Check in with mega-concerts/ music festivals you've attended

[Bossy Monkey]

If you'd rather just reply with a big list, that's ok, too, but my recommendation is that we sort by concert, ie, I'm going to reply with all the ones I've been to, each as a separate reply. Then if you went to one of those, reply beneath it. Other big shows like Woodstock, Concerts for Bangladesh, US Festival etc. you can add by replying to this OP. Clear? As Woodstock mud? Well, sorry; it'll make more sense in about a minute (I hope).:)

[Bossy Monkey]

1. Live Aid (Philly)

Me!

[Bossy Monkey]

2. Simon & Garfunkel, Concert at Central Park

Also me! (Now I can't think of any more. Uh-oh!)

[Kire]

3. Clash of the Titans, Lollapalooza 3

Clash of the Titans was Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer with Alice in Chains
Lollapalooza was Primus, Alice in Chains, Tool (on the second stage), Rage Against the Machine (opening act), Dinosaur Jr., Babes in Toyland, Bad Brains. I forget who else.

[RandiFan1290]

12. Me!

Both in Florida :)

[LostinVA]

4. Two Lilith Fairs -- both great

Including the one with The Queen and the Dixie Chicks

[RandiFan1290]

5. Bonnaroo

1-4 :)

[LynneSin]

6. Live8 in Philly

I was also at the last concert ever held at JFK in Philly (which was the Grateful Dead)

[RandiFan1290]

7. Phish Big Cypress NYE 1999

:party:

[Sullivan4Congress]

8. Not really mega-fests, but...

Zephyrfest (sponsored by NOLA radio station WZRH), City Park, summer of 1994:

Violent Femmes
Lemonheads
Smithereens
Offspring
Better Than Ezra
Deadeye Dick
Eve's Plumb
Possum Dixon

Summer Jam 1984 (or something like that), Kingston Fairgrounds, Kingston, NH:

Cheap Trick
Twisted Sister
Ratt
Lita Ford
The Lines

[RandiFan1290]

9. Jazz Fest New Orleans

:hippie:

[RandiFan1290]

10. Langerado

Ft. Lauderdale, FL :)

[RandiFan1290]

11. moe. cruise

Norwegian Sun 2004

[BulletproofLandshark]

13. Ozzfest from '97-00

Also, an event called Livestock held in Zephyrhills,FL. It's just 20,000 people or so camping out in a cow pasture, partying, and jamming to 20 or so live bands. This year, they managed to snag Rob Zombie as the headliner.

[Squeech]

14. I performed at Terrastock #2

There's a zine from England called Ptolemaic Terrascope, dedicated to psychedelia, especially bands that are active nowadays. Starting in 1998 they held a series of weekend-long festivals of musicians they liked, and a band I was in got invited to play the 1999 event in San Francisco. It was big fun! Certainly the biggest audience I ever played for, and probably the most favorable. Plus I got to see some people whose records I'd listened to as a kid-- I'm thinking specifically of Simeon from Silver Apples and Tom Rapp from Pearls Before Swine, but I should also mention Nick Salomon and Bevis Frond (a band that didn't actually exist at the time but does a pretty good job of recreating the vibe), and Corky Marcheschi and Fifty Foot Hose (who I didn't know about in 1969 but dig the shit out of now).

Generally the older the musicians, the richer the music. As an old fart myself, that gives me hope.

[Initech]

15. Ozzfest '04 and '05

Ozzfest '04 kicked major ass - Slayer, Judas Priest and Black Sabbath.

Ozzfest '05 was great on paper - Slipknot, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath, but after what that stupid bitch Sharon Osbourne did to Iron Maiden, it ruined Black Sabbath's set for everyone. A lot of people (including myself) left early.

