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 e been to hundreds. Plus our community has 5 free concerts every night 365 days a year each with at least 1000 people attending, sometimes up to 15,000 during certain holidays. My best or notable:

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Elton john

acoustic alchemy

yellowjackets

sypro gyra

doobie brothers

chris botti

journey

kc and the sunshine band

toto

boston

billy joel

robben ford

robert cray

to name a few

Here are, in no particular order, a few stand-outs... 

SRV

Richard Thompson

Freddie King 

Oregon

Jean Luc Ponty

Los Lobos

Les McCann

Bonnie Raitt

David Lindley and El Rayo X

Toshiko Akioshi/Lew Tabackin Big band

EmmyLou Harris

David Murray Quartet

Dave Holland Quintet

Solas 

Rodney Crowell with The Hot Band 

 

Guitarist Laurindo Almeida, Saxophonist Bud Shank, Bassist Ray Brown & Drummer Shelly Manne in a small club in San Francisco.  About 1977 I got them to autograph my LA 4 direct to disk copy.  

 Allman Brothers 1970 high school grad breakfast Georgian Terrace Hotel Atlanta

Allman Brothers for free 1968 Piedmont Park Atlanta

Cream 1967 Chastain Park in Atlanta

Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Joe Bonamassa, BB King 2005 Park City UT

Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green) 1970 Sports Arena Atlanta

Eagles 2024 State Farm Arena Atlanta

 

1) YES Crab Tour Omaha Nebraska circa 1976. Crab stage set, lasers, YES.

1) Iceland Symphony Orchestra & Choir Carmina Burana at Iceland Harpa -- circa 2012. So Intense. 

Yeah, they were both the best for me.