On a related note, 4 people from my high school were crushed to death at the infamous Who Concert. 
I don’t know if it was historical, rely, but I went to see The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge tour in Sydney in the early 1990’s. I was really young, and I remember thinking, “This is the only time I have ever seen my Dad scream like a girl.” 
In retrospect this was huge…
From Montreal, a bunch of buddies and I drove down to Burlington to see a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert at the university auditorium…
Opening acts…
Pearl Jam - A great show…
Smashing Pumpkins - yawn Billy Corgan had long hair and feedback was the sound du jour
Of course, the Chilis kicked royal ass!
I remember reading in Rolling Stone magazine how this was one of the top tours of all time…
I saw Queen in Slane, with Simple Minds - Not too shabby.
My husband was at the Guns N Roses concert in Kansas City where there was a riot.
I went to see the Eagles on their Hell Freezes Over tour in KC with my mom.
It was awesome.
I also went to see Paul McCartney with my mom, also awesome.
Freddie Mercury died before I could see a Queen concert.
Never made it to Woodstock. Mom wouldn’t take me to see the Beatles at Shea Stadium. She later apologized. 
Was moving from NY to Colorado when Woodstock happened.
But I saw some interesting stuff over the years, esp the 70’s.
I still go to shows, but I’m kinda old school.
Watched Jim Morrison get drunk on Coors at a Denver concert in about 1970.
Shook hands with Pete Townshend at a sweaty show, one of many “We’re never playing Tommy again” shows, in June of '70.
That same year I handed Leslie West (of Mountain) a towel after he threw up backstage.
Watched Felix Pappalardi stunned face as he was informed of the shootings at Kent State. (Little did he and I know that he would tragically die of gunshot wounds years later.)
Got teargassed at a Jethro Tull concert up in Red Rocks when some mounted police tried to keep out gatecrashers.
Got free baggies of pot, each with papers and matches, at a Grateful Dead concert in Boulder in '72.
My most major concert was McCartney in Dec. '89 at the Rosemont Horizon. It was a great show, especially for a hardcore Beatlemaniac.
I wasn’t at Disco Demolition, but I remember hearing about it around my high school in Iowa. (Casey1505, it wasn’t the nickel beer fiasco, Disco Demolition was when several thousand disco records were blown up in center field and fans started flooding the field too. The second game against Detroit had to be forfeited.)
I saw the Human Rights Now show in Philly. As the head of my college’s Amnesty International group I got special tix. I got to be backstage pre-show when Springsteen, Tracey Chapman, Sting and Peter Gabriel came out and did an a cappella rendition of ‘Get Up Stand Up’. That was cool.
I was at the U2 show when Bono dislocated his arm. You can see him with the brace in Rattle and Hum. It was a rainy day and Bono went running across the stage and slipped on some water and WHAM…down he went. He couldn’t play guitar the rest of the show (which they cut short by several songs). He asked if anyone in the audience could play and pulled some guy out of the audience. Then it turned out the guy couldn’t play. Bono ushered the guy off stage and said “That guy couldn’t play guitar! He lied to me. No one lies in Washington DC, do they?”
And, on a more-important-to-me note I was at one of the shows where Cowboy Mouth recorded ‘All You Need Is Live’ and I was at the show where Emmet Swimming recorded ‘Earplugs: 50 cents’.
Man, those were thundering.
Oh, and I was at the Cranberries Riot on the national mall in Washington DC a while back. The local alternative station, WHFS, was planning on holding a series of 4 or 5 free shows on the mall during that summer and the Cranberries were the first. They told the park police that they expected about 2000 people to show up and almost 10000 actually made it. The Cranberries began to play ‘Linger’ as their second song and the moshing got way out of hand and people started getting hurt. The park police had fewer than 10 officers there and just shut things down right then and there. No more show. And no more free shows that summer either.
How the hell does one mosh to ‘Linger’, anyway?
And I did see Queen live. It was great.
I was at Winterland the night “Frampton Comes Alive” was recorded.
I was at one of Marlene Dietrich’s last concerts, in, I think, 1973. She was so frail she could barely stand up, but her voice was still amazing.
My wife just got back home from the Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute show taping. She says Tim Robbins kept screwing up his lines. I watched it and looked for her in the audience and swear I can see her!
She got to drive the car all the way out there! Man, that would have been cool!
I was at the homecoming concert for The Verve, at Wigan, the last time the band played together.
I was one of the mud people at Woodstock 94. It was an interesting four days.
AndrewT, sounds like that was a real treat. Crowded House was my favorite band. I saw them in Dallas in 92.
I went to The Who’s 1979 concert in Chicago.
This was the very next show on The Who tour after the infamous Cincinnati stop where 11 people were trampled to death. Everyone I encountered in the audience was extremely polite at that show.
I saw the Bealtes at J.F.K. Stadium (Philadelphia) in 1966. I still have my ticket stub.
More concerts than I care to remember. As the nickname implies I used to work crowd security at nightclubs (and worked barricades and backstage at concerts). Lots of good memories. Some great big honkin shows, some all day concertfests, and lots of smaller shows.
Where were you when they counted 3-2-1 on new years eve 1999? Me, I was tackling a drunk asshat about 2 feet from Bruce Hornsby at a smaller concert in Williamsburg, VA. Which, honestly, I never thought I’d have to do at a Hornsby concert! I mean, c’mon, it’s a HORNSBY concert for chrissakes. It’s like auto-pilot time for us security goons. "Ma’am, you’re not allowed to bring your own Camembert to the concert… " But nooo… I’m clipping some drunk overaged preppie type who wants to dance on the Piano (which idea he got because Bruce sometimes lets the nubile young things dance on the piano).
Oh, and I got very very lucky and got to work a Blue Oyster Cult show (which is good for me since I’ve been a fan of them for awhile) in a large bar (cap about 1200) though of course, I had to tackle another asshat who tried to start a fight during “Don’t Fear the Reaper”(pushing his way to the front of the stage and was knocking men and women over).
I mean, yanno… if you MUST be an asshat, please, not during the highlight of the concert!
Ahh… but that’s the way of the world.
Honestly, the super ultra maximum shows rarely live up to the hype. Oh they’re large and have 80 billion lights and 9000 decibels of volume… but feh, I’d take BOC or Dave Mathews Band in a small venue any day. Close enough to see em’ sweat. And I honestly believe that the bands have more fun in smaller venues anyways… it’s more personal, and the music is more important than the 400 ft tall video walls.
But that’s just me.
Regards,
-Bouncer-
I went to the re-union show for S.O.D. at the Ritz in NYC. It was recorded and released in album/video format at S.O.D. Like at Budokhan.
Later…
I was at the SARs concert featuring ACDC and the Rolling Stones
I also have been to Sades last concert, I dont think she is going to perform again.