What major bands have you seen?

[Tab]

I know this is age-relative, regarding what age you were attending bands (probably teens and 20s) and what was available.

I've tried to remember what I could...

B-52's (twice, once very small venue)
Santana (three times, once third row)
Talking Heads (twice)
Rolling Stones
Eric Clapton
Bonnie Raitt
Lyle Lovett
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Andrew Bird (not major yet, but should be)
Doobie Brothers
B.B. King
Taj Mahal (small venue)
Moody Blues (twice, once small venue and excellent seats, second with a press pass)
Ray Charles (excellent seats)
David Bowie (sucky seats though)
Journey (I hate to admit it, but it was my first show)
Ziggy Marley (appearing WITH the B-52's - hot show!)
Joan Osbourne
Johnny Winter Band

I'm sure there's more, which I will add more on edit as my memory improves.

Absolute favorite is Santana, with B-52's a close second.

On edit:
Also Little Feat, but without Lowell George, so I don't know if that counts.

On second edit:
Laurie Anderson - very good, if different.
Weird how much stuff you forget (or maybe it's understandable).
And I think I saw Muddy Waters, but I don't know for sure. I have seen a variety of Blues artists I don't have listed here, e.g.: Charlie Musselwhite.

[LaraMN]

1. Not very many.

Warrant/Trixter/Firehouse (shut UP- I was twelve!)
David Gray
Smashing Pumpkins
Phish
Radiohead
Wilco

[Initech]

2. Several:

- Iron Maiden
- Tool
- Radiohead
- Beck
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Black Sabbath
- Dream Theater
- Judas Priest
- The Mars Volta
- Porcupine Tree
- Rage Against The Machine
- Willie Nelson
- The Roots
- Bob Dylan
- The Rolling Stones
- Flaming Lips
- Parliament / Funkadelic
- Paul McCartney

[MilesColtrane]

3. Started with...

...the Allman Brothers Band

Then onto...
Frank Zappa
Miles Davis
Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Choir
Dixie Dregs
Alan Holdsworth
etc..

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Choir

...have the goosebumps gone away yet? :thumbsup:

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. I'll try..

Blues Brothers
Doobie Brothers
Talking Heads
Siouxie and the Banshees
Jane's Addiction
NIN
Ice-T's rock band, what was their name...
Kraftwerk
Sisters of Mercy
Dixie Dregs
Gary Numan
Tangerine Dream
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
The Dead Milkmen
They Might Be Giants
Skinny Puppy
Bauhaus
Laurie Anderson
Peter Gabriel
Residents with Snakefinger
Killing Joke
Einsturzende Neubauten
Rammstein
Edit: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Edit 2: Butthole Surfers

Lesser-knowns:

Tuxedomoon
Front 242
Fred Frith
Skeleton Crew
Cluster
Roedelius
The Dark Bob
SPK
Chris and Cosey
Love and Rockets
Autechre
Uberzone
Southern Culture on the Skids
Rev. Horton Heat
Edit: Porcupine Tree

Just missed seeing Roger Miller.. Damn being late.

[Lethe]

9. woa!

Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Tangerine Dream, Autechre

These are like my favorite groups. Wow, that it is awesome, I would love to see them live.

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. They're some of mine as well.

TD was in 1987 with Haslinger; Kraftwerk in 1982, and the last two major tours not counting Coachella, do what you must do to see them live; Gary Numan in 1980 and 1981 or 82 and the recent "pure" tour; and Autechre about 10 years ago; they blew. They were in their "too deep into the machine" phase of obliqueness, prior to returning to some measure of form with Untilted etc. I walked out, as did my friends. Incredibly sad, as I would have died to hear Second Bad Vilbel and Second Peng live!

Have you seen any of them?

Edit: You said that you'd like to see them live, meaning that you haven't. D'oh! Do it if you can. I'm sorry that I missed TD in the late 70s (didn't know about them until 1979 or so).

[Lethe]

19. no

but I am huge fans of each! I prefer the early Autechre, so that is early to mid 1990's.

I would love to see Numan regardless. He is awesome.

ps. I would love to see Second Peng live. Wow. Well, pretty much, I would love to see any Autechre live.

[tigereye]

52. that's the first time I have seen anyone pine to see Gary Numan

that's usually one I kind of cringe about when I think about seeing that show....

:shrug: He was just a little too mainstream at the time for my crowd...

[tigereye]

15. great list!

you reminded me of some I had left off my list. I think my memory is not what it was.... ;)

[fizzgig]

18. i saw the rev this past new year's

one of the best damn shows i've seen

[Lethe]

21. i seen the Rev a few times

He is a great show. I live in Tex, he's been around awhile here. He opened for Smashing Pumpkins way back in like 1993 here. Billy Corgan got booed off stage, but Rev rocked.

