re: Best music venue you've been to

I haven't been to many outside of the large auditorium (Like the old BR Centreplex, Cajundome, or the PMAC) or stadium venues. The two exceptions are the LSU Student Union Theater, where I saw Dire Straits in 1980, and the Lafayette Municipal Auditorium, where I saw AL Di Meola, Paco de Lucía, and John McLaughlin play together in the early 80s and the Black Crows with Government Mule sometime in the 90s.

Both had great acoustics, particularly relative to the other places, I think the Municipal was a bit better but that Dire Straits concert may have been my all-time favorite concert. Small venues seem so much more immersive.

Of course, I have also been to a lot of live music venues indoors and out watching local and small time bands and I saw Zebra at the Grant Street Dance Hall, which was a ton of fun.