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Sideways:
What do you think some truly awesome moments in music are/were?

For me, it had to be the events at one Radiohead concert in New York, as described by Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) in an interview with 'The Rock Voice':


--- Quote from: Michael Stipe ---Well, for me personally, the end of the Great Quiet came in the summer of 2003, at a Radiohead show in New York at the Beacon Theater. It was a televised thing, and they had sold tickets for $2. The entire place was filled with fanatic Radiohead fans. Typically at a Radiohead show, everyone sings along to every song; they know every lyric. Sometimes you can't even hear Thom Yorke's voice over the din of the audience. But this night, when they walked onstage and started playing the first song, the audience was quiet, reverential. No one was singing along to any of the songs. It wasn't until they played the song "No Surprises" that says "the government, they don't speak for us." And on that line, every single person in that room shouted out "the government, they don't speak for us!" And on the next line of the lyric, they were dead quiet again. I was there with a group of people, including Q-Tip, and I looked over at Tip, and his mouth was hanging open. And I was like, "Did that just happen?" And he just nodded his head yes. Afterwards, we were sitting around at the bar with Thom and the band, and Tip and I said, "Do you realize what happened tonight?" And Thom said, "I almost fell over. I almost couldn't sing the next line of the song." That, to me, was the beginning of the end of the Great Quiet in New York. And of course New Yorkers would get it first because they were there. Anyway, the sentiment and this feeling of the Great Quiet had ended for me, in one line of one song in one moment in New York City. And thus began a period of great personal activism, I think, in the U.S. that is still spreading like wildfire across the country. Now I think people feel that they were quiet, their feelings were sublimated for so long by this shock and this loss of innocence and this mass tragedy that we all shared, and now they want to raise their own voice. They're wearing T-shirts, they're arguing publicly, they're educating themselves, they're reading about stuff that's outside of the mainstream media.
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Kai:
Mike Patton pissing in his shoe and then drinking it.



On a more serious note; Bob Dylan being born.

KharBevNor:
Worldwide, it's easily when Maiden were getting egged at Ozzfest *spit* and Brucey ran out right into the teeth of it waving the Union Jack crying "These colours don't run!". British. Fucking. Steel.

As for personal moments, that is, moments in concerts I've attended that just surpass awesome and travel into some sunny upland beyond:

In Flames: First time I ever saw a band I actually liked in concert. I don't like In Flames that much, but I was in tears by the second song, it was just so good to finally be watching something decent and not another shitty hardcore band.

Apocalyptica: "Because ve are Cello quartet from HELL, ve play for you original black metal masterpiece: EDVARD GRIEG, HALL OF ZE MOUNTAIN KING!" Then, as the piece started, the drummer led us in a clap whilst keeping time with the pedals. the clap getting faster, and faster, and faster: they ended up almost a scream of distorted cello, with the pit beneath them going wild. Classical music is fucking metal.

Motorhead: They finish an acoustic number (first of the encore). Instruments are chucked to roadies and Lemmy lights up (it was a no smoking venue, but this was MOTORHEAD. The air was thick.) A roadie comes forward and hands him his bass. He has a few drags as he straps it on, then spits the fag out into the press pit. "Alright boys and girls. Looks like it's that time of the night again." Ace of Spades begins. Everyone goes INSANE. At the 'Don't forget the Joker" bit, Lemmy palm mutes, and spins the microphone stand out toward the crowd. Every voice in the venue screams back at him. Awesome.


Oh, and like, every single fucking SECOND of Alice Cooper. Fucking hell.

Storm Rider:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---Worldwide, it's easily when Maiden were getting egged at Ozzfest *spit* and Brucey ran out right into the teeth of it waving the Union Jack crying "These colours don't run!". British. Fucking. Steel.

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My friend was at that show. Bruce's quote from right before they launched into The Tropper is still in his AIM profile. "You won't hear this song on your local cocksucking corporate radio station, and you sure as fuck won't hear it on some fucking MTV reality show!" Up the irons indeed.

Cobra Kai:
The locust doing like 10 minutes of brutal feedback during their show with Andrew WK. The bro's looked like they wanted to die.

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