Best Live Shows

[Oldman]

Best ever would have to have been Nirvana at the Australian National Universtity bar just before Smells Like Teen Spirit made it big. Didn't matter that the windows all got smashed in and I thought I was going to be crushed in the mosh.

Around the same pre-explosion era a friend called me up one evening and asked if I wanted to go with him and a couple other buddies to a club to see " some band from Seattle". And I said " Nah, I'm kind of tired I'm going to go to bed early." Well, Nirvana played for around 4hrs, Cobain put his mike stand through the bass drum and my friend still says it was the greatest musical event of his life. This was in a club that fit less than 500 people and six months later they were the biggest band in the world.

Seattle had this kind of thing going on for a year with Subpop records and others promoting Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney,Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees (still one of the underappreciated-see Queens Of Stone age roster) the Melvins...you could go into a bar on any night and get amazed.

 

[alberto.legstrong]

saw u2 in hew haven ct when they were nobody's (just after october came out) saw them a few years later (joshua tree) both shows were great, but the 1st time was unforgettable because you really felt like it was something special, 2nd time everyone was 'in the know'

bb king, anytime anywhere, seen him at least 4 or 5 times,

steely dan in their first tour since the early 70's (i am thinking 1994). awesome. Anyone who can make the crappy acoustics of the hartford civic center sound that good has one helluva supporting staff. and they were great. not much of a stage act, just get up there and hit it. top notch band.

smaller venues are always nicer i think, saw rickie lee jones at some auditiorium in either waterbury or new haven ct. she was awesome, but i think she was 'on something'. (shocking!)