Going to a concert!

My one concert semi-regret:

My two favorite bands are NIN and Jane's Addiction. I was too young to see the original Jane's lineup before they split in 1991 so that sucked. I got to see NIN later on and then see half of Jane's in Porno for Pyros. Never got to see Jane's though.

Well just a few years ago I read that NIN and Jane's are going to tour AND Eric Avery is going to be back with the band. Once in a lifetime show.....and because it fell in May I had to either screw two of my kids out of a birthday and go see it OR give them a good birthday like they should have and miss the show. Well as you can see from my list above, I skipped the show. I told myself I would get them on the next go round. Of course Eric Avery leaves the band AGAIN and Perry pisses off Trent so I doubt they will be touring together again. And to top it off, Saul Williams was a special guest at that one show so I missed that too.

My brother got to go see it and I have watched some clips of the show I would have gone to on youtube but man is it depressing knowing I missed it.

Heartbreaking.

Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper - 2012
Queensryche - 2011
Metallica, System of a Down - 2002ish?
Tool - 2008
Alice in Chains - 2010, 2014

Besides Tool and Iron Maiden, my favorite was probably seeing Modest Mouse in a relatively small club when studying abroad in London in fall 2004. They had hit it with Float On in the US that summer so it was kind of cool to see them in such a small venue.

I go to shows weekly.

Some of the highlights from this past year:

Dr John
Bassnectar
STS9 (see them live, any chance you get)
The Pimps of Joytime (maybe the best live show I've ever seen compared to studio work)
RJD2
DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist
Start Making Sense (a Talking Heads cover band that plays pretty much perfectly, they are also a Hall and Oates tribute band that plays right before SMS comes on, they just switch lead singers)
Hudson Music Project last year, which was an absolute shit show, but was maybe the most fun 4 days of my life.

Planning on All Good this year, Widespread Panic is coming to Pittsburgh, My Morning Jacket is also coming, and Griz is next month.

A lot of local venues have free shows or shows for very cheap (that is when I got to see Pimps of Joytime, it felt like we, as an audience, stole something for not paying to see them) so I go out to shows every week, this past Tuesday was My Big Fat Booty Band which was a fun rock/funk show, great live band. Turkuaz was a few months back and they are just a great time if you get the chance to see them. The Budos Band also was something else live, ditto for Particle (which finally started touring again). Tauk is coming to town soon, then the week after it is Consider The Source, both solid outfits that I am looking forward to seeing, for free no less.  Pokey Lafarge and the Traveling McCourys are coming too, if you guys are into bluegrass at all (which is an Appalachian staple, so of course we are around here.)

I agree with Skink that Modest Mouse is a great live show, I saw them at a small ice rink for like 10 bucks many years ago, and again at Hudson, both times they put on a great show, coming to town this year again, but their tickets were so pricey and they sold out (so I guess it was warranted that it was pricey) so now tickets are upwards of a hundred bucks. No thanks.

Not really into seeing many rock shows though, I just don't think they can do much different in a live setting as compared to more Jazzy/Funk/EDM/Experimental groups can.

Man Knerys, that is an awesome list. Deftones, Korn, and Lacuna Coil are on my list of bands I would see.

Metallica is too but I am not excited about them like I used to be. Still would be a good show to see.

I haven't been to a lot of concerts. I want to start going to more. My most recent concerts were Miley Cyrus (don't judge me) last year and Maroon 5 a few years before that. Faith No More is touring this year, but no shows in Kansas City. I go back and forth on the idea of going out of state just to see them.

In the last 10 years:

Akala X 4
Alt-J
Arcade Fire X 2
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Editors
Eminem
Fatboy Slim
Guns N Roses
HAIM
Hope of the States
Hozier
Joe Budden
Kanye West
Kasabian
The Killers
Kings of Leon
Lana del Rey
The Libertines
London Grammar
M83
Mauro Picotto x 15
Mogwai
The Music x 3
The National x 3
Nine Black Alps
Oasis
Pete Doherty
Plan B
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Royce Da 5 9
Sasha x 4
Sigur Ros x 4
Slaughterhouse
Two Door Cinema Club
The War on Drugs
Wild Beasts
Wu Tang Clan

Pretty good line up.

The only artist I'll regret never being able to see is Gravenhurst...

Dang Deexan, nice list,

Another regret of mine is not being able to see Pantera.

Was close to buying tickets to this show:
www.setlist.fm/setlist/pantera/2001/tabernacle-atlanta-ga-43d71bc7.html

Should have done it but again, thought "Oh well I will catch them on the next trip" and the next trip never happened. Great set list too =/

I feel the same about NIN and Jane's.

Deexan missed Bach's last tour too I see.

Nice list of some of the classic rock greats, Doomsday!

Who are the bands people have been most surprised by live?

I saw Damien Rice at Latitude festival in 07 and was expecting a slow, depressing set of tracks like:



and



Decent tracks of their own volition but not worthy of the last slot of the last night at a music festival, or so I thought.

Fortunately he played a massively upbeat set and told anecdotes between every song, at one point downing several glasses of red wine in between the beats of a story. He was bringing a butler out to pour all members of his band a glass, they'd down it in one go, then he'd continue. Every sentence was told with a relish only the Irish can muster when telling a story.

The audience was in the palm of his hand. I was hugely won over.

He also brought the Magic Numbers out to perform the last few tracks with him.

I saw Madeon last night. Annoyingly good for a 20 year old.