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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214. The Who, U2, Bruce and some other special events

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I actually made a list that I added to over time (that I think I lost in '99?) that had like 250 performers, 200+ shows.

• The Who - Forrest Hills
7/29 & 31/71 Who's Next Tour!
But the most haunting, and beautiful part was the full song that was sung -that had just been a compelling snippet at the end of The Song Is Over called "Pure and Easy" the lynchpin song of the then failed Lifehouse project. Finally appeared on Odds & Sods, and then included on the CD of WN.

• U2 - Giants Stadium 360 Tour
'09
Was there from 8AM till let in. I ran sooo fast and got up to the outer rail between Edge, and Bono. It would be as they walked the round walkway the closest I'd ever seen them since seeing them from '84 onward. And I loved The Claw, and the Screen. What amazing show!
[U2 was the reverse of every other of my most favorite bands - seen close up early on, farther away as they got more famous!]
(ZOO TV was also amazing - I was waaay up in the eagle's nest)

• Bruce & E Street - ?The Academy of Music '76
This was the first time me and my friends saw him/them and we were blown away!
So next night I got a scalpers tix, and ended up in the 5th Row! . Snuck my camera, too! 😄

Honorable Mentions!
Midnight Oil
The Patti Smith Group
The B-52'S
The Clash
Ike & Tina Turner

*Special Events
• I saw Midnight Oil first time - serendipitously!
As we had been walking into Central Park after the Great Anti-Nuclear Weapons March of ?82 The Oils were playing! "Read About It" was their radio hit, then.

• Special Memorial/Commemorative
Outdoor Concert at The UN
?early '90's
Peter Gabriel w Y'Sor N'Dour
(show was late bc YN'D got stuck in Customs at the airport)
They played "Shaking The Tree", of course. But my favorite was
"Freedom (No More Apartheid)" just echoing off the skyscrapers 2-3 blocks away!

One sort of Wonderful circumstance -
We saw U2 ZOO TV, and Springsteen both at Giants Stadium within 8 days of each other!
I don't remember which was first (and if I still had that list I would! lol, grrrr), but we drove out there, and both evenings were the beautiful Summer weather you can but Not always get in NYC/nearby NJ: low 80's, and dry! 🧡