Best concert you have been to?

Marsha Ambrosius, in Dallas at Medusa, Floetry continues to be my favorite group even though they broke up like 12 yrs ago (and have since unexpectedly reunited and went on tour but my girlfriend said no) but I did get to see Marsha by herself. She is amazing live, sounds as good or in fact better than the album. Hits all the notes for real for real unlike a lot of artists who fake it. And she is funny, engaging, tells stories while leading into the songs. I was by myself and it was mostly couples there (by the way you Dallas dudes STILL can not dress), so I got a bit self conscious about just standing there by myself so I kept getting drinks so I'd look like I was doing something with my hands or something while I'm 2 stepping in place :lol Ended up getting super drunk and then I'm about to order another drink and who runs into me at the bar but my cousin from Mississippi. Talked to her for a minute, forgot to order my drink. May have said my life. Slight exxageration, I was at the goofy stage of predrunk but not falling over or puking by any measure. Amazing time though. Every time I go to Dallas, I go to BuzzBrews to eat late so I went there after I walked back to my hotel and left it wear off a bit. BJ The Chicago Kid opened up, made me a fan. He is a bit full of himself for where he is in his career though. He was trying to get women to volunteer to let him seranade them and he was like, "c'mere baby, you want me to sing to you?" Tell me how it feels.." something like that, extremely sexual and them ghetto *** Dallas women was like, "NO! NO! *****!" He had on a blouse too. Don't know if that's popping in Chicago but that was definitely a feminine necklike

Chrisette Michelle opened up for by Laura Izibor- both artists can sing amazing live and are engaging on stage performers which is equally as important; tell a story then go into their song, Laura also plays the piano too which further increases the intimacy. It was in Dallas House of Blues

Maxwell opened up for by Kevin Ross- K.R was a new kat just coming up, everyone was like who but no doubt dude killed it. I went home and set up a "please notify me" for his Dialogue In The Grey EP which wasn't out yet. And Maxwell just murked. I know it seems like the type of concert a dude wouldn't like, but he wasn't OD'ing with the shirt off or sexualness like Trey and Usher do. At the end after they left, everyone stood out adnd started clapping and chanting, he came back out by himself then yelled back calling for the band and background singers, did about 30 minutes of encore, left, did it again, gave us a few more songs, left came back out again by himself and gave us 1 last encore. His whole set was well over 2 hrs after that, just his encores alone to appease the crowd after the show was over weas longer than most artist' whole set.

Sam Smith at the House of Blues Dallas was a major fail. I should have known better, he is a new artist and only had the one album out and them songs are all 3 minutes long, the whole thing is 40 something minutes. Got down to Dallas even though tickets were sold out, thought I'd buy them outside the venue like they had at the C.M concert for face value because kats on LiveNation (the official resale venue) were asking $200. Last minute, kats were dropping their prices WAY low on CL but they wanted me to meet them places and I don't know Dallas like that, plus my hotel was down the street from the show so I ended up paying $250 for some off LiveNation then went downatairs at the hotel to print them. His opening act was The Brood, a rock band :x He came out, did the whole album but again that **** is like 40 minutes. He killed, but still. I am still salty about it

Jill Scott kills live, same thing, amazing voice, live band, live background vocals, no track playing with any voice being sung over or anything and again she narrarates her performances.

Seen Raheem Devaughn a few times and he's entertaining live too. Gets the women super hot and bothered with some songs. At this ratcher club in OKC, they advertised the show as starting at 3 but was misleading as hell, the show started with turns of terrible local acts, this dude R.D plane didn't even arrive til like 9pm. People were so upset and were leaving. Hell, I got a speednig ticket for like $256 trying to hurry up and get there before 3 thinking I was running late. And it being at 3pm meant it was a lot of people's aunties and grandmas in there who wouldn't normally be at something like that, and the ones who stayed the like 8 hours until the show already started were just wylin especially at his overly sexual songs like B.O.B. The sound kept blowing and he kept having to stop, the engineers would run on stage, work on it meanwhile he'd go accapella. They'd think they got it working then it'd blow again. Same cycle. **** was a mess

Ledisi is worth seeing IMO, I didn't even like her that much but she was with Raheem Devaugh and Leela James, but she won me over. I still wouldn't go see her by herself.

I saw Destiny's Child, they performed at the gym when they were the original 4 and didn't have a lot of songs out so they sung a lot of like Aaliyah and Lauryn Hill.

I was a all star weekend so not concert but Nelly, Janelle Monae, Pharrell Williams, Puffy, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Kendrick Lamar, all performed

Every year I make plans to go to Essense Music Festival and every year something comes up. I need to just buy my tickets way in advance and let whatever comes up just deal with it this year

Best sonical experience was the two Robert Glasper shows I went to. The last one he brought out Lupe, Chrisette Michelle, Marshia Ambrosius, Laila Hathaway and Malcolm Jamal Warner...someone else too.

Fam, would be all over that show.
 
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Private concert at Irving Plaza with The Roots. Sponsored by Dewars. Free scotch everywhere.

I had just gotten back to NY after spending a night in county in Miami the night before I was supposed to catch my flight. Crazy night on the beach.

Sometimes circumstances play a big part in these experiences.

the weeknd

I guess it depends on what kind of experience you are going for but to me any type of R&B concert would be boring af.

