10.Radiohead/ King of Limbs tour. Houston Texas:

Being my third time seeing them, I kinda knew what to expect in terms of greatest, and I was not disappointed. The awesome thing about this band live is that literally every show is different. The stage guy acts as a member of the band so the production can change and grow while the show is happening. This gives a lot of leeway in terms of switching songs out and staying fresh. We didn’t have the best seats in the world. But when your watching 5 people who were clearly put on this earth to make music, any seat in the venue is a splendid one.

SETLIST: Bloom, Little by Little, Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi, Morning Mr. Magpie, the Gloaming, 15 Step, Codex, Cut a Hole, These are my twisted words, Airbag, Identikit, Lotus Flower, There There, Feral, Idioteque, Reckoner, Separator, All I Need, Myxomatosis, Everything in Its Right Place, Give up the Ghost, Nude, Paranoid Android

9. Jeff Mangum/ One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans:

( See proper review on mainpage please ). Let’s just say it was moving, heartfelt, and beautiful.

8. Sigur Ros Bonnaroo 2008

One of the best show’s ever. Witnessing the surreal beauty in a crowded tent at 2 Am near the end of the festival was just amazing. The song choices were brilliant. As a whole, they ease you into a serene place and don’t let go until the last song. I always feel awkward shedding tears at a concert, but it helps when you look around and see many others also having a cry. These guys know precision, and it’s clear they take the craft very seriously. I’d suggest seeing them for anyone who’s a fan of music, period. It will bring you to a place so beautiful and then it will always be a part of you.

SETLIST: Svenfn – g- englar, Vaka, Se Lest, Vio spilum endalaust, Hoppipolla, Meo Bloonasir, Festival, Fljotavik, Meo suo I eyrum, Gooan Daginn, Olsen Olsen, Inni mer syngue vitleysingur, Hafsol, Heysatan, Gobbledigook, All Alrigh

7. Tool New Orleans 2010

Being my twentieth Tool show, I thought I had seen everything. After seeing 11 shows on the last tours for 10,000 Days, I was becoming bored by the repetitious setlists. On those previous 11 shows they more or less played the same 9 songs every night. I went in expecting the same, and I was very pleasantly surprised. The stage show had been reformatted, and an entire new setlist containing quite a few older surprises helped to make this one of the best, and probably the best Tool show I had seen. Also, you’d be surprised how much the simple act of switching around the order of the songs can help. This was also the first night of that current tour, and having been to three previous opening night tour shows I’m aware of the excitement that comes with.

SETLIST: Third Eye, Jambi, (-)ions intro, Stinkist, Vicarious, Eon Blue Apocalypse/ the Patient, Intolerance, Schism, Forty Six & Two, Lateralus, Aenima

6. Arcade Fire New Orleans Jazz Fest 2011,

After anxiously waiting for two albums to see them, finally they were announced as a headliner for Jazz Fest. I really don’t understand some of the hate they get. When you’re watching them you can tell they genuinely love playing music and entertaining audiences. I also have to say that seeing a band at Jazz Fest really does bring out the best. No band get’s their stage shows, and they all play in broad day light. This setting proves to people who can actually perform without the use of lights and an elaborate stage show.

SETLIST: Ready to Start, Keep the Car Running, Neighborhood #2, Modern Man, No Cars Go, Haiti, Intervention, the Suburbs/ ( Continued), Month of May, Neighborhood #1, We used to Wait, Neighborhood #3, Rebellion ( Lies), Girls Just wanna have fun, Sprawl II, Wake Up

5. Foo Fighters / Weezer Houston

Easily one of the best days of my life. For as long as I can remember, I loved Weezer, and also grew to be a major Foo’s fan. The show was excellent, and the stage show for the Foo’s was bad ass. Both bands brought it, and my buddy and I were also lucky to make many concert friends while at the show, and that always helps to make a great night even more awesome.

