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Favourite live band you've seen.

The Who at Parkhead 1975
Status Quo Apollo Glasgow 1976..recorded a live album
Lynyrd Skynyrd 1977 Glasgow Apollo
AC/DC 1979 Glasgow Apollo
U2 at Murrayfield 1987
The Boss at RDS Dublin 1988
Rolling Stones Hampden Park 2006
 
Iron Maiden are my favourite band so any of their gigs for me, although their first O2 one during the Final Frontier tour was the best for me.
The other one that sticks in my memory was the Quireboys at the Brook, a small local venue, a couple of years ago. Spike was already pee'd as a newt by the time they took the stage, but he didn't miss a trick the whole night. The place was bouncing from start to finish, even my Mrs enjoyed it so it must have been good!:thup:
 
George Thourogood in Glasgow
Stones in Rotterdam
Santana in Hammersmith
Lou Reed in Hammersmith
Ian Brown in Shetland
Smiths in Shetland
Van Morrison in Aberdeen
Steve Earle in Devon
KT tungstall in Dunfermline
Paulo Nutini in royal Albert Hall
Budgie in Woolich
Uria Heep In Hammersmith
And surprisingly George Melly in tramshed Woolich
 
Traffic
Vanilla fudge
Mindbenders
Canned Heat
War with Eric Burden
Genesis
Eric Clapton
Fleetwood Mac
Uriah Heep
Mr Bloe
Roy Woods Wizard
Shed 7
Embrace
Rod Stewart
Elton john
Deep purple
Metallica
Dr John
Blues Band
John Mayall Bluesbreakers
Splinter Group with Peter Green
Darkness
Kinks
Status Quo
Curved Air
Super Furry Animals
Westlife
ELectric light orchestra
Alison Moyet
Rick Wakeman
John Denver
Fascinating Aida
Gary Moore
Ian brown
................ But best of all, and seen about 10 times, Jools Holland and the Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
 
chrisd said:
Traffic
Vanilla fudge
Mindbenders
Canned Heat
War with Eric Burden
Genesis
Eric Clapton
Fleetwood Mac
Uriah Heep
Mr Bloe
Roy Woods Wizard
Shed 7
Embrace
Rod Stewart
Elton john
Deep purple
Metallica
Dr John
Blues Band
John Mayall Bluesbreakers
Splinter Group with Peter Green
Darkness
Kinks
Status Quo
Curved Air
Super Furry Animals
Westlife
ELectric light orchestra
Alison Moyet
Rick Wakeman
John Denver
Fascinating Aida
Gary Moore
Ian brown:
................ But best of all, and seen about 10 times, Jools Holland and the Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
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That's some impressive list but ........ John Denver :smirk:
 
Motörhead first band I saw in 1979
ACDC - fave band at school
Rush
Quo
Scorpions
Judas Priest
Kiss with and without make up
Ozzy
Motley Crüe
Ratt - fave 80's band
Bon Jovi - early days, not now
metallica
Queensryche - up until DeGarmo left them
Dio
Quiet Riot
Stryper
Living Colour
The Ramones
Guns and Roses
Pantera - heaviest gig by far
Machine Head - close 2nd
Slayer
whitesnake
Skid Row
Def Leppard
Joe Satriani
All Castle Donningtons
Alice In Chains - fave grunge band
Big Country - very good
Gary Glitter - before his exploits became public
oh and Micheal Jackson

Plenty more but grey matter is getting on a bit.........
 
All these were great live:
Ocean Colour Scene
Shed 7
Greenday
Courteeners
Oasis
Blur
Space
Kasabian
Arctic Monkeys
The Candle Thieves - I'd not heard of the before I'd seen them - they supported Badly Drawn Boy at a tiny gig I went to. Totally different to what I normally like as they were "quirky" but were superb live.




Worst/biggest disappointment live:
The Charlatans
Ian Brown
Super Furry Animals
 
I can top all those.

