Ya'll out there been to Wu shows right? Where & When?
How was that shit for ya overall?
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Ya'll out there been to Wu shows right? Where & When?
How was that shit for ya overall?
My favorite and least favorite experience:
I went to the one at Hammerstine in New York City. It was fucking incredible. I mean it feels good to be at Wu shows because all you got around you are hardcore WU fans that know almost all the lyrics to every single song, wear Wu-Tang related shirts, and think Wu-Tang is the best shit in the world. I ve been to many- infact I will be at Ghostface's show on Sunday.
My favorite would have to be the GZA concert in BB Kings(NYC) not the one with Muggs, but the one before that. He brough Ghost, Killah Priest, Deck, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, and DJ Mathematics was there. R.A the Rugged Man oppened up, then C Cays Wallz performed, and then J-Live. That was probably the best show i ve ever been to.
The worst was the Methodman Feat. Streetlife show at BB KINGS. We had to wait FOREVER for Meth and Street. Show started at 9 and they showed up like at 1 something. Meth was real conceited and kind of ignorant. There was also a fight between Streetlife and some dudes that performed right before they showed up. That shit scared the shit out of mad people; the stage was packed with all of MEF'S and Street's people and it made me feel unconfortable. Honestly I think it was set up: Right after the fight he perfomed F.A.N.Z.
I went to two Killa Beez concerts (Cilvaringz, Beretta 9, Shogun Assasson, Remedy, Shabazz The Disciple, Timbo King), one in Tilburg and the other one in Amsterdam. I went to a solo concert by Shabazz in Tilburg, a few solo gigs of Cilvaringz, and one Wu-Tang gig in Amsterdamone and a half years ago. That shit was amazing! For our NY friends here on the board this feeling must have softened a bit, but seeing the Clan for real for the first time (and up til now last) was awesome
most recently was hammerstein reunion
seen method and red live
also saw wu-tang in like 97 in jerzy
Best Concert Ever...Rage Against the Machine w/ Wu-Tang Clan August '98 in Indianapolis @ Deer Creek.
25,000+ in attendance, both Rage and Wu were a perfect combination and I sat front row center and still have the ticket stub.
Not only did both groups kill it, but someone died trying to run down from the lawn to the pavillion when they tripped and smacked their head on the concrete steps.
I've never seen any show in my life comparable to that night.
thanx for the feedback fam...
but really no one else wants to list they shit...
wu tang- the W tour )State Theatre, Detroit
wu tang- iron flag tour)State theatre, Detroit
Rza ft Black Knights)St. Andrew's Hall, Detroit
Ghostface Pretty Tony tour)The Shelter, Detroit
Ghostface Fishscale Concert Ft Cappadonna and Trife)St. Andrews
Wu tang live at studio 95, Detroit
Method Man Tical 0 Pre- release party)Royal Oak Music Theatre
Method Man & Redman at the 1rst Hip hop Summit)State Theatre, Deroit
Method Man (ft StreetLife) live in Copenhagen, Vega.. Crazy show
Raekwon (+ one from ice water inc.) also very ill.
I'm hoping to see either Gza or Cappadonna this year.. But of course the whole clan would be craaazy
i been to a couple wu shows, they been coming around my tri-state alot in the past 2 years
wu tang clan 2004-In Jersey, actually the day before ODB died
Gza 2005-TLA in philly
Ghostface 2005-TLA in philly
Wu tang clan reunion tour-2006 Electric Factory in philly
Ghostface fishscale tour-TLA in philly
i might see mef on the 11th in allentown 2..lol
Wu reunion tour at Hammerstein, Valentines Day
Ghostface at BB Kings, Fishscale tour
Thats about it I think
Was anyone at Rock The Bells when all nine members were there?....I saw the documentary the other day and have to say I am glad I wasnt there....shit looked mad dangerous with all the people cramming in and people in the front not being able to breathe and shit
..neva got enough feedback on this one...hit me
I LOVE THE WU TANG CLAN to death, but sometimes... they the wu, they make mistakes as they are people too.
1. Raekwon, Ghostface spring 04(lex diamond/pretty toney promo tour, grand nightclub in los angeles)
rate: can't say, didn't get to stay, but prolly a 10, cause it was FREE!!!
- free show sponsored by Kool cigarettes
- opener was slick rick(who changed his chains from gold to all bling half way thru the set!), then rae, then ghost.
- i had to leave during rae's set, because my lady and i'd bought tickets for rjd2 the same night at another club. i wish i hadn't left as it seemed like he was tearing up the crowd! really poor sound, in a really small and old club, but the vibe was there. you could tell the people there were real wu fans.
