Favorite concert/concert memory

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60. A bunch, but two at the old Fillmore East and one at the World's Fair site

1) Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsys, NYE 1969 - we all know about this show

2) Jethro Tull, May 1970. Ian Anderson opened the show with an acoustic guitar, sitting on a stool on an otherwise empty stage. He began by telling us that he and the lads got into a bit of a row and they decided to pack up and leave. He said he would carry on without them. We really didn't know what to think. "My God" was the opening tune. On the part when the band comes in all of a sudden the curtains open, up the stage lights go on, he kicks away the stool and all hell breaks loose with the full band. The best opening ever!

3) Led Zeppelin, New York State pavilion at Flushing Meadows Park (the old World's Fair site), summer of '69. Part of a Blues and Jazz show, Zep were the headliners, the last band up. Relatively unknown at that point to the masses that came later, it was a mind-blower! Saw them many times later at the Garden, but nothing compared to the night in the park.