It's a tie:

• DM Devotional - best large-scale show I've seen, what a spectacle. You can find videos on YouTube, note the stage design and how things would move between the screens on stage (the square ones on the front of the second "story" of the stage). Normally I'd want to be front and center but we were up and to the left and that turned out to be wildly good luck because at that angle we could see things going AROUND the screens not just ACROSS). Wild. And no one does crowd control like Dave Gahan, I mean Jagger's not even close.

• Orb Cydonia - SF, Maritime Hall, 2001 - and cited as one of the Orb's standout gigs of all time as well. LX Paterson's brother had just died but the show went on and I think he was playing it for him basically. Just fucking incredible.

• Symbiosis/Nebula 9/Freaky Chakra vs Single Cell Orchestra - this was live lineup with some great DJs supporting at a rave in Dallas, mid-90s. Insane. Symbiosis was local to Dallas, almost went national, Nebula 9 was from Denver and I still can't believe the show, and FC/SCO were from SF and also were great. It was a very pimp evening. (Freaky Chakra's "Lowdown Motivator" is probably one of the best electronic albums ever made and worth checking out.)

• Brubeck (Eugene) - jazz festival. Show in fantastic-acoustics hall. Apparently for the boomer+ Jazz Audience going WOOOOO loud and long after each song isn't a thing, but I didn't care. When the drummer took a solo, and I wouldn't shit you you're my favorite turd, it sounded like the whole band was still playing (well minus the piano). A standard jazz kit. This still remains one of the damndest things I've seen or heard in my entire life.

• Oh and Brubeck story #2. This was oh ~2005 and so he was pretty old by this point. He would dodder up to the mic, making his way as quick as he could which was not at all quick obviously, tell a story about the next song or whatnot, then dodder back to the piano and just play the living shit out of it.

• Steely Dan (Aspen) - jazz/etc festival (actually lots of other stuff, but whatevs). It was great and the drummer even did a short instead of long and wanky solo. We were kind of far back (not-VIP section) which worked out well because it was like being properly positioned for listening to a giant hi-fi stereo in a field.

It's a tie:

• DM Devotional - best large-scale show I've seen, what a spectacle. You can find videos on YouTube, note the stage design and how things would move between the screens on stage (the square ones on the front of the second "story" of the stage). Normally I'd want to be front and center but we were up and to the left and that turned out to be wildly good luck because at that angle we could see things going AROUND the screens not just ACROSS). Wild. And no one does crowd control like Dave Gahan, I mean Jagger's not even close.

• Orb Cydonia - SF, Maritime Hall, 2001 - and cited as one of the Orb's standout gigs of all time as well. LX Paterson's brother had just died but the show went on and I think he was playing it for him basically. Just fucking incredible.

• Symbiosis/Nebula 9/Freaky Chakra vs Single Cell Orchestra - this was live lineup with some great DJs supporting at a rave in Dallas, mid-90s. Insane. Symbiosis was local to Dallas, almost went national, Nebula 9 was from Denver and I still can't believe the show, and FC/SCO were from SF and also were great. It was a very pimp evening. (Freaky Chakra's "Lowdown Motivator" is probably one of the best electronic albums ever made and worth checking out.)

• Brubeck (Eugene) - jazz festival. Show in fantastic-acoustics hall. Apparently for the boomer+ Jazz Audience going WOOOOO loud and long after each song isn't a thing, but I didn't care. When the drummer took a solo, and I wouldn't shit you you're my favorite turd, it sounded like the whole band was still playing (well minus the piano). A standard jazz kit. This still remains one of the damndest things I've seen or heard in my entire life.

• Oh and Brubeck story #2. This was oh ~2005 and so he was pretty old by this point. He would dodder up to the mic, making his way as quick as he could which was not at all quick obviously, tell a story about the next song or whatnot, then dodder back to the piano and just play the living shit out of it.

• Steely Dan (Aspen) - jazz/etc festival (actually lots of other stuff, but whatevs). It was great and the drummer even did a short instead of long and wanky solo. We were kind of far back (not-VIP section) which worked out well because it was like being properly positioned for listening to a giant hi-fi stereo in a field.

It's a tie:

• DM Devotional - best large-scale show I've seen, what a spectacle. You can find videos on YouTube, note the stage design and how things would move between the screens on stage (the square ones on the front of the second "story" of the stage). Normally I'd want to be front and center but we were up and to the left and that turned out to be wildly good luck because at that angle we could see things going AROUND the screens not just ACROSS). Wild. And no one does crowd control like Dave Gahan, I mean Jagger's not even close.

• Orb Cydonia - SF, Maritime Hall, 2001 - and cited as one of the Orb's standout gigs of all time as well. LX Paterson's brother had just died but the show went on and I think he was playing it for him basically. Just fucking incredible.

• Symbiosis/Nebula 9/Freaky Chakra vs Single Cell Orchestra - this was live lineup with some great DJs supporting at a rave in Dallas, mid-90s. Insane. Symbiosis was local to Dallas, almost went national, Nebula 9 was from Denver and I still can't believe the show, and FC/SCO were from SF and also were great. It was a very pimp evening. (Freaky Chakra's "Lowdown Motivator" is probably one of the best electronic albums ever made and worth checking out.)

