your favorite top 3 concerts...

[Knucklehead]

I'm old. In no particular order:

- Metallica on the Ulimate Sin Tour, Pine Knob, Clarkston, MI 1986
- Anthrax/Exodus/Helloween, Original Headbanger's Ball Tour, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI 1988 (Not so much about the Helloween)
- Nuclear Assault/Testament, State Music Theater, Flint, MI 198?

Honorable mentions:

Celtic Frost at the Masquerade
Slayer at Clubland, Detroit, 1990 (?)
Grave/Dismember/Vital Remains/Demiricous at Swayze's.

[samsara]

- Anthrax/Exodus/Helloween, Original Headbanger's Ball Tour, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI 1988 (Not so much about the Helloween)

Jesus, I would kill to see that show in 1988, all three bands were in their top form at that time.

Has anyone on here ever seen Maiden live?

Anyway...

Dio
Symphony X
Fates Warning

[necroodin]

Iron Butterfly - whenever the Olympics were in town
Rolling Stones - Phillps
Unblessed, Avulsion, others, MONSTROSITY - Somber Reptile
Cephalic Carnage - 513 club
Peccatum, Divine Empire, Borknagar, Emperor - Ground Zero, Spartanburg
ENSLAVED - Masq.

[Knucklehead]

all three bands were in their top form at that time.

Exodus abso-fucking-lutely blew me away. I did not understand them until I saw them live. It was an epiphany. I never really cared for Exodus before that, but when I saw Gary Holt holding his guitar parallel to the ground by the tremolo bar, I realized that I had to rethink how I approached listening to music. Thrash/speed metal was so very young then. I realized that this music was not just about creating a mood that caused physicality, but that physicality was present when the music was initially created. In other words, it wasn't instigus/response, with music causing you to beat your fellow concert-goer, but a cycle where the music was the response. "Good friendly violent fun" suddenly made all kinds of sense. Like I said, I'm old, and I hang far back from the pit these days.

Along those lines, I don't understand the kids these days with their wind-milling and tae bo bullshit. The Pit was a communal release -- pummeling and being pummeled. But it was communal. Wind-milling seems so self-involved to me, because it takes up so much room. [/soapbox]

Has anyone on here ever seen Maiden live?

Maiden was the first band that I saw live. That would have been the Powerslave tour in '84 or '85. "The Number of the Beast" gave me chills.

[Metalfreak]

Damn this is gonna be hard...

Rolling Stones at Turner Field - 2002...that was a great show!
Ozzfest 2000 - I saw Pantera there! And the crowd was fucking nuts!
Metallica - 1998 (my first show ever... I got separated and the security took me up front!)

honorable mentions in no particular order:
-Emperor in NYC last year
-Grave/Dismember/Vital Remains/Demiricous at Swayze's
-1349, Goatwhore, Nachtmystium, Averse Sefira, Legions of Astoroth @ Masquerade
-Morbid Angel, Krisiun, Behemoth @ Masquerade
-Obituary, Napalm Death @ Roxy


OMG Bob I'm sooo jealous!
1) WREKage Benefit concert: Vio-lence, Type O, Kinetic Dissent, Lestregus Nosferatus, Damnage, Dark Overlord @ International Ballroom 1992

[TheKshatriya]

Has anyone on here ever seen Maiden live?

I saw Maiden last December in London. Amazing, except for the fact theyre fucking retards and only played 5 real songs. I dont consider Iron Maiden a real band after like about 1990. But they played:
Iron Maiden
Fear of the Dark
Hallowed Be Thy Name
The Evil that Men Do
2 Mintues to Midnight

[TheKshatriya]

1) Candiria, All Out War, Earth Crisis, Indecision
2)?
3)?

What year was that tour?? 2000?

Indecision is doing another reunion in a few days but its in NYC.