In person? Streetlight Manifesto at a shithole venue during the dog days of summer on the Somewhere in the Between tour. It was so goddamn hot that the security guys were paying more attention to spraying the crowd with cold water than making sure people were safe. Stage diving, crowd surfing, insane energy the entire time.

On tv? Hard not to say Gojira at the Paris Olympics.

Not music but my city has a surprising handful of puppetry troops that put on absolutely phenomenal performances.

They use really elaborate hand built stages, puppets, and other contraption. projectors and paper cut outs for wild visual overlays, compelling emotionally engaging scenes and It’s always for crowds of ~30 or fewer people sitting on a floor. It really feels like the textbook definition of childlike wonder. They are by far the events I get most hype about when I see a flyer / post.

Either Mr. Bungle on the Disco Volante tour, or Jamiroquai on the Travelling Without Moving tour. Both bands were at their absolute peaks and they were both insane shows.

Chemical Brothers on the Surrender tour and NIN on the Downward Spiral tour get honourable mentions...and i saw the Bob Marley Babylon By Bus tour when i was 5...but i don't really count that, because i was more interested in the beach balls floating around the crowd than the music.

Front row at Bonnaroo to see Sigur Ros. Hung out at the front of the stage for five hours with some nice strangers and saw an incredible performance. I haven't been to Bonnaroo in awhile but the atmosphere of the other festival goers makes the event. The openness to strangers and general kindness at what should be a miserable packed event will always stick with me. Go if you can. It's one thing I'll perpetually entertain going to as long as they have it each year.

After that, found out Kanye still hadn't taken his stage. Totally had planned on missing him for Sigur Ros. Fell asleep waiting for him to take stage and walked back to camp at 4am. Crazy it's almost 20 years ago.

Powderfinger, two times.

They're from my home city and I got to see their farewell concert from their home hometown. Outdoor stadium, and it was raining, but it was an absolutely amazing experience.

During COVID, they also did a one night only online concert, all of the members recording from different locations. It was amazing to see them back together, and it was a great way to breakup the lockdown doldrums.

Pink Floyd Division Bell tour, at an outdoor stadium during the city's annual Exposition festival. Seeing all the rides going, the slingshot was busy all night, David Gilmour down on the stage.

I'm going to see Rush, Geddys getting a little long in the tooth, but there's a new drummer girl, Anika Nilles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anika_Nilles

For me it was definitely seeing Delain in concert. I splurged for VIP tickets for the first time ever, and I got treated to an acoustic performance of Start Swimming and I got a picture with them. It was fricking awesome, such a good night.

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Second place is when I won tickets off a radio show to see testament, megadeth, and slayer. Testament killed it, and megadeth put on the entirety of rust in peace then played some of their popular hits, it was sick. I didn't get to stay for all of slayer though, my brother drove me and he was ready to go halfway through their set. It was still a rad as hell show.

2014 AL wild card game. I was hoarse for days afterwards.

I couldn't save this conversation fast enough! Ok getting so much great music!

I went to a Twenty One Pilots concert in like 2018 (I know, not nearly as cool as some other shows listed...) They were my favorite band at the time, and the show was super cool. The arena had a main stage in the front with the screens and special effects, and another stage in the back with practically nothing on it. At one point in the show, both band members dropped below the stage, and like 5 seconds later, were performing on the other stage. We were on the floor, so we got to be a part of the mad dash to get to the other side, and then back again.

They pulled a fan out from the crowd to play N64 Mario Kart with the drummer on the big center screen.

Then towards the end of the show, the drummer climbed into a giant inflatable hamster ball and crowd ran across the floor.

It was my first concert. What an experience.

Probably Behemoth. They straight up performed a satanic ritual on stage during a song. Coolest shit I've ever seen