For the record, the Beatles' first appearance on Ed Sullivan was February 9, 1964. I'm glad to be able to say I saw it, and you're right, it changed the lives of many of us.

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD., summer of 1969. Front row seats for Led Zeppelin & The Who. I was virtually deaf for two days afterward.

I just remembered...Johnny Cash made a surprise appearance at the Club 407 at RAF Chicksands in 1968. None of us realized we were seeing an icon in the making. Alcohol was 25 cents a shot. Last call was around midnight but the club closed at 2 am, hence a typical last call order was up to a dozen drinks per patron....but I remember the event nonetheless.

While in the Air Force in West Germany went to the Rock am Ring, Nürburgring for David Bowie, the Glass Spider Tour. The two day concert was great it rained on us and the muddy ground was terrible but what a great time. Two days of music with the Eurythmics closing the first night and David closing the second.

You're right, Kennedy was Killed Nov '63, and the Beatles were the picker upper the country needed. I remember watching all 3 appearances, I was in the 8th grade and really never paid attention to music until then. We had a station in St. Pete, WFSO AM that played nothing but the Beatles non-stop for a week. A really great station for a dozen years, but fell to the wayside as FM took over in the mid 70's. I mostly bought 45's like a lot of kids, but the first LP I bought was Sgt Pepper, the second was Spirit S/T debut and third was Grand Funk On Time.

youtube Spirit Mechanical World

Lifeline is one of my favorite albums to rock out to. I can't sing a lick, so only when I'm alone. :icon_wink:

Now that you brought it up, I just asked Alexa to play: "(I Think) It's Finally Over" is on max volume.

Yeah! Thanks for the shout out to Spirit! Such a fantastic but grossly underrated band. Not a bad song on any of their first four albums. How many bands can you say that about? They were like Traffic. Could never figure out why those two bands didn't get the acclaim they deserved.

Here's proof that Led Zeppelin loved Spirit, too, but never gave them credit:

Spirit - Taurus - YouTube

OMG, I forgot about this

Tower of Power - What Is Hip? (Social Distancing Style)

Huge smile. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Navy Vet.

And, added some Tower of Power here

https://thevillagerockers.com/songs-submitted/

Love'n it.

It is SO DOWN!

That's the heirs of Randy California (Randy Wolf) suing over that song. I don't see enough there, and apparently Randy didn't either, why didn't he sue when was alive. He's been dead 20 years and they'll still trying to make money off of 2 minutes of instrumental music he did 50 years.

Hands down. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. Seen them 5 times. 5 best concerts I've ever seen.

I have been blessed to see several that I thought were great. I saw Neil Diamond at Griffith park the night he did the "Hot August Night" debut. I am sure the actually album was recorded in a studio but was released that night at the live show.

I saw the Everley Brothers when they were passed there prime and they were the opening act for an Alabama concert. They stole the show they were so good. The piano player was playing laying on the floor reaching over his head backward, then from laying on top of the piano and reaching down facing the ceiling. Not sure how that was possible but he did it.

Others that were great, Chris Issac Griffith Park, Reba MaCentire the night her band left the concert and she stayed behind because her baby was ill and their plane crashed into a mountain leaving San Diago.

I wish I was there.

Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show (Live-1976) (HD)

Neil Diamond live, 1976, "Holly Holy"

Neil Diamond live in 1976, "I Am. . . I Said"

forgot to mention Moody Blues with the symphony @ tanglewood, in Mass.:icon_wink:

I may be old but...https://tinyurl.com/yayl4wwp

Warren Zevon, Grand Funk Railroad, Springsteen and the boys back at the old Garden, Frampton at the Cape Cod Coliseum, Diana Ross on Boston Commons, Cars at the Rat are some that still stick out, far too many to remember. Really wish I had learned to save my ticket stubs

That was the first show I ever saw out there, wish it was closer to Boston, love it!

I was at the second show at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan for Pink Floyd's Division Bell tour. I was on the floor about 20 rows off the stage and it was incredible. The loudest music (or perhaps the loudest sound) I have ever heard combined with the best light show I've ever watched combined with truly great music, including the first live performance of the complete Dark Side of the Moon they'd done since 1975. They eventually released a DVD of performances from that tour called "Pulse". Recently, they released a box set ("The Later Years") that includes a Blu-ray of a "restored and re-edited" version of the concert. There's a link below for the YouTube copy of it, but you really, really want to watch and listen to it on a decent surround-sound system capable of pretty high volume.

Pink Floyd Pulse

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My insane passion for Pink Floyd at maximum decibel levels is most likely the reason I now have hearing aides. I remember everybody telling me I was ruining my hearing, lol.......