Your Top 5 Favorite Concerts

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

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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

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!

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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.

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

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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.

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21st century

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

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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

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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.)

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

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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

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