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If you could, what live performances would you enjoy re-living?

I have interest in hearing about yours.   I can think of some great concerts over the years in many great buildings, from Hancher in Iowa City, to Fisher Hall in New York, to some bars in Copenhagen. 

Something I have noticed....performers have times they are more "on" just like us, and it can make their concerts be perceived at different levels.   I know the three times I saw Jackson Browne, each was much different and most of that was his intent.  Having a good sized group with very talented back up singers to the time I saw him solo....all great, but very different.  He is a better guitar player than he may be given credit for. 

The live Jazz I have been to in NYC is near the top.  Sweet Basil and the Blue Note through the years have been very good to me, but in a much different vein, the lakefront festivals in Milwaukee are a somewhat unknown to most of America. 

I did see a few artists before their success and fame, saw a famous British singer at a bar in Rapid City many years ago..and he has done well since. 

Take care,

whatjd

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1ST: Either in ’72 or ’76 (foggy date memory), King Dome Seattle Wa.
The Eagles, Linda Rhonstadt, Jackson Brown, Dan Fogelberg, and
Andrew Gold ( and others)
They had personnel with video cameras, and were projecting scenes, from the musicians playing on stage and crowd views, onto A GIANT (at that time v) TV Screen in the arena.
A GREAT MUSICAL EVENT!!!

A CLOSE 2ND: Almost any Harry Chaplin concert anywhere:
Saw him at Nassau Community College on LI with his brother and several support musicians, somewhere else (can’t remember where) with a small orchestra, at the Univ of Idaho with two other musicians, and one time solo. ALSO: I was one of the several hundred who attended his immensely creative, unfortunately unsuccessful Broadway play " The Night that Made America Famous"
He was always captivating and personally engaging - a True Bard and Troubadour - I cried when he died ( and his generosity lives on in the LI Food Bank that he founded, named in his honor)...

3RD: The Band - Nassau Coliseum, NY.
Their music was so precise - true live showing off their immense talents. I'D SWEAR THEY SOUNDED JUST LIKE THEIR RECORDS!!!
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