what was the best gig you ever attended and why ? (page 3)

charlie brown jr.

Led Zeppelin '72

WOW that's like seeing Moses part the Red Sea!!! Sooo Jealous!

Also CB (as I have stated here before) I met Robert Plant in the late 90's. I was walking past a restaurant in Byron Bay and there was Mr Plant, sitting at a table on the footpath. Normally, I would leave celebs alone, as we get a few here but he had finished eating and looked directly at me and smiled. I dashed into the restaurant and got a marker pen from staff and asked him for his autograph (on my t shirt). I told him I saw him in '72 and he was impressed. He asked me to join the table but for once in my life, I was literally speechless!! I have a (very)Scottish last name and all his roadies were tough old Scots, so they had a great laugh at my exspense. I still have the t shirt, actually just got it out yesterday.....

Violia

Meat Loaf in 99.

charlie brown jr.

I remember your story actually.....(Again very Jealous) on a Thread about Celb. U Met... months ago....

The one band I am actually in Awe of....so Talented and you'll never get a sound like that again.....

Great thing about You Tube is all the Bootleg Vids that 20 yrs ago I would have spent anything to get...

I spent so much money on the Destroyer Record in 81......last year... found it lime wire for free...LOL

In 1980 I spent $95 on The Song Remains The Same on VHS (Still have it) That's when VHS was still New....

Today I see it on DVD for $9.95..

The Day that DVD collection was released about 5 yrs ago....bought it the day it came out....

Yeah I'm a Fanatic!!

doofdaddy

CBJ I love modern technology. Can you imagine the old days of ordering vinyl imports and waiting weeks to get them? They were not the good ol' days.

doofdaddy

Another contender for best gig was a psychedelic trance party I went to in the Himalayas in 2002. We trecked up to the snowline (a few k's from Manali) under a full moon to find about two hundred people dancing. The dawn was something I will never forget. The full moon was setting over the snow peaks, the sun was rising turning the peaks pink and I could see hundreds of k's to the flat plains below under the light of these two luminaries.

Oh and there was no acid etc in my system. LOL!! Who needs drugs in that environment?!

Violia

I was able ( thanks to fan club help) get into a meet and greet. I got to meet Meat Loaf ( 99) and have a pic took with him.

doofdaddy

Violia, he was the highest contender for a heart attack when I was a teen! Riding a chopper on to the stage was very cool. Is he still as big as he was then?

SweetBabyCheezits

I've been to maybe five shows my whole life so I don't have many to pick from but this was my favorite so far: Stone Temple Pilots - the final act at Rockfest 2008 in Kansas City. They executed every song perfectly. It was awesome to see Scott Wieland walk out on stage with a bullhorn between him and the mic and start the first verse to Dead and Bloated.

(Oddly enough, they had no pyrotechnics so he just took off a piece of clothing for each piece they played. By the end of the set he was clipping his fingernails.)

This was the 10-hour, 2-stage lineup, from my fav to "who're-these-guys":

STP
Sevendust
Chevelle
Ten Years
Theory Of A Deadman
Trapt
Shinedown
Saliva
Another Animal
Saving Abel
Rev Theory
Another Black Day
Ashes Divide
A New Revolution
Redline Chemistry

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