List the major bands/artists that you've seen perform live

[charlie and algernon]

Don't think we've done this in a while. Let's define "major" as having at least a somewhat large nationwide following.


Mine:

Rush
Deep Purple
Steppenwolf
Beach Boys
Jay Z
Justin Timberlake
Beyoncé
Trans Siberian Orchestra (at least 3 times)
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Los Lonely Boys
Martin Garrix
Jack Johnson
Weezer
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

[bamademo]

1. I can't remember!

I'll try.

Allman Brothers
Doobie Brothers
Lynard Skynard
Eagles
Eric Clapton
Tom Petty
Crosby Stills Nash
O'jays
Linda Ronstadt
War
Herman's Hermits
38 Special
Grass Roots
Steppenwolfe
Sly and the Family Stone
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Bob Dylan
Three Dog Night

[sharp_stick]

2. This will be out of order

and probably not complete, part of the 90's is kind of a blur.

Rush, several times
Iron Maiden, at least 3 times
Judas Priest, at least 3 times
Van Halen
The Who
Pink Floyd
Marilyn Manson
The Cranberries
Green Day
Henry Rollins
The Dead Kennedy's
Pixies
The Offspring
Arcade Fire
New Kids On The Block...yes I'm serious
Skinny Puppy
Fucked Up
Weezer
Midnight Oil
Rancid
Bad Brains
Bad Religion

[charlie and algernon]

5. I'm jealous that you saw The Who

Did you manage to see them before or after John Entwistle?

[sharp_stick]

6. It was one for the ages

John Entwistle was there.

My girlfriend and I drove 12 hours to see it at BC Place in Vancouver in 1989. I was only 17 and neither of our families wanted us to travel that far for a concert but we went anyway. It meant trouble for both of us when we got back but it was worth it.

I can't remember which show we saw they played two nights.

http://www.classic-rock-concerts.com/performances/1818

[Arugula Latte]

14. I'm envious of you for Green Day, Arcade Fire and Midnight Oil

[sharp_stick]

75. Looking back over my mix

it's a little on the eclectic side I guess, certainly mixes one or two genres.

Green Day was back in the late 90s with my soon to be girlfriend, now wife. We and a few friends went on a concert spree one summer and checked out Green Day, Marilyn Manson, The Offspring and probably one or two others. It was before they really hit it big so it was a smaller stadium atmosphere. Lot's of moshing and a really good time.

Arcade Fire was a couple of years ago in Montreal. It was the first big stadium show I'd been to in years, my Brother in law had a couple of tickets and asked if I'd like to tag along. It was at the Bell Centre and it was jammed with hipsters. We spent the afternoon having drinks and snacks on patios while making fun (good naturdly of course) of all the beards, flat caps and flannel. It was a really really good show with surprisingly good acoustics. It was a lot of fun to see Arcade Fire play at home and they had Cœur de pirate, the really talented young Quebecois singer open up for them.

Midnight Oil is a whole story on it's own. I knew who they were and had heard Beds are Burning on the radio but I wasn't a big fan at the time and they were just starting their first North American tour. I think it must have been spring time '88, I was driving my brother out to Vernon British Columbia for a job and we stopped at a truck stop for dinner.

After we ordered drinks my brother said...Holy Shit look at the size of that bald dude behind you! (that's exactly what he said, I can still hear his voice like he did it yesterday) I carefully turned around and I'm staring into the face of Peter Garrett who no doubt just heard my brother say Holy shit look at the size of that bald dude behind you. Me, being just so damned cool, kind of went uhhhhh hi. He smiled and said hi and I turned back around and again being really cool went...Fuck me that's fucking Midnight Oil!

One of the other band members laughed at my pithy comment and came over and made small talk. We wound up sitting with them and talked about Canada for about an hour before the manager came and chased them onto the bus. My brother and I were still sitting there finishing our coffee when Peter Garrett came back into the truck stop and gave me four tickets to their show in Calgary two nights later. My brother was stuck in Vernon working so I had three really happy friends come with me to see them at a small venue at the University where they played. Less than six months later they'd become huge and came back to play the much bigger Saddledome. I didn't get free tickets to that one but I went anyway.

[Arugula Latte]

78. Whoa, very cool story about Midnight Oil!

What a great memory.

