<p>Hey, I’m so old now that it slipped my mind that I saw ELVIS twice in concert, the 2nd one was in 1974. My absolutely worst concert, however, was Paul Revere and the Raiders. WHAT WAS I THINKING??? In the early '80’s saw the Eagles - great concert.</p>
<p>Gotta run get more batteries and water - 2 stores were already out earlier today. They’re upgrading Rita to a Cat. 4 tomorrow.</p>
<p>Note to engineers: Pls invent something to prevent electrical lines to not blow out in a storm - please! And, cell phone towers, too! Life would be so much easier. It’s 100 deg. in the shade here. I’m going to have computer withdrawal soon - grrrrrrrrrrrr. Can’t get the tune “Leaving on a Jet Plane” out of my mind. Thanks for letting me vent!!!</p>
<p>1down- I’ve seen Arlo twice and I love him live. He’s one of the few great storytellers left.</p>
<p>It also brings me back to growing up how we’d always visit my relatives on Thanksgiving and drive into NYC for the Macy’s Parade and one radio station would always play Alice’s Restaurant.</p>
<p>(Oh! and we just got a copy of his new Live album at work- there’s a really great story where he talks about Alice’s Restaurant & his kids)</p>
<p>My best concert? Metallica, Dublin, the day after my 20th birthday. I was with 7 of my friends, and we all got into the pit. Slipknot were supporting, and they were amazing too. :)</p>
<p>I saw Ricky Nelson and Bobby Darin at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City when I was a kid, but I did manage to get to White Lake for the Woodstock Concert…Three days of peace…</p>
<p>Jym626–there are no seats on the floor at U2–It’s all general admission standing. They bought the tickets thru the fan club, then waited on line ten hours the day of the concert. Then, as they entered, each ticket got scanned, and about one in twenty set off some kind of signal that it was a lucky ticket which meant the bearer got to go inside the oval runway that extended from the stage. Their tickets were the first ones on the line to set it off–Voila–stage side spots!</p>
<p>muppetcoat – We always always always play “Alice’s Restaurant” after Thanksgiving dinner in our house. Freshman son was sad that he could not get home this year to hear it, but it turns out Arlo’s doing a 40th anniversary Alice’s Restaurant concert in Boston in Nov., so he’s going to go there instead! :-)</p>
<p>Mr.B, the Steel Pier?! I spent my summers on Brigantine (had family there) and we used to hang out on the boardwalk and Steel Pier, too! Did you grow up in Jersey? (Exit 135.)</p>
<p>Audiophile–“Vote for Change” REM/Springsteen–I tried so hard to get those tickets, lucky you!</p>
<p>I did see Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue Tour when I was in HS; that was cool.</p>
<p>Most embarrassing concert–in junior high, Gilbert O’sullivan (See: worse song ever thread) with an opening act of Maureen “There’s got to be a Morning After” McGovern.</p>
<p>Garland – Gilbert O’ Sullivan AND Maureen McGovern? I give. Man, I can’t even win a worst concert contest by playing the Olivia Newton-John card! In my defense, I was dragged to ON-J by my best friend, who eventually graduated from Harvard and worked on Wall Street. I never tired of bringing up the concert when in the company of his sophisticated Manhattanites. Good memories.</p>
<p>Garland, got the VFC tix by contributing to moveon.org. John Fogerty was also there and played “Fortunate Son” with Bruce backing, so it was indeed a magical (and hopeful) night. It was great for my kids to experience. They are a major political minority at their high school here in the south.</p>
<p>Mr. B…awesome, Steel Pier’s in my back yard. I was just a little young to actually go to the dance show “Summertime at the Pier”, featuring Ed Hurst. My guess is your from Philly??</p>
<p>Mootmom, do you remember Brigantine Castle?</p>
<p>My first concert was Sly and the Family Stone fall of freshman year on campus. </p>
<p>Most bizarre: John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra (I was one of the few in the audience that actually liked them)</p>
<p>Most memorable: Grand Funk Railroad. I remember calling my parents and telling them what a fantastic singer Mark Farner was…they must have thought I was insane (or on something :))</p>
<p>Best Concert:Georgia Jam 1974(? I’ll google it) Allmans, Marshall Tucker, Skynyrd, GrindersSwitch, …uhhhh…buncha others. We were saved from starvation by the cantaloupes the krishnas gave us. Must have given them $1000 bucks over the years on account of those cantaloupes. I was the only one ever walking toward them at the airport. LOL. We were there for 4 days and had tickets and ZERO spendable cash. (Two blow outs on the Karmann exiting I-75 at Fulton County . Parked it at the HoJo’s and ran.:eek: )</p>
<p>Not a contest in my case. The best live band I ever saw was Gang of Four. Consolation prize goes to The Blasters, X, Stevie Ray Vaughan, REM, and B******* Surfers.</p>
<p>Prince. How the heck did I forget Prince? Saw him on the 1999 Tour and the Purple Rain tour, and just a few months ago on the Musicology tour – which was fantastic. A truly weird dude, but a great performer.</p>
<p>Took my then 10-year old son to watch Indigo Girls (my wife got sick and couldn’t go). Audience consisted of me, him, and every lesbian in the Lehigh Valley. Great show, and this now 6-4 behemoth of a son is still a fan, to the curiousity of his friends. </p>
<p>Most overrated concert? Eagles Hell Freezes Over. So much money to watch two insufferable twits (Frey and Henley) get absolutely schooled by Joe Walsh. If they had just turned Walsh loose it would have been worth the $$. In the same vein, watched Hootie and the Blowfish’s opening act blow them away – an unknown band called Train that had released “Meet Virginia” that week.</p>
<p>I saw the Eagles in the early days–right after Don Felder joined the band. The “On the Border” tour. They were great. I never thought Joe Walsh fit in with them. But Henley is an insufferable twit (Frey hasn’t offended me yet, but I may have missed something.)</p>
<p>I also love the Indigo Girls. Their unique combination of voices makes me think of a female Simon & Garfunkel.</p>