From a drummer's perspective, that is one band I am kicking myself that I have not seen.

It was amazing, the sound was crystal clear, the lights were awesome, it was extraordinary. They also played in OKC the year prior, and that show would be in my top 5 also.

I'd probably say the Brian Jonestown Massacre four years or so ago at the Grenada in Dallas. It was the first time in a while that they had all the major members back. They played for like three and half hours straight through, no breaks.
Saw them two nights in a row with the Warlocks in Devner at the Laramer Lounge. 1st night BJM opened for Warlocks, 2nd night Warlocks opened for BJM. Anton did DJ sets before, between and after the sets.

Best shows for me
Fugazi at the Diamond Ballroom
Split Lip Rayfield at the Bottleneck in Lawrence

I wish I could remember.

From a drummer's perspective, that is one band I am kicking myself that I have not seen.

Saw them twice in the 80s and was very impressed. Peart, Lexrst and Lee are all very very talented musicians and masters of their craft. Went to the premeire of clockwork angels at quail springs theater and was surprised to see the theater full.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNilsLf6eW4

Saw them twice in the 80s and was very impressed. Peart, Lexrst and Lee are all very very talented musicians and masters of their craft. Went to the premeire of clockwork angels at quail springs theater and was surprised to see the theater full.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNilsLf6eW4

You mean Lifeson?

You mean Lifeson?

Yes Lifeson....
Lexrst is a nickname.
Check subtitles at around 3:16.

#1 Jethro Tull at Red Rocks amphitheater outside of Denver in 1971. A bizarre scene. If you've ever been to Red Rocks there, you know what I mean. #2 Chicago Transit Authority at the fieldhouse at OU in 1970. They only had 1 album at that time and were still called CTA. #3 Black Oak Arkansas, Henry Levit Arena at Wichita State University in about '71-'72. Saw Black Oak about 10 different times in different places. Always a hell of a show.

Saw Black Oak Arkansas once, The Bowery, Plaza Court basement location, about '84-ish IIRC.

My buddies and I were some of the folk that hiked over 2 mountains to get in free.

I was A PAYING CUSTOMER at that Tull concert, even at the tender age of 19 . . . (but at least you weren't one of the scofflaw gate crashers requiring the use of a DPD Helicopter on a tear gas spraying mission =). Hopefully, none of your crew was among those falling off the rocks and having to be hauled to the hospital as squads of riot police marched around backstage. I will NEVER forget watching Ian Anderson jammin' on his flute through the haze of tear gas wafting in waves down over the crowd. If everyone hadn't been so stoned some serious panic could have erupted. "Hey, Aqualung . . . "

I should have included The Moody Blues at the fairgrounds arena in March/April of '72..

I was at that concert too. Maybe we were sitting next to each other. What were you wearing? :)

I was at that concert too. Maybe we were sitting next to each other. What were you wearing? :)
Love beads, bell bottom jeans that my girlfriend had embrodried flowers all over, and sandals. Same as almost everybody else there that night.

Love beads, bell bottom jeans that my girlfriend had embrodried flowers all over, and sandals. Same as almost everybody else there that night.

Wow, I remember. So that was you?

AC/DC, 2009. I couldn't hear a thing for a week after and the ringing in my ears didn't go away for another week, but it was so worth it.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers last year are a close second, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is always good.

I've been a fan of live music forever and have seen just about all the great bands of the last half of the past century...

...but one of my fondest memories...

Got talked into going to see a band downtown in a place called the peoples workshop (a place where the handicapped learned job skills and did concerts to raise money)... I was in Jr. High and downtown was pretty seedy... They had a pretty small makeshift stage and there were maybe 100-150 of us sitting on the floor to see an English band called Yes... They'd had a hit off their first album called "I've seen all good people" that had gotten us there but played all the songs off their soon to be released album "Fragile"... We all sat there with our jaws on the floor... None of us saw it coming... I saw them 2 years later when the album had propelled them in to being one of the hottest bands on the planet in front of a standing room only concert at the fairgrounds arena where they just killed it... Unbelievable concert band...

