re: Best and Worst Concert Experience

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Worst- Pearl Jam UNO about '96 too much crap in the blood stream that night.

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No way that was '96. You might be talking about the three nights they did there in '93 or Tad Gormley stadium in '95.

Best
Foringner at the old MudBugs saloon in gretna back in late 90's. Cindarella was also great in this small venue.

Worst

Aerosmith's Pump Tour at UNO. they decided not to allow achahol to be sold at any stops on this tour because they where all recovering addicts.All you could by at the arena was O' douls near beer even though the concert was sponsored by Budwieser.
I saw them on their previous tour stop in New Orleans for the Permanant Vacations tour with Dokken and I was totally blown away by Aerosmith and their 2-hour performance. they allowed achahol to bve sold on that tour.

Best – Alkaline Trio in the basement of a church without A/C on a hot summer night. Half the crowd dropped from heat exhaustion, but the show was unbelievable. ’97 was a damn near religious experience.

Worst- Elton John. I had heard he was a great live act and I was really excited to see him, but… maybe I just saw him on an off night. He was lousy and disinterested.

I saw Limp Bizkit at the Warped Tour before they hit it big. He kept yelling at the crowd and we were like, "frick you, We're only here because we're waiting for the Descendents to play. Shut up." They were abjectly terrible. Just an awful, awful show. I intentionally left off bands I don't like anyway at festivals for worst show ever -- but they were among the worst things I've ever seen.

and I got drug to a Norah Jones concert.....fell asleep during the opening act, and woke up at the end of hers.

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Damn, jealous!

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Don't be. They opened for Stabbing Westard, who blew them away.

They were too static-oriented and it wasn't good static like My Bloody Valentine. They were too loud for their own good -- only a 3 piece.

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MudBugs

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used to be a great small venue. Saw bad company and cheap trick there..separate shows.

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Cindarella

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Saw them at the old Kenny's key west in fat city....also saw warrant there.

I've been to a ton of concerts so this one is hard to pick for the best:

My top 4 in no particular order:

1) The Mars Volta - HOB 2007 "An Evening With Mars Volta" 2.5 hours of music bliss
2) Ian Moore - Grant Street Dance Hall - either 2001 or 2002, can't remember. I've seen Ian Moore live 7 times, this was by far his best show.
3) Pearl Jam - NOLA - 2002 I think. I've seen them seven times as well. Hard to pick my favorite show.
4) Andrew Bird - HOB 2008

Worst:

Modest Mouse - HOB 2007. I actually like MM a lot. This show was more about their sound guy than anything. Too much feedback on the amps, one guitar was constantly ringing. It really made for a bad show. First show I ever wanted to "end now", but stayed for it all. MM came back a few months later and my brother went to this show as well (came with me to the first one) and loved it. Sound issues were fixed, etc.

Best: The Verve - Howlin' Wolf 1993
Tie for Worst - Van Morrison - Jazz Fest 1996
Sebadoh - Tipitinas 1994

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worst: Incubus at UNO for the civic tour. phantom planet owned them

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I was at this show and I had a friend of mine saying the same thing. I think it's because they played very little of their old stuff at the time and played their entire new CD.

I loved it. I thought the acoustic set they did with the furniture and couches was awesome.