I went with the wife along with her sister and husband to see The Osmonds at the 02 - long story but we sort of got tricked into it.

Bumped into a mate and his wife in the queue (who was also shuffling along looking at his feet) who sneeringly said ''hello mate, didn't know you was a Donny fan''

I simply replied ''neither did I''

It was quite good actually....
 
3565 said:
Motörhead first band I saw in 1979
ACDC - fave band at school
Rush
Quo
Scorpions
Judas Priest
Kiss with and without make up
Ozzy
Motley Crüe
Ratt - fave 80's band
Bon Jovi - early days, not now
metallica
Queensryche - up until DeGarmo left them
Dio
Quiet Riot
Stryper
Living Colour
The Ramones
Guns and Roses
Pantera - heaviest gig by far
Machine Head - close 2nd
Slayer
whitesnake
Skid Row
Def Leppard
Joe Satriani
All Castle Donningtons
Alice In Chains - fave grunge band
Big Country - very good
Gary Glitter - before his exploits became public
oh and Micheal Jackson

Plenty more but grey matter is getting on a bit.........
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How's your hearing?
 
INXS playing under some assumed name at a small (200-250 people) venue in Plymouth. The next day they played Wembley.
Stereophonics whenever and wherever I've seen them (up to about 13 or 14 times now)
Oasis at Avenham Park at Preston when me and a few mates had our names said out on stage by them.
Elton John at Reebok.
Guns N Roses.
Robbie Williams.
*Edit* Can't believe I missed Stone Roses off the list.

Worst band, by far and away, Red Hot Chilli's. Watched in Birmingham, came on stage about 90 mins late, played awful, got boo'd off stage after about 3 songs.
 
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Duckster said:
INXS playing under some assumed name at a small (200-250 people) venue in Plymouth. The next day they played Wembley.
Stereophonics whenever and wherever I've seen them (up to about 13 or 14 times now)
Oasis at Avenham Park at Preston when me and a few mates had our names said out on stage by them.
Elton John at Reebok.
Guns N Roses.
Robbie Williams.
*Edit* Can't believe I missed Stone Roses off the list.

Worst band, by far and away, Red Hot Chilli's. Watched in Birmingham, came on stage about 90 mins late, played awful, got boo'd off stage after about 3 songs.
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Surely they weren't as bad as Robbie ;)
 
Pin-seeker said:
Surely they weren't as bad as Robbie ;)
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Surprisingly, Robbie is top live. Holds the crowd in his hand. RHCP were garbage. I'll hold my hand up, lots of mates have been to see them since and loved them so it was prob just them having a bad night. But I'm never going to be paying money to watch them again.
 
Duckster said:
Surprisingly, Robbie is top live. Holds the crowd in his hand. RHCP were garbage. I'll hold my hand up, lots of mates have been to see them since and loved them so it was prob just them having a bad night. But I'm never going to be paying money to watch them again.
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I was only joking mate,although I'm really not a fan.
Very jealous that you've seen Guns n Roses & The Stone Roses tho. My mate got me a ticket to see Stone Roses,I'd already got a holiday booked for that date,gutted!
 
Before the first Donnington Blue Oyster Cult plays a "secret" gig in Dunstable as The Soft White Underbelly - one of their earlier names along with the Knife-wielding Scumbags! - brilliant show made even better by seeing the Drummer beating up his car in the car park for making him late to the gig - he got fired that night!
 
Pin-seeker said:
I was only joking mate,although I'm really not a fan.
Very jealous that you've seen Guns n Roses & The Stone Roses tho. My mate got me a ticket to see Stone Roses,I'd already got a holiday booked for that date,gutted!
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Guns twice. Stone Roses thrice. Waited about 6 years to watch them for the first time and watched them twice in a week. Then another 10 years before going to Heaton Park (it was the worlds largest karaoke). Also watched Seahorses in Leeds, Squires is unbelievable.
 
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