• Brubeck (Eugene) - jazz festival. Show in fantastic-acoustics hall. Apparently for the boomer+ Jazz Audience going WOOOOO loud and long after each song isn't a thing, but I didn't care. When the drummer took a solo, and I wouldn't shit you you're my favorite turd, it sounded like the whole band was still playing (well minus the piano). A standard jazz kit. This still remains one of the damndest things I've seen or heard in my entire life.

• Oh and Brubeck story #2. This was oh ~2005 and so he was pretty old by this point. He would dodder up to the mic, making his way as quick as he could which was not at all quick obviously, tell a story about the next song or whatnot, then dodder back to the piano and just play the living shit out of it.

• Steely Dan (Aspen) - jazz/etc festival (actually lots of other stuff, but whatevs). It was great and the drummer even did a short instead of long and wanky solo. We were kind of far back (not-VIP section) which worked out well because it was like being properly positioned for listening to a giant hi-fi stereo in a field.

It's a tie:

• DM Devotional - best large-scale show I've seen, what a spectacle. You can find videos on YouTube, note the stage design and how things would move between the screens on stage (the square ones on the front of the second "story" of the stage). Normally I'd want to be front and center but we were up and to the left and that turned out to be wildly good luck because at that angle we could see things going AROUND the screens not just ACROSS). Wild. And no one does crowd control like Dave Gahan, I mean Jagger's not even close.

• Orb Cydonia - SF, Maritime Hall, 2001 - and cited as one of the Orb's standout gigs of all time as well. LX Paterson's brother had just died but the show went on and I think he was playing it for him basically. Just fucking incredible.

• Symbiosis/Nebula 9/Freaky Chakra vs Single Cell Orchestra - this was live lineup with some great DJs supporting at a rave in Dallas, mid-90s. Insane. Symbiosis was local to Dallas, almost went national, Nebula 9 was from Denver and I still can't believe the show, and FC/SCO were from SF and also were great. It was a very pimp evening. (Freaky Chakra's "Lowdown Motivator" is probably one of the best electronic albums ever made and worth checking out.)

• Brubeck (Eugene) - jazz festival. Show in fantastic-acoustics hall. Apparently for the boomer+ Jazz Audience going WOOOOO loud and long after each song isn't a thing, but I didn't care. When the drummer took a solo, and I wouldn't shit you you're my favorite turd, it sounded like the whole band was still playing (well minus the piano). A standard jazz kit. This still remains one of the damndest things I've seen or heard in my entire life.

Oh and Brubeck story #2. This was oh ~2005 and so he was pretty old by this point. He would dodder up to the mic, making his way as quick as he could which was not at all quick obviously, tell a story about the next song or whatnot, then dodder back to the piano and just play the living shit out of it.

• Steely Dan (Aspen) - jazz/etc festival (actually lots of other stuff, but whatevs). It was great and the drummer even did a short instead of long and wanky solo. We were kind of far back (not-VIP section) which worked out well because it was like being properly positioned for listening to a giant hi-fi stereo in a field.

It's a tie:

• DM Devotional - best large-scale show I've seen, what a spectacle. You can find videos on YouTube, note the stage design and how things would move between the screens on stage (the square ones on the front of the second "story" of the stage). Normally I'd want to be front and center but we were up and to the left and that turned out to be wildly good luck because at that angle we could see things going AROUND the screens not just ACROSS). Wild. And no one does crowd control like Dave Gahan, I mean Jagger's not even close.
• Orb Cydonia - SF, Maritime Hall, 2001 - and cited as one of the Orb's standout gigs of all time as well. LX Paterson's brother had just died but the show went on and I think he was playing it for him basically. Just fucking incredible.
• Symbiosis/Nebula 9/Freaky Chakra vs Single Cell Orchestra - this was live lineup with some great DJs supporting at a rave in Dallas, mid-90s. Insane. Symbiosis was local to Dallas, almost went national, Nebula 9 was from Denver and I still can't believe the show, and FC/SCO were from SF and also were great. It was a very pimp evening. (Freaky Chakra's "Lowdown Motivator" is probably one of the best electronic albums ever made and worth checking out.)
• Brubeck (Eugene) - jazz festival. Show in fantastic-acoustics hall. Apparently for the boomer+ Jazz Audience going WOOOOO loud and long after each song isn't a thing, but I didn't care. When the drummer took a solo, and I wouldn't shit you you're my favorite turd, it sounded like the whole band was still playing (well minus the piano). A standard jazz kit. This still remains one of the damndest things I've seen or heard in my entire life.
• Steely Dan (Aspen) - jazz/etc festival (actually lots of other stuff, but whatevs). It was great and the drummer even did a short instead of long and wanky solo. We were kind of far back (not-VIP section) which worked out well because it was like being properly positioned for listening to a giant hi-fi stereo in a field.