Saw him last year and the females in that crowd were astounding.

Also so many ill shows at Tramps and Wetlands in NY. Outkast. Beatnuts. Tribe. De La.
 
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English speaking concert

GLOW IN THE DARK TOUR

Lupe fiasco, NERD, Rihanna, Kanye.

Went to the ATL show and there was Ish load of other celebrities that came on stage with nerd and then they were all there chillin at the sound booth for Kanye performance.

Rihanna was all lovie with Chris brown :lol


John Mayer a close second tied with the chili peppers


Shiet I been to a lot of concerts
 
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By far

Travis Scott at the Webster in NYC

If I wasnt hurt I woulda saw him other day the at Garden

Ive seen a lot of people but man he is the best Ive seen
 
By far

Travis Scott at the Webster in NYC

If I wasnt hurt I woulda saw him other day the at Garden

Ive seen a lot of people but man he is the best Ive seen
Man. I saw footage from last time he was here. A dude jumped off a 20 ft balcony on some light. I **** you not. Looked nuts. Def not sleeping on the next one.
 
Honestly never been to a lot of "concerts". I go to a lot of raves tho.

I think the only hiphop/rap concert I've been to was Wayne and Rick Ross :lol

My favorite probably EDC 2012 though.
 
Kanye West- Glow in The Dark tour- Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D. and Rhianna. Concert was pretty amazing we had like 5th row seats. Me and my girl(who is my wife now) both dropped E and she couldn't handle it and threw up on the floor, security came and ushers cleaned it up with the quickness and were pretty nice to her as was everyone else sitting with us and this was before the concert started so she was pretty embarrassed but because peeps were so kind, everyone got over it....thought that was awesome, entire arena was lit for sure and I'm sure EVERYONE was on something

Prince- saw him a year ago or so in Oakland. My wife's coworker actually copped tix, but 2 of them were seperate and we ended up getting those, but we weren't trippin because it was PRINCE. through a series of fortunate events though(not really sure what happened, someone either got moved up or kicked out of their seats) but somehow the ushers MADE SURE we sat next to each other(wasn't even aware they knew we were together :lol, but i thought that was awesome of them)

John Legend- My wife when we first started dating(9 years ago) surprised me with my first greek theatre(berkeley) experience by driving me up there to see him, which was great because I actually turned her on to his music, so she ,on a whim got us tix. By far the best gift I've ever received from anyone, especially since she really didn't know his music or songs that well and we were only 2 months into dating i believe. I actually got to surprise her about a year ago when he came back for his "love in the future" tour. same lawn seats(area wise) and everything

We've been to countless concerts but these will always stand out to me because of the unexpected great experiences those nights had in store for us.
 
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i heard glow in the dark was dope tour

i missed that

trav show was better than yeezus to me
 
either jay z at UCLA

or Watch the throne....



actually watch the throne, that concert changed my life lol
 
havent been to many. saw some weird company concerts like michael bolton, bonnie tyler, roberta flack (
 
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saw ASAP ROCKY/FERG when the song pretty flacko jus released..when they really started buzzing. he started the show off with the song pretty flacko then bought the song back halfway thru, got kicked out during get lit tho smhhhhhh

Skrillex was dope im gonna see him again before the end of the year

Gramatik was also dope as hell

^Top 3

Also seen hardwell, steve aoki, juelz santana opened for wayne (wayne did like a 15 mins set WACK never again), Wale, Flux pavillion, bro safari, RL grime, diplo..

Im really tryna see rap hip hop artist but they never come around...really wanna see Nas kanye jay z weeknd
 
InB4 Yeezus...

No but really. Granted it has been the only large scale concert I've been too.
 
Jus†ice - Halloween 2012 - I remember that being pretty fun

Also, Thrice's 'Farewell Tour' in 2012 was pretty damn good.

Don't really go to a lot of concerts anymore tho, since I don't really get anything out of it for the most part :\
 
Awesome thread :hat

I've seen 600+ concerts :x (I work at a concert venue)

Don't feel like saying which one 8o, but we get a range of everyone...literally anyone you can think of has played here. We usually get the people that are rising up, and when they are coming down for the most part, but some artists will love to have intimate shows, along with private events that will book some superstar. we only hold 1.3k, but it's a very famous venue.


Honestly, the performances that I felt were insane, where the whole crowd was completely into the show and the place was wild were probably only Imagine dragons (saw the lead singer crying backstage during the encore, his band was hyping him up to pull it together lol), Young the giant (amazing show), and this newer artist called cherub. I respect a concert like that more than anything. twenty one pilots are incredible performers as well, if you are into them, you have to see them. Lauryn Hill played here this year or last year, came out over an hour late, and had people kicked out, she gave no dambs, awful performer. Prince came out at like 3am :lol. Lupe came out hours late and only played one song, crowd was ready to riot. Drake had a big brawl going on in the crowd, shut down the show and ever since then, we barely get rap concerts :lol

The best concert for me was taylor swift at soldier field with 55k people though, don't judge 8o.
 
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Yoooo cherub came back to my old house with all the homies like 4 years ago after my boy invited them to come through. :lol like 6 months before you started to hear them a little bit here and here. Those dudes partied just as hard as us. They stay sober for their shows though.
 
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