Your Top 5 Favorite Concerts

[boxers7]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 1:03am

So what are your Top 5 favorite concerts you've attended? Mine are:
1.) Madonna - Confessions
2.) U2 - Vertigo
3.) Billy Joel/Elton John
4.) Don Henley/Stevie Nicks
5.) Madonna - Re-Invention

[DAME]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 1:11am

1) Bette Midler -Experience The Divine
2) Tina Turner- Farewell Tour
3) Prince
4) Bette Midler- Kiss My Brass
5) It is a tie. Madonna Like A Virgin Tour. And Liza's Stepping Out tour.

[Corine2]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 8:13am

Brent Barrett and Marc Kudisch off mike in Broadway By The Year.
Brent Barrett in Encores Pajama Game.
Natalie Johnson- Ars Nova
John Tartaglia's show at Joe's Pub.
James Taylor many years ago (11 or so) He performed an outdoor concert in NJ. My boyfriend of 4 years took me and it was the most romantic concert of my life.
Updated On: 7/29/06 at 08:13 AM

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:13am

1. pizzicato five @ bunkamura cocoon
2. the creatures @ 930 club
3. laurie anderson @ spoleto festival
4. mary margaret o'hara @ st. ann's church
5. kristin hersh @ noe valley ministry

other fantastic shows were
björk @ radio city music hall
ann magnuson @ great american music hall
dr. nina simone @ new jersey performing arts center
momus, kahimie karie & toog @ mercury lounge
saint etienne @ bowery ballroom
goldfrapp @ bowery ballroom
throwing muses @ cats cradle

Updated On: 7/29/06 at 09:13 AM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:59am

Fall 1969: Liza Minnelli, The Concord Hotel, just a few months after her mother died (I was 13 and she kissed me backsatge and let me walk her dog)

April 1972, Bette Midler, NYU Bronx campus, followed by seeing her that spring at the Bitter End, the Paramus Playhouse on the Mall, the Schaeffer Music Festival in Central Park and, New Year's Eve at Avery Fisher (then Philharmonic) Hall...but never, sadly, the Continental Baths (I was TOO young!)

Spring 1972: Groucho Marx, Carnegie Hall, brilliant but so sad

August 1973: Ella Fitzgerald, Waterloo Village, New Jersey, the first time of 18 times I saw Ella live

Spring 1984, Tina Turner, The Ritz (now Webster Hall), the mother of all comebacks

June 1994, Barbra Steisand, Madison Square Garden...what is there to say?

August 2006...Patti LuPone in GYPSY at Ravinia!

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 10:11am

1. Billy Joel/Elton John 2003
2. Boston Pops 2004
3. Billy Joel/Elton John 1995
4. Gloria Estefan 1997 I think. I always liked her voice, but she is an INCREDIBLE performer. I was surprised how much I liked it.
5, Flogging Molly 2006. Another one that I was surprised that I liked so much

[LaurenB]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 8:19pm

1. Frank Sinatra - He was "the man". I didn't even care for him, but wanted to see the legend. He blew me away. Sergio Mendes and Brazil 88 were his opening act. It was really a great night of music. He was well past his prime, but he still had "it". The orchestra and arrangements were all top notch. I wish everyone had had that opportunity to see a master of interpretation (including his conductor and arranger).

2. Donna Summer - at the height of her heyday. Like Frankie, she knew how to sing. The crowd went crazy.

3. Eric Clapton. Santana was his opening act. Nuff said.

4. Chicago - the rock group. This was before they were well-known and got commercial, and were known as the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority). Once they got well known, it was all downhill from there and their music turned into c---. They had a different "sound" then and their early concerts were positively electrifying.

5. Allman Brothers - Boz Scaggs - Bachman Turner Overdrive -- This was a triple header. A joy to hear musicians play just for the fun of it.


Billy Joel and Elton John put on good concerts. Same with Liza and Bette. Would have loved to have seen Ella and Barbra, and Groucho. Robin Williams was side-splittinig hysterical in his early career when he did stand-up (this was when he was on Mork and Mindy). A great concert that I saw eons ago in Las Vegas was a double-header of Lena Horne and Vic Damone. It was so good to see these old pros.

Posted: 7/29/06 at 8:32pm

1. Jimmy Buffett at Fenway Park Sep 2004. It was during the wild ride the Red Sox were on, and he brought in a witch doctor in to "reverse the curse" :) - and guess what - it worked!!!

