Best concert you've attended

I’ve been fortunate to have attended many great concerts over the years. One of my all time favorites was my very first concert. In 1974 I saw The Who at the Cleveland Colosseum with my friend Steve. He drove his parents car even though we both didn’t have driver’s license’s yet ( permits only). We caught hell when we got home. The performance was absolutely amazing and although I’ve seen them several times over the years including their last tour in LA that first show was a benchmark I’ve judged all other shows by. Only show to reach same intensity level was Pink Floyd Animals tour in 1977….

The Cure

Skinny Puppy

Dead Can Dance (Hollywood Bowl). Between songs, that place got so quiet, you can hear a flea fart up in the hills. 

Bauhaus

Love and Rockets

James Brown, Taste of Orange County, June 21, 1996. Best of all, I got to watch him rehearse his band for two hours in the afternoon before the concert. "The hardest working man in show biz" was no joke!

Certainly Jimi Hendrix and Moby Grape in 1967 stands out...Peter Paul and Mary with Thelonius Monk at the Hollywood Bowl in 1964...Ravi Shankar in Honolulu in '68...I worked with Julian Lage (mixed the show) before having heard him (!) and his trio (Scott Coley and Kenny Wolleson) and THAT was amazing. My band opened for Zep in 1969 during part 2 of their first tour of the US...a memorable time was had by all! 

Oh then there was the Stones free concert at Hyde Park, London in 1969.  But that was a couple of years ago!