Bennington Triumph Bash

I saw Skynnyrd and ZZ Top at the Centrum in Worcester in college. We had the Sir Edmund Hillary seats (top row, top balcony). But we were just behind home plate so to speak. AWESOME show. Hard to say it was my fav, but man was it good! I've seen the BB King blues fest a few times, that was awesome too. Saw the Allmans at SPAC in 95. AWESOME show also. Colorful crowd

Van Halen 1984 JFK so loud and stoned it was friggin awsome . I had a head ache for two days front stage in the chairs that got moved out of the way for more room.

Jimmy

OZOMATLI last year.



Tito


Ton Up!

My Morning Jacket at the Avalon in Boston, great show, we were right at the stage.

Pink Floyd, Nasua Colliseum 197- or 198- something
oH YEAH and Eric Burden and the Animals in late 196- something
i dont remrember much of the 60s or 70s

I couldn't pick a favorite. So many good shows. New Model Army a bunch of times. The Posies at the 9:30 Club in DC in the early '90s. Several Bob Mould solo acoustic shows. Mike Ness at Higher Ground in Winooski, VT. Sam Phillips at the 9:30 Club in DC. The Levellers at TT The Bear's in Cambridge, MA. Even several local punk bands with the River City Rebels and Catch 22 playing in my friend Gavin's barn in Warren, VT, six or seven years ago -- that show was a blast simply because of all the punk kids who came from Vermont, New York, and New Hampshire to this no-name location and went nuts for a bunch of little-known bands.

--mark

I can't call a favorite either....I live very close to the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, easy to get to great music (especially on a motorcycle), plus I'm close to the Boston venues. The Newport Folk Festival is always a blast... I went to school at UMASS/Amherst, was involved with the Student Production Council, so I got to go to shows for free in exhange for keeping an advertisement board current in the Student Union -everybody from Jimmy Cliff to Joan Armatrading to the Dead and BB King came to UMASS, I was very blessed ( even tho I can barely remember most of those shows, LOL).

Grateful Dead were always GRATE, LOL....Allman Bro's too many times to count, ZZ Top, Aerosmith most times they come around (1st time when I was 12), Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Skynrd, Etta James at the Boston Pavillion a couple of summers ago, James Taylor, Santana, John Fogerty and Willy Nelson, Buddy Guy in Providence, Tom Petty, Peter Wolf at this cool little cigar bar in Maine, Stevie Ray Vaughn shortly before he died. A couple of the of the Winter Hill record label artists for when I'm needing mellow (George Winston, Liz Story)...

All music is good!

One of the first concerts I ever saw was in Florida; I think it was in Hollywood or Fort Lauderdale. It was probably around 1975 or so and the main band was the Allman Brothers the band that warmed them up was the Doobie Brothers, and the opening band that was there to waste some time was an unknown band called Lynard Skynard!

The best concert I ever saw was probably King Crimson at the Fillmore East in 1973 or so, Robert Fripp is probably the single most talented guitarist I have ever listened to. Then there was Emerson Lake & Palmer in Madison Square Garden utilizing the first ever quadraphonic speaker setup in concert history, I think that was around 1975 or 76. Then in 1979 at the (oh hell I cannot remember what the Fillmore East turned into) a small, relatively unheard of California band by the name of Van Halen came to NYC and played their first album.

Other memorable concerts were Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music at Radio City Music Hall, George Benson at Carnage Hall, Shit I just can't remember the 70's and 80's, just to much Acid, Cannabis, Hashish & Hash Oil - I'll have to go to my parents condo and go up to the attic where I have a foot locker with all my old shit in it. I have a manila envelope with every single ticket stub for every concert or event I have ever been to. I also have boxes of very old concert T-Shirts and buttons somewhere as well. I know I have that original 1979 Van Halen Tour shirt, a really old long sleeve Tom Petty shirt somewhere, a bunch of Crimson shirts – dam I just can’t remember fellas!

Here is a real good quick story. I grew up on the Island of Long and when I was like maybe 1969 maybe even earlier, I was 8 or 9 years old, I remember driving into the city with my parents and my older brother and we dropped him and a friend off at the Fillmore East - he was going to see some guy by the name of Jimi Hendrix. That was the first time I smelled pot in my life. There was a lot of it being smoked outside and I remember asking my parents what that sweet smell was and they said Pot and I said what? They said that is the smell of Marijuana.

Oh and I forgot! I saw Tenacious D at MSG last year

Hedge wrote:I'll have to go to my parents condo and go up to the attic where I have a foot locker with all my old shit in it. I have a manila envelope with every single ticket stub for every concert or event I have ever been to. I also have boxes of very old concert T-Shirts and buttons somewhere as well. I know I have that original 1979 Van Halen Tour shirt, a really old long sleeve Tom Petty shirt somewhere, a bunch of Crimson shirts

I bet if you put all those old concert Ts up on eBay, you could fund a new motorcycle.

--mark

Okay, I'm in for it now. But here goes.

Andrea Bocelli before he become mainstream. Before that, Tom Rush and Joan Baez- both in small settings.

Can you tell I don't get out much. (There was that time when my daughter was twelve and I took her to see "New Kids on the Block". Does that count? Don't tell her I told you. She is totally embarassed to admit it.)

Whisperinsmith wrote:Okay, I'm in for it now. But here goes.

Andrea Bocelli before he become mainstream. Before that, Tom Rush and Joan Baez- both in small settings.

Can you tell I don't get out much. (There was that time when my daughter was twelve and I took her to see "New Kids on the Block". Does that count? Don't tell her I told you. She is totally embarrassed to admit it.)

Kinda reminds me of that scene in Animal house when the folk singer was on the staircase and Belushi grabbed his guitar and smashed it to pieces and then looked at him and said "I'm sorry"

"I gave my looooove a cherry, that haaaaad noooooo stoooooone"

BANG BANG BANG! Sorry.... Love that.

Hahahahaha! That's exactly it! I'm laughing my balls off right now thinking about it and enjoying my Ben & Jerrys Cherry Garcia on the beginning of this 3 day Holiday!

YES-RELAYER FOGHAT REO BOC BTO KANSAS to name a few.