Best concert you've ever been to?

[RadicalModerate]

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.

[bluedogok]

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.

[RadicalModerate]

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

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

[Teo9969]

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.

[RadicalModerate]

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. =)

[bluedogok]

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.

[OkieHornet]

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...