(some dude hit Billy in the head with his thrown shoes, he stormed offstage and pouted)

[hfojvt]

27. lesser knowns?

and here I was wondering who Laurie Anderson is/was :hide:

I am sure my list will be considered even worse

Survivor/REO Speedwagon
Kathy Trocolli/Michael W. Smith
BTO/Van Halen
Kim Mitchell/Bryan Adams
Confederate Railroad and half a dozen other country music acts whose names escape me, except for Lisa Brokup who only had one very minor hit. I also remember that Aaron Tippin did not get to play because the stage blew over at an outdoor concert.
Survivor (again)
Michael W. Smith (again - hey, it was $5 or $10 and included a professional soccer match)

[Fire Walk With Me]

55. Laurie Anderson rules the world.

"O Superman" has suffered almost zero loss over the decades, an amazing accomplishment.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0hhm0NHhCBg

And by "lesser knowns", I of course mean to the general public. I've seen Front 242 at least four times, so they're well-known to me, for the 20+ years that they've been making music/soundconstructions.

You are definitely a pop-rocker, at least by your list!

[carly denise pt deux]

5. lets see

Ted Nugent
The Runaways
ZZ Top
Joan Jett/Blackhearts
Pat Benatar
Van Halen 2 times
Quiet Riot/Ratt
Heart
Quarterflash


oh yeah, and those not quite so rockish like Rick Springfield

I was one of them rock n roll chicks in those days
Carly

[NightWatcher]

6. real easy, not

Grateful Dead
Rage Against the Machine
(the first 3 tours of Lollapalooza)
Bob Dylan
The Nightwatchman



Oh crap, I've seen a shitload. I'll never remember them all

[Ekirh]

7. Not too many

Tool
System of a Down
Disturbed
Metallica
I had Aerosmith cancel on me three times grrrrrr

[Bennyboy]

8. Just a few.....

The grateful Dead (500+_times)
The rolling Stones (20+timesincluding Altamont)
Santana (over 100)
The Who (every tour until J E died)
Bruce Springsteen (every tour since 75)
Pink Floyd since DSOM tour(including The Wall performance at the LA Forum)
Phish 30+times
Dave matthews band 20 times
Led Zeppelin 4 times
David Bowie a bunch including Ziggy at Winterland
Fleetwood Mac (in every incarnation0
steely dan (even first tour 74)
Van halen 3 times
Frank Zappa (5 times or more)
The talking Heads 4 times
The Doors (hated them0
jefferson Airplane/Starship 20 times
String Cheese Incident 75
Widespread panic 40
Neil young (over 50)
CSNY three times
The Band 10 times including the Last Waltz
Dylan 30 or more
Bob Segar (fell asleep)

I have also attended both US festivals, both CAL Jams, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (numerous times), and at least ten festivals every summer.

[Tab]

11. I think you win the Groupie Award

The Dead 500+, and Santana 100+?

Holy shit.



Congratulations

[Bennyboy]

16. Hey.....

That's a grouper not a groupie......Damn....

[Tab]

20. I know it's a grouper (warning: graphic content)

but I figured if you went to that many Dead concerts you wouldn't know any better.

You want groupie recognition, here it is:

[Bennyboy]

22. much better..........

But the fish is making me hungry.....

[Dukkha]

59. oh I'm jealous you saw the Wall concert

very few people can make that claim

[Richardo]

10. Well my prime concert-going years were the 80s, therefore:

The Police
The Go-Gos
Paul Simon
Talking Heads (Roxy Theater in L.A., 1977 - I think the tickets were like $10)
Dire Straits
Rickie Lee Jones
Leon Redbone
Little Feat
The Tubes
Chicago
Beach Boys
George Harrison
Paul McCartney (Wings)
The Kinks
Tower of Power
Earth, Wind & Fire
Bonnie Raitt
Lyle Lovett
Nanci Griffith
The Who (1st Farewell Tour) :eyes:
Jimmy Buffett
The Blues Brothers
Fleetwood Mac
Todd Rundgren + Utopia (worst concert I ever saw)
CSNY
John Mellencamp
Al Jarreau

[tigereye]

12. I made a list one time when someone asked this...

it was pretty long with a lot of not so famous, but very talented folk.

REM -2
Lou Reed
Ramores -3
America (I was young, what did I know)
ELP
Genesis
Yes -2
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Talking Heads
Gang of 4
Richard Thompson -2
Elvis Costello - stellar! See him if you can!
Bad Religion
X!
THe Clash
Screaming Trees
Firehose - missed the Minute Men :cry:
Wilco
Bob dylan
Dead Milkmen
Gary Numan
Mojo Nixon
Patti Smith - 3
Laurie Anderson
Joan Jett -2
Robyn Hitchcock
Peter Gabriel
Sinead O'Connor
Rikki Lee Jones
Joan Armatrading
Wilco
The Replacements
Yo La Tengo
Steel Pulse
Al ? (the year of the cat guy)


