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mike519 04-17-2020 07:38 AM

The Balcony Scene from West Side Story as presented at Proms 2012 London

The Broadway Sound: West Side Story (Balcony Scene) - BBC Proms 2012 - YouTube

davem4616 04-17-2020 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by DianeM (Post 1747749)
Okay I’ll be the dork. My all time favorite live music experience was going to Broadway to see Camelot. I was 12 and the perfect first play for a girl on the cusp of teen years


certainly a great play to see and experience on Broadway as your 1st ....:coolsmiley::coolsmiley::coolsmiley:

I still recall how amazed I was seeing my first B-way show....Hello Dolly with Carol Channing back in '65

ya gotta have arts!!!

drgoofy 04-17-2020 07:54 AM

Ike and Tina Turner and The Ikettes. Isaac Hayes when he threw off his chains. Guess I enjoyed a different genre.

villageuser 04-17-2020 08:14 AM

Alice Cooper hands down. Alice Cooper - Poison (Official Video) - YouTube

My husband says Bonnie Raitt. Bonnie Raitt - Runaway (Live 1977) - YouTube

kcrazorbackfan 04-17-2020 08:21 AM

Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.

Last 4th of July, my grandson who plays lead guitar in 2 bands in Arkansas, was asked to play the Star Spangled Banner like Hendrix did; took him about 30 minutes practice to get it right, but he nailed it.

ttjaa5@comcast.net 04-17-2020 08:22 AM

Elvis In Concert
 
Went to several concerts, but best of all was in Charleston WV. Got front row seats and ended up with a scarf. Been an Elvis fan since I was 5.

John_W 04-17-2020 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 1747767)
John W, I totally agree with both Jethro Tull and Grand Funk Railroad as some of the best. I saw Tull in Worcester, MA back in the 70's, never got to see Mark Farner and Grand Funk, but have always been a huge fan. Other honorable mentions for me, have seen the WHO, Santana, George Thorogood, Jonathan Edwards, Chicago, and The Almond Brothers many times. Another one of my favorites was seeing Lynyrd Skynyrd live at the Springfield Civic Center about a week before their plane went down. Very Sad :_ ( Stay safe everyone!

I did finally get to see Mark, Don & Mel, not the so called Grand Funk that's touring now without Mark Farner. Last time they were together in 1998 in Columbia, Maryland, and they were just as good as early 70's. I was a fan of their first 5 albums that Terry Knight produced.

I did see Jethro Tull a second time, ELP opened the show in 1995, I wasn't impressed with either act that time. Seems Ian Anderson slowed down quite a bit, no theatrics, Emerson Lake & Palmer was a bit boring.

I wish I had seen Lynyrd Skynyrd, one of my favorites, the original. I have seen Blackfoot with Rik Medlock and Molly Hatchet with Danny Joe Brown and Atlanta Rhythm Section, I got some of my southern rock fix.

https://www.youtube.com/Grand Funk 1974 Live at the LA Forum

Twiganne 04-17-2020 08:40 AM

We’re you at Woodstock? A few years before my time. I was born in 1960. Didn’t matter I have always lived my life as a flower child. Real bummer I didn’t get to go. I wonder how many people here would admit they went to Woodstock lol

sharonl7340 04-17-2020 08:42 AM

Heart
 
i didn't see this show but I have seen Heart several times--always one of my favorites. Gretchen Wilson & Alice in Chains - Barracuda - YouTube

Chi-Town 04-17-2020 08:48 AM

Maybe not my favorite but The Rolling Stones playing Sympathy For The Devil at the Altamont Speedway has to be the most insane. Having the Hells Angels providing security at a free concert with 300,000 people attending sets a crazy stage.

ROLLING STONES - Sympathy For The Devil (Live 1969) HD - YouTube

mroberts268 04-17-2020 08:52 AM

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
 
I saw many Frank Zappa concerts including several at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. A few were the Mother's Day Anniversary Concerts including sitting front row center for the 10th Anniversary Mother's of Invention concert in 1974 with Frank, George Duke, Jean Luc Ponty, Ruth Underwood, Napolean Murphy Brock, the Fowler brothers and others. I still have the card they gave all of us with the inscription: "There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome than being a Mother" (a quote from Richard Milhouse Nixon) (Thanks a lot Dick!)"

BevSparks 04-17-2020 09:09 AM

The Who doing this song live in Orlando! "We won't get fooled again" Love the words..never goes out of style..
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Shepperton Studios / 1978) - YouTube

Cranford61 04-17-2020 09:14 AM

Listening to LeAnn Rimes belt out “Commitment” at the end of a concert in Denver in 2005. What a set of lungs!
Also loved The original Beach Boys concerts in the 80’s

John_W 04-17-2020 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by mroberts268 (Post 1747965)
I saw many Frank Zappa concerts including several at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. A few were the Mother's Day Anniversary Concerts including sitting front row center for the 10th Anniversary Mother's of Invention concert in 1974 with Frank, George Duke, Jean Luc Ponty, Ruth Underwood, Napolean Murphy Brock, the Fowler brothers and others. I still have the card they gave all of us with the inscription: "There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome than being a Mother" (a quote from Richard Milhouse Nixon) (Thanks a lot Dick!)"

I saw Frank Zappa in Atlanta about 1984 on the Them or Us Tour. He was different, however with only purple lights it was hard to see what was going on. He's a Baltimore guy, so I always wanted to see him. I use to keep this poster on the back of my bathroom door back in the 70's, when someone went in, I would always hear a laugh a few seconds later.

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/p...Poster-1st.jpg

OrangeBlossomBaby 04-17-2020 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by mroberts268 (Post 1747965)
I saw many Frank Zappa concerts including several at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. A few were the Mother's Day Anniversary Concerts including sitting front row center for the 10th Anniversary Mother's of Invention concert in 1974 with Frank, George Duke, Jean Luc Ponty, Ruth Underwood, Napolean Murphy Brock, the Fowler brothers and others. I still have the card they gave all of us with the inscription: "There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome than being a Mother" (a quote from Richard Milhouse Nixon) (Thanks a lot Dick!)"

Zappa is one of the ones I truly regret never having experienced live. ELP is another.


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