The last time I was in Pine Knob was catching Phish put on a killer show. My next trip there will be to take the Mrs. to see Pat Benatar for her birthday. Hmmm, I am not sure that show is going to 'hit' me the same way... Has anyone else seen odd shows back to back?

Most recently, I did the 3 night stand at MSG in'09, that NYE I went to Mohegan Sun with Moms to see the J. Geils Band. Decent show, I dig the classic rock and Peter Wolf has great energy, but it was a world away from what I'm use to. Free show though and we had 3rd row seats.

Just got me thinking... I've seen a couple of other ones too.
The Black Crowes / Oasis then two nights later DMB (oops)
Velvet Revolver then later that month Loggins and Messina (same venue)

My parents saw Benatar last week. They really enjoyed it. Ps my father is a sick saxophone player. He has plenty of music cred.

I saw Eric Clapton at the Sommet Center (huge hockey arena) in Nashville then the very next day I saw TAB at the Tennessee Theatre (very intimate) in Knoxville. talk about different. it was my first time seeing any Phish related show and the whole scene was very new to me. hahaha what a noob I was.

Saw the American Idol Tour at Jones Beach and Phish a few weeks later. I also saw Further a week after Phish at the end of '09. It was like elevator music. Lastly, I saw Phish at U of Delaware and then Bryan Adams. Ugh.

What's the Disco Biscuits scene like that its so different than Phish. I always figured it was similar.

@charliefogg said:

Saw the American Idol Tour at Jones Beach and Phish a few weeks later. I also saw Further a week after Phish at the end of '09. It was like elevator music. Lastly, I saw Phish at U of Delaware and then Bryan Adams. Ugh.

What's the Disco Biscuits scene like that its so different than Phish. I always figured it was similar.

Bisco has a lot more techno influence. Tons of beats and stuff like that, I felt like I was at a rave at times. Plus they barely sing, and when they do it i more of a guttural growling. A lot more flat-brims at Bisco, a younger crowd than Phish, and its has more of a party atmosphere compared to a concert. More people go there to get f***ed up and hear beats, while most people go to see Phish for the tunes

I went to dispatch the week before superball.

dispatch is so bad, but superballs are pretty awesome

Two weeks ago went to WSP at the Woodlands Pavilllion (prob my 12th time to see them), it was a small crowd and WSP tore it the f*** up! Ended the first set with a killer Life During Wartime! I thought it couldn't get any better from there but the 2nd set and encore just blew me away! I always have a blast at their show though, and I was with my brother and some great friends so it was all to be expected...... Then last Friday went to a show in downtown Houston at Warehouse live, its a small GA venue and I have had shows/crowds be hit or miss there. Well I was there for Glitch Mob a band I hadn't even heard of but a few friends told me if I wanted to dance to some good beats then go check it out ($20 tix, so why not?). The band is 3 DJ's mixing beats and samples and that kinda shit. Took my roommate with me just spur of the moment and damn was I glad I went! I was probably one of the oldest people I saw there (and I'm 29, but look younger). We had a blast with some younger people all around us. Found a great hook-up right before Glitch went on at almost midnight and IT WAS ON!!!!! I partied and danced my ass off til 2am!!!

I have to say after the WSP concert I thought to myself "Man, if only the younger concert kids could see a crowd like this and learn how cool it can be just to leave all worldly shit behind you and just party like everyone there is your good friend." Well this show proved to me that the next generation is doing this, they just do it to different music than we do. I was high-fiving random people, was getting offerred water and anything else I could have wanted, people were getting through the packed crowd without anyone getting all pissy, I could go on and on about how cool these kids were I was dancing around and some of them were still in high school! All in all it just made me so happy about the live music world! I can't wait til UIC because I'm goin solo on 8/16 and am so pumped about the friends I haven't met yet!!!

an old girlfriend dragged me to an Elton John concert at MSG...people walking around sipping champagne..no smoking...a few months later I did the 98 Phish MSG run...talk about two extremes...although I must admit Elton John actually wasn't that bad...

@_________________________ said:

I laugh how he has a banner hanging in MSG, but Phish doesnt

I never noticed that...anybody else with a banner?

