technosomy Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Now before your mind races away from you all and the mob tears me to shreds the momentous day has come for my daughter to go to her first concert now...... while my first was David bowie glass spider tour in 86 i wasn't that into him then (but that did kick start it for me) and would have loved my first to have been a favorite of mine ( was iron maiden, metallica, priest, twisted sister at that time) one direction is her favorite group, and she is bursting out of her skin to see them it's for her birthday and going to be a surprise so i booked the limousine front row and all and looking forward to sharing this unique experience with her regaurdless of the screaming, and pop insanity just wanted to share this with you all which poses another question what was your first show?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richpa Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Well you're doing a great thing for your kid Hopefully she will get into Metallica and Iron Maiden instead of One Direction My first and only big concert was Slipknot / Killswitch Engage and it was awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balance Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 1995 - Fear Factory on their Demanufacture tour. Slayer was second, same year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balance Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Btw enjoy it with your kids. Paul, drummer of Cannibal Corpse, was photographed looking very embarrassed with his daughter & her friends at a 1D concert last year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotwang Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Blur, sometime around 97 or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Daughter...yeah right. Come on man you love Harry's haircut, admit it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padmapani Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 my parents took me to see collosseum when i was 10 or so. i liked it what's one direction? edit: youtube answered my question. i'm sorry for you, but, well, at least it's not justin bieber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted May 30, 2014 Author Share Posted May 30, 2014 Daughter...yeah right. Come on man you love Harry's haircut, admit it! aahhhh squidmister can't get nothing past you well at least he can play an instrument and write some of their material!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted May 30, 2014 Author Share Posted May 30, 2014 my parents took me to see collosseum when i was 10 or so. i liked it what's one direction? edit: youtube answered my question. i'm sorry for you, but, well, at least it's not justin bieber yesh well i guess, have got some good earplugs at least! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted May 30, 2014 Author Share Posted May 30, 2014 Btw enjoy it with your kids. Paul, drummer of Cannibal Corpse, was photographed looking very embarrassed with his daughter & her friends at a 1D concert last year yeah i read that! i am going disguised as paul!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trunksan Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Excluding Greek rock artists, My first big concert was in 1998, I was 16ish. Judas Priest, Megadeth, Savatage, Craddle of Filth + some more I don't remember and the day after it was PJ Harvey and Placebo. The second day I didn't find a ride back home so I slept on the grass and waited for the tube to start at 5:30am. Nowadays I got to many concerts, event to bands that I barely know. Some are great, I.e Truck Fighters, Orange Goblin and others not so much i.e Kylesa, New Sepultura, House of Pain There have also been 2 bands that I ADORE but both were dissapointing live: Ozric Tentacles and Tool (especially Tool). This month I've planned Plissken festival (Athens), Pottergeist (Greek southern rock band, their basist is a friend of mine, Manu Chao (Thessaloniki), Clutch (Athens) and anything else that might pop-up When I lived in London I lived next to Wembley Arena but didn't go to any concerts.. I really regret it. I also regret not going to RATM when they came to Athens in 2006 and Dream Theater 2 years ago, the bad thing is that Mike Portnoy left the band 2-3 months after this concert and he probably won't play with them again. Also, although I had a ticket for Rotting Christ's 20 year anniversary, I couldn't go, I was also quite upset about this. Also missed DRI (... We've discussed this before I think with Tehcnossomy) and KISS and I'll miss the Deftones this months because I'll be in Thessaloniki for the Manu Chao concert. Edit: I don't only go to rock/metal concerts... some of the concerts I've been to include Sakis Rouvas, Madonna, Groundation (reggae), George Michael, Lana Del Rey (this was part of a bigger festival) and I'll probably go to Lady Gaga in September. The great thing is that I've got many ways in getting into gigs for free (legally or ileggally) so I'm always on the look out for nice events around Athens. I reckon I can get in for free at Thievery Corporation too mid-june. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatsu Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I can't really remember the first big concert but my mom was into rock and did enjoy taking me to concerts. Among the first for sure where the Leysin Festival where I saw Billy Idol and Guns'n'Roses together with Sepultura and Faith No More (both concerts took place in the 90ies). Other bands I saw where Pink Floyd on their Division Bell Tour, Jean-Michel Jarre, Guns'n'Roses a second time, Bon Jovi, Skunk Anansie (and also Skin solo later) and Roxette with Bonnie Tyler. I'm not going to concerts that much anymore but during the last years I was able to catch Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Prodigy, Faithless and Madonna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trunksan Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I can't really remember the first big concert but my mom was into rock and did enjoy taking me to concerts. Among the first for sure where the Leysin Festival where I saw Billy Idol and Guns'n'Roses together with Sepultura and Faith No More (both concerts took place in the 90ies). Other bands I saw where Pink Floyd on their Division Bell