[Initech]

3. Too many to count!

Here's a small sampling:

Muse
Nine Inch Nails
Jack White
Bastille
Deftones
Foo Fighters
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
The Rolling Stones
The Black Keys
The Roots
Bob Dylan
Wilie Nelson
Rage Against The Machine
Rise Against
Dream Theater
The Offspring
Weird Al Yankovic
Zappa Plays Zappa
Beck
Parliament-Funkadelic
Coldplay
Flogging Molly
Dropkick Murphys
Steven Wilson (also Porcupine Tree and Blackfield)
Green Day
Phish
System Of A Down
Opeth
Tool

[fizzgig]

8. i saw the offspring and green day at a tiny venue back in 97 or 98

1600 capacity dive in denver. first thing we saw when we walked in to the offspring show as a guy getting a blow job in the corner. that was a bit of a shock for my 16 year old self.

[CBGLuthier]

4. OK, fairly short list.

Kiss (a friend dragged me, it was the same show where Mountain Smoke got booed off the stage)
Vince Gill (not really but he was a member of Mountain Smoke when they got booed off the stage)
Meatloaf (cost one dollar and it was one month after he released Bat out of Hell)
Alice Cooper (starting with Welcome to my Nightmare and two times more)
Yes (Twice in the 70's)
Donovan (when he opened for Yes)
Steve Morse and Rod Morganstern (both of Dixie Dregs fame.)
Styx (77 or so)
Jethro Tull (3 or so times in the 70's)
Rod Stewart (right before he exploded with Do You think I'm Sexy, featuring future Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood)
Loretta Lynn with and without Conway Twitty
Pink Floyd (well 3/4 of them anyway)
Harry Chapin (possibly still my fondest memory)
Kansas (I caught them lip syncing the opening to Carry On whenthey cued a reel to reel tape right at the beginning)


Two months ago I saw The California Guitar Trio in a very small venue and I was up at the stage and actually had to turn my head to see all three of them. One hell of a great show.

[cyberswede]

7. Hmmm...

It's hard to remember!

ZZ Top
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Head East
Elvis Costello & the Attractions
The Kinks
Peter, Paul & Mary
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Ravi Shankar
The Violent Femmes
Psychedelic Furs
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie (together)
Neil Young
George Clinton
The Grateful Dead (dozens of times)
Jerry Garcia Band
Santana
Little Feat
Steve Miller
Sting
Beausoleil
Los Lobos
Warren Zevon
Traffic
Allman Brothers
Jethro Tull
Blues Traveler
Metallica
Tom Petty
Bob Dylan
Tool
Pink Floyd
David Grisman Quintet
Traveling Wilburys
Koko Taylor
Townes Van Zandt
Steve Earl
Neville Brothers
Tannahill Weavers

Farm Aid 1985:
Alabama, Hoyt Axton, The Beach Boys, The Blasters, Bon Jovi, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, David Allan Coe, John Conlee, Charlie Daniels Band, John Denver, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Foreigner, Vince Gill, Arlo Guthrie, Sammy Hagar, Merle Haggard, Daryl Hall, Emmylou Harris, Don Henley, Waylon Jennings, Billy Joel, Randy Newman, George Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, B. B. King, Carole King, Kris Kristofferson, Huey Lewis, Loretta Lynn, John Mellencamp, Roger Miller, Joni Mitchell, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Charley Pride, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Reed, Kenny Rogers, Brian Setzer, Sissy Spacek, Tanya Tucker, Eddie Van Halen, Debra Winger, Neil Young, Dave Milsap, Joe Ely, Judy Rodman, X

Farm Aid 1993:
Arlo Guthrie, The Jayhawks, Jann Arden, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Ricky Van Shelton, Willie Nelson, Kentucky Headhunters, Marty Stuart, Charlie Daniels Band, Martina McBride, Bruce Hornsby, Bryan Adams, Ringo Starr, Black 47, The Highwaymen, Dwight Yoakam

There's probably more...

[ailsagirl]

96. WOW!!

I'm crazy about The Kinks/Ray Davies

and The Who ROCK!!! (Townshend)

[ailsagirl]

97. No one recently...

Kinks
Ray Davies (solo)
Dire Straits

not the Who, dammit (Townshend is amazing)

Quicksilver Messenger Service (way back)
Joan Jett (warm-up for the Kinks)
Genesis
Eric Burdon
Beatles (such a disappointment)
Sonny & Cher (hey, I was young)
Peter, Paul, & Mary
Deep Purple
Ten Years After

[cyberswede]

98. Great list!

I'm jealous of some of those!

