What is the most NON-synth/ebm/goth/industrial concert you have ever seen?

**Tal`liyne** · July 25th, 2003, 05:09 PM

I love open-air opera's and also have been to a lot of traditional Celtic folkaire's! Homage to some of my bloodline! Also been to a few classical-type showings that feature artist who specialize in the cello (orgasmic) or violin (haunting)! Love it so!

**amyagogo** · July 25th, 2003, 05:47 PM

Soundgarden sucked? i'm so sorry...but come on, Chris is hotter than fook at least...am i right?

As much as i want to condemn you for the Milli ta tha Vanilli...i think rust is right...you were part of history

**Human Clone** · July 25th, 2003, 05:53 PM

Originally posted by rustcwc

you wanna talk about embarassing? i saw stryper when i was 12... and i'm not even a christian...

Ha Ha, I remember them. That band had been forever removed from my consciousness until you brought them up. They had the black and yellow stripes all over everything, they had a song "Soldiers under command" (or something like that)" sadly I never got to see them live.

**rustcwc** · July 25th, 2003, 07:20 PM

Yeah..and "To Hell With The Devil"...they chucked bibles into the audience...it was a little scary actually...and they had this Japanese metal band called Loudness opening for them...Looking back, it was pretty damned funny...a friend took me...i went to see Kiss a week later and he quit speaking to me...lol...his family thought Kiss were the devil...god..if he could hear what i listen to now...

amy...as for soundgarden..they were just awful live...the only other band that i have seen that was as bad as them was alice in chains when they opened for Kiss at Tiger's Stadium...they could barely play (now i know why) and they were asses....

**7red7** · July 26th, 2003, 10:39 AM

Non-synth shows...I'll keep them to a minimum...These are just some that really stick out...

Pantera/White Zombie (the pit frightened me and I'm a big guy)
Toad The Wet Sprocket/Counting Crows
Ani DiFranco
Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon (don't laugh dammit)
Lilith Fair (I spent a day with the ladies)
Rusted Root
Scorpions/Alice Cooper
Lisa Loebe

and the ever so popular hip-hop side of things...

Tribe Called Quest/Das Efx/Onyx
Digable Planets/De La Soul
Bone Thugz N Harmony (don't ask...Oh god why was I there)
The Roots/Jurrasic 5/Black Eyed Peas

DAN

**Destral** · July 26th, 2003, 08:21 PM

I've seen the country group Lonestar live. Them and Bob Sieger would probably be the least non-synth blah blah blah I've seen.

=)

**zoe** · July 26th, 2003, 08:35 PM

Hmm... on one hand NKOTB were... but then again they were more synth I guess than Cracker/Gin Blossoms/Spin Doctors, Royal Crown Revue/Pretenders/B-52's, Wallflowers/Counting Crows, Tenacious D, and Green Day... so I don't know

**Bornslippy** · July 27th, 2003, 01:43 AM

Next Aug I'll be at the Reggae Sunsplash at the Hollywood Bowl...

I was given(yeahhh right) tix to go to Wango Tango two years ago...

Saw

Back Street
Blue Man Group
Ricky Martin...

But under no circumstance I enjoyed the shows(wink)

Note to self: why the hell was I dancing then?

**7red7** · July 27th, 2003, 04:26 PM

Originally posted by zoe
Hmm... on one hand NKOTB were... but then again they were more synth I guess than Cracker/Gin Blossoms/Spin Doctors, Royal Crown Revue/Pretenders/B-52's, Wallflowers/Counting Crows, Tenacious D, and Green Day... so I don't know

And might I just add my dear Zoe that aside from your tastes in synth, you have exsquisite taste in your rock bands as well

DAN

**IntrospecT** · July 28th, 2003, 04:42 AM

ummm...I was backstage at the wallflowers show last night in SLC....does that count?

**Electroswank** · July 28th, 2003, 04:42 PM

the ones i can remember:

Lords of the New Church (are they considered goth?)
Adam Ant
Damned
Murphys' Law
Cramps
Reverend Horton Heat
Social Distortion
The Stray Cats
Jerry Lee Lewis
Cresent City Maullers
Bryan Ferry
UK Subs
Selector
Ramones
Beastie Boys
Janes Addiction
B52's
Dead Can Dance
Pixes
PIL
Echo and the Bunnymen
Psychedelic Furs
Hot Hot Heat
Beth Orton
Doves

once as a favor to someone:
The Greatful Dead - which i fell asleep at.

