Best Performances ever?

Justice hands down.

I have not been to many concerts sadly. :(
It’s because my parents can’t afford a lot of them.

Dave Mathews and Tim Reynolds at Duke University – just Dave, Tim and about 300 friends.

Judas Priest rocked my rocks off a couple of years ago on the 4th of July somewhere in Washington State.
Tool is always a crowd pleaser. I saw them at Lollapolooza 97 in Nashville

Judy Collins live at U of Oregon about 10 or 12 years ago.

Van Morrison at the Nawlins Jazz fest 1995. Sunset, good friends, some new friendly faces, and a shared bottle of soco. What a moment to remember…

Vladimir Horovitz’s come-back concert in Carnegie Hall in 1965.

Tom Lehrer in Cambridge, MA in the late 1950’s and early 60’s.

Flanders and Swann’s AT THE DROP OF A HAT, NYC (1960) and AT THE DROP ANOTHER HAT, NYC (1965).

Bruce Springsteen, many time & places, always a great show.
YoYo Ma at The Kennedy Center, 07, and I recently got a chance to see the Eagles play live again and they were fantastic; after all these years.

R.E.M. on some tiny side stage at Summerfest (Milwaukee). I think it was July 1984. I had gone to see another band, but on the way, I saw them and forgot about the other band. Stipe sang most of the time facing the drum kit. I think he was high. Believe me, though, in those days, Michael Stipe was a beautiful young man with a headful of cascading blondish curls. And he certainly wasn’t out.

R.E.M. at the Rosemont Horizon (Chicago) in January 1989. They had more or less hit the big time and this was one of the early shows of the Green Tour, so all was fresh. Front Row Seats. Met them backstage. Hells, yeah!

De La Soul doing a pick-up show at University of Wisconsin-Stout (Menominee) in August 1990. My friends and I drove up from Madison the minute we heard they were there, and there were 7 of us in my bf’s Honda Civic hatchback. I hadn’t even known he liked any hip-hop. De La was at the student union and we actually got to talk to them afterwards.

Soul Coughing at the old Knitting Factory (NYC) in October 1995. I had no idea Mike Doughty was on anything, and I was so naive, I though his gyrating and blistering performance was because it came from inside him. Maybe it did, but there was also coke.

Regurgitator at the Metro (Sydney, Australia) in August 1999. Also known as The Last Time I Crowd-surfed. Regurgitator is a huge Australian rock band that should’ve been better known elsewhere. I like seeing big-name bands in small clubs; it’s like they get an opportunity to relive less troubled periods in their careers and it shows.

Arcade Fire at the United Theater (NYC) in May 2007. The United Theater is a beautiful old theater in the Washington Heights area of Manhattan and it’s been used as a church for years and years. This was the first rock show there I’d ever heard of. And Arcade Fire usually put on a wondrous set, but for some reason that night it felt like church. There was such catharsis with everyone in that night’s playing of Neighborhood #3 (Fire Out), and it was palpable.

1. michael Jackson @ Grammys doing the way u make me feel and man in the mirror.

2. christina aguilera and brian mcknight have yourself a merry little Christmas.

3. joss stone son of a preacher man!!!!

look these up ok YouTube. they’re all there.

Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Mark Kozelek, and Radiohead

Man, I wish I saw Elliott Smith, just once…