2. Elton John/Billy Joel

can't think of others right now

[wexy]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:01pm

In the 20th Century

The Who/The Clash/David Johannsen Shea Stadium 1978
Led Zeppelin- Nassau Coliseum 1974
The Allman Brothers- Thanksgiving 74
Lynyrd Skyrnd/Doobie Bros 1976
Public Image Ltd. The Brooklyn Zoo 1980

[pushdabutton]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:04pm

1.) Madonna - Re-Invention Tour
2.) Madonna - Confessions Tour
3.) Madonna - Blond Ambition Tour
4.) Madonna - Virgin Tour
5.) Luther Vandross/Anita Baker - The Heat Tour

[Becky2]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:07pm

1. Nine Inch Nails by far! I first saw NIN on the Fragility 2000 Tour and was blown away.

2. Followed by System of a Down - very energetic

3. Shadows Fall - I was a big fan of this band before I saw them in concert, and seeing them live enhanced that greatly. It was at Ozzfest, so they were a new band to many people, but the audience really responded to them.

4. Dog Fashion Disco - I'm not too big of a fan of this band, but they do put on a nice show.

5. Spineshank - I waited a long time to see this band in concert, and it was worth the wait.

5.

[DG]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:26pm

No order:

Bette Midler – I’ve seen her 6 times, and it’s always nothing but the best. She is, for me, the best live entertainer of the last few decades – having taken over from Judy.

B.B. King and Etta James – 1985, in a high school football stadium in Texas - for free. They played for 4 ½ hours, alternately and together. The absolute standard in Blues performance.

Taj Majal and Ray Charles (with his big band orchestra) – 1991 at the Snowmass Jazz festival. Perfect setting, perfect artists – and rich people always have the best treats to enjoy themselves.

Elton John, Billy Joel and Daryl Hall (doing vocals) – it was just a 20 minute set that was a part of the first Farm Aid in 1985, but it was the first time they had performed publicly together. The addition of the ‘white-boy soul’ of Hall was perfect.

John Denver – I saw him countless times over a 20+ year period. What made it great, despite really liking the content of his music, was that everybody always participated. It was like one big camp-fire sing-along every time – and the audiences were ALWAYS the happiest I’ve ever seen when they left.


And I could go on and on. This doesn't even include any classical performances - like Pavaroti at Wolftrap. Live musical performance is one of my favorite things, so picking the top five is absolutely impossible. These were just the first that popped into my head - followed immediately by 'but what about . . . and what about . . .'

[wexy]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:39pm

21st century

Morrisey at the Beacon
The Strokes
Concrete Blonde at Irving Plaza
The Hives at Irving Plaza
Patti Smith at BAM

[DG]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:43pm

Wexy - you are one rock-and-roll guy!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:46pm

Nanci Griffith at the Seattle Zoo
Tori Amos at the Birchmere
Shawn Colvin at Wolf Trap
Lilith Fair at the Gorge at George, Washington (Sarah McLaughlan, Erika Badu, Natalie Merchant)
Bette Midler in Seattle November, 1999

[DG]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:48pm

DD - are you a lesbian?

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 1:29am

Kelly Clarkson/Unbreakable is my favorite, followed by All American Rejects (I saw them in Oklahoma) and then the Velvet Teen (I saw them at the Rubber Gloves in Denton.)

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 2:40am

1)Aerosmith and Cheap Trick Honkin on bobo May 19th 2004 @ pengrowth saddledome
2) hedley at stampede July 15 2006 Get Some Tour with Lilix(I met them!)
3) hedley at Mac Hall with Faber and MXPX march 5 2006 Get Some Tour
4) Savage Garden and Kenya at Jubilee in '97
5) billy ray cyrus (I was five! You never forget your first time!)

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 9:14pm

1} The New York Philharmonic's performance of Britten's WAR REQUIEM

2) Kiri Te Kanawa's solo concert at Carnegie Hall

3) Luciano Pavarotti and Kiri Te Kanawa in the concert version of Verdi's OTELLO at Carnegie Hall

4) Kathleen Battle's concert at Avery Fisher Hall in 1998

5) Placido Domingo's ZARZUELA Concert at Madison Square Garden in 1993

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 9:26pm

COLDPLAY X and Y Tour
saw them twice
Chris martin is AMAZING!

[harris007]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 9:51pm

5)cherry popping daddies

4)kid rock/powerman5000


3)sugar ray


2)ben vereen

1)garbage/no doubt on the floor 5 feet away from gwen s she kissed my cheek

[jlc6314]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 10:47pm

5. Paul Simon - 2006
4. Tom Petty - 2005
3. Art Garfunkel - 2006
2. Zebrahead/Plain White T's - 2004
1. Nsync (First concert ever, it got me hooked on concerts, and I got to go to a soundcheck party)