to go to Postal Service concerts. My wishlist is them, Aesop Rock, Eminem, Band of Horses, The Go! Team, Priscilla Ahn, and They Might be Giants. There are a few other bands I'd like to see, but I think those are the only ones I'll be disappointed if I never get to see in concert.

edit: and if Daft Punk ever reunites they're very high on my gotta-see list

surf rock fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Aug 19, 2022

ProperCauldron
Oct 11, 2004

nah chill
They will reunite. The top 2 reasons any band breaks up are to sell a bunch of farewell tour tickets or sell a bunch of reunion tour tickets. One of the oldest tricks in the music biz.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

surf rock posted:

edit: and if Daft Punk ever reunites they're very high on my gotta-see list
my girlfriend and I were talking about that yesterday because after Om she's gonna "make" me go see Bassnectar

The Walrus
Jul 9, 2002

by Fluffdaddy

ProperCoochie posted:

They will reunite. The top 2 reasons any band breaks up are to sell a bunch of farewell tour tickets or sell a bunch of reunion tour tickets. One of the oldest tricks in the music biz.


lmao daft punk tour like once a decade I think they might not need any help selling out shows

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

The Cranberries - great.
The Wedding Present - awful.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
the first phish show i was able to attend in person was Coventry, when they were breaking up and lots of people were crying and Trey was not doing great and it was incredibly muddy and there was this wall on the side where everyone would piss but the ground was sloped back towards you so you were basically walking in everyone's piss and pissing on everyone. at one point i just tried to pee into a water bottle but kind of failed but piss was already everywhere so :shrug:

i still had a good time -_-; and fortunately have been able to see them a bunch since then

bagmonkey
May 13, 2003




Grimey Drawer
how am I just seeing this thread

best would probably be David Byrne's American Utopia tour, first time it came to Detroit, opening night, balcony seats that were front row. Absolutely loving incredible, gave me a ton more respect for an artist I already loved. This year's top is easily Viagra Boys, what a fuckin' show they put on. They kicked that small venue's rear end and did a great job of a playing a mix of songs as well as just loving rockin out. Also honorable mention to !!!, who've never once failed to leave me buzzing after the show. This past time it started out slow but by half way through the show, the lead singer was dancing on the dividing rail between the bar and floor area while coaxing all the parents who brought their teenage kids to dance... because they probably danced to !!! 20 years ago

Worst show was an absolutely fuckin BIZARRE series of events. The band Crystal Stilts, who were an NYC band riding the lo-fi indie pop wave of the early 10s, booked a show to come to Detroit for a venue that definitely seemed larger than their audience. Well, I wasn't wrong. It got rebooked for a smaller venue within that venue, and eventually like a week before the concert, they just said "Hey, this is a part of our summer free concert series!" thing they were doing. Mind you, that summer I went to a lot of shows and I noticed that the crowds were extremely sparse that summer, no clue why, so the free thing made sense. Well... fifteen people showed up, including two buddies of mine. I go to buy merch at their table before they go on and no one is that the booth. Someone says their merch guy didn't make it so they will be selling stuff after. Eventually Crystal Stilts gets on and the lead singer looks at the crowd of like, a dozen people, mouths "what the gently caress" and says hey Detroit, we're uhhhhh, Crystal Stilts. They play two songs that sound... mediocre. I knew the guy who worked sound and it turns out these guys didn't take sound check seriously at all, said they knew what they were doing, etc. The lead singer seems to get more and more agitated as they play songs and by the like, sixth song, just says "I don't even know what the gently caress we're doing here!!!!! I'm out!" and just walks. Left the merch booth set up, the security was like alright uhh come downstairs and get a slice of pizza on us. It was just... weird. Absolutely killed that band for me.

Runner up worst was Bob Dylan in 2012. He sucked. He was still playing piano, albeit very poorly, and his voice gave out half way through the show. It was just frickin' pitiful.

bagmonkey
May 13, 2003




Grimey Drawer
I also used to go to lots of DJ shows and poo poo back before the pandemic, my favorite festival set was Orbital because it was such a bucket list item and they were just... really good. They also played like almost 45 minutes over due to a 15 minute weather delay, so that owned. Special mention to Laurent Garnier and Goldie B2B LTJ Bukem as well, those sets were just mind melting.

