>10 years ago I saw Robyn Hitchcock play at a Northampton, MA in-store 
>at a little indie record shop called Main St. Records.  He played "My 
>Wife and My Dead Wife" for me.  I felt like I was going to cry. 
>Believe me, it was transcendent.

I can dig it.

Not exactly an in-store performance, per se, but when John Wesley Harding
played here many years back, a local radio station coaxed him into doing a
couple of songs during lunchtime at Waterside (a bunch of shops, bars, and
restaurants on the Norfolk harbor), and he played "July 13, 1985" for me.
I've certainly not forgotten that...and likely never will.

I really haven't been witness to too many in-store performances, as they
don't tend to really happen a lot in this area, but what will inevitably be
the most poignant one for me was one I saw when I was in New York City.
Donovan had just released his album on American Records, and he did an
in-store performance at the Borders at the World Trade Center; I'm pretty
sure that was my one and only time at the towers...