Best concert you've attended

@ubercar71s - I understand your selection.  I saw them in 1975 (Kieth Moon still on drums) when they played a 20+ song set heavy with Tommy, Quadrophenia, and Who’s Next tracks.  An outstanding event for sure!

I saw The Who Quadrophenia tour at Boston Garden,  truly amazing.   Keith Moon hit those skins so hard, he was amazing, Townshend did his windmill for almost 90 seconds straight, John Entwistle bass was so strong and gut wrenching and Roger Daltry’s scream towards the end of Won’t Get Fooled Again was something I have never forgotten.   Saw the band 3 more times but they were never as tight as they were that night.  

Forgot to mention CSN&Y at Boston Garden on their first tour after they broke up and got back together.  The guitar playing, the harmonizing was so special.  David Crosby seemed so happy, they were on my bucket list.  

Not sure I can specify The Best I have attended in the last 50+ years. Definitely the best I have attended the last ten years though, would be last fall, Roy Thompson Hall, Toronto Symphony Orchestra season opener, Carmina Burana. Over 250 people playing/singing at the same time in perfect harmony… wonderful.

@mitch2 Sounds like we experienced the same playlist. I remember the set started off with Keith Moon standing up on the  risers with drumsticks 🥁 in hand pointing Down for few moments to bring up tension after they took stage. He then came crashing down on his kit into opening of “ Can’t Explain “ Opened a whole new world of music. Surreal experience I’ll never forget!!!

That’s a real peach of a question as like many of us we’ve been to so many great concerts during our journeys. Rather than confine my answer to one I’d like to offer my top three, and why, and in order.

1. David Bowie & The Spiders From Mars - Finsbury Park Rainbow theatre in 1972. Why? Bowie at one of his peak times with all the glam and a rampant Mick Ronson and the amazing album Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars. Bowie was just unearthly.

2. This is perhaps a cheat as it was a 3 day event, however it’s The Isle of Wight Festival 1970. Why - primarily because of Jimi Hendrix (although I’d seen him prior to that at the Albert Hall). It was also a concert with lots of my favorite artists and bands to this day [strange thought as that is now 56 years ago] but who can resist The Doors, The Who, Chicago, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Moody Blues, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Free, Sly and the Family Stone, Procol Harum, Rory Gallagher (Taste), Supertramp. Miles Davis, John Sebastien, Ralph McTell and the Groundhogs?

3. Dave Gilmour with his Luck and Strange tour at the Hollywood Bowl in 2024. Why - a great album/music, a great artist, a great person and someone I personally knew a long time ago. The event was very special to me for lots of reasons. 

Like everyone here I’m positive we could name many more. I now live in CO, not far from Red Rocks, but nonetheless these three concerts are my rock and pop unforgettables. As always, too much great music and too little time!