What are your top three live concerts of all time?

BEST
1. Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1969, (Woosley Hall, Yale) - also saw him on many different occasions including Woodstock, 1969;
2. Cream (Woosley Hall, Yale-heard them twice in New Haven, CT)
3. Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McClaughlin) 1970, Wesleyan College, CT);
4. Doors - Arrest of Jim Morrison, New Haven, CT, 1970? (mostly because I was in love with Sally Barber);
5. Allman Brothers Band, Middletown, CT, 1970 - Emily Apter, my companion, who is now a chair at NYU in NYC, told me - "they will never go anywhere."
6. Seeing many great violinists with my father;
7. Seeing the last concert by Yehudi Menuhin in Washington, CT in the 1960s;
8. Growing up with Dave Brubeck's children in Wilton, CT, and seeing him play in the 1960s at Wilton High School;

Metallica - Day on the Green Oakland, Ca 1991
 with Queensryche, Faith no more & Soundgarden

Metallica with SF Symphony at Berkeley community     theater in 1999

Metallica with Guns and Roses, Oakland California 1992

 do you see a pattern? 😁 I have been to hundreds of different acts over the last 40 years and there is just nothing like the Mighty Metallica! 🤘🏼

Radiohead @ MSG July 2018
The Cult @ Wellmont Theater Dec 2019
Hall & Oates @ Bethel Woods Aug 2017

Top Three:

Richard Thompson at an old refurbished church in Portland, Maine... early 90's. Best of the best. 

Oregon at Campbell Hall, UCSB, late seventies. 

Dave Holland Quintet-- Yoshi's, Oakland. They should've used THAT show for the live cd-- it was a lot hotter than the NYC show they chose. 


A few others I recall with Particular fondness...

SRV-- State Theater, Portland Maine... after he'd cleaned up-- "In Step" tour. 

Bonnie Raitt--Arlington Theater, S. Barbara. "Sweet Forgiveness" Tour.
 
Emmy Lou Harris and the Hot Band at Robb Gym, UCSB. '76?   

Freddie King-- gym at UC Riverside, '73 or '74.  

David Lindley and El Rayo X -- late 80's at Raul's Roadside Attraction, Portland, Maine.

Los Lobos in the gym at Bowdoin Collge, Brunswick, Maine. "Will
the Wolf Survive?" tour.   

The Hot Band (no Emmylou but with both F. Reckard and Albert Lee)-- Bluebird Cafe, S. Barbara-- late 70's. 

Jorma Kaukonen at a small-town Jr. HS auditorium in Maine-- mid 80's. 

John Hiatt solo performance at Crest Theater, Sacramento.  

Solas-- Center for the Arts, Grass Valley

Dead:
'73, San Diego Sports Arena
'74, Hollywood Bowl
'77, Robb Gym, UCSB

1) U2 - Shea’s Theater (Buffalo, NY) - 1983 - early in the tour that was later documented in the film "U2 Live at Red Rocks"

2) Rolling Stones - Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, CA) 1997

3) Tie - Stevie Wonder solo charity show - Marla Gibb Theater (Los Angeles, CA) - early 1990s
Michael Jackson & The Jacksons Victory Tour - Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, CA) 1984