Which band blew your mind away live?
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Muse. They are almost too perfect live. It feels uncanny.
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I saw Tool live at a festival in 2019. I had never heard of them before, I'm more of a punk rock guy. Their show absolutely blew me away. Surreal experience. I've listened to their albums a lot ever since.
I have seen them 7 times between 2002 and 2024, and they were exceptional each time (even if they only played my favourite song for the first time in the '24 gig). I also love that they don't allow phones at their gigs. It's great to not have a sea of screens in front of you. They usually have great warm up acts too.
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Porter Robinson. Greatest show ever.
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So many that my answer is just listing most of the concerts I can remember going to
The Midnight
Roosevelt
Tycho
DJ Shadow
deadmau5
Perturbator
Rush (RIP Neil)
Celldweller
The Crystal Method
Psychostick
Above & Beyond
Kodo (Japanese taiko drummers)
Lateralis (chiptune musician and indie game dev)If I had to pick the three most memorable, it'd be Kodo, DJ Shadow, and The Midnight
+1 for above and beyond, saw them at the o2 in Greenwich. Amazing musicians.
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Porter Robinson and underscores, a few days ago.
Porter Robinson is fucking awesome. Was underscores opening?
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Muse. They are almost too perfect live. It feels uncanny.
They are my number #1 live too.
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Porter Robinson is fucking awesome. Was underscores opening?
Yeah, she got us all really hyped up before Porter came on. He was so nice! He even forgot the lyrics for one of his songs, because he was a little nervous, so he started to beatbox randomly
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I'll bet they are great live. I actually have only heard one song of theirs, which I found by accident years ago when trying to find something else. Everlasting Light, played live.
One of very few songs that completely makes it obvious how much mp3 compression sucks, and even if you download the FLAC (sadly not high res) you can still hear everything wrong with your speakers and if you listen to it on good headphones then you can hear the deficiencies of the mic they used to record it.Truly a huge amount of audio information in that track. I love it!
Oh yeah, seeing them live was an incredible experience, and very much agree regarding FLAC vs mp3. For some music it doesn't matter, but when you have a lot of range FLAC really shines. This is my favorite album of theirs btw, pretty much every track is amazing https://monoofjapan.bandcamp.com/album/hymn-to-the-immortal-wind
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Massilia Sound System. Crowd is basically in a state of plasma from beginning to loooooong after the show ends. When it's set on the port, you can be sure some of us will launch ourselves in the oily water for the hell of it, come back and slippery dance some more. At the start of every show they distribute a platter of pastis shots in the pit. It's not a band, it's a culture. A generation
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Dj shadow vs cut chemist at the Hollywood bowl. It was experimental but quite the experience
Cut Chemist is the guy from J5 right ? rings a bell
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Yeah, she got us all really hyped up before Porter came on. He was so nice! He even forgot the lyrics for one of his songs, because he was a little nervous, so he started to beatbox randomly
Thats amazing
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Cut Chemist is the guy from J5 right ? rings a bell
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Three words: "Weird Al" Yankovic
He and the same guys in his band have been touring together for 40+ years, and the experience shows.
It's one of the hardest rocking shows out there. Yes, I'm serious.
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Not a band, but a DJ, Jake Beautyman, April 2024 in São Paulo. He started his set with the Severance OST and was a banger song after song. Still think about that party today
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Sigor Ros. Saw them live and, despite their melancholy music, put on a helluva show. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed them live!
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Pop Will Eat Itself in the early 90's.
Amazing fun shows with tons of energy from the band and the audience.
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Got to see Chicago/ Beach Boys double headline back in 1989 (I think). Both bands were great. Saw the Beach Boys at the old Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, OH about 5 years later and it was a great show.
Bad Company Holy Water tour. Brian Howe was front lining the band and he was great, but really would have preferred to have seen Paul Rodgers.
Black Crowes opening for ZZ Top on the Recycler tour. ZZ Top had a great show, but musically, Black Crowes was much better.
Duran Duran ... I was a closet fan of theirs back in my teens. I'm not in the closet any longer. Soup Dragons opened for them and they suuuucked.
Linkin Park opening for Metallica at the Atlanta Braves stadium in 2003. They were great, Metallica was meh, but I've never been a huge fan of theirs.
Live... Not a big fan of theirs, but they did have a good live show. (see what I did there! Yes, I'm a Dad.) They opened for the Counting Crows who were great too.
Santana is a lot better live than anywhere else. I saw him on the Supernatural tour, or at least that was the album he had just released. Funny side story about this concert. This was in 1999 and was there with a friend. 25 years later, my wife and I were talking about concerts we have attended over the years. She mentioned she went to see Santana when she first moved to Cincinnati, which is where I lived at the time... Turns out we were at the same concert 5 years before we met and didn't realize it until last year.
Yes, I'm old.
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Buddy Guy. the concert was pretty posh (think bankers in suits), with everyone having arranged seating, audience sitting still and quiet like at a classical music concert.
he was like 'fuck this, this isn't a proper concert, my guitar is wireless, let's stand up, go to the entry hall and jam'. so he's just standing in the middle of the crowd and going nuts, at like 83 years of age. That was amazing.
I saw buddy at a music fest once and he yelled at the crowd for not singing along in time. Dude is a hilarious legend
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I saw Jazz guitarist Julian Lage last year and I was not expecting to have my socks completely blown two blocks away. I really enjoy his work and recognize that he is a master of his instrument but holy hell; he and his rhythm section were a hive mind operating in a higher plane of existence. He emitted an energy that I’ve never felt at a concert before. Please check out his trio’s performances on YouTube just to feel a tiny fraction of what happens in person.
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Three words: "Weird Al" Yankovic
He and the same guys in his band have been touring together for 40+ years, and the experience shows.
It's one of the hardest rocking shows out there. Yes, I'm serious.
I was at Hersey Park for a company picnic one year and there were a lot of people walking around dressed up as Weird Al. While waiting the group from my store on a ride, I noticed there was an amphitheater behind me. I turned around and leaned on the rail trying to figure out what was going on when someone dressed as Weird Al came up next to me and started looking down at the stage, he asked if I knew what was going on. I shrugged and then he ran down the steps and onto stage. It was actually Weird Al.
