I never got to see the Floyd but I did see Roger Waters do The Wall about 6 years ago and it was amazing. No Dave Gilmour unfortunately. Video technology enhanced the stage show, and the pig flew around inside the stadium.
I think the last live concert I saw was Patti Smith doing the Horses album straight through (a desert island disc), probably 4 years ago now. The most fun live performance was Billy Idol on a pier in Portland, Maine as part of an annual music festival. Ferries kept coming and going and Billy rocked on We just happened to be there, but my wife and I have talked about going for the month that the festival is on.

Another concert I went to back when I was in high school was Elton John with Kiki Dee. That was fun.

You know, I really don't know any of Patti Smith's music. I'll go check it out.

I never saw Elton John in concert but I did see him in a gift shop at Disneyland back in 1982. He was in there to dress up in garb from the Wild West and have photos taken. There were two other guys with him. No one was recognizing him, but my mother did right away, and told me to go into the gift shop so I could see Elton John. I walked right past him and smiled. I think he was afraid I was going to bother him, but I did not. Later on the clerk told me that he came to Disneyland quite often.

I saw Boz Scaggs and Steppenwolf in concert around 1969. Saw Gordon Lightfoot four times, and Sergio Mendes and brazil 66 once.

My ex-husband was at Altamont Speedway in 1969, that notorious concert with the Stones where things really got out of hand.

I did not get to that many big-name concerts, and never really enjoyed the large venues where you could only see the artist on a big screen, but saw early Fleetwood Mac in a small blues club (prompting this to recapture the mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaSPvJmeNpI), Joan Armatrading, Status Quo (as part of a mixed bill following the release of their first hit but I cannot remember who else was on it), Elvis Presley in Las Vegas in 1971 and in a revue bar in the same hotel (where I was working as a bus-boy on a student visa) Ike and Tina Turner who were quite something.

My earliest memory of seeing a live pop act would have been Cliff Richard and the Shadows in the pantomime Aladdin in London.

In more recent years, I much enjoyed seeing Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds when they appeared in UK and also one of my favourite (but hugely understated) artists Emily Barker And The Red Clay Halo. There was also a Stones concert mentioned earlier in this thread, and the Isle of White Festival featuring Bob Dylan too many decades ago...

I would have quite liked to see Tom Petty, although I only became a fan after one of my daughters gave me the album Full Moon Fever.

As to my top five albums, they would be

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo - Dear River
Dave Matthews Band - Crash (or perhaps one of their live albums)
Eric Clapton - Just One Night (although possibly supplanted by Joe Bonamassa - Live from The Beacon Theatre which features both Beth Hart and Paul Rodgers as guest vocalists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVCXGyHwWDE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vtt--3j33g)

As flotsam has pointed out, one of the criteria must be repeated playability, and there are many artists I would miss, probably especially female (Tift Merritt, Sally Spring, Gretchen Peters, and Alison Krauss to name but a few).

Hagatha, no reason to be shy about including favourite classical pieces - I just happen to be a philistine from that point of view despite my parents' best efforts!

This is the time of the year, I start working up the garlic harvest. It's been hanging upside down in the barn curing since harvest in July. I break up about 90% of it into cloves and then set about the task of peeling it all. I put into a small food processor with a little dry white wine and chop it all up and dehydrate for use all winter long. Yesterday I took my Riva portable speaker out to the garage with me and linked to my home media server where I have uploaded digital versions of all my old CDs. Picked out one I haven't listened to in 15 years and wow! Steely Dan's Everything Must Go. They loosened up the blues/funk/jazz on this one and I had to listen to it twice while I was working!

Tasty!

For those unfamiliar with it (like me - thanks for the suggestion), Drac's Steely Dan track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGgtfz5qaaU

Of course, Steely Dan would have to be on my list, and for sure something from Dire Straits, maybe Brothers in Arms. Throw in some Beethoven and Mozart and a soupcon of Bach, and...you can see the problem. I could never choose.

And from Everything Must go, there is Slang of Ages for funk, Green book, Pixeleen... one of those albums with nary a bad song on it!

You are so much like me, hagatha! I found an old mix tape I made some time ago and uploaded. It went from Waylon Jennings (I normally loathe country, but I love Waylon), Mr. Scruff, Don Henley, Bonnie Raitt, Daryl Hall, Jeff Beck, Marvin Gaye... toss in some Nelly and you see the problem!!!

Working on garlic again - today was Michael Franti's All Rebel Rockers!

