When Kanye West performed his single "Hey Mama"(song all about his mom and their life together off one of his earlier albums) at this years past VMA's after his mom died.

 

Justin and Janet at the Super Bowl!

I’m with Jim on hearing Otis Redding for the first time – granted, I was already familiar with the song “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay”, so I guess I could better say, “The first time I heard Otis Redding’s ‘These Arms Of Mine’ “. I was 17, and I decided I wanted to explore soul music a little. I went to Phil’s Records and unwittingly asked one of the clerks, “What Otis Redding is good?” He looked at me and said, “Every [expletive] bit of it.” With that in mind, I decided to start at the beginning, so I bought a copy of his first album, Pain In My Heart. I was pretty dag-gone impressed from the very beginning, but when it got to “These Arms Of Mine” and I heard him moaningly sing the lead-in to the song, I was absolutely floored, and hooked on Otis for good.

 

Seeing Bob Dylan for the first time in 2001 at the Xavier Cintas Center. My seat was directly across the aisle from a grandfather, his son, and his granddaughter. I was awestruck when I looked over to see all three of them singing along to “Like A Rolling Stone” while the original artist was sitting in front of them singing the song. I spoke to them after the show and the grandfather said he saw Dylan live for the first time in ’63. Talk about a cool experience…

 

Seeing Bon Iver play at The Southgate House in Newport in 2008. He had just released his first album about a week prior to the show, and I’d never heard of him, but I went on a good word. I was talking to one of my buddies as they were setting up for the band, and I was stopped mid-sentence by the sound check. I was absolutely stunned by the sound. It was like I was listening to The Sirens sing. I completely walked away from the conversation and up to the stagefront, and stood there without really even moving until the show ended.

 

Seeing The Flaming Lips. I was RIGHT up front at the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion in Columbus. There were several songs – “Do You Realize??” in particular – that almost brought me to tears. Crazy show, amazing time. (I even got to help hold Wayne up in the giant hamster ball!)

From a concert standpoint seeing the diversity of the crowd at the Bob Seger concert in 1986 was fun. All ages. All races. All types. Bikers/students/accountants/grandparents/teenagers. It's the most diverse crowd at a concert that I've attended.

 

Prince in 1985 was cool.

I’m with Jim on hearing Otis Redding for the first time – granted, I was already familiar with the song “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay”, so I guess I could better say, “The first time I heard Otis Redding’s ‘These Arms Of Mine’ “. I was 17, and I decided I wanted to explore soul music a little. I went to Phil’s Records and unwittingly asked one of the clerks, “What Otis Redding is good?” He looked at me and said, “Every [expletive] bit of it.” With that in mind, I decided to start at the beginning, so I bought a copy of his first album, Pain In My Heart. I was pretty dag-gone impressed from the very beginning, but when it got to “These Arms Of Mine” and I heard him moaningly sing the lead-in to the song, I was absolutely floored, and hooked on Otis for good.

 

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Otis is in the discussion for greatest soul singer of all time.

 

"These Arms of Mine" is a great soul song.

 

If you're ever near Memphis take the Stax Records tour.

From a concert standpoint seeing the diversity of the crowd at the Bob Seger concert in 1986 was fun. All ages. All races. All types. Bikers/students/accountants/grandparents/teenagers. It's the most diverse crowd at a concert that I've attended.

 

Prince in 1985 was cool.

 

Believe it or not, that sounds just like the crowds I saw at every Grateful Dead concert I went to.

The Eagles getting back together in '94 & leading off with Hotel California.

The crunching intro followed by Robert Plant's primal wail on "Immigrant Song..

 

Well, at least they got a mention on the list. :ylsuper:

 

That caught my eye, as well!

If you're ever near Memphis take the Stax Records tour.

 

That's what I hear. A good friend of mine did that last summer and said it was pretty killer. I'm gonna see if I can't make it down there for a long weekend this summer.