Well...I can tell you that Tool was amazing. I saw them last year at the Bell Centre, in Montreal.
What about you guys?
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54 Comments
Kolby said 5 months ago
Fall Out Boy is ALWAYS amazing.
hideouscarwreck said 5 months ago
http://emptees.com/posts/300-favorite-live-bands
larin555 said 5 months ago
Hmmmm, hehe. That’s a 6 months old thread. I’m starting a new one!
I saw Death Cab For Cutie last weekend, they were great too!
heroes said 5 months ago
jonah matranga
he played in london 5 years ago by himself with his r2d2 drum machine best gig!! .He did loads of FAR stuff aswell , Plus hes the nicest guy ever
hideouscarwreck said 5 months ago
blood brothers. sadly i only got to see them once, but they were truly awesome & played at one of my favorite venues.
seibei said 5 months ago
Some of my favorite shows of all time:
Mindless Self Indulgence (just fucking loud, energetic, and the pit was like a melting pot of hardcore dudes, gay punks, goths, and everything else)
Le Tigre (I couldn’t stop dancing for like a week afterwards)
My Chemical Romance (if for nothing else that Gerard Way has awesome stage presence)
Pet Shop Boys (because it’s the fucking Pet Shop Boys)
I’m thinking of busting out a few hundo to catch the Police and Elvis Costello sometime in August with the lady - she’s like Earth’s Mightiest Elvis Costello Fan (shhhhh, it’s a secret! good thing that sucker don’t read emptees!).
hideouscarwreck said 5 months ago
my seventh grade english teacher almost took me to a le tigre show ... almost. i still haven’t seen them :(
seibei said 5 months ago
they’re on some kinda hiatus or another.
skullface said 5 months ago
fact!
I saw the Jonbenét last week and they were A+
The Academy Is... is my favorite live band, I’m fairly certain
Corey said 5 months ago
Brand New played a home show at a place here on Long Island last May and their set was 2 hours long. It was ridiculously good.
sittingduck said 5 months ago
best show I’ve ever been to had to be GWAR.
devil driver opened for them, there was a wall of death, a GIANT circle pit ... and the pit pretty much turned in to a slip and slide by the time gwar started spewing blood everywhere ... oh and they cut michael jackson’s dick off on stage.
Deftones are a close second, I never imagined they’d be so amazing live ... chino can really work a crowd.
I’ve seen the blood brothers more times then I can count at their home venue the redmond firehouse ... as well as other venues in the seattle area, really cool guys, I wish I could find the first shirt I bought from 'em ... their moms made them with iron-ons!
the last show i went to was pretty intense. Evergreen Terrace and Misery Signals opened up for As I lay Dying and every band was worth crowding the pit for... plus being part of the emptees scene now, I saw so many people wearing stuff from people on here! most notably horsebite’s rockett design that RULED! oh, and i bought a 3 dollar rockett beer coozie from misery signals :D
Kolby said 5 months ago
When I saw Deftones they suuuuuuuuuucked
sittingduck said 5 months ago
.............. this is what i get when i tell people about the deftones up here ... it’s ok kolby, you actually like fall out boy ... that makes no sense at all to me.
nate gonz said 5 months ago
like 5 years ago i saw with honor, comeback kid and bane and that was amazing
but nfg always puts on a phenomenal show
Kolby said 5 months ago
AHHHH. I love their albums but they really didnt do a good job live.
nate gonz said 5 months ago
actually, andrew wk is amazing live.
joshp said 5 months ago
Kings Of Convenience, Hollywood
Belle & Sebastian, Hollywood
InHisName said 5 months ago
Parkway Drive and Sleeping Giant kill it every time.
jaynajaynajayna said 5 months ago
Belle & Sebastian, seriously. I am not even a huge fan of theirs and I ended up going to see them for on a whim for free in Battery Park July 4th of '07, got there and asked around for tickets, (you had to wait in line for hours at starbucks locations like a month ahead) got one for free within about 3 minutes, it was just a ridiculous great and fun show with great friends, got out at dusk, went and watched the fire works from a roof top on the upper east side drinking forties all night, and from the roof you could see like 10 different fire works shows going off. Just an epic epic day
larin555 said 5 months ago
Every bands got their ups and downs too!
