Who wins the award for "best guest appearance" at a concert you have been at?

Question

For me, the Levon Helm concert this past Wednesday takes the cake...and the fork, the plate, the table it's setting on and, well, I think you get the idea. Guest appearances included:

Little Sammy Davis
Robert Plant
Sam Bush
Buddy Miller
John Hiatt
Alison Krauss
Sheryl Crowe
Steve Earle
Billy Bob Thorton
Delbert McClinton
Allison Moorer

Billy Bob introduced the band and then, later on, came out and sang a song. Who knew he could sing? He wasn't great, but not nearly as bad as I expected.

This show was INCREDIBLE. Though I'm not really a fan of Sheryl Crowe or Alison Krauss (never even heard of Allison Moorer), I love all the others...and, of course, Levon was great :-) And, incase anyone is unsure of who Levon is, he's the singer/drummer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38JpAMG65Dg

It was also recorded for TV and DVD. shew...I've still got a high from it.

Answer 1

At some really lame concert an old boyfriend drug me to was the best guest appearance ever, Iggy Pop. That guy is legendary!

Answer 2

No one is going to top that!! Your high is going to last for quite awhile ... lucky you!



Oh well, just for the heck of it, I'll share a story that goes way back but still takes up space in my memory ....



I had just moved to California (about two months) and went to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco for the day ... well, because everyone said it was a great place to spend the day.



As a born and raised Eastener I was fairly mesmerized by all the activity -and people openly smoking pot ... after some time I ventured over to Ghirardelli Square simply to get a bite to eat and sit on a bench .... in short time a beautiful young woman with a guitar sits on another bench in the Square. It's not too long that her music is filling the air and crowds gather ...



As her soprano voice and acoustic guitar captivate us it soon became apparent that we were being graced by the presence and music of Judy Collins.



Not a concert per se -but one hellava a guest appearance!

Answer 3

I thought it was really cool when Kat Von D appeared out of nowhere at Cruefest in August. She didn't even come announced to the audience, she walked from backstage right after Sixx AM did their set and walked right up through the audience and finally stayed in the sound booth for the rest of the concert about ten feet in front of me i thought that was really awesome.

Answer 4

When they had the Guns n Roses concert in Halifax N.S and brought The Trailer Park Boys on stage.. Not as much as a high as getting to see the Superstars you mentioned, but there was just something about Bubbles performing his "smash hit" at the concert that excited me very much..



**edit**



Look at Axl, he's having a blast here..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrHrlBACB_E

Answer 5

the only one i can think of that i have seen in person is gordon gano from the violent femmes coming in to sing blister in the sun with blues traveller. confused the crap out of me, it was deffinately a blues traveller crowd and i was there primarily for violent femmes, which were also the opening band, and the crowd was kind of apathetic and more concerned with looking like hippies than anything else when violent femmes were on, including when they played blister in the sun, but for some reason they all went nuts for the guest appearance, the loudest applause of the night.

Answer 6

Stevie Nicks came onstage and sang 3 songs with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers a couple years ago. It was great. They did my favorite song that they recorded together: Insider



Wow! YouTube has the concert I was actually at!!! (I saw them both nights :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPIUwz5ZLgM

Answer 7

This doesn't really count, but when I saw Fleetwood Mac for the second time in 2003 {at Earls Court, in London}, Mick announced at the end that somewhere in the audience that night was...



Christine McVie