Blues
Albert Collins
BB King
Koko Taylor
Deanna Bogart
Betty Lavette
Shameka Copeland
Muddy Waters

Folk
Odetta
Joni Mitchell
CSN


Jazz
Ella Fitzgerald
Airto and Flora Purim
TIto Puente
Ornette Coleman
Dorothy Donegan
Geri Allen - 2
Marian McPartland
Don Byron
Ronald SHannon Jackson
Art Emsemble of Chicago

World Beat
Youssou N'Dour
Queen Ida
Malathini and the Mahotella Queens
Mickey Hart and the Planet Drum Ensemble

[greendog]

14. Bill Monroe, Muddy Waters, Yank Rachell

Here's Yank Rachell with Sleepy John Estes in 1966.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4iRzqfdEGI&NR=1

Yank got his start playing on Beale Street in the '20's. First recorded in 1929.

I saw him play in a small club in the early "80's. He was at least 70 years old at the time.

[AZBlue]

23. David Bowie, Phil Collins, Madonna, Cher,

[Spirochete]

24. A few

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Led Zeppelin
Chicago
Pink Floyd
Ten Years After
Foghat
J Geils Band
Z Z Top
Rare Earth
Doobie Brothers
Wishbone Ash
Alice Cooper
Climax Blues Band
Blue Oyster Cult
Black Sabbath
Tom Petty
George Thorogood
Bob Seger
Ted Nugent
REO Speedwagon
Molly Hatchet
Frank Zappa
Journey
Black Oak Arkansas
Peter Frampton
T Rex
Steppenwolf
Jimmy Buffett
Triumph

Maybe others I don't remember off the top of my head.

[quip]

25. Alan Parsons Project (sans

Eric Woolfson), and one of my all-time favorites, Acoustic Alchemy (before Nick died)

I doubt anyone else saw these live....

[Common Sense Party]

26. I doubt I can remember them all, and "major" is in the ear of the

beholder, but...

Cheap Trick (many, many times)
Blue Oyster Cult
Def Leppard
Ratt
Scorpions
Judas Priest
KISS
Bon Jovi
Night Ranger
Sammy Hagar
Metallica
REO Speedwagon
Mannheim Steamroller
Pink Floyd (sans Roger Waters)
R.E.M.
U2
The Connells
The Posies
ZZ Top
Motley Crue
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Journey
BoDeans

[Tafiti]

28. I love concerts.

Tool - x4
311 - x13
Incubus - x8
Radiohead - x2
Soundgarden
Metallica
Alice In Chains
Red Hot Chili Peppers - x4
Foo Fighters - x3
Silverchair
A Perfect Circle - x2
The Mars Volta
U2
Arctic Monkeys
Rage Against the Machine
Audioslave
Dave Matthews Band - x3
Chevelle
Jane's Addiction
Nine Inch Nails
Queens of the Stone Age
Wolfmother
Velvet Revolver
The Roots - x2
Outkast
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Too $hort
Wu-Tang Clan
Moby
Prodigy
Ben Fold's Five
Crystal Method
Matisyahu
Lenny Kravitz
The Black Crowes - x2
Blues Traveler
Chris Cornell
Keller Williams
John Scofield

There's probably more, I just can't remember...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

29. a lot

The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel conducting

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster conducting

The Juilliard String Quartet

The Ridge String Quartet

The Tokyo String Quartet

The Tallis Scholars

Chanticleer

Frank Zappa
The Righteous Brothers (1964 -- first rock concert)
Robin Trower
Ten Years After
King Crimson
Climax Blues Band
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Styx (as an opening act)
The Who (right after Moon died -- 1980)
The Police (Synchronicity tour -- last one -- 83)
Weird Al
Taj Mahal
John Mayall and the BluesBreakers
Paul Revere and the Raiders (twice)
The Four Tops (three of them were alive)
Ahmad Jamal
Stephan Grapelli
Jean Luc Ponty
Ella Fitzgerald
Pat Metheny
Young Rascals
Monkees
Leo Kottke (3 times)
Chet Atkins in Memphis
Pepe, Angel and Celedonio Romero and their father
Arthur Rubinstein (when he was a pup of 82)
Vladimir Ashkenazy

Jacqueline du Pre (the greatest fiddler of the 20th century - rent the movie "Hilary and Jackie".

Yo Yo Ma
Horacio Gutierrez
Itzy Perlman
Pinchas Zuckerman
Zina Schiff
Andre Watts
Beverly Sills
Joan Sutherland
Norman Treigle
Samuel Ramey
Thomas Allen
James McCracken
Andre Previn
Dory Previn
Marie-madeleine Durufle (Durufle's widow)
William Walton
Aaron Copland (met him in the Green Room when I was 12)
Sir John Barbirolli
Christoph Eschenbach
Don Henley
Bruce (twice) 78 and 2000
U2
Steve Winwood
The Prince Myshkins
Peter Paul & Mary
The Kingston Trio (couldn't understand a damn word)
Vladimir Viardo
Tom Paxton


Played in an orchestra under:
Carmen Dragon (Father of The Captain, Daryl Dragon)
Victor Alessandro
Nicolas Slonimsky



Have I got eclectic taste or what?

