What are your top three live concerts of all time?


I'll go with ;  1.Santana  at the Music Hall in Boston      2.Jimi Hendrix at the Boston Garden   3.Supertramp at the Music Hall.                                                                                                                                                             
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Queen - Manchester Apollo - Crazy Tour 1979

Genesis - Six of the Best reunion with Gabriel at Milton Keynes, UK in 1982

Pink Floyd at Main Road Manchester, UK in 1988

Yes, I'm old.

Chick Corea Acoustic Band Live in Pasadena mid 80s

Return to Forever 2015

Led Zepplin 1995

Rush Moving pictures Tour

Jean Luc Pony Greek Theatre and Hollywood bowl 80s and 90s 

 

 

Three rock concerts  that come to mind:

Led Zepplin, 1969 Jacksonville FL

Jethro Tull, 1972, New Orleans

Rolling Stones, 1978 Lexington KY

Slightly jealous of people here listing some serious classics from before I was born . . .  But let's see what I can come up with.  Chronological order:

Nine Inch Nails, Calamity Janes, Las Vegas, 1989: Super early show, NIN was more or less unknown, but very high energy

Ministry, Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, 1990: Tour for "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste", violent, I definitely suffered some high frequency degradation at this show

Buena Vista Social Club, Chicago Theater, Chicago, 1999 or so: Old building designed for acoustics + old school Cubans with incredible musicianship = really fun evening 

Metallica, Rasputin Music, Berkeley, 2016: Not much to say here . . .  Fun to see such a legendary act in such a small space

3---Furtwangler directing Bruckner ninth symphony in 1944 in Berlin under bombs noise ... Apocalyptic and unsurpassed musical event.. Listening it you are there...

 

2--- Pianist Sofronitsky playing Scriabin in the Nazi assaulted Leningrad in 1941or in Moscow brought by plane in 1942 and listen in ectasy by Russian crowds waiting for germans...Scriabin is so hard to play right but Sofronitsky is a god... Even his disciple Gilels and Richter bowed to him...Listening it you are there ...

1--- Or Maria Yudina playing a Mozart concerto one time for the radio when Stalin was listening... Stalin loved it so much he ordered to have the vinyl album right now...Now one dare to say no... The concert was not recored but live... Then in the night Yudina played it a second time for the engineers to record it changing even of maestro, because the first one was sick by fear... And guess what? After listening the album in ectasy Stalin offer big money to Yudina... One of the greatest pianist of all time, and a fearless woman, who declined the money for herself  but accept it for his church even if she lived  in abject poverty  and say to the dictator that she will pray God for his crimes instead... textually :   "Thank you for your aid. I will pray day and night and ask the Great Lord to forgive you your great sins. The Lord is merciful and He will forgive you".

Extraordinarily, Stalin did not put her on execution or on Solovki island in the artic circle, as he did for EVERYONE else who dare to accused him ... Even Shostakovitch was sleeping waiting death with a suitcase ready each night,  and never say a negative word against Stalin as Yudina the fearless pianist say it loud to Stalin in his face on telephone... Guess what ? Some 10 years after  Stalin was discovered after 2 days alone in his room dying alone because everybody fear him too much to dare to open the door without permission...On his table near his bed some vinyl album was turning without had been stop by no one  for hours and hours after Stalin death : it was the Mozart same album concerto no 23 especially recorded in one night for him by Yudina...

Imagine the bravery of this woman... And in Russian pianist school she is beside, not under, Neuhaus, Sofronitsky, Scriabin, and the others giants ...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdJtR6HNRQ4