godmachine said 5 months ago
faith no more on the angel dust tour
soundgarden (superunknown tour)
fugazi
deftones
house of pain/funkdoobiest/cypress hill (soul assasins tour)
Ice-T and Butthole Surfers!!!
sepultura
and loads more
but the best show had to be New Kingdom or Electric Wizard- maybe coz I smoked the heaviest shit ever- and it made it unreal...I thought my heart kept stopping - check:
robolove said 5 months ago
Blink 182, New Found Glory, We Are Scientists and Bloc Party are all amazing live.
Really want to see Jimmy Eat World, The Cure and Beastie Boys.
mission_alphaville said 5 months ago
I saw paramore last night and they AMAAAAZED me.
dobi said 5 months ago
best live bands i’ve seen... at the drive in, wesley willis, atom and his package, murder city devils, andrew wk, the lawrence arms, and i’m sure i’m forgetting plenty.
sittingduck said 5 months ago
I saw NFG once ... I couldn’t stand them, that guy’s voice is just way too sharp on stage ... but finch opened for them, so it was a great night!
I also forgot to mention that I saw The Donnas last month ... and they opened up for the Hives! The hives fucking rock live ... and their lead singer looks like a miniature scott bacula which only adds to the experience ... I stayed a good 45 minutes after the show to watch security fish people off the ceiling light racks ... it was nuts!
Hands On Clothing said 5 months ago
Even though i hate to say it, Guns N Roses/Kaiser Chiefs have put on the best live shows i have ever seen, though i have the police (with sting) coming up next week, so i recon i can probably top it!
joshp said 5 months ago
Yeah, they are absolutely great live. Last time I saw them, they had two encores.
itcamefromthesky! said 5 months ago
I’ve seen them 3 times. Chino was drunk twice, and sucked balls. The 3rd time he was AMAZING. Straight up life changing shit.
derekdeal said 5 months ago
gwar, cradle of filth, dilinger escape plan, unearth, strung out, a wilhelm scream
ayejay said 5 months ago
you suck
Hybrid said 5 months ago
I saw Silverstein, From Autumn To Ashes, and Dance Gavin Dance [When they still had Johnny]
Silverstein and FATA were beyond amazing. Both of their stage presences were beyond believable. They worked the crowd perfectly, and there was so much energy. I’ve never heard so many people actually screaming the SCREAMED lyrics of a band.
It’s also the only show I’ve been to where it was still packed at the end of the show.
Story of the Year does an incredible show also. Flips, climbing speakers, etc.
But, best of all, is anything with Craig Mabbitt. [ETF, TWA, old BTF]. His energy is... well, I don’t believe it. Jumping 40 ft into a crowd. That takes guts. And, his vocals are perfect live.
OhioLeslie said 5 months ago
saves the day, hands down, will forever be the greatest.
sigur ros was insanely amazing.. very moving and i was covered in goose bumps the entire time.
monty are i have so much energy and i love seeing untraditional instruments on stage.
modest mouse was spot on.. and i had seen them on a late night show once and they blew balls, so i went in very skeptical.
say anything is just so good.. max bemis is perfect live.
and there are tons more.. coheed and cambria, motion city soundtrack, as cities burn, mates of state, blah blah blah.
the only band that ever really let me down was circa survive. anthony green was on some serious drugs that night and jumped out in the crowd and got in a fight. it was amusing, but he couldn’t remember any of his lyrics.
also.. i’m seeing death cab this weekend. i am already thinking they’ll make this list.
