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just wanted to get some of your takes on what your favorite concert experiences were...and since this is the "other artists" section...please dont say Joe because thats obvious...
I saw BB King and Buddy Guy in concert together...thats been my fave so far...
Buddy Guy in a small 150 seat theater in Eureka Springs, Arkansas....
The reunited Arc Angels in Tulsa....
Five feet away from Robert Randolph in Fayetteville....
Seeing Hubert Sumlin and B.B. King in Tulsa back to back....
Meeting Indigenous and Doyle Bramhall II and Chris Layton and Eric Johnson and Charlie Sexton in Tulsa thanks to my friend DJ Dave Huffman...
Joe Bonamassa in Tulsa with Mark Epstein so close he almost hit me with the bass.....(can't help it, it was memorable)
Chatting with Bogie for like 15 minutes in Tulsa before helping Joe's crew load up the euipment, including his guitars, thinking the whole time "Dear God, please don't drop this...." (again, can't help it)
Joe Bonamassa in Springfield, Missouri commenting on how he loved how I advertised for him on the KWS forum.... (so sorry, but that one was really memorable)
Those are my favorites anyway....so far. Hopefully the best is yet to come.
Joe, Eric and Kenny in a small dive-of-a-tavern in Ballard, Washington with maybe 20 or 30 people in attendance, yet reproducing ANDY LIVE (and cuts from SILT) to absolute perfection. I don't recall if it was the Tractor Tav or the Sunset Tav. Both are in Ballard, and Joe played them both in the ANDY/SILT era.
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush opening for Aerosmith in 1978. Amazing. Blew the toxic twins off the stage.
Led Zeppelin at the Pacific Colliseum in Vancouver BC in 1975. Need I say more?
Black Sabbath with Blue Oyster Cult, Molly Hatchet and Riot - outdoors on a perfect Summer night, July 19 1980 at Seattle's (sold out) Memorial Stadium. It was the closest thing to a religious experience I had ever experienced to that point in my life. But then again it could have been the blotter...
Buddy Guy in a small 150 seat theater in Eureka Springs, Arkansas....
The reunited Arc Angels in Tulsa....
Five feet away from Robert Randolph in Fayetteville....
Seeing Hubert Sumlin and B.B. King in Tulsa back to back....
Meeting Indigenous and Doyle Bramhall II and Chris Layton and Eric Johnson and Charlie Sexton in Tulsa thanks to my friend DJ Dave Huffman...Joe Bonamassa in Tulsa with Mark Epstein so close he almost hit me with the bass.....(can't help it, it was memorable)
cool list!
Mark almost hit you with his bass??? haha thats awesome! memorable story.
Black Sabbath with Blue Oyster Cult, Molly Hatchet and Riot - outdoors on a perfect Summer night, July 19 1980 at Seattle's (sold out) Memorial Stadium. It was the closest thing to a religious experience I had ever experienced to that point in my life. But then again it could have been the blotter...
LOL! very cool!
Thanks for not asking "most" memorable...I can never choose. But I remember a Bonnie Raitt show in the 70's. She had John Lee Hooker open for her. On top of that, he had Albert(not Alvin) Lee playing guitar with him. It was amazing and a real musical education! Opened my eyes to "old school" Blues. Cathy
Eric Johnson from 5 feet away at the El Mocombo in Toronto Canada.
Danny Gatton from 4 feet away at the Horseshoe tavern in Toronto Canada, superb
Cry of Love in a smallish venue with Audley Freed playing a pile of Hendrix tunes in addition to the regular COL stuff
Wishbone Ash, Nazareth, Uriah Heep and BOC on a Dinosaurs of Rock tour...
But the best still remains an almost three hour Zeppelin gig at the time of the third album (III) in Montreal Canada....., no break, just a 30 minute acoustic set between all the raunch and roll.
Honorable Mentions:
Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Who (at the time of ProNounced, the first Skynyrd Album)
Johnny Winter with Rick Derringer and the amazing Bobby Caldwell on drums
Humble Pie when Frampton was still in the band
Greg Lake first solo tour with an absolute molten hot searing Gary Moore on lead guitar performing ELP/Crimson and more....
and on and on I've been fortunate.....
Indigenous with some kid Bonamassa opening back in 2000
Pink Floyds Animals tour in Cleveland, Ohio, guess it was 75?
Roy Buchanon with Johnny Winter at The Tomorrow Club, Youngstown, Ohio.
The Who, 3rd row seats at Giants Stadium...incredible. Must have been '89 I think.
Led Zep 1970 First concert: Thanks mom. That started it all.
Grand Funk: Second concert. Man I wished I could play guitar.
Mountain: Corky Lang: drumsticks flying everywhere. That's for me.
