best show you have ever been to? (music-wise)

[LunaTEKKE]

Queensryche “Building Empires” tour

ANY show from Trans-Siberian Orchestra…these guys never disappoint! I think that this year will be my 9th and 10th time to see them. (Phoenix and Vegas).

 

[kittybeast]

Last nights SCORPIONS show!!! OMG those guys were on fire!!! Set list from L.A. Will post pictures after I return from night 2 in Indio!
Hour 1
Bad Boys Running Wild
Love'em or Leave'em
Zoo
Deep & Dark
Coast to Coast
Send Me an Angel
Holiday
Humanity
Make it real
Tease me please me
321
Bass Solo
Kottack Attack
Blackout
Big City Nights
Dynamite

1st encore
Still Loving you
Rock You Like a Hurricane

2nd Encore
No one like you
No When the Smoke is Going Down

 

[Ostracised]

Milli Vanilli - They sounded exactly like the CD!

But seriously, Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory tour in Tokyo was probably my favorite. Closely followed by Joe Satriani in 1997...

Yep, that was a good one(the DT show)!! Maybe I'll catch them for their next tour back in Shibuya soon!!

 

[Wandrail]

Mighty tall order...

ProgPower 3 in its entirety is the single best show I attended. Edguy, Blind Guardian, Gamma Ray...that does it right there.
I would also have to mention Death, who I got to see back in '98.

 

[Kenso]

Queensryche “Building Empires” tour

ANY show from Trans-Siberian Orchestra…these guys never disappoint! I think that this year will be my 9th and 10th time to see them. (Phoenix and Vegas).

these guys are coming here nov 9, im pretty psyched!

 

[Chai]

Kamelot - Jaxx August 2007. Fucking amazing. Well-worth the long trip to VA. They just put so much into that performance. I don't think I've ever seen any other band in any genre get on the stage and just let every emotion out. Also it helps they are one of my favorite bands .

 

[Thorn23TX]

these guys are coming here nov 9, im pretty psÿched!

fixed.

 

[mloanna]

Queenryche - Empire tour
Whitesnake - 1987/88 tour
Heaven and Hell - Just for the history alone.

 

[Perditions Ghost]

No doubt, Black Sabbath (with Dio) - 9/9/07

 

[MetalPrincess8]

Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory Tour 2000...it was awesome that they played the whole album from start to finish with no interruptions, like it was one long song...was AWESOME!!

 

[AngraRULES]

Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory Tour 2000...it was awesome that they played the whole album from start to finish with no interruptions, like it was one long song...was AWESOME!!

Good call, that's another one of my best shows. I was at the DVD recording show in NYC, and boy, was that a night to remember!!!!

Wait, no.. A night to remember was Evergrey's dvd show.... But then again, so was DT's.

Also, DT at Radio City Music Hall last year was another concert I'll never forget.

 

[urayoan]

Musically: Rush in the Vapor Trails tour in Mansfield, MA 2002

Crowd involvement: Pantera in the Vulgar Display of Power tour Bayamon, Puerto Rico 1993. I have never witnessed an approximately thousand people mosh pit... Even P. Anselmo threw the mic the crowd's way and went into the pit

ProgPower: Angra at ProgPower III, haven't heard of them, and became and instant fan
Honorable mentions: Edguy PPIII, Therion and Orphaned Land

 

[panzermastery]

Ozzy/Metallica-Ultimate Sin Tour
Iron Maiden-Caught Somewhere Tour,Seventh Son Tour,Matter of Life and Death Tour.
Gamma Ray-Majestic tour
Blind Guardian-A Twist Tour
Pantera- Far Beyond tour
Iced Earth-Glorious Burden Tour
Overkill-Horrorscope tour
Edguy-Rocket Ride tour
Damageplan-2004 Finally met Dime and Vinnie!!!

 

[J-Man]

Here is another that goes wayyyyyyyyy back

WBAM radio in Montgomery Al hosting what was know as the BIG BAM show.

BLUES MAGOOS
MUSIC MACHINE
ELECTRIC PRUNES
MITCH RYDER AND THE DETRIOT WHEELS
MOBY GRAPE
THE WHO (yes this was their first ever US show)
PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS

 

[TheWhisper]

In high school all in one show....
ZZ Top
Triumph
Sammy Hagar
Foghat

 

[Creeps]

My list will be weird but here goes;

DIO / Rough Cutt, Sacred heart tour - my 1st show and what a show it was
Kiss reunion 96 - a dream come true for me. (worst show was the farewell)
Alice Cooper ever single damn time, the man never disappoints
Badlands & Saraya @ the Button South in Florida
Anthrax @ the same place mentioned above POT tour
WWIII Summers on the beach, Lauderdale
Lord Tracy same place as above
Suicidal Tendencies Lights, Camera tour same good ole Summers
Judas Priest / Alice Cooper w/ Dangerous Toys
Judas Priest w/ Halford back in the fold the Ryche opening
Scorpions/Bon Jovi/Great White/Aldo Nova/Saraya & Southgang miami beach
Cheap Trick at a Miami water park
The Criss Oliva memorial show
Ace Frehley on the 1st solo tour
Ace Frehley on his last time through Florida, he played Talk To Me live, made my night
the Cult & Lenny Kravitz
Lennon when I saw her open for the Cult - left me speachless
D.R.I. with my band, Sworn Enemy & the Mentors - lots of fun
David Lee Roth Eat tour w/ Cinderella


These are the ones that I talk about the most, so they must be the best shows I've seen

I keep ProgPower in a totally different light. Without PP I would probably have never been able to see an actual metal festival w/o travelling overseas (which I'm still dying to do). It pains me deeply that I'm financially unable to make it to this year's event.

