Best concert you've attended

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band with It's a Beautiful Day at the Fox West Coast in Long Beach circa 1972.  Close second place: Blodwyn Pig at The Splinter Brothers and Sisters Warehouse, Phoenix, same era. Jethro Tull at the Phoenix College Gym  (circa 1969) and The Mothers of Invention (Phoenix Star Theater, right after "Freak Out" was released) are reasonable contenders, too.

Led Zeppelin Kezar Stadium 1973

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker, Allman Brothers Band Winterland 1973

Countless Grateful Dead shows

Lenny Kravitz in 1990 at the Dinwoodie Lounge, which was actually a cafeteria and study hall during the day, at the University of Alberta. About 150 people, Lenny Kravitz on a two foot riser stage, with a 10-man band including full horn section. They tore the roof off for two solid hours while we were within hand-slapping distance from Lenny. In 1990, his music seemed both like something very old and like something brand new. It rocked. He rocked. We rocked.

Fast forward to 2008, to a 7000 seat arena in Kelowna,BC. I’m in row 8 on the floor. Lenny puts on another classic performance and proceeds to walk into the crowd high-fiving everyone. So I got another hand-slap! At the end of the show, I didn’t notice that he flicked his guitar pick into the crowd. What I noticed was that everyone around me started crawling all over the floor! I stood up and the pick had landed between my legs on my chair. Like it was meant to be.

i love telling that story.

Lenny Kravitz in 1990 at the Dinwoodie Lounge, which was actually a cafeteria and study hall during the day, at the University of Alberta. About 150 people, Lenny Kravitz on a two foot riser stage, with a 10-man band including full horn section. They tore the roof off for two solid hours while we were within hand-slapping distance from Lenny. In 1990, his music seemed both like something very old and like something brand new. It rocked. He rocked. We rocked.

Fast forward to 2008, to a 7000 seat arena in Kelowna,BC. I’m in row 8 on the floor. Lenny puts on another classic performance and proceeds to walk into the crowd high-fiving everyone. So I got another hand-slap! At the end of the show, I didn’t notice that he flicked his guitar pick into the crowd. What I noticed was that everyone around me started crawling all over the floor! I stood up and the pick had landed between my legs on my chair. Like it was meant to be.

i love telling that story.

@rowd - You sure that was Lynyrd Skynyrd at Winterland in '73? The first time Lynyrd Skynyrd played San Francisco or went on a national tour was November of '73 on the Quadrophenia tour opening for the Who - I was at that show at the Cow Palace. They continued on that tour throughout the year. I can find no record of them playing at Winterland until 1975.... The Allmans and Marshall Tucker were there in Sept '73, though. But I was at countless Grateful Dead shows too, though I missed LZ at Kezar as I wasn't living here yet.