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Kansas - "Point of No Return" Tour was probably the best not counting JB....The backdrop was awesome looked like a tall ship undersail.

I saw The Band at a small bar in Charleston SC - had to be 94 or 95. It was awesome watching Levon Helm do his thing.

earth , wind & fire back in the early 80's

springsteen ---- born in the usa tour & the rising tour

styx --- paradise theatre

the beach boys on the green in hyannis , ma with john stamos playing with them

bon jovi slippery when wet tour w/ cinderella ( my hard rock days)

reo speedwagon - hi-infidelity tour

and of course any buffett show

Buffett in Alpine Valley 2003 (my first Buffett concert. Nothing else will ever compare)

George Strait Music Festival in 1998. I had front row seats for Strait, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, John Michael Montgomery (before he was a lush), Lee Ann Womack, and Lila McCann. Lee Ann Womack pointed at me during one of her songs, too.

actually it was at jones beach the year i worked there.. paul young put on a show and a half .. he totally enjoyed himself and watching 18 year old girls take their bras off made it even better..

Aside from Jimmy Buffett...

Monsters of Rock in Ft Myers '89 ish - Van Halen, Metalica, Black Crows, Kingdom Come.

Willie Nelson at The Castle in Charlaviox 85 ish ?

Guns and Roses and Motley Crue "89ish in Ft Myers.

Alice Cooper and Vinnie Vincent at Cobo in Detroit. Probly around '88

Hank Williams Jr. at Cobo in Detroit. '87 maybe?

Jewel in Detroit. '96 ish. Got to sit right on the stage for that one.

Blessed Union at Kewaiden Casino That was fun because it was after I interviewed them on the radio and after the show we hung out and I watched them blow more money in one spin of a roulette then I made in a week.

Bobby Brown Before Whitney

Rod Stewart the unplugged tour Rod kept checking out my date

Doug Supernaw,Toby Keith,Michael Martin Murphy, Chris Ledoux

Dave Matthews Band, the Grateful Dead Las Vegas. UH 94?

I saw the Friday and Saturday shows..


Heart.... Well almost everytime (25)

Greg Khin..

and Tower Of Power the Best time out of ...uh 50-60 times

was taking my Lil Sis. in Reno at the Rib cookoff

made Special by the fact she liked the show and that is the only
group/singer all 4 of us kids have seen


we are spread out my oldest sis is 55- and the Lil one is 30.

and any Jimmy Show..

It was either 1977 or 78, Box Scaggs, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles at Foxboro stadium outside Boston

This one's so hard, but here goes:

Best Venue had to be Buffett at Jones Beach.

Better Than Ezra (circa 1995ish)- the crowd was awesome for the opening band, everyone was pogoing and crowd surfing- you started at the back and pretty much followed a path to one big dude at the front who would set you down safely. I miss the days of safe moshing and crowd surfing!!!

And Cher puts on one fantastic show!! I totally only went because my gay best friend guilted me into going, but it was fantastic.

Buffett at Alpine Valley July 30, 2005


Oh wait a minute.....

Ilph wrote:Buffett at Alpine Valley July 30, 2005


Oh wait a minute.....

It would have to be "The Hottest Band in the World"!!---KISS!!!!!

Got 2 all-time favorites:

1. The first time the Stones played in Sacramento in 1964. There were only about 250 people there. We were all dancing on the backs of the chairs. It was the most fun, the most outrageous, and the most out of control time I had ever experienced (yeah, well, I was only 14). There was so much damage that after that concert, the auditorium banned dancing and even standing up.

2. The Fillmore concert where the Steve Miller Band was the backup band for Chuck Berry. Oh, man, THAT was a great night. Steve smiled the entire time!

The best for just sheer music had to be "The Concert for Walden Woods" at the old Foxboro Stadium in the late 90's. The lineup was 1st Melissa Etheridge (before she came out of the closet but my friend and I knew something was up when all there were was a bunch of women throwing their bra's onstage!) then Elton John (sang "Don't let the sun go down on me" just as the sun was setting) Then Sting just rocked the place. Then there were two unplanned guest act's.....Aerosmith and Yup thats right Jimmy (he had been at Great Woods the previous two nights) and the show ended with host Don Henley. Thats where that version of Don and Jimmy doing Volcano comes from.

