Concerts: Williams Brice vs Memorial Stadium
 

This is not a smack thread! Please don't get this thread deleted.

I was wondering, if you just looked at concerts, which of the two stadiums has the edge? Which of the two venues has the hands-down better concert history?


I don't know EVERY concert that has been performed at either venue. You have to help me, if there's something missing. But I managed to dig up:

Clemson Memorial Stadium:
Pink Floyd, May 12 1994
U2 in 1997 (Pop Mart)
Rage Against the Machine in 1997 (Edit: opening for U2)
Rolling Stones in 1989
Def Leppard in 1988
The Eagles in 1996
Ozzy Osbourne and Alice in Chains in 1992
Elton John & Billy Joel in 1992
George Strait, Tim McGraw, Dixie Chicks, Kenny Chesney, Mark Wills, and Joe Dee Messina in 1999

Williams Brice:
Metallica & Guns N Roses, with Faith No More , Sept 7, 1992
U2 in 1992 (Zoo TV) (Public Enemy opening)
Paul McCartney in 1993
Rolling Stones (Blind Melon opening), Sept 25, 1994
Willie Nelson, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, etc in 1996 (Farm Aid)
Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, LeAnn Rimes, Gary Allen, and Luke Bryan in 2008
George Strait, Alan Jackson, Lonestar, Lee Ann Womack, Brad Paisley, Sara Evans (April 24, 2001)


Also, you can consider sound of the venue, seating, etc. in your vote.



[I have to say, before we even consider this, that the Grateful Dead played at the Coliseum on HALLOWEEN NIGHT 1985, which frankly blows this entire contest away, and it was the only time they ever played in South Carolina, but I'm going to stick to the original contest so that show doesn't count. Also, I found out that the fricking DOORS played the Coliseum in 1971, and Kiss on the Destroyer tour, and the Allman Brothers on the "Brothers & Sisters" tour in 1973, and SABBATH on the "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" tour, and to top it all off ELVIS. That's just scratching the surface of the badassness of the concerts at the Coliseum. So we beat Littlejohn hands down, but anyway.]

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Faith No More played also that show with GNR and Metallica. I saw that concert, as well as, the Paul McCartney concert at WB...so WB gets my pick. I've never seen a concert at Memorial either though..so not much of a point of reference for me. Memorial having AIC and Rage is impressive though

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Edit: Rage opened for U2 so, it was the same date. My bad. I didn't see the dates.

It was the Evil Empire tour

http://ratmbootlegs.kilu.de/tour/dat...ed8fe6222f.jpg

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Seen George Strait in both.

I will say this. A stadium named Death Valley has a cool sound to it for a concert venue

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My dad went to Elton and Billy in Death Valley and he says that was the best show he's ever seen where multiple artists played.

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same here

also seen Hank Jr at littlejohn

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Do you know the dates? (Not that it matters, he's badass in concert no matter when)

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Seen him 5 times.

Williams Brice was April of 2001
Clemson was March of 1999


The other times were CLA in 08, Charlotte Motor Speedway in 2000, and Raleigh (Carter Finley Stadium) in 1998.

He was great. None of the lights and smoke as he said in Pure Country. Just him singing.

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Yup. I just found it, and it was an insane lineup:

George Strait
Alan Jackson
Brad Paisley
Lee Ann Womack
Sara Evans
Alseep At the Wheel

It was "George Fest". 4/21/01. The next night was at Turner Field. That's awesome


The Clemson tour was:

George Strait
Tim McGraw
Dixie Chicks
Kenny Chesney
Mark Wills
Joe Dee Messina

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Okay this is SICK:

Pink Floyd, May 12, 1994 – Death Valley Stadium, Clemson, SC, USA
Set I: Astronomy Domine, Learning To Fly, What Do You Want From Me?, On The Turning Away, Take It Back, Poles Apart, Sorrow, Keep Talking, One Of These Days

Set II: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5), Breathe, Time, Breathe (Reprise), High Hopes, Wish You Were Here, The Great Gig In The Sky, Us And Them, Money, Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2), Comfortably Numb

Encore: Hey You, Run Like Hell

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Just for the hell of it, I looked to see the closest Led Zeppelin ever got to South Carolina.

They played the Charlotte Coliseum in April 1970 (insane set list - all stuff from LZ I and II), the Greensboro Coliseum in January 1975 (even better set list, it's all stuff from Physical Graffiti) and again in May 1977 (don't ask). Plus they played LSU a couple of times.

But we got the Dead. In 1985.

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I would have to give this one to Death Valley. The Stones show in 89 was one of the best shows I've ever been to - and I've been to a lot. I was also at the Dead show at the Coliseum that Halloween - floor level. There are no words to describe that one.

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Rolling Stones set list from Nov 26, 1989 at Death Valley:

I went to that. It was my first trip there. I had a good time but I don't go to many concerts and can't compare it to WB because I've never been to a concert there. I remember staying at a friend's brother's apartment who was a student at the time. They had a couple kegs and I've never seen more hippies at one time in my life.

The concert was pretty intense and the effects with the lights and pig thing was pretty cool, at least at the time.

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Yeah that was when he was doing the Chevy Truck Tour. The one in Columbia gets a slight edge. Both were great.

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How's Hank Jr in concert? I can see it being awesome. And I can see it being not so awesome haha

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Lonestar was at the 2001 George Strait concert in Willy B, too.

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Off the top of my head, the list is missing Kenny's Poets and Pirates tour in 2008. It was the one where he broke his leg, but still performed. Totally awesome. We were right at the stage. Brooks & Dunn, LeAnn Rimes, Gary Allen, and Luke Bryan were there, too.

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it was awesome, and btw I was all of the "George Strait Country Music Festivals" you mentioned except for the one at the CLA, we went to Carter-Findley, LMS, WB and Clemson.

but back to hank, what made it even better to me was that after he came out for the "encore" with the band, he went back backstage and then about 15 minutes later walked back out with his guitar and a bottle, had a stage hand walk out a stool with him, he said to us (there were prob less than 200 people left in the place at that time, and me and my friends had walked down front for the encore cause it had pretty much emptied out before that) "Guys, I want to play some more if thats ok with y'all" we said something along the lines of "Heck yeah" and he sat there, just him the guitar and the bottle, and drank and played pretty much all of his daddys songs...it was awesome

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that's awesome. i've seen jr twice. one time was pretty good the other time he didn't come back for the encore. he's one of those hit or miss type of acts for sure.