Club DJ show wise, Justin Cudmore b2b Mike Servito is a combo I've caught like 5 times and every loving time I get lost in the music and 2-3 hours later I realize oh gently caress its time for a new DJ. Those two cut this perfect line between house and techno for me.

Sentinel Red
Nov 13, 2007
Style > Content.

Spinz posted:

I really like Hole and I really like Courtney Love

She was a real bitch and a real person and got a ridiculous bad rap. I'd love to have been her

I envy how many songs she had made about her and I'm sorry that her life life wasn't better

I give no fucks, I would kill to see her and the band do Live Through This start to finish. One of the best albums in a year of loving brilliant albums. Throw in 'My Beautiful Son' for the encore and I'd be happy as Larry.

ProperCoochie posted:

They will reunite. The top 2 reasons any band breaks up are to sell a bunch of farewell tour tickets or sell a bunch of reunion tour tickets. One of the oldest tricks in the music biz.

This is correct. I remember years ago going to Orbital's 'last ever gig', bastards got me good and proper with that one, pah.

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

bagmonkey posted:

Also honorable mention to !!!, who've never once failed to leave me buzzing after the show. This past time it started out slow but by half way through the show, the lead singer was dancing on the dividing rail between the bar and floor area while coaxing all the parents who brought their teenage kids to dance... because they probably danced to !!! 20 years ago

i had no idea these guys were still around. i had a great time at their show at the fillmore in sf sometime 2007, right after myth takes came out. they had two drummers at the time and i remember noticing one of them was especially good, jerry fuchs, who sadly died just a couple years after that in a hosed up accident involving an elevator shaft

Earwicker fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Aug 19, 2022

hotdog feet
Nov 3, 2005
Best show was probably Behemoth and Myrkr opened for them. Then some of the Midwest all stars have a special place in my heart, like Dog Fashion Disco and Tub Ring. Those small shows always had a super chill atmosphere that i miss a lot.

Worst show I've been to was Marilyn Manson because he just sucks and i didn't want to be there anyways.

Bonus round: the band I'd love to go back in time for would be The Screamers, no question.

bagmonkey
May 13, 2003




Grimey Drawer

Earwicker posted:

i had no idea these guys were still around. i had a great time at their show at the fillmore in sf sometime 2007, right after myth takes came out. they had two drummers at the time and i remember noticing one of them was especially good, jerry fuchs, who sadly died just a couple years after that in a hosed up accident involving an elevator shaft

I was FLOORED to see them in my local venue's "upcoming shows" email. I was positive Covid would've been the point where they were like "eh this touring poo poo is getting old". Turns out the lead singer still has the exact god drat same energy as when you first saw him most likely, dude went hard for a good hour and a half and had the place BUMPIN by the end of the night

Disco Pope
Dec 6, 2004

Top Class!

Stoatbringer posted:

The Cranberries - great.
The Wedding Present - awful.

What was so bad about The Wedding Present? I saw them recently and they were decent (but not Earth shattering).

ledge
Jun 10, 2003

Disco Pope posted:

What was so bad about The Wedding Present? I saw them recently and they were decent (but not Earth shattering).

I was going to ask the same thing. I saw them a few years ago and they were good. There were the predictable "whinging poms" in the audience though.

Isometric Bacon
Jul 24, 2004

Let's get naked!
Couple more memories from reading the thread.

Rammstein was incredible to see as a impressionable dumb 16 year old. It was one thing to watch on DVD, it was another to be right up front on the guard rail, a couple of metres away from the blasting fire columns, feeling the searing heat and blinding white of the fire effects.

Tool was... interesting. Maynard spent the entire time with his body facing the back of the stage in the same pose, mumoring to the video screen. I can still remember the sudden aroma of hundreds of stoners all lighting up at once.

