What Is the best Concert you have ever been to?

This is going way back in time and there are three performances that I could mention, but undoubtedly, by far, the best, both because of who was performing and the meaningfulness of the concert itself, was one held for charity at the old Olympia building in Detroit, Michigan. The best man at my wedding worked there and was able to acquire front row seats for some friends and I. There was a stage constructed in the middle of the ice rink where the Red Wings played hockey.

The stage rotated 360 degrees making all seats excellent. There was no big extravaganza of fireworks or lighting shows, but the quality of performers more than made up for that. In one corner of the stage was Gordon Lightfoot and his lead guitarist, in another was John Denver.

Harry Chapin (the organizer of the charity event) occupied the third corner. Originally Carly Simon was to be the fourth performer, but failed to show. Harry made the announcement, then asked if anyone would mind if James Taylor replaced her.

He had cancelled his show in New York to fly in when Simon changed her mind. Of course the crowd went wild. Each of the performers played and sang backup for each other.

When John Denver took the high part in Harry Chapin’s “Taxi”, the crowd gave him a standing ovation. That was after he had missed his queue three times while he replaced a broken sting on Chapin’s guitar. In all, the concert lasted about three hours, and as usual when Chapin is involved, the audience became part of his family.

When the concert was over, Chapin as usual stayed to mingle with the crowd. On a side note, even during a normal concert given by Chapin, half the monies from the event were donated to “Feed the Children”. When he died in a traffic accident a few years later, his family continued the tradition.

I have seen the Beatles, Elvis, Three Dog Night (second best concert), Pat Benatar (best female vocalist of all time) and others, but a concert from the heart is a wonderful thing. Kudos to you Harry, wherever you are.

Jimmy Buffett, Memphis Tn at Mud Island. Hands Down winner. It was not in the theater, stage was setup on the south tip, near the pool.Maybe... 1989?

I have seen the Foo Fighters twice, and they were winners both times. In Hollywood, they were playing for a private party, and I was like 25' from Dave Grohl. He had too much to drink and at one point ended up forgetting some lyrics!

He then proceeded to make up lyrics on the spot, and they were hilarious. The Foo Fighters have some serious umph, and I like it. The second time to see the Foo was on leap day, and the audience got a real treat - the original version of Everlong.

Hearing that made my month. I heard every favorite song that night. Brad, I envy you for getting to see a 311 concert.

That's on my list of things to do (multiple times) before I die.

This would have been in 1970 at Winterland in San Francisco. Jim Morrison and the Doors played that night. Doug Kershaw was the intro.

Winterland had individual seating, unlike the Filmore. BTW, if l you are into rock and roll, get the CD of the Grateful Dead live at Winterland on its final night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECk9A-07Pw.

The best concert I have ever attended was a Deep Purple concert outside. The music alone kicked ass, but the light show was the most awesome ever! I cound not find an outdoors one but the show was Great!

San Francisco Symphony in 1986 or some such year. They performed the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique and the Michael Tippet Triple Concerto. Afterwards I met Tippet and accidently insulted him (but I really thought he was sort f a jerk!

So whatever! ).

Tiesto's concert! 2007! I think the video below describes it better than me!

40K people! One DJ! And the best at that time!

If you find something better than this...hmmm...let me know :) youtube.com/watch?v=rj8-OPHxYEg&feature=....

The best concert I have been to I would have to say was front row at Coldplay at the MGM grand garden. Chris Martin holds nothing back. I think he ran a marathon during the concert.

A close second would be Korn. I saw them play the Thomas & Mack center in 2000. Oddly the worst live performance I have ever seen was one of the Korn's opening acts PapaRoach.

Phish, The Clifford Ball. It was held at the old Plattsburg Air Force base in Plattsburg, NY in August of 1996. A 2 day festival that was the 9th largest city in N.Y.For the weekend.

Peaceful, great music, just an amazing weekend. There is a 7 DVD Box Set of the festival which was released. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phish_festivals.

The best concert I went to was Lamb Of God in Chico California. It was my first experience with a full scale mosh pit, which was crazy but it had a good energy to it. It was a very small venue in and old theater.

I also got to see Machine Head and Gojira, who were on before Lamb, Which was awesome. If your a metal head I definitely suggest you try Gojira, their a french death metal band with an environmental message.

311 and Gwar (not at the same venue, of course). Two complete opposite styles of music but I have never been so entertained in my life with their dedication to what they do and showmanship. Hands down the funnest concerts I have ever been to.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.