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Talking Heads 1983 Blossom Music Center. The show they made the movie of, one of my all time favorites.
The Neville Brothers/Dirty Dozen Brass Band Tipitina's 1980s. This one should be on my top ten list for sure. I always loved them, and they were amazing. Another show I didn't realize was happening in advance. Super hot on a steaming New Orleans night, well into the wee hours.
Various 80s/90s shows:
Robert Palmer x2 at Nautica, and the Odeon. Great showman and singer. Dony Wynn, drummer extraordinaire kept time with great precision no matter who else was in the band.
Bob Dylan/Del Amitri Nautica (I got into Del Amitri later, and only realized that I'd seen them live in retrospect).
Santana at Nautica, Lindsey Buckingham at Peabody's Down Under (in a bar!), The Subdudes Peabody's Down Under, James Brown/Wilson Pickett at The Front Row (they were both fabulous). Peter Tosh Front Row, Bruce Cockburn, Joe Jackson/Todd Rundgren, Moody Blues, Melissa Etheridge x2 Nautica (quite the entertainer, she really rocked).
David Bowie The Coliseum, Michael Jackson The Coliseum, The Grateful Dead The Coliseum (they were terrible), Bob Dylan The Colliseum (The Budokon show, and I liked it a lot), Bob Dylan Akron Civic during his Christian phase, and he and the band were very good.
Dwight Yoakam Blossom Music Center. k. d lang Music Hall, and again later at Cain Park.
Don Dixon and Marti Jones at least five times at Beachland, Music Box, The Empire (funky room, great show, a top ten entry). They were always excellent, especially when they had Jaime Hoover and Jim Brock with them.
Glass Harp reunion Akron Civic Theatre 1997.
Marsha Ball, Erma Thomas, Tracy Nelson 1999 on the Sing It! tour. They were wonderful. To get to see Tracey do Down So Low live took my breath away.
Lucinda Williams x2 The Odeon 2001, Nautica 2004? Smoking hot both times.
Marti Jones/Amy Rigby as The Cynical Girls Beachland Ballroom, Cheryl Wheeler Beachland, Matthew Sweet Beachland, Marshall Crenshaw Beachland, Marsha Ball Beachland, The Proclaimers Beachland, Nick Lowe solo show Beachland.
Wilco/John Doe 2008 Lakewood Civic Auditorium. One of the loudest shows I ever heard. Fortunately I had hearing protection, but when the opener is super loud, you know you're in trouble. Wilco was great even if unnecessarily loud.
John Hiatt The Empire, rocking out with a full band. John Hiatt, Lyle Lovett, Guy Clark, Joe Ely 2007 State Theatre, John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett 2011 Akron Civic. Those last two were songwriter acoustic shows.
Fiona Apple Cain Park 2012. Oliver Mtukudzi, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. Pink Flamingo State Theatre.
Jazz category:
Ahmad Jamal x2 Purple Onion Toronto 1990, Jazz Alley Seattle 2006. One of my very favorite jazz artists.
Bill Frisell Jenny Scheinman, Greg Leisz 2007 Winchester. Wow. I'm so glad I got to see them in a small bar with an appreciative audience.
Pete Fountain Pete Fountain's Club 1980s, Allen Toussaint/Preservation Hall Jazz Band Music Box 2014, Preservation Hall Jazz Band Severance Hall 2000s, Diana Krall State Theatre 2012, Monty Alexander Nighttown 2010s.
The Cleveland Orchestra, Severance Hall 1995-2025, I've seen the orchestra at least 60 times. I subscribed to 4-6 concerts a year for at least ten years. Around my birthday in February each year they would have "stretch" concerts featuring new or neglected works, and things that were generally challenging. Some were good, others were pretty bad, but the good ones opened my ears to new and unique experiences. But I love Mozart, too. My most memorable series was seeing Mitsuko Uchida play and conduct Mozart piano concertos during the early-mid 2000s. Then the series was repeated from 2008-2015 and recorded for Decca. We saw the shows that were recorded, and of course I bought the CDs as they came out. Uchida's Mozart is beautiful, and her style suits the fluidity of the Cleveland Orchestra perfectly.
I know I have forgotten a lot. See also Live Shows Part 1 1966-1980.
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