[tigereye]

53. wonderfully eclectic!

I left classical and Renaissance and Baroque shows I have seen off my list.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

64. Left off a few

UB40
Gary Burton Quintet
James Galway
Jose Carreras
Blondie (sucked bigtime and opened for -->
The Kinks

William Read, Harpsichord


Re:Jacqueline du Pre - go to YouTube and watch the documentary by Christopher Nupen. You will be stunned and amazed.

She was the most passionate fiddler of the 20th century.

[Tab]

30. Just to show how much my life has turned around

(I was the OP here)

My 11-yr-old son has decided he wants to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Good for him - at least he's not asking to see Nickleback or something.

So I ordered tickets - and I don't think I've paid that much for tickets in my life, even when I saw the Stones.

So I've gone from Talking Heads, Santana, and B-52s, to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Gettin' old, guys. Gettin' old.

[tigereye]

54. we took our 11 year old to see the Global Drum Project the other night!

he has seen the jazz nutcracker when he was younger at X-mas.


I know how you feel, though, he likes a band called wolfmother.... :scared:

[dorkulon]

31. Off the top of my head....

Not proud of all of these, particularly the last few.



David Bowie
Ziggy Marley
David Byrne
B-52s
Primus
Bad Brains
Grateful Dead
Bob Dylan
Tom Petty
Neil Young
Buddy Guy
Metallica
Public Image Limited
Sugarcubes
New Order
Digable Planets
Spearhead
Cypress Hill
Rage Against the Machine
G Love & Special Sauce
Throwing Muses
Belly
The Breeders
50 Ft. Wave
Beastie Boys
Firehose
Mercury Rev
10,000 Maniacs
Goo Goo Dolls
Charlie Hunter
Verbal Assault
Forgotten Rebels
Jesus Lizard
RL Burnside
Sonic Youth
Fugazi
Butthole Surfers
Flaming Lips
Stone Temple Pilots
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
Mudhoney
Melvins
Kool Keith
De La Soul
A Tribe Called Quest
Boredoms
Ani Difranco
Rebirth Brass Band
Meters
Fishbone
Mission
Psychedelic Furs
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Triumph
Rush
Bryan Adams
Poison
Cinderella
Level 42
Molly Hatchet
Tanya Tucker

EDIT: remembered these as soon as I posted:

Tragically Hip
Toasters
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Cocteau Twins
They Might be Giants
North Mississipi Allstars
L7
Henry Rollins Band

[regularguy]

32. Led Zep

Stones
Weather Report
Grateful Dead
Miles Davis
Ben Folds 5
Beck
Zappa
Allman Brothers
Pat Methaney/Ornette Coleman
Neville Brothers
Pfunk
Sun Ra

[lightningandsnow]

33. Not too many "Major" ones

I've seen the Dixie Chicks, The Indigo Girls, Dar Williams (not sure if she counts as "major"), and the Cliks (Again, not exactly major, but major in my neck of the woods)

I also went to a Shania Twain concert when I was 10 years old...but I don't like to advertise that fact.

[SKKY]

34. Oh Lord. This will be quite a list

Rod Stewart
Foreigner
REM
U2
Depeche Mode
The Cult
The Prodigy
Live
Janes Addiction
Nine Inch nails
Bonnie Raitt
Siouxie and the Banshees
Primus
INXS
The Violent Femmes
Living Colour
Butthole Surfers
Rollins Band
Prince
Peter Gabriel
Eminem/Snoop Dogg/Dr. Dre
No Doubt
Matchbox 20
Ministry
Red Hot Chili Peppers

[lightningandsnow]

35. When did you see No Doubt?

I'm not a big fan of their more recent stuff, or Gwen's solo stuff, but I LOVE their older stuff. Esepcially Tragic Kingdom.

[SKKY]

36. 23-25 June 2000. The Grand Opening of the EMP in Seattle...

And we missed James Brown, Alanis, Beck, and Bo Diddley.

[sniffa]

37. don't go anymore, but when i used to...

cypress hiLL (a bunch of times)
house of pain
funkdoobiest
NIN
david bowie
smashing pumpkins (worst Live act evah)
beasties
p-funkadeLic
the breeders
moby (before he went aLL techno)
the pharcyde
sonic youth
hoLe
busta rhymes
fugees
tribe caLLed quest
run dmc
eminem
dr. dre
ice cube
xzhibit
mighty mighty bosstones
Letters to cLeo
geggy tah
sam bLack church
redman
better than ezra
green day (the night of the riot - fun times)
markey mark and the funky bunch
kriss kross
right said fred
nick cave and the bad seeds
snoop dogg

[AllegroRondo]

38. Not as big of a list, but eclectic

Rush (9 times)
Primus
Santana
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Pink Floyd
Yngwe Malmstein
Sugar Cubes (with Bjork!)
Bad Religion
Violent Femmes
Ramones
Pearl Jam
Metallica
Eagles
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Nine Inch Nails
Marlyn Manson (awful, just awful)
Offspring
Cranberries
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Dave Matthews (twice)


Best shows - Rush (obviously), and Bela Fleck - he is just an amazing musician, and his bass player is IMO the best in the world.

