Best concert you've attended

Ella Fitzgerald starlight theatre 1982/3 kansas city with Joe Pass and the Paul Smith Trio.

@dynacohum  I was at both of those Talking Heads shows in Boston. Had a ticket for the first night and "tipped" the doorman to let me in the second night.  

So many great performances that I feel the need to break them into categories:

Best Start to Finish "Glad to be Here" Performance: Graham Nash.  The Pageant, St. Louis (2021?)

The Group I Missed because I was Skinny Dipping in a Lake Nearby and Was Distracted:  Led Zeppelin, Texas International Music Festival 1969

The Group That Didn't Suck (and I thought they would): The Sweet, Moondance Jam, Walker Minnesota, 2018

Most Under-appreciated Performance:  Quicksilver Messenger Service (They opened for Three Dog Night).  Kansas City, MO (1970ish)

The Performer that Got the Sound "Right" Every Time:  Joan Jett

I Can't Believe The Guy is THIS Old and Worth THIS Much Money and Still Works His -ss Off!! Paul McCartney.  St. Louis (2020?)

Glad I Got to See Them Before Key Members Started Dying Off: Poco, Wildwood Lodge, Steeleville, MO (2015?)

Best New Unknown" (to me) Band that Blew Me Away:  Santana, Text International Music Festival, 1969

Best Making Sure the Crowd is Having as Much Fun as I Am Performer:  Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits), Abbey Road on the River Festival, Jeffersonville, IN, -- Last Weekend!!

Other great performers/performances that didn't fit into a particular category:

- The Who

- Janis Joplin

- BB King

- ZZ Top

_Grand Funk (Railroad)

- Kansas

- America

- Little River Band

 

I have a couple of categories, the first touched my soul.  1971, Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh, The Allman Brothers Band, with Duane Allman killing it shortly before being killed in a wreck with a truck in Macon.  I have been a huge fan aince that night.

Best bargain, Knebworh Park, England.  Van Morrison, John McLaughlin with Vassar Clements and John Luc Ponty, The Doobie Brothers and at 9:00 The Allman Brothers came oit saying we have never been to London before, we are going to play every song we know.  231/2 hours later they said we have one last love song and the the bass line for Whipping Post kicked off.

1969 Greenlake , Seattle, WA Led Lep with Three Dog Night Opening , I was 16 !