What was the best concert (or two) you've ever been to and one that you wished you had been to?

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18. The best was Sting on the Dream of the Blue Turtles tour.

Relatively small theater venue. Great backing band. He was a little sick and struggling but he poured his heart into it.

The one I am sad I missed is strangely the J Geils band. I had tickets to see them in 1981. It was in a small venue and then Freeze Frame hit and they blew up. They ended up canceling the show. I don't regret missing them. I regret missing the concert because the opening band was U2 on the October tour. Just before the cancelation they had an article in the paper about them as an up and coming band. I was looking forward to seeing them. Man would that have been awesome to discover U2 years ahead of the crowd. I didn't really hear them again until my Freshman year of college in 1984 when "Bad" was practically the soundtrack of my dorm.

I saw U2 on the Joshua Tree tour in 87 later and it was right up there with the Sting concert as my favorite of all time. It was a full on stadium concert so a completely different experience but they were great. One of my favorite parts of that concert was how we got tickets. Those were the days when you had to buy physical tickets but you could buy them from any ticket outlet that sold them. We did our research and found out that there was a ticket outlet in a florist in the middle of Little Havana. We threw a party, stayed up all night and went to the florist at the crack of dawn while all those other suckers waited for days at the mall. On the field of the Orange Bowl baby.

On second thought, that was my favorite concert.