[ailsagirl]

99. Thanks-- I was concerned people would think I was a dinosaur

[Wait Wut]

9. Short list.

I'm not a big fan of crowds.

Beach Boys
Joe Perry (post or mid Aerosmith)
Fleetwood Mac
Jethro Tull
Van Halen (DLR)
Sebastian Bach

[fizzgig]

10. toad the wet sprocket was my first show

went to the telluride blue grass festival with mom in 92 or 93.

since then:
green day 4 times
the cure three times (hope to see them at riot fest this year)
tool with king crimson opening
nine inch nails with a perfect circle opening
red hot chili peppers with stone temple pilots opening
stp headlining the return of the rock tour (opening bands weren't worth remembering)
offspring twice
mighty mighty boss tones opening for the offspring
blink 182 opening for one of the green day shows
rancid
sage francis
pepper
guttermouth
metallica (reload tour and a waste of money)

people would know some of the other opening acts i've seen, but i can't remember them.

[Populist_Prole]

11. Not a whole whole lot, but let's see

Chicago - Late 70's in a community college auditorium. Not my music, but it was for free and my first "big name band" concert

Judas Priest - 1980 & 1981 at The Palladium in NYC, and again in '87 at some big arena. '80 & '81 shows was GREAT. Latter was "meh". Material played and sound quality were factors

Ozzy Osbourne/Blizzard of Oz - 1981. Fantastic. Joe Perry Project was warm-up band. Not bad.

The Dickies - at CBGB in NYC

The Psychedelic Furs - Outdoor concert in NYC

AC/DC - 1981. Pretty good. First time I even heard Brian Johnson sing.

Iron Maiden - 1st as warm-up for Judas Priest in 1980 or '81 ( with Paul D'Anno as singer ) then at Palladium in 1983 or so. Excellent shows; music and sound quality wise.

Cheap Trick - Outdoor concert in Dallas Tx in 1990. VERY hot and lousy sound. Wish I saw them earlier playing earlier stuff and in a smaller indoor venue.

Styx - Same time and venue as above. Terrible sound: very muddy and bass heavy.

Metallica - Outdoor show in 1994. Wish it were an indoor show in 1988 -'89 the latest. Disappointing set list ( touring for 'Load' and 'Re-load' ) and awful sound. Very muddy. Lead/Rhythm guitar chords came across as thuds.

Twisted Sister - at their rawest and best several times in NYC area clubs in the early 80's.

[benld74]

12. Geez kinda foggy going back,,,,,

Who
Foghat
ZZTop
Nugent - Before he went right-wing rogue
Chicago
Seager
Yes
Eagles
REO Speedwagon,
Head East,
Judas Priest
Gypsy
Charlie Daniels
Styx
,
,

[Arugula Latte]

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The Clash (opened for the Who -- amazing)
The Who
Prince
U2 (in '85)
Franz Ferdinand (fantastic)
Echo & the Bunnymen (fantastic)
World Party (several times, love them)
New Order
Boston (don't judge -- I was 12)
The Bee Gees (don't judge -- I was 13)
Andy Gibb (okay, I had a thing for the Gibb brothers)
The Eagles
The Police
Billy Joel (yech--I can't stand his music anymore)
Elton John
Paul Simon
The B-52s
English Beat
General Public
Beach Boys (That was 30+ years ago and even then I thought they were a little too old to be doing that)
Hall & Oates
10,000 Maniacs
Donald Fagan (solo) and Steely Dan (remember when they neeeever toured?)
The Ocean Blue
Doves
The Waterboys
The Shins
Joe Jackson
Joan Armatrading

Some others I'm not thinking of ...

[Coventina]

57. Soooooo jealous about the Clash!!

Big Audio Dynamite is the closest I got......

RIP Joe. You left before your time......

[Arugula Latte]

68. It was great. I'm much, much more excited that I saw the Clash than the band

they opened for, the Who. Although that was pretty cool too.

[Avalux]

15. Ok here goes.....

Billy Idol (my first show in 1984)
Modern English
The Bangles
The Plimsouls
REM (3 x over 6 years)
Meat Puppets
The Replacements
Bob Dylan
The Pixies
Husker Du
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Jane's Addiction
Butthole Surfers
Mudhoney
Nine Inch Nails
Jesus and Mary Chain
The Cure
Dinosaur Jr.
Los Lonely Boys
Foo Fighters
Tool
The Monkees
Pavement
Interpol
Blink 182
Yo La Tengo
The Shins
Panic at the Disco
Modest Mouse
Metric
Explosions in the Sky
Sigur Ros
Wilco
The Head and the Heart
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros


These are what I can remember - and lots more that I guess wouldn't be considered major.

