Anyone care to list or describe their fave ever gigs (probably excluding Ministry)!?!?
The greatest live acts I’ve been lucky enough to have experienced at some point are:
Mr Bungle (twice…and they were insane)
The Boredoms (most energy displayed by a live act I have ever seen)
Liars
The Orb (although I was tripping and may have imagined most of it)
Flaming Lips
Morrissey
Sonic Youth
Melvins (twice)
You saw Mr. Bungle TWICE? You bastard! I am writhing with jealousy!
Some of my favorite shows -
Tom Waits
Captured By Robots
Legendary Pink Dots 3x once with Twilight Circus
Kool Keith / Doctor Octagon
Neko Case with Merle Haggard
Melvins 3x -
Legendary Shack Shakers
The Pixies
Psychic TV
Radiohead
Skinny Puppy
Thrill Kill Kult (1997 when they were still good)
Reverend Horton Heat
Rodney Crowell
Drive By Truckers
Fantomas
Junior Brown
Neil Young
Stinking Lizaveta
Ministry
skinny puppy
fantomas
amon tobin
legendary pink dots
gomez
patton & rahzel
there’s been many more, it’s all starting to blur together over time, but those stood out to me the most.
Best shows I remember
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The Jesus Lizard
Was never a HUGE fan of these guys - but would have loved to have seen them live, as a friend of mine saw them in '95 and he later proclaimed it as the ‘musically most intense two hours of my life’.
And he wasn’t even much of a fan to begin with.
Anyway, to mix things up a bit, these are some of the bands/artists I would like to have seen but never got the chance (for whatever reason):
The Birthday Party
Swans
Butthole Surfers (when they were good)
Big Black
The Stooges (back in the day…)
The highlights, no particular order…
Laibach - Sympathy/Let It Be Tour, 1989
Laibach - Jesus Christ Superstars Tour, 1997
Ministry (Mind) w/KMFDM (UAIOE), 1990
Ministry - LORAH Tour, 1988
Front 242 - Tyranny Tour, 1991
FLA - Tactical Neural Implant Tour, 1992
FLA - Hard Wired Tour (w/Die Krupps), 1996
LPD - Hallway of the Gods Tour, 1997 (AMAZING show)
Peter Gabriel - Us Tour, 1992
Nitzer Ebb - Ebbhead Tour, 1992
Nitzer Ebb - Reunion Tour, 2007
Depeche Mode (Violator) w/Nitzer Ebb (Showtime), 1990
Depeche Mode (Masses, filmed for 101) w/OMD (Best of), 1988
Skinny Puppy - Mythrus Tour, 2007
Skinny Puppy - GWOTR Tour, 2004
Gary Numan - Exile Tour, 1998 (best live version of Are Friends Electric I’ve heard)
Oingo Boingo - Dark at the End of the Tunnel Tour, 1990
Pink Floyd - Division Bell Tour, 1994
Pigface - Gub Tour, 1991 (Ogre, Atkins, Rieflin, Connelly)
Pigface - Fook Tour, 1992 (Atkins, En Esch, Raven?)
Pigface - Notes From Thee Underground Tour, 1994
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Superstition Tour, 1992
David Bowie (Outside), w/NIN, 95 or 96
Killing Joke - Pandemonium Tour, 1994
Bauhaus - Resurrection (the first Palladium shows), 1998
Peter Murphy - Deep Tour, 1990
New Order - Technique Tour, 1989
Wire - Send Tour, 2003
U2 - Joshua Tree (filmed for Rattle and Hum) w/BB King, 1987
1002
Skinny Puppy “Too Dark Park”
Thrill Kill Kult “Sexplosion”
Meredith Monk “Mercy”
Tad - just a random show in a small town bar probably
1998 or so but he really impressed me
The Faint - Danse Maccabre
The Knife “Silent Shout”
Probably others too, those are the ones that immediately jump into my head though.
hmm…
in no particular order:
Kreator (managed to break all my toenails on this one, and I was still happy!)
Patton & Rahzel
Fantomas
Destruction @ Wacken (seen them on other occasions but this particular show was insane)
Atheist
Slayer (they dont have that “best live band in rock music” tag attached to them for nothing…)
Alice Cooper
Celtic Frost (every chord made people fall down, it was so heavy)
Enslaved
New Model Army
I’ve seen The Jesus Lizard 3 times by accident. Two times at a small club I used to go to a lot… and once a Lollapalooza. They are a lot of fun to watchlive although the music never did a whole lot for me.
I saw 'em once and felt similarly. Yow was insane on stage and the sheer number of “Oh God, he didn’t just…” moments were astounding. The music was tight but nothing that personally inspired me.
