Best Concert?

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:38 pm

I was just wondering what everyone thought was the best concert they had ever seen, excluding musical genres. My favorite would have to be the show I saw two weeks ago, Tom Waits at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. Feel free to put your in this post.
Aaron TF Hynds

Kevin Miller · Post by **Kevin Miller** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:15 pm

Grimethorpe Colliery-NABBA a few years back- The most entertaining and perfectly performed concert of any genre I have experienced. I couldn't get the grin off my face for three days.

Running a very close second and third would be Rush and Santana.

drow2buh · Post by **drow2buh** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:09 am

Metallica (I've seen them a few times, but the first time I saw them on a Summer Sanitarium tour takes the cake)

Gene Pokorny's rehearsal session at IWBC

Monarch Brass at IWBC

Tons of other metal concerts are up there, the most recent being Black Dahlia Murder, Trivium, and In Flames on the Sounds of the Underground tour, which blew me away.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:21 am

Andres Segovia at the War Memorial Opera House in SF. The audience held its breath through the entire concert.

sc_curtis · Post by **sc_curtis** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:35 am

Four of a Kind trombone quartet at the ITF, in 1999, in Potsdam, NY. Very inspiring.

Pure Sound · Post by **Pure Sound** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:28 am

I heard the DSO play Pictures and the Schumann piano concerto in A minor in may of 2006

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:47 pm

Verdi Requiem with the ASO this past Spring.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:33 am

It was a concert that I played with the DSO at Lincoln Center. It was reviewed in The Times, and I remember all of us thinking "Holy crap! People we know could be here!", so we played the way it should be, not the way it was conducted...

dmmorris · Post by **dmmorris** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:03 pm

Four that stand-out in my memories:

The late Peter Kowald doing a 1-hour continuous solo improv' set. The phrase from up above rings-true.......the audiance collectively "held their breath" through the entire performance. Stunning. That anyone could be so much a part of their instrument is amazing.

The first time I ever heard Messiah - G.F.Handel live was with the Phila Orch. back in the 70's. I was like a freshman or sophmore in college. I wept. I guess the performance was pretty good, but the music and message was so much more powerful in the "live" context.

A live performance on some big pipe organ of the music of Olivier Messiaen at some Anglican Church in Phila. sorry I don''t remember which one....but it was simply extraterestrial. Big tall "baroque-ish" sanctuary, with amazing resonance & decay...and a big-a$$ pipe organ. Wow....what beautiful stuff.

The last time I heard Fantomas perform live during the "Suspended Animation" tour with Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant as "warm-up band". Rediculously complicated music played with razor precision and delivery. Frighteningly unbelievable!!

dmmorris · Post by **dmmorris** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:11 pm

Oh yeah....I forgot.....

The Meridian Arts Ensemble ....pretty much everytime they rolled through a town with-in driving distance of Raleigh, NC over the past 10 years or so. These guys are serious about pounding the daylights outa the expanded brass ensemble concept. GO HEAR THEM LIVE!!

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:44 am

To quote dmmorris:
"The last time I heard Fantomas perform live during the "Suspended Animation" tour with Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant as "warm-up band". Rediculously complicated music played with razor precision and delivery. Frighteningly unbelievable!!"

You, sir(or ma'am,) are one lucky person. I wanted badly to go on that tour, but didn't have the money. My brother got tickets to see them play with opening act The Locust, but couldn't find a way to get to the show, (didn't have a license.)