[Arugula Latte]

16. Oh, man, I loooove your taste in music.

Why didn't I ever see REM live? Why?!

[Avalux]

18. Thanks and I'm fortunate enough to have seen them early on...

met Michael Stipe after a show and was so tongue-tied I could barely speak to him.

[Coventina]

58. Hahaha! You totally reminded me that I forgot to put the Monkees on my list!

I went to go see them during their 80s revival!

I went mostly because my sister was totally into them, but it was a fun show!!!

[Iggo]

17. Bookmarking for later.

Big list coming...

[raptor_rider]

19. Here's a few

MegaDeth
Ozzy
Black Sabbath
Godsmack
Slayer
Rob Zombie
Five Finger Death Punch

Ozzfest of 1999 had some big ones, however I was pretty high at the time. I loved see Rob Zombie again a and Five Finger Death Punch last summer. First rock concert my husband had ever been to, and we had a blast!!! Only 5 rows behind the mosh pit in the front and man, you could feel the heat from the pyrotechnics Rob Zombie was doing!!! I still have the confetti from the cannons in a jar in my room. I hurt for a week head banging and bouncing around.

[whistler162]

20. Well

Mel Torme
Harry Connick Jr.
Alison Krauss and Union Station just after their first album release.
Boston SO
Philadelphia SO with Marvin Hamlish conducting.
Riders in the Sky
Carol Channing
Dr. John
Chick Corea
Dudley Moore
Victor Borge
Bob Dylan

[derby378]

21. Here's what I can remember

Metallica (3x)
Judas Priest
Van Halen
Scorpions
Sonic Youth (2x)
Neil Young
Skinny Puppy (2x)
Swans
The Cult
Ozzy Osbourne (2x)
Front 242
Rush
Pink Floyd (sans Roger Waters)
Iron Maiden
Yes
The Pogues
Guns 'n Roses (2x)
Faith No More

[Earth_First]

22. I couldn't possibly list everyone I've managed to see live...

I've seen Phish 89 times...

[Max power]

23. Jeeesh

Black Sabbath
Suicidal tendencies
Motörhead
Voivod
DRI
Slayer x3
Accept
Iron maiden x3
Poison
Ozzy
Metallica x2
Armored saint
Beastie boys
WASP
Heart
Cheap trick
Stone temple pilots
Ratt
Mötley Crüe x3
Rage against the machine x2
Queens of the stone age
Radiohead
Nine inch nails
Kanye west
Anthrax
Dio
Megadeth
Blues travelers

That's all I can remember

[likesmountains 52]

24. This will date me a bit,, but here goes!

Sonny and Cher
Jackson Browne
Jimi Hendrix
iron Butterfly
Three dog Night
Frank Zappa
Creedence Clearwater
poco
Johnny Winter
Jerry Jeff Walker
Tim Buckley
Joe Cocker
The Who
Cream
Led Zepplin
The Doors
Joni Mitchell
Jethro Tull
Van Morrison
The Rolling Stones
Tom Waits
Townes VanZandt
Eric Anderson
Gordon lightfoot
tom Rush
Simon and Garfunkle
Frightened rabbit
Big bad Voodoo Daddy
Lucinda williams
Gillian Welch
Eilen Jewell
Crosby, Stills and Nash....probably others that I've forgotten!

[JesterCS]

25. Mine:

Weird Al
Britney Spears ( sue me.. i was young and had the hotts for her )
3 Doors Down
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sevendust

[Algernon Moncrieff]

26. Jefferson Starship was my first show

Bob Seger
Jimmy Buffett
The Beach Boys (w/ special guest Ringo Starr)
Steely Dan
Genesis
Bonnie Raitt
Paul McCartney
Little Feat
Blue Oyster Cult (w/ Special Guest Foghat -- who -- I kid you not -- put on one of the best shows I've ever seen)
Al DiMeola/John McLaughlin/Paco DeLucia
Aja (horrible show, but great work by Palmer & Howe)
Huey Lewis & the News
The Four Tops/The Temptations
Black Sabbath (fronted by Ronnie James Dio -- with special guest the Donnie Van Zandt Band in a show with a very bad crowd mix)
Corbin Bleu and Aly & AJ (Radio Disney type acts)

E.T.A.

