Best concert you ever attended?

[ckissick]

For me, the closing of Winterland with the Grateful Dead in SF on New Years '78/'79 is hard to beat. Also, a 4-hour long Tom Petty concert at UCSB and a Yes concert at a small venue in Berkeley both come to mind.

[WPOZZZ]

Rolling Stones Bridges to Babylon
U2 Red Rocks 1983

[livi]

Van Morrison
Oscar Peterson
Bob Marley

[look 171]

Pink Floyd at the Rosebowl

[tabs]

Rolling Stones first show July 1972 LA Forum. 3rd row Loge...25 to 30 feet from center stage..

Two shows were sold out lickety split they announced another show on the radio mail order only...got my $7.15 out certified mail pronto...got lucky it paid off.

That was when they was young and handsome.

[GWN7]

Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly @ Man-Pop August 29th 1970 $5.50 a ticket

This was held outdoors in a stadium. What would be now described as a microburst back then was a rainstorm destroyed the PA and all the gear on the outdoor stage. I had a garbage bag for a raincoat and was soaked to the skin. The field became a mud bowl. Finally the promoters got the powers that be to open the arena next door and we drowned rats got to go indoors. Only problems were the arena held less seats than were people at the show and a mini riot sort of broke out. The people that didn't make it inside started smashing the glass doors. The police convinced them that breaking stuff wasn't a good idea. Us who were inside had to deal with the fact they were starting to make ice on the arena floor. It was old as hell so we moved to the side seats off the frozen concrete.

As I mentioned all the outdoor PA and equipment was destroyed in the rain so it took awhile for the promoters to borrow PA's from local bands Butterfly and Zeppelin played on the floor of the arena, no stage. The crowd sat down on that cold concrete to watch them play. One freak stated to dance (by himself) when Zeppelin started to play and the Cops moved in to grab him. The crowd roared "Let him dance" and the cops moved back and he danced.

No idea what the set list was. I got home at 6:30 am and at 14 years old I got **** from my mother for worrying her and **** from my dad for the same reason.

I had fun

[dewolf]

INXS, Sydney 1988

[ckelly78z]

Pink Floyd x 2 in the old Cleveland stadium
Clapton with Stevie Ray Von in Detroit
Beach Boys 2nd row
Ted Nugent 1st row

[NY65912]

Jethro Tull - 1975 - Nassau Coliseum
Queen - 1976 - Beacon Theater
Zeppelin - 1977 - Mad Sq Garden
Pink Floyd - 1977 - Mad Sq Garden

[IROC]

My first concert - AC/DC "Back in Black" - Freedom Hall Civic Center, Johnson City, TN

Honorable Mention (because it was way better than I expected):
Rod Stewart - circa 1997 in Birmingham, AL

[black73]

Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Ryman, spring 2018.

[Eric 951]

AC/DC-- Dublin 2016
Def Leppard/Queensryche --Weirton WV 1987
Guns N Roses/Metallica--PGH 1990

[astrochex]

U2 - Anaheim Stadium
Dead Weather - Glass House in Pomona.
ZZ Top - Irvine Meadows
Rush - Irvine Meadows

[LWJ]

Rolling Stones in Dallas about three years ago. They seemed sober.

[john walker's workshop]

Grateful Dead at the Paramount theater in Seattle in '73. Front row center and $4 tickets. Went both nights. Jerry Garcia band at the Orpheum theater in San Francisco in '75.

[jcommin]

The Blues Brothers with Muddy Waters at Chicagofest in 1979
Elvis Presley at the Chicago Stadium in the early 70s.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Beastie Boys, Kemper Arena in KC, I think 1998. They did well over 2 hours and it was all fantastic.

[Baz]

Marshall Tucker Band - 1973 - Ocala
Midnight Oil - 1997 - Orlando

[Jims5543]

I have not been to many concerts. Especially growing up overbearing parents forbade me from going. Plus we were pretty poor, I rarely had spare money to do anything like that.

Some of my favorite memories were really small concerts in the mid 80's at a place called Brassy's in Cocoa Beach, we used to go see local punk bands there, many names I cannot recall anymore.

One of my favorite concerts was meeting Jeremy (Gogar) years ago so he could see and drive my 911 in exchange for tickets to the a show. Super gracious guy who took us backstage to meet the band before the show, offered us beers and said hello and took pics after the show. We were at the House of Blues in Orlando, which was a really intimate venue, great show.

Saw Red Hot Chile Peppers sever years ago and thought they sucked live, Flea was the only thing there that kept me entertained Anthony was phoning it in.

Took my 15 y/o to see the Foo Fighters 8 weeks ago in West Palm at the amphitheater. They played for 3 hours straight and cemented my opinion about the RHCP concert.

[Crowbob]

Jethro Tull (Thick As A Brick) Ford Auditorium, Detroit, 1972. Hands down the best live performance I've ever experienced. Brick went non-stop well over an hour. A rock concert, opera, dramatic play, comedy sketch, news broadcast and Monty Python ridiculousness wrapped up in musical genius and technical wizardry.

Wiki:
Following the album's release, the band set out on tour, playing the entire piece with some extra musical additions that extended performances to over an hour.[29] At the start of the show, men wearing capes appeared onstage and began sweeping the floor, counting the audience and studying the venue; after a few minutes, some of them revealed themselves to be members of the band and began to play.[30] During some shows, the entire band stopped mid-performance when a telephone rang on stage, which Anderson would answer, before carrying on performing. News and weather reports were read halfway through the show, and a man in a scuba diver outfit came onstage. The tour's humour caused problems in Japan, where audiences responded to the changes with bewilderment.[29] Barre recalls these first live performances being "a terrible experience" as there was a lot of complex music with a variety of time signature changes to remember.[31]