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On today's show, Brian talked to Sean Manning and other contributors to The Show I'll Never Forget about memorable concertgoing experiences. Here are selections from some of the emails we have received from listeners about concerts that have etched themselves into their memory.

When my wife was very close to giving birth to our first son, we went to a concert of Caetano Veloso the great Brazilian singer/songwriter. We were thinking about naming our first child Caetano anyway, but as soon as the concert started our son started dancing in the womb and continued throughout the concert. That sealed it and we named him Caetano and everytime Caetano Veloso plays and we see him, it becomes the best concert we've ever seen. My son Caetano has seen Caetano Veloso twice and has grown to love his music and respect Caetano Veloso the man.
-VS

I saw Katell Keinig this past Friday at the Living Room. She was great. She will be there for a couple of weeks.
-MK

My most memorable concert was a Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young reunion show at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City one summer night in the mid Seventies. Everyone on the old baseball field dancing and throwing frisbees, the band members names in fireworks around the top of the stadium, the perfect summer night....
And...sometime during the show, a man comes running out onto the stage and hollers into a mike: "I have an announcement to make, Richard Nixon has just resigned!"
The crowd goes wild, best concert ever! I just can't seem to remember the date!
-SG

Being at the Beatles Shea Stadium concert as a teenager, in one of the back-most rows, was for me a vindication. I was quite a misfit as an early teen in junior high -I refused to wear makeup or nylons or tease my hair, and distained pop music -- until my friend Judy introduced me to the Beatles. Finally there was contemporary music that I loved and that put me on the cutting edge, because I knew about them before my classmates did. It didn't make me any more popular but it gave me a bit of an edge. The next year I escaped the neighborhood to attend the High School of Music and Art, where I was no longer a misfit.
-CB

In 1973 I attended a concert in Raritan, NJ...The opening act was boo-ed terribly by the rowdy audience. They were screaming for the next act.
My friend and I were probably two of a handful not booing and swearing. We liked the music! The lead singer of the opening act bravely said to the extremely rowdy audience "What's that you're saying? Turn it up a little, boys!"
That singer was Bonnie Raitt. She handled that crowd with class. I've enjoyed her music ever since and often think of the hundreds of jerks that boo-ed her that night.They probably all brag that they saw her back then.
-S