What is the most memorable concert that you had attended so far?

Jethro Tull on his Aqualung tour and James Cotton both at my college in the early seventies. I also remember Frank Zappa playing a scintillating solo on Moving to Montana. The rest of his show was pure garbage.

I saw Bob Dylan sing "Masters of War" at the Zeppellnfeld stadium in Nurenberg, Germany. You all know the stadium from the infamous footage of Adolf Hitler addressing huge throngs of zieg heiling Nazi followers, and that giant swastika banner hanging from the podium.

Dylan, who was of Jewish heritage if you were unaware, performed right where Hitler stood and that Nazi swastika hung. In response to "Masters of War", huge throngs of youthful Germans flashed peace signs.

"The most memorable show I didn’t get to see was one of the only two post-Layla Clapton & Allman shows."

Well photon,

My girlfriend and I went to a triple header concert at our school SUNY at New Paltz, in 1971. First act was BB King, then Jonathan Edwards followed by some new white blues band. After two shows we were both tired. After listening to the the first song from the third band we headed home. Only after they gained more fame, I realized we’d walked out on Duane Allman and the Allman Brothers. We heard they played until two in the morning. This was the show either right before or after their Fillmore East concert was recorded a couple hours south in NYC. I’m still kicking myself.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, My Corvair broke down the weekend of the Woodstock concert so I couldn’t drive up from Long Island to go to it. Who knew how famous that festival was going to be. At the time it was raining so much, I figured it was just as well I missed it. Doh!

One more great story. Years before I knew him somewhere in San Francisco, or maybe Portland a friend from work stopped in the afternoon to get a sandwich at a nearby night club. Jon said, being a nightclub, it was practically deserted during the day. Anyway, while he was eating by himself, this guy taps him on the shoulder and asks him if he’d mind if he practiced on the club’s stage he was sitting next to. Jon said after almost falling over and saying sure, he got to listen to Miles Davis practice on his trumpet for an hour or so. Sometimes you are in the right place at the right time.

I was just reading unreceivedogmaspost about going to free concerts in Central Park. I remembered seeing Country Joe and The Fish playing there in the late 60’s . When I looked this concert up, I discovered I was part of history being made that night.

Country Joe sang their classic anti-VietNam war protest song, "Fixin’ to Die Rag" (You know the refrain "One, two, three, four, what are we fighting for? Don’t ask me I don’t give a d___, next stop is Viet Nam").

Unbeknownst to me, I just read that was the first time Country Joe ever had the crowd chant a different four letters than F-I-S-H for the FISH cheer. After he called out "Gimme an ’F’ ". I remember being surprised at the audience participation chant turning into "F____ the war" and assumed that’s how they always did it live. Perhaps it wasn’t the greatest moment in history, but I was certainly into it at the time. No match for the Dylan concert I mentioned above, but cool none the less now knowing I was there when that passionately obscene anti-Viet Nam war rallying cry was born.

Mike