Best bands to ever sell out

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

If it's not the same connection as when No Doubt was your local club band, I will have to say it's one of the best connections I've seen between a major music artist and her audience. She has not by any means lost that.

I'll admit that I haven't seen them in years. I stopped once I went to a show and was crushed against the stage for an hour and got kicked in the head (and almost blacked out) by a crowd surfer. Had to be pulled out by security. It was absolutlely raucus, and the band ignored it. Which is normal for other concerts, but the previous time I saw ND (which was before KROQ was playing them), they flat out stopped playing in the middle of a song because the mosh pit was getting nasty. That was enough of a change of attitude for me. And then Gwen started going through her Madaonna wanna-be phase. And all the while, their music was getting duller and duller, imo.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

And all the while, their music was getting duller and duller, imo.

I might have to agree with this premise, but since the band seems to have entered their performing-of-greatest-hits phase, I found both recent concert experiences to be really enjoyable. Their newer stuff is much more palatable when served up with the better works of yesteryear, and the band (and 'specially Gwen) still puts on quite a show!