Best concert you've attended

The Who Charlton Athletic Field, London 1974 and again in 1976.

Grateful Dead Rotterdam, Holland 1972.

Pink Floyd, 1975, Capital Center Landover Maryland.

Entire Dark Side of the Moon, including live plane crash that flew form far end to crash behind stage.

So jealous of those of you who lived in a place like San Francisco and had access to the Fillmore and Winterland in their heyday. Living in Canada, many performers who toured the US, didn't want to deal with crossing over the border into anther country for a handful of gigs. 

Like most of you, I have a long list of wonderful concerts I have attended  but thought I'd add a few artists perhaps not mentioned much so far. I won't list dates and venues as these are artists I've seen several times and for the most part, every concert was great.

The Pat Metheny Group in the late 70s

Jeff Beck circa Blow by Blow with Jan Hammer

Blue Rodeo  Circa 5 Days in May

Last month, I saw the incredible jazz pianist Emmett Cohen and his Quartet on his tribute to Miles Davis and John Coltrane tour. One of the best jazz performances I've ever seen, and I've seen many

So maybe another good thread would be your "best concert story". I have many. Here's one.

In 1970 I was attending a Van Morrison concert with a press pass ( photographer) . Van was know to have stage fright. Between his first and second set , Van apparently hit the pub and had a few. Towards the end of the second set, while performing his hit "Domino" Van would do this little strut across the stage and kick his leg up in time with the end of the signature horn riff in that song. He lost his balance and fell flat on his back. Happened twice!

Van the Man!

Oh yeah, Leonard Cohen, Radio City Music Hall

RCMH: I've had lousy seats, good seats, great seats, and this time we could not see much because everybody stood up, but he had a full band, his voice was strong, best I ever heard him!

I suppose the best was Frank Zappa and the Mothers at Princeton University in spring of 1973.  They had a stereo PA system, probably the first time I’d experienced that, and I had a center seat, maybe 20 rows back from the stage.  Even though it was in a gym, the sound was surprisingly good, especially for that time period.  It probably helped that I was on acid.  Good setlist and they had the principal personnel from Overnite Sensation, including Ricky Lancelotti (singing "Fifty-Fifty") and Jean-Luc Ponty, who didn’t appear in all the concerts of that tour.  I saw Zappa a couple other times, in 1974 I think, and wasn’t as pleased.

One runner-up was Brian Wilson at Davies Hall in San Francisco, when they performed "Smile" and lots of other classic Beach Boys songs.  They duplicated all those arrangements very well, and the singing was fine, too.  I wasn’t really that crazy about "Smile," to be honest--a few great songs, but a lot that didn’t strike me.

Another very good one was the Pat Metheny Group at Berkeley's Greek Theater, in 1977 IIRC.  They had just put out the Pat Metheny Group album, and performed lots of that excellently.  Metheny and his group were so uniformly excellent that I tended to take them for granted, I guess.  But I can't think of another group that could come close to them.