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Still The Best Concert I Ever attended
Posted on 04/28/2021 6:44:42 AM PDT by mylife
The list below was born out of some pretty serious arguments. Was Bruce Springsteen better in 1975 or 1978? When did Kanye hit his stride? Which was more awesome, “The Joshua Tree” or “Zoo TV”? The concerts and tours that made the final cut weren’t just huge spectacles, they deepened the power of rock & roll itself – from Neil Young thrashing out 20-minute jams with Crazy Horse to Beyoncé turning stadium glitz into a personal outpouring. “You’re almost levitating on the energy from the audience,” says Keith Richards. “And I miss it when I’m not doing it.” Here are the people who’ve done it best.
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The Who - Isle of Wight 1970
Chicago - Tanglewood 1970
Spinal Tap at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. March 1992.
Olivia Newton John at the Meriweather Post Pavilion, in 1975. Does she count as rock and roll?
Jimi Hendrix’s 1967 debut album, Are You Experienced, established his genius. The 200-some shows he played to support the album assured his legend. Backed by his ecstatically indulgent English rhythm section — bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell — Hendrix did nothing short of liberate the electric guitar, turning each show into a pyrotechnic exploration. “I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid,’ ” Eric Clapton later recalled. For the U.S., the coming-out party was the Monterey Pop Festival, where Hendrix set his guitar ablaze, terrifying the fire marshal while leaving the crowd spellbound. As the Experience toured that year, they played alongside Pink Floyd and Cat Stevens in every type of venue, from theaters to biker bars. “We also did a graduation ball in Paris in March 1967, a really plush place,” Mitchell recalled. “There was an oompah band on before us, and they would not leave the stage. I remember one of our roadies, in a final act of desperation, pushing the trombonist’s slide back into his mouth – blood and teeth everywhere.” When the shows went right, however, Hendrix was a tour de force. His sense of showmanship went back to his years as a sideman with Little Richard; dressed in radiant psychedelic frills, he banged the neck of his guitar, bit its strings and played it behind his head. “With Jimi, it was a theater piece,” Soft Machine drummer and onetime Hendrix tourmate Robert Wyatt once observed. “The drama, the pace, the buildups and drops.” The peak Summer of Love moment came in early June, when the Experience played London. With the Beatles in the crowd, Hendrix opened with the title track from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which had been released just two days earlier. “1967 was the best year of my life,” he declared later. “I just wanted to play and play.” Kory Grow
soft machine was amazing.
saw buddy guy many times.
From the people I know who saw that tour, I really kick myself for not going to see Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” tour.
I thought the puppet show was better. And the warm up band for Spinal Tap was so bad they kept booing while Tap was playing.
My lil brother is a radiohead fan
Still The Best Concert I Ever attended
Didn’t Peter Grant physically threaten Grand Funk Railroad’s manager, because GFR was blowing Zeppelin off the stage?
Slayer’s Reign in Blood Tour, late ‘86 and ‘87. The ultimate thrash album and its equally awesome set of shows. Last rock show ever at DC’s Warner Theater (saw that one!) where the annihilation included flattening the first ten rows of seating. No video of that one, but you can see the show at the Ritz a few weeks later in Dec of ‘86 online.
No Lynyrd Skynyrd?
lol
I dont care what anyone says, I seen Neil and crazyhorse a dozen times
I heard it was really loud.
I saw skynrd, meh..
I am surprised that Tom Petty did not make the list.
I don't know one thing about that. First I've heard.
His show when he returned to Gainesville was the best.
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