- i really wish i would have stayed... atleast i got some free cigarettes out of it.
Method Man, may 04 (tical 0 promo tour, hob in anahiem)
rate: 10
- not my favorite member, but of all the members of the wu, he came the most prepared and professional. he wasn't late, streetlife didn't try even once to take the spotlight away from meth (ie: trife and ghost) and meth did every single hit track he and the wu ever had, minus "break ups 2 make ups".
-all the songs flowed and blended well together and there weren't 10+ dudes on the stage. just him and streetlife. you could tell some thought and rehursal was put into this.
3. Rock the Bells/wu tang reunion, aug 04 (orange pavillion in san bernardino)
rate: 10
- unbelieveable! just madness. imagine 10,000 ppl just screaming every lyric to every song! vibe was right, they was all on point... except dirty was sitting down half the time, but what surprised me most was how on point he was lyrically... came on an hour and a half late, true in wu fashion.
- everyone was pissed before they came on. i think i waited at the gates to this show for like 3 hours. by the time i got to the front of the line, the first 30 ppl in front were mased... people then started to riot in the line and broke down the fence. made me wonder why i even bothered to buy a ticket. anyone could've gotten in free if they waited long enough.
4. Rock the Bells/ Cuban Linx: Ghost and Rae + suprise guest the RZA (orange pavillion in san bernardino)
rate: too blunted to give an accurate one
- great lineup: nas, redman, living legends, heiroglyphics, sage francis, guru... i forget who else
- anyway, unfortunately the day was really hot, redman too forever to get on stage, i got a little too blunted during nas' set, so my memories of the show are few. cuban linx closed and all i know is that they did alot of old wu hits, but they did not do 'verbal intercourse' when rae and ghost hit the stage. it was sad because, alot of people figured the set was over after nas, so only half the venue stayed for rae and ghost. WTF??!?!?!
- rza was the special guest and was supposed to preform, but they ran out of time at the end of the set. he was on stage the whole time w/ rae and ghost.
- i don't have the endurance/patience to do whole day outdoor shows.
5. GZA/muggs, nov 05 (grandmasters promo tour, grand nightclub in los angeles)
rate: 2
- gza is one of my favorites, grandmasters is dope, muggs was there too...and i had high expectations! the venue is really small, old with crap sound system included. lineup wasn't too bad: planet asia, i self divine, swollen members. gza was really unprofessional live, first he kept yelling at someone in the crowd who threw a cell phone at him then he accused the guy who threw it of being on acid. as a professional preformer, that stuff shouldn't have messed his concentration so much. he kept saying how 'sharp' he was, yet thruout the set, there were numerous times where he'd mess up his verses and ask muggs to spin the record back. he'd then go back and redo the whole verse correctly. (the WHOLE verse??!?!)
-i was also annoyed at how his hypeman started to do some of the other wu member's verses on some songs... i dunno maybe it's a pet peeve, but if you ain't meth, dirt, ghost, rza, etc. you shouldn't do the whole verses!
-he also did two songs acapella. 'queen's gambit' and 'all n together'. okay... one acapella track is cool but he did these two back to back! wtf? all n together has a slammin beat and hearing him acapella for 9 minutes isn't cool. especially when the dude has a really monotone voice and doesn't move around much.
-however, he did do alot of wu classics off 36 chambers. not worth $20, although swollen members rocked pretty hard (to my surprise)
6. ghostface, mar 06 (fishscale promo tour, hob in los angeles)
rate: 8.5
- ghost is my favorite emcee, yet unfortuately like the rest of the wu, the show seemed unorgainzed and would've been way better had it seemed more prepared.
-Tone wasn't decked out in his robe or wearing too many chains. didn't play alot of my favorites ("one", "all that i got", "ghost dini", "criminology", no tracks/verses off 36 chambers), did a tribute to odb but got mad at the crowd when someone screamed during the moment of silence.
-woulda been a 10 if he did more of my favorites.
Not sure if this counts, but i did see RZA and meth.
