First Concert - Best Concert - One you wish you'd seen

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In the midst of all your college anxiety, something fun. I’ll start…

First Concert - The Ramones
Best Concert - The Clash
Wish I’d Seen - Prince

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I hope you don’t mind but I moved this to the Parent Cafe.

First Concert - Four Seasons
Best Concert - Blood Sweat and Tears (John Denver was the opening act)
Wish I’d Seen - Moody Blues

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First concert - Chicago
Best concert - Prince, The Who (tied)
Wish I’d Seen - Tom Petty

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First Concert - Chicago
Best Concert - The Piano Guys (is that even a concert?)
Wish I’d Seen - The Eagles

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First concert - U2
Best concert - the Police
Wish I had seen - Rush (or Queen)

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First concert - don’t remember - maybe Pink Floyd

Best Concert - so many good ones - Sting (mentioned), U2, Paul McCartney

Wish I saw - Tom Petty - had tix with Steve WInwood but started a new job and I had to go to a work event. It will forever haunt me.

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First Concert - The Police
Best Concert - U2
Wish I’d Seen - Live Aid

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First concert-Steppenwolf
Best concert-The Who, 1971
Wish I’d seen-The Band

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The only concert I ever went to other than symphony orchestra and school concerts was Van Cliburn. This was sometime in the 60s, when I was a teenager.

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First Concert - Don’t remember. Maybe Peter Gabriel
Best Concert - Depeche Mode, forever. U2 at the Sphere…but that’s not a fair comparison.
Wish I’d seen - Led Zeppelin

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First Concert - Billy Joel
Best Concert - Taylor Swift
Wish I’d Seen - can’t think of one, but I am going to Billy Joel again in April because he isn’t getting any younger!

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I saw U2 in the Sphere - but it was woefully short (just two hours)…but kudos to Bono for not getting political.

I’ll add a runner up - last year I saw REO Speedwagon and Styx. Styx headlined and they’re solid but REO brought tons of energy and was great.

And as solid as Styx is, better is Dennis DeYoung, who I saw a few times with his band - and given he sang most of Styx songs and put on a fantastic show.

Earth Wind and Fire - another great show - never have I seen so many people dancing for so long.

Just so many great performers.

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IME average concert length is around two hours, so it didn’t seem short to me. Agree on Bono, I’ve seen U2 a lot of times, and got tired of the preaching. No preaching/politics at the Sphere show I was at either.

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First: Andy Gibb :see_no_evil:
Best: James Taylor, Indigo Girls both at the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in Santa Fe, max capacity 650.
Wish: Journey, Eagles, Lea Solonga

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1st 2 concerts were Elvis Presley in Honolulu. Both were excellent. our whole family attended for donations to the local food bank.

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First : Ozzy
Best : Adele (and it’s not even close)
Wish list: Boston

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I was tempted to go to the Billy Joel/Stevie Nicks concert this fall near me but it would have emptied my retirement account.

It’s sad that ticket prices are so high these days.

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First: Hall & Oates (actually Donny Osmond but…)
Best: Coldplay - Chicago, Soldier Field
Wished/Missed: Earth,Wind, Fire or a combo Diana Ross/Stevie Wonder

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I was at that Coldplay show too. It was great.

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Earth Wind & Fire was my first concert! High school, 1978.

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