[greendog]

Telluride Bluegrass Festival '82 & '83

~~~

[rppper]

16. several good stadium shows here....

1985: texas jam in dallas tx.deep purple and the scorpions co-headlined,grim reaper, victory,night ranger and bon jovi also played...

1990 the rolling stones with guns and roses and living color, LA collosium...axl walked out 5 songs into this one...stones played for nearly 4 hours....

1991: castle donnington festival:(i was stationed in scotland and got real lucky!!!)black crowes,pantera,queensryche,motley crue, metallica and ac/dc...

earthdaybirthday 10, orlando:seether,saliva,stone sour,american hi fi,godsmack,3 doors down, shinedown, sevendust, powerman5000....awsome concert

earthday birthday 11, orlando:drowning pool, puddle of mudd, damage plan, shine down, trapt, sevendust

earthday birthday 12, orlando: lamest of the edbd's, but the last two acts made up for it. skindred, a local band...was off the chain...very bizzare.breaking benjamin, alter bridge, 3 doors down and velvet revolver, who were awsome...did a lot of gnr and stp...even a zepplin medley that was great.

this years edbd13 lineup is mudvayne, rob zombie,stained, shine down, trapt and 4 other bands....

btw...edbd concerts are mine and my girlfriends unofficial anniversary.....

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

17. Woodstock 99

[radwriter0555]

18. US festivals. We were choppered in with the bands from the hotels and

didn't have to put up with the crowds.

That was when I learned never to fly in a helicopter with a young pilot.

[HughBeaumont]

19. Here goes -

Clash of the Titans 91 (Sepultura, Sacred Reich, Napalm Death, Sick of it All)
Lollapalooza I (Rollins Band, Butthole Surfers, Ice T/Body Count, NIN, Living Colour, Siouxie and the Banshees, Jane's Addiction)
Lollapalooza II (Lush, Pearl Jam, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, Soundgarden, Ice Cube, Ministry, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Lollapalooza III (Rage Against the Machine, Babes in Toyland, Front 242, Arrested Development, Tool, Fishbone, Dinosaur Jr, Alice in Chains, Primus)
Warped Tour 97 (Less than Jake, Sugar Ray, Social Distortion, Sick of it All, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Dub War, etc)
Sounds of the Underground (Devildriver, A Life Once Lost, Fear Before the March of Flames, Madball, Throwdown, High on Fire, GWAR, Opeth, Clutch, Every Time I Die, Unearth, Poison the Well, Lamb of God)
Ohio Death Fest (Pessimist, Cephalic Carnage, Deeds of Flesh, Cannibal Corpse, Gorerotted, Exhumed, etc)
a show that had Queens of the Stone Age, Mastodon, . . . .and you will know us by the trail of dead, Avenged Sevenfold and Burning Brides sort of playing across from each other. That was kind of worth it.

[Katherine Brengle]

20. Warped Tour.

It was alright, but it was about 105 degrees at Suffolk Downs that year and I pretty much wanted to die rather than bathe in my own sweat.

We ended leaving early to have dinner at Vinny Testa's, lol.

[no name no slogan]

21. Lollapaloozer, 1993

It mostly sucked. It was one of the first years when "alternative" went mainstream, and you could tell by the fratboy, asskicking, nard-smashing testosterone-fueled moranity of the crowd.

The line-up included Lush, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ministry. The music was so-so, at best. The atmosphere was toxic. I'd never go to another one, again.

[bbernardini]

22. Second and third Lollapaloozas...

Second was headlined by Primus, with Alice In Chains, Fishbone, Rage Against The Machine, Tool, Front 242, Arrested Development and possibly a few others. Third was Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, P-Funk, Boredoms, Nick Cave, L7, Courtney Love, and others I've forgotten.

[Jean Louise Finch]

23. Tibetan Freedom Concert

In DC at JFK stadium in 1998, over three days. It was a mixed bag of a show, mostly because it was the one where an audience member was struck by lightening. It (obviously) really affected the mood of the rest of the show. But the lineup was stellar:

Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Sean Lennon, Mutabaruka, Money Mark, A Tribe Called Quest, Dave Matthews Band, Sonic Youth, Nawang Khechog, Wyclef Jean, Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters, Buffalo Daughter, R.E.M., KRS-ONE, The Wallflowers, Blues Traveler, Live, Pearl Jam, Luscious Jackson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chaksam-pa, Pulp