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Porcupine Tree.  Fantastic as usual, only they played in a seated theater.  Big mistake!  Never schedule a rock concert for a seated theater, or you'll never get the audience energy levels required to fuel the band.  By the end of the concert, they just told everyone to stand up and swarm the bit of space between the first row of seats and the stage; the effect was amazing.

Went to Norah Jones at Red Rocks early this summer, and I'm headed to the Beastie Boys this Friday night. I'm really looking forward to that, I haven't seen them live since a show in SF back in 1992 or so.

StaticAge wrote:

I dont like concerts unless its something like you might see at the Kennedy Center or the Corcoran or Phillips where you enjoy sitting down and no one is splashing beer or sweating on you.

If I see a good band kick out the jams, I want to see it up close and personal at a small show. I used to go to them all the time, now its few and far between, mostly being hardcore bands and solo acoustic kind of shows. Indie hipsters of the world- be on the look out for Georgie James; good stuff.

I agree - the smaller the venue, the better.  Though if you can get into the standing room only section a few people back from the stage in an auditorium show, the feeling is certainly something else!

I saw the Smashing Pumpkins at the Fillmore in San Francisco earlier this month. Easily one of the best, if not the best, show I've ever seen.

depeachmood wrote:

I saw the Smashing Pumpkins at the Fillmore in San Francisco earlier this month. Easily one of the best, if not the best, show I've ever seen.

It's awesome that they're back together (mostly) and touring again.  How much were those tix?

Saw TMBG in May, will see them again in September. Also will see Ladytron in September.

Battles?  I'll have to check them out.

Monday, this band played at Ft Reno park in DC (free). Former Q And Not U and the Explosion members.

I went to see Cream, Clapton was - oh - wait - that was in '68.

depeachmood wrote:

I saw the Smashing Pumpkins at the Fillmore in San Francisco earlier this month. Easily one of the best, if not the best, show I've ever seen.

What I find ridiculous is that they played 12 shows at the Fillmore between July 15th and Aug 1st. TWELVE! Practically in a row.

From what I hear a lot of the shows were fairly vacant because, well, they played for like half a month.

I don't think I've ever heard of a band doing that before.

Dream Theater on Aug 6 at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City.
\m/ \0/ \m/. It was incredible.

Aqua OS X wrote:

depeachmood wrote:

I saw the Smashing Pumpkins at the Fillmore in San Francisco earlier this month. Easily one of the best, if not the best, show I've ever seen.

What I find ridiculous is that they played 12 shows at the Fillmore between July 15th and Aug 1st. TWELVE! Practically in a row.

From what I hear a lot of the shows were fairly vacant because, well, they played for like half a month.

I don't think I've ever heard of a band doing that before.

Lots of bands have done it; it's called a residency. The objective is not just to play the same stuff over and over again, but to write new material while there. The new songs Billy wrote/ has written while on the residencies (they did a similar residency in Asheville, NC) are absolutely fantastic.

jeff-o: the tickets were $25 each (2 ticket limit) with a ticketmaster charge of $7. You could only get your tickets at will call with an ID that matches you to the buyer, and you had to go directly into the venue after receiving your tickets. They entirely cut out scalpers.