Short list of Best Live Music you ever heard

I use to climb in the gym with someone who is a dead head. One time I was leading and they started playing the dead on the gym music system, she completely spaced out. I get panic attacks now whenever I hear the Grateful Dead.

Yuja Wang earlier this year at the Hollywood Bowl playing Rhapsody in Blue. When she finished 10,000 people leaped to their feet.

Fat Dad, Yuja's performance was really sublime

No matter how serious you are, the business of big-time rock can push you into some bizarre scenes. On April 17, 1969, at Winterland in San Francisco The Band was to play their first concert since Big Pink had transformed them into perfect heroes. Several thousand underground music lovers surfaced to greet them, spicing high-pitched expectations with a gush of dazzling costumes - perhaps the last such display of color before old fatigue jackets and combat boots drabbed down the hip wardrobe. The crowd wanted magic.

But - no Band. Eleven p.m., 11:30. ...They were in a motel room with a hypnotist. Robbie, ill with stomach cramps and a 103-degree fever, was too weak to get out of bed. Promoter Bill Graham wanted to postpone the show but Band manager Albert Grossman refused. Desperately, Graham called in a hypnotist who persuaded Robbie that with concentration he could master the balky body.

They went on at midnight. At the first chord, the audience that had waited so long rose like a great respectful beast and stayed on its feet, faces raised in adoration, for the first song. But the edge was off. The people soon sat down, and after 35 minutes, the set ended to disappointed yells. The heroes were human, and the crowd resented that. The next night, they got it together and left an audience shrieking, jumping, ecstatic. One of the great moments in the history of rock and roil,' critic Greil Marcus called it in the San Francisco Good Times.