Whats the best live performance you ever saw? list artist, tour, year, etc what made it great?
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The Monarch
ANSWERS: 13
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I have been to many, many, many "live" concerts over the years and they have all been great! I have been to every thing from Rock to Country to Blues and I enjoyed them totally but the three very best preformers were, #1...with out a doubt, Eric Clapton, #2 ZZ Top with Jimmy Vaughn (Stevie Ray's brother) but the one's that were the most fun and I have been to 5 of his was Jimmy Buffett! It was the best of times..we rented Limo's and had tons of food and partied through the whole thing!! They were such fun but he doesn't come to where I live now...Tennessee!!
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Marcel Marceau in Normal, Illinois, Illinois State U. Just a magnificent performance. 1980 I seem to remember.
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I've probably been to 100's of performances. I loved Sir George Soliti's performances in the Auditorium in Chicago in the 70's. But I loved Bob Dylan, the Doors, all the way up to Sonic Youth. Then I kind of stopped the concert and large crowd scene.
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Shakira in Lima, Peru, in 2006. She has a tremendous connection with the audience and I had a good position near the stage.
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I saw Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) at Winterland once and he played guitar better that anyone I'd ever seen, and I'd seen them all.
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The St. Olaf College Choir at lovely Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio I forget the year -- about 10 years ago ~ they did an entire acappella concert, I sat way in the back, high up, and the acoustics were perfect - - you could hear a pin drop after every piece, the audience was so quiet. Beautiful , beautiful sounds from the choir. +5
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i haven't been to a lot but i'd say disturbed 2009. its the only concert i've ever felt like the music is alive inside of me during the performance.
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Peter Gabriel at the Greek Theater (Hollywood, CA) in 1983. . His performances of "Family Snapshot", "San Jacinto", and "Biko" just rocked my world.
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After the (literally) hundreds I've seen thru the years, I'm gonna go with Floyd's "Division Bell" tour in '95 and/or the Stones' "Steel Wheels" tour in '89. Both at the Oakland colluseum; both enormously expensive to procure near front row, center seats. Jagger, dressed all in red robes with 'fire and brimstone' lightshow, descending from like 200 feet onto the stage, beginning "Sympathy for the Devil" was, shall we say, memorable?! And I missed the whole lightshow for that Floyd event (it was *behind me*!), but hadda 'out-of-body'-type deal for two+ hours, starin' at Gilmore's hands! And I believe I achieved some sorta religious transcendence upon "Learning to Fly"! - BTW: As far as 'intimate' shows go, I've seen Al DiMeola (jazz fusion guitarist) several times at the lovely Fox-Warfield theatre in San Francisco. Always front row, center balcony. [I remember really pissing off my date once, getting perhaps 'overly' excited/enthusiastic!] - ;-)
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Three friends and I went to see The Tubes on Halloween in 1977 at the Concord Pavillion. It was the same tour as was recorded for their album, "What Do You Want From Live" in England. It was just an awesome display. Very tight music with all the bells and whistles. Semi-nude dancers, props, etc. It was a concert that will always standout for me. Grab the live album for a taste of what it was like.
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Patrizio Buanne was a great show, in Atlantic City, 08. A great performance, was Madonna, the Confessions Tour which I saw in Atlantic City too, she always puts on a great concert. ACDC's Black Ice tour last year was good too.
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Hard to believe, but I think the most moving concert I ever went to was John Tesh. It was probably in the early `90's. Everyone in his band was a musical virtuoso, and the musical expression was so great that it took me on an emotional roller coaster. There were no special effects or stage props - all it took was a good musical performance.
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It was Machine Head. It was on the first leg of Metallica's World Magnetic tour this year in NYC. Machine Head was completely unbelievable live- I was blown away.
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