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      CommentAuthorkahavi
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008 edited
     (878.101)
    Here is my top five, in no particular order.

    David Bowie @ Provinssirock '04
    I was working there as a peace officer, and having done an extra workshift, my boss sort of rewarded me: I got to watch the gig about ten metres away from mr Bowie. It was pretty awesome, considering that the weather was beautiful and mr Bowie and the band were clearly having great fun.

    Cirque du Soleil's Delirium
    Last month, me and two friends of mine used our respective food budgets and braved bad seating in an awfully high auditorium to see this show. It was amazing, a really psychedelic multimedia experience.

    Tuomari Nurmio and Alamaailman Vasarat
    It was that same Provinssirock where I saw David Bowie. Tuomari Nurmio is a legend in the Finnish music scene, and no wonder! The man played a gig that put all the younger musicians at that festival to shame.

    Dir en grey
    In Ankkarock '07, I finally got to see one of my all-time favourite bands. While I didn't get to see the gig from too close - rabid jrock fangirls scare me - it still was a fun experience. It's not too often you get to see a band from the otherside of the world in your own country.

    Tool
    Ruisrock '06, a darkening summer night and Tool. That gig was the only bright spot in a summer that saw me unemployed, selling out on my principles for money and suffering from mild depression. At that gig, me and my friend jumped and shouted and laughed with people we didn't know, who were awesome and funny and felt the same sort of love for Tool's music. It was a really cathartic and happy experience.
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    t's not too often you get to see a band from the otherside of the world in your own country.


    thats not really true, i see foreign bands at least 5 times a year. sometimes three times that. shit, some of em have stayed on my couches.
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    Pixies/Radiohead Coachella '04. I passed out on my feet from heat/exhaustion and woke up with some guy patting me on the shoulder.

    "You just had a religious experience."

    Stumbled across the polo field, bought six bottles of water, drank two and fell asleep on the cool ground while Kraftwerk cooed over me like benevolent mechanical gods.
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      CommentAuthorkahavi
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
     (878.104)
    @joe.distort: It depends on where you live. For instance, I live in Finland. Southern Finland, to be exact. Yes, we get the standard big name European and US bands occasionally, but those gigs usually cost about half of my monthly food budget. Treats like Tool, Dir en grey, David Bowie... Those happen maybe once or twice in five years.
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      CommentAuthormadmatt213
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
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    @Kibblesmith

    I passed out last year at a Sloan concert. I wouldn't be as embarrassed about it if it had happened at a Pixies/Radiohead concert. Luckily, two of my friends were standing behind me to pick me off the floor. It was pretty damn hot in Saint Andrews Hall that night.
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    Since this has come round again I'll second Sleater-Kinney at Koko, both for the gig and the crowd. But then... mutter, mutter, mumble... Seriously, sorry, but London crowds just aren't that great. I've seen a ton of knockout gigs in London, but it's always in spite of the crowd. I've seen gigs in the rest of the country where the crowd has lifted the gig into the stratosphere, that's never happened in London.

    Oh and Shellac are always terrifyingly good.
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    @kahavi-true, i didnt think about that. in the US, we get a ton of small touring bands from europe, asia, australia and south america. its usually a small diy tour, so its a different beast altogether. shows range from 50- 600 people and everything is set up differently. i guess you would be right about bigger bands, we dont see a lot of them in phoenix (except bands from mexico who obviously have large fanbases here). i sometimes forget about how big bands work.

    although to add something new, after seeing MIKA MIKO from los angeles again this week, i am going to have to gush yet again about how great they are live. they draw out hipster elitists like no other, but it must be like the one time a year that these kids cut loose and get fucking crazy! smile on my face from start to finish, happy-bouncy-yelling-sing-along time!
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      CommentAuthorkahavi
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008 edited
     (878.108)
    @joe.distort: We get a lot bands from around the country doing these small tours. A few of them have ended sleeping on the office couches at the student bar that I work at (a student org I'm involved with runs it). They have an amazing mentality: they usually bring all their stuff in a twenty-year-old Toyota Corolla -type of car, have eaten maybe some macaroni the previous day and start drinking as soon as the soundcheck is done. Usually the gigs are pretty cool, but sometimes... oh man, let's just say there've been times when we've ended up throwing the band out.

    MIKA MIKO sounds a lot like The Everglades. They are the 'too cool for school' -type of band that brings out not only all the hipsters, but also all the emo kids. Yet somehow, they're one of the best bands I've heard live. Those guys have so much fun onstage that it's impossible not to smile and dance and bounce! And I'm supposed to be one of the bouncers...
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    haha, yeah after drinking with some swedes and fins things have gotten outta hand at my old apartment, wow.

    plus in finland you have like eight thousand d-beat hardcore bands, so its a fair trade.
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      CommentAuthorkahavi
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
     (878.110)
    *grins* Drunk Finns and Swedes equal fun times.

    I guess it's fair trade, having a lot of local bands. Then again, Finland is such a small country that unless you're in a band like HIM or play schlager music (yuck!), you won't make a living out of it.
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    well, yeah. you cant make a living off of diy hardcore in any country really.
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      CommentAuthorkahavi
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
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    True, true. Which is why most of the music people I know have two or three music related jobs alongside being in a band.
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      CommentAuthorAlastair
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
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    i just saw the mars volta on tuesday, they were so good it was obscene
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      CommentAuthorkahavi
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008 edited
     (878.114)
    You lucky, lucky, lucky person. The one time they were in Finland, I was working a nightshift on the other side of the bleeding country.
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      CommentAuthorAlastair
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
     (878.115)
    they played for 3 hours,then the venue kicked them off stage, they said they wanted to play all night :(. last time i saw them was 2003 just after deloused was released this was 1000% times better than that
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      CommentAuthorPyD
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
     (878.116)
    Not music but

    Stewart Lee - 41st greatest comedian
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      CommentAuthorkahavi
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
     (878.117)
    @ Alastair: Oh, that sounds awesome! Wish I'd been there.
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      CommentAuthorRudi
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
     (878.118)
    I saw Tool @ the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio during the Aenima tour, with the Melvins opening for them. I swear that show changed my life. I can still rememer Maynard painted blue head to toe just wearing boxers, twisting and convulsing to the music. I've seen them twice since then, but they only played 4 degrees that night.

    Pantera @ the Hara. Before the show, the manager of the Hara comes out and gives the guys a plaque, naming them the honary house band of the Hara, since they'd played there 4 times and sold it out every time. This was right after The Great Southern Trendkill came out, so they were still playing most of the stuff off of Vulgar and Far Bevond Driven.

    Pearl Jam @ Deer Creek Music Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Iggy Pop opened for them, and it was the night that Bill Clinton finally admitted having "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky. I remember Eddie Vedder reading Clinton's statement to the crowd. After he finished, he said, " I just have one word - consentual"

    Prince @ Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minnesota. This was the first show of three consecutive concerts. No opening act, just two and a half hours of a motivated Prince. He hit the stage and said "Twin Cites, I know you've been waiting a long time for this one....Me too!" This was his Musicology band with three sax players including Maceo Parker and Candy Duffler. He played some older stuff, from even before the Purple Rain era, did an acoustic set, and a version of "whole lotta love" that was essentialy a 10 minute guitar improv.
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      CommentAuthorMegaGoosey
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
     (878.119)
    I saw Secret Chiefs last week, which was the most god damn amazing thing ever. If they're coming you're way, go see them immediately.
    • CommentAuthordeadhuman
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
     (878.120)
    the Locust and the Discord of a forgotten sketch

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