Ok Kids, Here's a question I know is almost impossible to answer but lets give it a shot. What was (is) your all time favorite show or concert. I know it's a toughie but how about your 2 or 3 favorites? Here's mine (I guess) 1) Moody Blues, Santa Clara County fairgrounds. Threshold was just released. Hands down my most memorable show ever. Great acid too <grin> 2) Greatful Dead, Filmore, New Years Eve, I think it was '72 (still kinda cloudy on that) 3) Pink Floyd, Filmore, Date? Is there time out in space? Ok, there's several hundred more but those are the ones that stand out the most for me. Dusty
My all-time favorite performance was Pete Seeger and his grandson Tao Rodriguez in a little club in NYC called The Wetlands. I think it was sometime around 1988-1990. I later saw Pete do a big concert at Cornell, and that was thrilling, but there was something about that intimate venue, and actually meeting the guy, that was a dream come true. Now that he's close to ninety, and losing his voice, it's just so wonderful that I got to see him, hear him, hang out with him, because he was a hero of mine from my early teens in the 60s.
yes it is...but ...I still have to give that title to the Led Zeppelin show in cali in '75...and having have had the opportunity to see them live...still carries the top spot even with the 100's of shows I have seen over the years...and still make every attempt I get the only original great I never had the opportunity to see...is Floyd...even though the "Lapse" tour was killer
I've been to so many, it's too hard to choose! Of course I rarely go to any anymore. It sucks to wait on line (to get tix, to get in, to buy food & drink, etc.). It sucks to pay like $100 for general admission or bleacher seats. It sucks to be treated like shit, while others get rich from you. Anyways here's some memorable ones... 1. Tangerine Dream, (either universal amphitheater or Greek theater, LA), 1976 or so. They spaced me out so far, I left my body for the entire concert! (some good hashish helped out there). 2. Fleetwood Mac (one of the two locations above), 1976 or so, when they were #1 on the charts. They rocked! 3. Eagles (again one of the two locations), 1976. Blew me away! They were at their greatest then. Here's a video that may have been from the same concert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGiZWHL6wD0 I got great seats at all the above concerts via American Express! 4. Bob Marley, Maui, 1980. One of his last concerts, a great one! So charismatic! I was in ecstasy! 5. Rolling Stones, Madison Square Garden, 1972. I won the lottery and got four tix to this great show. Acoustics could've been much better... 6. I just experienced the excellent 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love concert, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, which I wrote up here: http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=258675 Great to see all these SF bands together one more time! I regret I never got to see these artists live... Jimi Hendrix Janis Joplin, Big Brother Jim Morrison and the Doors the Beatles Saw Dylan, he sucked live, even with the Band... There's a bunch more I'm leaving out... can't remember. Missing gray cells...damn! BTW, I'm moving this thread to Flashbacks Forum... This forum is for current messages...
Best concert for me ever? Piece o cake - Watkins Glen, July 1973 The Band, the Dead, the Allman Bros and 600,000 of my closest friends - and it was free (after the fences came down).
Well-I would like to say Altamont Speedway but it fell apart and the Stones walked off so that don't count. I went to soo many in the 60s and 70s in SF I can't remember alot of them.Some of the best moments was getting backstage at Winterland and sitting and drinking beer with Grace Slick-Another was getting backstage in Chicago and partying with Canned Heat. One of the best nights was at the club in Santa Cruz called the Catalyst- one night Van Morrison just dropped in and played by himself with acoustic guitar for a few hours!-Fantastic!-Watching Pink Floyd in 67' w/ Sid at the Fillmore was very colorful! just don't remember it all-I really wish I had the recordings because so much is a blurr-most of that decade to be honest is a haze! lol as in purple.
1976 was one of my favorite years for pop music. A lot of groups seemed to be at their peak in terms of live performance around that time. .
I saw Bob Dylan, Steve Miller Band, Styx and Peter Frampton together at Arrowhead Stadium sometime between 1976-78. It was called Superstar Sunday. Seemed like a strange combo and Dylan sat on his stool and growled lyrics. I was so glad when he went into a harmonica solo. My 1st Grateful Dead concert blew me away. 1976, Uptown in Chicago. I was 14 and me and my best friend ran away and hitched from KC. We went home after the concert and took our punishment. It was well worth it. Although a year later I ran away to go to a Dead concert in Oklahoma and ended up following them for 5 years before I went home. What a long...strange trip...it was
phil lesh and friends in albany a 2 years ago... les claypool in some band at bonnaroo 2006, gogol bordello at nekmf '06... i havent seen 2 many shows so i dont really have a long list 2 choose from, not that i can remember
