Best Live bands
 

PEEEEAAAARRRLLL JAAAAAAMM

Can't fucking wait to see them at the Gorge :love: :love: :love:


I heard Massive Attack were good live too.

Stone Coyotes. How 3 people can get that much sound out is beyond me.

No, I expect it.

Motorhead and Anthrax were both f'n unbelievable, same gig too, hotness

Wish I could say the same. I'd rather expect them to be bad or mediocre and then the show own like no other then expect great things and be horribly let down.

Ummmm you're a little late their buddy.

They played there the last two years, but I don't think they are playing there again this year.

But, Pearl Jam is defiantely tops.

Best shows I've seen:
Roger Waters
Brand New
Glassjaw

I saw Green Day like 5 years ago, they were great. It was way before the American Idiot era.

I'd tell you to get higher standards, but...

Most bands, barring production magic, are better live, not worse. So it really should be the standard that a good band plays live. Even a bad band should sound at least a little better live.

This doesn't count for bands who play to backing tracks, lip synch, or have their voices/instruments corrected. They pretty much fall under production tricks.

My Top 3 Live Bands (in no particular order):
Morrissey
Bright Eyes
Coheed and Cambria (mostly because it was in the tiny ass Fireside Bowling Alley and they tore the roof down, literally)

favourite band that I've seen live enough to really know are Van Morrison and the band he's been touring with the last decade. His performances recently have been phenomenal and I've seen him about 5 or 6 times.

Melissa Ferrick used to open for Morrissey. And she is seriously asskicking.

Usually, her studio albums disappoint because she can do better solo than she can witha band and a producer.

311.

End of discussion.

I really want to see Morrissey at the Garden but I don't think I'll be able to get tickets.

Morrissey usually plays small venues out here, usually in Milwaukee. I've seen him twice now, and am planning on going when he comes back later this year. SO GOOD.

Tool is the best I've seen live yet. Going to see them again in May.

I like bands that put on a show as well as showcase their music in a unique kind of way. I saw Pearl Jam and they just sat on stage pretty much and played, kind of boring. A lot of bands I have seen do the same crap. They just play their music and barely even talk to the crowd, nevermind put on a show.

Totally gonna see King Diamond when he plays here next

Best gig I've been too was when I went to see Chris Thile at the Life cafe in Manchester, back in November. The venue is small and intimate, and the audience stand right next to the stage. I was only 4-5 feet away from Thile, and he was freakin' amazing (as you would expect). When he wasn't ripping on his mandolin, there was like constant banter between him and the audience. It's great when the act doesn't ignore the audience and gets them involved.

On another note, Nickel Creek are also very tasty live. I will be definitly catching them live one time before they disband at the end of they year. Chris Thile I think will be bringing his "How to grow a band" band with him to the UK this year as well, which will rock.

Megadeth have normally one of my favourite bands to see live, even though Mustaine's voice isn't always that good live. Opeth are awesome too.

What PJ show did you go to?

Because they hardly "just sit on stage and play" unless you caught them on an off night or something. The six plus times I've seen them, they hardly just sit there and play. Especially Sir Mike McCready and Eddie, unless you were watching Matt Cameron all night because most drummers do just sit there and play.

Best Shows I've seen

Deep Purple
Prodigy
Pendulum
Foo Fighters

The Strokes are pretty good live as well.

Agreed, Muse are good.

Kasabian are pretty fucking sweet.

And I have tickets to see the Arctic Monkeys at Sheffield Leadmill in April.

Muse. That is all.

Slayer

Best show I've seen was The Black Crowes.

Saw them a couple of weeks ago. They weren't bad at all.

Although, Rise Against's opening set absolutely blew them away.

Judas Priest never dissapoint live.

I took my older cousin to see Priest on the united tour, my cousin isn't into metal, but after the show, he said that Priest was the best live performance that he had ever seen - in his words, better than Aerosmith, Foo Fighters, and like 6 other bands (I forget the other that he listed) that he had seen.

Metallica was amazing the last two times I saw them...they played for over 3 hours...

Korn was pretty good...

Just went to the No Fear tour show with Killswitch Engage, Dragonforce, Chimaira and He is Legend....all the bands did pretty good but I was really blown away with Chimaira's performance...they wernt headlining but they pretty much owned the crowd

Limp Bizkit by a mile for me.

Distubred are also very good too. I'll probably go see both every time they tour even if they never release another album.

I saw the Arctic Monkeys early in 2006 just before they went huge in the UK. They were extremley bland, I hope they've improved since then.


Cool, Thursday are the support act over here (UK), should be a pretty good gig, it's tonight.

Nickleback

Dream Theater are awesome live.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra have a fucking amazing live show.

But I think the masters of playing live are Metallica... nobody can work a mic like James Hetfield.

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Linkin Park are AMAZING Live. Nobody can work a mike like Chester can. :love:

Less Than Jake
Moneen
Saves the Day
Anti-Flag
The Early November

I prefer when it's all about the music. The theatrical stuff can take away from a performance. But they should at least talk to the crowd every now and then.

If you just want the music, go put in a CD.

There's a difference between just the music on a cd and in person. There's a lot more energy and emotion and electricity in the air live.

See, already we're talking about elements that can "detract" from the music, though.

I went to the one in my city, Thunder Bay. I don't know a lot of people loved it and I know a lot of people that didn't think it was so hot. I like Pearl Jam somewhat but it just wasn't all that amazing. I wasn't blown away or anything.

Also I obviously know that drummers sit down and play you plug. Don't sass me.

Actually there was one part where they went and played in the crowd that was pretty cool. It was at the end of the show so by then I was like meh.

PJ rules live because of Eddie and the passion in his voice. The guy has one of the best voices going and when he belts out those great vocals to his great songs, you really dont need much more.

Not to mention Mccready can get you going in a big way.

Their set lists are also different from night to night.


I'll be seeing Tool soon, we'll see how they shape up.

You're dead to me Kane Knight

Hey, at least I was being sarcastic. :p

Saw Jet a couple of weeks ago in Glasgow and they were great.

Saw the Killers about a month ago in Aberdeen and they were really good which kind of suprised me given that any time I have seen them on the internet at least prior to Sam's Town, they didn't look that great.

Radiohead are still the best band I've been to see.

Marilyn Manson
Neil Young
Wild T and the Spirit

Saw them when they were out here on the Sam's Town tour a couple of months ago and they were brilliant. Had the crowd completely stunned.

Weird Al. Seriously.

The Bronx
Brand New
Coheed and Cambria
The Bled
Dillinger Escape Plan
Norma Jean
Muse at Reading 2002 was awesome

The Drunk Stuntmen kicked ass last night.

AFI

:y:

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pearl jam

I'll expand on my previous post, I meant to but forgot.

Lamb of God
As Cities Burn
In Flames
Opeth

Alice Cooper
KISS
Motley Crue
Metallica

Tenacious D, Seriously.