3 Best Non-PJ Concerts

[PryTo]

Prince
Black Flag
R.E.M.

You?

[Kevin Davis]

1. Eddie Vedder (Chicago 2008)
2. Eddie Vedder (St. Louis 2011)
3. this Pearl Jam cover band I saw at a Battle of the Bands in 1999

[Chloe]

Cloud Cult
REM
Sigur Ros

[doug rr]

johnny cash
miles davis
richie havens

[EJ]

Sha Na Na (Wallingford, CT 1980)
Poison/David Lee Roth (New Haven, CT 1988)
Collective Soul (Stratton Mtn, VT 1999. Randomly happened upon this one after skiing. The lead singer got hit with a lighter and went berzerk.)

[PryTo]

johnny cash
miles davis
richie havens

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

Too many shows to mention but these are my faves:

Ween (1-30-98 Philadelphia)
Radiohead (8-8-01 Cuyahoga Falls)
Nirvana (11-9-93 Bethlehem)
The Frogs (4-3-99 Cleveland)
Pink Floyd (6-2-94 Philadelphia)
Brian Wilson (10-08-04 Glenside)

[Norah]

Radiohead in 01 for sure.
Clapton around the same time.
Conor Oberst w Jim James and M Ward (before Monsters of Folk) in 2003.
Bob Dylan last summer.
Sigur Ros last year.

[BurtReynolds]

Flametrick Subs -austin
The Reigning Sound -New Orleans
My morning jacket -bonnaroo

[dimejinky99]

Michael Jackson dangerous tour 25 July 92. Most spectacular spectacle show i ever saw. And nobody touches him for performance.

[CopperTom]

Radiohead at Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA in 2006

[Iholdthepain]

Tool and King Crimson at Red Rocks '01
NIN in Dallas '94
Lollapalooza '94
(SP, Beasties, Tribe Called Quest, P-Funk, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Breeders, Green Day)

...many others to choose from, including local stuff you wouldn't know or care about...

[digster]

Sleater-Kinney (Portland, their last show, 2006)
Mavis Staples (Chicago, 2010)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (NYC, 2001)

Runners up are Califone, The National, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Patty Griffin, St. Vincent, Springsteen and Wilco.

[RussellManiac12]

Kiss (San Jose Arena 8/27/96)
Mastodon (SJSU Events Center 11/21/09)
Between the Buried and Me (Fillmore 11/27/11)

[McParadigm]

Tom Waits
Neil Young
Magnolia Electric Co.
Soundcheck with Bob Dylan's backing band on the Love and Theft tour

[matt reeder]

Like many of you, there are too many to mention. Here are a few:

Sonic Youth - Chicago, IL - August 15, 2003
Radiohead - Nimes, France - June 14, 2008
Arcade Fire - Sasquatch Festival - May 26, 2007
Sleater-Kinney - Champaign, IL - February 22, 2003
Titus Andronicus - Portland, OR - September 2009
Sigur Ros - Portland, OR - August 04, 2012
Soundgarden - Gorge Amphitheater - July 30, 2011

And many, many others.

[Kevin Davis]

Here are some real ones:

Smashing Pumpkins, Assembly Hall, Champaign 1996 (MCIS Tour)
Wilco, Foellinger Auditorum, Champaign 2002 (YHF Tour)
The Decemberists, Schuba's Tavern, Chicago 2004 (Her Majesty Tour)
Elvis Costello, Oriental Theater, Chicago 2004 (North tour)
Tom Waits, Auditorium Theater, Chicago 2006 (Orphans tour)
Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman, Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, Bloomington 2012

[Lament]

Oh man. Whittling it down to the three. These two would absolutely make it...

Primal Scream, Chicago, IL (The Metro), 7-1-00
PJ Harvey, Washington, DC (9:30 Club), 9-10-01

I'm not sure who I'd give the nod for third though. Fuck it. I'm going with this...

Janelle Monae, Chicago, IL (The Vic Theatre), 10-21-13

[Birds in Hell]

I saw Primal Scream in 2000 too, Lament; that show was mind-boggling good (with Kevin Shields from MBV on guitar to boot). Absolutely one of the best shows I've seen.

I don't think anything comes close to Neil Young and Crazy Horse in 2013 for me, that was pretty much the top of the mountain.

[Iholdthepain]

BSB'99 was THE greatest lineup I've ever seen, but it included PJ, so it doesn't count.