Today's Question: Describe the best live musical performance you've ever attended.
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Sting...2000... Hyde Park in London. 3 hours.
Prince...around 2008... ATL Philips Arena. I'm not even a Prince fan and was thoroughly entertained beyond my wildest expectations.
Vienna Choir Boys. Christmas Day 2001. In their home Cathedral built like 500+ years ago in Vienna, Austria. Coming so soon after 9/11 it was one of the most moving and uplifting concerts imaginable.
Prince...around 2008... ATL Philips Arena. I'm not even a Prince fan and was thoroughly entertained beyond my wildest expectations.
Vienna Choir Boys. Christmas Day 2001. In their home Cathedral built like 500+ years ago in Vienna, Austria. Coming so soon after 9/11 it was one of the most moving and uplifting concerts imaginable.
Where to start?
Perhaps it was seeing Bob Dylan in Chicago with The Band as his backup band. Still gives me chills to remember how good that show was.
I think they made an album from it...The Last Waltz.
Perhaps it was seeing Bob Dylan in Chicago with The Band as his backup band. Still gives me chills to remember how good that show was.
I think they made an album from it...The Last Waltz.
It has been so long I can't remember. Last year when we were living in NC, we went to some festival downtown to let our daughter play and we were close to, but not in a concert crowd. I started hearing a couple of songs I recognized; I told Mrs. VJ "I think that song is from .38 Special." With no idea it was .38 Special. I wouldn't pay to see that show, but I stumbled up on it so I guess that would be my answer. It was by accident - or coincidence.
What was interesting was seeing people older than me - gray haired men with their wives sitting on their shoulders, re-living their youth of 30 years ago. I've often wondered if my generation would keep acting that way; I guess some of 'em do.
What was interesting was seeing people older than me - gray haired men with their wives sitting on their shoulders, re-living their youth of 30 years ago. I've often wondered if my generation would keep acting that way; I guess some of 'em do.
Guilty as charged. :smile: Although I wear my hair short these days.What was interesting was seeing people older than me - gray haired men with their wives sitting on their shoulders, re-living their youth of 30 years ago. I've often wondered if my generation would keep acting that way; I guess some of 'em do.
two pretty conflicting styles, but my favorite was George Strait, in the round at MTSU in the early 90's. He just stood there and played. Went to four different mics throughout, and just sang. This was in the Garth hey-day of flying around, fireworks, etc. I'd take a George concert any day.
Second would be Widespread Panic at the Downtown Music Festival in Nashville back in the late 90's. Just awesome.
Second would be Widespread Panic at the Downtown Music Festival in Nashville back in the late 90's. Just awesome.
This past Sunday night. Casting Crowns, playing for free in Cullman, after earlier jumping right in and serving. Awesome ministry of music. They played "Praise You in This Storm", I have goosebumps thinking about it. What a great release for us...
First, Chukker, you're much older than me, I think. Weren't you at Woodstock?
I mis-read the thread title. I thought it said "Describe the last"...not the best.
I think it is relative with one's age and what their tastes are at the time. After I went to see Emerson Lake and Palmer in 1977, I probably would have said that was the best one. After I saw the Rolling Stones a year later, that would have been the best.
I am not as impressed with celebrity and elaborate concert shows like I used to be, so I would pick and choose who to pay to see today. I went to a George Winston concert at a small hall at the University of Miami many years ago where it was just him and the piano, and I enjoyed that as much as any of the assorted ZZ Top / Ted Nugent ear splitter shows I went to in my misspent youth.
I don't know if it was the best, but a few friends and I used to occasionally go to "Dancin' in the District" in Nashville and catch some bands for cheap or free. I remember we heard Nickel Creek - had never heard of them before, and they absolutely blew us away. Chris Thile is a mad man on the mandolin.
Now, I realize that's not exactly Led Zeppelin, but it is certainly the single musical performance that stands out in my mind.
Now, I realize that's not exactly Led Zeppelin, but it is certainly the single musical performance that stands out in my mind.
I said I saw WP at the Downtown Music Festival, but maybe it was Dancin' in the District. Forgot about that series. Haven't much out of Nickel Creek lately, but yeah, mad skillz.
I think I'm about 5 years older...I'm 57.First, Chukker, you're much older than me, I think. Weren't you at Woodstock?
I mis-read the thread title. I thought it said "Describe the last"...not the best.
I think it is relative with one's age and what their tastes are at the time. After I went to see Emerson Lake and Palmer in 1977, I probably would have said that was the best one. After I saw the Rolling Stones a year later, that would have been the best.
I am not as impressed with celebrity and elaborate concert shows like I used to be, so I would pick and choose who to pay to see today. I went to a George Winston concert at a small hall at the University of Miami many years ago where it was just him and the piano, and I enjoyed that as much as any of the assorted ZZ Top / Ted Nugent ear splitter shows I went to in my misspent youth.
There was an old black jazz piano player who used to play regularly at the old Chukker bar. He had backed up lots of successful old bigtime jazz singers over the years, but had basically fallen on hard times and found himself in Tuscaloosa. He had a bad drinking problem.
I love jazz, listening to him play by himself, he was a true master of the jazz piano. Listening to him would carry me to a better place. Really special.
The one that meant the most to me was the closing of The Armadillo World Headquarters. The homage that was paid and by who was staggering. It was an honor just to be there and humbling to be a part of..
Hard to pick one as "the best" as I'll generally say two or three, but, the one that always tops that list was Jane's Addiction, at The Nick in Birmingham, in Feb 89. Just before they exploded. I'll never forget that show.
That describes what I like, too. Something as simple as a cup of coffe outside a sidewalk cafe with a jazz band playing in a park across the street. Those unplanned, spontaneous moments with good music can make your day.
So many. Hendrix (at Memorial Coliseum), Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Allman Bros, Clapton, Santanna, Pink Floyd, BB King, AC/ DC, Tull.
Impossible to pick the best.
Impossible to pick the best.
A free concert given by Stevie Ray Vaughn in the spring of 1985 in Dallas. he and Double Trouble were in Dallas recording Soul to Soul and they would occasionally take a break and just appear at a club or outside in the West End. My then brother in law was a friend of Charley Wirz, a Dallas area luthier (guitar maker) that was a favorite of Stevie's. So we had inside information as to where and when they would pop up.
They aren't doing anything together anymore. They didn't really "break up" as much as they just went on hiatus. They are each doing their own thing right now, but they are supposedly planning to reunite at some point.
Dancin' in the District was really a cool thing, until it just became a place for people to go drinking. There were some really good bands I remember seeing for free. Wilco seemed to play every year, I think.
Sadly, only been to two, so not much of a choice, but it does date me.
#1 The Dave Brubeck Five (When I was a sophomore at the University, when they were appearing at Stillman )
#2 Al Hirt in Birmingham, don't remember, but I was still in High School.
#1 The Dave Brubeck Five (When I was a sophomore at the University, when they were appearing at Stillman )
#2 Al Hirt in Birmingham, don't remember, but I was still in High School.
The Skynyrd homecoming concert in 2002 was pretty sweet because it was free (and got to see Sweet Home Alabama and Freebird done live)
I saw Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in B'ham (Oak Mountain) in 2003, it was a "greatest hits" show.
BB King in 2008 in Tunica. Also saw Jerry Lee Lewis that night (he was in the audience, about five rows in front of me).
I saw Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in B'ham (Oak Mountain) in 2003, it was a "greatest hits" show.
BB King in 2008 in Tunica. Also saw Jerry Lee Lewis that night (he was in the audience, about five rows in front of me).
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