[stuntcat]

39. my concert list :D

This is a cut & paste so I'm not picking out who's a major band okay. I've been keeping the list for years because my memory is bad. My favorite shows are the top.

Prince-2 times, Nina Simone, Portishead, Dead Can Dance, Dolly Parton, Tindersticks-4 times, Neko Case, Fleetwood Mac-4 times, Stevie Nicks-2 times, Gillian Welch, Cesaria Evora, Tori Amos-3 times, Feist, LCD Soundsystem, k.d. lang, Concrete Blonde-2 times, Tina Turner-2 times, Emmylou Harris-4 times, Lyle Lovette-2 times, Lisa Gerrard, Martha Wainwright, Squirrel Nut Zippers-4 times, Katherine Whalen, Milla Jovovich, Yo-Yo Ma, National Symphony Orchestra, Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, North Carolina Symphony, José González, Bob Dylan, Wolfmother, The Raconteurs (Jack White), Fiona Apple-3 times, Willie Nelson, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, KC and the Sunshine Band-2 times, Odetta, Elvis Costello, Moby, REM, Siouxsie and the Banshees-2 times, Myssouri-8 times, Sheila E, Ministry, Jane's Addiction, PJ Harvey-2 times, Alanis Morrisette-2 times, Sinead O'Connor, 10,000 Maniacs, Madonna, David Bowie, U2, Roger Waters, Revolting Cocks, Richard Buckner, Hybrid, Blue Oyster Cult, The Six Parts Seven, The Old Ceremony, Joan Baez-3 or 4 times, Allen Toussaint, Grizzly Bear, Rickie Scaggs, Lords of Acid, Stereolab, Nine Inch Nails, Jarboe, James Blackshaw, Lenny Kravitz, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Don Caballero, Ice-T, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band (Henry), Prodigy (in Germany), Jody Watley, Grateful Dead, Lionel Ritchie, Rod Stewart, Tarot Bolero, Angels of Light, Sting, Whitney Houston, Inxs, Expose, Blind Melon, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force :D

[redqueen]

43. I like your list.

:hi:

[MissMillie]

40. Moody Blues - 10 times

Yes
Genesis
Robert Plant
Foreigner
Shawn Colvin (3 or 4 times)
Aimee Mann (I forget how many times)
Dave Matthews Band
David Bowie
Bruce Springsteen & the E-street Band
Tracey Chapman
Sarah McLachlan
Bryan Adams
Simon & Garfunkel
The Firm (!!!??????!!!)
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (4 times)

I know I'm forgetting a lot of concerts. When I was young I'd go to concerts all the time.

Now I'm lucky to get in one or two a year.

[redqueen]

41. Well... the ones I remember...

Pink Floyd (2x, sans Waters x()
AC/DC (sans Scott)
Tool (3x)
David Bowie
Peter Gabriel
Robert Plant
The Ramones
Mark Knopfler
The Smiths
CSN (2x)
CSNY
Eric Clapton
The Police
Joe Walsh
Iron Maiden
Alice Cooper
The Black Crowes
Arlo Guthrie
The Moody Blues
Jefferson Starship
Def Leppard
Duran Duran
Culture Club hehehehe

I know there's more...



edit: you saw Andrew Bird?! I'm so jealous!


also, lesser knowns (but WELL worth mentioning!):
mogwai
sunset rubdown

[stuntcat]

47. I'm G with E over the Smiths

and the Ramones, I never saw them. My husband did though, before we met.. yike, 20 years ago :scared:

[redqueen]

69. It. Was. Awesome!

Fucking MORRISEY, man! Right there! :o

[Tab]

67. I am an absolute Andrew Bird fan

Every album is a totally different musical style, and he's great on them all. He tours incessantly, and I had tickets for him in Boston but couldn't make it, but then got tix for Burlington, VT, and totally enjoyed his show. His opening band, Plants and Animals, out of Canada (Montreal, I think) was equally excellent. He's at the top of my must-have album list. It's kinda eclectic, but he's extremely talented. I don't regret a penny.

[redqueen]

68. I had a chance to see him earlier this year...

but was broke (as usual!)

I can't wait till I get to see him perform live. Absolutely adore him!

