• Hadriscus@lemm.ee
    1·
    45 minutes ago

    Massilia Sound System. Crowd is basically in a state of plasma from beginning to loooooong after the show ends. When it’s set on the port, you can be sure some of us will launch ourselves in the oily water for the hell of it, come back and slippery dance some more. At the start of every show they distribute a platter of pastis shots in the pit. It’s not a band, it’s a culture. A generation

  • JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch
    4·
    7 hours ago

    Buddy Guy. the concert was pretty posh (think bankers in suits), with everyone having arranged seating, audience sitting still and quiet like at a classical music concert.

    he was like ‘fuck this, this isn’t a proper concert, my guitar is wireless, let’s stand up, go to the entry hall and jam’. so he’s just standing in the middle of the crowd and going nuts, at like 83 years of age. That was amazing.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Dj shadow vs cut chemist at the Hollywood bowl. It was experimental but quite the experience

    • gazter@aussie.zone
      1·
      5 hours ago

      In the vein of the second one, I saw George with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Opera House, performing with Jon Lord a symphony that wrote. Fucking incredible.

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    So many that my answer is just listing most of the concerts I can remember going to

    The Midnight

    Roosevelt

    Tycho

    DJ Shadow

    deadmau5

    Perturbator

    Rush (RIP Neil)

    Celldweller

    The Crystal Method

    Psychostick

    Above & Beyond

    Kodo (Japanese taiko drummers)

    Lateralis (chiptune musician and indie game dev)

    If I had to pick the three most memorable, it’d be Kodo, DJ Shadow, and The Midnight

    • rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      +1 for The Midnight. About halfway through the show all but one person went backstage. For about 20 minutes this guy had the most killer synth solo. I was mind blown how well they incorporated the synth into a live concert.

      • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Hell yeah!

        I remember the audience just absolutely losing it the first time the sax came out, and also every time after that. Such an excellent band, and I was so thrilled to see how much they blew up

  • rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    Dada Life. Wouldn’t call them a band just a DJ pair. Only one of them played, but the show he put on was incredible. He had all of the things to keep your hands on the air. He was throwing out beach balls, big blowup bananas (which I managed to keep one and he signed it after the show), big balloons and had a big flag that he had the crowd hold up over their heads, he also handed out pillows for a pillow fight we did.

    • SirEDCaLot
      2·
      11 hours ago

      I’ll bet they are great live. I actually have only heard one song of theirs, which I found by accident years ago when trying to find something else. Everlasting Light, played live. One of very few songs that completely makes it obvious how much mp3 compression sucks, and even if you download the FLAC (sadly not high res) you can still hear everything wrong with your speakers and if you listen to it on good headphones then you can hear the deficiencies of the mic they used to record it.

      Truly a huge amount of audio information in that track. I love it!