Rage against the machine was the first time I didn't feel safe in a moshpit, and wondered if I was getting too old. (Laughably I was probably only 27 or something). I did my then usual thing to get up as far forward as I could before the set. Once Rage came in that crowd started to churn back and forth, and not in a fun way. There were overly aggro dudes jumping as hard as they could into others. I saw a short girl get elbowed in her face with a bloody nose. I realised this wasn't fun and noped back. This was around the time they introduced the 'D',or a paddock around the stage which limited the count of people who could be upfront, and it worked in my favour as I sat on the fence edge and just watched the chaos.

rivetz
Sep 22, 2000


Soiled Meat
I am an old fart in my late 40s who has been to many shows and have several classics:

Best:
  • Jane's Addiction, Lollapalooza 1991. Festivals are a dime a dozen these days, but the first Lollapalooza tour was something new. Jane's headlined a stacked lineup (Rollins Band, Butthole Surfers, Ice-T, NIN, Living Color, Siouxsie) and came out to deliver an absolute scorcher. Somewhere about halfway through the set, Perry Farrell's monologuing between songs and he segues effortlessly into "At this moment...you should be with us!...Feeling like we do..." and the band eases into "Three Days" behind him. This all seemed better than Woodstock, in a way; again, it wasn't only the first festival tour of its size in decades, but its embrace of so many different genres. You really felt like you were part of something special. It's close to midnight, and the amphitheater becomes this sea of lighters as the song begins, you look around and are like, goddamn this was a Great Day. I'll never forget that show or performance.
  • Entombed, 1993? - This was either just before or just after Wolverine Blues came out, and the set was a mix of Left Hand Path material along with some newer stuff and they were fuckin out of control good. Probably 2/3 of the concerts I've seen have been metal and I've seen some good sets, but this was the absolute best, just a perfect blend of skill and energy and crowd and pace and all of it.
  • Earthless, 2015 - The Psycho Vegas lineups are usually good but have really branched out genre-wise; the first one (Psycho California) was three days of almost exclusively stoner/doom/sludge (full lineup if you're interested). I had seen Earthless before but not like this, they were in The Zone and killed it. I think part of the appeal was playing on the last day of the festival and after some extremely slow/heavy sets; their psychedelia and tempo were the perfect counterweight. Full vid is here and is decent quality, but ultimately comes off as pretty similar to the many Earthless sets floating around out there; you'll just have to trust me that it was truly exceptional.
  • Slipknot, Ozzfest 1999 - This is the only time I've seen Slipknot, they were on Ozzfest's second stage slotted into a jumble of forgettable nu-metal acts. Their self-titled album had come out like two weeks earlier and was just starting to get traction, but nobody really knew what they were about. I know they always bring a lot of energy live and do a good job of firing up the crowd, but I'm here to tell you that they came out on that stage determined to loving mow down absolutely everything in front of them. Nobody in that audience was prepared for their aggression. It was kind of like the early days of CFH-era Pantera embarrassing whoever they opened for, everything on that stage after Slipknot was a wet fart. It was glorious.
  • Kyuss on the Blues for the Red Sun tour changed my life. Can't say much more than that.
Ehh I thought I'd have more but describing them becomes kinda pedantic - how many ways can you articulate that a band was on their game and succeeded in truly transporting you?

Worst:
  • Dead can Dance around 1994(?) - I was all excited for this and they just sucked rear end. Technical issues, lackluster energy, band sloppy, crowd sucked and didn't help. Sometimes it just doesn't come together. A fuckin perfect storm of suck, way way worse than forgettable, more like "why the gently caress am I here, I think I would rather be at the DMV than be here." I think everybody there was glad when it was over, including the band.
  • Mastodon 2010 - Mastodon headlined a great lineup including HoF, Baroness, Black Cobra, and more. Crack the Skye had just come out and they were going to play it in its entirety, but a few songs in Brett Hinds threw a fit and yelled some "gently caress rock n roll" poo poo, tossed his guitar. For a second I thought he was gonna throw down with the bassist but he just stormed off stage and didn't return. The band played like two more songs without him and closed up shop. This one sticks out as such a kick in the crotch because it came after so many other great performances. In fact High on Fire's set from that concert lives somewhere in my top 20: opening gig on Snakes for the Divine tour, in Oakland (the band's hometown) and they were on loving fire...which unfortunately made Mastodon's meltdown even more of a buzzkill.
  • Black Sabbath, 1999 - That same Ozzfest featured the most depressing concert I've ever seen. It's the only time I've ever seen Ozzy and man did he look rough. I literally couldn't watch, went to the parking lot and listened from there. The sight of Ozzy in his fuckin bathrobe or whatever, clapping his hands over his head: "I LAHV YOU ALL uurrrrrr dribbledribble" before mumbling his way through "Sweet Leaf", the fuckin worst.

