Best concert you've attended

@tomcarr At 16, my first concert was The Cure at Dodger Stadium in 1989.  That was the first time I had ever smelled weed.   I had no idea what it was, had to ask my friend's older sister.  Of course, she knew and she explained to me why I and my friend felt so sleepy. 

Hmmm. Probably the Grateful Dead in 1993. I’ve never seen 20,000 people experience that much joy.  Honorable mention to the Vulfpeck show I saw at Red Rocks last summer. 

@olditguy 

I saw Bud Shank, Dennis Budimir and some other LA studio cats, with Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar in Ojai around the same time. Menuhin and Shankar were doing some "East Meets West" records back then.  

Chris Botti at McCarter Theatre in Princeton back in the 2000s.  What a well practiced showman;  Great interpretation of Look of Love.

Brad Mehldau at the Village Vanguard in NY back in the late 1990s.  Intense and artful.

This is an easy one for me.  About 10 years ago I got to see Chick Corea’s Elektric Band at The Blue Note in NYC with Victor Wooten on bass, Dave Weckl on drums. Frank Gambale on guitar, and Eric Marienthal on sax and was by far the most amazing live performance and display of musicianship I’ve ever seen and will likely never be bettered.  Incredible players from top to bottom playing amazing music in an intimate setting, and watching Wooten and Weckl trade 32nd notes was one of the many unreal highlights I’ll never forget.  Everything since has paled in comparison although Patricia Barber at The Green Mill in Chicago was a somewhat close second.