The Eagles
Johnny Cash (on the National Mall on 7/4/1976)

[OriginalGeek]

27. Good lord I can't remember them all but I'll give it a try:

Beach Boys
Tom Petty
The Scorpions
Judas Priest
The Kinks
Iron Maiden
Dokken
Saxon
Great White
Metallica (back when they were still cool)
AC/DC
Quiet Riot
Alabama
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Rush
Robert Plant solo
Plant and Page
John Paul Jones solo
The Firm
The Black Crowes
Aerosmith
ZZ Topp
Napalm Death
Morbid Angel
Pestilence
Bolt Thrower
Steve Winwood solo (Did not play Low Spark of High Heeled Boys -was a great set but I'm still a little sad about that)
Carcass
Slayer
Motörhead
Exodus
Kreator
Sacred Reich
Entombed
Prong
Nocturnus
Portal
Anthrax
Ozzy Osbourne
Heaven and Hell
Dio solo
Accept
King Diamond
Mercyful Fate
The Monkees (3/4ths of them anyway)
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
The Grass Roots
Sick of it All
Coroner
Suicidal Tendencies
Pentagram
Atheist
Deicide
Rompeprop
Devourment
Cattle Decapitation
Neurosis
DRI
Corrosion of Conformity
Arsis
Absu
Sepultura (with both Cavalera brothers - Beneath the Remains tour)
Quiet Riot
At The Gates
Asia
Birdflesh
Death
Heart
Kansas
Last Days of Humanity
Buddy Guy (incredible show!)
The Guess Who (sort of lol - maybe a drummer from the original band)
Behemoth
General Surgery
Orange Goblin
Aborted
Suffocation
SepticFlesh
Broken Hope
Obituary
Alice Cooper
Coffins
The Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Foo Fighters
Gojira
The Reverend Horton Heat
Megadeth
Kingdom COme
Van Hagar
Pink Floyd
The Roots
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Rotten Sound
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Journey
Foreigner
Night Ranger
Hail of Bullets
Asphyx
The Doobie Brothers
Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullet Band
Queensryche
Devin Townsend
James Blount
Necrophagist
Pig Destroyer
Jungle Rot
Overkill
Dying Fetus
Repulsion
Rod Stewart
Blue Oyster Cult
The Fixx
Psychedelic Furs
Spacehog
Rupert Holmes
Fake Lynyrd Skynyrd (little brother's band)
Rossington Collins Band
Wall of Voodoo
Air Supply
Dir En Grey (took my daughter to see them as she loved them at the time)
The Beastie Boys
Nuclear Assault



OK, I know what you're thinking - "Rod Stewart!? He's not major!" But my wife wanted to go so we did. Same for James Blount.

I can't remember many hundreds more..lots of shows at dive bars that get lost in the fog....

[Max power]

47. I had to Google cattle decapitation

Great covers

[OriginalGeek]

50. lol, yeah

and the funny part is that, originally, all the members were vegans and their songs were written from animals' point of view. The two main members are still vegans but there has been a couple personnel changes over the years. But they are still very strongly for animal rights among other things that I like.


Not that I like enough to not eat meat, but I appreciate their efforts. And the music is great.

[wyldwolf]

28. Eclectic mix here

Van Halen
Journey
Def Leppard
REM
The Osmonds
David Cassidy
Rick Springfield
Pat Benatar
Duran Duran
Nelson
Paula Abdul
Boyz II Men
TLC
R. Kelly
Kool and the Gang
Starship
Moody Blues
Janet Jackson

[LynneSin]

29. Ok this includes both paid tickets and free ones I see as a volunteer

I'll go alphabetical because good chance I will have at least one CD of theirs and looking at my music collection will help me remember who I have seen. I also work as a volunteer at a local concert venue so I have seen plenty of acts there too!

