Favorite Concerts
Some of the folks here at b5 decided to get together and share their favorite concerts.
You can check out the list right here.
Now I wasn’t involved in this, but I wanted to share my favorite concert, because I love going to concerts and this seems like a great idea for a post.
This was difficult at first, because I’ve been to a lot of shows, but I started to narrow things down. Two bands then came up for the honor.
Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam were suddenly in a heated battle for my favorite concert of all time. They’re my two favorite bands and I’ve seen them both 5 times (but that will change this summer). Both of them put on amazing shows that have unforgettable moments.
It’s hard to forget my first time seeing Pearl Jam on July 5, 2003 and having fireworks going off across the river at Penn’s Landing in Philly. There was also the legendary show on October 3, 2005, where the amps blew during “Crazy Mary”. The show in Montreal was great, and so where the two nights on Memorial Day weekend of 2006 in Camden.
STP blew the crowd away at the Beale St. Music Festival in Memphis and at the Spectrum in Philly. The two times I saw them in Atlantic City are impossible to forget, like when Rob DeLeo took my brother’s hat in 2002.
So, I finally went with sentimental value and chose June 24, 2000…Stone Temple Pilots at the Trump Mariana in Atlantic City.
This was the first unsupervised show that I went to. I had just graduated high school. And, I finally got to see STP.
I don’t remember the opening band, but I remember when the band came out. Scott Weiland was the last one out and the crowd went nuts. He just threw his hands in the air as if telling us all that he is indeed a rock god.
From there the band went into an electric set after opening up with “Crackerman” and then into “Vasoline”. They played the hits like “Plush”, “Wicked Garden”, “Big Empty”, “Interstate Love Song” and “Trippin on Hole”. They also played some gems like “Tumble in the Rough” and “Piece of Pie”. In the middle of the show they played an acoustic set of “Sour Girl” and “Creep”. Then when the band ended the main set with “Unglued” the crowd was bouncing up and down so much that I thought the building was going to collapse. After the band ended the show with the typical closer of “Sex Type Thing”, I was left in shock and awe.
It made me love STP even more and created a beast that needed more live shows to please it’s appetite.
So, whatever great shows I see next, it’s going to be hard to top that wonderful night in Atlantic City. The electricity of the band and the crowd has been, and will be, hard to beat. I hope that feeling is around on May 18 when I see STP again after almost six long years.
Here’s a taste with “Trippin on Hole” from the Rolling Rock Town Fair in 2001.
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I’d have to say that concert is way up there on my list as well (you know I don’t choose favorites).
Who would have thought 8 years ago some fanboys like ourselves would still be fanboys today?
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I never would have guessed that I would still be blabbing about that show, but it was that good. And, I never would have guessed that we would still be fanboys either (let alone getting paid for it, lol).
This is a hard one. Either the Daddies show with Skankin’ Pickle (or maybe it was the bosstones?) and Less Than Jake. I’ve seen the Daddies like 20 times+ it’s all a blur.
Or maybe AICs back in the day. I think it was 89-90, um hmmm. I was in the 8th grade or so. Darn my memory. I just remember staring at Layne’s dreads which were past his waist back then and so cool, and thinking how famous this band was going to be. Everyone was booing them, but I fell hard.
Wait maybe Faith No More. Or Janes. Dang I suck at this game. I’m out. I can’t play. Too hard.
Yup, it was tough at first, but then I just started some process of elemination.
Man, I wish I could have seen AIC w/ Layne, but I didn’t know any older people that could drive, or have any friends with some cool parents to take us.