Best concert?

What would you Ideal concert be, who would be there? size of the venue? where? you know the important stuff.

Already went to it. Jurassic 5 with X-Clan at the 9:30 club in DC. 1100 screaming fans (which is a PACKED house) and I was up front for the whole thing. The best part is this. J5 doesn't leave the stage after the show until they've signed everything put in front of them, given every photo-op anyone asks for, and talked to everyone who wants to talk. Those guys are **edited***ng awesome

Boss DJ, you still go to Marist? or are you an Alum. Oh, and How's the Dragon's Den doing these days? That's where I teched back in the late '90s when I was at CIA

One was Jimmy Buffett at the Post Gazette Pavillion, Pittsburgh's large scale, outdoor, summer concert amphitheater. I was only a couple of rows from the stage on a perfect summer night, there were 50,000 screaming fans all around, a total carnival atmosphere. Even if you don't like Jimmy Buffett, one of his concerts are a total experience...this is why they they always sell out within hours of going on sale.

The other perfect concert experience was the polar opposite. It was Beulah in Pittsburgh's Rex Theater. Beulah was a great indie band, and one of my all time favorite bands. The Rex is a little stage theater, in Pittsburgh's historic South Side, where 500 would fill to capacity. My friend and I were so close we were leaning on the stage just a few feet in front of Bill Swan (the guitarist). By the end of the show, the keyboard player waived me onstage, handed me a pair of maracas and told me to keep a beat. Beulah often pulled fans from the audience to play tambourines and shakers, and occasionally even sing a bit.

Animal Collective at the variety playhouse. The venue is a good size, not very big. They played for about 2 hours. I experienced sounds I had never thought possible. It was awesome.

My ideal concert would actually be a two day festival...
One stage, outdoor, overcast-sunnyish, Venue fits maybe 2000.
Bands-
Flogging Molly
Muse
Reel Big Fish
Wilco
Pixies
Immortal Technique

Pariel wrote: Styro Folme wrote: One punk cannot live off one concert alone... It would have to consist of many punk and ska bands, like Social Distortion, Rancid, Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto, and the like.... Chuck in a few of my other favorites: -Ska-P (which is a Spanish band and will probably never play within the US, but they're great) -Flogging Molly (frankly, they're awesome, and go with anything, and I just want to see them in concert) -Planet Smashers (never seen 'em in concert, their CDs might be better than their performances) -MC Lars Post-Punk Laptop Rap (saw him with Streetlight Manifesto at the Starland Ballroom in Sayerville, he was awesome) That's all I can come up with right now. If I had to pick the perfect normal length show, it'd be Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto. I missed the two of them together on their tour last year because I couldn't get a ride to their concert, and I'm still pissed.

i forgot to say flogging molly.  saw them in concert though.  it was insane.  also saw the stm and reel big fish concert.  jealous of me yet? 

Sigur Ros, Animal Collective, Radiohead, and Flotation Toy Warning on an Icelandic hill/mountain side overlooking a large body a crystal blue water, a decent amount of psychedelics to be shared amongst friends (optional, seeing as how these four bands together at once would be a trip in itself), cool breeze, sunny but not too bright with the show carrying on past a beautiful sunset into a cloudless night, no sign of humanity for miles besides the show itself, small number in attendance (no more than 100).

The best concert i've ever been to was a Lemonface, Deadpets, The Briggs and Flogging Molly concert at the 9:30 Club last year for my birthday. I turned 17 as I was watching Flogging Molly play.

The Briggs, Street Dog, and Fogging Molly.

House of Blues, sometime in march of 2005.