First I've been to these festivals - Live 8 in 2005 and Live Earth in 2007 so saw a mess of bands there


As for concerts:
AFI - (Live Earth)
Akon (Live Earth)
Alabama Shakes (I saw them open for North Mississippi All-Stars about 2 months before they made it huge!)
Allman Brothers (Played with Rat Dog at the Mann Music Center or Susequehann Center - not sure which)
Jon Anderson (Queen)
Asia (Regular Concert and volunteer)
Average White Band (Volunteer)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (Queen)
Birds of Chicago (opened for Carolina Chocolate Drops)
Black Crowes (I think it was the TLA in Philly. Son Volt opened for them)
Black Eyed Peas (Live 8)
Blind Boys of Alabama (Volunteer)
Blood Sweat and Tears (Volunteer)
Blues Traveler (Saw as a volunteer. Had drinks with John Popper after the concert)
Bon Jovi (2 times - Regular Concert and Live Earth)
Jason Bonahm Band (The Grand in Wilmington)
David Bowie (Twice, once with DU Ramsey)
Lindsay Buckingham (2nd row at the Queen amazing to see!)
Jimmy Buffett (Technically we would sit outside the Mann Music Center and listen to his concerts - massive parties)
Carbon Leaf (3 times - twice at the Queen and once opening for Toad the Wet Sprocket at the Queen)
Carolina Chocolate Drops (2 times as volunteer)
Tom Chacon (Opened for Los Lonely Boys - volunteer)
Ray Charles (Party on the Parkway 4th of July concert in Philly - back in the 90s)
Kelly Clarkson (Live Earth)
Citizen Cope (at the Queen)
Chris Cornell (Technically was to see him but cancelled the show, was a volunteer event)
Elvis Costello (Twice - once opening for Bob Dylan and 2nd time as Volunteer)
Counting Crows (They did a show at the Frawley Stadium in Wilmington)
Def Leppard (ages ago at City Island in Harrisburg then at Live 8)
Ani DiFranco (Queen in Wilmington)
Destiny's Child (Live 8)
Dixie Chicks (Wells Fargo in Philly, right after she made that comment and Country music stations ditched her)
The Doobie Brothers (Mann Music Center, opened for Steve Miller Band)
Bob Dylan (Twice - once at Mann Music Center and other time at Merriweather Post Pavillion in MD)
Melissa Ethridge (Volunteer. She had a show in Wilmington the evening after SCOTUS overturned DOMA - quite the party also Live Earth))
Bela Fleck (Volunteer)
Fleetwood Mac (Wells Farg)
Peter Frampton (Opened for Jethro Tull. At Merriweather Post Pavillion in MD)
The Fratellis (Opened for the Police at Citizen Bank in Philly)
Robert Fripp (It was his league of Crafty Guitarists at the World Cafe Life in Philly)
Peter Gabriel (Wells Fargo - celebrating 25 aniversary of 'So' album)
Goo-Goo Dolls (Volunteer - they did an acoustic show in Wilmington)
Grateful Dead (Last show ever at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.
Green Day - (Twice at Wells Fargo and Merriweather Post Pavillion in MD. The MPP show was the night Katrina hit New Orleans. When we got home gas was jacked up everywhere. I also saw American Idiot on Broadway)
Ha Ha Tonka (Volunteer)
Hall & Oates (They Headline a Throwback show at the Spectrum in Philly before it was torn down. Tickets were $8)
Justin Hayward (Queen in Wilmington)
Hooters (They opened that Throwback show along with one time at City Island in Harrisburg and once at the Tower in Philly)
Bruce Hornsby (Opened for the Grateful Dead at the JFK show then played with them)
Billy Idol (Once at City Island in Harrisburg and 2nd time at Stubbs during SXSW. After the concert I met him and he gave me a hug)
Jars of Clay (Live 8)
Jay-Z (Live 8, he also came out and peformed with Linkin Park)
Jethro Tull (Merriweather Post Pavillion - one of my all-time favorite shows. Ian Anderson is a hoot!)
Jimmy Eat World (Opened for Green Day at Merriweather Post Pavillion)
Elton John (Twice - once at the Bob in Newark DE (worst concert ever) and 2nd time at Wells Fargo with Leon Russell, much better)
Kaiser Chiefs (Live 8)
Alicia Keys (Live 8)
Kix (Once at City Island, 2nd time at Lebanon Valley College)
Diana Krall (Volunteer)
Laughing Colors (3 times in Wilmington)