[malta blue]

42. I don't think I can remember them all

Grateful Dead way more times than I can recall
Bob Dylan
CSN
CSNY
Neil Young
Burning Spear
Steel Pulse
UB-40
Midnight Oil
REM - more than once
Tom Petty
Dave Matthews - a couple of times
B.B. King
Allman Brothers
Rolling Stones - 5 times
Pink Floyd
Primus
Phis
Weezer
Beck
Tito Puente and Celia Cruz - together at the Blue Note in NYC
Lenny Kravitz
Little Feat
Steve Miller
The Police
U2
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tool
Beastie Boys
Arrested Development
Oasis
Blur
Widespread Panic
Dave Brubeck
War
Gwar
Korn
Jewel
Spin Doctors
Green Day
Pearl Jam
Jackson Browne
Simon & Garfunkel
Jimmy Buffett
Stevie Ray Vaughn - his last concert in Alpine Valley, east Troy WI
Eric Clapton
Fishbone
Modern English
Albert Collins
Son Seals
Etta James
Smokey Robinson
Elvis Costello
Santana
Prince
Parliament
Maná
Erykah Badu

I am sure there are more, but I can't think of them now...


...omg - I need to stop spending so much money on live music....

[flvegan]

44. I've seen a few

U2 a few times
Van Halen
Kiss (both with and without makeup)
B-52s
Marilyn Manson
NiN
Beastie Boys multiple times
Faith No More
The Cult (partied with them post show, too)
AC/DC 7 or 8 times
Bon Jovi
Poison
David Lee Roth w/Vai
Ratt
Def Leppard
Dokken (rhymes with rockin!!)
Warrant (hung out with them post show)
Ice Cube
RHCP
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
Neil Young
Guns n Roses
Metallica
Korn
Kid Rock (shoot me)
Limp Bizkit
Staind
DMX
Godsmack

more, but brain just stopped working

[Phillycat]

45. Quite a few. Let's see...

In rough order of chronology, which will be impossible to maintain as I get further along:

Bruce Springsteen
Red Hot Chili Peppers (I've seen them three times all together)
Minor Threat
Black Flag
A whole bunch of ska bands, including Bim Skala Bim, The Skatalites, The Specials, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Toasters, etc etc etc.
Jane's Addiction (seen them three times all together)
Grateful Dead (maybe 5 times?)
Phish
Widespread Panic
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Beastie Boys (seen them twice)
White Zombie (seen them three times)
Testament
Screwdriver (That might be Skrewdriver)
Prong
Ministry
Soundgarden
Anthrax
Megadeth
Metallica
Pearl Jam
Jesus and Mary Chain
Lush
Rage Against The Machine
Ice Cube
Cypress Hill
Elastica
Fishbone (seen three times, have Fishbone tattoo)
Green Day
No Doubt
311
Smashing Pumpkins
Maceo Parker (seen three times)
A whole bunch of bluegrass bands at festivals, including Tony Rice, Strength in Numbers, Bela Fleck, Dry Branch Fire Squad, etc etc.
The Connells
Uncle Tupelo
The Replacements
Garbage
The Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Black Crowes (a couple of times, once with Jimmy Page)
Motley Crue
3rd Eye Blind
Elton John
Rufus Wainright
Patti LaBelle
Everyone who performed at Live 8, including Will Smith, Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Keith Urban, Destiny's Child, Maroon 5, Linkin Park with Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Stevie Wonder, plus more I can't remember.
Nickelback
Aerosmith
Elvis Costello (twice now, and I'll never miss him again if I can help it)
Rolling Stones

There's a good bit more, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.


On edit: I forgot blues and jazz. Well, you get the idea. A lot.

[Dystopian]

61. PRONG!

I've never heard of them until recently....my son's band is opening for them this Friday...I'm very excited....He just opened for Nile and Powerman 5000 recently....Never heard of them, either...
Guess I'm not with it....

peace~

[tuckessee]

46. Elvis Presley. Louisville. 1975 or 1976. n/t

[SoxFan]

48. My major-label list

I'm reasonably certain I'm the only one here who has seen Reba MacEntire, Violent Femmes, AND Chaka Khan...

Here's the list of major-label acts that I've seen, as best as my brain can recall:

Rush
Rory Gallagher
The Kinks
Styx
U2
Lone Justice
REM
Waterboys
Drivin' n' Cryin'
The Three O'Clock
Bryan Adams
Twisted Sister
Ratt
Lita Ford
Cheap Trick
Offspring
Smithereens
The Lemonheads
Violent Femmes
Better Than Ezra
Possum Dixon
Eve's Plumb
Cowboy Mouth
Neighborhoods
Rubyhorse
Neville Brothers
Wynton Marsalis
Reba MacEntire
Dwight Yoakum
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Steve Earle
Tommy Makem
Sharon Shannon
Waterboys
The Alarm
Silent Running
Scruffy the Cat
Connells
dBs
Winter Hours
Let's Active
Greg Allman
Chaka Khan
Concrete Blonde
Steve Wynne
Sidewinders

[SteppingRazor]

49. Hundreds

I don't even know where to begin. :shrug:

