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I didn’t experience this, but Paul McCartney discusses seeing Jimi Hendrix on a Tuesday night in a club, then going back on Friday and in the audience was Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, etc…. That would be amazing.
Bob Seger was my first concert and I’ll never forget the feeling looking at thousands of people in one stadium. There was someone throwing a frisbee and a ball around. I was 16 (this was when Bob Seger cut his hair short)
Another one was Scorpions. My brother went to see Pink Floyd the Wall in Potsdamer Platz East Berlin and brought home two masks (The scorpions played there too)
So we were at the Scorpions after the wall and holding up our pink floyd pig cardboard masks and people were looking at us, but i’ll never forget the lead guitarist taps the lead singer’s shoulder and points at us and they nodded at us. It was wild!
I’ve seen Styx live in 74 and 75, the Doobie Brothers in 75 and many more but the best concert was 1994 in Indianapolis to see Pink Floyd. I was definitely comfortably numb
Stevie Ray Vaughan. I saw him years ago, and he had laryngitis and couldn’t sing, so instead he and the band gave us 2 hours of non-stop intense wild blues. The place was ROCKING! One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to.
I am a big blues/jazz fan. I saw Mose Allison at Paul’s Mall in Boston in 71. He played Steamroller Blues by JT when it barely known. Also, Parchman Farm. Unforgettable.
Live Aid in London. I was just out of college, and a friend secured me tickets. I didn’t realize it would be as big (in terms of the stadium and the length of time) as it would be. I now wish I’d appreciated it more at the time.
ELVIS. I saw him in concert just before his weight gain. He was bigger than life. No other artist comes close to what Elvis delivered on stage. Besides his voice and charisma, he had a presence, an aura, that no other artist has ever matched. Not one. And Elvis was an Adonis. The best-looking male ever created. A hunk, a hunk, a hunk of burning love…
The Bad Brains in 1987. HR had broken his arm. They had him taped to a desk. The Butthole Surfers in 87 or 88 at UB. I had ridden Greyhound from Rochester and there was a cool-looking girl a few seats ahead me. I had wanted to walk up and ask her if she was going to the show, but she moved away quickly at the bus station and I didn’t want to creep her out by chasing after her.
Turns out she was Kathleen, the weird girl who followed them around on tour to dance naked on the stage at their shows.
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Leningrad Cowboys backed by the Red Army Chorus. We’ll never see the likes again.
I didn’t experience this, but Paul McCartney discusses seeing Jimi Hendrix on a Tuesday night in a club, then going back on Friday and in the audience was Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, etc…. That would be amazing.
Bob Seger was my first concert and I’ll never forget the feeling looking at thousands of people in one stadium. There was someone throwing a frisbee and a ball around. I was 16 (this was when Bob Seger cut his hair short)
Another one was Scorpions. My brother went to see Pink Floyd the Wall in Potsdamer Platz East Berlin and brought home two masks (The scorpions played there too)
So we were at the Scorpions after the wall and holding up our pink floyd pig cardboard masks and people were looking at us, but i’ll never forget the lead guitarist taps the lead singer’s shoulder and points at us and they nodded at us. It was wild!
It’s not so much revisiting the ones I saw, but getting a chance at the ones I missed.
NIN/David Bowie. I was there but wasn’t exactly there. All I remember from the show was sobering up for a few seconds to hear them duet “Hurt”.
Peter Gabriel’s Secret World tour in 1993.
Led Zeppelin, 1971, Boston Garden
1978, Queen at the Oakland Coliseum. Dropped acid for the first time and while I had a blast, I wish I remembered it better.
I’ve seen Styx live in 74 and 75, the Doobie Brothers in 75 and many more but the best concert was 1994 in Indianapolis to see Pink Floyd. I was definitely comfortably numb
Metallic. Lake Compounce. Ct. 1989.
Stevie Ray Vaughan. I saw him years ago, and he had laryngitis and couldn’t sing, so instead he and the band gave us 2 hours of non-stop intense wild blues. The place was ROCKING! One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to.
Manilow on Broadway, 1983.
A man at his peak.
stevie wonder… date had too much to drink and got sick 40 minutes into the show and had to leave (btw still pissed at you frank wherever you are).
I am a big blues/jazz fan. I saw Mose Allison at Paul’s Mall in Boston in 71. He played Steamroller Blues by JT when it barely known. Also, Parchman Farm. Unforgettable.
I would love to relive the concert.
Hendrix. 1969. Msg
Rave on the Rocks 2001
The original Lollapaloosa
We had the Jim Rose freak show going on at the outdoor theater. The acid was good, and the music was beyond perfect.
Van Halen 82
I’d love to go back an re experience the first Who concert I went to.
GNR opening for Aerosmith. Weedsport, NY. 1988.
Queen. Madison square garden. It’s was the 80s iirc
I would go back for a Keith Green concert.
The Allman Brothers. October 1975. First date with my high school boyfriend. 💕
Pink Floyd, Toronto, 1988 … momentary lapse of reason tour.
Me and two of my best friends saw the show… it was an absolutely perfect day, and the single best concert I’ve ever seen.
Rolling Stones, Roundhay Park, Leeds 1982. Followed by U2 Elland Road 1987, followed by Kiss/Bon Jovi 1984
Live Aid in London. I was just out of college, and a friend secured me tickets. I didn’t realize it would be as big (in terms of the stadium and the length of time) as it would be. I now wish I’d appreciated it more at the time.
Steely Dan
Pink Floyd’s Division Bell tour in ’94
Three Dog Night, 1973 or so, at my college. Twas wonderful.
KISS 1976 Little Rock. Not so much for the music, but because 2 of my friends who went with me have passed.
Max Webster/UFO/Rush, 1977 Little Rock
Neville Brothers/George Thorogood/Rolling Stones 1981 New Orleans Superdome
Fabulous Thunderbirds/Stevie Ray Vaughan/The Who, 1989 Dallas Cotton Bowl
beastie boys, somewhat in the 80’s
ELVIS. I saw him in concert just before his weight gain. He was bigger than life. No other artist comes close to what Elvis delivered on stage. Besides his voice and charisma, he had a presence, an aura, that no other artist has ever matched. Not one. And Elvis was an Adonis. The best-looking male ever created. A hunk, a hunk, a hunk of burning love…
Journey Escape tour
The Bad Brains in 1987. HR had broken his arm. They had him taped to a desk. The Butthole Surfers in 87 or 88 at UB. I had ridden Greyhound from Rochester and there was a cool-looking girl a few seats ahead me. I had wanted to walk up and ask her if she was going to the show, but she moved away quickly at the bus station and I didn’t want to creep her out by chasing after her.
Turns out she was Kathleen, the weird girl who followed them around on tour to dance naked on the stage at their shows.
Prince….
Jefferson Airplane, free concert, Grant Park, Chicago, 1970.
Springsteen 1978 Wintergarden San Francisco.
My 1st concert…..Jimi Hendrix
Stone Temple Pilots – New Haven Coliseum 1994
Led Zeppelin MSG 75
Monsters of Rock ’84
Prince’s Musicology tour. It was amazing.