[Cecil Terwilliger]

Hmm. Tough question.

1) Korn - July 27th (?) 2000 at the Dome. This was my first real arena concert show. I'd seen a few smaller concerts but this was the first major act I'd ever seen headlining at a major venue. I was 15 and my ears rang for about a week. I'm not so much into Korn's new stuff but at the time it was right around the height of their popularity after Issues came out. Easily the single greatest performance I'd ever seen live. Never forget, after the show we were talking to some old biker dude who said he'd seen hundreds of concerts through the years and he wasn't even a Korn fan and he said he was absolutley floored.

2)NIN - Nov 17th 2005 - First time I'd ever seen them. Theatrically it wasn't as good as the shows I saw a few years later but it was a pretty epic show.

3) Roger Waters 2007 - DSOTM - I was really skeptical going in because I wasn't sure how much PF stuff he'd play. Ended up being one of the best concerts of my life. DSOTM was awesome and the other PF stuff was amazing. When he played Pigs (at least I think it was, could have been Sheep, memory is a bit hazy) and had the flying Pig I lost my ####. Amazing show. The woman who sang Great Gig in the Sky was so good it almost brought me to tears

4) Eric Clapton 2007 - Played some hits, some deep cuts but man oh man can he play the ####ing guitar. I like Clapton but I'm not exactly a superfan. I could probably name about 50 other artists/bands I prefer but he put on one hell of a show. And it wasn't theatrics at all. Just him and the band up there playing their hearts out.

5) This one is hardest. Not going to name NIN again. Let's go with Finger Eleven about a decade ago at Stampede. Several thousand people showed up and I'll never forget when they walked out the lead singer, forget his name at the moment, just said "wow, we weren't expecting this" and they went into First Time still gives me goosebumps thinking about it. The performance isn't particularly memorable but the crowd was absolutely electric.

HM: White Stripes were deadly, still mad at my boss I had to miss the private show in the afternoon at the local music school; both System of a Down shows; Queens of the Stone Age playing their S/T album at the Jubilee last year; Tool, either time. They were amazing. This really should be #5 but I don't want to change it.

I have a crazy story about Finger Eleven playing at the new Mac Hall in about 2005 or 2006 that involves some illicit substances but my dad reads CP and I don't really want to share that just yet (don't worry old man, it wasn't cocaine).

Just looking at an old post I made a few years ago about my favorite shows all time and the list is almost identical.

Worst: I honestly don't know. Haven't seen any horrible shows but obviously some are kind of forgetable.