On a related note, the band was very good (and so was his performance honestly), but I've had a beer and a smoke with Bobby Liebling from Pentagram and let me tell you that pictures and legend in no way prepared me for just how bad/sick/ravaged that dude looks and acts in person. Did you guys know that hard drugs can really gently caress you all up.

Killingyouguy!
Sep 8, 2014

hotdog feet posted:

Bonus round: the band I'd love to go back in time for would be The Screamers, no question.

Mine is the gooniest possible answer but if I could go back in time for a band it'd absolutely 100% be Oingo Boingo

Earwicker
Jan 6, 2003

rivetz posted:

[*]Dead can Dance around 1994(?) - I was all excited for this and they just sucked rear end. Technical issues, lackluster energy, band sloppy, crowd sucked and didn't help. Sometimes it just doesn't come together. A fuckin perfect storm of suck, way way worse than forgettable, more like "why the gently caress am I here, I think I would rather be at the DMV than be here." I think everybody there was glad when it was over, including the band.

iirc this was around the time of their divorce. i saw them two years later during the spiritchaser tour, which was a sort of reunion after that period, it was really good and towards the end of the show lisa and brendan hugged each other and the whole audience freaked out like it was a huge deal (i guess it was)

Planet X
Dec 10, 2003

GOOD MORNING

rivetz posted:

I am an old fart in my late 40s who has been to many shows and have several classics:

Best:
  • Jane's Addiction, Lollapalooza 1991. Festivals are a dime a dozen these days, but the first Lollapalooza tour was something new. Jane's headlined a stacked lineup (Rollins Band, Butthole Surfers, Ice-T, NIN, Living Color, Siouxsie) and came out to deliver an absolute scorcher. Somewhere about halfway through the set, Perry Farrell's monologuing between songs and he segues effortlessly into "At this moment...you should be with us!...Feeling like we do..." and the band eases into "Three Days" behind him. This all seemed better than Woodstock, in a way; again, it wasn't only the first festival tour of its size in decades, but its embrace of so many different genres. You really felt like you were part of something special. It's close to midnight, and the amphitheater becomes this sea of lighters as the song begins, you look around and are like, goddamn this was a Great Day. I'll never forget that show or performance.
  • Entombed, 1993? - This was either just before or just after Wolverine Blues came out, and the set was a mix of Left Hand Path material along with some newer stuff and they were fuckin out of control good. Probably 2/3 of the concerts I've seen have been metal and I've seen some good sets, but this was the absolute best, just a perfect blend of skill and energy and crowd and pace and all of it.
  • Earthless, 2015 - The Psycho Vegas lineups are usually good but have really branched out genre-wise; the first one (Psycho California) was three days of almost exclusively stoner/doom/sludge (full lineup if you're interested). I had seen Earthless before but not like this, they were in The Zone and killed it. I think part of the appeal was playing on the last day of the festival and after some extremely slow/heavy sets; their psychedelia and tempo were the perfect counterweight. Full vid is here and is decent quality, but ultimately comes off as pretty similar to the many Earthless sets floating around out there; you'll just have to trust me that it was truly exceptional.
  • Slipknot, Ozzfest 1999 - This is the only time I've seen Slipknot, they were on Ozzfest's second stage slotted into a jumble of forgettable nu-metal acts. Their self-titled album had come out like two weeks earlier and was just starting to get traction, but nobody really knew what they were about. I know they always bring a lot of energy live and do a good job of firing up the crowd, but I'm here to tell you that they came out on that stage determined to loving mow down absolutely everything in front of them. Nobody in that audience was prepared for their aggression. It was kind of like the early days of CFH-era Pantera embarrassing whoever they opened for, everything on that stage after Slipknot was a wet fart. It was glorious.
  • Kyuss on the Blues for the Red Sun tour changed my life. Can't say much more than that.
Ehh I thought I'd have more but describing them becomes kinda pedantic - how many ways can you articulate that a band was on their game and succeeded in truly transporting you?