A few favorites…
Babyland
Einsturzende Neubauten
New Order
Wolf Eyes
Bauhaus
Explosions in the Sky
birthday party, first american tour–nyc( a tavern with maybe five people in the audience)
pere ubu–tut’s,chicago
kraftwerk–chicago
al green (prior to the grits scene)
englebert humperdink–first rockshow for me, auditorium theater, chicago
i was 11.
I’d have to say the fairly recent Frontline Assembly show in London. First time seeing them and it was well worth the wait.
Opening the encore with Gun was just a prefect choice.
Great sound, great setlist, everything.
RevCo in Chicago last year was superb also.
The most painful was Damage Manual way back at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms. Was a good show, great seeing cymbals played with a head but it was stupidly loud. Took about 5 days for my eardrums to recover.
Cardiacs next month at the Wedgewood Rooms should change the list at bit though![:)]
The Faint - Danse Maccabre
Gah, I missed out on that. They played right on my doorstep too.
My brother came round one day, saw the album on my shelf, asked to borrow it, then announced he’d seen them just the week before.
I knew nothing about it!
Should keep my ear to the ground more I suppose…
Nine Inch Nails
The Prodigy
Tool
The Pixies
Beastie Boys
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Grinspoon about 5 times.
System of A Down x2
Queens Of The Stone Age (come back to Aus guys!)
Marilyn Manson is entertaining, live music is a bit meh, he should play better tracks.
God I’ve seen heaps at festivals and on their own. cant think of them all right now.
Jupitreas, are slayer really that good live? I have Live agression, or whatever their VHS is called, and its… ok. I’ve seen live clips of theirs too, and it seems that Tom hardly sings, I mean, he half-assed sings, a line here, a line there, but it doesn’t seem like he places much importance on filling in that bit of the songs.
Marilyn Manson is entertaining, live music is a bit meh, he should play better tracks.
Saw him on the Anti Christ tour - super cool shit, I guess back in those days when he still made music that I liked, it was probably better.
Skinny Puppy - greater wrong of the right tour.
Pantera - White Zombie and the deftones during the Great Southern Trend Kill Tour
(im gonna get shit for this but I dont care) Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr - In Utero Tour
Butthole Surfers - Chicago a couple years back
Ministry - Chicago - animositisomina tour (dont remember what the tour was called) Chris Connelly did vocals on so what - fucking awesome!
Fear Factory - Static X - Hed P.E.-system of a down - 1999 think it was a tour for Obsolete - tiny venue
Gwar - every single time
Front Line Assembly - The current tour
White Zombie - november 12th 1993 - fuckin brutal show
Ministry houses of the Mole tour - Chicago- Jello got on stage and did some lard tunes. Fuckin awesome
Revco - House of Blues Chicago last year - both nights
oh and i cant forget hanzel Und gretyl last year in a weird auditorium in Chicago
pantera zombie and deftones would have been awesome. Although when I saw the deftones in … oh I dunno 2003 or 2004 at a Big Day Out, they were crap. Just one long whine as far as I was concerned.
manson in the ACS era would have been awesome, not a “greatest hits” show.
Yeah, its no secret Tom’s age is getting to him but when they’re blasting their stuff at you at such high volumes and with the intensity etc. his wrecked voice actually strangely fits.
Favorites…
Foetus
The Knife
Electric Wizard
Skinny Puppy
The Thrones
Babyland
Neubauten
Heroine Sheiks
Revco was a lot of fun on the last tour as well
KISS - 1979 (Dynasty Tour) (my first concert!)
Van Halen - 1981 (Fair Warning Tour)
The Cult - 1999
Revolting Cocks - 1991 (BS&Q Tour)
Skinny Puppy - 1990 (TDP Tour)
Marilyn Manson - 1998 (Mechanical Animals Tour)
Trill Kill Kult - 1991 (Sexplosion Tour)
Morrissey - 1991 (Your Arsenal Tour)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - 2006 (Stadium Arcadium Tour)
Oghr - 2001 (welt tour)
Rush - 1991 (roll the bones tour)
Mudhoney - 1993
New Order - 1989 (Technique tour)
Orbital - 1999
Crystal Method - 1999 & 2001 (vegas & tweekend tours)
Ween - 1995 (chocolate and cheese tour)
dayglo abortions - 198?
KMFDM - 198? (first “industrial” show)
the decendants - 1985 (first punk show)
the exploited - 198?
there’s much more; just can’t think of them. will add more if i must share.
dayglo abortions - 198?
you’ve seen the dayglow’s! kick ass!
hell yea - Dag Nasty opened for them too! and i gotta say - we were just kids man, 17 year old - tops. and the dayglo guys were soo nice to us. there was a total of about 25 people there, and we just stood at the front of the stage the whole time they were setting up in our dayglo shirts - and the drummer was like “hey man - coool shirt”. it was a great time back then.
The Clash at the Aragon Ballroom '79
Magazine at Mothers in Chicago '78
Radiohead in Houston '98