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If you could, what live performances would you enjoy re-living?

I have interest in hearing about yours.   I can think of some great concerts over the years in many great buildings, from Hancher in Iowa City, to Fisher Hall in New York, to some bars in Copenhagen. 

Something I have noticed....performers have times they are more "on" just like us, and it can make their concerts be perceived at different levels.   I know the three times I saw Jackson Browne, each was much different and most of that was his intent.  Having a good sized group with very talented back up singers to the time I saw him solo....all great, but very different.  He is a better guitar player than he may be given credit for. 

The live Jazz I have been to in NYC is near the top.  Sweet Basil and the Blue Note through the years have been very good to me, but in a much different vein, the lakefront festivals in Milwaukee are a somewhat unknown to most of America. 

I did see a few artists before their success and fame, saw a famous British singer at a bar in Rapid City many years ago..and he has done well since. 

Take care,

whatjd

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Amazed no-one mentioned this yet....
Dylan at the Albert Hall 1966.  I was 16, went with 3 schoolfriends.
Poor seats in the gods.
Listening to the recordings reminds me the man was a poet even then at just 25. His delivery and precise enunciation were not those of a rock star that he also was by then.  Try the accoustic Visions of Johanna.
Simply wonderful.

20+ years later the Man in the Long Black Coat tour at Hammersmith Odeon was excellent too.  He even put on a black tailcoat.

I concur on late Leonard Cohen.  I saw him around 2012 in a very intimate venue, the Summer Sporting Club, Monaco.

Cream when they just formed.  Very loud.  Town Hall Sutton (south London) I recall.  We got in through a toilet window.

Rock on John.  Would have been 80 yesterday.  I never saw The Beatles even though I was there.  Mates of mine saw them in 1962, Love Me Do days, at Wimbledon Palais, an awful venue long since demolished.
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