What's the best and worst live performance you have seen and why?

[kuduboss]

Toby Keith, Robert Plant, Phil Collins, ZZ Top, Stones, Cephus and Wiggins were all great.
Neil Young and Dave Matthews tied for worst

 

[CBH13]

best one was gogol bordello with flogging molly, will have to think about the worst

 

[voodoochild1989]

Best - Saw the Rolling Stones on their 40 licks tour from row center stage. Those old dudes jammed out all night! Also I can't stand his music but kid rock put on a great show that I actually enjoyed so gotta give him an honorable mention

Worst - Can't think of any show I went to where I was disappointed but my best friend walked out on the red hot chili peppers a few years ago at music midtown. Said they weren't into it at all

 

[TattooedGunner]

Best: Avenged Sevenfold at Lakewood when the Nightmare album came out. Went to the concert to see Hellyeah but A7X put on a great show and made me a fan.
Runner Up: Dragonforce. Another band that I didn't go to the concert to see them but they just put on a great live show.

Worst: Rob Zombie at Lakewood. This was just a couple of years ago. Dude couldn't remember the verses to his own damn songs. Not new songs either, old classics. I don't know if he was ****faced or what. Also his set sucked. He had huge screens set up behind the stage that he played clips from his movies on. They were so bright you couldn't see Rob or the band. I'm sure that set up cost a lot but damn.

 

[BLIP]

Butthole Surfers At 688 were fantastic... Led Zep at the Omni not so much...

 

[InTune]

Alex Cooley's. Used to haunt that place quit a bit. Wrestled on the floor with Ted Nugent when he jumped from the bar onto me as he was showing off making his entrance to the stage. Those were the days.

In there one night waiting to see Aerosmith at
Midnight in the Fox. They moved the show to Cooley's because of a power failure at the Fox. Heck of a night

 

[rbalan]

Best: Avenged Sevenfold at Lakewood when the Nightmare album came out. Went to the concert to see Hellyeah but A7X put on a great show and made me a fan.
Runner Up: Dragonforce. Another band that I didn't go to the concert to see them but they just put on a great live show.

Worst: Rob Zombie at Lakewood. This was just a couple of years ago. Dude couldn't remember the verses to his own damn songs. Not new songs either, old classics. I don't know if he was ****faced or what. Also his set sucked. He had huge screens set up behind the stage that he played clips from his movies on. They were so bright you couldn't see Rob or the band. I'm sure that set up cost a lot but damn.

I saw White Zombie at Lakewood in the 90, sounds like nothing has changed. Does he still have the chick as bass player?

 

[TattooedGunner]

I saw White Zombie at Lakewood in the 90, sounds like nothing has changed. Does he still have the chick as bass player?

I don't remember. After the first couple songs we pretty much stopped watching.

 

[Bushwick100]

For me the best was Santana. I have seen him twice. Once in 1975 at the Aragon Ball room, Chicago, and in the mid 80's at the Fox.
3 hour non stop show. He introduced each member of his ensemble and each member got to do his or her own solo. The sound was fantastic.
The worst. I mean a steaming pile of dog flop was Frank Zappa at the Civic center in Atlanta. Horrible acoustics and every song had a screaming guitar solo that lasted way too long.

Patti Label and Luther Vandross when I was dating my wife!! Tickets were only $40.

 

[libertysteeth]

Best: Fastball at the Horsepark. I had never enen heard of them till they took the stage. Their on stage makes their recorded music sound bland.

Worse: Metallica at the dome. Can't blame the dome though. Korn sounded good and I don't even like Korn. I was somewhat neutral on Metallica till I heard that train wreck. Are they a studio only band or what?