Super Duper Badass Concert Thread

[Scarstruck]

Share your best concert experiences
  Mine:
PanterA with special guests Morbid Angel, Soulfly,and Nothingface
  Reliant Arena~ Houston Tx 2/2001
  I was a moderate Pantera fan before this show..not a huge huge fan but I liked them and knew most of their songs..
  I was blown away beyond my expectations...their sound guy is a master at his art.
  The lights dimmed and I heard a farmiliar voice say matter of factly "we are the kings of fucking metal...we're fucking Pantera" followed by the flange ridden guitar intro to "Hellbound"
  What followed could only be described as Sonic mayhem unlike anything Ive ever seen ...and Ive seen alot of fucking shows..
  I remember Phil stopping midsong and pointing out a man in a wheelchair in the pit area (crazy bastard) so he stopped the song and told the crowd to surf the guy up to the barracade so they lifted him up in wheelchair ..passed him to the barracade  
and Phil and 2 roadies pulled the guy up on the stage and Phil said "someone get this guy a fucking drink" and the wheelchair guy got to watch the rest of the show from the side of the stage with a tall alcoholic beverage in his hand..

 Anyway was great show and I never have seen a band as sonically damaging live as Pantera
  My ex wife and I sat up in the nosebleed section and smoked joints and drank $9.00 beers

[Anonymous]

Saw NIRVANA on Nov. 29 1993.  Was in the pit for opening act The Breeders.

[RTP2003]

I've seen quite a few ragin' good shows, but one that comes to mind is a concert I saw in Atlanta in the summer of 2000:

REO Speeddealer, the Supersuckers, Nashville Pussy, and Motorhead.  It was in a club called the Tabernacle, which used to be a huge Baptist church next to the Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta.  The opening acts were good, especially Nashville Pussy, but Motorhead fucking ROCKED!  They were touring a "Greatest Hits Live" album, so they played pretty much every goddamn Motorhead song I wanted to hear.  It was loud as fuck (my ears rang for days afterward).  I was high on some 100mg morphine tablets I had shot up before the show, smoked some of TBPITW, and drank a little vodka, too.  The venue was great, the drugs were good, the crowd was cool, and Lemmy & Co. kicked serious ass.   Lemmy shared his wisdom with the crowd, shouting (in his inimitable Lemmy voice) "Rock and Roll is one of your only escapes from the bullshit that surrounds you!".  How true.

[Anonymous]

I saw David Bowie
Glass Spider Tour 1984.

[Anonymous]

On 2005-01-11 17:24:00, RTP2003 wrote:

"I've seen quite a few ragin' good shows, but one that comes to mind is a concert I saw in Atlanta in the summer of 2000:



REO Speeddealer, the Supersuckers, Nashville Pussy, and Motorhead.  It was in a club called the Tabernacle, which used to be a huge Baptist church next to the Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta.  The opening acts were good, especially Nashville Pussy, but Motorhead fucking ROCKED!  They were touring a "Greatest Hits Live" album, so they played pretty much every goddamn Motorhead song I wanted to hear.  It was loud as fuck (my ears rang for days afterward).  I was high on some 100mg morphine tablets I had shot up before the show, smoked some of TBPITW, and drank a little vodka, too.  The venue was great, the drugs were good, the crowd was cool, and Lemmy & Co. kicked serious ass.   Lemmy shared his wisdom with the crowd, shouting (in his inimitable Lemmy voice) "Rock and Roll is one of your only escapes from the bullshit that surrounds you!".  How true.
"

RTP2003, I knew you were cool, but I didn't know you were that fucking cool.  Nashville Pussy is one of my favorite bands.  The first club show I played in my life was in Lubbock, TX 1991 (Gooey) opening up for Reo Speeddealer. The top of the flier says "shoot dope with Reo Speeddealer" and you did, that fucking rules.  They came to Midland, TX in 1998 to play with me (Crapple)again and brought Snuka from New York with them.
You know they were sued by Reo Speedwagon (cocksuckers) and had to change their name to Speeddealer.  We have speeddealer link on http://www.pornjunkyusa.com  Our site is 4 months out dated.  I've been telling the geek squad to update it and they say OK, but nothing happens.
I think their finally getting some pussy, and that's alright by me, but I do try to explain to my outfit that if the band goes, so does the dope and pussy.

I still have my own private op called Crapitol Records. I'm about to release a DVD called "The Texas 7"  Seven Texas punk bands,
Reo Speeddealer   (Dallas)
The Boozers       (Dallas)
The Sillys        (Denton)
The Mullins       (Fort Worth)
Crapple           (Midland)
Uncle Spooge      (Midland)
Spunk             (Houston)

All I have left to do is the box cover.  I went to take a picture of the Holiday Inn on Garden of the Gods, but it has changed to Quality Inn or some bullshit.  So I'm thinking.