Worst:
  • Dead can Dance around 1994(?) - I was all excited for this and they just sucked rear end. Technical issues, lackluster energy, band sloppy, crowd sucked and didn't help. Sometimes it just doesn't come together. A fuckin perfect storm of suck, way way worse than forgettable, more like "why the gently caress am I here, I think I would rather be at the DMV than be here." I think everybody there was glad when it was over, including the band.
  • Mastodon 2010 - Mastodon headlined a great lineup including HoF, Baroness, Black Cobra, and more. Crack the Skye had just come out and they were going to play it in its entirety, but a few songs in Brett Hinds threw a fit and yelled some "gently caress rock n roll" poo poo, tossed his guitar. For a second I thought he was gonna throw down with the bassist but he just stormed off stage and didn't return. The band played like two more songs without him and closed up shop. This one sticks out as such a kick in the crotch because it came after so many other great performances. In fact High on Fire's set from that concert lives somewhere in my top 20: opening gig on Snakes for the Divine tour, in Oakland (the band's hometown) and they were on loving fire...which unfortunately made Mastodon's meltdown even more of a buzzkill.
  • Black Sabbath, 1999 - That same Ozzfest featured the most depressing concert I've ever seen. It's the only time I've ever seen Ozzy and man did he look rough. I literally couldn't watch, went to the parking lot and listened from there. The sight of Ozzy in his fuckin bathrobe or whatever, clapping his hands over his head: "I LAHV YOU ALL uurrrrrr dribbledribble" before mumbling his way through "Sweet Leaf", the fuckin worst.

On a related note, the band was very good (and so was his performance honestly), but I've had a beer and a smoke with Bobby Liebling from Pentagram and let me tell you that pictures and legend in no way prepared me for just how bad/sick/ravaged that dude looks and acts in person. Did you guys know that hard drugs can really gently caress you all up.

Yeah there was something about those early festivals like Lollapalooza that were just great although I never got to go to Lollapalooza. I mentioned in an earlier post that one of the HORDE tour shows I went to was quite memorable, if anything for the diversity in the lineup. Man, to see Living Colour, I envy you. I'm also a huge butthole surfers fan, or was a while ago, and that Independent Worm Saloon record was amazing. When I lived in Austin, I got to see Pinkus' band Honky which was super fun, early ZZ top vibe

Blues for the Red Sun tour wow :eyepop: Also to see HOF on the Snakes tour as an Oaklander. Oaklandite (?). That must have been something. I remember when I bought Blessed Black Wings and put it on in the car and the girl I was dating at the time was like what the gently caress is this lol. Baby, this is Devilution

A poster above talked about scary mosh pits. Slayer was one of those. Man, I got shoved into one and I had to bust my way out of it. Even back in my younger years I was like gently caress that ill just stand back here and drink Jager.

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug

rivetz posted:

[*]Dead can Dance around 1994(?) - I was all excited for this and they just sucked rear end. Technical issues, lackluster energy, band sloppy, crowd sucked and didn't help. Sometimes it just doesn't come together. A fuckin perfect storm of suck, way way worse than forgettable, more like "why the gently caress am I here, I think I would rather be at the DMV than be here." I think everybody there was glad when it was over, including the band.

I saw them around that time down in Chicago in some huge fancy theater. It was incredibly good, and sounded as fantastic as you could hope.

However, about halfway through a quieter passage, more quiet than normal, one of the bartenders in the back area decided to dump a trash bin full of bottles into another bin full of bottles and it was... what the gently caress are you doing and why did you think that was a good idea. You could feel the urge of murder in everyone.

