Favorite Live Performance

[BobL]

I have been thinking about some of the lists that folks have been responding to and since I am such a huge fan of live music I was curious about three musical questions regarding live music...

1) What is the first live show you saw?
2) What is the last live show you saw?
3) What are three of your all-time favorite live performers?

[BobL]

In response to my own questions...

1) First live show...Rush with Pat Travers opening
2) Last live show...Martin Sexton at the Fillmore and a week before that Nick D'Virgilio in Oakland
3) Three best all time live performances...
    Peter Gabriel
    Yes
    NDV and team performing Shaming of the True

[gary]

First Show: Cheap Trick and Graham Parker & the Rumour (after Budokan & before Dream Police)
Last Show: Rush
Three best all-time:
Peter Gabriel (Secret World)
Peter Gabriel (Up)
Peter Gabriel (Security)

[Gruno]

I am one for sticking to the rules of a top 3 poll without doing a "I can't just list three!!!" ammendment. Actually it is a pet peeve I have when people stray from the list. However, the clarification wasn't set here so I will break it down. I didn't know if this was arena shows, club shows or all together.

Arena/Stadium:
 1) What is the first live show you saw?

   KISS

 2) What is the last live show you saw?

   Queensryche/Dream Theater/Fates Warning

 3) What are three of your all-time favorite live performers?

   KISS
   Iron Maiden
   Queensryche

Club/Theater:
 1) What is the first live show you saw?

   Bon Jovi

 2) What is the last live show you saw?

   NDV

 3) What are three of your all-time favorite live performers?

   Kevin Gilbert
   Toy Matinee
   Kaviar

--- GRUNO ---

[Joel]

First: It was either REO Speedwagon or Journey back in '78, not sure which was first.

Last: Porcupine Tree at The Vic a couple months ago in Chicago

3 Best in no particular order (Arena)

Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder
Roger Waters Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Peter Gabriel So

Best clubs shows would be the 2 PT shows and Marillion's This Strange Engine

[Shawn]

1) What is the first live show you saw?
2) What is the last live show you saw?
3) What are three of your all-time favorite live performers?

My first live show of any consiquence was Phil Collins' But Seriously tour in 1990.

The last live show I saw was Porcupine Tree in Seattle last August

And, the best live show I ever saw.... well.. at the time I'd say it would have to have been that first Phil Collins show... but that was for more sentimental reasons than it actually being a really terrific show (even though it was pretty damn good).  In terms of pure musicianship I'd have to say Spock's Beard in Atlanta, that was amazing, and as it turned out, it was the last full show that Neal ever did with the band.

[fractalist]

1) What is the first live show you saw?
2) What is the last live show you saw?
3) What are three of your all-time favorite live performers?

1) The Police, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands ~ '79 or '80
2) Estradasphere and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Santa Cruz, California
3) King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Estradasphere

[Rene]

First Live Show:
The Beatles, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, 1966

Last Live Show:
Kim Mitchell, The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, August 22, 2003

Top 3 Live Shows:
1. Pink Floyd, PNE Garden, October 1972
2. Wings Over America, Kingdome, Seattle, June 1976
3. The Tubes, PNE Garden, 1976

[Shawn]

DOH!!!  How could you have ommited Genesis from this list of your favorite top 3?

[Jamie]

First live show: J Geils band on the Freeze Frame tour
Last live show: Porcupine Tree with Opeth
Best 3 shows:  In no particular order
Yes Union tour (first time to hear Awaken live and was left near tears)
Peter Gabriel Secret World tour
Marillion tie Clutching tour and Holidays tour.  They both were fantastic!

slainté
Jamie

[Shawn]

Jamie did you see the Gabriel UP tour?  I missed it this time around but Alistair got to go and he said it was amazing.

[Joel]

I forgot about The Tubes in '83...that was a GREAT show! Damn, 41 years old and I've got the memory of a 90 year old.

[Rene]

DOH!!!  How could you have ommited Genesis from this list of your favorite top 3?

It was easy! I could have listed many more before getting down to Genesis as far as my list of memorable shows goes (may have been different had it been during the Gabriel era) but we were asked for only three.  

[Rene]

Phil Collins, wearing Vancouver Canucks jersey of the era.

[Rene]

A couple of souvenirs from 2 of my 3 favorite live performances:

The Tubes, 1976
No, that's not real, it's a prop...but still!!!

Unfortunately all I have from the '72 Pink Floyd show is the memory of them playing all of Dark Side Of The Moon, 6 months before it was released.

Many more concert photos & stuff:
http://www.springtide.ca/rene