For me my favorite all time PP performances that I've seen (I started attending at III) in no particular order other than event-wise:

Silent Force (sealed the deal for me to attend my 1st PP)
Gamma Ray
Circle II Circle
Nightwish
Mercenary (Sieze the Night -nuffsaid)
Savatage (call it what it is and my 1st time seeing them even living in the same damn town)
Brainstorm (if these guys played every year I'd spontaneously combust)
Tad Morose
Dreamscape
Kamelot (again 1st time I've seen them and they're based here)
Edguy
Orphaned Land (only thing missing was the girl vocalist otherwise only outshown in #3 slot by Brainstorm and CIIC in my opinion)
Circus Maximus
Conception (made me a fan)
Therion
Symphorce
Freak Kitchen
Epica (stole the whole weekend for me)
Vision Divine (what a fucking voice)


and in another category = Deborah Gibson in Cinderella.

 

[MysticX9]

Very cool thread here, really enjoyable reading through all the
shows everyone has seen, amazing! Pink Floyd is one of those
I regret never having seen, I know that had to have been magical...

First I have to say that ProgPower II was one of the greatest
shows I've ever seen, I couldn't believe what Glenn had
assembled, bands you previously would never have been able
to see here in the States, a dream come true! Long before
that I was fortunate to have witnessed a multitude of classic
concerts, many of which I mentioned in the "Best Tour Packages"
thread a few weeks ago. I reposted those below, but several I
left off were:

Judas Priest/Axe 1979: my first real concert, incredible!
Jethro Tull/U.K. 1979: exhilarating...
Scorpions/Blackfoot/Ted Nugent 1979: intense, my first Atlanta show.
Rush: 1980: my first time seeing them, life changing for sure!
Scorpions 1984: in Dallas, no one quite does it like the Scorps.
Queensryche/Kiss: WARNING tour, enough said.
Lillian Axe: various shows between 1984 and 1989 - they should have been huge.
Savatage 1985: - my only time seeing Criss Oliva, as awesome as you would expect.
Pantera: various shows between 1983 and 1988, one of the
absolute best live bands ever, perfect melodic metal; I can still feel the heat
from those flashpots!
Yngwie Malmsteen 1988: - lucky to have seen him in Houston and Atlanta. Damn...
Joe Satriani 1988: I was introduced to a master.
Eric Johnson 1988: see above
Don Dokken 1990: - with John Norum!
Dream Theater 1992: IMAGES AND WORDS tour in a small club, unreal!
Vicious Rumors 1994: - great seeing these guys in a club, incredible...
Shawn Lane 1996: - one of those shows I'm so thankful to have seen,
some of the most unbelievable guitar I've ever witnessed!

Anyway, a bunch of the others are listed below and there are tons I've
left out but I've taken enough space already. Suffice it to say, all the
ProgPower events I've experienced have been pure magic, can't say thanks
enough to Glenn and all the people who have been instrumetal in
putting this fantastic show together over the years, here's to many
more in the future!!! See you all next month...

Best Tour Packages (repost):

Scorpions/Pat Travers/Sammy Hagar
Scorpions/Blackfoot/Ted Nugent
Def Leppard/Judas Priest
Motorhead/Ozzy
Iron Maiden/Judas Priest
Girlschool/Iron Maiden/Scorpions
Saxon/Molly Hatchet
Y&T/Dio
Helstar/W.A.S.P.
Saxon/Accept
Great White/Judas Priest
Dokken/Judas Priest
Loudness/TNT/Gary Moore/Y&T
Metallica/Ozzy
Y&T/Aerosmith
Yngwie/Dio
Fates Warning/Savatage
Dio/Deep Purple/Scorpions
Fates Warning/Dream Theater/Queensryche
Queensryche/Judas Priest

 

[Kenso]

Shawn Lane 1996: - one of those shows I'm so thankful to have seen,
some of the most unbelievable guitar I've ever witnessed!

i would have really liked to see him and hellborg together, or maybe his powers of ten band, lots of great stuff there.

was he doing solo stuff or with hellborg?

 

[Ruthven]

Lennon when I saw her open for the Cult - left me speachless

Yay.

Lennon is one of the most underrated female rock performers working. And to be totally crass, she's one of the hottest women I've ever known.

 

[MysticX9]

i would have really liked to see him and hellborg together, or maybe his powers of ten band, lots of great stuff there.

was he doing solo stuff or with hellborg?

He was with Hellborg at the time, amazing stuff...