Your greatest concert experience ever?

I'm torn.

On one hand, I went to a Disturbed concert and it was amazing.

The other, I went to a Shania Twain concert and happened to be near the railing as a 12 year old and got to slap her butt while she was going through the crowd.

Pink Floyd at the Superdome in 94 I think it was. Easily the best show I've ever been to.

KISS - Dynasty Tour in Baton Rouge
KISS - Reunion tour in Superdome.

Besides that, Stones in Dome '88 Pink Floyd in Dome '94

Metallica Voodoo 2012

Bonnaroo 2011:

The Decemberists - My Morning Jacket - Arcade Fire

Straight up concert would probably have to be LCD Soundsystem.

Soundgarden opening for Guns at the PMAC in January 1992. It was fricking cold that night, but that concert scorched. Soundgarden was relatively unknown and was facing a pretty "whatever, get off the stage, chumps" crowd when they came out on stage, but they had that place out of its mind by the end of their set. It was just a full-on onslaught. Imagine it: For many of us it was the first time we'd ever really heard Soundgarden and they show up playing stuff like "Rusty Cage", "Outshined", etc. They totally won that that crowd over and got it rocking. Then Guns hit the stage (after the contractually required delays) with "It's So Easy", "Mr. Brownstone", "Welcome to the Jungle", and "Sweet Child o' Mine" all in a row. That crowd was fricking frenzied by then. Best show and best crowd I've ever seen, hands down.

Second best show was The Ramones opening for Pearl Jam in September 1995 because 1)The Ramones and 2)Pearl Jam. It was only a year before the Ramones called it quits, so the crowd had a huge number of people who clearly were there to see the Ramones first and foremost. There was a huge amount of black leather in a sea of flannel. The show was at Tad Gormley stadium, so it was outdoors in a football field, but it was like a highschool field with the bleachers that had field access. I was about 4 rows back on the right side of the stage for the Ramones set and it was just a sea of black leather on the ground and a sea of flannel in the stands. The Ramones were fricking awesome. Then, when it was time for Pearl Jam, the flannel filtered onto the field and the leather filtered up into the stands. Both fan bases just swapped and watched the other fanbase's band. I parked it back by the sound booth for Pearl Jam and kicked back. Great show with two very different bands and fan bases that just got along. Ticketmaster was the best thing to happen for that show because otherwise, we'd have not gotten The Ramones opening. They only opened for the handful of shows that Pearl Jam canceled and had to reschedule because of that debacle. I do distinctly remember looking at the crowd and thinking their clothing choices were not ideal for an outdoor concert in September in New Orleans.

Roger Waters last year was just a fricking spectacle. I'd never seen any of the Floyd guys and just the overall production was a lot to take in.

was thinking about this the other day.

Can't decide which is the best, but:

Paul McCartney, Houston in 2005 (37 songs, freaking amazing)
The Black Crowes - Houston House of Blues
Wilco - ACL
Dwight Yoakam - John T. Floore's Country Store

Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, RHCP - 1991 New orleans

Pavement, Pain Teens, Sonic Youth - 1993 Houston

Pela - 2008

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Iron Maiden, Saxon, and Fastway, in 1983 was the first to come to mind.

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speaking of Fastway, the first time I saw Flogging Molly was pretty epic