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OT: Best live music performances

First place--any Grateful Dead concert.
Second place--any Dead & Company concert.

Best Dead concert I ever saw was at RFK Stadium in DC in the early seventies. It wasn't just the Dead--it was a weekend of the Dead and the Allman Brothers Band. (I also saw the Allmans in concert before Duane passed on.)

Other concerts of note that I attended: The Beatles first concert at Shea Stadium in NYC. Jimi Hendrix at Lincoln Center in NYC a few months before he died. Springsteen in San Diego. Stones, also in San Diego. BB King in a small club in LA.

Here's a Grateful Dead lagniappe.
 
"Well now, it's story time again".

Tom Waits incredible version of the Red Sovine classic:

 
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse - live "Powderfinger".

IIRC , this one got voted as Neil's best ever song, its certainly in my top 5 for him:

 
Muddy Waters doing "Baby Please Don't Go" - with a little help from a few famous guys known as the Rolling Stones:

 
I don’t know how to post the performance but if you want to see a great guitar jam between two masters, search for BB King & Gary Moore, The Thrill is Gone! It’s the one where BB King is wearing a bright green jacket. The back and forth between these two is unforgettable!
 
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I have seen most everybody in concert since the early 70s. Yes in the round, early Queen, The Who, Pink Floyd building the wall, Van Halen (even when they were a back up band to Black Sabbath), The Stones, Paul McCartney, Led Zepplin, Billy Joel, Sir Elton John, Garth Brooks, every U2 tour including Toads Place, Live Aid, etc. Played cards with Axl Rose, and rode on a plane with James Brown. In my opinion, no one compares to Springsteen. You can see both my son and I in the front row in this video from Sweden, (as well as in Bruce’s Super Bowl performance.)
 
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GEAinAustin said:
Scud 49, Muddy Waters and the Stones was in a dive bar in Chicago or Detroit, can't remember, impressive choice.
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1970. i was wrapping up my degree at USCB and had some friends in Berkeley that i'd visit from time to time. People's Park (yup, THAT PP) on Saturday with The Dead and Santana playing for all of us stoned out hippies...all for free. Actually better than free due to all the recreational agents that were freely given away. Lots of concerts growing up in California in the late 60s/70s but that one has stuck with me. Sorry - no YT clips for that one!
 
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