[SteppingRazor]

50. OK, here's a short list after doing some thinking:

Metallica – 2x
REM
Foo Fighters – 2x
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Weezer – 2x
The Dead
Ratdog
Phil Lesh and Friends – 2x
Bob Dylan – 7x
Phish – 30x, more or less
Trey Anastasio, solo – 3x
Willie Nelson
Moe. – 4x
Medeski, Martin and Wood – 3x
G. Love and Special Sauce – 4x
Cake – 2x
The Wailers – 2x
Cracker
Camper Van Beethoven
Plain White Ts
The Killers – 2x
Hot Hot Heat – 2x
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Drive By Truckers – 3x
String Cheese Incident – 5x, more or less
Toots and the Maytals – 2x
The Specials
Michael Franti and Spearhead – 3x
De La Soul
Stone Temple Pilots
Ludacris
Daft Punk
Duran Duran
Modest Mouse
The Flaming Lips – 2x
The Black Crowes – 3x
Ben Harper – 2x
Wilco
The Meters – 2x
Burning Spear – 2x
The Disco Biscuits – 4x
Interpol
Brazilian Girls
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Widespread Panic – 2x
Matisyahu
Taj Mahal
Aerosmith
Collective Soul
Andrew WK
Flogging Molly
Snoop Dogg
Panic! at the Disco
Ween
Wu-Tang Clan
The Roots – 2x
Liz Phair
Less Than Jake
Kings of Leon – 2x
My Morning Jacket
Jimmy Eat World
George Clinton – 2x
Social Distortion
The Psychedelic Furs
Broken Social Scene
The New Pornographers
Cat Power
Guns n' Roses
Sonic Youth
Beastie Boys
Ray Charles
Dizzie Gillespie
The Charlie Daniels Band
Alabama
Kenny Chesney
Alan Jackson
Martina McBride
John Tesh (Yes, John Tesh, God help me. Hey, I worked for the venue.)
Dave MAtthews Band
Primus
Beck
Oysterhead
Paul McCartney
Radiohead
The Offspring
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones -- 2x

There's bound to be many more that I'm forgetting.

[RandiFan1290]

62. Dude, stop following me to shows ;)

seriously though.. we've probably met:

Grateful Dead
Ween
Phish
Widespread Panic
Phil and Friends
Rat Dog
Allman Bros
Arlo Guthrie
The Radiators
Oysterhead
Galactic
Tenacious D
Medeski Martin & Wood
moe.
Mofro
North Mississippi All-stars
Trey
Papa Grows Funk
Metallica
Great White
Tesla
Sepultura
Slayer
Testament
Alice in Chains
Anthrax
Megadeth
Big Audio Dynamite
P.I.L
Live
Blind Melon
The Cure
Black Sabbath
The Beastie Boys
Rollins Band
Cypress Hill
House of Pain
Pantera
Ministry
Helmet
Porno for Pyros
Nirvana
Primus
Rush
Moody Blues
Steel Pulse
The Wailers
Nine Inch Nails
Hot Tuna
Blues Traveler
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The Band
Molly Hatchet
Fugazi
New Riders of the Purple Sage
CSN
Chicago
Oasis
Depeche Mode
George Clinton/Parliament Funkadelic

and all kinds off Bonnaroos, Jazz Fests, Lollapaloozas and Langerados!

[SteppingRazor]

65. Langerados, you say? I've been to every one.

:thumbsup:

[RandiFan1290]

66. Next year should be interesting at Big Cypress

It seems to be growing and getting better every year. :)

[Greyskye]

51. I wish I could remember them all

Charlie Daniels Band (I know, I know, it was my first concert) :(
The Tubes (3x)
Moody Blues
Sting (2x)
Pink Floyd
Spyro Gyra
Santana
Sammy Hagar
Journey
Toto
Ronny Montrose and Gamma
Y&T
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Russ Freeman and the Rippingtons (2x)
Seldom Scene
Grateful Dead (um, I don't remember how many times :smoke:)
Stevie Nicks
Arlo Guthrie
Rolling Stones (2nd (HA!) Farewell tour)
Jethro Tull (4x)
Electric Hot Tuna
Blues Traveler
Jerry Garcia Band
David Bowie
Tannahill Weavers 2x (hey, they're HUGE in Scotland)
Sharon Shannon 2x (ditto in Ireland)
Celtic Fiddle Festival featuring: Kevin Burke, Christian LeMaitre, Johnny Cunningham (these are major league fiddlers)
Altan (HUGE in Ireland)
Wolfstone 2x (big name Scottish rock&reel band)
Phish
Andy M. Stewart (hugely famous in Scotland)
Green Day
Cake
Rancid
R.E.M.
Alanis Morriset
Tori Amos
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones!
Natalie MacMaster (huge in Canada)
B.B. King
Tommy Castro
Richard Thompson
Micky Hart
Fruit (dozens of times - huge in Australia)
Don Ross
the bluehouse
Ancient Future
Alasdair Frasier (dozens of times, and I got to play with him, as well as run his sound once :))
Laura Love Band (6x)
Joe Craven! (dozens of times)
Anger/Marshall Band
Equation (6x)
Don Ross (6x)
David Jacobs-Strain
Charlie Musselwhite
David Grisman Quintet!

