Havent been to a good show in too long but thinking back on some memorable ones I was trying to figure out the first, best big show and best small show I have seen.

First Concert- Ozzy and Motley Crue Summer 1984

Best Big Concert-Rolling Stones and Guns N Roses LA Colliseum on a Sat Night with 100,000 of my closest friends. Close second was a U2 show at Sundevil Stadium. 5th row floor seats and they were all $5 tickets!

Best Small Concert-Ziggy Marley at the Pier in Seattle, dont know why as I have a few others that were awesome but this one just had a good vibe, came in by boat, smoke was kind, girls were fine and i drunk alot of wine...

1st. Rush Roll the bones back in 92.

Best. Rush Vapor trails 04. Took the whole family and my boy's got to see Neil Peart's kit from the 26th row.

My only wish before I kick the bucket is to see Iron Maiden Live.

Mf

First REAL concert: Led Zeppelin with a then-unknown Judas Priest as the opening act - Candlestick Park, San Francisco, Summer 1976.

Best concert: Too hard to pick... I've seen a LOT of concerts!

I don't remember my first real concert. My best small concert would either be Stevie Ray Vaughn or Santana.

First concert:

I wasn't allowed to go to concerts until I was 12 years old...and ten days after turning twelve I saw Judas Priest and Great White at the Tacoma Dome...the following weekend was Iron Maiden and Twisted Sister at the Coliseum. That was 1982.

I've seen an awful lot of concerts in my life...so the best one is hard to decide on...

Fleetwood Mac at the Gorge, 1989, Stevie Nicks' birthday...the sun was setting behind the stage, and Christie McVie was singing Songbird to her for her birthday, just her on the piano...Stevie sat right in front of the piano and cried while she played.

It was supposed to be their last show ever, but they re-grouped to play with President Clinton later...

That one's tough to beat.

Fish on...

Todd

1st: ZZTop After Burner '85

Best: Roskilde Festival, Roskilde Denmark (not too far from Kristiania )
Pearl Jam @ the Backroom Austin, TX in '91 (<75 people there)
Nirvana '91
Sublime (SXSW and China Cafe in Seattle)
BadBrains @ Trees in Dallas ('92?)

I missed Sublime ( ), but was just old enough to get into clubs and bars to see the "seattle scene" before it became the "world scene"...Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone (another one of my favorite shows), Mudhoney...the whole shebang.

Fish on...

Todd

I ended up inside the Sublime rv that night...
My ONE rock-n-roll claim to fame!!
(other than that, the show sucked 'cause they were so high on H they didn't know the sound was screwed up... SXSW in Austin was good though)

I've been to a few, but my favorite performance I have ever seen was Radiohead at that Auburn Ampitheatre thing, I think supporting the "Hail to the Theif" album. It wasn't the venue that made it, but Thom Yorke was just incredible, from his voice to the weird instruments, to jumping up and down for like 3 minutes spinning his arms like a helicopter.

I never thought that a band could improve over their studio music that much, and the thing was their studio albums were awesome.

First was Rail, makes me laugh at how cool I thought those guys were. Best was Burning Spear with The Allman Bros (Trucks in place of Betts) in a pretty close second. TAB had the tightest sounding stage that I've ever heard live, their roadies knew what they were doing, the band was in perfect time, all the time and it's cool watching two drummers playing two different lines at the same time. I bet Radiohead is awesome live, reminds me, I need to go get that rainbows album.

1st, Rush either 86 or 87
Best, the 3 rush tours I saw or Ozzy, tough call there.
Biggest disappointment, AC/DC, saw them in the T-Dome a few years ago, wasn't impressed and there 1 of my favorites.

Best: Alice Cooper, Welcome To My Nightmare-Spokane
Worst: Aerosmith-Kingdome mid 70s
Couldn't even recognize what songs they were playing.

No such thing as a best show to me. They are all different.
Tool at DV8 in SLC promoting the Opiate album
X on more tours than I can remember
Oingo Boingo for years
Circle Jerks
Bad Brains
Danzig and Sound Garden (Louder than Love)... very cool show with lots of crowd violence. Never saw the underbelly of SLC until this show.
Karate at the Black Cat club in D.C. Geoff Farina and crew did a suprise show for his younger sister's birthday. Beyond expectations, all 20 of us rocked!

Floater on any given date. Been going on 15 years now.

Roy Acuff and the Smokey Mountain Boys in Chehalis circa 1949. Never forget it! His "Wabash Cannonball" was boss!

1st : July,12th,1981 Paramount
Ozzy and Motorhead R.I.P. Randy Rhoads

Best : That's way to hard to decide

Small Venue : Warrant played some dance club in Seattle 1989 w/ like 200 people. 150 where chicks.

Friends band Sanctuary played the Paramount Alice in Chains opened for them. Backstage that was a fun night. 1988 or 1989?

4Salt to you remember Bill Grahman presents Day on the Greens?

fishpoleplease Rail thats funny 1,2,3

First concert was probably Soundgarden at Gorilla Gardens in 85, I think their second show. We were lucky we didn't get the [censored] kicked out of us roaming around Jackson and Pioneer Sq back then.

First large concert was George Thoroughgood in Coliseum at Bumbershoot in 86?

Dave Matthews and friends at Key Arena a few years back was a pretty good show.

Small venue/great shows, Nirvana at Community World Theater in 88, Nirvana, Melvins, Dwarves at Motor Sports Intl Garage in Seattle.

Recent: Alice in Chains at the Paramount last year was a good show.

Honorable mention: Tony Bennett at Wash Center for Performing Arts a few years ago.

Saw the BEATLES in 66 and screamed like a little girl

Hendrix and the cool part of that was otis redding opening for him

A little Neil Young in Dallas but I can't remember that one.

I haven't been to many concerts lately but a few good shows come to mind.
Jerry Garcia Band in Milwaukee in 90 or 91.
Cowboy Junkies in Bloomington,IN with about 50 people in 88.
Black Flag with Henry Rollins while in high school in Detroit. That show was amazing. Henry kicked some dude in the face who was in the front of the pit.
Clifton Chenier (spelling ?) at Summerfest in Milwaukee in 89.
Pearl Jam at Magnuson in 92.

First - Led Zep in the Arena - 1969. Can't decide on what's best.