Your top 3 most EMOTIONALLY intense live concerts, and top 3 EMOTIONALLY intense records.

I'll offer up four.

Springsteen at the L.A. forum  for the Darkness at the Edge of Town tour. Record company seats, thanks to the fact my sister worked at A&M Records at the time. 

Led Zeppelin at the Rose Palace in Pasadena, just after the second LP was released. Festival seating. Me and my girlfriend ooched our way to the front. 

Berlin Philharmonic with Von Karajan at Pasadena's Ambassador Auditorium.  Once again, record company seats. Transcendently beautiful tone. 

Bizet's Carmen at the L.A. Music Center. I have no idea how I got them but Second Row toward the middle. Yeah, the performance was by the supposedly second-rate New York City Opera Company, but that didn't stop me from wallowing in the sheer beauty and excitement of it. The experience instantly transformed me into a complete opera fan.

bobandcindy101 -- wow, Cream. Still in my top handful of bands. Clapton before he discovered Delaney & Bonnie and lost every ounce of passion and energy. 

bdp24 -- I helped a veritable non-stop parade of H***wood/music industry celebs when I toiled at the Tower Records Classical Annex on the Sunset Strip in the early '80's. More celebs than I ever ran into during my many years on movie lots.

bdp -- oh yeah, I remember that story!

I have an autographed poster of iconic German soprano Elizabeth Schwarzkopf on my wall. My wife was working at the classical annex at the time. Frau Schwarzkopf was at least in her late sixties. She was staying at a hotel below the Sunset Strip.  She walked up the steep hill to the store completely on her own for the autograph session. My wife says she simply showed up at the door. No escorts.