I worked as an audio engineer for many years and at one point loaded our rig out from a Snoop show in Austin, TX and took the same rig to do a Pat Green show in Wichita Falls, TX the next day. That was odd.

Blues Traveller played at MSG on NYE 1996

@_________________________ said:

Elton John has played 60 shows there, GD played 52 and Billy Joel sold it out 12 straight nights. They all have banners. I know for sure on BJ and EJ, but I am not 200 percent on the GD

i read somewhere that there used to be a tie dyed banner hanging in MSG for the dead...

@_________________________ said:

Blues Traveller played at MSG on NYE 1996

I was at that show.

After seeing Phish kick off the 2009 summer tour at Jones Beach I went back 3 days later to see NIN & Jane's Addiction there. As you can probably imagine the crowd/vibe/music was a stark contrast. As many of you can probably also imagine, NIN rocked.

@Kurtzboy said:

@GnarnianRanger said:

After seeing Phish kick off the 2009 summer tour at Jones Beach I went back 3 days later to see NIN & Jane's Addiction there. As you can probably imagine the crowd/vibe/music was a stark contrast. As many of you can probably also imagine, NIN rocked.

I saw that same tour in Deer Creek (the NIN one). I'd rank that up there in my favorite concerts that I've ever seen. Before I was a Phish Phan, I was quite the mosh pitter. ha

Don't know if I'd quite go that far, but it was a good show. I thought the Jane's Addiction portion was kind of weak though. Something about Navarro and Farrell rubbing their bare chests against each other. I fully support gay rights, but that performance was a little too homoerotic for my personal taste.

I would definitely rank my one Pearl Jam show, Denver '06, among my favorites though.

I actually saw Rush like a week after seeing Phish at Deer Creek last summer. It killed me how there was no improvisation or setlist variation going on, but they did kick some ass.

Side note (and hilarious/embarassing "concert I've been to" : I saw Def Leppard and Journey at that same Riverport venue (just outside of St. Louis) 6 years before. Journey had a 20 year old singer with the mid-50s band members, and the Def Leppard singer was simply impossible to hear. But I was in 7th grade, so it was awesome.

Edit: I do not know how that wink face got there

@MJZ1974 said:

This banner was in the rafters at the old Philly Spectrum:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3116/3264974491_9b21249d2d.jpg

And at number 53 they broke out Unbroken Chain!!!

Last summer I saw Phish on 6/29, Dave Matthews w/ Tim Reynolds 7/6 and the Zac Brown Band on 7/8 all at CMAC.

I know, I know about the Dave. I cant stand the scene at Dave shows but I wore out that Dave and Tim Live at Luther College album and had always wanted to see them.

The three deff were different. Zac Brown band was pretty good. They played a Marley cover.

@ReadIcculus_ said:

@charliefogg said:

Saw the American Idol Tour at Jones Beach and Phish a few weeks later. I also saw Further a week after Phish at the end of '09. It was like elevator music. Lastly, I saw Phish at U of Delaware and then Bryan Adams. Ugh.

What's the Disco Biscuits scene like that its so different than Phish. I always figured it was similar.

woww......first you say Furthur sounds like elevator music then you say you don't no the difference between the biscuits vibe and phish? you need to get your priorities in order before something bad happens to you.

p.s. I think you should do some research on furthur before you start talkin shit.....LEGENDS is all i have to say

Seriously. I've seen Phish and Further a matter of days or weeks apart several times, but didn't even deem it worth mentioning in this thread 'cause both are a blast. Only difference vibe-wise is that the crowd at Further is way older yet somehow far more appreciative and less jaded. A curious phenomenon.

I'm not even going to address the differences between the Phish & Bisco crowds. Someone else can if they want.

At stage AE in Pittsburgh I caught TAB and while there realized that not only was snoop dogg playing the next night, but tickets were still available. Raged Trey and Snoop on back to back nights

@BigPimpinNYC said:

That happens to me all the time, I saw a Duke college basketball game at Continental a couple days after 2/28/03. I think that was the date, February 2003 was along time ago.

I also went to a rangers game in December 2009 right after the epic Phish run. You guys think different concerts are weird, try Phish > Sports.

well of course Phish and sports are different. did you expect Coach K to bust out a sick jam?