To show you how out of it I am, I had no idea who G3 was until you supplied two of the names. So, it's Malmsteen, Steve Vai and who? Satriani? Lots of crowd-pleasing sing-alongs in that show, I bet.
All right, better direction for discussion:
What's the absolute BEST concert you've EVER been to?
For me, it was definitely U2, Joshua Tree tour, 1987 at Carver Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. It's all been downhill since.
I'd have to call it a tie between two concerts I saw 15 years (?) apart.
The band was the same though......Pink Floyd.
What's the absolute BEST concert you've EVER been to?
Roger Waters (former PF frontman) - Gund Arena in Cleveland - 1999.
MFH - I really enjoyed the Rush Vapor Trails show at P-G Pavilion a couple of years ago (10 rows back on Geddy's side), but missed them this time around - evening of memorial Day was VERY bad timing.
Monkees, with my daughter who was nine at the time. (I'll pause here for derisive laughs).
Ramones at the legendary El Mocambo nightclub in Toronto. Two times in Feb. and July 1979. Nothing else has ever come close.
"What's the absolute BEST concert you've EVER been to?"
It has to be the first rock concert I ever went to. It was April 1973 at the Oakland Colosseum Arena, and the acts were Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac and Rory Gallagher. I was 13 at the time. I went to the show with my next door neighbor and two other neighor kids. The tickets were like $5.00. We felt we were so cool at the time (how cool can you be when you need parents to drop you off and pick you up though?), and I have never felt the same level of excitement and joy at another live show.
I had never heard of Rory Gallagher before that night, but I became a huge fan immediately. To this day Deep Purple are still my favorite band despite the many changes in personnel.