Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts


There are certainly more than a few geetar fanciers among us judging by all the threads on guitar bands and best guitarist. This thread is about the best rock shows you saw. Let's limit it to the rock shows. Not Blues or Jazz or solo performers. The concerts that raised the hairs on your neck or made you want to take up an instrument or raised your pulse through their sheer energy or just moved you through their performance on stage. The only ones that count are the ones you've seen. After making a list in my mind of the many rock concerts I attended, most from the late 1960's through early 80's, I have come up with mine. It was tough, I’ve seen well over 200 rock concerts over the years and it is really hard coming up with a top 5 but we have to limit this so here go mine. "Yes" - This group stands out as the 2nd best concert I ever saw with Steve Howe and Chris Wakeman. They opened for Emerson, Lake and Palmer and after their set I do feel that EL&P were disheartened and knew they couldn't match it; they didn't. Funny thing is like most, I was there to see EL&P. They were forced to have another concert the following night by popular demand. Virtuoso musicianship, “Poco” - This group could put on a show. I saw them 4 different times in the many various stages of their evolution. They never had the commercial recognition of some of the other great bands of their era but they sure made up for it in their live performances. No one stayed seated during a Poco concert. “Rod Stewart and Faces” - Ron Wood on guitar and Rod Stewart strutting all over the stage. Rod was probably the greatest natural Rock showman I ever saw, including Mick Jagger. His uninhibited manner and constant movement and soulful vocals brought the house down. The crowd wouldn't let him go after the 5th encore so he invited everyone ("especially the pretty young ladies") to his hotel to “party on”, and so they came; Led Zeppelin I had to include them because next to the Doors and of course Jimi Hendrix they were my favorites of that era and I never did get to see either of the other two. The acoustics were bad and they played so loud you couldn’t really hear the music. But they were great none the less and it was special to me. The best should be kept for last. "The Who" was acknowledged as the best concert band at the time. Getting tickets meant getting in line and waiting. I imagine at the time the only tougher ticket would be the “Beatles” and they weren’t even together then. They didn’t disappoint. The reaction of the audience was beyond anything I ever saw at a live concert before or since. The band was so cohesive and the energy they put out put them into a different realm. They just have to be on a very short list of the best live bands ever.
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Greatful Dead- Allmans 1973 rfk
Bruce Springsteen 1975,78.80.81,etcetc
Traffic with Dave Mason as part of the band 1970
Jimi Hendrix 1968
Frank Zappa & Captain Beefhart sometime in the mid 70's
These are but a very very few as I have attended many thousands of shows. Coming soon will be a full list of shows and a history of our involvment in the audio business for the past 30 years+.Check this out on HIFIFARM.com in about a week
Jimi Hendrix- L.A. Forum, 1970
Jimi Hendrix- L.A. Forum, 1969
Jimi Hendrix- Shrine Auditorium, 1968
Frank Zappa- Santa Monica Civic, 1974(?)
some of Woodstock, 1969
Hi Everyone.
I'm into underground and progressive rock.
I have a tendency to get high just from the music without using any intoxicating elements or drugs.

Last year I was on King Crimson at Town Hall in New York City -- let's count it the first best one, but bellow described 2nd,3rd,...aren't discriminated and concidered to be by me on the "same story level".
Any fan of KC will just understand me.

The second best takes the rock-show band Residents that very rarely show-up live.

On the third best is another concert of King Crimson at Irvin Plaza New York (Fripp, Belew, Gunn) with presentation of ProjeKCt 2. The best scene was when some junkie smoked the third one and got his belly loose on the floor. To tell you the truth I did not need any joint since I've got high just listening!

On the forth best is show at Bottom Line cafe New York. I will say that Bottom Line is one of the very best NY hangouts for rock and jazz since it's relatively small.
There were 2 members of King Crimson Bruford, Levin; innovative guitar player David Torn and some rock-infiltrated-smooth-jazz-trumpeteer Chris Boti. My friend got drunk just from the one bottle of Bass Ale by means of getting too high just from the music.

The fifth best one belongs to german punk beauty NINA HAGEN
Whoever thinks that she's already through wrong!
I've had a good time spent with crowd that in average is 5 years younger for the wonder. I thought that NH has fans above 30 for the most.

I wish that I could sometime go for german band "CAN" if they will ever come to US -- just dream.

This is good to unite rock audiofiles into one tight and growing discussion thread.
Together we rock!
Let me add to the nostalgia trippers out there and see if any of you were at these:

1) Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles Summer 1976 Schaeffer Stadium Foxboro, Mass.

2) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Spring 1980 University of Vermont Patrick Gymnasium Burlington, VT

3) Jethro Tull Spring 1981 Salt Palace Salt Lake City, UT

4) All three shows: Grateful Dead at "Wet Rocks" Morrison, Colorado Summer 1982

5) Jimmy Buffet on the slopes ParkWest Ski Resort, Park City Utah Summer 1985

No one's noticed but the band's all packed and gone....

Cheers!

Quin
Ministry - hardest, tightest ever. And that godd*mned top hat on Al Jourgenson!!! Warfield in San Fran.

Thinkin Fellers Union Local 282 - Night break, San Fran. 10 players, wacked out fezes.

Primus "Sausage" - Berkeley Square, All present and former members of Primus. 2 drummers. 2 bassists, etc, etc. "Secret" gig under name of "Sausage". For years at Primus gigs after that people who were there would yell out Sausage! mid-1990s

Dead with Dylan - 1987 at Los Angeles Colliseum. Wow. A classic. Absolutely trancendental.

Forbidden Dimension - Calgary Alberta, Canada. 1980s - 1990s. Horror rock grungecore amazing! Martian Deathsaucer has come to usurp the Earth from human scum! :-)