FUV Five Favorite Concerts: Darren DeVivo
For his Five Favorite Concerts, Darren DeVivo includes his beloved Paul McCartney and the iconic Tom Waits.
During the 2014 FUV fall member drive, we're shining a spotlight on live concerts and performances. The FUV on-air staffers compiled individual lists of five memorable and marvelous shows that have stayed with them over the years, for one reason or another.
Darren DeVivo's Five Favorite Concerts (FUV Weekday Host):
The Doobie Brothers, The One Step Closer tour at Belmont Park, New York (July 18, 1981):
They say you never forget your first time! This was my first concert (not counting Glen Campbell in Las Vegas a few years earlier). The $5 tickets went on sale the morning of the show and I ended up with second row seats. “Boy, going to concerts is easy and cheap,” I thought at the time!
Paul McCartney, Summer Live tour at Citi Field (July 17, 18 and 21, 2009):
I’ve seen at least one show in all of McCartney’s New York City area stops since he resumed touring in 1989. Being at all three shows at the newly opened Citi Field was a magical experience for this McCartney lovin’ Mets fan. To add to wonderment, Paul’s performances were “out of the park”.
Roger Waters, The Wall live at Madison Square Garden, Nassau Coliseum and Izod Center (October - November 2010) and Yankee Stadium (July 6 and 7, 2012):
As a Pink Floyd devotee who was too young to see them perform The Wall live in 1980, getting to experience this epic work performed by its architect was the fulfillment of a dream. I saw six or seven performances during this mammoth tour.
Tom Waits, the Franks Wild Years tour at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, New York (October 1987):
I had become a rabid Tom Waits fan in the mid ‘80s and was lucky to see him during this rare, seven-show run on Broadway.
A Day In The Garden at the site of the first Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York (August 14 and 15, 1998):
I was four years old when the first Woodstock festival took place in August 1969. Despite this, I became an aficionado of all things Woodstock. Needless to say, getting to experience a festival on that same sloping field was beyond transcendent. The first two days (it was a three day festival) featured Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Richie Havens, Don Henley, Stevie Nicks, Ten Years After, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Donovan, Francis Dunnery and more. It was a smaller, manageable Woodstock with no mud and parking nearby! But, it did rain a little. I returned for the second and final “A Day In The Garden” in 1999.
