[kieffer]

1 Tool - 2002?? at the ACC
2 Tool - 2002? at Edgefest
2 Smashing Pumpkins 2001 Summersault

Honourable mentions:

The Deftones 2003 -summer sanitarium
The guess who 2002 - watershed

[tragicallymike]

damn man we run into eachother at alot of f'n shows. That OAR show in geneseo was tight. I have it if you want a copy.

1. Our Lady Peace - St. Boneventure University (1999), Olean...back in the Mike Turner era, Happiness had just came out, best show of the 15 or so I've seen, they just don't sound this good anymore and every set is the same thing in the same order

2. Lowest of the Low & Alun Piggins - Front 54, St Catherines (2002)...great venure, small place, cool crowd

3. DMB - SPAC, Saratoga (2001)...great setlist, actually got in on a bogus ticket bought from a dirty scalper, oh well, wonderful show!! Say Goodbye, 41, etc...

4. Finger Eleven - Showplace Theatre (2001)...before there new MTV type sound these guys could tear the place apart, I'll still see them anytime there in Buffalo, hate the mellow tunes though, give it up!

5. Pearl Jam - HSBC Arena...classic Vedder, 31 song set, 2nd row, Wow!

Honerable Mentions

1. Concert for TO, Skydome - BNL, OLP, Avril

2. Summer Sanitarium - Skydome, Metallica, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Deftones, Mudvayne...some serious noise that night

3. Edgefest - LaSalle Park, OLP, Finger Eleven, Sheila Divine, Snapcase, Jimmy Eat World, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, etc...lots of good acts all in one place

4. Fuel - Showplace Theatre (1998)...just after the release of Sunburn, one of my favorite albums, 7 buck ticket, amazing show.

5. OAR - SUNY Geneseo, nice when a great band comes right to your college gym

[Drez7]

It is funny how I see you at almost every concert, Bills game, Sabres game I go to. Probably because that stuff is the most fun you can have around here in Buffalo. Well I suppose you could go to the waterfront and play in the weeds of the Bethlehem Steel parking lot!! Gotta love this place, plus it is close to cities who get a lot of big acts, TO, Clev, Roch, Pittsburgh, etc..

I would love to get a copy of that OAR show for sure. That was a great show! I am hopefully going to see them in Orlando at House of Blues Aug 19th when I am down there. Can't wait for that one!

[tommygunn]

1. The Who - Rich Stadium, Buffalo
2. Stone Temple Pilots - SUNY Buffalo Alumni Arena
3. Rolling Stones - Roseland Ballroom, NYC

[Remy Mark]

1. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Paradiso Amsterdam
2. Massive Attack - HMH Amsterdam
3. Heather Nova - Paradiso Amsterdam

[vicariousmartyr]

Bob Dylan - Bend, Oregon 2003
Neil Young - Vancouver QE theatre 2004
Sarstock 03 - painful, but still had to be there

[kari]

1. Michael Jackson's Victory Tour (stop laughing...he may be a freak of nature, but he's a hell'va entertainer live)

2. Smashing Pumpkins (altho I have to say that Billy Corgan's voice live is sooooo bad)

3. Econoline Crush (so sad they dismantled)

[irish hip guy]

3) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Vancouver 1993

2) Tie - Peter Gabriel 1993 Vancouver & REM Vancouver 2003

1) Any U2 concert but i will settle for November 4th 1992

[Jenna_Bird]

3) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Vancouver 1993

I didn't think Bruce toured with E-Street anytime after the 80's until the tour promoting Tracks in 1999...you're one lucky guy to have caught that!

-Jenna

[irish hip guy]

3) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Vancouver 1993

I didn't think Bruce toured with E-Street anytime after the 80's until the tour promoting Tracks in 1999...you're one lucky guy to have caught that!

-Jenna

Well looks like Colin had a mental block.

That was suppose to read 2003. Although i did see Bruce in 92 without the E Street Band and it to was a great show.

Thanx for catching that!

[grooveless touque]

1) Ben Harper - I didn't even like most of his music before I went to the show just because I had a week long past to the Bluesfest, but I came away loving the shows. This would probably be the best "surprise" to ever come out of a concert I didn't think I was going to be crazy about.

2) Kate Fenner & Chris Brown - Kate's voice is incredible on the albums, but it's a wonder to behold live. I always wondered how she got such a big sound out of that tiny body, and it was pretty cool to watch her practically folding down to her knees from sheer exertion and lack of breath after holding the big notes!

3) Big Sugar - I was crushed when they announced they were breaking up, and I saw why at their show...there were less than 100 people there at the start on a Friday night with great weather when there was no reason fans wouldn't have come. It was only $10 and I got to see THE TREWS open for them! Maybe by the end there were closer to 200 people, but it was still an embarassingly small crowd. Killer show, though...my eardrums were literally rattling as I stood stageside.

[The Darkest Canuck]

BIG SUGAR BROKE UP!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


i wanted to see them live again

[vicariousmartyr]

Yeah dude, it was pretty huge. Surprised you never heard.

[grooveless touque]

Yup... Gordie wanted to try new things. Last I heard (but I'm not in any special loop so this might have changed!) he was going down to Texas to play with the guys from Double Trouble. Not a bad musical melange, if I do say so myself. He's also going to be recording either a solo album or an album of songs he wrote but give himself a new "band name"...not sure when though.

You gotta admit, after over a decade of playing and a dozen radio hits, if you can only attract 200 people to a licensed show at a university with publicity all over town on a warm Friday night, you've run aground and are closer to the end of your career than the beginning. Unfortunate but I look forward to whatever Gordie has on tap.

[cpierson]

1. Sloan, the Middle East (Cambridge MA), 2000(?)
2. Lowest of the Low, London Ontario, 1995
3. Etta James, the Pavilion (Boston MA), 2003