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

Steely Dan at Red Rocks.  Keith Carlock on drums.  It was drizzling rain and they were squeegee'n the stage.  Then the fog slowly engulfed the entire venue giving it the appearance that it was floating in a cloud.  Carlock's drumming was just amazing, didn't even know who he was but been a fan ever since.

Herbie Hancock at Mission Ball room a few years back. 

AC/DC at  little old Knoxville Civic Coliseum in 1977.  Not great musicianship of course, I but I was only about 18 years old and I had never seen that kinda of energy coming off a concert stage and have not since.  Place only holds about 10K people but the entire place was electrified.   

June, 1990 - Lakewood Amphitheater, Atlanta - Outdoor venue.

Stevie Ray Vaughn

BB King

Joe Cocker

I was 24. It was a perfect early summer night. Each band performed their own respective sets over a couple hours. At the end, everyone joined for a jam on stage. Imagine Stevie Ray Vaughn trading guitar licks with BB King, while a wildly contorted Joe Cocker inserted powerful, gravel-toned vocals throughout! It was fantastic!

Sadly, SRV was killed in a helicopter crash just 2 months later.

Come on, you have to at least let us have two. 

Harry Chapin,  January 20, 1981 at the MSU Auditorium, East Lansing, MI.  Amazing performer, he broke 3 guitar strings during the show. 

Jane Siberry, December 11, 1999, at Cafe Largo, Los Angeles, I'll never forget her alternate version of the 12 days of Christmas that was hilarious and beautiful.  

The Tragically Hip, 1993?.. headliners on a festival weekend. Summer time, a large open grassy field just outside Vancouver BC with snow covers mountain peaks on each side. Magical setting. The band had everyone in the palm of their hands. AWAESOME... Oh ya, and Midnight Oil opened for them..