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I haven’t seen him in almost 15 years, but Weird Al Yankovic puts on a hell of a good show. Always has the best backup musicians with him.
Saw him 4 months ago. I was not prepared for so many costume changes.
I saw him close to 20 years ago and the thing that always stood out to me the most was that he sounded exactly the same as he does on his albums. I was very impressed.
He was just in Tiny Desk Concerts, which turned out one of the best of that series:
I won front row tickets to his concert once, loved it! Amazing!!
I was at the Foo Fighters gig where Dave Grohl fell off the stage and broke his leg, after which the rest of the band spent an hour playing various covers until Dave came back on stage high on pain meds mixed with alcohol and resumed the show. A doctor had to sit on stage and keep his leg fixed for the rest of the show until they could take him to the hospital to give him a cast, and the entire crowd dedicated “My hero” to the doctor. That show was fucking awesome.
Top two concerts of all time:
Daft Punk at Lollapalooza 2007
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at Northerly Island, Chicago, 9/1/24
I was also at the Gizz Show and I concur
Also: Woo!
I don’t know if it was the venue, the band, the sound booth, my location, the weather, or some combination but it was the best sounding show I’ve ever heard, indoors or out. Also I can’t wait for their collab with Billy 😍
Rammstein
Theatrics, setlist, audio quality, crowd… Just wow. Hope to see them one more time.
Easily this. They have some of the best theatrics ever. The fire and smoke are amazing to watch. They even used the smoke on stage to cover a costume change during the performance
High as a kite at a friends house just hanging out after work. My friend just randomly picks up his acoustic guitar and starts noodling. His roommate comes home, disappears for a bit and comes out with a standup bass. For the next 2 hrs they just smoked and jammed for the love of music.
Me:
Daft punk
Words cannot express my jealousy.
Slipknot puts on a great show. Weird Al’s shows are always fun. If I’m within a couple of hours of where Babymetal is putting on a show, I will do whatever it takes to see them. Honey Dijon spins an amazing set. Whenever you have a chance to see an opera, go. Chances are you’ll be blown away by the talent.
- TOOL
- Roger Waters
- Muse
Metallica, Donington Park Raceway, 2004. They were headlining Download festival, but Lars was rushed to hospital right before the show. Rather than cancel they brought out a rotating cast of drummers from the other bands at the festival, starting with Dave Lombardo from Slayer.
This was the St Anger tour… We were all jazzed to see Metallica, but let’s be honest, no one was particularly jazzed about St Anger as an album. Thing is though, their guest drummers didn’t know the tracks on St Anger. They knew old school Metallica; Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, the Black Album, And Justice For All. The good shit.
Better yet, the guest drummers were absolutely psyched to be there. For Metallica this could have been just another show. Huge crowd, but they’ve played bigger. But for their rotating cast of drummers this was the greatest night of their life. That kind of enthusiasm is infectious and it really showed. This was one of the most balls to the wall performances I’ve ever seen from any band. The energy was off the charts.
Especially when they got to Joey from Slipknot. The idea was that they were going to keep rotating drummers throughout the night, but after Joey played his first song, that went out the window. He was their drummer for the rest of the night. That motherfucker played his god damn heart out. Now, listen, if you’re one of those people who still thinks that Slipknot are a bad band, go listen to Vol 3 and then come talk to me. Joey is one hell of a drummer, and he showed up to play. And the whole band felt it.By the end of the show James Hetfield wasn’t singing to us… He was singing to Joey. I distinctly remember him standing with one foot up on the bass drum staring that little masked genius dead in the eyes, two guys basically performing for each other (an image made hilarious and adorable by the fact that James Hetfield is a giant of a man, and Joey is a pocket sized human being; it was like Dad brought his kid to work).
It was a once in a lifetime experience, and probably one of the best shows Metallica ever played. Pure lightning in a bottle.
I was there, man, such a fucking great show.
NIN always does a great show, but I think of all of them I liked the Fragility Tour the most (2000). It was so well done.
KMFDM always puts on a hell of a show. I never miss a chance to see them and they always kill it. My favorite show of there’s was the Symbols tour with PIG. They had Ogre from Skinny Puppy touring with them as he was a temporary member for that album. Just so good.
Gwar was always great and fun to see live. They probably still are, but I haven’t been able to see them live in years.
Primus. Mesa Amphitheater.
I think the best live show I ever saw was Good Kid. Their energy and jams couldn’t be matched.
I saw The Chemical Brothers play back in the early 2000’s and they were set up with racks and racks of keyboards surrounding them. They played their electronic music live on the keyboards and watching them blew my mind. Up until this concert I never thought of electronic producers as musicians, this totally changed my perspective.
Hmm, hard to pick, but these come to mind in no particular order:
Chemical Brothers - Glastonbury Other Stage 2019
Chemical Brothers - V Festival (South) 2nd stage 2008
Faithless - V Festival (South) Main Stage 2006
Bloc Party - Alexandra Palace 2007
Nine Inch Nails - Eden Project 2022
Nine Inch Nails - O2 London 2025
Underworld - Aviva Studios Manchester 2024
Oneohtrix Point Never - New Century Manchester 2024
Massive Attack - Bestival Main Stage 2009
Massive Attack - Glastonbury Other Stage 2014
Aphex Twin - Glastonbury Temple Stage 2014
Sub Focus b2b Wilkinson - Glastonbury Sonic Stage 2019
Deadmau5 - Nation Liverpool 2009
Sigur Ros - Manchester Apollo 2022
I’m definitely forgetting a lot off the top of my head though
Man Man opening for Modest Mouse in Rochester NY. Got to watch the soundcheck and had spots on the rail. Man Man just had another energy I haven’t really seen matched by anyone.
Sigur Ros at Bonnaroo in 2008. Was a few hour gaps between shows at the stage and hung out for a few hours with people to get a good spot. Left that show to find Kanye (who was supposed to start at the same time), still hadn’t taken stage. Fell asleep waiting for him, gave up around 4AM and walked back to my tent. Think he went on around 430AM
Viagra Boys in 2022. Fun show, good crowd energy.
Arcade Fire/LCD Soundsystem/Blonde Redhead/ Les Savy Fav on Randall’s Island in 2007. Front row of 20,000+ people (that I ran to secure for our group) Met Will Butler. Was LCD Soundsystem’s last stop on the tour. Special special show.
Oh, Girl Talk at RIT sometime around 2007 or so. I’ve seen Girl Talk I think three times, but crowd energy was nuts for this one. Crowdsurfed even.
Man Man
There’s a band you never hear about. Six Demon Bag is a wild ride, amazing album. What a unique sound.
Also, great Linux command.
I have never heard of them, but Six Demon Bag is a reference to Big Trouble in Little China aka the best movie ever made. So I can only conclude that they are cool as hell.
Highly recommend listening to Six Demon Bag front to back.
I cannot speak to the anything they made before or since, but that album is amazing. It’s like pirate folk klezmer punk
It’s an absolutely great album. Zero duds on it. The Man in a Blue Turban with Face is also great. And if those tickle you the right way I’d check out the bands Need New Body and Icy Demons which had some members of the original Man Man lineup.
Pow Pow, their drummer, is an incredible talent.
