Judy Garland, Hollywood Bowl, 1961.

Probably Metallica or Megadeth. Those shows are always superb.

Metallica, 1984 European Tour. Still have the ticket stub. There must have been less than 1000 people there.

• 1990 Meat Beat Manifesto, 99% tour
• Test Dept -Totality Tour '96
• DeadMau5 2017
• Young Gods - 1992

/couldn't choose

Sinead O'Connor

Stomp, in Chicago, about 10 years ago. Loved, loved, loved their show.

I was lucky enough to see a lot of concerts.
My top 5
The Orb with full band Hollywood Ameican legion hall 1991
My Bloody Valentine The roxy and the Palace 1991
Kyuss ( Queens of the stone age right after high school) Ethyl Meatplow Maxwax at the Whiskey in 1991
Massive Attack The Wiltern 2010
Stone Temple Pilots back when they were called Mighty Joe Young Rage Against the Machine and Sugartooth in the Shamrock which is now Cheetah's a strip club on Hollywood Blvd. I actually promoted that show myself before any of those bands had gotten signed.

Chicago.

Peter Gabriel. Houston, November, 1982. What a superb showman!

Audio only from the tour:

Probably "Phentom of the Opera" or "Miss Saigon", but in both cases I have to wonder if spectable influenced my deision.

The best show I saw live with no spectacle, was "A Chorus Line" at the Grand Hotel Dinner Theater in Anaheim, around 1984. (I have been told the hotel was torn down for a Disney expansion.)

I did see Ellen Degenerous in San Francisco way back before she became famous. She only had a just OK night. I also saw Bill Cosby in Las Vegas. He was just OK live. I think I prefer to see comedians on recordings, as you usually get to se them on a better night that way.

As far as just pure talent it would have to be the Eagles for me. I should add that they would probably be tied with Eric Clapton except the Eagles seem like they were enjoying themselves more than he did.

The best for me was RUSH (Snakes and Arrows tour/ An Evening with RUSH).
Right up there was small venue Iron Maiden.

John Mellencamp, Willy Nelson & Bob Dylan 2010, Austin, Tx

Back in the 80's I saw the Violent Femmes at the Bowery in OKC. It was after they put out their first album. A friend and I hung out with them a bit after and I met Gordon. I was hooked. They were excellent and I saw them many times after that.

I've seen U2 6 times! Fleetwood Mac twice . Loved Tina Turner, Cher, Elton John... love rock and roll...can you tell? Lol

The Dixie Dregs in a small bar in Murfreesboro, NC back in 1983 or 4.. Steve Morse is one of the most amazing guitarist alive, and to see him up-close like that was an awesome thing. If you like progressive jazz/rock,, you'll love these guys. [houstonpress.com]

I saw the Old Crow Medicine Show open for John Prine a few years back, and they tore it the hell up. Then Prine was Prine.

Dead, Dead and more Dead

Marilyn Manson. He just gave it all and it was amazing.

Was back stage at a kiss concert, pretty funny, they were all dressed up eating a catered roast beef dinner and reading the wall street journal. Rock and roll. Sort of.

Believe it or not, Alice Cooper.

He has a certain "magic" as a performer that is very rare.

1992, The Bottom Line, NYC: They created a non-smoking section for me in front of the stage. We'd gone to see Leslie West and mountain, but soon they were joined by Clapton, who came onto the stage wearing the glasses/moustache/Big nose disguise - which didn't fool us one bit; THEN Ginger Baker and Keith Richards. They jammed all night. NOTHING like New York City! Oo oo and I forgot Dizzy Gillespie at Carnegie Hall...wait wait there was Billy Joel and Elton John, OYES and Tom Petty at Jones Beach...I can't say just one : (

Well... the live performance where I had the most fun was Vicious Circle. They performed in the basement of a dive bar/hotel. They graciously took most of our requests while we moshed and slammed our way into the wee smalls.

Babyface , classic

I also wanted to say Bonzo dod Doo Dah band they were so funny and so packed - (no seats) that everybody sqyuished in could feel each others ribs going up and down and they were jsut crazy manic with so many effects and such rapid turnover your bodies ached ,when it came to an end, from laughing, Vivian Stanshall was a tue artist showman.