It was a damn shame, it was: the orchestra was fine, her voice was good and strong, but we didn’t recognize any songs, she stayed in the ultra-upper register the entire time and it started to snow as the concert began and was piling up rapidly — Good night, Ms Jones.
I saw him play at the 2nd iteration of the Misty Moon in Halifax back in the late '80s. At the same venue I also saw “Doug and the Slugs”, Frankie Marino (without “Mahogany Rush”), and Carol Pope (without “Rough Trade”).
In Kingston (Ontario) I saw an appallingly awful Roy Buchanan show in the early '80s.
In Toronto, at a small club, also in the early '80s, I also saw a show called “Gary Flame and the Dukes and Friends”. The “Friends” were basically the “Downchild Blues Band”. That was a fantastic show.
While I was at college, Adrian Belew lived in the same town, and KC was doing a reunion. It was just a regular thing to run into him, Fripp, Buford, Levin at shows, gear shops, record stores…
If we are talking about as a kid, I remember seeing Sonny and Cher “in the round”. That gold (un)dress made quite an impression on this young lad. And I recall Grandpa Jones at the TN State Fair!
I’ll bet that was wild.
I saw the Roches about 30 years ago at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle.
A couple others to mention. I saw Cub as the opening act for They Might Be Giants in 1996; they were a cuddlecore punk band from Vancouver that Neko Case got her start with (although she was not with them by the time I saw them). I also saw Morphine at a street festival in Cambridge, Mass. About two weeks later I saw a news item that their lead singer, Mark Sandman, collapsed on stage and died at a performance in Italy.
If we’re including speaking tours, I’ve seen Buckminster Fuller, Stephen Hawking, and Chuck Yeager.
Me too.
In college I saw speaking engagements by Frank Zappa, Graham Chapman and Hunter Thompson.
Au contraire. I saw them in Cleveland in 2017. I also attempted to see them in Cleveland in 2013 but the venue’s power went out about 2 notes into the set, so they played a live set on a radio station instead (I was not able to attend). I’ve also seen Joe Jack Talcum solo in Cleveland twice.
I think DM has only been in Cleveland a handful of times, so I’m lucky to have seen them and hope to see them more!
Blood, Sweat and Tears — however, this was 1998-ish and it was just David Clayton-Thomas and a bunch of extremely good, but barely shaving, instrumentalists. Still, a great show (despite overdoing the Gospel shtick).
We just saw Steve Earle a few weeks back.
Has anyone else seen KMFDM? I saw them outdoors in 1995, standing front row. So hot and sweaty!
A memorable couple of nights in San Diego:
Friday 6/22/2001 at Humphrey’s By The Bay
A Walk Down Abbey Road tour with
Alan Parsons
Todd Rundgren
Ann Wilson
John Entwistle
David Pack
Godfrey Townsend
Steve Luongo
Saturday 6/23/2001 at The La Jolla Playhouse
Pete Townshend
I moved from C-U in 1977, but while I was there there were a lot of great concerts. I mentioned Steve Goodman and Dave Brubeck, but I also saw Paul Simon and Dave Bromberg. Also in the category of non-music “concerts” Gene Roddenberry and Proctor and Bergman from Firesign Theatre.
I saw Dave Brubeck in the same high school auditorium (seating 2000 tops) that I saw the Grateful Dead. Also the same place Harlan Ellison publicly capped my smart-ass self.
There doesn’t seem any rule in the OP to rule out other types of concerts, so …
We went to see Sam Kinison.
On St. Valentine’s day.
The perfect man for a special date night.
I saw Timothy Leary and G. Gordon Liddy debate at the University of Pittsburgh in ~1984.
I saw Brubeck in Moscow, USSR in 1988. He was no longer with his old quartet, of course, but Gene Wright was there to play bass, and Dave’s son was playing with them. Got to meet and talk with him after the short gig for President Reagan’s reception at the ambassador’s residence.
I talked to him, but only to direct him to a bookstore downtown, because I met him on the street. Instantly recognizable, of course. But Moscow…cool!
That is a very sad “win”.
Yeah, it’s my one-up story. I was there as part of a support team for the Reagan-Gorbachev summit. We were all invited to the residence for coffee and such. When I walked in the door and heard the piano playing in the main reception room, I instantly knew who it was. Walked in and just stood there in awe with my mouth hanging open. I’d been listening to Brubeck since Take Five was a hit in 1961 and had several of his albums, including the great Carnegie Hall album.
He played a few tunes, then Ronny went on stage to give a little talk (he was pretty senile by then), and I saw Dave exit down a hallway. I went outside where he was smoking a cig and struck up a conversation with him. A really pleasant man who was used to fans buttonholing him and we chatted a bit about his old quartet. I didn’t have the presence of mind to ask for an autograph, so big head smack there.