On Oct 25th I started a post series that would be about the 37 live rock concerts I have attended in my life so far.

Over time, I am listing the next three best.  Seven posts so far covered the top twenty one (listed below), today’s covers Twenty-two to twenty-four.

Just a reminder; 1) Paul McCartney, 2) Led Zeppelin, 3) Elton John 4)Alice Cooper 5) Al Stewart 6) Queen 7) Bee Gees 8) Deep Purple 9) James Taylor 10)Blue Oyster Cult, 11)Johnny Winter, 12) Uriah Heep 13) The Monkees. 14) 1910 Fruitgum Company 15) Allman Brothers Band 16) Kansas  17) Styx  18) Wishbone Ash 19) Trooper 20) Brave Belt 21) Nazareth

And today’s list

22) BTO – Bachman Turber Overdrive consisted of Randy Bachman, former Guess Who lead guitarist, his friend Fred Turner on bass and vocals and two of Randy’s brothers on rhythm guitar and drums.  Just loud, hard rock with a power beat and simple but snappy lyrics.  I mentioned in a previous post how I had seen the precursor band (Brave Belt) So of course I had to see the group they had matured into , and I was not disappointed.

23) Peter Gabriel – Starting out as vocalist for Genesis, Peter gained great fame before a solo career that went to even greater heights.  I saw him in Toronto on his “Shock the Monkey” tour.  He was at peak popularity and it was a stupendous show with wild effects and brilliant showmanship.

24) Bad Company – built on the distinctive blues vocals of Paul Rodgers this was a fabulous show by a typical late sixties, early seventies rock act.  The show was about the music, not posturing and the music was great.