https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:39:19 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103907 Wed, 25 May 2005 17:20:30 +0000
Kiss puts on a great show. Very entertaining. Of course, there's nothing like a Grateful Dead concert.]]> Opinions and Polls DaveM https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103907 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103732 Tue, 24 May 2005 20:43:00 +0000 The Stones are kind of a funny band to see live though, I would say if you can get tickets to a later show do that usually the first 10-15 dates are what gets them warmed up and show quality varies drastically from night to night, after that they really kick it into high gear.]]> Opinions and Polls teleplayer324 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103732 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103724 Tue, 24 May 2005 20:01:26 +0000
There are a huge number of bands that put on great small venue shows that simply couldn't carry a large venue. And there are large venue bands that depend so much on the scale of the venue for their effects that they would lose a ton going to a smaller place.

There's great bar bands that couldn't handle a small theater, and small theater bands who couldn't handle a bar, and large venue bands that couldn't do either.

One of my favorite all-time bands to see in a 500 person bar is a group called Cowboy Mouth. They can work that setting better than anyone I've ever seen. But put them on a stage in front of 2,000 people at a small outdoor concert and they seem lost.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone better than Chet Atkins in the small-to-medium theater setting. But put him in a big auditorium and he dissappeared.

On the big stage Kiss was amazing, as was the Who, Eagles, and many others. At this level it's almost a genre centric thing. It's like comparing Broadway productions of Cats versus Phantom of the Opera . . . they're both so professionally produced and so well done that you can't say one is better than the other, it's just which show you happen to want to see that drives the answer.]]> Opinions and Polls kingpatzer https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103724 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103713 Tue, 24 May 2005 18:52:00 +0000 Opinions and Polls Goatface https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103713 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103698 Tue, 24 May 2005 15:31:53 +0000 Opinions and Polls cnev https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103698 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103675 Tue, 24 May 2005 08:02:30 +0000 Opinions and Polls StormyMonday https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103675 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103674 Tue, 24 May 2005 07:57:39 +0000
Last night I went with 3 friends who had never seen U2 before. One was a HUUUUUUGE bruce springsteen fan. All the way to the show he kept saying that U2 could never beat the Boss's live show. But after it ended i asked him what he thought and he said it was the best show he's ever seen, and yes, it was better than Springsteen.

Part of what makes a U2 live show great is that every tour they march out the old favorites while still playing all their new songs, and the new songs are played just as intensely as the old ones.

In short, I love U2]]> Opinions and Polls U2Bono269 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/paged/2/#post-103674 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/#post-103658 Tue, 24 May 2005 05:18:12 +0000 Opinions and Polls Tim_Madsen https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/#post-103658 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/#post-103571 Mon, 23 May 2005 20:36:27 +0000 Opinions and Polls smokindog https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/#post-103571 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/#post-103539 Mon, 23 May 2005 16:45:25 +0000
It was a great warmup act for sure, and then the Stones came out with all the expectation and anticipation I had, and they just seemed...tiny...somehow. It was really them (this was the Mick Taylor version) but I guess all the hype (in my mind) made it impossible for them to be anything but 'less' than what I expected.

Anyhow, I didn't find out until years later that that cowboy band was ZZ Top.

Heheheeh...great show guys!]]> Opinions and Polls DemoEtc https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/greatest-live-band-of-all-time/#post-103539