Peoples workshop. Wasn't that the place on Broadway around 7th street upstairs? Pretty sure I seen Rare Earth there back around 72-73. Or was that Eddie Henry's? Or maybe Eddie was actually the owner of the place. I remember walking into that place and there was a thick fog of smoke. I think the cops finally shut the place down.

But you might be thinking of the Peoples Workshop at the Sword & Stone? It was downtown around 6-7th & Walker/Hudson area. Steve Cavulla & Jim Hoke and can't think of the other guys name. More of a folk music place.Things kinda run together but the one on Broadway was a pretty scary place but they had some good music/bands come through.

I've seen lots of good concerts, some of them I remember :) I would have to say some of the recent ones have been pretty darn good.

The Eagles around 2005 in Omaha
The Who at the Hard Rock
Paul McCartney at the Hard Rock.

Since I'm an old rock an roller I can't believe I forgot to include AC/DC at the Ford Center.

I had side-stage tickets for The Red Hot Chili Peppers on their Californication tour stop in Dallas in 2000. That was pretty sweet.

All of this friendly banter reminds me of what could have been the best concert I "ever been to": 40+ years ago, I had a lady friend who was (without any doubt) The Number One Neil Diamond Fan in the Known Universe. Neil Diamond was coming to OKC. I went to--I think it was Heritage Park Shopping Center--where there was a ticket outlet (J.C. Penny? Sears? Montgomery Ward?) to try to get a couple of tickets. There was a short line outside the commercial sliding glass doors prior to the Official Opening. The person in front of me, in line, got to select two seats on the front row. I asked if they had a couple more of those. They did! (it was fairly close to a miracle)

It was a really good concert. Neil was just past his peak. (at least in my non-Neil Diamond In The Round fan opinion.)
It was really good mostly on account of the musicians and the sound crew, live/no lip-synch/dubbing.
I'd already heard all those songs too many times to remember or be impressed by those alone.

I went to Lionel Richie in 1986 and it was a very good concert. Here's some of the ticket stubs of shows that I have been to, still missing a good number of them. With online tickets you don't get the same type of stub anymore. My cousin's band (Restless Heart) opened for Kenny Rogers and Glen Frey.

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Milli Vanilli? . . . surely you jest. =)

(impressive collection, amigo, I've never been able to keep an array of memorabilia like that)

Oklahoma City Civic Center - American Choral Director's Association National Convention 2009.

Saturday @10:30 AM and again at @1:00PM (I believe I was at the 1:00 PM performance). Alamire, Chor Leoni, and Incheon City Chorale.

I'll never forget the performance by Incheon City Chorale. I sat in another world for 30 minutes.

People in the ACDA community still talk about that performance.

I sat in another world for 30 minutes.

Somehow I nearly forgot that "Celtic Women" performance at the Civic Center Music Hall in Downtown OKC a couple of years ago.
The performance was breathtaking (c/o my sweet wife and my mom wanting to see it).

The icing on the cake was during intermission, when I "Rosa Parked" myself in order to enjoy a fine tobacco product and had an opportunity to marvel at the Art Deco lighting fixtures adorning the monument to excellence that the venue provided.

I rarely use the term "awesome" . . . that was a time to use it.

(Sigman Express at The Blue Door on New Year's Eve not long after that was also excellent.
"Best Concert" is an unfair question. Yet, thanks for asking. =)

Milli Vanilli? . . . surely you jest. =)

(impressive collection, amigo, I've never been able to keep an array of memorabilia like that)
My sister and her friends first concert (she was 14 and is almost 12 years younger), I told my mother I would take them if she bought the ticket. I kept trying to convince her to go to one different. The first that she went on her own (that I can remember) was Pearl Jam on the Vs. tour, she also went to The Eagles Hell Freezes Over Tour so her taste modified greatly.

Young MC and someone else were the opening acts.

love seeing those ticket stubs. i've got pretty much all 300+ stubs of the concerts i've been to. fun going back every once in a while and looking at them.

forgot about some of those rock shows at lloyd noble in the mid-80s - krokus, priest, scorpions, dio... and jealous of the genesis and j geils concerts. looks like we went to some of the same shows back then - rush, kansas, van halen, zz top...