concerts that you've been to...

calliecritturs

Denise -- another YOU may have seen/heard - that we get to see pretty regularly at the Hard Rock Live is "Classic Albums Live". 

Now this is a concert of a whole different kind -- it's a huge bunch of studio musicians who get together as various casts and do "Classic Albums" note for note.  For example -- Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Revolution, the White Album, Abbey Road of the Beatles.  Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", "The Wall" and one other (David's the PF fan), The Who's "Who's Next", and they do Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" (that was a stellar one we saw also -- and they do the Eagles, AC/DC, Led Zepplin and others).

I checked it out and WOW! I see they are doing Bob Marley not to far from here. I think I'll go. Thanks!  

Well,,,,,,,,,,,my second name is MISS CONCERT!  We're down to probably two a year now...but I have been to a ton of them since I decided that I LOVE Country music.  

The last people I saw in Sept. were: Crystal Shawanda, James Otto, Lady Antebellum, Phil Vassar, Diamond Rio and Dirks Bentley. In August we say Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert showed up and sang.

I probably couldn't even remember half of the country people I saw. Every time Diamond Rio, Lee Roy Parnell and Sawyer Brown come anywhere near our city WE ARE THERE. Got tons of pictures to show for it.   Used to go to see Tim McGraw every time he came to..until he got soooo big that you couldnt get good seats.  Saw Toby Keith, Martina, Garth Brookes,  Lonestar, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Charlie Daniels, JoDee Messina, Montgomery Gentry, Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn, Reba, Patty Lovelace, Vince Gill, Clint Black, Dwight Yokum, Kelly Picker, Phil Stacey, Joe Diffey, Bucky Covington, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Carry Underwood, Sugarland,,,,,and oh gosh..............I can look in my photo albums and find tons more...just cant remember them.  We go to a lot of county fairs in the summer just to get seats up close. After a few concerts like the George Strait and Garth where you spend a lot of money and sit in the nose bleeds....who needs it??    We also go to the Grand Ole Opry when we can get to Nashville.

The only one I remember seeing outside of country...is my favorite singer of all time....Elton John!

I've also seen Ted Nugent in concert. And I got to meet him in person later at a book signing. He was signing copies of his memoirs "God, Guns, and Rock and Roll" and his cookbook "Kill it and Grill it!"

I have also met Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five. He used to live in Dallas. I don't know if he still does.

I would like to meet Michael Aday, who lives in Dallas. Most of you would know him better as Meatloaf.

I have also met and heard the Associations "Along comes Mary."

And Grass Roots. "Temptation Eyes."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZLVLPyzoCg&feature=related

I don't go to concerts much.  I went to 10 U2 concerts in 2005/2006.  So, with the openers that includes Pearl Jam, Gavin Rosdale, Dashboard Confessionals, Kings of Leon, Damien Marley, Rocko Reedy and the Devils, and Kanye West.  At my college I've seen Indigo Girls, Jars of Clay, and Nickel Creek. 

U2 were by FAR and away the best and not just b/c they are my favorite band.  For one, very very few bands can even afford to put on a show of the same quality and intensity as they can and the ones that do are drawing "older" crowds and are super expensive (*cough*RollingStones*cough*).  I'm not really into little club gigs, I love sleeping on the sidewalk in sub-zero temps for days only to be pressed up on the rail in the first row with 80,000 people behind me!  I've had several people tell me they are not really big U2 fans but think they put on the best live show on earth.

My best concert experience was May 9, 2005 when my friend who I've known since I was 4 got pulled onstage at a U2 show and played guitar for a song called Party Girl.

I LOVE music, just rarely go to concerts! My faves are U2, Muse, The Killers, the Cure, Bruce Springsteen, QUEEN!!!, Elton John, Alphaville, David Gray, Arcade Fire, Green Day, Eva Cassidy, Great Big Sea, Lokua Kanza, Kanye West, Outkast, Mika, Moby, Newsboys, the Who, Rolling Stones.....

Liesje

I LOVE music, just rarely go to concerts! My faves are U2, Muse, The Killers, the Cure, Bruce Springsteen, QUEEN!!!, Elton John, Alphaville, David Gray, Arcade Fire, Green Day, Eva Cassidy, Great Big Sea, Lokua Kanza, Kanye West, Outkast, Mika, Moby, Newsboys, the Who, Rolling Stones.....

Your taste in music sounds somewhat similar to mine...i especially like U2, muse, cure, springsteen, queen, elton john, david gray and the stones out of your list...i will try and download a few of the others i've never heard of on your list. PS did you get my PM? 

