The Kinks were my most disappointing concert. Saw them in the 70s in college and I think both Ray & Dave were drunk, slurring words and forgetting lyrics.
Awesome. I’d tell normal people like you that I liked 1d.
Great Woods. Then Tweeter Center now something else.
The beachcomber. Wow. Blast from the past. It isn’t a concert story but I did roll down the cliff to the beach. Not a hard story to figure out. Lol.
Not necessarily the best, but the most memorable as I was very young, impressionable, and felt very lucky to be growing up in San Francisco…Jefferson Airplane, free concert Golden Gate Park 1969, Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder, Winterland, SF 1972, Grateful Dead (very hard to pic a fave out of the many many shows I’ve seen) but I’ll go with Kezar Stadium, SF, 1973.
Boy - I feel like the baby of the group. Most memorable was Peter Gabriel Secret World Tour. '93? '94? BEST CONCERT EVER! I barely even knew his music at the time, but I was abroad in South America and he was playing locally, so I went. I actually got to chat with him for a little bit beforehand, but that’s not why it was the most memorable.
My first real concert was a Beach Boys revival tour, but it feels cooler to forget about that and say that my first concert (a few weeks later) was Robert Plant. 
@momtogkc You saw Spinal Tap in concert? Hilarious! I’ve been trying to work out getting the kids to see Dave Matthews with me at SPAC for years. Hopefully this will be the summer it works out.
@barbalot: Was at that show in DC with Dylan and the Dead. So very hot, I remember everyone cheering when the temperature went below 100! Security was spraying us with hoses (I went down to the standing room as you could in those days).
@Lynnski was also at the CSN show at Roosevelt Stadium when Nixon resigned. What a great memory!
My list (besides the two above)
Bruce at Winterland, SF (and many others, but this was particularly great)
Dead at Winterland (just before they tore it down).
Rolling Thunder Revue Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and others Rochester NY
Joni Mitchell at Garden State Arts Center
Elton John at Madison Square Garden
Vote for Change - Meadowlands, Bruce, Eddie Vedder, Jackson Brown
Jefferson Airplane Central Park
Philadelphia Folk Festival - many acts, including David Bromberg
First concert: Bill Withers at a local place
Billy Joel
So many shows including Schaeffer Music Festival in Central Park. If we didn’t ahve tickets (or money for tickets) we sat on the rocks outside and listened.
Such great memories!!
@momtogkc @privatebanker The 'Coma! One of the best music bars ever! I would have loved to have seen the Old 97s there! I didn’t include it in my favorite shows, because this would be obscure even for my list, but I got as much pleasure out of pretty much any one of 11-12 summer Sunday evening gigs at the Beachcomber with The Incredible Casuals as I did from any of the shows I listed. I also should have included seeing the Chandler Travis Philharmonic (a band related to The Incredible Casuals) in a bar in Philadelphia where the bandmembers outnumbered the audience.
My daughter, as a teen in the mid-oughts, had a little shrine in her room to Jeff Tweedy (the imaginary better father), Rhett Miller (the aspirational good boyfriend) and Ryan Adams (the fantasy bad boyfriend). I think she probably still has the bra that Miller autographed. I got to go see the Old 97s in New York with her five years ago (with Lydia Loveless opening, a plus for both of us), because none of her friends cared to go, including the boyfriend, now husband, whose existence she had not yet revealed to her parents.
@garland I have the impression that you live somewhere in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. If you pay attention, you should have lots of chances to see Miller play solo acoustic shows in smallish venues, something he does really well, as you might imagine. He lives in the lower Hudson Valley. My impression is that he is always up for paying gigs he can drive to and from easily, if his only expenses are gas and tolls.
I saw Elvis Presley twice in Hawaii. He was popular and excellent. We went because tickets were very inexpensive so mom got all of us to go—I was very young.
I attended several Kenny Rankin and Jimmy Buffet concerts (BF chose and they came to Oregon, where we went to college). I wasn’t (have never been) a fan of Buffet but he sounded live just like he did on radio. Rankin is an excellent flute player.
Saw violin virtuoso Sarah Chang play with our symphony—she was amazing.
Went to several local performances of Handel’s Messiah at local church and heard great baritone opera star Quinn Kelsey as one of the soloists.
Sadly, H & I don’t like the crowds and loud noise of concerts (never have) so we rarely attend. We do have season tickets to the opera, so we go to that several times/year and have even been to SF opera for 3 shows. I much prefer concert halls over stadiums for attending a musical performance.
@privatebanker Haha - that is a pretty big cliff!!
@JHS Yes - I lived in Chatham for a summer and we spent a few Sundays watching the Incredible Casuals. I remember friends who were living in Boston would come down and get talked into staying for the show and then they would have to get up around 5am to make it back to Boston for work Monday morning.
Your D has the best taste - are you sure my DH is not her father - those are his 3 favorites. 
In fact friends had been inviting us to the Newport Folk Fest for a year or two but it never happened because we live in FL. The year I finally decided to figure it out I surprised DH with the trip because the headliners were Ryan Adams, Jack White and Jeff Tweedy. But boy was your D right when she thought or Ryan Adams as the bad boyfriend. 
Oh -and I just remembered - I walked out of my first Wilco concert. They were playing somewhere by Fenway and I went with DH and some friends. They were SO mellow and a friend and I thought they were too depressing so we left and went to Cask and Flagon for drinks. I will say he is still too mellow for me at some shows.
My kids grew up listening to Old 97’s but have veered off in their musical tastes. We have the best video of them singing every word to Barrier Reef when they were 2, 4 & 6. One if my favorite memories is when S23 was around 2 and when I would be putting music on he would shout from his car seat, “West Texas! West Texas!”
@garland Rhett Miller solo is good but seeing the whole band is the best. My first show was Rhett solo in Miami, I had bought the tickets for DH for Valentine’s Day because I new he liked him but I hadn’t listened to him that much. The show was empty - not many alt country fans in Miami I guess- and he still put on the most energetic show.
@HImom Jealous of you and the others who saw Elvis! I grew up listening to him because he was one of my mom’s favorites.
@Trixy34 I’m not that old but I do like old bands. I could never get my kids to go to Dave Matthews with me, they make fun of me for still liking him, they say he is too “basic” haha! Spinal Tap was our favorite movie on college, IN fact I met a bunch of people when, as a freshman, I heard people wandering my hall asking who had a VCR they could use? I said I did and next thing I knew I had a bunch of guys sitting on my bed watching Spinal Tap! I am still friends with them today. 
It might be a sign that I’ve been on CC too long when I have difficulty imagining some of these users at a 1D concert. 
@skieurope I may be semi old but I am still a fan girl at heart. :love: My first 1D concert was for the girls but then I thought they were fun too. It was so fun to embarrass my girls by singing along and actually knowing the words!
@skieurope At some point, you are probably going to have some equivalent concert experiences yourself . . . say, 11-12 years after the birth of your first daughter.
I never “had” to see One Direction (or Spice Girls, or Backstreet Boys, etc.), but I did wind up at shows with Alanis Morrisette, Blink 182, Good Charlotte, and Puffy Ami Yumi that I might not have chosen to attend on my own.
65 jogged my memory (can it still be "memorable" if you are mostly senile?)
of two particular “deserved to be memorable” David Bromberg concerts. One with just him & another guitarist at The Bitter End, I think, sometime in the early 70s. Then again, with his full band, in Ithaca 1977.