biggiesized Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 hands down, Strife and Warzone back in 1996.anyone who's ever seen either band in their prime understands. That would have been rad. The band I was in got to open for them and The Business and they were some of the nicest guys. They really stuck it to Ray in the pit.Great show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest conoley Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Wow good question. Brand new with 6 or 3 people would be pretty incredible, same with Alkaline Trio. I'm from a small town in Canada, so we get a lot of bands coming through here and playing really small venues. But the two best were: Moneen play a friend's basement Weakerthans/Constantines playing a bar to 100 people Another very memorable experience was when I was working at a provincial park in Northern Ontario in 1999 and Hayden was camping there over my birthday. I strolled by his site and he was playing some songs so I asked if I could join him and his friends. It turned into an all night acoustic session with Hayden and co. Simply fantastic. Tomorrow night Shai Hulud is playing the Kinsmen Center and it's going to be amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest conoley Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Oh - and Against Me! at a pool hall in Portland Maine three years ago. First time seeing them and it was wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benchwarmer Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 I've got more, Fugazi in Boston at massart, man that was amazing. against me and lawrence arms in cambridge ma, it was at the YWCA and late, so AM! only got to play 2-3 songs, but they played the shit out of those 2-3 songs. and going to a million hometown throwdowns with the bosstones, so many memories there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xfedaykinx Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 tool at hammerstein ballroom during the lateralus tour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scriptedrain Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Wow. I can't pick one. - Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faith Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 This is a hard one... this year - definitely SILVERCHAIR at First Avenue august 5th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scriptedrain Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Two from last year come to mind: Minus the Bear / Russian Circles / (2 Local Bands) P.O.S. / Sims / Dessa / (Local Group) - In the back of a coffee shop! The stage was literally a cooler. The four Warped Tours I've been to have rocked and had their "holy shit!" moments and sets. Seeing Brand New twice (and traveling 6 hours each time) was surreal because they're my favorite band out of the ones I've seen live. I really don't know if one sticks out more than the others, although I will say that - considering I'm not an active fan by any stretch of the imagination - AFI fucking blew me away when I saw them about 4-5 years ago. Davey Havok had the most amazing stage presence out of anyone I'd seen prior or since. - Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 -My first-ever Fireside Bowl show: The Hippos/First Grade Crush/Allister/The Beatdowns (March '99 I think?) -My first-ever Metro show: Buck-O-Nine/Homegrown/Riverfenix (April 10, '99) -My high school band opening for Alkaline Trio at Illinois Wesleyan University in April '99, on the last date of their Goddamnit tour -- you just knew something was special -Braid/No Knife @ Fireside Bowl and Braid/Sarge/Alkaline Trio @ the Metro, Aug. 20/21, 1999 -- Braid's last Chicago shows -Booking Alkaline Trio to play my hometown in Jan 2000 -- their second show ever with Mike Felumlee, and according to Skiba after the show, the first time in their career they ever got an encore -Having my brother book Alk3 on my 18th birthday in Bloomington, Illinois, in March 23, 2000 -Weezer/The Get Up Kids/Ozma in Milwaukee, March 10. 2001 (first time seeing all three bands, and Weezer and GUK are all-time faves) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lechevre Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Hmm..I'd have to say a Lawrence Arms show near Rockford that had like 10 people there including the band. Also, Josh Caterer Solo's show after the Popes Reunion. There are a ton more, but those are some of my favorites. Each show is a different memory for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Hmm..I'd have to say a Lawrence Arms show near Rockford that had like 10 people there including the band. Was this at the Bait Shop in Rockton? Right before their first record came out? If so, I was at that show too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithelion Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Hands down. Sunny Day Real Estate/No Knife. I was 12-13 and just getting back from visiting family in Idaho. My brother picked me up at the airport in Nashville and drove me four hours to Atlanta to see the show. I didn't know the bands that well at the time, but he said "trust me you'll thank me" and I fucking did. A few years later at Warped Tour in Atlanta Kris Roe complimented me on my No Knife shirt and I think I cried for like two hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinylme Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 man its so hard to narrow down to one show so many good shows for so many different reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotnerd Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 i remembered one while i was out tonight. i saw elliott smith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skumbucket Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Another very memorable experience was when I was working at a provincial park in Northern Ontario in 1999 and Hayden was camping there over my birthday. I strolled by his site and he was playing some songs so I asked if I could join him and his friends. It turned into an all night acoustic session with Hayden and co. Simply fantastic. that is FUCKING AWESOME. i've always loved hayden, but for one reason or another i've never seen him live. that would've been so crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skumbucket Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 