describe the best live musical performance you've ever attended.

In 2004-ish, I went to SoulFest.  SoulFest is, essentially Christian Woodstock.  A terrible analogy, I know.  I went with a friend and we spent the week sleeping in a tent and not showering, which disgusted everyone I told when I came back, but at the time, who bloody cared?  I fell asleep every night cuddling a cat called "Oreo" (goodness knows what happened to that stuffed animal) and listening to MUTEmath's LP on  my cd walkman.

We went to a lot of different concerts while there.  Kristen, the friend I went with, lived and breathed music, even if I didn't.  Some of the concerts were more exciting than others.  I think hands-down the most impressive (and the most crowded) was TobyMac.

Keep in mind, I am a concert virgin.  SoulFest and Triple Rainbow Awesome are the only music concerts I have been too, and both feature bands that very few people have heard of.  But TobyMac interacted with the audience.  I even danced (and by danced, I mean "jumped up and down and fist-pumped"...so awkward).  There was a lightshow, and you could feel the bass beat with your heartbeat.

It's hard to describe an audio performance.  It was fun.  I felt the adrenaline rush, and for a person filled with thoughts and distractions, that is relatively rare.  The heights of the performance flowed smoothly and appropriately with the songs.  It was good.  It was fun.

As a side story, a couple of the people guarding the bus told Kristen that if she gave them $20, they'd let her go in the bus and see TobyMac as he slept.  Kinda creepy.  We ran off giggling.  Sometimes I wonder whether they were joking... or not.