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



I keep thinking of more potential best and worst contenders so here’s one that I think I mentioned in one thread or another

In 92 I was walking around the east village in nyc with some friends just killing time and we passed by CBGBs to check out the scene. It didn’t really look like our kind of crowd but I see one of my best friends come out just as we walk up. Turns out Spinal Tap was playing, unplugged, and it was a private show for the media. My friend’s sister worked at a magazine so he got an invite. My whole group was able to use that invite, going in one at a time to get our hand stamped then coming back out to pass it to the next guy.

A limo rolls up and sure enough Spinal Tap come stumbling out, in character already!

Because it was an media event almost nobody there actually cared about Spinal Tap but us. We got up to the front of the stage and rocked the gently caress out to an amazing show. I still have one of Nigel Tufnel’s picks.

After they played they went backstage, which at CBGBs was a tiny little nook on the way to the hellhole bathroom. We figured we might as well try to say hi so we head back there and it’s just the band sitting at a table, nobody else, talking amongst themselves still in character. They chatted with us for a while and signed some flyers we ripped off the walls. It was an amazing and surreal experience.

I always loved when some random night with nothing to do turned into something amazing, that doesn’t really happen to me much these days :)

E- also I went to that first Lollapalooza and barely remember a thing, it’s pathetic. And gently caress I wish I could have seen Entombed play lots of tracks from Left Hand Path.

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Lady Demelza
Dec 29, 2009



Lipstick Apathy
Best: Rammstein are always great.

Worst: performance-wise, either Black Sabbath with Ozzy looking and sounding like he had escaped from an old people's home, or Soil. Half way through their acoustic set the singer said "I guess we should have rehearsed". Yup, they should have.

Fun-wise, the worst concert was one where a man walked by and slapped my arse so hard it shoved me forward and left a mark. I was so angry.

Killingyouguy!
Sep 8, 2014

Ah, yeah, some rando grabbed my boob at an Ensiferum show. That sucked

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

Disco Pope posted:

What was so bad about The Wedding Present? I saw them recently and they were decent (but not Earth shattering).

This was about twenty-odd years ago, maybe they've improved or were just having a bad night. But it was just awful noise. I preferred the support act, Moonshake I think they were called.

Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016



All this talk of moshpits has me nostalgic for my favourite time in a pit.

I was maybe 15 or 16 and the local opera house had a back-end venue that they usually used for small comedy club performances, but one Sunday every month they leased out the venue to local metal bands for an afternoon to gently caress things up. In the upstairs part there was a somewhat okay-ish Green Day wannabe band called On/Off playing, and as the pit got going and built up speed, one of my shoes flew off in the middle of the pit. Cue a 17-year-old guy drunk on his dad's stolen Jack Daniels bottle lifting my shoe in the air and chanting 'SHOE!' while looking around for the owner, resulting in about 20 other people in the pit throwing their fists into the air shouting 'SHOE! SHOE! SHOE!'

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

I got my glasses knocked off in a pit at a Corporate Avenger concert I went to with my juggalo buddies when I was 14, that's my best pit story because I learned about pits and me that day

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



i got evicted for a year from the virginia beach ampitheater for trying to mosh in the orchestra pit area while papa roach was playing at the FM99 festival whatever year. worst pit ever

e: OH. I just had a flashback. This may have been the same festival where they shot this loving music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vSlktZE6M

which means that most of their set was them playing that song repeatedly. i wish I'd been kicked out sooner

poverty goat fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Aug 20, 2022

rivetz
Sep 22, 2000


Soiled Meat

Planet X posted:

Blues for the Red Sun tour wow :eyepop:
It's also a tragic chapter. I was working at a radio station at the time and got to go to the show to get an interview. Kyuss was opening for Danzig (How the Gods Kill tour).

