But sometimes you see your best shows in a small venue.
Like this, where I saw The Police, Joe Jackson and others. I think the place had 20 tables. https://www.setlist.fm/venue/hullabaloo-rensselaer-ny-usa-5bd75bd4.html PBS did a special: https://www.wmht.org/blogs/the-scene/the-hullabaloo-in-rensselaer-had-a-resident-leopard/
I loved Emerson Lake and Palmer as a teen but too young for concerts. So it was great to see them live in 1992(?) on their Black Moon tour.
They were playing this very small auditorium in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I didn’t have tickets and they were sold out, but I went there just in case they had tickets at the door or whatever. Nope, but I was able to buy one off a group of people when one of their friends didn’t show up.
It was the size of a High School auditorium - maybe seated 250 people. ELP had their full set-up. They started about 15 minutes late, no big deal. About 5 notes in the circuits blew! Turns out they had blown several city blocks! This happened two more times and they finally started about an hour and a half late.
But what a show! I feared that they might be too old - but they were right on it! Never hearing them live before I was amazed at how some of their more chaotic songs were replicated. I’m not sure I even knew at that time that Rondo was played with Emerson jabbing knives in between the keys and moving the organ around to get the sound.
Short, Rondo, Live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xggFzkyd288