  Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 1400 Registered: 10-2003 |
Maof2 inspired me to ask, what was your favorite concert, and which is your most coveted? Fav. Butthole Surfers St Andrews Hall in like 89' Most coveted. either Red Hot Chili's at Nectarine Ballroom in Ann Arbor, twice, or the White Stripes at The Gold Dollar. The 100 or so shows of the Dead have a special effect award in my book. I probably should have been doing something else instead of following the Dead around for those years, that I admit. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 408 Registered: 02-2008 |
YOU RULE! my best was definitely Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stoneage, and Mars Volta @ Van Andel Arena. RHCP with STP and someone else @ Pine Knob wasn't too shabby either | ||
Mortgageking Member Username: Mortgageking Post Number: 170 Registered: 12-2006 |
The Flaming Lips. Bonnaroo 2007. Oh god it was amazing. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 409 Registered: 02-2008 |
Is that where Wayne Coyne was in the giant hamster ball in the audience? | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 729 Registered: 01-2008 |
Yes at Cobo '74 on a lark, a dude and his wife had to pass on the concert, my friend and I bought the main floor tickets from them. The tickets had seat numbers with AAA printed on them. When we got there, we couldn't find our seats. We asked an usher where our seats were and he told us that they were taken up by some of the band's special lighting and stage operating equipment, but he said that he would find us some other place to sit. To our surprise, he led us to seats in the front row!! Most coveted was main floor to see Pink Floyd in '87, at the Palace. I had wanted badly to see the band when Roger Waters was still a member in '80 for their Wall tour, but unfortunately they only performed it in NYC and LA, and then broke up shortly afterwards. As my girlfriend at I drove around the park lot, there was row, after row, after row, of semi trailers parked in one part of the lot. My girlfriend then asked me what they were for. I said to her, OMG!! They must be used to contain the props for their stage show!! | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1851 Registered: 11-2003 |
Favorite: Black Flag at the Starwood in 1980 Most coveted: The Stooges at Helen DeRoy Auditorium | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 1401 Registered: 10-2003 |
Alley, wheres VanAndel Arena? I saw the Buttholes with STP at the Greek in Berkley years ago. After the show I ate some fungus with an old Hells Angel then watched as President Clintons motorcade drive right by our bar in SF. It was a memorable day to say the least. Ive seen the Surfers a few times but never liked seeing them outside in a daytime show. You really need that controlled atmosphere to enjoy their shows. I looked online the other day and the Surfers are doing a short tour right now, mainly in Europe but they are playing NYC July 29th I believe. Anyone want to go? I saw the Peppers at the Nectarine with Hillel Slovek before he ODd, What a show. I told a friend that nite that someday these guys would be playin the Palace. Sure enough, I saw them at the Palace years later but it was a real disappointment because I wasn't in the first 200 rows. LOL. | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 1402 Registered: 10-2003 |
East Detroit, Where was the Starwood, I saw em in like 87 at the Greystone. Was Rollins with them yet. Wasnt Keith Morris (Circle Jerks)with them for a minute? I cant remember the other guy who fronted for them. Venues seem to have such an effect on how a show effects ppl. Of course, the smaller the better. | ||
Maof2 Member Username: Maof2 Post Number: 89 Registered: 06-2008 |
Buttholes? Guess I'm outta the loop on that one! | ||
Servite76 Member Username: Servite76 Post Number: 54 Registered: 02-2008 |
Around 1974 at Cleveland Stadium. Santana, C,S,N&Y, The Band. Kind of cool. We sat next to the Methadone tent on the field. Steady line of stoners being brought in that smoked some grass laced with acid. Also, ELO, Climax Blues Band and Jesse Colin Young at the Michigan Palace in early 70's. (Message edited by servite76 on July 19, 2008) (Message edited by servite76 on July 19, 2008) | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 7677 Registered: 10-2003 |
As ridiculous as it sounds, I'd say my favorite concert was Gwar at the State Theater. The State had covered EVERYTHING in plastic. Don't think it helped. They were NEVER invited back, and have played at Harpo's whenever in Detroit ever since. | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 1404 Registered: 10-2003 |
Ma, Butthole Surfers. There outt Austin. Famous on the punk rock scene since the mid 80s. | ||
Maof2 Member Username: Maof2 Post Number: 92 Registered: 06-2008 |
