My Top 5 Over-all Best Visual Concert Performances I've Ever Seen

Here Are #5, #4 and #3

Music, appearance, energy , volume all play an important part in performing live to an audience to keep them captivated the entire show. But there is one other important feature that enables one to remember a certain show for a much more longer period of time. And that is Visual Effects. It doesn't matter how charged up a band is, there's nothing better than adding stage atmosphere.

I have seen a great number of bands perform, from Yes to the Ramones, Cheap Trick to Disturbed, The Cure to Korn, whether at a college, small nite club, indoor arena or outside stadium. Although the bands i just listed are only a handful of them, they have to be the best performers of their time as far as music and energy goes in my opinion. I do have to comment though on the Ramones here for a minute. I was a Junior in High School when I first started listening to the Ramones. I think I saw them 10 times in that one year alone, covering the entire length of the state of New Jersey. The smaller the club or college, the better it always was. The Ramones and Patti Smith were the underground revelation of Punk Rock. I remember being pinned to the front of the stage at several clubs as everyone behind me had the need to push forward. I remember the 1,2,3, 4 !! DeeDee would bellow out and then a minute and a half later the song was over. I remember every person in the audience was just as covered in sweat as the band was. Rest in peace Joey Ramone. I also remember you stood next to bouncers against the stage. There wasn't this gap between the crowd and the band with bouncers in between as there are now. Stage front meant just that.

We all know that 20 years ago there was never a sticker on the 8-Track tape or cassette labeling the contents as explicit , or a parent needing to accompany their child in order to purchase it. Times have changed. Its rare now to listen to a rock band and NOT hear bad language. I'm not basing any of this on lyrics. The bands below have a lasting memory with me and are considered to be the best visually entertaining bands I have seen and well worth the price of tickets.