 Holy Cow, Dyan- your concert list sounds like my dream list!  Crystal Shawanda was just in the area about a week and a half ago doing a benefit concert for St Judes (sponsored by the local country station).  I love "You Can Let Go Now", but it tears me apart almost every time I hear it- too many memories of my Dad. 

dyan

...After a few concerts like the George Strait and Garth where you spend a lot of money and sit in the nose bleeds....who needs it??...

Oh heck, we saw Garth, and all it cost us was gas, tolls, parking and train fare.  Yep- we were at Central Park aka "Garthstock" (saw Billy Joel and Don McClean too).  We saw Toby Keith a few years ago (haven't been able to swing tickets since then).  If we had been any closer, he would have been sweating on us.  Teri Clark was touring with him then.  Way back when we were engaged, we went to see Utopia.  Not really my kind of music, tho.  A few years before that I saw Johnny Paycheck with the guy I was dating at the time.  Oh yeah- for a few years before our youngest was born, we used to go see Don McClean at a dinner theater every spring. 

micksmom

Holy Cow, Dyan- your concert list sounds like my dream list!  Crystal Shawanda was just in the area about a week and a half ago doing a benefit concert for St Judes (sponsored by the local country station).  I love "You Can Let Go Now", but it tears me apart almost every time I hear it- too many memories of my Dad. 

dyan

...After a few concerts like the George Strait and Garth where you spend a lot of money and sit in the nose bleeds....who needs it??...

Oh heck, we saw Garth, and all it cost us was gas, tolls, parking and train fare. 

I know, I'd like to go back to some of them too!  I have tons of pictures of them...some really really good ones where you can count the hair in their noses. Also got pictures WITH Joe Diffey, Marty Stewart, Wade Hayes, and Lee Roy Parnell. Have a really cool picture of Tim McGraw when he was signing autographs in a small tent before he got SUPER.....and when I showed the pictures to my son ( back then ) turns out the girl getting the autograph was his friend that he was on a dance team with back then.  

So many of the newer artists I don't even know who they are anymore though...must admit.

Yeah,,,Crystal Shawandas "You Can Let Go Now" is a very sad song...............

She did a lot of good music in concert here.

 U2, i dont need anything else (i think Liesje and i were at the same concert in St Louis on December 2005)

U2, one of the greatest bands ever, and a great credit to their homeland, Ireland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEfSnjL0pd8

I've always admired the Edge and his wall of sound that is like playing the bagpipes on guitar. The whole feel is quite celtic.

Bono, a true, open-throated tenor, in the finest irish tradition. I can't think of an album that wasn't just fantastic.

I've seen Marilyn Manson twice and ICP (Insane Clown Posse) once.  Came home with several bruises from the ICP show.....  

sillysally

I've seen Marilyn Manson twice and ICP (Insane Clown Posse) once.  Came home with several bruises from the ICP show.....  

I am seriously envious, on both counts!

 I've seen Menudo when Ricky Martin was in the band, last year took my niece to the Aly & Aj concert with Drake Bell and Corbin Bleu and also seen Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus with the Jonas Brothers took my niece, I joined her site to get the code for the tickets if you were a member you got the code first, well I got the code but the second you could get tickets they were all gone and I had wrote to the site that the only reason I being a member was to get tickets and the site said we would be able to get them, well about 3 weeks before the concert I got an email from LiveNation saying we were chosen to get 4 tickets if we wanted at $70 a piece so I took them up on it and got floor sets row 14 we were really close and to be honest she put on a really good show and so did the Jonas Brothers and I thought it would be all young little girls but there was 20yrs by themselves at the concert lol

I was trying to get tickets to George Michael this passed Aug for my sister but they cost way to much  

Talk about good seats. The best seats we've had were for the Ted Nugent show. It was at the amphitheater in Dallas and ours was 13th row and center of stage. And I brough earplugs for us. That's the only way to survive Unka Ted that close.

And I just remembered that I've also seen Bad Company when they reunited, before Paul Rogers joined Queen.

And I've seen David Lee Roth (formerly and supposedly currently of Van Halen.) And I'm old school. Sammy Hagar was great on his own but I didn't care so much about Van Hagar. Nor did they accomplish anything great with Gary Cherone (formerly of Extreme). Roth will be the one and only for Van Halen.  Laws of the universe. The earth orbits around the sun. Objects of mass exert gravitational force on each other. Roth fronts for Van Halen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHV4XgBfbr8&feature=related

the only concert i have ever been to was a michael jackson concert when i was 14 or 15... seats were aweful though, but it was still the coolest thing for me... i was a michael jackson nut.... lol