[koosie]

Haha good thread. A few old rockers in here! Great that Heart are still going, that takes me back, wow.

I can think of a few that stand out. I've seen The Monkeys (minus the MTV guy) and that was fun. Radiohead were very good but the venue let them down (Birmingham NEC). Most of the best gigs i've been to are for bands that no-one here is likely to of heard of, like Corduroy, The Ozrics or Half Man Half Biscuit.

I must tell you,though, about Iron Maiden at Daytona Beach in 1988 when I was a cute little teenybanger. I've never had an experience quite like it. It's the only gig I've ever been to where religious folk were at the entrance asking people not to go in for the good of their souls. I really wanted to take them in with me (some of them very very pretty girls, certainly nicer than the local rock chicks anyway!) to demonstrate that these were just some blokes from Sheffield who meant no harm whatsoever. As if to demonstrate this point, lead singer Bruce Dickinson temporarily stopped the gig 2 songs in to ask the larger lads in the crowd to stop pushing foward so much as he afraid of the younger audience members, like me getting hurt. I've always thought if I ever run into Mr Dickinson again, I owe him a drink at the very least. They were great that night, too. My ears have never been the same since.