1971 Santana concert at the Allentown Speedway in PA. Not normally a great venue, the audience is sitting in aluminum bleacher seats with the band on the other side of the racetrack, concession stands behind and underneath the bleachers. Concert starts, all going great, when I smell smoke; turned around and the hot dog stand behind the bleachers is shooting 6' flames at the power lines! Looked cool for about 30 seconds with huge flames in the dark night sky and Santana playing, but... ZAP. All the lights went out, including, of course, the band's amps. We assumed the concert was over and people started getting up to leave, but after about 1 minute we heard... conga drums. Awesome drumming for almost an hour until the electricity came back on, and the band finished out one of the finest performances I've ever heard. Definitely time-machine worthy!
If you had access to a time machine, what concerts would you go back to see?
2020 was the first year of my adult life that I did not attend any concerts. I'm sure that I'm not alone in this unfortunate situation. So, this got me thinking about both the concerts that I "missed" (could've gone, but something went wrong) or concerts I "wished I'd had the chance to see."
Plus, I thought this would be a good bookend to the ongoing (and excellent) thread about "the worst concert you ever saw."
Plus, I thought this would be a good bookend to the ongoing (and excellent) thread about "the worst concert you ever saw."
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