**xnj** · July 28th, 2003, 04:47 PM

Not exactly a concert, but there's this 'indie rock, hippie type' music festival once a year here that I went to a few times when I was younger. I don't think I could ever bring myself to go now.

**Jonna** · July 28th, 2003, 04:59 PM

Originally posted by ElectroSwank
the ones i can remember: Damned

The Damned were one of the most brilliant live shows that I have ever been to.I saw them at Coney on St. Marks (NYC)before it shut down. Massive energy!

**Electroswank** · July 28th, 2003, 05:11 PM

yes Jonna - i love them

i saw them in the 80s at the old Ritz (nyc) before that shut down - one of the best punk rock shows i'd ever seen.

I forgot to add to my list - Alien Sex Fiend (I saw them at Coney) and Lush (at maxwells, hoboken)

**Scar Chemik** · July 28th, 2003, 05:42 PM

I saw Ratt and Bon Jovi back in like '85. Bon Jovi was just starting out and everybody kept yelling for them to play "Runaway" and get off the stage.

Ratt put on a decent show if I must say so myself.

I also saw Jeannie C. Riley (she did the Harper Valley PTA song) at the Mt. Vernon Co. Fair in Ohio way back when I was a kid. That was the most boring thing I have ever done in my life.

**melibita** · July 29th, 2003, 03:11 AM

Originally posted by rustcwc
i had a friend like that...but it was her taking me to emo shows and me taking her to industrial/goth shows...it was kind of funny watching her wide eyed and a little nervous...lol...

you wanna talk about embarassing? i saw stryper when i was 12... and i'm not even a christian...

stryper is hilarious

Well a couple years back my mother made me and my siblings stay and watch the A Teens play for maybe 20 minutes. That was utterly horrible.

**Bedsitter** · July 30th, 2003, 03:36 PM

Neil Diamond.

It was about 4 or 5 years ago. We had reserved seats, in the ninth row.

I didn't actually *buy* my ticket. My friend Beth had bought tickets for herself and another friend, but her friend cancelled on the day of the show. I wasn't doing anything else that night, so I went.

They didn't search anyone on the way in. Beth and I both had cameras. She didn't get caught, but I did. I took a picture of Neil Diamond, and suddenly there was a security person standing over me.

I was escorted into an office, where they confiscated my film and explained that they had to do it because Neil gets 'upset' when he sees camera flashes. They also told me they were going to hold onto my camera for the duration of the concert, and I could come and pick it up afterwards.

I missed "Sweet Caroline."

**Dizzyduck** · August 1st, 2003, 10:30 AM

For me it must have been either Coldplay last year, or...(brrr) Elton John in 1995, I think. Oh, well..I'm embarrased to admit I liked the show...
But there was a Greek synth group making mostly weird hypnotic f*****g awesome dark dancey music back in the 90's, called Stereo Nova. They were among the best, I'd been to 4 of their shows and each time I'd been left mesmerized. They'd done a few songs in English, and nearly became succesful with one called ''New Life'' (nothing to do with DM) in 1995. I think it was played a lot in Germany and it'd got a bit of MTV coverage. Later on they split up (they lasted from around 1990 until 1999) and they continued with solo careers, not nearly as good, though, but this was one band whose songs deserved to be heard.

**Malee** · August 1st, 2003, 05:12 PM

Hmm. . . had to pull out old ticket stubs to remember what shows I've been to.

right off the bat, I remember:
Echo & the Bunnymen
Siouxsie & the Banshees
The Primitives
The Sugarcubes

But holy smokes! Old tix stubs tell me that I've been to:
Fugazi
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
They Might Be Giants
The Primitives
The Sugarcubes
Morrissey
Elvis Costello

and one that really stood out. . . London Symphony Orchestra. Mom and dad brought me to that one, and it was really wonderful considering I know nothing about classical music. Soon thereafter, my parents gave me their old record player and classical vinyl collection : )

**AJWUZHERE** · August 4th, 2003, 09:08 AM

I just came back from a Scurvy Baskurds concert that my friend draged me too. They play pirate music. it was interesting to say the least and I met some interesiting people.