Best gig you ever went to (including festival appearances)

[PirateNinja]

Best gig for me would be Dark Tranquillity last year. A sold out show in a pretty small venue' date=' but damn, it was awesome.[/quote'] Would have loved to have seen that smaller shows are better in my opinion, the band is literally in your face, better crowd interaction. Jumping off the stage is always awesome too lol. Not sure if I'd do that at a Dark Tranquility show tho.

[BlutAusNerd]

Would have loved to have seen that smaller shows are better in my opinion' date=' the band is literally in your face, better crowd interaction. Jumping off the stage is always awesome too lol. Not sure if I'd do that at a Dark Tranquility show tho.[/quote'] That's pretty much all that we have here in Salt Lake, even bigger shows like Dark Tranquillity are at small venues. I've seen them 3 times, and the largest crowd at any of those shows was about 200 people. It's sad at the same time though, when I saw Napalm Death, there were about 50 people there, and all but 12 of us left after the metalcore openers finished.

[PirateNinja]

That's pretty much all that we have here in Salt Lake' date=' even bigger shows like Dark Tranquillity are at small venues. I've seen them 3 times, and the largest crowd at any of those shows was about 200 people. It's sad at the same time though, when I saw Napalm Death, there were about 50 people there, and all but 12 of us left after the metalcore openers finished.[/quote'] Man that sucks, not massively into em but they grindcore n death metal forefathers, they deserve more than 12 people watching. Same thing happened when I saw Black Dahlia Murder, Skeletonwitch, Fleshgod Apocalypse and sum generic metalcore band at the Camden Underworld. Most of the crowd disappeared after the generic metalcore band (so interchangeable with every metalcore band that I can't even remember their name, just sounded like All That Remains to me) and came back for Black Dahlia. Not that I was that bothered at the time, I had a good spot for Fleshgod.

[BlutAusNerd]

Man that sucks' date=' not massively into em but they grindcore n death metal forefathers, they deserve more than 12 people watching. Same thing happened when I saw Black Dahlia Murder, Skeletonwitch, Fleshgod Apocalypse and sum generic metalcore band at the Camden Underworld. Most of the crowd disappeared after the generic metalcore band (so interchangeable with every metalcore band that I can't even remember their name, just sounded like All That Remains to me) and came back for Black Dahlia. Not that I was that bothered at the time, I had a good spot for Fleshgod.[/quote'] There are definitely positives and negatives to it, though I initially only saw the negatives. However, I've recently started looking at it differently, as this way bands that I do like can make more on tours when the venue is packed with the fans of whatever flavor of the week trendy band they're playing with. It's sad that these bands don't get the respect that they deserve, especially a band like Napalm Death that was so instrumental in paving the way for so many others, but people are fickle, self-absorbed, ignorant brats, not much you can do to change that.

[PirateNinja]

Ain't that the truth. It's funny really cuz a lot of the metal/death core bands they are going to see cite the bands they ain't watching as influences (though I'm sure there's cases where that's just name dropping for credibilities sake)

[Frostaudn]

Would have loved to have seen that smaller shows are better in my opinion' date=' the band is literally in your face, better crowd interaction. Jumping off the stage is always awesome too lol. Not sure if I'd do that at a Dark Tranquility show tho.[/quote'] Haha, it was really intense. Like 300 people cropped up in a small, hot venue with the band on a very small podium. But that energy that was going on during the show, damn!

[RelentlessOblivion]

Metallica a few years back were pretty good as well. The setlist featured two songs from Death Magnetic and the rest was material from Kill, Ride, Puppets and Justice.

[PirateNinja]

Haha' date=' it was really intense. Like 300 people cropped up in a small, hot venue with the band on a very small podium. But that energy that was going on during the show, damn![/quote'] Woulda thought DT would be huge in Holland, the pretty big throughout most of Europe. Either way though sounds like a cracking show

[Frostaudn]

Woulda thought DT would be huge in Holland' date=' the pretty big throughout most of Europe. Either way though sounds like a cracking show [/quote'] Well, they had another show in Holland during that leg, in a venue that is quite bigger. But this one is show was just closer for me, so..

[PirateNinja]

Metallica a few years back were pretty good as well. The setlist featured two songs from Death Magnetic and the rest was material from Kill' date=' Ride, Puppets and Justice.[/quote'] Yeah the sonisphere setlist was along those lines, 2 songs from Kill, 5 from Ride (6 if ya include Am I Evil from Creeping Death single), 3 from Puppets, 3 from Justice, 2 from Black, 1 from reload n 1 from Death Magnetic. And no nothing else matters. I saw the black album anniversary thing at Downpour 2012 too

[PirateNinja]

Well' date=' they had another show in Holland during that leg, in a venue that is quite bigger. But this one is show was just closer for me, so.. [/quote'] thats fair and makes sense, they more popular in mainland Europe than in the UK

[RelentlessOblivion]

Only other decent gig I've been to was AC/DC in 2010 (actually the same year I saw Metallica). Just before Brian Johnson's vocals started to go. They put on a good show, lots of energy, but it was an outdoor gig which the council made them dial down the volume for and imposed a curfew so they weren't allowed to play the entire setlist.

[PirateNinja]

I've missed them everytime they've come to the uk

[RelentlessOblivion]

Don't worry I miss gigs all the time.

[stonedmiserable]

Best overall? My first "real" concert, Tool at Red Rocks when Lateralus came out. That was off the chain. The most fun show I ever went to was Andrew WK. We were blackout drunk from Seagrams and Sprite and bought the tickets as kind of a joke, like "oh, let's go see Andrew WK, wouldn't that be hilarious if we actually went??", but when that show started, I'm telling you things got instantly rowdy. The entire crowd was onstage by the second song, evrerybody was stage diving just going bananas. I slapped Andrew on the ass. Hands down, the most fun I've ever had at a show.

[Scullicon]

Best Gig, Singular. I have no idea, Its been a few really good ones. But I did see King Diamond in a small venue in 2006 which was really damn great, The intro from Abigail and the childsized coffin on stage. Always going to remember that one. Watain did a gig in 2010 in honor of Bathory, Which was really good. Grave Miasma did an incredible good performance last year too. Necros Christos played right after and i didn't remember their setlist even, too overwhelmed. Then there are always some bands that always do great shows like Behemoth, Fields of the Nephilim or Nifelheim etc. Which ive seen several times.

[Beor]

Hard to nail down one favourite but I have great memories of seeing Blizzard of Ozz and Motorhead at the Masonic Temple in Detroit in 1981