Tour, Jean-Michel Jarre, Guns'n'Roses a second time, Bon Jovi, Skunk Anansie (and also Skin solo later) and Roxette with Bonnie Tyler. I'm not going to concerts that much anymore but during the last years I was able to catch Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Prodigy, Faithless and Madonna. I've seen alsmost all these live... Some were good others not so much, although a lot of times concerts get plagued by bad sound or venue management so it's not usually the band's fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Not counting small local band shows (and one really crappy slightly larger touring band show) I consider my first 'real' concert to be Floater in probably 1995 or 96. It seemed big at the time because I was young and it was new and they were my favorite band, but in retrospect it was a regional band at a modest sized club. I blame my parents for not letting me see Nirvana a couple years earlier. I haven't been to any truly big, like arena big, concerts. Probably the first big one was Tori Amos when I was about 20, so 1999-ish. That actually was in a stadium (basketball), but it was far from full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkraver Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Metallica-India Tour 2010 or 11 I guess.. Great gig @ Bangalore. !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share Posted June 2, 2014 seems alot of you been to a few metal/rock shows mine have been mainly those so thought would share what i could remember metallica 3 times from and justice tour on alice cooper 4 times guns n roses and skid row together iron maiden 3 times judas priest black sabbath ozzy osbourne david bowie kreator d.r.i misfits with and without danzig anthrax faith no more to about 100 people in crowd (was amazing) slayer 3 times megadeth napalm death pungent stench morbid angel pink floyd biohazzard paradise lost nirvana - hand full of people at show (before they took off in new zealand) carcass primus white zombie pixies stooges sham 69 nofx bad religion body count cypress hill ac dc zz top rolling stones donovan fleetwood mac pitch black fat freddys drop have missed a few dam i been to alot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trunksan Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Been to a lot of concerts too, a lot common with you Technosomy. It seems that you went to a lot of conecets in the 90s. I've been going the past 8 years mostly. Biohazard played a few years ago, no1 told me, I was bummed to miss it, since then I check on a daily basis what's playing around and I still miss some interesting ones. I concur that Faith No More is a great live and I saw them in 2007 which is way past their best. For me there is 1 live concert that I'm pretty sure is never going to be surpassed: Pear Jam - They played for about 3 hours and 20 mins. It was the final stop of the tour and there were people from all over the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Israel and Turkey, great atmosphere. 1,5 hours live + 1 hour acoustic program (including the banzo and harmonica) + 1 hour mix of their best with rock n roll classics (Hendrix, Rod Stewart...) I've talked with a lot of concert-goers about this concert and most of them say it's been their best experience. Many times I've dreamt in my sleep that I'm at a pearl jam live concert. 2nd is Meshuggah but for a totally different reason: It was only 1 hour and 15 mins but considering how complicated their music is, I couldn't believe the pure technical perfection. Other good ones: Down, Metallica, Truck Fighters, Nine Inch Nails (pretty quiet crowd though), Soulfly (my mate went crazy when Max played NailBomb tracks), Madball (heard them 4-5 times, never get tired of them), Aerosmith, U2 ooooooooooooooohhhhh and there's one live that was TOTTALY TOTTALY a waste of time and money: Lenny Kravitz! He was tottaly wasted and played for maybe 45 mins. I remember that the concert finished and I asked my friends "It can't be over so fast? How drunk can I be?...How long was the concert?" and we all check our clocks and it was less than 45 mins. I would have travelled anywhere in Europe for a Pantera concert but unfortunanetly this cannot happen RIP Dimebag Barrell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balance Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Oh if we're gonna list them all the my major ones are: Front 242 Frontline assembly Throbbig gristle Pink Floyd ColdPlay (great concerts, not a fan of their music at home) Nirvana Soundgarden Pearl Jam Fear Factory Mayhem Slayer Napalm Death Metallica Marduk Sepultura Pantera (3 times) Aborym Rotting Christ Greenday Opeth Behemoth Meshuggah Cannibal Corpse AC/DC Rolling Stones Jimmy Barnes/Cold Chisel Dimmu Borgir Cradle Of Filth NIN Marilyn Manson Rage Against The Machine Ice-T Ice Cube NWA Body Count Cypress Hill Dead Kennedy's And loads more popular & underground. Oh I got paid in the 90's to infiltrate & report on some nations socialist/neo nazi gigs/groups at that time. Absolutely horrifying experience. When I eventually got caught out I had some serious reconstructive surgery after they kicked my skull in . Luckily the info I had help the bring them down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trunksan Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Sepultura Pantera (3 times) Rage Against The Machine Rotting Christ Sepultura: My older mates tell me than in the early 90s Sepulturas were a power house, I saw them with their current line-up and didn't like it at all Pantera: I'll go in a corner and cry RATM: Still have hopes of seeing them!!!!! Rotting Christ: When did you listen to them? With me being Greek, I have been several times to their concerts. I don't like them for home listening but I always have a good time at their lives. A lot of people around here say that last year's Greek 20 years anniversary tour was superb. Opeth: Can't stand the growling but I can't deny that they are great musicians and composers (I just realised that Sweden must have great music education with so many technical musicians coming from there), was pleasantly surprised! Mastodon and Tool are 2 bands that I love to listen at home but both have been dissapointing live... and I'm a huge Tool fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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