Look, I played Handel’s Messiah over 200 times. I know classical music, I’ve played everything from Rhapsody in Blue, Fugue in G minor, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and you name it. I’ve played them all
I also heard Charlie Daniels trying out The Devil Went Down To Georgia 6 months before He released it to see if the crowd would like it
Still, I enjoyed Robert Plant playing old Zeppelin tunes and Brad Paisley playing his greatest hits as much as anything. Rock N Roll, Trampled Under Foot, So Much Cooler Online, I’m Gonna Miss her were as much fun to listen to as anything.
Everyone likes their own style of music. I’m interested in what you guys like also.
Delusions of Adequacy 
I’m definitely moved by the aria from Mme Butterfly (Un Bel Di) and get charged by the right guy doin “Largo al factotum della citta” from Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Still get a chill up my spine from “Spring” in Carmina Burana. Love Mozart, too, ‘specially “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.” Wagner, Vivaldi, Chopin . . . ver-r-r-y RE-laxin, n’est ce-pas? Brings the BP down as much as pettin a golden retriever.
As I usedta tell my students, you don’t hafta like ALL classical music to appreciate the genre, but if you aren’t moved by some of it, your soul is dead.
Prob’ly the most satisfying “concert” I ever attended was in a natural tree-lined hollow near a wide creek in central Indiana back around ’88 or so . . . coupla boxes of fried chicken, several bottles of cheap wine, no chairs — just blankets — and a buncha good ol’ boys in denim and Ts armed with banjos, acoustic guitars, fiddles, a dulcimer or two, coupla harmonicas, and one lady with a cello who could do Charlie Daniels and even “Orange Blossom Special” on it. Kinda weird, but she made it work.
Great night. Started around sundown (late summer) and finished around midnight when the guys got tired of doin repeats of “Cotton-Eyed Joe,” “Cripple Creek,” various stuff from Alabama such as “Play Me Some Mountain Music” and “Song of the South.”
Lotta weed got used, and somebody was gonna hafta pick up a lotta beer and wine bottles the next day, but nobody got seriously drunk, no fights, and no gunshots (although I wouldn’a been surprised, considering who was there . . . ’bout a hundred local rednecks, many of whom I actually knew or were cousins of mine).
Most memorable genuine concert I ever attended was around ’65 or so at the Cow Palace in SanFran, Dave Clark Five and another group I don’t remember the name of. Never went to another one while I was on active duty ‘cuz you could get stoned from all the weed and hash in the air. Feared I’d pop positive on a golden flow and ruin my retirement.
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Pink Floyd at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ 1975. The weed was free, all you had to do was inhale.
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1969. Van Cliburn, school trip when we were leaving Canned Heat was playing the next day and I remember asking the teacher if we could come back tomorrow.
1973. Elton John
1974 Robin Trower
1976. The Who
1981 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
1984. I missed Billy Idol. I knew the guy running security and he invited me in but when I showed up at the back door his staff said he was in jail with the leader of the Hells Angels.
1994. Rolling Stones Voodoo lounge tour
2000. AC/DC flaming cannons and all.
2015. Savoy Brown, and Uriah Heep
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I was 12 years old,me babysitters for the weekend took me to Jethro Tull in 1975,was the Warchild-Minstrel tour.People dressed up as animals,bombs going off on stage ,excellent music,what was not to love?!
Saw em over 40 times thru the rest of 70’s and have seen the band in different incarnations thru the decades over a 100 times literally.
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