Neil Young: with that little old band from Texas opening. WTF who are these guys.
Freddie King: in a small club, He was the Joe Bonamassa of black blues guys.
Wings Over America Tour: Tarrant County Convention Center. Eric may be god but Paul is a Saint.
Supertramp: The venue lost my will call tix and set a row up front for us.
The Police Synchronicity: finally got to see them.
Joe B: The best 75 minutes set I had seen.
CSN: Stills dedicated a song to a mutual friend that had died recently.
Jimi Hendrix with Chicago Transit Authority at the Oakland Coliseum spring 1970.
The Who with Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Cow Palace, SF Nov. 1973. Keith Moon OD'd on PCP and they drug a kid out of the crowd to play. It was my first Skynyrd experience and I haven't been the same since. Read that it was Skynyrd's first gig in a venue that big, they said they jumped from honky tonks to arena's overnight.
Robert Cray Band at Wolfgang's in SF, late 70's. Smallish night club Bill Graham owned, sat right at the edge of the stage and Robert was on his game and sweatin' on us.
There's hundreds more, but we'll save those for another day.
Think Green,
J Dawg
This is a no brainer for me, especially as we've had this before. 
The very best I've ever seen, for varying reasons -
Little Feat at the Rainbow, 1975 (I think I described this in detail in the Feat topic.)
Bruce at the Hammersmith Odeon, Nov. 1975, (his first concert in Europe, legendary)
Bob Marley at the Rainbow, 1977 (yes, I really was there!! - another legendary show)
Grateful Dead at the Bickershaw "festival", 1972 (two days freezing in the mud worth every minute)
Kind of stuck in a time warp, huh?
I've seen many other fantastic shows, like every single time I've seen Bonnie, but these are the true killers for me.
Far and away the most memorable experience I've had since the 80's was my utterly gobsmacking introduction to Joe last July, a moment that literally changed my life.
I've seen a few. Most I was onstage for. Labelle, Sly, Buddy (Miles & Guy) Gap Band, KISS, Charlie Daniels, Redbone.
Triple header one night was Robert Cray, then Albert, then BB. Oh Albert King, didn't stut pretenders, didn't suffer fools.
The original Tower of Power was on fire one night as was The Ohio Players.
One night at the Westmont there was a talent show and one young girl was so nervous she almost got the hook. The band quit on her and she never stopped. She got stronger and more determined with every note. You could hear only her. When she finished by herself, the entire auditorium erupted. They threw money. Don't know her name.
I remember one show in particular, though...Robert Palmer on the Double Fun tour was absolutely on a roll one night in Miami. Pepe (bass) was wound up tight with the drummer and the backbeat was a thing alive. Robert was feeling it too. (RIP) Everything he sang gave me goose bumps. A lotta soul in that guy that night.
The very first time I experienced the Joe Bonamassa set ranks up there.
Eric Johnson from 5 feet away at the El Mocombo in Toronto Canada.
Danny Gatton from 4 feet away at the Horseshoe tavern in Toronto Canada, superb
Cry of Love in a smallish venue with Audley Freed playing a pile of Hendrix tunes in addition to the regular COL stuff
Wishbone Ash, Nazareth, Uriah Heep and BOC on a Dinosaurs of Rock tour...
But the best still remains an almost three hour Zeppelin gig at the time of the third album (III) in Montreal Canada....., no break, just a 30 minute acoustic set between all the raunch and roll.
Honorable Mentions:
Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Who (at the time of ProNounced, the first Skynyrd Album)
Johnny Winter with Rick Derringer and the amazing Bobby Caldwell on drums
Humble Pie when Frampton was still in the band
Greg Lake first solo tour with an absolute molten hot searing Gary Moore on lead guitar performing ELP/Crimson and more....
and on and on I've been fortunate.....
wow acoustic zeppelin set. that is a hell of a list my friend, how old are you if you don't mind me asking?
Yeah, I posted this somewhere else on here but.....Eric Clapton at The Rainbow in Finsbury Park, London, 1973. I was 15 years old and sat six rows from the front, dead centre stage. Hippy days!!!!
Yeah, I posted this somewhere else on here but.....Eric Clapton at The Rainbow in Finsbury Park, London, 1973. I was 15 years old and sat six rows from the front, dead centre stage. Hippy days!!!!
You youngster. We thought you were past the half century.
Coming up this year....November 11th......big 50
gsj wrote:Yeah, I posted this somewhere else on here but.....Eric Clapton at The Rainbow in Finsbury Park, London, 1973. I was 15 years old and sat six rows from the front, dead centre stage. Hippy days!!!!
You youngster. We thought you were past the half century.
Coming up this year....November 11th......big 50
Another Scorpio. 
I'll be hitting 60 on Guy Fawkes Day.
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