I realize tng's question is about our dream concert that we didn't see, but how can we help mentioning a real concert. (Probably another hubski discussion already exists on this topic.) I was at my dream concert: this concert. I still don't believe the line-up. Event: Toronto Rock and Roll Revival
Date: September 13, 1969
Location: Varsity Stadium
Attendance: 20,000
Concert Promoters: John Brower and Ken Walker
Concert duration: 13 hours featuring:
The Doors
Plastic Ono Band John Lennon, Yoko, Eric Clapton +
Bo Diddley
Chicago Transit Authority
Tony Joe White
Alice Cooper
Jerry-Lee Lewis
Chuck Berry
Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys
Gene Vincent
Junior Walker & The All-Stars
Little Richard
Doug Kershaw
Screaming Lord Sutch
Nucleus
Milkwood
Tony Joe White
Whiskey Howl http://beatles.ncf.ca/live_peace_in_toronto_p1.html And the most amazing thing was that I was wandering in Queen's Park - a big park behind the Parliament Buildings in Toronto - with two friends when a man asked us if we wanted tickets to a concert. He was giving them away.
"Sure," we said. We hadn't even heard it was happening.
Eight months later, the Beatles officially broke up.
A year and a half later, Jim Morrison would be dead.