Greatest Rock and Roll concert ever?

[Cowpolk]

All of the Texas Jam's at the Cotton Bowl 1 lasted almost 18 hours

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

I went to the last Texas Jam, which they called Monsters of Rock.

It was:

Van Halen
Scorpions
Dokken
Metallica
Kingdom Come

It was awesome! It was right before Metallica released And Justice. They played Harvester of Sorrow from it.

I was at that show!

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

Maiden live shows? Hell yeah!!
I saw them several times in the early years as opener and headliner. Maiden's Number of the Beast Tour opening for The Scorpions on their Blackout Tour.......that's some metal heaven. Two days later saw Rainbow and RIOT, it was the show they taped for the MTV, the first live concert for MTV. It was the loudest concert I have ever went to, they literally had speakers suspended above the floor facing straight down. We were on the 3rd row and got the full force, to this day my hearing has never the same.

Saw Maiden the following year on their first headliner tour, almost got crushed to death during that show........ but that's another story.

I've seen Iron Maiden four times. They were spectacular every time.

 

[cowboyec]

Dallas.
dec '76.
one of his greatest.

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

Judas Priest in Austin on the Defenders of the Faith tour was probably my favorite. Would have been around '85. ZZ Top always put on great shows. Pink Floyd was great, although it was without Roger Waters.

 

[Roadtrip635]

All of the Texas Jam's at the Cotton Bowl 1 lasted almost 18 hours

I went to the Texas Jams in '82 and '84, they were awesome

 

[Khartun]

Judas Priest in Austin on the Defenders of the Faith tour was probably my favorite. Would have been around '85. ZZ Top always put on great shows. Pink Floyd was great, although it was without Roger Waters.

I'm a huge Priest fan. They are always great! Defenders of the Faith is one of my favorite albums of theirs.

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

Ozzy with Metallica as the opening act was another great one. That was the Master of Puppets tour for Metallica, who I had never heard of at that point. They destroyed Ozzy.

 

[cowboyec]

august 3,1969.
of all of his great concerts...this one joins his madison square garden and aloha concerts as serious contender for greatest concert ever.

 

[rags747]

One of many but David Bowie Diamond Dogs concert at Madison Square Garden. He was tripping, but so were we!

 

[triplets_93]

All of the Texas Jam's at the Cotton Bowl 1 lasted almost 18 hours

I believe that was from the first Texxas Jam in 1978. After that, they intentionally never sold that many floor tickets to a GA show.

 

[triplets_93]

my favorite non-Elvis concert.
springsteen.
1975.
London.

Speaking of the Hammersmith Odeon... the Kate Bush concert filmed there in in 1979 is spectacular!!

Live at Hammersmith Odeon is a 1994 box set by the British singer Kate Bush. It is a re-release of a video recording of the 1979 The Tour of Life, first released on home video in 1981, complete with a CD version of the video.

The video and CD contain twelve songs from the tour, consisting mainly of songs from The Kick Inside and Lionheart with a new song "Violin"; which would subsequently appear on Bush's third studio album Never for Ever in 1980.

 

[triplets_93]

The strangest concert I ever saw was Pavarotti at Reunion. My wife was a huge opera fan, it was pretty much all Greek to me, and we got great floor tickets on the 4th row and we got there early.

The show was fabulous and a once in a lifetime experience that I am glad I had and hearing this live is one of my most memorable experiences in my life, I cried and my body broke out in a sweat and I knew what it was like to be moved by a voice. That piece still gives me chills but hearing him do it live was extraordinary.

The thing is, that seeing The Dallas Opera perform Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, from The Ring of the Nibelung series, was the most sublime and transcendent thing I have ever experienced, including all of the rock and roll concerts.

I felt like --- "I'm Not Worthy..."

 

[cowboyec]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-Atoge0zyrr8oE2kF7NRAy-sO25U0zZb
august 25,1969...midnight show.

