Best concert you've attended


Mine is The Doobie Brothers, at the Civic Center in Amarillo Texas, in 1976. I was 16 years old.

The weed smoked all around us was good  too.

 

tomcarr

I have to say my best concert included Beethoven’s 6th Symphony performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Karl Böhm, in early 1976. I was stationed in then West Berlin.

we watched this old man, who led the Vienna Philharmonic during World War II,  totter out to the podium, but when he picked up the baton there was a transformation, and he vigorously conducted Beethoven’s Pastorale symphony.  When he put down the baton, it was as if he shrank before our eyes.

The Berliners went wild, stomping their feet and applauding for 30 minutes before we could get out of the concert hall.  I was on duty at “o-dark-thirty” the next morning, so we had to leave, but as we drove through the parking lot past the concert hall 20 minutes later, the applause was still resounding.

A VERY memorable experience.

Second to that one: Peter, Paul, and Mary at the University of California, Davis, in October, 1962.

As far as the overall experience, Muse. But my favorite show was RUSH. I scored 4th row center trying the day of show ticket thing and I caught a t-chirt Geddy tossed out from a dryer. 

Grateful Dead 7/2/88 ..my admission to another dimension 

Saw Phish at Sphere in 2024 hard to not include that due to the venue 

There’s been a number of them, but probably it was The Moody Blues tour for the Octave album. They were good but the opening act was relatively unknown at the time, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. 
 

I have many others but thought I’d keep down to one best.