D - No wonder, never was into the punk scene. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1852 Registered: 11-2003 |
Django, the Starwood was/is in West Hollywood, California. Henry was not in until 1981, so in 1980 others were participating, including hitchhiking idiots from Michigan, hence, it was my favorite. Keith Morris, Chavo Pederast / Ron Reyes, Dez Cadena, 1980 multiple short timers (yay), Henry... Last show ever was at the Greystone in June 1986. If you saw someone in 1987 there it would have been Henry Garfield AKA David Lee Roth, Jr. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 411 Registered: 02-2008 |
Django--Van Andel Arena is in Grand Rapids, and I was at that Palace show too | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 1406 Registered: 10-2003 |
Must have been 86 then if thats true. It was definitely Rollins. Are you saying there was life for Black Flag after Rollins. I dont remember that.Or are you saying the son of David Lee Roth played at the graystone??? | ||
9936sussex Member Username: 9936sussex Post Number: 157 Registered: 10-2007 |
Two concerts come to mind....Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at the Chicago United (the old ice arena...I think that was it's name) in the summer of 1974 and Simon and Garfunkle at the Palace a couple of years ago. I can die happy! I would have liked to have seen the "Mamas and the Papas" when they were in their prime, but that's a whole other question! | ||
Maof2 Member Username: Maof2 Post Number: 95 Registered: 06-2008 |
Favorite AND most coveted, Rolling Stones at Cobo, 1975. My older sister's boyfried bought tickets and took all of us. I was only 16 and thought it was the coolest thing. Actually, it was! That's the concert that had the BIG inflatable penis. Anyone remember?? | ||
Craig Member Username: Craig Post Number: 905 Registered: 02-2007 |
Ray Davies, solo, in Ann Arbor. Got a single ticket for the first row and then a handshake from the man at show's end. Had to wake up the family once I got home to tell them about that! | ||
Jimg Member Username: Jimg Post Number: 1016 Registered: 10-2003 |
I have to bend the rule and list two, each was highly significant: Duke Ellington Orchestra at a dance at the Light Guard Armory in 1974, not long before Duke passed. Because it was a dance, I could stand right next to the band and soak up the sounds. I got to spend time with Mercer, Russell Procope, Harry Carney, Harold Ashby, and, after I got enough nerve to approach him, Cootie Williams, who looked like a really tough customer but was friendly and willing to talk about jazz history with me. I was in orbit for a week after that concert. Two, Sun Ra at the Grande Ballroom either late 67 or early 68. I was transfixed and transformed by the power of Ra's music, especially John Gilmore's tenor outings and Sunny's keyboard artistry - sounds from Saturn, indeed. A part of me is still traveling the spaceways with Ra... | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1733 Registered: 02-2005 |
It's a tie for me between: Jimi Hendrix at the Masonic Temple, Feb 23, 1968. Concert to celebrate the grand opening of the Rock & Roll hall of Fame, 1995 at the old Cleveland Stadium - 7 hours featuring Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Cheryl Crow, Jon Bon Jovi, Johnny Cash, Al Green, John Mellenkamp, Aretha Franklin, Heart, Kinks, George Clinton and Funkadelic, Bob Dylan, Allman Bros, James Brown, Booker T. & the MGs as house band, and more and more. I'll join Jimg with a similar reminiscence - seeing Cab Calloway at DSOH 2-3 years before he died. | ||
Jimg Member Username: Jimg Post Number: 1017 Registered: 10-2003 |
Man, I didn't make the Hendrix show, a regret for sure. But I did catch the Cab... | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1854 Registered: 11-2003 |
quote: Django, just a kinda inside joke that Henry thought he was David Lee Roth. Hilariously, he later helped DLR write his book. | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 1409 Registered: 10-2003 |
gotcha, thanks, I was wondering what the hell you were talkin about, LOL. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1855 Registered: 11-2003 |
Yeah, sorry, that was pretty esoteric. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6991 Registered: 11-2003 |
Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic, 1959, at Masonic Temple, packed to the rafters, SRO. jjaba, ••••••••••••••••. | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 2268 Registered: 11-2007 |
Edgar Winter and band at a private party in Rochester Hills about 1971. A truck loaded with cases of Boones Farm and Thunderbird made an appearance and with other forms of intoxicants, made for a great evening. | ||
Frankg Member Username: Frankg Post Number: 425 Registered: 08-2007 |