7. RZA: toon time w/ the rza, july 05, LA film festival, Greek Theater LA.
rate: 9
- RZA was the guest of honor this past year at the LA film festival, so that means he got to pick out 3 films "Enter the 36 chambers", "good bad and ugly" and "Ghost Dog", also he gets his own night where he gets to talk to the crowd.
he didn't talk much, but he did this thing, where he had a set of DVDJ's and a set of turntables, and would mix wu breaks (70's soul records) along with a series of cartoons he was playing/mixing w/ the DVDJ's.
dvdj's just came out, so there was alot of technical difficulties, but it was cool to see the rza as a dj and trying to match the beats to the cartoons. when he was on point, it was sick, but... yes there were many technical difficulties. method man came by to support as well. pretty cool and innovative. $10 well spent. good job RZA.
show was insane man... it was crazy because the security didn't know how to handle the crowd. by the time i got in, it seemed like security had given up. the fans seriously f*cked that place up! grafitti everywhere on everything, i remember seeing some cats steal from and knock over those merch booths, people puffing blunts and joints everywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris79
keep in mind the place is a hangar/spot where planes are fixed... and the fans were able to break thru and tear down a heavy duty steel fence. not that chain link stuff, the real deal! i was surpised myself.
security couldn't do anything that day, even macing the crowd didn't do nothin. the power of the wu was in control and owned it!
Im going too see them live for my first time the 24th of june... I cant wait!!
Peace
I went to that shitz at Chene Pk. Detroit.06 let me just tell you that was the best concert I eva saw.. I'll admit I neva got ta see em with ODB but this show after listenin since 98 and bein at 3 Wu shows before..was just beyond words.....peas
i saw wu-tang minus ODB of course at club laga in pittsburgh twice.
july 2000
march 2002
saw ghostface last year at Mr Smallz in Pittsburgh
I saw Inspectah Deck in Germany, small Show, but it was very nice!
Rebel INS was invited by Terra Pete (the german guy, which made a track togehter with INS & Joe Young ==> Gunz 'N Crack, sth. like this!), to come to his home town, which is also my home town, a small one, sure, but we had Deck in our town!!!
I saw GZA(also DJ Muggs and Killah Priest) at Splash hip-hop festival in Mosow
Seen all the Wu once
A Ghost show with everyone minus ODB/Mef +Killarmy Shyheim, Sunz, and thats the best show I´ve ever seen was at tramps in nyc in 98 and lasted the whole night.
Seen Red/meth
Raekwon on Paddys Day in Dublin
Another Ghost show with Rae, Gza Masta Killa+ Kool G Rap @BBKings 2001 right after Xmas and Bulletproof Rae and Ghost were very drunk great show, had to slip the doorman a bill to get in lol
Gza in Dublin passed him my demo haha
thats all I think plus I was thown out a Rza/Killers Beez show in Prague
My brother saw ODB in Seattle playing for cases of beer lol; when the beer was finished so was the concert, he said haha
..True fanz will attend the shows...
o.k. so there havent been no Wu shows ina while..
Sp here in the D where no concerts harldy thru the winter.
...What are some other shows doe you been to that
rival the intensity or greatness of a Wu show?
get at me..........
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Can You go into detail?Quote:
Originally Posted by kwu
Rock The Bells 05 San Bernadino.. It Got To A Point Where Lauryn Hill Was The Guest lauryn Hill, And She Was Getting Boo'd Off The Stage Cause Wu Was Takin Forever... But Did They Put Up A Show.. Shit Was Mad Ill They Had A Huge Art Piece Of Odb In The Middle Of The Stage Killah Priest Was There Fans Wer Lightin Ther Shit Up Jumping Up And Down Striaght Up Jungle Shit Yo... Looking Forward To Rock The Bells 07....
Warsaw, March 2003
- RZA, Masta Killa, Tekitha & Cilvaringz-
The greatest show I've ever seen and my first Wu-Tang show ever. I started cryin during RZA's and Masta's performance. It was definently a revelation for me. Tekitha killed it too. I had a little chat with her after the show(album?!)- she's beautiful. I exchanged some words with Masta too like: "When is your album droppin?" and he be like: "No Said Date" lol. His aura lights up like the whole room. When U see him U can tell he's mad deep.
Sopot, January 2006
-B9, Shogun Assason, Shabazz, Christ Bearer, Cilvaringz-
1 of the greatest shows I've ever seen. They virtually destroyed the fuckin venue.
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Originally Posted by chronik
I would have loved to make a rock the bellz tour date
that shit musta been real memorable...peace
Wtf?Quote:
Originally Posted by HAQ
i saw
Inspectah Deck in Basel
Method Man (Street, Mathematics) in Winterthur
GZA (and Dreddy) in Basel
GZA (and Dreddy) in Zürich (show was better than in Basel, GZA seemed that he had more fun on stage, Dreddy was high und drunk as always :D)
WTC @ Meadowlands
WTC @ Hammerstein
GZA @ BB Kings
Ghost @ BB Kings
Masta @ BB Kings
soon to see WTC @ Randalls Island
damn..I neva been to a WU show..I did see ghost and Cappa once though. you can bet if the WU TAnG comes back thru detroit.
I"ll be there!
I've seen Rae in ZGB.. He was chillin wit his crew outside, just beside us on the bench...
