What are your top three live concerts of all time?

bdp -- I’m sure we ran into each other more than once. My sister was buddies with the Rhino Records crew. She constructed the store’s giant papier-mache rhinoceros horn that eventually (at least I think) resided in my apartment. Do I get the name Harold Bronson right? Was the name of his band The Fabulous Sheepskins? I made myself a nuisance at Norm’s Rare Guitars. Did I buy my Fender Custom Shop Fifties Tele there?

Yup, Harold Bronson owned Rhino, both record shop and record label. The label started small, issuing offbeat, obscure artists in the 1970’s, selling them in the store. They then got into assembling comps of 50’s and 60’s music, and then single-artist/group greatest hits albums. I’m sure Rhino’s deal with Warner Brothers made Harold a fairly wealthy man ;-) .

Remember Rhino’s store employee Phast Phreddie? He was a Blues music expert, and played around town, fronting a pretty good band comprised of local hipsters. He left L.A. in the 80’s, moved back East. A lot of musicians and songwriters paid the rent and ate by working a day job in a record store. In the late-80’s Lucinda Williams was working in the Moby Disc store in Sherman Oaks, three blocks from my apartment. I’d be thumbing through the LP’s and see her standing behind the cash register, staring off into space. Composing song lyrics, I suspect. The store manager was Kip Brown, the guitarist in the Punk band Shock, and later in The Little Girls, a band fronted by two sisters.

As happened to the great record shop in Mill Valley---Village Music (which had an incredible inventory of UK and European pressings of Blues, Jazz, Rockabilly, and Hillbilly LP’s and 78’s, and was frequented by musicians. I saw James Burton shopping there in the 80’s)---the introduction of and takeover by CD’s ruined the store.

Trans Siberian Orchestra 2019 Stories of Christmas Eve, First time played in public for 25 yrs. 

Harry Chapin, shortly before he died. His band was stuck in Chicago by a winter storm and he got to Flint and played 3 hrs, just him. a chair and his guitar.
Moody Blues at Red Rock

Yes Masterwork tour @ Sandstone Amphitheater
Pink Floyd Division Bell tour @ Arrowhead Stadium
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Echo Tour @ Sandstone 
And Lucinda Williams every time I've seen her perform  Now 6

Sorry. I just don't remember Phast Phreddie. But can I tell you how much I miss the restaurants in the area?  Just for starters, Rigo's Tacos at Oxnard & Woodman for their Al Pastor burrito. The Carnival Restaurant for Lebanese. That dessert cabinet!