FF SETLIST: In your Honor, All my Life, My Hero, Best of You, Up in Arms, Learn to Fly, the Last Song, the One, Stacked Actors, Everlong, This is a call, I’ll stick Around, Born on the Bayou, Breakout, Cold Day in the Sun, Times Like These, Monkey Wrench

Weezer SETLIST: Don’t Let Go, My Name is Jonas, In the Garage, This is such a Pity, Why Bother?, Perfect Situation, El Scorcho. Say It Ain’t So, We are all on Drugs, Beverly Hills, Buddy Holly, Photograph, Island in the Sun, Undone, Hash Pipe. Surf Wax America

4. Radiohead Lollapalooza 2008

The setting inside Grant park couldn’t have been better. After being in a car for 18 hours and going straight to the festival grounds and sitting at the stage for close to 9 hours, we were ready. While the next show I saw by them was a more recent setlist filled with new songs and more obscure songs, this was a greatest hits set. They played almost everything you could want, and the fireworks going off in sync with Fake Plastic trees will always stand out as one of the most amazing things I’ve ever witnessed.

SETLIST: 15 Step, Airbag, There There, All I Need, Nude, Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi, the Gloaming, the National Anthem, Faust Arp. No Surprises, Jigsaw Falling into Place, Reckoner, Lucky, the Bends, Everything in its Right Place, Fake Plastic Trees, Bodysnatchers, Videotape, Paranoid Android, Dollars & Cents, House of Cards, Optimistic, 2+2 =5, Idioteque

3. Nin Bonnaroo 2009

I went to Roo that year because Reznor had announced that it would be the last show. It wasn’t. They announced proper “ Farewell” shows a few weeks later. Either way, it was the best NIN experience I’d ever had. Getting to see a nearly three hour show while Reznor and company played 9 Songs I’d never seen live truly made it not only the highlight of the festival, but the highlight of all other nin concerts.

SETLIST: Home, Terrible Lie, Discipline, March of the Pigs, Piggy, Metal, Reptile, the Becoming, I’m Afraid of Americans, Burn, Gave Up. La Mer, the Fragile, Banged & Blown Through, Non – Entity, Gone Still, the Way out is Through, Mr. Self Destruct, Survivalism, the Hand that Feeds, Head Like a Hole, Wish, Echoplex, the Good Soldier, Dead Souls, the Day the World went Away, Hurt

2. Watch the Throne ( Jay – Z & Kanye West ) New Orleans

Before the tour, I had no idea what to expect. Would they perform solo sets? Anyway, they didn’t perform solo sets as much they both occupied the stage, together, and alone for close to three hours. It always helps when the acts you’re watching are playing nearly every song that everyone knows all the words to. That’s why it’s number two. They owned the stage, and the arena, and the killed the crowd with nothing but classic hit songs from every era of both of their careers.

SETLIST: H A M, Otis, Who Gonna Stop Me, Otis, Welcome to the Jungle, Gotta Have it, Lucifer, Where I’m From, Jigga What, Jigga Who, Can’t Tell me Nothing, Flashing Lights, Jesus Walks, Diamonds from Sierra Leone, Public Service Announcement, U Don’t Know, Run This Town, Monster, Power, New Day, Hard Knock Live, Izzo, Empire State of mind, Runaway, Heartless, Stronger, On to the Next One, Dirt off Your Shoulder, I Just Wanna Love U, That’s my Bitch, Good Life, Touch the Sky, All of the Lights, Big Pimpin, Gold Digger, 99 Problems, No Church in the World, Lift Off, Niggas in Paris ( 9 Times!)

1. the Daft Punk Experience

I say experience because it’s impossible to pick which one of the three shows I attended were the best. All were perfect and magnificent. From seeing the first show in 9 years at Coachella, to traveling with some of my best friends and my sister to see what we thought was their last show ever in Miami, then heading to Red Rocks to see the following tour ( this time accompanied by my now Fiancee, my sister again, and my mother ) all three were amazing and life changing. Thinking about these concerts have made me hungry for the day when once more, Daft Punk will bring the spectacle like no one else can.

SETLIST: Robot Rock/ Oh Yeah, Touch It/ Technologic, Television Rules the Nation/ Crescendolls, Too Long/ Steam Machine, Around the World/ Harder Better Faster Stronger/ Burnin’/ Too Long, Face to Face/ Short Circuit, One More Time/ Aerodynamic/ Forget about the world/ Prime Time of Your Life. Brainwasher, Rollin’ & Strachin’, Alive/ Da Funk/ Daftendirekt, Superheroes/ Human After All/ Rock N Roll, Human After All ( Continued)/ Together, One More Time ( Reprise)/ Music sounds better with You.