Best and worst concerts you've attended

packerzrule said:
Best - so many to choose from but will go with Pink Floyd in 75 at County Stadium
runner up the 77 Pink Floyd concert at the same venue

Worst - I promised my daughter when she was 16 that I would take her to see the Backstreet Boys. Bunch of teenage girls screaming their lungs out reminiscent of the Beatles appearances you saw on tv. Hotter than hell that day and we had bleacher seats at the Marcus Ampitheater. On top of the hill in the shade was a beer stand where a lot of the fathers gathered so that is where I spent the majority of my time.
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Tickets for the 77 show were like $8-10.

Times have changed
 
Rex Racer said:
I know 3 guys that were USAF stationed at Bentwaters AFB that went to that Zeppelin concert at Knebworth in 79.

Worst concert for me was a Grateful Dead show at Red Rocks in 1978. They suck.

Too many good concerts to pick a best. Stevie Ray Vaughn 3 times, all terrific shows. I've seen Jeff Beck, ZZ Top, AC/DC, Molly Hatchet, Styx & Thin Lizzy (same show), Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Frank Zappa, Joe Bonamassa twice, a Chicago (terrible)/Earth, Wind & Fire (awesome) show. Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, Kenny Loggins, Hall and Oates, Heart, Blondie, Pat Benatar, Peter Frampton, Dave Matthews Band
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Also would have loved to see Kenny Loggins and Hall and Oates back in the day. Kenny Loggins with Michael McDonald is the perfect combo.

Out of all those, SRV is the ultimate though.
 
HammerDown said:
I'll never understand the attraction to the Dead. I went to a show in Louisville when I was about 21 because my friend promised the closest thing to a religious experience I'd ever have. It sucked. Smelly-ass ugly people everywhere getting fucked up to terrible music and worse musicians.
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There ain't a facepalm big enough. Although the Dead are an acquired taste.
 
Kburjr said:
Tickets for the 77 show were like $8-10.

Times have changed
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Only mainstream shit. Most the shows I see are around 20 bucks fer tix.

The shit yer big bands are charging right niow for shows is fucking insane. No thanks.
 
HammerDown said:
Also would have loved to see Kenny Loggins and Hall and Oates back in the day. Kenny Loggins with Michael McDonald is the perfect combo.

Out of all those, SRV is the ultimate though.
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From that list for sure, although I personally liked his brother's(Jimmy) band better. Fabulous Thunderbirds. Stevie was a better player, but Jimmy's band was tighter.
 
Seeing Rush is incredible, especially if the sound is good where you are. That three guys could make that much sound was amazing. My Dad saw Cream back in the day and said the same about them. Powerful! Would also have loved to see The Who
 
beardown07 said:
Only mainstream shit. Most the shows I see are around 20 bucks fer tix.

The shit yer big bands are charging right niow for shows is fucking insane. No thanks.
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It’s more than mainstream guys overcharging. It was nearly 200 bucks to see Tyler Childers and Sturgill Simpson in March, neither are mainstream, but they packed a big venue. It was a great show, don’t get me wrong, but I spent more than I was expecting to see them
 
Rex Racer said:
I know 3 guys that were USAF stationed at Bentwaters AFB that went to that Zeppelin concert at Knebworth in 79.

Worst concert for me was a Grateful Dead show at Red Rocks in 1978. They suck.

Too many good concerts to pick a best. Stevie Ray Vaughn 3 times, all terrific shows. I've seen Jeff Beck, ZZ Top, AC/DC, Molly Hatchet, Styx & Thin Lizzy (same show), Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Frank Zappa, Joe Bonamassa twice, a Chicago (terrible)/Earth, Wind & Fire (awesome) show. Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, Kenny Loggins, Hall and Oates, Heart, Blondie, Pat Benatar, Peter Frampton, Dave Matthews Band
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Now there's a coincidence. I went to a Grateful Dead show during the same tour. I think it was called "On the road '78" The venue I was at was the Plattsburgh State Field House. I still have my concert ticket stub. I also bought a t-shirt which my daughter now wears. I don't recall it as a show that sucked too bad but I may have been drunk.
 