Donna Summer at Pine Knob. I had an awesome date and got tickets just 2-3 days before the concert. I didn't even look at the seating, I was just so excited to be able to go to the concert with her! We got to the concert and asked the usher where our seats were, and he pointed down by the stage. Sure enough - they were front row! My date accused me of staging the front row seats thing. Anyway, it was a great concert even though I wasn't much for disco back in the disco sux daze. | ||
Richard_bak Member Username: Richard_bak Post Number: 87 Registered: 04-2008 |
In 1974, when I was in the service, I saw Cat Stevens at the Waikiki Bowl in Hawaii. He was still a couple years from walking away from the pop-music grind and adopting the name Yusuf Islam, but I remember him talking earnestly about Islam and his spiritual awakening between sets. The crowd thought it kind of strange, but I thought it was of a piece with his introspective songwriting. Even better, I had gotten seats just the day before and they were front and center, six rows from the stage. One of the great things about being stationed at Kaneohe was that you could cop great tix to local concerts all the time because tourists--who at any given time probably outnumbered local citizens and servicemen--never bought tix in advance (they were only on the island for a few days) so sellouts depended on walk-up sales right up to the start of the show. Anyway, what a memorable night for this jarhead....an intimate outdoor venue, a warm night, fragrant breezes, great music, a bit of a buzz on. Only thing was, my girlfriend was back in Detroit. Can't have everything. | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1734 Registered: 02-2005 |
Jimg, we had season tickets to the jazz series at DSOH from 1989-1999. We saw more great performers than I can name. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6995 Registered: 11-2003 |
Another great memory was Ray Charles at the Music Hall in the 1970s, when I took two small sons to see Ray and the Rayettes. jjaba. | ||
Tammypio Member Username: Tammypio Post Number: 178 Registered: 04-2005 |
Richard_bak: I totally envy you. I am too young to have ever been able to have seen Cat Stevens when he was still Cat Stevens and not Yusuf Islam. I absolutely love his music and find it to be extremely peaceful and inspiring. Thanks for sharing your concert moment! | ||
Bvos Member Username: Bvos Post Number: 2285 Registered: 10-2003 |
Most Coveted: Ray Brown at the Dakota in St. Paul. He died just a year later. Sat just 20 feet or so from the stage. He had some cats with him that stole the show. Favorite Show: Roy Hargrove at the Dakota. The small club made for a great show and atmosphere (something you don't get in Detroit when folks like Hargrove come to Orchestra Hall or some of the other big concert venues). The set was smoking and went on and on, nearly 3 hours worth. After an hour break the band reassembled and went into the wee hours of the night. | ||
Gingellgirl Member Username: Gingellgirl Post Number: 186 Registered: 04-2007 |
Peter Gabriel at Pine Knob. 1983. | ||
Dianeinaustin Member Username: Dianeinaustin Post Number: 75 Registered: 02-2008 |
Clifton Chenier at Antone's each and every time I saw him.  | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 9442 Registered: 10-2003 |
Despite the lousy acoustics, two of the most memorable concerts I went to were at Ford Auditorium in the 70s. But, not because of the main acts, but because of the relatively unknown, at the time, opening bands that blew me away. Rare Earth opened for Blood, Sweat and Tears. Skywalk opened for Spyro Gyra. I came away a huge fan of those "unknowns." While I was still on staff at the Fox Theater, none of our ushers wanted to work the pit when the Bare Naked Ladies made their first appearance there, so I grudgingly (yeah right!) volunteered for all of the shows. I even rejected taking my break, so I wouldn't miss anything. I still find it funny, this middle-aged white guy was the only one that was familiar with anyone close to the "alternative music" that played there so I always worked the pit for those groups. | ||
Islandman Member Username: Islandman Post Number: 1729 Registered: 08-2004 |
Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle at The Palace. | ||
Scout Member Username: Scout Post Number: 23 Registered: 12-2007 |
Anyone else having trouble answering this one? I've seen many great shows - and many of them great in different ways - to pick one. Beck, Harry Belafonte, Beastie Boys, Gogol Bordello, Hoodoogurus, REM...many of them perfect, inspiring, awesome, and some of them fitting a moment in my life (some of which are hazy). This question has had me scratching my head since I saw it and I'm not sure I can pick. As to coveted, Sgt. Pepper-era Beatles. | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 826 Registered: 02-2008 |
