The best show I ever saw was Mellencamp at Market Square Arena for the Lonesome Jubilee tour. The energy on stage and in the hometown crowd was amazing! We even taped the video for Check it Out that night. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Lisa Germano on fiddle was first rate awesome!
I saw Pink Floyd kick off tour of Dark Side of the moon,......amazing! Also liked Jethrol Tulls Thick as a Brick concert. David Bowe was great! And the Stones Voodoo lounge tour also stands out Oh almost forgot The Moody Blues
I feel like half the people who answered think they are gonna see the Beatles live and gave up before the clip actually started. I know I almost did. THAT SAID, rock a fire explosion had my attention for a good 20 mins. That was pretty awesome dude.
I love the Beatles, but because most of their tunes were the product of an amazing amount of manipulations and added instruments they really couldn’t tour. So my vote has to go to Pink Floyd.
Van Halen. Metallica, Jeff buckley( rip), Peter Gabriel, widespread panic, king crimson, the police, the Grateful Dead. They all beat the stones and Floyd. Seen them all over 40 yrs.. The stones over the last 20 yrs are horrific in concert.
I kinda liked Derek & the Dominos... Got to see them in concert over at SUNY Albany and then got a ride out to Syracuse Univ about a month later where they also had this guy Duane Allman join them that evening.
The Who. Auditorium Theater, July 4, 1970. "Live at Leeds" - intermission - then "Tommy" - all of it.Keith Moon waving his hotel towel so the ladies knew where to find him.John Entwistle standing stoically stage right while making himself heard.Pete Townshend windmilling and playing like an articulate madman. Roger Daltrey voice and tossing out bottles of wine and beer into the front rows from the band's on-stage galvanized cooler at the end of the show.It was close to midnight before it was all over. Pretty amazing.
Seen Hendrix, Stones, Floyd, Ike & Tina, Blind Faith, Zappa and many more. All good, just different.
But then, any good night at a neighborhood Chicago blues bar in the 70's with just about any of the locals could keep pace for energy and engagement.
All a matter of taste and timing. Sometimes you get a great night and sometimes a good night.
My brother ran into them accidentally at the airport a long time ago back in the early 70s and said they were tiny. I ran into Johnny Winter and his band 1969 at the airport and he was tiny too.
No group live had the pure energy that J Geils Band had. Everyone and I mean everyone was on their feet dancing. Peter Wolf was great and Majic Dick was incredible on the harmonica. I would take J Geils for raw energy and Pink Floyd for the best all around concert due to their audio visual aspect of the concert. The Who in the original line up is a very close second. Whenever I saw The Who, watching Keith Moon hit the drums with such force was the best part. Peter Townshend’s windmill guitar playing got old, fast.
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