Kburjr said:
There ain't a facepalm big enough. Although the Dead are an acquired taste.
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I liked Jerry’s other project, New Riders of the Purple Sage better. Lonesome LA Cowboy is my jam.

The Dead never should have covered Mama Tried though.
 
HammerDown said:
Seeing Rush is incredible, especially if the sound is good where you are. That three guys could make that much sound was amazing. My Dad saw Cream back in the day and said the same about them. Powerful! Would also have loved to see The Who
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Saw the Who at the MGM Grand in Vegas, in like '96ish, I wanna say/. Daltry was on point still, and Townshend did a 10 minute acoustic set that was one of the heaviest things I've ever heard. How he didn't break a string is still beyond me.

Funny story with that show. A buddy and me snuck into a stairwell during the show to smoke a joint. We finished it right as some dude got to the top of the stairwell, coming down towards us. We stood up and walked up the stairs past him, only to see him getting harassed by a cop at the bottom of the stairwell for "smoking weed". LOLOLOLOL
 
HammerDown said:
Seeing Rush is incredible, especially if the sound is good where you are. That three guys could make that much sound was amazing. My Dad saw Cream back in the day and said the same about them. Powerful! Would also have loved to see The Who
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Disraeli Gears turned me from a dabbler in drugs into a full-blown freak. Thank you, Cream.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
It’s more than mainstream guys overcharging. It was nearly 200 bucks to see Tyler Childers and Sturgill Simpson in March, neither are mainstream, but they packed a big venue. It was a great show, don’t get me wrong, but I spent more than I was expecting to see them
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Those guys are both pretty big, bro.
 
HammerDown said:
Seeing Rush is incredible, especially if the sound is good where you are. That three guys could make that much sound was amazing. My Dad saw Cream back in the day and said the same about them. Powerful! Would also have loved to see The Who
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I saw The Who twice, along with Genesis, The Moody Blues, Yes, The Doobie Bros, Jethro Tull and Dire Straits. A bunch more as well. I was a concert hound back in the day.
 
beardown07 said:
Those guys are both pretty big, bro.
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Neither get terrestrial radio play, but they are probably the two biggest names in the underground country scene.

But I’m still a huge fan of both regardless
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
I liked Jerry’s other project, New Riders of the Purple Sage better. Lonesome LA Cowboy is my jam.

The Dead never should have covered Mama Tried though.
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I was into bluegrass in the mid 70s when I lived in California. Jerry's bluegrass project, Old and in the Way was my favorite band then
 
Kburjr said:
I was into bluegrass in the mid 70s when I lived in California. Jerry's bluegrass project, Old and in the Way was my favorite band then
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I love bluegrass. I guess I never really considered it a concert, but I used to see Ralph Stanley every year in Maggie Valley, NC when I was a kid at Raymond Fairchild’s venue.
 
Prolly the most fucked up on drugs I've ever been was at a Dead show. Saw em a couple times.

We'd drop acid and sit in the parking lot playing "Would you hire that guy?" as people walked by. LOL
 
beardown07 said:
Saw the Who at the MGM Grand in Vegas, in like '96ish, I wanna say/. Daltry was on point still, and Townshend did a 10 minute acoustic set that was one of the heaviest things I've ever heard. How he didn't break a string is still beyond me.

Funny story with that show. A buddy and me snuck into a stairwell during the show to smoke a joint. We finished it right as some dude got to the top of the stairwell, coming down towards us. We stood up and walked up the stairs past him, only to see him getting harassed by a cop at the bottom of the stairwell for "smoking weed". LOLOLOLOL
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"You reek of weed, dude. Suuuuuure you haven't been smoking. That shit is all over you!"
 
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