What is the last show that really impressed/excited you ?

Zappa plays Zappa. Dweezil and crew nailed Frank's music.
The music was overwhelming.

 

July 2018, Tedeschi Trucks w/ Marcus King. Little outside ampitheater and the sound and weather were great!!!

 

dexter gordon at a union hall...years ago (70's, early 80's?) i've seen plenty of great shows since, but i'll always remember that one.

 

Muppet

 

The Pretenders. Man can Chryssie Hynde still sing. I was flabbergasted.

 

Roger Waters 'Us and Them' tour January 2018
I wasn't going to go to the concert initially, but got an e-mail from the ticket office on the day of his second show about a last minute special $79.95 for tickets, so we got 2 and wife & I went.... musically it was incredibly good - his band nailed every song, but visually it was stunning
Very hard to believe he is 74-75

Same with Paul McCartney 2 years ago - he played about 35 + songs for 3 hours without taking a break.
in comparison a friend of my wife went to see Bruno Mars and said he only played 15 songs and was on stage for less that 2 hours.

 

KISS at the Troubadour, 1992

best prior to that was Corrosion of Conformity at the Whisky
1991
It was so great I saw them two nights in a row, $12 at the door.

 

I still think the best show I ever saw was Elton John back in the late 70s. First set was just EJ on piano. After a quick break, he came back on stage, and the backdrop lifted. When the smoke cleared, there was Ray Cooper, surrounded by every kind of drums and percussion known to mankind, along with an electric piano for him - they played another 2 hours non-stop. Cooper can do more with a tambourine than I've seen some drummers do with an entire kit.

 

I remember the HBO broadcast one of their duo tours. Elton introduced Ray and said Ray would steal the show that night.



He pretty much did! Ray is an amazing player, his work adds so much to most of the tunes on "Rock of the Westies".

 

Hopefully at the end of August I will come back to this thread and say, "The George Clinton P-Funk Farewell show I saw last week".

 

The 1975! Crowd participation was epic!

 

Bruno burns a lot more calories than Sir Paul.

 

A few weeks ago at L.A. Rec Center, with about 15 other folks, I saw “Godcaster” and was blown away. I went to see another band and knew nothing of them. They were like a blend of Zappa, Weird Al, and Brian Ferry. Unfortunately they have very little material online, and none of it compares to what I saw.

 

RUSH R40... Scorpions... GD Gallows/Scott Biram/Urban Pioneers... Martin Barre... all in Columbus... I don't see many, but the ones I have were all great.

 

Steven Wilson @ The Capital Theater in Port Chester, NY this past December. I’d been to countless Porcupine Tree concerts and none were even close to the audio and video perfection that the group brought to this awesome old theater. An amazing event with a level of performance expertise worth mentioning.

 

Tommy Castro, in 2015. I had no idea going in. My dad kept saying it would be awesome, he was right

 

Zappa plays Zappa a couple years ago in a small theater, which may have been the last show I saw until the other night when we went to see the Stanley Clarke band in a small Jazz club here in town, He played the upright almost the whole time, I love Stan's Upright playing, great show.

Other great shows this century were Todd Rundgren Doing the Wizard a true star in its entirety, The classic YES lineup, Andersen, Bruford, Wakeman, Squire and Howe was pretty amazing as well.

 

modest mouse at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester NY a couple of years ago. Great place for live music. I’d also mention Los Lobos and Pixies at the same venue but they were previous.

 

I don't go to a lot of shows as a fan anymore. I don't know how or why, but at some point it stopped being fun. I can't enjoy it because I'm thinking too much about it.
The sound is off.
I can't see the band.
My feet hurt from standing for hours.
I actually have to think about what to do so I'm not just standing there.
It is kind of a bummer that I can't just enjoy a show.
I saw Khemmis last year and it was a good show. A few years before that I got to see Bolt Thrower, I very rare thing. Also a great show.