I really don't know if one sticks out more than the others, although I will say that - considering I'm not an active fan by any stretch of the imagination - AFI fucking blew me away when I saw them about 4-5 years ago. Davey Havok had the most amazing stage presence out of anyone I'd seen prior or since. yeah, i've never been a rabid fan, but i've probably seen them like nine times including their first canadian tour in moose jaw, saskatchewan (which is just as small as it sounds). Their 1998-2002 period is untouchable as far as performance goes. the energy they have on a small stage is unmatchable, and seeing davey havok literally standing on top of an audience singing "god called in sick today" is jaw-dropping every time. i don't understand how people can be so weirdly obsessive about that band, but the closest i come to understanding that insanity is watching those shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skumbucket Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 oh FUCK, i totally forgot about choke (my favourite canadian band of all time), small brown bike, and moneen playing during the "there's a story to this morale" tour. choke in a 300 person club when they're killing it is unprecedented rock awesomeness. the first time i ever heard "fallout leader" was that show, complete with an extended five-minute intro that was completely hypnotic and entrancing. wow that was something. my first and last small brown bike show too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenontheradio Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Another of mine would definitely be Keep It Up's final show and the first time I saw Alkaline Trio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dim Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Nov. 2002 Phantom Planet @The Trocodero in Philadelphia, PA (in terms of amazing live act) March 2006 The Silver Jews @ The Otto Bar in Baltimore, MD (in terms of overall show, not to mention it was their first tour ever and they've been around for well over a decade) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flood Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 for sheer magnitude of what the bands would become: at the drive in & mustard plug @ the tune inn (about 8 people in attendance) Brand New - probably about a dozen times followed by playing them in beer pong at my friend Kristen's house the year that YFW came out. ran sound for My Chemical Romance in two different basements at UCONN... the combined attendance was probably 45 people. Did sound for Coheed later in the year in that same room with In Pieces. and then just the random halls shows that had bands that exploded in later years - anti-flag, the casualties, the showoffs (who became bayside), brand new, allister, Big D and the Kids Table, Spring Heeled Jack, The Unseen, With Honor, etc. Then the ridiculous shows we got our college to pay for. Alkaline Trio played a show for us in the cafeteria , i think it was in 97 or 98 the get up kids and At the drive in played a show in the same cafeteria the following year. we had the aquabats as well, and the bat commander made me sing goddamnit while he fougth a giant lobster in the crowd.... ironically it was one of travis Barker's last shows with the 'bats as for straight up most amazing shows i've ever been to? Dead Milkmen reunion show at the troc Atom and his package - Ms Pacman challenge show @ the newtown teen center thursday + piebald + the lawrence arms at the elngee Isis - in a random room at UCONN pretty much every one of the couple dozen times TMBG played toads place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlovecolouredx Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 : because i live in bangkok so i don't have many chance to see a gig from my favourite american bands. well,this is all concert that i very appreciate the show that i watch at Bangkok that i will always remeber are Himsa on their Ground Breaking era Die Young on their The Message era R.A.M.B.O. on their debut album era Slipknot on their Subliminal Verse era Incubus 3 1/2 years ago the show that i watch at London,UK on 2005 are Velvet Revolver The Promise (RIP) The Wage of Sin (RIP) Breather Resist (RIP) Planes mistaken for stars (are they re-union now ?) and NoFX lives in Hong Kong this year sorry for list many show but these are most of show that i ever watched and i always jealous that you guys easy to see your favourite bands....at least,easier than me :'( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Hey xlovecolouredx, I don't know if you're a fan but I recently interviewed Saosin about their trip to Malaysia they took a few months ago, and they said they were planning to head back to a number of places in Southeastern Asia in early 2008, including Bangkok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlovecolouredx Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 really ? ,scottheisel ! d' you know it hard to bring a famous band to play in Bangkok because most of thai organizer think invest for rock concert in too risk. anyway,the wave of emo and metalcore (or fashioncore....whatever) just explode here. many US band will play. i just saw Avenged Sevenfold last thurday.my best friend is organizer and he lost almost 3,000 usd but his co-sponsor is okay.their performance is good but the sound is slightly crap. next month the ninth,Funeral For a Friend will play in Thailand and Magadeth will play on October 25th and if thai metalcore fans have a luck enough...As I Lay Dying will play before Megadeth 2 days. i hope Saosin will play here like your info,scottheisel. i will pray.... and thanks for info,man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benchwarmer Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Planes mistaken for stars (are they re-union now ?) they're on their final or goodbye tour, then they're done, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlovecolouredx Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 their farewell tour ! i really wanna see last tour. please tell me if anybody here will see.i might ask you buy some stuffs. really wanna go to the states.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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