Your Favorite Concert Experience
 

Taking my son to see Radiohead in St. Louis in 2001...we were in the pit..6 feet away from the stage...he turned to me and said, "Thanks Dad." It was that moment when I knew he got difficult music.

Runners up - hanging out with the Eagles on the weekend of my 21st birthday and watching their show backstage with Cameron Crowe who became a pal.

The Ramones in a gym.

Paul McCartney's soundcheck at Wrigley last year.

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at the Auditorium Theater in 1970 while they were recoding 4 Way Street.

Front row center for Derek and the Dominos with a new guy from England openning...Elton John.

The Airplane, the Jam and the Smiths at the Aragon (over many decades).

Yoko Ono with Sonic Youth at Pitckfork.

Oh - and there was that show where I got to hang out and make out with Joni Mitchell in 1973.

MJs row 6 thirty ish years ago

Moody Blues
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Grace Slick ( a while ago)
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The Diamonds


Hard to recall others, we attend many.

Pavarotti
 

Luciano Pavarotti in concert at the Hartford Civic Center in 1988

Favorite concert experience, there are 2 that stand out for me:

1. Jimmy Buffett (numerous times) The tailgating before the concert and the 3-4 hour concert is the best ever experience.

2. ZZTop with their Eliminator and Afterburner album tours. The music, the way the stage morphed from the car from the Eliminator Album to the Spaceship when they played the Afterburner songs.

Never appreciated it at the time but a group of us zipped up to Toronto in the 60's to see the Beatles. They weren't too well known at the time. I never took photos or made a big deal of it. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

My favorite concert was Roy Orbison. The venue was very small, and he was terrific.

In the late '60's, Bob Hope and the Four Seasons at the same concert; in the '70's Chuck Mangione. In recent years, Neil Diamond; Rod Stewart.

Haven't been to a lot of big name concerts, but Sue and I saw McCartney in Boston in 2001 which would pretty much eclipse anything else. My other favorite memory is when my son and I saw Huey Lewis and the News. Great concert and wonderful musical bonding.

B.

Percy Sledge....Bonita Springs, Fl, summer 2009, singing my favorite song "When A Man Loves A Woman".

2nd favorite was Simon and Garfunkel, Milwaukee county stadium, July 27 1983

Memories.......

It was 2002 and I was sitting in the 11th row. That was possibly the best concert that I've ever seen except for when I saw Paul when he was with another band back in 1966.

Wow..This Is Tough!!
 

Back in 86 Billy Joel came to my hometown in a blizzard, delayed the concert an hour, came out on stage to a full house,called us all crazy & proceeded to rock the house!

If you never got the chance to see Garth Brooks in concert then you missed probably one of the most energetic shows you could imagine.


The Eagles I saw twice ...first time when Hotel California was a hit & Joe Walsh had just joined the band...Amazing!


Saw Elton John & Billy Joel together at Gillette Stadium...Great!!


And I'll never forget my first big time concert when I was 17 back in 1974 I saw Grand Funk at the old Boston Garden!

Stones, 1978, Soldier Field, Chicago

Stones, 1980, Candlestick, San Francisco

Bruce Springsteen, 1983, Oakland Coliseum

Eagles, Hell Freezes Over Tour, 1992, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mtn View, CA

Paul McCartney, abt 1995, Memorial Stadium, UC Berkeley




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...this is easy...only been to three live concerts...best by far was Bonnie Raitt, Indianapolis, May '02...was on my feet cheering. My hubby had a great time watching me.

my favs
 

Elton John in Chicago about 1976

Beach Boys at State Fair in Indiana about 1973!

The Gaither's 2006 with the Cathedrals

Phillips Craig and Dean 2010

Beatlemaina 1980 Chicago