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I've been to about 200 concerts. Seen several bands 10+ times. </p>
Best ever? The Carl Palmer Band. Perhaps the greatest drummer ever, plaing ELP music with a guy on guitar and a guy on bass who both play like Joe Satriani. It sounded an awful lot like Emerson was there. It was at the House of Blues and the audience was about 100 people. Truly outstanding.</p>
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I've been to at least 100 concerts and worked backstage security at my city's best outdoor concert venue for two years previous to this. In fact, I worked at a house of blues (although the capacity was 20,000) theater.</p>
The best band I've seen play is Pearl Jam. Seen them many times and they always leave everything out there every time. It's the closet thing to magic in this world. The Beastie Boys really do a good job as do the White Stripes. Jimmy Buffet can work his crowd like no other and the Guess Who have such a stage presence it's easy to stand there with your mouth open most of the time.</p>
Tom Petty is as cool as you think he is and Anita Baker's voice is as pure live as it sounds recorded. Tool is tight live and Fergie looks like a dog before she gets her make-up on. On the other hand, Clay Aiken is a princess and Motely Crew are mostly a joke (nikki can't even move, it's scary), Hilary Duff seems sincere as does Dolly Parton. </p>
There's so many that my brain starts to freeze when I try to think of the best but PJ probably takes the cake. </p>