Bob Dylan, late 80s Radio City Hall, NYC. Acoustic set with one other guitarist, electric set with full band. Great acoustics.
David Murray Octet playing his Picasso Suite at the Kitchen NYC, 1991 I think.
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@bdp24 - Yeah, Rockpile were always awesome. Here's a link to some photos I took of them when they opened for Elvis Costello at Winterland in June of '78... |
My very first one: Olympia Stadium, Detroit, 196?, 7th row center, Alice Cooper and Steppenwolf. Was it the best music or performance I've ever heard live? Probably not. But it was life changing. I walked into that concert a stupid, pimply-faced teen, and walked out a Rock/Blues lover with an insatiable appetite for more, though still stupid and pimply-faced. |
Two more I just have to mention:
- Steve Earle and The Del McCoury Band at The House Of Blues on Sunset Blvd. in 1999. Lots of harmony singing and 100% acoustic instruments, all the guys standing around a single big ol’ large capsule (ribbon?) microphone. They sounded FANTASTIC!
- Throughout the 1980’s my girlfriend and I saw Dave Edmunds live quite a few times, and he was always great (his show at The Ritz in NYC in 1983 being her favorite show of all time). I liked him and his band even more than Rockpile, Dave’s 1950’s-based Rock ’n’ Roll undiluted by Nick Lowe’s 1960’s-based Power Pop. Dave always had a great band, sidemen including guitarists Billy Bremmer (from Rockpile) and Mickey Gee (an excellent Telecaster player), pianist/singer Geraint Watkins, bassist John David, and drummer Dave Charles. Dave alone kept Rock ’n’ Roll alive in the 1970’s and 80’s. John Lennon cited Dave’s first single---a blistering reworking of the Smiley Lewis Blues song "I Hear You Knocking"---as a favorite of his at the time of it’s release (1970).
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