 

[Runwildboys]

The strangest concert I ever saw was Pavarotti at Reunion. My wife was a huge opera fan, it was pretty much all Greek to me, and we got great floor tickets on the 4th row and we got there early. I took a look around and thought of the dichotomy of hot dogs at the opera when the strangest sight I could imagine appears before us and we still laughed about it for years after.

The lights are pretty much up and I catch this sight out of the corner of my eye coming across the front of the venue and I began to see all heads turning to the right. Here comes this guy dressed in denim overalls with a t shirt under at least two sizes too small and he goes at least 300lbs and in one hand he's holding nachos and going at it like a condemned man on his last night and under the other arm is his large soda that he's holding so hard while using that maw to score nachos that the lid is off and it's dribbling all over his leg and onto the floor. Seconds later comes this lady mopping up after him and glaring in his direction.

The funniest thing about it is that all heads that I could see were fixed on this, people weren't even eye shifting, they were full on and most in amazement. As he cleared the scene headed to his front row on the perimeter I didn't realize how quiet it was and turned to my wife and asked "so, Luciana going to sing some country" and it carried and people were really laughing hard. My wife told me I should have gotten the opener's fee that night after that reaction because people were repeating it to others and it traveled back.

The show was fabulous and a once in a lifetime experience that I am glad I had and hearing this live is one of my most memorable experiences in my life, I cried and my body broke out in a sweat and I knew what it was like to be moved by a voice. That piece still gives me chills but hearing him do it live was extraordinary.

The way you started that story, I thought it was gonna be Pavarotti in the overalls. lol

 

[Hardline]

I went to the last Texas Jam, which they called Monsters of Rock.

It was:

Van Halen
Scorpions
Dokken
Metallica
Kingdom Come

It was awesome! It was right before Metallica released And Justice. They played Harvester of Sorrow from it.

I was there. Did you see that massive fight break out near the stage?
I was in the middle of it.

 

[Runwildboys]

My personal favorite was Eric Clapton, Saratoga Springs '82. The Fabulous Thunderbirds opened for him, and Jimmy Vaughan brought out his little brother Stevie to play a bit.

Then Clapton came out and played, and there was a moment...possibly the only one...in which everyone was quiet. My friend and I stood on a cooler and yelled out, "COCAAAIINNEE!!!" Clapton looked up at us and said, "Just a few more songs first, guys."

We turned to each other..."CLAPTON TALKED TO US!!!!!!!!!!!"
Great memory.

 

[Runwildboys]

I was there. Did you see that massive fight break out near the stage?
I was in the middle of it.

Not a favorite moment, but I was at the Aerosmith concert, with Skid Row opening for them, when some guy threw a bottle on the stage that just missed Sebastian Bach (maybe hit him, not sure). Bach threw the bottle into the crowd and hit a girl in the face, splitting her face open, then jumped into the crowd and started fighting the guy who threw the bottle on the stage.

I was going to give a link that shows the incident, but the language is very rough. If interested, just search "Sebastian Bach bottle throw".

 

[Crazed Liotta Eyes]

Not a favorite moment, but I was at the Aerosmith concert, with Skid Row opening for them, when some guy threw a bottle on the stage that just missed Sebastian Bach (maybe hit him, not sure). Bach threw the bottle into the crowd and hit a girl in the face, splitting her face open, then jumped into the crowd and started fighting the guy who threw the bottle on the stage.

I was going to give a link that shows the incident, but the language is very rough. If interested, just search "Sebastian Bach bottle throw".

I remember hearing about that. The first concert I ever went to was Ozzy in about '82. The base player was so drunk or stoned that he could barely stand or play. Someone threw a bottle at him on stage and he fell into the drum set and knocked it over. They had to stop the show for a bit to get everything set back up.

 

[pete026]

Here's another from the Monterey Pop Festival. Jimi borrowed another Bob Dylan tune. I like this version the best; some rock n roll guitar and R&B thrown together. And some humor referring to Noel Redding as Bob Dylan's Grandmother lol.