Concerts (First, Favorite, Fail, and Future)

[Belacqua]

Hello, all.

I just spent (or maybe wasted) an hour or two of my evening watching YouTube clips of favorite bands from my past. If you're breathing, you probably love music. I'd love to see the community's responses about their concert experiences that fit the title of this thread. I'll strum the first chord...

• First concert: Metallica (opened for Ozzy Osbourne in 1986)
  
• Favorite concert: The Struts (best rock n' roll band you've never heard of)
  
• Fail: Red Hot Chili Peppers (I left the venue before they took the stage in 1987 because I hadn't really heard of them)
  
• Future: John Mellencamp (seems doubtful considering his age, but I can hope)
  

~jamie

First: Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat, performed by the music faculty of the University of Kansas. Even though the concert was just for the college crowd, they made a huge effort. 

Favorite: Now that I think about it, probably the first one, as above. I was a senior in high school but had run away from home to stay with a girl music student at KU, and since I came from a tiny town with no music at all it made a big impression. I still love the music. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrPO-1WCgQ

Fail: Handel's Messiah at a church in midtown Manhattan. I didn't know you could make a Gothic-style church with such terrible acoustics. Even up front the singers sounded a hundred miles away. 

Fail #2: Phillip Glass's Akhnaten at Lincoln Center. Boring.

Sort of fail: Laurie Anderson, also at Lincoln Center. She just told stories and didn't play music, but by chance I sat next to John Cage and Merce Cunningham so I was excited about that. 

Future: Next month a former student is giving a piano recital, so I'll go to that -- mostly for moral support.