Tour manager: Well Kyuss has been here for a while, they're just chilling so you could go do whatever the gently caress you want with them, I'm sure they'll talk to you. But Danzig just got off the bus all tired and bent out of shape, so I can only let you do like 5 minutes with whoever I can dig up from them. Your call kid, pick one"
19-yr-old me: (no idea who "Kyuss" is) Oh I'd much rather have the opportunity to talk with Danzig sir"

And that is how I got to meet Eerie Von and get like 90 seconds of interview (and then was stuck hanging around the venue for 90 minutes until the show started) when I could have been lounging around with Kyuss and checking out Josh Homme's amps. And then Kyuss came out and melted my face. I was very young. We don't really talk about that day much.

quote:

Also to see HOF on the Snakes tour as an Oaklander. Oaklandite (?). That must have been something.
There's a story there too that's nearly as embarrassing. I flew down to the Bay Area to rendezvous with a friend and catch this show, The Missing Link. Three separate tours that realized they'd all be in or near Bay Area the same weekend, so they combined the three dates into a single event. Full lineup: Bison BC (crushing. If unfamiliar, check one of their best riffs here), Valient Thorr, Black Cobra, Priestess, Baroness, HoF, Between the Buried and Me, Mastodon. Absolutely worth the trip.

So my friend down there is friends with this bartender who's the girlfriend of someone in Death Angel, and we're shooting the poo poo and she says that Matt Pike is coming in the afternoon of the show and he's super pumped to play the new poo poo in front of the home crowd and all that,...and he wants to do some shrooms before the show but he doesn't have any and he's coming in off this plane and he wants some shrooms.

Of course I immediately offer to track down some shrooms (I mean, are you kidding? Probably won't happen, but what the gently caress) We work out a whole meeting plan where I meet her and we go to meet him, it's absolutely a real thing. I dash off to Golden Gate Park that afternoon and buy an eighth of what the guy politely cautions me are extremely potent shrooms.

Next afternoon, we meet up with the bartender as planned, and surprise surprise, the plan's dead, Matt to the surprise of no one found another source, but thanks. Oh well, I've still got this big bag of shrooms, so I amble off to the bathroom with a bunch of Rolos to eat a chunk of shrooms before the show kicks off.

Me in the bathroom, already stoned: man what a bummer, that would have been so cool munch munch...I wonder if they'll open with Snakes, man there are so many songs off that album I wanna hear munch munchmm these Rolos are good, but now I'm thirsty, I need to get me a drink as soon as I'm through here doo di doo munch munch you think they'll stick to new stuff or dig into the vault, maybe some "10000 Years", that would be sick munch munch Hey I wonder if that dude Jeremy's gonna be here, haven't seen him in forever, maybe he'll want some of these shrooms munch m-

I look down at the bag. It's empty. Lost in my fool's reverie I have eaten the entire bag of shrooms.

I really don't know where an eighth of shrooms stacks on the scales of general use, like it may not be that big a deal to take that much. Everyone's tolerance is different, I don't hang out in TCC so I don't know what constitutes A Lot. All I can tell you is that I was utterly annihilated for hours, and wound up missing the middle chunk of the show due to complete and crippling sensory overload. I actually had to go back to the recovery room, this backstage warehouse space with a bunch of yoga mats and paramedics, and lie there for gently caress knows how long, eyes squeezed shut with these endless fractal waves surging beneath my eyelids as the show booms and crashes through the dividing wall (one positive: the acoustics in there were actually outstanding).

I pulled myself together enough to get back out to the floor in time for HoF, who did not disappoint. But that is why Matt Pike's devil-may-care approach to earnest commitments is ultimately to blame for the most harrowing pyschedelic experience of my life. And also why it sucked even more when Mastodon fizzled.

It's been pretty fun thinking back to this stuff as I write it down. Thanks for reading.

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MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

lol an eighth of good shrooms is perfect for personal use if you're trying to go heavy as gently caress, and it sounds like that's what you did to yourself! Also that sounds like a loving killer concert, I would love to go see 3 tours line up on coincidence, especially those ones.

Glad you got to see HoF during the Snakes tour while tripping your balls off, though, that sounds dope.

That opener for Opeth was the only bad show I've ever seen Matt play between all the times I've seen Sleep and HoF, but man was he ever drunk as gently caress and was it ever bad.

Saw Mastodon on the Leviathan tour, snuck into a 21+ show at age 20 even, and that was sweet as hell.

MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Aug 20, 2022

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