Midnight Oil - Buenos Aires, ARG
Edie Brickell - Punta del Este, URU
The Cult - also Buenos Aires, River Plate stadium
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Buddy Rich at a local music store. If you locate the middle of nowhere and go another hour, you’re getting closer.
Wynton Marsalis - Summerfest Grounds, Milwaukee Wi.
Rush - Mecca Auditorium, Milwaukee Wi
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My wife and I saw Buddy Rich in Neenah, Wisconsin in late 1970’s. Being a drummer, I enjoyed it. My wife hated it.
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I’ve a ticket for a a Wynton concert in London, for last year, which due to covid-19 didn’t happen. Now waiting for new tour dates 
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I would have loved to have seen Rush live.
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The Yardbirds, Alexandria VA, 1965
The Beach Boys, Washington DC, 1966
The Doors, Washington DC, 1967
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three crackers there!
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Al Hirt and Pete Fountain
One of those caravan of stars shows feat. Tommy James and the Shondells, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Keith, and Lee Dorsey (if I recall correctly on those last two) and probably some others (Question Mark and the Mysterians maybe?).
A little fuzzy on the third, but may have been Humble Pie.
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Hopefully they are honored soon.
Have an excellent show when you see him!
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As 14 or 15 year old, I needed to work during my school vacations to buy me the tickets.
The first concerts I attended:
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour 1988
Bon Jovi - New Jersey Syndicate Tour 1988
Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years Tour 1989
I guess if the first ever show one witnesses is Pink Floyd, it get‘s really tough afterwards.
My busiest concert time were the years when I lived in the US, near New York, unbelievable selction of great events and shows ever week.
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Where was your Pink Floyd concert? I was at the Wembley one matey.
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Basel, Switzerland - my homebase. July 1988
I was 14 then and needed a week to process everything I had just witnessed.
I also recall people backing away from the PA during Signs of Life.
There was no such thing as a 100db limit for shows back then as we have it today.
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I was at the docklands one about the same time (pink floyd). I just checked 1989. Return bus ride from Stafford.
Genesis a couple of years later at round hay park in Leeds.
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- Bachman-Turner Overdrive / Blue Oyster Cult / Bob Seger Dec 1974
- Chicago / Beach Boys June 1975
- America / Pure Prarie League Aug 1975
But, that would just warming up to 1976 with Wings over Ameria tour, Elton John’s “Louder than the Concorde” tour, The Who, Deep Purple, and Aerosmith shows. Led Zep for three nights in '77, still have the tour shirt.
Edit, so as an example of how times have changed, I was 13 and 14 for the above shows which I went to by myself. That would not fly today I imagine.
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Blimey must have been an amazing couple of years! Good times.
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Lollapalooza 92
…a blur of shows after that
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Festivals account for a lot of the sets I’ve seen.
Being able to walk from stage to stage or in the case of summer fest amongst the 11 stages, I have seen a lot of good and a few bad acts.
Blur is pretty apt.
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Pink Floyd Feb 69
Van der Graaf Generator Mar 69
Country Joe and the Fish Mar 69
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Three Dog Night (I was young) Hartford 1968
Rolling Stones Hartford 1969
Led Zeppelin New Haven 1970
In 1969, I had a choice of the Newport Jazz Festival or some unknown festival in upstate New York. Guess where I went.
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