Amos Lee (Once at the Kendrick Theater and 2nd time opening for Costello/Dylan)
Gordon Lightfoot (Volunteer)
Levon Helms (Opened for Phil Lesh - at Penn's Landing in Philly)
Phil Lesh (Penn's Landing)
Linkin Park (Live 8)
Living Colour (Opened for Rolling Stones in 89)
Los Lonely Boys (Volunteer)
Madonna (We had shitty seats but I really wanted to see her, MDNA tour at Wells Fargo)
Aimee Mann (Stubbs during SXSW festival)
Maroon 5 (Live 8)
Matchbox 20 (Live 8)
Matisyahu (Volunteer)
Dave Matthews Band (Mann Music Center and Live 8)
John Mayers (Twice at the Susquenhanna Center and once at Live 8)
Sarah McLachlen (Live Earth)
Steve Miller Band (5 times - 3 times at Mann Music Center, 1 time PNC in NJ and 1 time at Susquehanna Center in Camden)
Moody Blues (somewhere at one of the Casinos in NJ)
Alanis Morisette (PNC in Holmdal NJ)
Morissey (Like Chris Cornell I was to see him as a volunteer until he cancelled the show)
Mutlu (Opend for Amos Lee)
Graham Nash - (Volunteer)
North Mississippi All-Stars (At the Queen in Wilmington. Alabama Shakes opened for them)
Oingo Boingo (Opened for Yes at the concert in DC)
Old Crow Medicine Show (Volunteer)
Page & Plant (2 times both at Wells Fargo)
Jimmy Page (Spectrum in Philly, Jason Bonham played drums)
Parliament (Once at Bottle & Cork in Dewey Beach DE and once at the Queen)
Pearl Jam (Twice - once at Susquehanna Center and once at Wells Fargo)
Ratt Dog - The played with Allman Brothers
Robert Plant (Once at Hersheypark Stadium (front row - held his hand during "In the Mood" 7/22/88), Spectrum, Tower Theater twice and at SXSW so that's 5 times)
The Police (Citizen Park in Philly)
John Prine (Once at Mann Music Center and once as a volunteer)
REO Speedwagon (Volunteer)
Damien Rice (4 times, first at one of WXPN big festivals, then twice at Mann Music Center and at Live Earth)
Rolling Stones (Veteran Stadium. Was suppose to be at JFK but that's when they found the big crack in it)
Run River North (Opened for Goo Goo Dolls and again as a volunteer)
Todd Rundgren (he was the 3rd act with the Throwback show at the Spectrum with Hall & Oats and The Hooters)
The Sharks (Local band that won an MTV new video award ages ago - twice around Harrisburg)
Stray Cats (Opened for David Bowie back in 1983)
Sleater Kinney (Electric Factory in Philly)
Smashing Pumpkins (Live Earth)
Will Smith/DJ Jazzy & The Fresh Prince (Live 8)
Son Volt (SXSW, TLA in Philly, Opening for Black Crowes in Philly and Union Transfer in Philly - 4 times)
Bruce Springsteen (once at Meadowlands, Wells Fargo (Chris Christie sat 10 rows in front of me) and once for a free concert in 2008 to get voters out in Philly)
Ringo Starr and his band of All-Stars (Mann Music Center, Joe Walsn and Clarence Clemons played with him)
Steely Dan (Susquehanna Center - one of the best concerts ever)
Sugarhill Gang (At a shitty club called Delaware Live)
Ben Taylor (Queen - that's James Taylor & Carly Simon's kid - hot looking and great voice. Funny too)
Toad the Wet Sprocket (Queen, Carbon Leaf had opened for them)
The Tokens (That's the band that sang 'The Lion Sleeps tonight', Volunteer)
Toto (Volunteer)
Tower of Power (volunteer)
Travel Songs (Opened for Ha Ha Tonka (Volunteer)
Steve Vai (First Volunteer show)
Villians like You (Volunteer - Opened for Blues Traveler)
Vintage Trouble (Opened for the Who show back in 2012)
The Wallflowers (SXSW)
Joe Walsh (Technically at that Ringo Starr concert. He did a set of his classic songs)
War (Volunteer)
Roger Waters (Twice for Dark Side of the Moon Tour, Once for The Wall Tour and Live Earth)
Kanye West (Live 8)
The Who (Their 1989 Farewell Tour and Quadrophenia Tour)
Stevie Wonder (Live 8)
Keith Urban (Live Earth and Live 8)
Yes ( Once at Hersheypark back in 1983 and once at some place outside of DC but only saw 2 songs because it was outdoors and massive thunderstorms. That show Jon Anderson was replaced with his tribute band singer)
Dweezil Zappa (Volunteer - met him afterwards - really nice guy)

