Your favorite Live show? Options

[Heather]

I like to reminisce about the Live days of old. Since we've got the first Live show thread I thought a favorite Live show thread would be interesting. So what is yours?!


Mine is tough because I really loved my first show in 97. I also loved their York Fair show, I was front row center and they had switched up their setlist that night for the first time in a long while. Then there was the first time I saw them up close at the 9:30 Club after the HFStival. Then there was the time I got to see them while standing on the side of the stage. That Millenium show was pretty cool too even though I was in the very last row of the place! Cleary, I cannot choose!

[LivesMeltdown]

I'm not good with dates, but here are some memorable ones for me:

Rolling Rock 2001 - This was the 1st time I ever saw Live in concert and was actually suppose to be my 1st ever concert. However, a couple of weeks before the show my friend won tickets to see Fuel on the Intrepid in NY for the night before. So after the Fuel show, my friend and I drove back to NJ, got home at 1:30 am, picked up our two friends, and then drove 6 hours to Latrobe, PA for the show. I remember waiting impatiently in the 90 degree heat all day to see Live and they didn't disappoint.

Roseland Ballroom, NYC, November 2001 - 2 months after 9/11, the place was electric. During "All Over You" which I think was the 2nd song in the set, I looked over to my right and saw a shadow of CT stomping on the wall. Awesome stuff! In middle of the concert, they played a 3 song acoustic set of They Stood Up For Love, Imagine, and Call Me a Fool. Then when they played Overcome, the crowd started chanting "USA...USA...USA". It was so emotional, gave me chills down my spine.

Crocodile Rock, Allentown PA, April 2007 - Drove in the middle of the Nor'easter where I could barely see a foot in front of me. The place was a dump as the roof was leaking on me the entire show, but it was worth it.

Starland Ballroom, Sayreville NJ, 2009 - Already mentioned. My last Live show. Gas Head.Top.Purifier.Best version ever of The Distance.HOLD ME UP. Enough said!

This post has been edited by LivesMeltdown: Jun 28 2010, 7:36 pm

[brianblank]

Crocodile Rock, Allentown PA, April 2007 - Drove in the middle of the Nor'easter where I could barely see a foot in front of me. The place was a dump as the roof was leaking on me the entire show, but it was worth it.

That was the best show of their 3 show PA tour that weekend. Better than the Chameleon Club show (they had a bit too much to drink before they took the stage), but you're right the place was a dive, barrels in the middle of the floor to catch the water dripping through the roof, the garage doors on the side of the room were leaking, but the band was on that night. Those were some, if not the only, Live shows without a set list, Ed had a separate mic that just went to the sound guy, he picked it up between songs to tell them what they were going to play next.