Reader Request - Concert of Your Year
December 26th, 2007 - by Eddie
In a year that saw one of the best-selling concerts in the land as Hannah Montana (or was it the best-selling concert? I don’t care) and the reunions of The Police and Led Zeppelin, the year was full of madness.
At 52 Shows, we don’t try to see every concert in the world (I can’t even see every concert in my town). Instead, we strive to see the bands we love or shows we’re curious about (had I not ventured out on a cold February night, I never would have experienced the awesome badass-ness of The Black Angels and Scott never would have had a so-so night at the Middle East Club in Cambridge).
So in that effort, we’re asking for your favorite concerts of the year. Doesn’t matter if you saw one or 20. Tell us something that moved you and why.
Here’s mine: Kings of Leon. As I wrote in my review of the show, the Kings brought forth a buffet of rock that had the swagger, element of danger and line of loose whores dancing in the aisle that you want at a show.
They also put out one of the best albums of the year in Because of the Times, which continues in heavy rotation in my iPod.
It was so inspiring that I even bought a $40 t-shirt from them, something I swore I would never do because no T-shirt is worth that much. And yet, somehow, this one is. I’m such a hypocrite.
So, with the final reader request of the year at our feet, what concert/show set your hair on fire, gave you that extra buzz and turned you on?
See you on the other side friends. Get for some exciting shit happening around here in 08. Don’t know what exciting shit is? Then you’ve never lived.