Of course any Jimmy show.

Any show by Bruce Hornsby.

Shriekback - 1986 - Numbers II in Houston
Siouxsie and the Banshees - 1986 - University of Houston
Jimmy Buffett - 2004 - Charlotte Coliseum
Rush - 2002 - Palm Beach
Lords of the New Church - 1985 - Fitzgeralds in Houston
Modern English - 1985 - Rockefellers, Houston
The GoGos - Serious BBQ tour, Houston
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration Tour, Houston
Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses Tour, Houston
Depeche Mode - Violator Tour, Atlanta
U2 - Outside Broadcast Tour, Georgia Dome, Atlanta
U2 - PopMart Tour, Georgia Dome, Atlanta
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste Tour, Masquerade, Atlanta
Skinny Puppy, 1990, Masquerade, Atlanta
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Tour, Masquerade, Atlanta

These are the ones that come to mind right now, as they are the most vivid, but I've seen very few bad concerts except for the last Depeche Mode concert I went to, The Cure (Staring at the Sea tour) and The Eurythmics' Sex Crimes tour. Even Air Supply was a good show.

Excluding Jimmy's shows (which are the top of my list)

Garth Brooks - love him or hate him (and there's plenty of both) he put on a heck of a show.

America/Beach Boys - America opened for the Beach Boys and were completely funny and cool. The Beach Boys, although showing some age, can still put on a great vintage-style concert. Just can't beat those car songs!

Buffett- Buckeye Lake, Ohio 1993
John Prine- Columbus Zoo. Summer 2002
John Prine- Paramount Arts Center. Ashland, Ky 2004
Todd Snider. Various shows at Canal St. Tavern. Dayton, Oh. 2000 to present.
Todd Snider and the Nervous Wrecks/ Jack Ingrahm. Ludlows. Columbus, Oh. 1996?
Kasey Chambers. Southern Theater. Columbus Ohio. 2003
Will Kimbrough/Tommy Womack. Riddlefest. Frankfort, KY
Buffett. Dean Dome. 1985?
Buffett. Riverbend, Oh. 1987 to present
Lyle Lovett. Varoius shows 1993 to present.

prthd1958 wrote:The best for just sheer music had to be "The Concert for Walden Woods" at the old Foxboro Stadium in the late 90's. The lineup was 1st Melissa Etheridge (before she came out of the closet but my friend and I knew something was up when all there were was a bunch of women throwing their bra's onstage!) then Elton John (sang "Don't let the sun go down on me" just as the sun was setting) Then Sting just rocked the place. Then there were two unplanned guest act's.....Aerosmith and Yup thats right Jimmy (he had been at Great Woods the previous two nights) and the show ended with host Don Henley. Thats where that version of Don and Jimmy doing Volcano comes from.

Of course any Jimmy show.

Any show by Bruce Hornsby.

Just thought of one other....

1976 Foxboro Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles (Hotel California tour)

One of my all-time bootleg wish's!!!!!!

krusin1 wrote:Garth Brooks - love him or hate him (and there's plenty of both) he put on a heck of a show.

Agree with that. I was in the 8th row when he returned to Oklahoma in 1997 and I can honestly say I've never seen anybody put more energy into a show. He kept his ticket prices pretty low but even if the tickets had been twice as much, you definitely got your money's worth.

Also falling into the love 'em/hate 'em category, my personal best concert was The Breeders opening for Nirvana my freshman year of college.

Bruce and the E Street Band; Madison Square Garden/2000


Van Halen/Valentine's Day, 1992 in Birmingham, AL. 5 rows from Eddie's microphone

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band-Red Rocks/1993

Dave Matthews Band/Camden, 2002-Heard "Long Black Veil" and 41 the first time I ever saw them