The best single concert I've ever been to, in terms of the quality of the sets played by the opener and the headliner, was seeing REO Speedwagon and Cheap Trick back around 1985. Both bands were barnstorming Midwestern bands that grew up on the road, and both were pure masters of owning an audience. Cheap Trick is, admittedly, these days defined by their two best known songs in Surrender and I Want You To Want Me, and they rarely caught the lightning in a bottle that they were live (which is why it took a live album to break them) in the studio, but lord, they were a kick ass band.
They had one of the earliest concerts played on MTV, and as I recall the version of Surrender from it was pretty good. Surely that wasn't the one VH1 played, that was back in 1981!