I'm with ya Scout. I've seen a great many shows over the years, can't possibly pick just one. If someone starts a thread of top 50 favorite concerts maybe I'll chime in. | ||
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie Post Number: 2412 Registered: 08-2007 |
"This question has had me scratching my head since I saw it and I'm not sure I can pick." Scout & DR - Ditto! | ||
Mama_jackson Member Username: Mama_jackson Post Number: 382 Registered: 06-2006 |
Pink Floyd. | ||
Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 871 Registered: 11-2006 |
The Rolling Stones at Ford Field in 03. Sars concert in Toronto had lots of great acts. Stones headlined. Rush; Isleys;Guess Who with Randy Bachman;AC/DC. | ||
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc Post Number: 1048 Registered: 12-2007 |
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Ol 6VB7B0OY Not THAT exact show...but dear lord do I want to go again... *edit* don't watch if you are epileptic! lol (Message edited by D_mcc on July 23, 2008) | ||
Wilkes36 Member Username: Wilkes36 Post Number: 9 Registered: 05-2008 |
Stevie Wonder at Masonic Temple 1984 He played for over three hours I paid for a seat but did not use it | ||
Crash_nyc Member Username: Crash_nyc Post Number: 1087 Registered: 08-2004 |
Favorite concert of all time? Tied: Pink Floyd @ The Palace of Auburn Hills, 1988 Underworld @ The Homelands Festival, Winchester, UK, 1999 Most crowded? (and also a fave) Love Parade @ The Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, 2000 Biggest techno party in the world. Police estimates were between 1.5 and 2 million people [This was also the exact location where Obama gave his speech yesterday.] | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 10234 Registered: 10-2003 |
Terryh SARS benefit was a blast! Hot as fuck but still a great time! | ||
The_ed Member Username: The_ed Post Number: 1841 Registered: 10-2007 |
The Commodores and Richard Pryor at Pine Knob back in the late 70's / early 80's.... | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 470 Registered: 02-2008 |
ooh that's a good one! | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 1456 Registered: 10-2003 |
Alley, I got to see STP with the Surfers at the Greek in Berkley, It was before I really knew who they were but Ive got a lotta love for them now ,Scott Weiland especially. That man has so much fucking talent. | ||
Vic_doucette Member Username: Vic_doucette Post Number: 392 Registered: 10-2003 |
The Midnight Ramble, Saturday night of Memorial Day Weekend 2006, Levon Helm's Barn in Woodstock, N.Y. The headliner was celebrating a birthday (65?) that evening, and all 200 of us or so had a wonderful time! | ||
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk Post Number: 318 Registered: 11-2006 |
Bob Dylan VanAndel Arena Grand Rapids 2001 shortly after 9/11. I had tickets to see him at Cobo but the day before he was playing in Grand Rapids. I called up my girlfriend at the time and told here I was blowing off work and driving to Grand Rapids to see Bob. She said count me in. It was one of those great general admission shows we walked in she grabbed my hand and "excused" ourselves to the front of the stage. I've seen Bob at least 15 times and that was the best. The man was on fire. It was so intense. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 7068 Registered: 11-2003 |
Norwalk, jjaba was born May 24, 1941, same as Bob Dylan. Had never ever seen him until one night in Idaho, a few years back. He played Nampa, Idaho. Had nice seats and was amazed at so many younger fans there. 3 hours later, including, "Blowing in the Wind", jjaba understood not one fucking word out of that man's mouth. jjaba, concert memories. | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 1482 Registered: 10-2003 |
Jjaba, I saw Dylan in AA in the early 90s. I only recogonized one song he played, and Im a fan. | ||
Optima Member Username: Optima Post Number: 23 Registered: 12-2006 |
Too many to pick but one stands out: Bowie on the Serious Moonlight Tour. Just days after he kicked Stevie Ray Vaughan off the tour, SRV followed him to each city and did a gig afterward (likely to gain exposure as he was a virtual unknown at that time). We caught him at St. Andrews Hall after the Bowie show that night and I was leaning on the left part of the stage. He was playing nothing but Jimi that night and and at one point stuck his guitar down for me to strum...surreal... We had riser seats for both Bowie shows that weekend at the Joe which were both superb but SRV stole the entire weekend... | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 2525 Registered: 01-2006 |
Jjaba, I have read that Dylan's crew sometimes fumbles the ball when it comes to setting him up with the right mic for the situation. Of course, the fact that he habitually mumbles and slurs over his words probably has a lot to do with it, too. |
