I can't say I have one favorite concert experience. It would have to be concert expierences. Spending almost every weekend at the Fillmore East in NY would be it for me. From 1968 to 1971 I think I saw every top band that was touring. It was a great venue to see bands. Less than 3000 seats.

MinnieM

Eric Clapton July 18, 1974 Tempe, AZ.
 

Bob Dylan- he had such a big influence in my life and thinking- he was a profound poet and philosopher.

Likewise Jim Morrison

Motown review,Fox theater,Detroit Mi. Stevie Wonder, Temptations,Miracles, Contours,Marvalettes......................

He still working on it. Heard some songs of his in Strike Back episodes. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...nemax-20120818

Strike Back is way too violent for TOTV though, so I put up a much tamer clip.

1. Peter Paul and Mary 1964, Missouri University
2. Brothers Four 1968 Northwest Mo. State University
3. New Christy Minstrals 1964 Missouri University
4. The Eagles 2010 Kansas City Sprint Center
5. Elton John 2001 Las Vegas MGM Grand

The first four are the best as I was in the first five or six rows for each. I would not waste my money on anything in the back of the auditorium, might as well buy the DVD. We also saw Jersey Boys at the Kansas City Music Hall in May and were in the front row - WOWSER!

Led Zeppelin and Three Dog Night together at Seattle's Green Lake Park amphitheater in 1969. LZ actually was the opening act, as Three Dog Night was at the height of its fame. We listened and watched from the lawn (free), and the local paper later wrote that the lawn was a wall to wall carpet of human bodies.

I have been to many concerts but my favorite was Neil Diamond in Washington, DC -- probably in the early 80s. A friend and I sat in the 2nd row and Diamond teased me throughout the concert because I brought binoculars!! We saw him in the same arena a couple of years later. This time we sat a long ways from the stage and it wasn't the same!

I love piano. I saw Liberace years ago and he was terrific!! It shocked me how much I enjoyed his concert!

Both of these guys really knew how to entertain an audience!

I was invited to an Elvis concert in Detroit in the 70s. Like a dummy, I turned it down. I'm sure I missed a great concert. He died about 8 months later and I always regretted missing that concert!

To understand why my most memorable was a 1970 concert in St. Louis, you have to know the back story. From the beginning.

One day in 1970, I was driving home from a shopping mall when I heard on the radio a song so smart, so deep and so different than any music I had ever heard, that I actually pulled over into a gas station, put a dime (imagine!) into a booth phone (imagine!), called the radio station and asked what the song was.

It was Question, from the album A Question of Balance, by The Moody Blues, a group I was unfamiliar with at the time. I turned around, drove back to the mall and bought the album. Got home and discovered that every song on the album was smart, deep and different than any music I had ever heard. Next day, I went back to the record shop and purchased every Moody Blues album. (Question of Balance turned out to be their 6th.) Same experience with each album. I was hooked.

Began college that fall at University of Denver. Was planning a trip home in December for winter break. My older brother, who attended Washington U. in St. Louis, called to ask if I would consider a stay over in St. Louis on way home to ATL. After agreeing to do this, I learned that Moody Blues was coming to Denver on the Saturday after I was supposed to fly to St. Louis on Thursday.

If I went to St. Louis, I'd miss the concert of my dreams. But... he was so excited when I told him I was coming and had already started making plans with friends. Let him down or miss the concert. Let him down or miss the concert. I agonized-- and finally decided not to let him down. I would miss the concert of my dreams. I booked the flight.

Two days later, he called to tell me: "Oh by the way, the Moody Blues will be here Friday night and I got you tickets".

So yes, that concert in St. Louis was my most memorable.

Justin Hayward, John Lodge, and Graham Edge are still performing and knocking it out of the park. Saw them in Fargo in 1994 with the Fargo symphony orchestra. I Know You're Out There Somewhere is now in my head for the rest of the day - thanks Phyllis!

Moody Blues
 

...and they still put on a great show. We saw them several months ago in a very small venue in southern CA. Their voices sounded just as I remember from the 70's.