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

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.

 

 

Best:  unquestionably Paul McCartney. Saw him perform in Seattle about 13 years ago and ended his show with remaining members of Nirvana joining him onstage and jamming.

Honorable mention: too numerous to mention all but stand outs include Steve Winwood, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Lucinda Williams, Allison Krause, Karla Bonoff, Spyrogyra, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Farm Aid, and my first concert experience ever, Humble Pie :)

Worst:  Sting (not Police)

Up Next:  Eric Clapton