First, last, and best concerts you have attended.

[AJinJacksonville]

First: Metallica...Black Album Tour. No opening act. The show started off on a large screen above the stage...all black. Then James Hetfield pulls back a shotgun (barrel had been over the camera lens). At least three hours of non-stop old school Metallica. I was 16 at the time and it was a game changer.

Last: Train with Goo Goo Dolls. Went with my wife...good show. Little more low-key.

Best: Foo Fighters with Weezer in Tampa back in early 2000's. Both bands played great shows...covered each other's songs...genuinely seemed like they were all revved up to be on stage. Can't say that for Weezer as of late with their hour and a half shows.

(Worst: sadly, I saw Aerosmith in the mid-90's and Tyler was half-cocked through the whole show and the band sounded terrible. I still love their music though.)

 

[AJinJacksonville]

First: Molly Hatchet
Last: Aussie Pink Floyd
Best: Here Come the Mummies

I have missed Here Come the Mummies twice now up here in NE Florida. I believe they're back on tour later this year...not going to miss it this time!

 

[passedpawn]

I have missed Here Come the Mummies twice now up here in NE Florida. I believe they're back on tour later this year...not going to miss it this time!

They are doing a outdoor concert on Halloween this year, in St Pete.

 

[MaxStout]

First: Three Dog Night, 1972
Best: The Who, 1982. (first of their many "final tours") Got backstage to meet the band. Pete Townsend was blowing through one spliff after another and wasted AF. Roger Daltrey was very personable.
Most recent: Earlier this month, one of those oldies tours of a bunch of '60s bands with one or two original members in each. It was a fun show, though.

 

[kevink]

First: Joe Satriani, sometime in the early 90s.
Last: Phish, Camden, NJ 6/29/2019.
Best: Phish, Big Cypress, FL 12/30-31/1999. Best by far. Anyone who went would say the same.

 

[soccerdad]

Moe is amazing. I've only seen them at festivals, so the sets are short, but they are great.

Best: Every moe. show I've been to (over 100 times I've lost count). They continue to melt my face off every time!

 

[soccerdad]

First was either Paul Butterfield Blues Band or BB King .. it was so long ago the chronology is uncertain. Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop were both in Butterfield's band at the time.
Last was a festival performance by Railroad Earth to wrap up Delfest 2019
Best is too close to call .. saw the Allman's and a configuration of the Dead (Further) at Wanee Fest 2015 .. saw the Dead in college with the New Riders of the Purple Sage at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago (what a venue !) .. saw Amos Lee perform with The Atlanta Symphony at Symphony Hall a couple of years ago .. Paul Simon's Rhythm of the Saints Tour in Cleveland probably 25 years ago now.

 

[soccerdad]

Last was tonight. Mark Knopfler with a ten piece band in Atlanta.
Supremely, unbelievably, amazingly good.

 

[Bigdaddyale]

1st? Maybe Led Zep in 77
Last?
Best: 1976 Walnut High School Amphitheater, Walnut California Lunch Time Concerts- Band: Van Halen. Line up DLR vocals, AVH drums, EVH guitar and some tall dude that wasn't Michael Anthony on bass. No new music but played a lot of Led Zep. Eddies guitar kept shorting out and he had his back turned to the crowd most of the time. VH was a well known local band and this gig was one of the last ones they did before they got signed. They signed a contract with the school to play lunch and the school dance later in the week- they never made it to the school dance.

 

[cyto]

First was Yes in 1976, the last was The Brian Setzer Orchestra last November (his annual Christmas tour).

The best was Pink Floyd in 1977 on the Animals tour.

 

[user 30639]

First, at least that I can remember. They Might Be Giants in probably 1992. The last was a album release show for Paul Cauthen a week ago.

Best...that's a tough call. Maybe Tom Petty a couple years ago. But I might just be saying that because it was a last minute decision to drive to Houston for the show. And he was dead a couple months later. Pat Green doing an acoustic show at a dive bar was pretty great. The first time I saw the Dirty River Boys and they just came out and went balls to the wall for 2.5 hours. I can't pick one.

 

[tellyho]

First: Billy Joel
Last: some bluegrass band
Best: Tony Furtado

 

[azdavid]

1st: REO Speedwagon 1974

Last: Joe Cocker 2008

Best: Pink Floyd - 1988

 

[mullet6577]

Maybe Tom Petty a couple years ago. But I might just be saying that because it was a last minute decision to drive to Houston for the show. And he was dead a couple months later.

I saw the Grateful Dead at the Pyramid in Memphis a few months before Garcia died

https://archive.org/details/gd95-04-01.sbd.5287.sbeok.shnf

That venue is now a Bass Pro Shop

 

[DromJohn]

First with parents in 1964: Peter, Paul and Mary in the later multiple murder site for NCIS, Rock Creek Park, DC.
First without parent: Yes, Close to the Edge Tour (with an opening act we didn't know: The Eagles), Columbia, MD 1972.
Latest: Simone Dinnerstein and Matt Haimowitz, May 2019, Sandy Springs, GA after being cancelled for snow on Super Bowl Tuesday when it didn't snow.
Best: Wayne Shorter, opening act Toots Thielemans, in Savannah 2004.

 

[Beer-lord]

First concert was Grand Funk Railroad in 1973 and the last (I really can't remember) was Rush's Farewell tour. Tickets too damn high for me to go see the bands I want to!
Not asked but I've seen lots of bands over the years, the biggest names of the 70's, 80's, and 90's and I may be old but I feel lucky to have been young during the best music years (my personal opinion of course).