As the title says I have been too

Atreyu
Bullet for my vallentine
Linkin Park
Avenged sevenfold
rock festival (Someone did a cover of van halen Eruption)
The used
Escape the fate

In september im seeing disturbed and POD

So what have you guys been seeing?

None. Why would I want to listen to music with a bunch of smelly people screaming at the top of their lungs, only to lose my hearing and make it more difficult for me to hear music when it isn't being played from 15in 120dB speakers, just below the threshold of pain. I guess people don't go to concerts for the music. For the money that concert tickets cost, the amount of gas it takes to drive to them, etc, you might as well buy a 15in speaker or two, and some amps, and invite some people over to your house, and throw on some illegally downloaded music. You could even charge people, and then you would almost break even!

No. But i have played at 1. True, it wasnt exactly huge, but its still a music concert.

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None. Why would I want to listen to music with a bunch of smelly people screaming at the top of their lungs, only to lose my hearing and make it more difficult for me to hear music when it isn't being played from 15in 120dB speakers, just below the threshold of pain. I guess people don't go to concerts for the music. For the money that concert tickets cost, the amount of gas it takes to drive to them, etc, you might as well buy a 15in speaker or two, and some amps, and invite some people over to your house, and throw on some illegally downloaded music. You could even charge people, and then you would almost break even!

Live music, from the right bands, pretty much definitively eclipses any recordings.

In the last year I've seen only one show, though... Pelican w/Clouds and Fatal Flying Guilloteens. Almost exactly a year ago. Before that I saw the Decemberists, who are so much better live than they are on record.

Stereophonics tomorrow night.

I went to Iron Maiden like 3 months ago, it was the 2nd best concert ive ever been...
And i think Daft Punk ...

Well the only concerts i been to was Ted Nugent and Quiet Riot, and Toby Mac.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

None. Why would I want to listen to music with a bunch of smelly people screaming at the top of their lungs, only to lose my hearing and make it more difficult for me to hear music when it isn't being played from 15in 120dB speakers, just below the threshold of pain. I guess people don't go to concerts for the music. For the money that concert tickets cost, the amount of gas it takes to drive to them, etc, you might as well buy a 15in speaker or two, and some amps, and invite some people over to your house, and throw on some illegally downloaded music. You could even charge people, and then you would almost break even!

Obviously you listen to shitty music. Good music, when performed live, trumps recordings every time. The atmosphere is so electric, too, it just adds to the experience.

I haven't been to a concert in over a year and a half now, things seem to keep coming up. Last concert I went to was Throwdown, The Sword, Lacuna Coil and In Flames. Was a pretty decent show, but In Flames' set was terrible; Anders (vocalist) was sick with some food poisoning, and the guitarists were stand-ins because the two regulars were back home on personal business.

...Seeing Cristina Scabbia in a schoolgirl outfit was SOO worth it, though.

I've been to a few smaller local gigs recently, though; seen Docile and Alpha Galates, along with several other bands.

I was supposed to go see Unearth back in October, but some personal stuff came up. I was supposed to go see 3 Inches of Blood in June, too, but something came up then, too.

POD, Linkin Park (2 weeks ago), Paul McCarthey (Last Sunday) and (lol) maybe I'll go see Celine Dion in a month. The only concert I paid for was POD, as the rest are open to everyone and free.

Saliva, Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage, Art of Dying, Five Finger Death Punch, Disturbed, Parkway Drive, Dillinger Escape Plan. There are a few more but I can't seem to remember them.

Went to see Ministry's last ever gig last Friday and Saturday night in Dublin, originally we booked for their only gig which was Friday but they squeezed an extra night in so we went to that too. Was brilliant, got to meet the bass player after..

most the other things I went to where DJ's.. Hype and Dillinja couple months back... slow year for me

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Saliva, Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage, Art of Dying, Five Finger Death Punch, Disturbed, Parkway Drive, Dillinger Escape Plan. There are a few more but I can't seem to remember them.

Congratz on being part of the 3% of Americans not listening to rap crap.

Quote from h3adbang3r :

Saliva, Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage, Art of Dying, Five Finger Death Punch, Disturbed, Parkway Drive, Dillinger Escape Plan. There are a few more but I can't seem to remember them.

Nice dude parkway drive would have been insane i Love boneyards!

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Congratz on being part of the 3% of Americans not listening to rap crap.

