Right I may as well do these all in one go, otherwise I'll be here all day.
Pink Floyd - 75 Hammersmith Odeon, my first big gig, amazing.
Knebworth 78 - Genesis were good, but I thought Devo were brilliant
Knebworth 79 - Led Zepplin,200,000 people what more can I say,
Reading 79 - Motorhead and the Police, but Cheap Trick did it for me. Thin Lizzy were no shows.
Knebworth 80 - Went to see Mike Oldfield, but the Beach Boys blew everyone away. Pissed with rain all day.
Rick Wakeman 80 Hammersmith Odeon
Reading 80 - Rory Gallagher UFO and Iron Maiden. One of the best weekends I have ever had. Ozzy was a no show, and Slade filled in for Gary Moore. All for £12.50 for the weekend inc camping.
Orange Juice 80 Hammersmith Palais. only had enough money for one drink, but it didn't matter Edwin collins' voice was amazing.
Reading 83- Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath(with Gillan not Ozzy) and the Stranglers
Knebworth 85 -deep Purple, but everyone will remember the rain, oh the rain
Queen Wembley Stadium 86. Flew back from holiday, dumped the bags in the flat and got the bus to Wembley. Freddie put on an amazing show.
Genesis Wembley Stadium 87. Brilliant as always, but Knebworth 78 was better.
Rush - Wembley arena
Knebworth 90 - Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Genesis,Page and Plant, all on one day, fanbloodytastic. NO RAIN.
Roger Waters -The Wall, Rome 2013. Has to be the best stage show I have ever seen, set to the best soundtrack you've ever heard.
That all the really good ones I can remember.
One that I'd like to forget - Knebworth 2012 Red Hot Chilles - RUBBISH, they just turned up, played and left. no atmosphere at all.
One I wish I gone to but didn't. Knebworth 78 - Zappa, The Tubes and Gabriel
Jealous of pretty much everything in that list. Never got to see Zeppelin, but managed to see both Jimmy Page's and Robert Plant's first solo tours. Page had a young Jason Bonham (John's son) on drums, and he did a passable rendition of Bonzo's Montreux, as a tribute to his dad, much to the delight of the audience. Also saw Page's [then] new band, The Firm's, first tour, with Paul Rodgers (late of Free and Bad Company) on vocals. It had its moments.
I'm Gabriel-era Genesis fan, and after Steve Hackett left in 1977, I kinda lost interest - but do have a bootleg of their Knebworth 1980 gig, which is rather good.
My favourite concert, ever, was the Water-less Floyd (never saw them with him, either) gig at Maine Road (Man City's old ground) on
8th August 1988 - The Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. If memory serves, they played for the best part of 3 hours and 20 minutes, with only a 10 minute *** break halfway through. Here's a clip from it - not the best video, and not taken by me, but the concert was incredible and included whole chunks of Darkside of the Moon, The Wall, the [then] new album, Wish You Were Here and others Top knotch stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSQ4R6kjriY
Wasn't really a heardcore fan, but my then girlfriend bought two tickets to go and see David Bowie's Glass Spider tour, in 1987. Seems a bit dated now, thoroughly enjoyed it, though. Check out the setlist on this puppy - the whole concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npmD75Hfbu8
Saw the first three Marillion tours (at least the first three from Script for a Jester's Tear) with Fish.
As favour to mate, as she had a spare ticket, I got to see Meatloaf at the Birmingham NEC in, I think, 1980 - his 2nd album, but did pretty much everything off the first, classic, album.
Saw Sting on his initial solo tour - Dream of the Blue Turtles - also at the NEC. Played the whole album, plus a selected number of Police hits. His touring band for this gig was stellar.
Saw Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - alas, not with Ronnie James Dio - but with their post-Graham Bonnet replacement, Joe Lynn Turner (meh). Got to see the two Deep Purple stalwarts, Blackmore and Roger Glover, if nothing else. It was my first live concert.
I also went, under sufferance, or rather as a favour to another mate, whose stag night it was, to go and see The Rolling Stones on their Steel Wheels tour (1990) - a lot better than I'd given it credit for. They trotted-out all the hits and were pretty much note prefect.
Went to see Yes in 2004 - with the 'classic line-up' of Anderson, Wakeman, Squire, Howe and White - at the Manchester MEN. Fond wander down memory lane and a bit of a greatest hits affair, but none the less enjoyable for that.
Managed to get 'day tickets' (where you get up at some ungodly hour and then go and loiter at the box office until it opens) to see Bizet's opera, Carmen, at the Sydney Opera House, when I lived in Australia in the early 90s. Simply incredible show. Up in the nosebleed seats, but it didn't diminish the enjoyment.
Whilst I, along with 20 million other applicants, was unsuccessful in managing to attain tickets for the Led Zeppelin reunion in 2007, at the O2 in London, I was lucky enough to get tickets to the world premier of film of the gig (Celebration Day), at the Hammersmith Apollo - Friday, 12th October 2012. All three remaining members of the band opened the film with a Q&A, which was value for money. Took my 20 year old nephew, as I was inculcating in him the requirement for the proper appreciation of decent music. Thankfully he's now a solid convert, so my time and effort weren't wasted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y
