Unforgettable concert moments

What are some of your most unforgettable moments from concerts you attended? Here is one of mine:

I was at one of Peter Hammill's solo concerts at the Zeche in Bochum (some time between 1985 and 1988; I was in my late teens). Hammill had already given 5 encores, and the roadies had already cleared the stage of instruments, amplifiers and microphones, but the crowd still kept calling for an encore. After some time a tired but happy looking Hammill reappeared with a towel around his neck, went to the very front of the stage and gave a heartbreaking rendition of "Again", without any instrumental accompaniment. The crowd was absolutely silent, but when he had finished they went berserk. Nobody wanted another encore; this simply could not be topped as perfect ending for the concert. Never before and never since have I been so much moved by singing.


Edited by BaldFriede - January 12 2017 at 11:03

Andy Latimer walking on stage at Harrogate on Oct 19th 2013, at the start of Camel's comeback tour, to a 5 minute standing ovation before he'd played a note. And as usual, he seemed completely bemused by his reception.

1988, Tangerine Dream's concert in San Diego. 'Twas my first time. Our five-strong fanboy group made the 2hr+ trek.

Edited by verslibre - January 12 2017 at 15:57

Seeing Floyd in the 1970s (In the Flesh).

Yes - Madison Square Garden, Union tour. Dazzling.
Yes- Symphonic 2004 at the Hammersmith odeon. Seats beside me were empty, plenty of leg room (I need it, at the PF show 1994 at Earls Court the guy next to me had to stand up. Those seats are not made for anyone of more than 120lbs and 5' 5. But the Symphonic show was awesome, I was upstairs dead centre and in heaven.

Page and Plant with two orchestras. JP looking lost near the end as he couldn't work out whether to be off stage or not. He stayed.

Rush 1994. Bowled on up to Wembley Arena and bought a box office ticket for 10 quid and saw a fantastic show - Primus opening.

John Paul Jones and Julie Felix in a bookshop playing an acoustic set of trad folk numbers, Naturally I knew none and my main contribution was making a racket by knocking over a pile of books (vaguely audible on the audience recording). They were doing autographs and I had to dash next door for a second copy of Thunderthief. I had only been passing by and walked in...

Seeing Waters and Mason at one concert and Gilmour and Wright at another was the cloesest I was getting to the classic line up.

Selling T shirts at a Bob Dylan gig. Telling all the anti-capitalist Bob fans that the reason he needed the merch sales was to support a huge cocaine habit (just to try and annoy them really). As far as I knew I told a big lie.. They nodded understandingly and smuggled their huge quantities of booze in. I watched the concert from stage right.

Uriah Heep at my local town hall were terrific.

And never forgetting the brilliant and versatile Rory Gallagher.

Jeff Beck gig at the Festival Hall. Page two seats down from me. Beck's drummer was fine. Then there was Meg White. To make things worse for her kitchen sink performance she was followed by Terry Bozzio and all the drums in the world. Well, he needed them!

The voice of Bruce Dickinson starting to sing moonchild at the monsters of rock in Italy, back in 1988. My first concert.

Marillion at July 18th 1987 at *that* famous gig at the Loreley amphitheatre ... that place has room for around 16.000 people but it was overcrowded and it was just awesome from start to beginning, the crowd exploding when La Gazza Ladra started

And Fish back in December 1991 in Munich in the Theaterfabrik ... basically the same experience as Baldfriede had with Peter Hammill ... superb show, superb encores, crowd gonna wild when the concert was over with no one leaving .. workers starting to dismantle the equipment. continuing, starting to look puzzled into the evercheering crowd, not sure what was happening ... until finally after a lot of time Fish came back just with whoever the guitar player was that night with an acoustic guitar and performed two more songs.

King Crimson Beat Tour with Fripp, Belew, Bruford and Levin.

Magnum - Redcar Coatham Bowl in the 80's, the famous turd in a glass incident. Halfway through the set the band stopped playing and said that someone had stolen a pedal off the stage. They refused to start again until it was returned. Needless to say it wasn't forthcoming. After about 10 minutes the crowd started to get restless and throw things. Plastic glasses of beer or warm yellow liquid seemed quite funny. But we suddenly decided we wanted to leave when a glass with a turd in it flew overhead. We headed for the exits.

ELP with the orchestra at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Incredible sound and a performance of perfection.