Nirvana played in the city where I live now, in October 1993. I figured they played at the Enormodome, but they didn’t; they played at a local auditorium with a capacity of a couple thousand. I don’t even remember seeing it advertised or I might have gone.
(I knew I’d remember more!)
I also saw Neil Young twice, CSN, Great Big Sea, Hedley, and Marianas Trench.
Indigo Girls at Dillon Amphitheater, Dillon Colorado.
Tom Petty, Red Rocks Colorado.
Two of the best I’ve ever seen.
Many from 2000-2015… Favorite concert was Roger Waters… Saw “Dark Side of the Moon” tour twice. Saw “The Wall”… Saw Roger Hodgson three times. Paul McCartney twice. Steely Dan four times. Last concert I went to was 10 years ago - America. How fitting.
I saw them at one of the small schools in Maine, can’t remember if it was Bates, Bowdoin or Colby, but what stood out was the special guest. Siouxsie Sioux.
I’ve never seen Pink live. But, they are favorites of my wife and I. We can VERY often be found at home, in front of a fire, playing chess, listening to Meddle, Wish You Where Here, and DSotM.
The last big concert I attended was the 3-day Desert Trip (Coachella) in 2016. Four great performances (Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, and The Who) bookended by Bob Dylan and Roger Waters both of whom were a disappointment. The highlight was Young joining McCartney on “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?"
April 1988, at the Oakland Colosseum, Oakland, CA. My junior year of high school. The spat between Gilmour and Waters was still fresh, and the band channeled that energy into a great show.
It was raining pretty heavily during the first part of the concert. The stage had a canopy above it, but that didn’t fully protect them from the rain. At one point, when they finished a song, Gilmour looked up at the sky and said “fuck me!”
Saw them a year later, in June 1989 at the Müngersdorfer Stadium, Cologne in a crowd of 50,000. I remember that it was a Sunday and election day for the European parliament, so my girlfriend and I had given our vote early in the morning before driving to Cologne and had a nice day in the inner city (the weather was beautiful) before driving out to the stadium. It was my first stadium concert, and for 1989 the sound quality, light effects and video projections were breathtaking. The pig flew right over my head…
Lots (110+) of Grateful Dead, lots of CSN. not enough Zappa.
First concert was the so-called “Black & Blue”: Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult. Both bands took a long time to set up between sets (they alternated who went on first). A few days before in Milwaukee someone threw a (glass) bottle at Geezer Butler and they left the stage, turned on the lights and the crowd rioted. Nothing like that at the Nassau Coliseum, yet the show ended after 1 AM. Maybe it’s a Teamsters/Roadie union or in some places noise ordinance thing, yet only a couple concerts have gone after 11 and none since after 12.
The Crackdown concert at MSG Halloween 1998 ended about midnight, after a 30 minute “Jessica” encore with Run DMC, Babatunde Otalunje and his Drums of Passion (love saying that), Felix Cavaliere, Mick Taylor, Paul Butterfield, Carlos Santana, David Crosby (just out of jail). And oh yeah, the Allman Brothers.
Oh, one more MSG: In 1986 we were going to see Peter Gabriel “So” tour yet the way we were entering was all broken doors, smashed glass, lots of cops and pat-downs. But it turns out this was the Felt Forum, a smaller venue adjacent to MSG (I think called the Paramount now). So out we go into the Garden and Youssou D’Nor is doing his intros.
Only on the train ride home did I hear some band called “Metallica” had been playing the Forum.
I saw Nirvana in their very early days '88/'89, before Bleach released and pre-Dave Grohl, on campus at the Univ of Washington. My girlfriend at the time had some cassettes that were being copied around and we wanted to see a cool new band that was getting some buzz. They were terrible and we left after 3 or so songs 
and I mentally labeled them on my “no future, would not see again even if free.”
History would prove me wrong.
And Paul McCartney too. (and now I’m just seeing if I can remember them all!)
I got to McGill in the fall of 1991, not long before Nevermind came out. The band toured through the fall, and played at the club Les Foufounes Électriques (French for “The Electric Buttcheeks”). I heard many stories of regret from fellow students months later, recalling how they’d said to each other “Hey, you want to go see that grunge band from Seattle play at Foufounes tonight?” “Nah, it’s too far to walk, and I haven’t really heard of them.”
