Concert Thread

[Aqua]

I couldn't find a general concert thread here soooo...

Who ya gonna see?

Who have ya seen?

Who ya wanna see?

Where'd ya see 'em?

What were the highlights?

I just recently saw Tool. I've been a fan for years but this was my first time seeing them live. I have seen A Perfect Circle live, but I digress.

Tool was awesome. They had their sound dialed and played flawlessly. The stage was trippy... basically the whole thing was a monitor playing weird scenes and images or flashing them rapidly. I'm surprised they can play up there without having a seizure. Actually, I'm surprised no one in the audience had a seizure.

If you're a Tool fan, here's the set list...

Stinkfist
The pot
46 and 2
Jambi
Schism
Lost keys
Rosetta Stone
Opiate
Sober
Lateralus
Vicarious
Aenema

[Lilith]

I have not seen anyone lately but I always want to go see Social Burn when they are in town.

[maddy]

I've not been to a concert in years either.... and i think the last one I was to was Tim McGraw and Faith Hill or Garth Brooks. Ah, certainly not the same genre as Tool :)

[wyndhy]

i love music, all kinds of it, but i don't care much for concerts. *shrug*

[moose]

U2 18 Nov in Melbourne Aus and i am very much looking forward to it

[1nutworld]

the last concert I went to was back in November.

Cheap Trick opening for Def Lepard.

Lepard and Journey were touring this summer but I didn't get the chance to go.

[Steph]

A stereo-type place is giving us John Mayer next weekend for free. Beyonce will be there the night before but ahem, Mr. Mayer will be there on the 16th.

Enough people in my 'hood have told me he's coming & will come with me for the show. :)

I'm stressing it's free. I stopped paying $70+ for concerts a while ago. I can't justify it.

[lakritze]

I'd like to see Crosby Stills Nash and Young in concert.

[jseal]

Last night I resumed my attendance of the Defender's Day celebrations at Ft. McHenry. This commemorates the successful defense of Baltimore on September 13, 1814, when HM armed forces, freshly returned from the burning of Washington, (an act of noblesse obliges over which true American patriots become misty eyed to this day) attempted to shell the fort into submission. They staged a (small scale) reenactment of the Battle of North Point complete with skirmishers, regular foot soldiers, and a cannon, but this year there was added a drum and fife group, as was the custom back then. The US Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus did a 45 minute show, featuring a suitably multi-cultural selection of composers, ending (of course) with the 1812 Overture by the well know American composer Piotr Tchaikovsky; the raising of the big Ft. McHenry flag while the "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played, and a fireworks display closed the evening.

While this was not a concert to “rock the house”, it did keep a local tradition alive for the 192nd consecutive year. A Good Show.

[Neige]

The 8th of October I am seeing Massive Attack!!!!!!!!!! Lake is coming up to see them with me, I can't wait!!!!!!!!

Who have I seen? The best concert I've seen was probably U2 (with opening band Arcade Fire) back in November last year - their show is just incredible!!!!!!!!! I've also seen Nickelback, The Tea Party, Live, Matthew Good, Three Doors Down, finger eleven, Three Days Grace, Staind, Nelly Furtado, Avril Lavigne, K-OS, Swollen Members, Crush, Breaking Benjamin, etc... Too many to list! I love concerts!!!!!!!!

[musicman]

Just got home from Roger Waters...

Old stuff...ENTIRE Dark Side album and ends with The Wall and Comfortably Numb.

Nuff Said.

[Steph]

Just got home from Roger Waters...

Old stuff...ENTIRE Dark Side album and ends with The Wall and Comfortably Numb.

Nuff Said.

I'm so jealous! I was working right next to the ACC but didn't get tickets. :( How do you always score seats to wicked events?!?!

[Irish]

A stereo-type place is giving us John Mayer next weekend for free. Beyonce will be there the night before but ahem, Mr. Mayer will be there on the 16th.

Enough people in my 'hood have told me he's coming & will come with me for the show. :)

I'm stressing it's free. I stopped paying $70+ for concerts a while ago. I can't justify it.
Steph---I'm not sure,but I saw the add for the NEW season of CSI & I think
that John Mayer is in the opener of the season!(Sept 21 2006) Irish :thumbs:

[Steph]

Steph---I'm not sure,but I saw the add for the NEW season of CSI & I think
that John Mayer is in the opener of the season!(Sept 21 2006) Irish :thumbs:

I think I read that! I always work evenings so I miss all the prime time shows. I'll check youtube when I get home!

[scotzoidman]

I'm wishing I could afford the tix to the upcoming outdoor shed show Sept 8, we have John Mayer & Sheryl Crowe on the same bill...

...& yes, JM was on CSI tonite, doing his new song, "Waiting For The World To Change" (I think that's the title)...Nick & Catherine were in the audience dancing to it...won't give away the rest of the plot & spoil it...

[musicman]

Hey Steph - wasn't me this time - my sister got the tickets and I went with my brother in law

[Steph]

"Waiting For The World To Change"

Waiting On The World To Change

I saw it on youtube. Awesomeness! Thanks for telling me, Irish & scotz!

[jseal]

I saw Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar), Giuseppe Verdi’s first successful opera, for the first time last night. In it, he retells the Biblical story of the captivity of the Israelites in Babylon in the 6th century B.C.

In the opera, the chorus "Va, pensiero (http://www.r-ds.com/opera/verdiana/lyrics.htm)" (a reworking of Psalm 137) is sung by the exiled Israelites on the banks of the Euphrates, lamenting the loss of their homeland. The piece became a popular anthem for the north Italians. It served to express their own longing for political freedom from Austria, rather like the Negro spirituals in the antebellum South. Supposedly, when Verdi's coffin was carried to its final resting place in 1901, the crowd of over 25,000 people along the route began singing this “freedom hymn”.

With grand, sweeping themes, a great cast, well thought out staging and scenery, excellent lighting – Lordy Lordy! It was a splendid concert! :)

[Mae]

I haven't gone to concerts in ages. My time for concerts was in the 80's.

-Jefferson Starship
-Elvis Costello
-Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (w/ Stevie Nicks)
-AC/DC "Back in Black" tour
-ASIA
-The Cars
-Rolling Stones "Tatoo You" tour
-George Thoroughgood (sp?) & the Delaware Destroyers
-Poco
-Little River Band
-Barry Manilow
-Neil Diamond
-Bette Midler
-Sting
-Prince (when he first started out...he was awful)
-Phil Collins
-Spyro Gyra
-Hall & Oates
-Air Supply
-Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton (1973)

and others I can't remember now. :)

The opera sounds fantastic! Very envious, here. :)

[jseal]

Dearsweet & I saw “Messiah” at the BSO recently, and I was impressed at the theatrical treatment the conductor, Ed Polochick presented!

Handel’s oratorio has been an icon for so long that some performances seem timid, as if there is only one way to stage the performance. Ed was having none of that! The tenor delivered his arias with a rather heroic attitude, and when the chorus sang their “Glory to God”, if I closed my eyes I could almost – not quite but almost – see the angels alerting the shepherds of the Joyful Event.

I’m sure the purists tut tutted, but I enjoyed it! :)