For you RTP2003, I have a free copy.  Just PM or e-mail me an address you want it mailed to.

Speeddealer can also be heard on Tony Hawk Pro Skater Video game.

[Froderik]

Heart 1978.
Van Halen 1979.
The Cars 1980.
The Psychedelic Furs (at a small venue in Baltimore, the Marble Bar) in 1981. This was cool, the Dead Boys opened.
Black Flag at an all ages club 1982.
Fear, Black Market Baby, The Necros, Faith, Void at the "Smoke-In" in a park in Washington, DC in 1982.

After straight:
Half Japanese at some club in DC.
Opened for Samhain in Balto. 1985.
Opened for Butthole Surfers and DKs in DC, and some other bands across the US. Saw Sonic Youth in Detroit on the Bad Moon Rising tour (1985)

The Grateful Dead like 5 times.

The Cramps on New Years Eve 1988.

Roadied for Lungfish on their American tours.

Ed Hall
Boss Hog
Will Oldham
The Upper Crust

I'll have to leave it at this for now...

[mental torture made me li]

On 2005-01-11 20:51:00, froderik13 wrote:

"Half Japanese at some club in DC"

the 9:30 club? if that was in 1986 we might've been at the same show!

[Froderik]

I saw them in January or February of 1985, not at the 9:30...it might have been at the DC Space...

[Anonymous]

My first concert was Rock Superbowl in 1983, in Orlando FL.
  Bryan Adams
  Sammy Hagar
  Journey
  Areosmith

[Scarstruck]

Damn I dont get around here enough../bump

[RTP2003]

Another great show I attended was the Supersuckers at the Moto Lounge in beautiful downtown Jacksonville, Fl in the late 90s.  They opened up with their country set (mostly songs from "Must've Been High") and smoked some of TBPITW with me and a couple of friends between sets, then they came out to play a two-hour set of hellbound Rock-N-Roll.  All that plus a cool opening act (Jesse Dayton and the Western Flyers) for a paltry $5.  Damn that was fun!  I bought them all drinks, and they reciprocated by playing "Coattail Rider" and "Creepy Jackalope Eye" for encores.  See ya in Hell !

[RTP2003]

Saw the Sabs three times in my life--- twice with that little elfin twit, RJ Dio, and once with the Ozzman.

The first time was on the "Heaven and Hell" tour, it was the first roncert I ever attended.  The opening acts were very lame, Riot and the Johnny Van Zant Band.  They blew.  

There was a large, black cross hanging from the ceiling of the Jacksonville Coloseum which became more obscured by smoke as the evening went on-- it was clearly visible before the show, a little hazy after Riot, slightly more hidden after JVZ, and completely covered with weed-smoke clouds after Sabbath.  From the opening number, "War Pigs", to the encore, "Children of the Grave", Sabbath kicked ass.  I recall my friend and I (we were 14 at the time) trying to get some longhair-type to smoke weed with us (he had been sreaming at the top of his resin-caked lungs "Who wants to smoke marijuana??!!!" all fucking night).  Eventually, he passed us a joint. It was fun, fun, fun losing my rock show virginity to Black Sabbath that night!

The second time I saw them was on the "Mob Rules" tour.  It was lame, so I won't go into it.

The last time I saw them was in 2001 in St. Petersburg (Ozzfest).  I thought, "Well, this could be a cheesy, 'remember-when-we-were-cool' nostalgia act, or it could be pretty good".  My fuckbuddy/druggie girl pal and I checked into the Ponce de Leon hotel to fuck and shoot up some smack, then complained about the room and got our $$ back (the room really did suck, but we just wanted a place to do our thing--having done it, we had no more use for the room) and went to the show.  It fucking ROCKED!  Even devilfruit Marilyn Manson (one of the opening acts) was entertaining (he had a flashing sign behind him that spelled 'D-R-U-G-S'---how cute!), but the Sabs ruled the night.  Heard lotsa cool tunes, saw some serious violence during Slipknot's set, partied on weed and liquor with not a cop in sight, and had one hell of a good time.  Plus, I picked up tickets from some dude for half price.  What a wonderful night.

