Concert / show meme

[madbaker]

What was the best concert or show you have attended?
I'd call it a tie between the last Who tour and Tom Petty's Wildflowers tour, both at Shoreline in Mtn View. The Who played a week after Entwistle died and the energy from the band - and the audience - was amazing. Daltrey screaming "How could I measure up to anyone now after such a love as this"...

The Petty show was the last stop on the tour, and he played for close to three hours. It seriously rocked. Plus he played a hysterically funny song that had, as he introduced it, "gratuitary drug references".

What was the worst, or in retrospect, the most embarrassing?
When I was 12 or so, I saw the Captain & Tennille at the Circle Star Theatre.

Feel free to add your answers...

Comments

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

oh god. the circle star. When I was a kid, my parents took us to see Neil Sedaka at the circle star. I think that's right up there with the Cap'n. :->

[maestrateresa.livejournal.com]

Hehe...I was probably 14 when I saw the Captain and Tennille at the Concord Pavilion.

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

What was the best concert or show you have attended? Dire Straits, 15 February 1992, Binghamton, New York


What was the worst, or in retrospect, the most embarrassing? Menudo. Circa 1985, performing in the middle of a shopping mall courtyard in Hamburg, NY for about 30 people. Most of them shoppers, just like me. Just sorta walked in on that one. Left after about 5 minutes. Of course, I never saw Little Ricky Martin 'live', again.

Re: Dire Straits

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

I need to clarify the Dire Straits concert...

I was in the front row -- center stage, up against the gate that kept the crowd from clambering onto the stage.

Of course, there were about 75 security people there, most of them bored. Evidently, Ozzy had performed there the night before, and the crowd had gotten out of hand, so they beefed up security for the 'next night's rock show'.

Of course, the review in the newspaper the next day described us as the "White wine & Brie Crowd". I don't think there was a chance that *anyone* was going to climb up on stage.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I saw RUSH sometime around 1993 at Shoreline, with the boyfriend. It was so loud, you couldn't hear the music, and everyone stood up for the whole concert, so you couldn't see the band. If all concerts are like that, I don't know why anyone would ever go! There are cheaper ways to be deaf and sore.