Best Free Concert You've Attended?
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It probably isn’t technically free but Chilifest in Snook, Texas a couple of years ... Pat Green
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Rebelution was just a college band when I was at UCSB and they would perform all the time on the cliffs overlooking the ocean in Isla Vista.
18, high as a kite watching the sunset with girls everywhere, wondering "can it get any better than this" while they groove all night.
I remember thinking, these guys are pretty legit, and a few years later they popped off with a deal. -
Reggae jam band at Isla Vista? That's about as moist as it gets.Doogles said:Rebelution was just a college band when I was at UCSB and they would perform all the time on the cliffs overlooking the ocean in Isla Vista.
18, high as a kite watching the sunset with girls everywhere, wondering "can it get any better than this" while they groove all night.
I remember thinking, these guys are pretty legit, and a few years later they popped off with a deal. -
Rebelution is good chit. My golf buddy is a big fan of them and reggae in general and we would listen to it in the cart. They were my Summer jam in 2020.Doogles said:Rebelution was just a college band when I was at UCSB and they would perform all the time on the cliffs overlooking the ocean in Isla Vista.
18, high as a kite watching the sunset with girls everywhere, wondering "can it get any better than this" while they groove all night.
I remember thinking, these guys are pretty legit, and a few years later they popped off with a deal. -
I can’t remember if I had to pay a cover or not ... but Zac Brown Band before they were ZBB at 8.0’s in Sundance Square in downtown Ft Worth
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This is a great song. Pretty much the vibe of the scene I was describing.RoadDawg55 said: -
Linkin Park in Hong Kong. When they did Hybrid Theory it was a borderline religious experience.
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I don't know if this technically qualifies, but I'm going with it...97, in the Bay Area on a recruiting trip, a buddy /coach down there asks me when I am leaving, (that night). I tell him, and he says, "change your flight to tomorrow morning", and leaves the room. I am meeting with his players that I am interested in, in his office. Every hour, he comes back and asks if I have changed my flight. I finally tell him, "I'm not changing it until I know the reason". He drags it out, busting my balls, but he eventually tells me, and I call and change it.
His kids were doing event security for fundraising, and the chief called to thank him, and, because his kids did such a good job, to invite he and his staff for the last night. One of his assistants couldn't go, so I replaced him, with the stipulation that I could be fucked if they asked for ID, because my name wasn't on the previously submitted roster. We get to the venue, through security, and go in. No ID check, but I was sweating it right to the end.
We carried catering into the dressing rooms, got to hear the sound checks, all that was left was the passes. The security boss comes up and slaps an O'Doul's wristband on me (I still have it). My buddy asks "What does this do?". She said "you can go anywhere in the building."
We were on the side of the stage when the opener came out...Pearl Jam, opening for the Stones.
Best part of it...I called my boss to ask if I could come in an hour late the next day. He said sure, and asked why. There was silence on the other end, because he had worked his ass off to get tickets in our city, and got shut out...tl/dr/csb
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CSB. Third Eye Blind (gay) opened for the Stones when I saw them at the Kingdome in 1997.Fishpo31 said:I don't know if this technically qualifies, but I'm going with it...97, in the Bay Area on a recruiting trip, a buddy /coach down there asks me when I am leaving, (that night). I tell him, and he says, "change your flight to tomorrow morning", and leaves the room. I am meeting with his players that I am interested in, in his office. Every hour, he comes back and asks if I have changed my flight. I finally tell him, "I'm not changing it until I know the reason". He drags it out, busting my balls, but he eventually tells me, and I call and change it.
His kids were doing event security for fundraising, and the chief called to thank him, and, because his kids did such a good job, to invite he and his staff for the last night. One of his assistants couldn't go, so I replaced him, with the stipulation that I could be fucked if they asked for ID, because my name wasn't on the previously submitted roster. We get to the venue, through security, and go in. No ID check, but I was sweating it right to the end.
We carried catering into the dressing rooms, got to hear the sound checks, all that was left was the passes. The security boss comes up and slaps an O'Doul's wristband on me (I still have it). My buddy asks "What does this do?". She said "you can go anywhere in the building."
We were on the side of the stage when the opener came out...Pearl Jam, opening for the Stones.
Best part of it...I called my boss to ask if I could come in an hour late the next day. He said sure, and asked why. There was silence on the other end, because he had worked his ass off to get tickets in our city, and got shut out...tl/dr/csb -
Presidents of the USA and Harvey Danger
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My kids love Casper Babypants.Mad_Son said:Presidents of the USA and Harvey Danger
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KC and the Sunshine Band. A company I worked for hired them to play at the annual Christmas party one year.
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Blind Melon played a free show at RCKCNDY just before they released their debut album.
KISW Pain in the Grass concerts at the Mural Amphitheater were great. Sweet Water was probably the best I saw. Every Friday night. -
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Woodstock turned into a free concert
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I thought they'd be huge. I was thinking at the time that they'd give PJ a run for their money.El_K said:Blind Melon played a free show at RCKCNDY just before they released their debut album.
