What band hits your sweet spot? Time? Place?? No lists..

Persia
Resurrection of Our Lord Cafeteria (NOEast)
1980/1981
Heard Hustling in Hollywood for 1st

FWIW I was 10 and it was my 1st “concert” and went with friends

My first concert ever that started it all.

RATT, Britney Fox, KIX, Hirsch Memorial Coliseum, Shreveport in 1989. It was insane & I haven't looked back since.

NRBQ. 1988. Memphis at the New Daisy Theater. They even played their notorious cover of "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald".

It's a list but, with detail...

Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Darker times in my life, going to and from bars with very little ambitions other than getting drunk and playing pool. Dabbled with drugs during this time, always stuck to drugs from the earth (except for a few times).

Kanye - Graduation
Beginning of my career, with a new degree in hand. I listened to this album every morning driving to work, at the front lines knowing I would move up. "Did you realize that you are a champion..."

Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
Lost my virginity during the time I first listened to this album. Songs like the Twist and Fast Blood I would listen to while driving back from her townhouse.

Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Listening to Weight of Lies knowing I must face whatever in me needed to be conquered, leaving my station, so that I must move forward in life.

Beirut - The Rip Tide
"This is the house where I...I feel alone now..."
Got married to a woman that I didn't love, and we were at the beginnings of a divorce.

Sia - This is Acting
Broken Glass and Bird Set Free were on repeat for a little while until the divorce was settled.

Kris Kristopherson - The Silver Tounged Devil and I
Lots of time and songs in between this one and the rest, but Loving Her Was Easier is one I looped as I met my now wife, who was with me in the worst of times, and now the best times in my life.


Man, what would I do without music

Widespread Panic 7/28/2001

1: Postcard > Ophelia (The Band)> Coconuts > La > Impossible > Mercy > Worry, Dear Mr. Fantasy (Traffic) > Imitation Leather Shoes

2: Casa Del Grillo, Surprise Valley > Down on the Farm (Little Feat), Holden Oversoul > All Time Low > Arleen > Drums > Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd) Jam > All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan) > Fishwater

E: Down, Ain’t Life Grand

Peter Gabriel - Secret World Tour
Houston Summit - July 1993

U2 Joshua Tree Tour
1987-11-26: Assembly Center, Lousiana State University - Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

At 13 years old, this was my first concert and the first band to get me addicted to music. I got to take both my teenage children to the superdome to see the 30-year anniversary of this album. That was such a cool experience.

I know U2 gets a bad rap from some people on this board, but the Joshua Tree will be remembered as one of the best albums of all time many years from now.

44 years ago tonight, Queen Oct. 31,1978 New Orleans Municipal Auditorium. Awesome show, Freddy was just so good.

Probably Ozzy Osbourne July 4th 1989. Vixen and White Lion opened. Right up there with Ozzy would be Mötley Crüe June 28th of 1990. Johnny Crash and Tesla with that one. Both shows at the Cayuga County Speedway in Weedsport, NY. It amazes me that they're both still going. Vince is a shadow of his former self but the latest Ozzy record is as good as anything he's released over the years.