Unfortunately he's part of the 27% who listen to shitty radio rock. (Excepting Dillinger Escape Plan.)

Different people have different tastes in music. Deal with it.

I was supposed to see Santana and a bunch of other artists like Bob Geldof, Mary J. Blige, Chick Corea, Sharon Jones etc... all played less than 1km from where I live, but I had to work instead. Bah.

I have not been on any concerts this year, but I allmost got tickets to Metallica concert, aswell as Avenged Sevenfold. Too bad I was too late and it was sold when I wanted to buy a ticket

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but I Allmost Got Tickets To Metallica Concert

Tough Luck.

Metallica Live In Riga 20.07.08

That Rocked!

Quote from wheel4hummer :

MP3+ 15 inch subwoofer + a bunch of people own a proper band concert

You have absolutely no idea what kind of atmosphere there is on a proper concert

I've been to a couple, but I've played... (checks diary) about 15. We've been doing 3 or 4 per month since March or so - with the exception of our holiday month in May.

I always take hearing protectors with me now, for rehearsals and gigs and just concerts I go to watch. I found that my hearing was starting to suffer (or it could've been down to just not being as young as I was) so I figured I'd try to stop it getting worse.

wheel4hummer - this is why I always take earplugs to concerts. I don't see why it needs to be THAT loud. Lost my hearing for a day after the first concert and thought, never again.

So far I've chalked up Presidents of the USA, and Nightwish + Pain (although that might have been late last year, I don't have the stubs to hand).

Soundwave 08
-Mindless self indulgence
-Alexisonfire
-the offspring
-Killswitch engage
-Plainwhite T's


just to note some of the ones i saw




And to the whinging people above.
If your ears aren't bleeding, your not covered in dirt, and you can't stand by the time you get home, then you obviously don't love music for what it is.

Quote from Klutch :

Soundwave 08
-Mindless self indulgence
-Alexisonfire
-the offspring
-Killswitch engage
-Plainwhite T's


just to note some of the ones i saw




And to the whinging people above.
If your ears aren't bleeding, your not covered in dirt, and you can't stand by the time you get home, then you obviously don't love music for what it is.

You Lucky ****er! Id kill too see Alexisonfire but they havent arrived here there one of my favourite bands

Mindless self indulgence is freakin insane aswell love Kill the rock

Quote from Klutch :

If your ears aren't bleeding, your not covered in dirt, and you can't stand by the time you get home, then you obviously don't love music for what it is.

Or rather, we don't love music in quite the way that you do. If I can't enjoy music for 36 hours after a concert, then the point of going seems a little self-defeating (although concerts are of course way more fun to listening at home). Earplugs let me keep my hearing the next day, and let me have more fun while I'm there, as my ears don't ache and they don't block out the ambience, or the warm beer being spilt down your back, or the drumstick that impales you in the face at the end of the night.

I have been to Foo Fighters (with queens of the stone age as warmup), Bruce Springsteen, and Metallica. Best of the lot was of course Bruce!

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I have not been on any concerts this year, but I allmost got tickets to Metallica concert, aswell as Avenged Sevenfold. Too bad I was too late and it was sold when I wanted to buy a ticket

I had 4 tickets to Metallica, one for me, one for a cousin, and two for two different friends. But i made a huge mistake and gave the one ticket (that belonged to my friend) away to my sister the day of the concert, since i totally forgot the fact that it belonged to my friend. When he showed up a couple of hours before the concert and asked for his ticket, i got the worst guilt-trip of my life! I ended up buying a "blackmarket"ticket on the way to the concert for him, for 1500NOK. Since the original price was 850NOK, i don't think that was very much. In conclusion: if you really wanted, you could just show up outside the concert and buy one there.

I also heard rumors that Bruce-tickets was sold WAY cheaper than they orignially cost, when the concert had started, because the blackmarket-dealers had just mis-calculated the demand. Dunno if that is true though, I actually doubt it.

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Or rather, we don't love music in quite the way that you do. If I can't enjoy music for 36 hours after a concert, then the point of going seems a little self-defeating (although concerts are of course way more fun to listening at home). Earplugs let me keep my hearing the next day, and let me have more fun while I'm there, as my ears don't ache and they don't block out the ambience, or the warm beer being spilt down your back, or the drumstick that impales you in the face at the end of the night.

I love that part!