KISW Pain in the Grass concerts at the Mural Amphitheater were great. Sweet Water was probably the best I saw. Every Friday night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YudWxJqHvFc
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Being an old fart (really, really old) I had the joy of seeing the Dead in Volunteer park when I was too young to be there, but dumb enough to still be there. Also, there were smaller groups that I can't remember exactly who played. Saw them again at Golden Gardens in Ballard, and one of these hippy events Jeff Airplane showed up and Country Joe and the Fish.
Explains my love for old psychedelic rock I guess
Here is one of the posters that were advertising the event - There were quite a few
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Also... Trolls Cottage 2009
And it wasn't free, but I did see Alice in Chains at the Redmond VFW for $5. -
Just added this to my iPod. ThxDoogles said:
This is a great song. Pretty much the vibe of the scene I was describing.RoadDawg55 said: -
Great topic, Yella
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Seems like a great song to blow sparsely endowed Asian dudes to.DerekJohnson said:Jean Leloup - Quebec City 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI3C6MROOvY
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So... background music?StlouisDawg said:
Seems like a great song to blow sparsely endowed Asian dudes to.DerekJohnson said:Jean Leloup - Quebec City 1997
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Forgot to answer. Neighborhood Octoberfest. Gorgeous sunny mid fifties day in Webster Groves with great beer, brats and imported German mustard.
Band was this 70 year old guy playing a 10 foot tuba “pipe”, his oddly hot 65 year old wife on accordion and what appeared to be their swinger friends singing and switching up between trumpets, trombones, guitars, etc. All in traditional German attire.
You may laugh, but they were fantastic. Played Ironman, Rolling on the River, Marvin Gaye, The Stones. List was endless.
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In 1973 a friend of mine called me up to talk me into a having a beer at one of the local hangout taverns... this weird little multi room hovel named Rapunzels which was located by the University Bridge, across the street from the original Red Robin which at that point was still a cool place. When I get there, they had live music that night ~ a traveling minstrel guitar player that wandered from room to room playing some pretty hard scrabble blues. When the guy strolls in front of me it's BB King.
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A buddy used to always have extra tickets and never charged. Megadeth was good. Gwar concerts are special though. Gwar at DV8. Jerry Garcia had just died, so they skull fucked him and killed him again. First thought as they walk on stage in tiny venue, was "what have I gotten myself into?" Then the first blood or cum hits you in the face, and you start thinking about the exit, but then the next volley hits you and you say fuck it, and have a blast, even if the music is meh. Hard pounding music, fake blood and cum everywhere, visually stimulating, what's not to like?
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/gwar/1995/dv8-seattle-wa-4bc51bda.html
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When was this? Just curious. I hadn't thought about this in years but I dimly recall some concerts Volunteer Park... and Country Joe.. yah, I saw him at the eagles in I think 1962... no chairs just everyone sitting crosslegged on the floor causally passing the bud. The opening band was this piss poor horn band that no one had ever heard of from Chicago ~ they were awful.LebamDawg said:Being an old fart (really, really old) I had the joy of seeing the Dead in Volunteer park when I was too young to be there, but dumb enough to still be there. Also, there were smaller groups that I can't remember exactly who played. Saw them again at Golden Gardens in Ballard, and one of these hippy events Jeff Airplane showed up and Country Joe and the Fish.
Explains my love for old psychedelic rock I guess
Here is one of the posters that were advertising the event - There were quite a few -
Skagit Casino had outdoor concerts one summer and my boss gave me free tickets to Heart. Around 2003, really good show. Nancy was smoking hot, Ann sounded great and a featured Mike Inez on bass and Gilby Clarke on Guitar.
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@DawgsCanDanceDawgsCanDance said:
When was this? Just curious. I hadn't thought about this in years but I dimly recall some concerts Volunteer Park... and Country Joe.. yah, I saw him at the eagles in I think 1962... no chairs just everyone sitting crosslegged on the floor causally passing the bud. The opening band was this piss poor horn band that no one had ever heard of from Chicago ~ they were awful.LebamDawg said:Being an old fart (really, really old) I had the joy of seeing the Dead in Volunteer park when I was too young to be there, but dumb enough to still be there. Also, there were smaller groups that I can't remember exactly who played. Saw them again at Golden Gardens in Ballard, and one of these hippy events Jeff Airplane showed up and Country Joe and the Fish.
Explains my love for old psychedelic rock I guess
Here is one of the posters that were advertising the event - There were quite a few
the free concerts at Volunteer and Golden Gardens parks were started in 65 or so, and continued into the early 70s. The poster I added was from 1967 - the Dead played right after that in early July iirc.
At that time frame the Yardbirds, The Who, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Moby Grape and Quicksilver were playing Eagles Auditorium, Seattle Arena and the Aqua Theater. I never went to the Aqua Theater but did the others.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kxLivJwk2OU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7la6qCF3Jdg
