I saw tons of shows back in the 70’s and 80’s. Living in the NYC area made it easy. My personal favorite of all time was The Eagles at Giants Stadium, June 1980. A couple of close 2nd’s would be AC/DC at MSG in 79’ and The Who at JFK in Philadelphia in 82’.

Late 70s early 80s also. Them days they Called it Chicago Fest, or Honkie fest not Taste Of Chicago as know in years before 2020. One price maybe $20.00 live concerts all day long. I remember 38 Special, and Eddie Money the most. There were lots of young women in Daisy Duke shorts reasonable priced food, and no trouble. One Ted Nugent concert at the then Chicago Stadium, the person right behind me had the worst concert memory.

I remember attending a Billy Joel concert around 1976-77 that was held in a small gymnasium. Probably a few hundred people there at the most...

Lynyrd Skynyrd performing in the gym at Georgo Southern U at their next to last

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... was so loud it made my teeth hurt.

Clutch. Nuff said.

Weird Al is always a great show, anywhere. He puts 110% into every performance.

Specific show... Primus at Red Rocks. Played a full set, then payed another full set that was the album Sailing the Seas of Cheese in its entirety. F-n awesome!

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I took 2 sisters to a Richard Pryer concert, early '70's, (just one was GF). So, there was us, & about 10,000 black dudes/dudettes all around us. I never laughed so hard in my life! The girls started elbowing me, I looked at them, they were looking all around. I looked & about ½ the audience was glareing at me. I threw up my hands & said: This dude is GOOD! He is FUNNY! & went back to the show. We made it out OK. Was in San Diego.

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I saw a Pryor show in ‘78 or ‘79 in Seattle. He did the “heart attack” routine in that one. I think there were more white cats coming to his shows by then, I never felt any bad vibes from black dudes. I foolishly owned a cab for about a year and a half, '76 and '77, sold it to the guy who got me started in the biz. We had been housemates, we had a roommate at one point who had all of Pryor’s albums. The whole house became big fans. That guy was making good money with the cab and bought 12 tickets in the sixth row, found 10 friends to go with him, and gave one away at the door.

When Pryor came out, he put his hand above his eyes to block the spotlight, scanned the audience and said “White people!” The rows immediately behind us were black dudes, and I never got a bad vibe or look.

But I think my favorite show was sometime around ‘81 when Steve Goodman warmed up for his old pal John Prine at the Paramount. Goodman was largely responsible for Prine getting his big break. He invited Kris Kristofferson to come see him at a small club in Chicago, Kris was gobsmacked. At the end of the show, Goodman came out and he and Prine did three or four songs together. Goodman finally succumbed to leukemia in ‘84. I had not known about his illness. The way I heard the story, he was diagnosed at age 18 and given two years to live. He misunderstood them, he thought they said 20.

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Pryor was supposed to play Bart in Blazing Saddles but the insurance companies would not insure his health for the three or four months it would take to shoot. Pryor is credited as one of the writers. Mel Brooks said he wrote all the lines for the white guys. So when you are seeing Mr. Taggart you are hearing the words of Pryor.

Mel Brooks tried to get John Wayne to play the Waco Kid but Wayne said it would be bad for his screen image. Wayne did think it would become a western classic.

Maybe with deep fake tech someone will go back and recut this film with these actors in the roles.

Chicago in 1975 at the Indiana state fairgrounds on the straightaway of the mile dirt track. Second for me was 1966 at same place but inside at the colosseum.... Bobby Hebb, Yardbirds, Gary Lewis and the Play boys and Sam the Sham and the pharohs. Aooooooo!

Here in Lafayette did a few at the music hall.....one was Joni Mitchell with an unannounced cameo by Neil Young. Also saw Harry Chapin.

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I remember Ted Nugent. He used to live in Schaumburg and was an ass.

We used to go to concerts at the Aragon Ball Room and also at Roosevelt University downtown. There was something every Friday and Saturday night. Sometimes there was something Grant Park at the band shell.

The Who played at Roosevelt when Tommy was out. I remember the girl I met more than the concert - but liked both.

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At the Aragon, I saw Rush a few times, Springsteen, Styx, and a few others. General admission there made it interesting.

Yes at Madison Square Garden in '78.

I am of a different era from a lot of you lots of really good tech death metal shows come to mind. But my favorite, most memorable by far, totally out of norm, Lionel Ritchie in Camden NJ. My friends and I were given free tickets. Middle of the summer and had severe storms that night. They paused the concert in between acts, but resumed shortly after. There was spider lightning all across the sky all night and it was absolutely spectacular. Maybe not the safest, but wow, what an experience.

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