For you, Nirvana; for me……
I saw the TwoTone tour in Coventry in 1979. IIRC The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat and…. It was supposed to be Madness, but they got suddenly huge and were replaced by some unknowns headed by an annoying asshole with a moustache. They were dreadful. I remember at one point the singer pointing at the trombonist and shouting that Big Jimmy drank a bottle of brandy a day and would be dead in five years. So we were supposed to show respect?
In my iffy memory it was two weeks later that we saw them on TV. Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
Hah.
j
When he died, as a tribute the BBC showed one of his concerts. I was pushing sixty at the time and had a certain fondness for Tom, so I settled down in front of the TV to watch it. It was one of a series of recordings called Rock Goes To College - pretty self explanatory really, filmed on campus. All good stuff.
Three or four songs in I realized, fuck me, I was there! These things flood back - I remembered the guys running around on stage with cameras. An extraordinary feeling to be shocked by your memory like that. Three and a half decades earlier.
j
I’ve seen “Weird Al” two or three times, and got to meet him after one of the shows. Extremely humble, down-to-earth guy who seemed to be genuinely embarrassed about people wanting to meet him.
I have a friend who used to work with the touring companies of Broadway musicals when they would come to town, and she had a ton of connections with people who worked at the venues where those shows would take place. As such, she would bring me along in an attempt to inject some culture into life.
Because of her, I was able to see Movin’ Out (the Billy Joel musical show), The Producers, and Cabaret, starring Lea Thompson as Sally Bowles.
She also took me to see Alison Krauss and Union Station when they recorded their live CD and DVD at the Palace Theatre in Louisville, KY. I may actually be on the DVD. I’ve never checked.
And I had the privilege of seeing Ray Charles perform on his last tour ever. He’s really not my genre of music, but it was an amazing experience, and one that I’m proud to have been able to witness.
She’s also drug me to bands that I liked prior to seeing them perform. Counting Crows, Fiona Apple, Billy Joel (2x), Goo Goo Dolls, Ben Folds, Queensryche, Augustana, and so on.
On my own, I’m proud of seeing Cheap Trick, Joan Jett, REO Speedwagon. Candlebox, the Flaming Lips (though, to be honest, they sucked), Ozzy Osborne, Live, Garth Brooks, and too many hair bands to count.
In the 1970’s, I saw Elton John at the Greek Theatre, and Van Morrison at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. I also saw Bruce Springsteen perform at a coffee house before he was really known.
In the 1960’s, I attended a live taping of the TV music show “Shindig” which featured The Righteous Brothers, Donovan, and Sonny and Cher.
One memorable concert I went to involved an artist few people here have probably heard of:
A few years ago I went to see Tiffany Young on her first North American tour. She’s one of the members of the K-pop girl group Girls’ Generation, who were hugely popular among fans of that genre around 15 years ago. I took my young son, who was a fan. It was an all-standing concert, and since my son was small he was able to sneak his way right up to the front. In between songs, he called out to her and asked her to play a song that he liked, but wasn’t on her set list. She knelt down and sang a little bit of the song directly to him.
Saw Les Paul at Fat Tuesdays in NYC in the mid-80s. Robert Plant and Brian Setzer were sitting a few tables away. Les introduced the ex-Zep singer as “Bobby Plant” and added “your pal Jimmy Page was here not long ago”. I could tell by the slighty-pained expression on his face Plant didn’t particularly like being addressed as “Bobby”. (Or maybe the reaction was because he and Jimmy weren’t exactly “pals” at the moment.)
I saw Genesis (5 or 6 times), Steve Hackett (2 or 3), and Level 42 (4 or 5.)
(I was very selective !)
Since then i’ve only been to jazz gigs… Jimmy Smith, Courtney Pine, the James Taylor Quartet (JTQ), Manu Dibango.
Went to see the amazing Michael Brecker once. The gig started at 7:30, so we got
there at about 9:00 to see the main act only to find out he was the only act and we’d
missed most of it ! We just saw the last tune and a couple of encores. Bummer !
My band supported him at a gig in Cambridge in about 1982.
We also played support for Mungo Jerry and Mari Wilson (before she was “famous”!)
at the same venue.
The band’s singer also recently told me we were supported by both Alison Moyet and
the Bangles before they were famous, but i don’t remember that - probably
because they weren’t famous then, just as i don’t remember any other bands
we played with.
I also jammed with and played on a record with Stevie V before he was famous.