[Scarstruck]

Slayer~ Canyon ampitheatre Lubbock Texas (approximately april of 2002)
  February ~ 2002 3 friends and myself piled in my car at about 2 pm after spending about an hour rolling joints..go go team rolling effort (Mike Belt cannot roll joints to save his fucking life...faggot)~ Reagan is the only one thatll get that
 I got paid that day and blew the wad on Ecstacy  hits..packed it up in a balloon and off we went on the 2 hour trek from Midland to Lubbock
  Aftewr spending the entire 2 hours saying " Goddammit will you two shut the fuck up back there?! Hold your fucking beer down Ive got a bunch of drugs"  To mike and Shauna in the back seat we finally arrive at ticket pick up location...only to find Slayer cancelled..
 
  I remade the treck 2 months later Minus the ecstacy and Minus Mike and SHauna
  Me and my buddy sat in the parking lot and listened to Soilent Green whilst drinking cheap whiskey and when they opened the gates we were good and fucked up..
  Opening acts sucked (Hatebreed and Chaimara)
  Then slayer came on ..Opening with Disciple..
 They played alot of reign in blood .."postmortem" was personal highlight for me ..
 All in all it was great show I missed seeing slayer for 10 years so was big deal for me ..
  I do remember people throwing ice at Kerry King while he played and I saw the ice actually pinging from his guitar( had great spot in front of barracade ) but it didnt fuck him up at all

[RTP2003]

I flew out to LA to do a drug deal with some associates of mine and happened to read in a local entertainment magazine that BOC was playing at the Whiskey (on the fabulous Sunset Strip).  I fucking freaked--they were my favorite band before I got incarcerated at Virgil's Fun Time Camp for Teens, and I had no idea that they were still together at that point, and had not seen them since the "Revolution By Night" tour in 1980 or '81.  They played extremely well, mostly songs from the first three records, which in my opinion, are the best work they have done.  They played two sets of over an hour each, opening up with "Stairway To The Stars", and including "ME-262" (a beautiful metal ode to a WWII German fighter plane that includes the hilarious black humored lines 'Goering's on the phone from Frieburg / Says Willie's done quite a job / Hitler's on the phone from Berlin / Says I'm gonna make you a star'), "Dominance and Submission", "Then Came the Last Days of May" (about some friends of Buck Dharma's who went to Mexico to do a drug deal and got murdered), "Flaming Telepaths", "The Red and The Black", "Veteran of the Psychic Wars", "Harvester of Eyes", "Astronomy" (during which my associates and I filled the room with clouds of TBPITW smoke), "Before The Kiss, A Redcap", and lots of other favorites for the faithful.  I was so overjoyed with the show that I caught them a couple of nights later in San Diego, where I bribed a roadie with a few buds to let me backstage.  I was amped on crystal meth, talking to some hot chick when the band came offstage before the encore.  I was being an ultimately geeky fanboy and talking a mile and a half a minute to the band, when Eric Bloom (pissed that I had been hitting on his girlfriend) said to me "Why don't you get the hell out of here?" and I was escorted out by the same roadie I had bribed earlier.  I didn't really mind; hell, I still think it's kind of funny, and I have seen them several times since then.

[RTP2003]

Saw this shoe in Orlando, Fl in 1992 or '93 (there's a period of about eight years in my life that are all kind of blurry--do you think it was the drugs? :lol: )

Social D opened and were pretty cool, and even the crunchy Neil Young fans seemed to like them.  They played for about half an hour to 45 minutes, with the highlights being "Bad Luck" and "Mommy's Little Monster".

Sonic Youth was next, and I have never seen a crowd so divided--lots of people were in a state of transcendent bliss during their set, which peaked with "Theresa's Sound World", "Eric's Trip", "Catholic Block", "Cotton Crown", and "Expressway To Your Skull"---and the other half of the crowd was boooing and yelling to pull the plug.  Personally, I thought they were great-- I wish I had seen them on a tour of their own where they could have played longer.  I haven't listened to any of the stuff they've put out recently, but I'd see them if they came around again.

Neil and Crazy Horse were cool, but I've seen better shows by him.  He played "Cowgirl In The Sand" and "Hurricane", so I was cool with it, but his encore of the Dylan song "Blowin' In The Wind" was lame, and kind of anti-climactic.

I was pretty fucked up and tired, so I asked my girlfriend to drive home.  We got stopped by cops in Marion county (Ocala, Fl) on the way home because the tag light--not even the tail light-- on my car was burned out.  I was doing my best to keep it cool (I had several vials of liquid LSD on me), and my girlfriend kept it together (thanks, Jenn, wherever you are) and didn't freak when they went rooting around in my car.  The fucking pigs kept asking me why she was driving, as if that was some terrible situation.  I told them that I was tired and had drank a little bit, and after keeping us on the side of the road for about about 45 minutes, they let us go.  God, I hate fucking cops.