"Can u feel me, storytelling rap magellan I aint tellin"
wu/rage 97 chicago
wu/killarmy 2000 chi house of bluez
rza 2001 chi house of bluez - before digital bullet came out rza said ' i'ma do a joint off the new album' when the must be bobby beat hit on all thoze wooferz it waz the illest beat i'd ever heard. then he said 'yall didnt hear the lyrics cuz yall waz feelin that beat too much right? so i'ma do the lyrics with no beat- then when he rhymed tofu with goku all 2000 headz in there went crazy
cappa 2001 chi house of bluez
red and mef chi - forgot what year
wu last year in chi - congress theater
got everyonez autograph except for ghost
rza chef masta killa and gza signed my old 'enter the 36' cd insert that i'd had for 13 yearz
cappa signed 'the struggle'
deck signed 'the movement'
u god and mef signed a tour postcard they were givin out at the show
great great night in my life
peace
Well I wasnt there but Dirty and the Brooklyn Zu were apparantly being paid in beer. The venue kept throwing the crew beers and when they finished giving them beer they stopped playing and left drunk. I´ll ask my brother though for more details cause that was funny. When I saw that Ghost show with all the WuFam Shyheim was so fucked up it was unbelievableQuote:
Originally Posted by snakesonawiggly
Saw Wu minus Meth and ODB in at House of Blues New Orleans Oct.2002
Saw Meth solo dont remember when prolly 03 or 04
Saw Ghost and Rae at rock the bells in San Bernardino July 30, 2005, just extra but also at this show was (Guru, Nas, Hieroglyphics, Redman, Krs-One and Immortal Technique made surprise appearances) One of the best shows EVER!
Saw Inspectah Deck at a bar in Baton Rouge, LA prolly 04 or 05.
Planning to go to San Bernardino for the Wu Tang/Rage rock the bells.
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Originally Posted by OTB
I'm so glad they added those dates to the tour.
I missed Wu & Rage back in '97 but now I get ta see them together
anyway...I cant fuckin wait!! Aug, 29 Wu Tang hits the D bitches!
shit I'm feelin that Fam, you know where I'll be that day..
Saw WTC for the ODB Tribute Tour in Feb '06. waited fro about 3 hours for 'em. The openin' acks were wack. All 8 Generals were there, Trife and all Theodore, Priest, Neo, Morpheous, Peter, Stewie, Meg (they threw off the stage for flashin' though), Ken, Ryu, Blanka, Zangief, Guile, Chung Li, Jet Lee, Bruce Lee, Chao Yung Fat, Shaq, the incomprable Dwayne Wade, and on.
They all kill't it. The crowd was ultra massive, g. Mufuckaz was on the roof top of a 10 floor parkin' garage next to the venuw thrown they W's up. I swear the werld was gonna crumble beneath me - I was High off like 4 blunts and booze.
GREAT SHOW
I saw Mef for his 421 Tour with KRS 1ne. Banannas, not as good as WTC show, but he had Masta, Deck, Streetlife, John Woo, Chao Yung Fat, Steven Segal, and Whoodini. Got fuckin' Whoodini!!! The openin' acks for KRS was crazy, KRS ripped it for an hour. Mef was allover the fuckin' club.
The wait was about 1/2 h0ur! Thumbs up for that!!
GOOD SHOW
Saw Deck on Ocean Drive in SoBe ( South Myami Beach) on Memorial Weekend '03* with 2 ghetto ass burdz on each side, high as fuck, wit a black in his mouf. I told 'em Suuuuu and he "said Wu Tang - Wu Tang. It jus felt normal - I wasn't star struck or anythin' the dood'z hood what can I say.
NOT SURE WHAT TO CALL THAT.
*POSSIBLY O4
I
saw them in Worcester, Mass (if anyone knows where that is)
it was fucking incredible
as usual they were about 3 hours late coming on, but when they did it was so fucking sick
each of them came out on their own (except gza and rza came out together) and did solo joints, i think meth came out last
then they all did they thing and it was amazing
thgat's all i got
i saw Rae in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, last year, in April. It was my first concert, and it was in a small ass club, there were a few guys there who opened, I forget who they were, not sure if they were even in the Wu-Fam.. maybe though.. but when Rae finally came me and my buddy were already so high but we were lovin that shit. We were like 6 ft. from Rae and he was performing all the Wu classics and Cuban Linx classics.. he played shit like Ice Cream, Incarcerated Scarfaces, Criminology, Shame on a Nigga, all types of wu shit.. when he played Ice Cream he got some ladies on stage to dance.. shit was off the hook ESPECIALLY for my first concert.