[sorry this was so long!]
hideouscarwreck said 5 months ago
the one time i saw we are scientists, though it was years ago, omg, such a good show - they played with arctic monkeys too which was rad. i still need to see bloc party.
i saw them last summer, they were absolutely awesome. nice guys too.
warped tour '07!
explodingtoes said 5 months ago
the faint when they were touring for danse macabre
also Dax Riggs just a few weeks ago. was just him and J. Barrett. so very good.
Busdriver was insane live as well, simply because how fast he is.
aaand since I like bluegrass, seeing the Del McCoury band was nuts. mandolin slaying like none other!
faithbydesign said 5 months ago
Alkaline Trio 2 years ago when they let their fan club pick their set list. They played the entire goddammit cd, every acoustic song, all old music, like 3 new songs, a couple hot water music covers and ended with radio.
The end
hideouscarwreck said 5 months ago
you automatically have amazing music taste.
they have been one of my all time favorites since forever, FINALLY i’m going to see them this august. so stokeddd
OhioLeslie said 5 months ago
agreed! we interviewed them after a show in detroit last summer and they were completely wasted and beyond hilarious. our tapes ran out but the party kept rolling. so nice and we were seriously crying with laughter the entire time. plus they did a little acoustic performance for us in front of the venue and it was just so good. super talented guys!
hideouscarwreck said 5 months ago
fuck, that is awesome! i just saw them at warped and hung out at the merch
booth, haha ;]
volatile v said 5 months ago
monty are i! i remember that one song by them, In This Legacy. that was a sweeeeeeet song, made me want to save the world and stuff.
but best live bands? a wilhelm scream was awesome, maybe i’m biased because i love them, though. i saw August Burns Red last week, not really my type of music, but they were pretty good. The Human Abstract was ridiculous. seeing Goldfinger this month and i don’t plan on being disappointed!
BUT THIS SEPTEMBER! New Found Glory, The ISHC, and Four Year Strong! AWESOME!
explodingtoes said 5 months ago
most fun and dancey show of my life. saw them on the wet from birth tour as well...also fun, but when they were on tour for danse macabre they played a lot of blankwave arcade songs which was goooooooood
you’ll have tons o' fun seeing them
explodingtoes said 5 months ago
the most legendary show of my life was seeing botch, though.
don’t know if anyone here will appreciate that awesomeness.
doublej said 5 months ago
last summer TLA played this shitty ass bar here in chicago, where a 12 year old was checking ID’s and they played a song from THE BROADWAYS anddddd SLAPSTICK, i punched everyone with excitement. I mean youd do the same riiiight?
other than that:
Smoking Popes - reunion show (chicago)
GRADE - reunion show (Toronto) \m/
Hybrid said 5 months ago
I got held up at the border for 3 hours trying to get to the Montreal show. We got there around 4:30.
BTF went on at 10:30. First show. >>
landshark said 5 months ago
built to spill, murder by death, nada surf and the teddybears
Hands On Clothing said 5 months ago
All i have to say is i’ve been looking forward to tomorrow for quite sometime.
reunion tour! anyone else been lucky enough to grab themselves a ticket for one of the reunion shows?
justgeoff said 5 months ago
Kings of Leon, Jimmy Eat World, Modest Mouse & Foo Fighters
Simply Complicated said 5 months ago
my one and only concert i have ever been to was AMAZING..
Glow in the Dark Tour 2008 w/ Kanye and Lupe in The Woodlands
horsebites said 5 months ago
Municipal Waste, Paint It Black, Gwar and Rocket From the Crypt have been insane shows for me. Total shoe ruiners.
skull with hair said 5 months ago
AWK
conor said 5 months ago
ETID
captiveclothing said 5 months ago
Hayley is so hot. its ridiculous.
jimiyo said 5 months ago
Journey
Legit Heroes said 5 months ago
im not being mean, but some of these bands are just terrible... cmon FALL OUT BOY??!?!
anyways
Tokyo Police Club - SICKKKK LIVE
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Favorite concert ever
Chic Chik Chick - Great show, not the best music, but it was a sickkkk show.
nicolerork said 5 months ago
Aerosmith, Chiodos, Anberlin