So many more at festivals and such that I can't drag out of the poor abused brain cells. Plus thousands of musicians and groups that hardly anyone here would recognize. Even the more obscure ones that I listed above I feel have a pretty good chance of someone here knowing.


(edit - silly spelling mistake)

[Broken_Hero]

56. ..........

Life of Agony, Type O Negative, Luxt(for the sac area folks!), Mudvayne, Deftones, Linkin Park, Limp Noodle...I mean, Limp Bizkit, and Metallica....

[Taverner]

57. Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, ACDC, Phish, Grateful Dead

Nirvana (at a club pre-Dave Grohl)
U2
The Pixies
Janes Addiction

[Dukkha]

58. a few

Pink Floyd (x4)
Roger Waters (x3)
Nine Inch Nails (x5)
The Who
The Cure (x2)
The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
Paul McCartney
Prince (in a club)
Van Halen (Roth era)
Crosby Stills & Nash
B-52s
Aerosmith
David Bowie
Bon Jovi (long ago I was young)
Rush
Bauhaus
Kiss (x2 w/makeup era)
U2
The Sugarcubes
The Grateful Dead
Sigur Ros
Siouxie and the Banshees
Peter Gabriel
Sinead O’Connor
Ministry
Boston
Dead Can Dance
Yes

Mostly I see small indie acts in clubs so not too many

[Westegg]

60. The Led Zeppelin...

June 10 and 11, Madison Square Garden, 1977.

Still have the ticket stubs.

[Dystopian]

63. I have quite the short list....

Canned Heat
Spirit
J Geils Band-(back in the day,'68, they all wore the same blue suits and they were terrible, then and now)
Grateful Dead
Ten Years After
Edgar Winter
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
...and the Turtles! lol
Am going to see Savoy Brown on December 1..finally! Can't wait...


peace~

[Tab]

70. And in a different direction...

I was trying to get tickets to the Led Zep show in Montreal when Bonham died - needless to say the show wasn't held. I probably had no way to get to Montreal anyway (although I lived an hour away).

Bob Marley.

I was at the University of Vermont, my roommate tried to get me to see Bob Marley. This was 1980. No one knew who Bob Marley was. He told me it was "island music". I'm thinking Don Ho shit. It was $8 for the show or $8 for a 12-pack, and I opted for the 12-pack over the "island music". He came back telling me he was in the third row watching Bob Marley and got to smoke a large spleef (huge joint). Six months later it was impossible to get any seats to a Bob Marley concert. That was the last time I turned down an invite.

[nytemare]

71. Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Dixie Chicks

Bonnie Raitt, Natalie Merchant, Cher, REO Speedwagon, 38 Special, Cheap Trick.

Will see Annie Lennox the end of the month.

Peter Gabriel was the best show I saw, and I honestly don't think any will top it.

[martymar64]

72. I'll give it a shot

AC/DC with Bon Scott - my very first concert.
Aerosmith
Styx
Van Halen
Boston
Sammy Hagar
April Wine
Nazareth
Blackfoot
Blue Oyster Cult
Eric Clapton
Muddy Waters
Foreigner
Judas Priest
Great White
Iron Maiden
Loverboy
Molly Hatchet
Grateful Dead - 35 times
Rush
The Kinks
The Blasters
X
Nick Lowe
Deep Purple
Girl School
Dead Milkmen
Jeff Healey
Green Jello
Sting
Blues Traveler
Johnny Lang
Raffi
Etta James
Toots and the Maytals
Presidents of the United States of America
Beck

[Burma Jones]

73. What I remember............

Alice Cooper
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Sly and the Family Stone
John Lennon
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney and Wings
Seals and Crofts
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Chicago
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here Tour and the Animals Tour
Yes
The Rolling Stones
Little Feat
Bob Marley
The Allman Brothers Band
Frank Zappa, with Jimmy Buffet as his warm up
Jethro Tull
Led Zeppelin
Miles Davis
Queen
George Thorogood
Talking Heads
Muddy Waters
Willie Nelson
David Bromberg
The Ramones
The Who
Elvis Costello
Bob Dylan
Paul Simon
Squeeze
The Polyphonic Spree (I know, not major.....)

And, at least 100 times from 1976 to 1995 - The Grateful Dead

[likesmountains 52]

74. I'm old...Cream, Zeppelin, The Doors, The Who, The Dead, Jethro Tull

Simon & Garfunkel, Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Van Morrison, The Stones, Jimi Hendrix...I could go on and on...I was one lucky kid...