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

Greatful Dead  at                                                                                                                       Princeton1970ish

1. Elton John Red Piano at the Ceasar's Palace in Las Vegas. Wow! A flawless magical performance.

2. Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason at the Montreal Forum. A classic! Three encore performances. They had turned on the lights and they came back again after 10 minutes.

3. Peter Gabriel So at the Montreal Forum. Was so good that I went back the next day to see it again!

Hard to say.  The very first concert I ever went to was Seiji Ozawa conducting the San Francisco Symphony in an all-Stravinsky program of:

"LʻHistoire du Soldat"
"The Rite of Spring"

Pretty good, wouldnʻt you say?

I used to spend a lot of time at Keystone Korner in San Francisco where I saw so many very great bands up close.  The place only held 200 or so seats.  I saw Art Blakey more than once - Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Harvie Swartz.  I was there for the live recording of the 4 handed piano date of Jackie Byard and Tommy Flannagan.  I was there when Art Blakey brought Wynton Marsalis on his first national tour.

You tell me what the best concert was.