You could certainly convince me to replace Exile with Sticky Fingers Lex.
I think you mentioned Emily Barker earlier on and I have been investigating her stuff. I only just found out she is one of ours
Hagatha, here is Patti's version of the Van Morrison song Gloria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPO0bTaWcFQ. Its off the Horses album.
I still make playlists like those old mix tapes. I have one called the 70s, which is the songs that were the background to my life in that decade. Not just things I played, but things that were on the radio and MTV and which you couldn't avoid. I limit it to a song per artists and its always a good listen. Plus I went from being 10 to being 20 in that period, so in terms of my own taste in music boy did that change!

Now I'm thinking that I would really like to include The Cowboy Junkies' live album 200 More Miles, but I am not sure what I would be prepared to give up to make room... (actually I have just discovered that they released a new album last year Marked in Dust consisting of live performances from 1989, also earlier this year a book with a CD of live performances Music is the Drug, so I will be considering getting one or both of those)

I recognise the talent of Patti Smith but have never really taken to her as a performer: however I rather like this more accessible cover which popped up when I followed flotsam's link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbiOqWstArk also this from her own canon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yGywwnNswA

She did an album of covers a while back, some interesting choices amongst them. Its called twelve.
Given the Stones were mentioned earlier, this is her take on Gimme Shelter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdBGIjJ77qg
I am off to check out those live albums Lex

More garlic... seemed like a ZZ Top kinda day!

Spotify threw a playlist at me today that had some goodies on it, but notably this singer, who I haven't listened to before (and apologies if she's been mentioned above somewhere):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBAFz880b_Y

I listened to a few of her tracks, and some of her music is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVrDxi_Cmg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq0qbbj2c50

Hagatha, I don't think I had heard her before: as you say, pretty good stuff.

Reminds me of early Imelda May, but may not have the same vocal range https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9EJvMm3nPg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhogVvwbwkw but also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKeTvB_HDGM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMKF4DHpDto (and quite cool as a guest vocalist with Ronnie Wood And His Wild Five's Chuck Berry tribute)

Flotsam, I had been exploring the album of covers you mention as a result of the above references. In terms of cover albums I strongly recommend Early 21st Century Blues from the Cowboy Junkies which I think was my first taste of them: there is also this cover of a Bowie song not familiar to me - Five Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyiZZOY00A and for good measure a Bowie performance of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bcnO3VQ_fc

...and Drac, I can certainly identify with a ZZ top kind of day (I have their first three albums)!

Hagatha, Elle King is Rob Schneiders daughter. They do a remarkable duet in his comedy special on Netflix.

Lex, about ten years ago I had a couple of Imelda May CD's. She's pretty versatile. I should go have a listen to her music again.

I am glad to have given a useful reminder - I have and enjoy her 2017 album Life Love Flesh Blood which showcases her versatility rather better than some of the earlier material I had heard: you might like to give that a listen.

Thanks for those links all.
The thread that keeps on giving

Since we seem to be on the subject of chanteuses, here's one of my favourites. This song reminds me of a long driving trip we did a few years ago, driving up in to the interior of BC. We listened to this album more than a a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjZPFBD6JU

And another one, nice a low-key.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4dxvguQDk

I have and enjoy her album of collaborations Featuring Norah Jones, but I am less keen on her as a solo artist (probably a bit too gentle for my philistine tastes ).

On a more positive note I have just acquired a great double CD album of early Fleetwood Mac Live at the BBC - 36 performances from the late 60s although issued in the late 90s: some of the usual material from that period but also some interesting other tracks.

And for some gentler blues I like to go back to an album by Keb' Mo' - Keep It Simple: this is one of the tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyrRChQ0d5M

I have Featuring Norah Jones on CD. Thanks for reminding me!

I googled and found this link; I assume it covers some of the BBC tracks you have Lex?
I wonder how many people never knew they ever sounded like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgBDLKGCEa4

The Peter Green version of Fleetwood Mac was awesome. I have a couple of CD's from that era.

This link takes you to the album on Amazon UK and you can see the full track listing on the reverse of the cover (pictured) https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/produ..._b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1- there is also a quite informative booklet about the early years of the band, mentioning the guitar and mimic abilities of other members of the band.

I think there was a shorter album of some of the material which is the track listing on your link.

There is also a pretty good Iive album of the band from that era, Boston Blues (available on a double CD) posted in full on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PARRhcnLwbk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nic6TbfBm_0

I have an impressive short album by Dannica Lowery - Mind Games (with guests including Larkin Poe): she may be new to some of you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ola4lp7x6JI