Concert Experiences and (fading) Memories....

Concert Experiences and (fading) Memories....

AC/DC - Athletic Park - Shihad supporting... I got passively stoned walking through MacAlister Pk... what year was it... 90/91ish maybe???

My first concert expereince was Midnight oil in 1990 or 1991. in Auckland  I was 7 or 8.  Parents took me and my brother along. It was a pretty good few from my dad shoulders.  I remember my dad tryign to take a wooden crate in so my brother could stand on it.  it was taken off him.

I hope he got the dozen Quarts of Lion Brown out first 2B

I was kinda impressed with Oasis at Earls Court in '01... but then I'd heard and seen so much about Earls Court I was excited just being there to be honest - the fact it was an awesome gig was a bonus really

Not my first gig, but a memorable one was Kyuss at some club in London (The Borderline??) in 93 or 94. The crowd was so weird and varied and didn't look like a rock crowd at all...this, combined with the fact that the ad in the NME had said "direct from Canada-Kyuss!!" made us suspect that we'd been duped. When the support band were a bunch of G'nR wannabees from Milton Keynes (the lead singer wore bike shorts and a US flag bandana ffs!) we were certain.
Until the boys wondered on looking like a bunch of misfits themselves and a topless, shoeless Garcia growled "We're Kyuss and we're from California!" before launching into 'Thumb'.

Mad gig.

1st concert...David Bowie...Athletic Park ....1983..I was 13

Damn that would have been amazing - Kyuss in concert. I was 8 or 9  at the time that you went though so I probably wouldn't have appreciated it anyways. :/

Probably my favourite was the foo fighters in auckland, at a small out of the way club. There was probably 300 people jammed into this tiny space, and I was about 4 feet away from Grohl. It was f**king intense, the best concert I've ever been to.

I did miss out on seeing the black keys when they were here last, that would have been mad though. And I'm going to see Peaches this coming Thursdee - I'm hoping that's going to be memorable. I love that lady.

Oh FM! :) and I saw Bowie in Melbourne a couple of years ago when I was living there. That was pretty amazing.

spam2008-09-17 10:50:38

I was there too! My first one as well...I was 9.

First 1 was U2 in Aux, freaking unbelievable, one of the best nights of my life! Coupled with the fact that I had scored free flights in a private Jet it turned into one of the craziest weekends...EVER!

Saw U2 last year at ANZ Stadium... bluddy massive...

Maiden @ Brissy Ent Ctr... totally exceeded my expectations (esp given I'd seen Jamiroqai and Oasis there and they were nowhere near as good - I thought it was just a crap venue... I was wrong lol) and recharged my eardrums!!!

Smashing Pumpkins - Pittsburgh 97 (had to miss seeing No Doubt in Pittsburgh due to having to study for a resit)
U2 - Murrayfield 97
REM - Lansdowne Road 99

Best concert ever - The Proclaimers - The Metro in Sydney 2002

Also Ash (supported by Lash) at the Metro, and the Whitlams.

The White Stripes at the Town Hall in 2004 was good - but came out quite depressed with the realisation I was now 'old'

Proclaimers?

Get out of it ya ginger, kilt wearing haggis monkey.

Concert experiences? Judas Priest at the Vector Arena on Spetember 7th 2008. NOT! Don't get me f*****g started. Jag2008-09-17 12:43:59

I was at this gig (if you look you can see a hand attached to a long skinny arm pointing to Patton, that's me).

My first ever gig outside of NZ and I couldn't believe we could stand so close to the stage! Patton's shirt is all ripped from when he stag dived earlier and, in trying to get himself back on stage, he had me in a headlock! So very proud...

Snow Patrol was pretty good. Unfortunetly some of the sound was average due to there muppet sound man.  

SO many...

The Pogues, Powerstation, Auckland.  MacGowan got through 40 ounces of Vodka during the set, genius.

There was a period of about a month where I caught the Beastie Boys, Blur and Portishead all at the NSEC.  Best at NSEC though was Tom Jones, what a cracking night.

Best ever though, may well have been Bailter Space at a Waikato Uni Orientation gig in the mid-90's.  The wall of sound swinging around and around the 'Wailing Bongo' was something that is with me forever.

Carcass in 1992. My ear drums still haven't recovered.

Best - Pink Floyd at Western Springs by a country mile

Bob Dylan Western Springs Mmm about 78/79 We flatted about 10mins from the stadium and when me and my mate hadnt got back by about 3 in the morning flatmates came looking for us.Found us about 8 houses away apparently we had spent the last 3/4 hours counting lamposts only trouble is neither of us could remember what number came after 3.Was bloody good water in Auckland in them days.

Another great one was a Clapton concert at the springs.They hadnt let his girlfriend of the time into the country due to some drug charges.He got up on stage and gave it to everyone cops/customs etc etc,said FK the lot of you's turned his back to the audience and just let rip FKN O for awesome. 

god i wish pearl jam come back

Western Springs seems to be a recurring theme- its a great venue

Offspring at the B.D.O followed later that evening by Supergroove in the supertop  both brilliant
Faith no More at the events centre - Mike Patton going nuts
Pantera at the wgtn town hall - for them throwing beer poured from a keg on stage and getting them right up the back seats
Q.O.T.S.A twice at the the b.d.o and then earlier this year supporting the pumpkins at t.s.b arena
Metallica at the events centre - for beating the tins sheds bad acoustics by being exceedingly loud
Radiohead at the events centre - because there Radiohead
Muse - just awesome live

...all sorts.

best - Animal Collective at San Francisco Bathouse, insanely euphoric

1st (real) concert - Gn'R at Mt Smart when i was 13. Ha.

Me and friends were in Agades, Niger. Some people asked us to a party/show. We said "where?". They pointed out into the desert and said "there".
So after dark we drove out the wat they pointed. Bashed about for ages until we spotted some lights. In a oued, dry river bed, they'd set up a stage and, to our surprise a PA. The PA was run off generators. Then the band arrived with their instruments and their amps. I'd expected all acoustic.
By this stage a few hundred others,mostly Tuareg,have turned up. Some on foot, some on camels, some on donkeys and a few in 4X4s.
The band started tuning up. Deep dark blues sound that they call "revolution rock". Then scarey bloke comes up and asks me if I will "open the dance".
There's a clear space in front of the stage for the dancers. So, they get me and one stunning women to "open the dance". Weird but ace! Band noise and crowd noise.

bob marley - western springs easter 79 - surfing (badly) and picking up hitch-hikers before the gig

Biggest (music) mistake of my life. Not going to see Bob Marley in 79. Still regretting it.

Went to a Swedish festival called Kallis whilst I was there in 2002. Great memories. Outdoors in a random little park in the middle of a random town, light until elevenish, apparently the bands were really big in Sweden - Mando Diao, Kent, the Hellacopters. Great times, such a raw no-frills concert with a crowd of sweaty young Swedes Leeds_Chris2008-09-17 21:52:36

best musicians Dire Strait Western Springs 83
Best show offs Queen Mt Smart late 80's
Most uninhibited moment 80,000 people singing Do ya think I'm sexy Western Springs 79? Was that Jeff Beck doing a solo at half time?
Elton John at Western Springs 81? at a time when he could sing not shout.
Oddest concert, Paul Macartney after he sorted out the legal wrangle with Yoko, able to sing Beatles songs for the first time in decades. The screaming was non stop mania.

The Clash  Wgtn town Hall, don't recall when. About 3 rows from front and they opened with London's Calling!

1981. Paul Simenon at that gig.

dairyflat2008-09-17 22:06:43