QUEEN in St. Louis Checkerdome. 1978.
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Without a doubt, it would be Shakti 50th anniversary tour. September 2023 in Irvine, California. Third row center seats. I got the seats that morning due to a cancellation. I think it was $500 for the pair of seats. Well worth it! Such inspiring and, beautiful music. I first got turned on to McLaughlin many years ago in high school when he came out on Tony Williams Emergency! Have followed him and all his various iterations since. |
Hard to pick just one, so… The Temptations & The Four Tops (everyone was on their feet for 4 hours straight! Fantastic!) Bob James (seen multiple times, always excellent SQ) Gregory Porter (impressed with how close my system sounded to his concert) Chris Botti (small venue - really nice & great rapport with the audience) Al Di Meola - great performance & SQ Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio - (unplugged, intimate performance) |
@rowd - it does get confusing with all those shows! I forget where it is, but somewhere on the internet is a list of all the shows that took place at Winterland; you should be able to find it. I was at a great many of them myself from Sept '73 onwards.... Bill Graham had enough juice that bands almost always played there on weekend nights. Those would usually be really good bands on those shows, even the support ones. Did you see Robin Trower there in '74 when Sha-Na-Na was the headliner? Robin tore the roof off the sucker, the place went nuts, and he was demanded back for 3 encores, and these were REAL encores, not pre-planned ones. I don't think many people remained for Sha-Na-Na. Came back to Winterland in '75 and headlined a Day on the Green later that year. |
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