I worked a few comedy shows as a volunteer including - Wanda Sykes, Stephen Wright, Jim Breaur and Mike Birigbia. I also saw John Waters speak about his movies as a volunteer.

[Sherman A1]

30. Well,

Chris Botti

Yo Yo Ma

Ella Fitzgerald

A Prairie Home Companion

Elton John/Billy Joel

Burt Bacharach

and I am sure a few others that don't come to mind.

[HuckleB]

31. Tito Puente, Jarrett/DeJohnette/Peacock, Willie Nelson, The Pogues...

Gil Scott Heron
Fishbone
Emmylou Harris
Norah Jones
Johnny Cash
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Pink Martini
Merle Haggard
The Bad Plus
Bebel Gilberto
U2
Taken By Trees
Ozzy Osbourne
Van Halen
Bruce Springsteen
The Specials
Conor Oberst
INXS
Marty Robbins
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Echo & The Bunnymen
Cowboy Junkies
Guillermo Klein

[tinymontgomery]

32. Not sure I remember them all

The Band
CCR
Steppenwolf
Sea Train
Fleetwood Mac
The Kinks
George Harrison/Rava Shankar
Dylan
Neil Young/Steven Stills
Grateful Dead
Stones
Pat Benatar
Jimi Buffet
Climax Blues Band

on edit
Chicago
The Who
New Riders of the Purple Sage

There's two or three more in there somewhere I can't remember. Not a lot but all good.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. I don't get out much, so these aren't very recent.

Olivier Messaien
Yvonne Loriod
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Beverly Sills
The Rolling Stones
Mstislav Rostropovich
Yo Yo Ma
Leontyne Price
Itzhak Perlman

There are a bunch more but I don't remember them - had orchestra season tickets years ago, saw a lot of great performances.

[LiberalElite]

34. Beatles and

a couple of bands at Fillmore East.

[greendog]

35. William Shatner & the Chicago Symphony

Suzanne Vega
Bob Dylan
Whitney Houston
Michael Hedges
Elvis Costello
Eric Clapton
Bill Monroe
The Moody Blues
Peter Gabriel
Emmylou Harris
Muddy Waters
Golden Earring
ELP
Simon & Garfunkel
Rockpile
Bruce Springsteen
The Grateful Dead
Billy Joel
J. Geils Band
Richard Thompson
Bobby McFerrin
Bonnie Raitt
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Doc Watson
Violent Femmes
Winton Marsalis
Maria Muldaur
Taj Mahal

[RebelOne]

36. A few, but it would totally date me.

I have seen Frank Sinatra, the Supremes, Deep Purple, Leon Russell, Johnny Cash, and many others that I cannot remember. I also dated George Dewitt a couple of times. In case no one remembers him, here is his profile:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_DeWitt

[Corgigal]

37. Wow, do i have a variety

Peter Frampton
Boston
Pat Benetar
Phil Collins (3)
Genesis (4)
Bruce Springsteen
Elton John
Maroon 5
Coldplay

[kwassa]

38. The first day of Woodstock ...

believe it or not, we got there three days early, were wet, tired, and some of us sick and we left on the second day.

First day was all-acoustic, starting with Richie Havens, of course.

Woodstock was the moment rock changed from small business to big business

Janis Joplin three times, both with Big Brother and the Holding Company and as a solo star.
Led Zeppelin in '69.
Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
The Jefferson Airplane twice. The second time we were tear-gassed in a mass stadium concert due to the police starting a riot.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
Bonnie Raitt as a 19 year old solo singer with her guitar, singing on the lawn of my art school.
Muddy Waters
B.B. King twice, 20 years apart.
Bruce Springsteen
James Taylor
Arlo Guithrie
Steppenwolf
The Who, doing Tommy, when they all were still alive.
The Rolling Stones on the Some Girls tour, at a surprise concert in a 4,000 seat opera house. Amazing.
Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen.
Luther Allison
Pete Seeger. The concert was oversold and we were seated in folding chairs on the stage. I was about 10 feet from Pete.
Beausoliel several times. They are the best Cajun band.
R.E.M at the Greek.

and this band in my art school called the Artistics. Two of them were David Byrne and Chris Frantz, and they went to New York after graduation and started a band called the Talking Heads with Chris's girlfriend Tina, and Jerry Harrison. I saw them at the Greek at the concert in 1983 that caused Jonathan Demme to make a movie about them. The concert was incredible, the best I've seen.

oh, and I was standing outside a restaurant, waiting for my friends to finish paying their bills, in an industrial area of LA. The street was empty when the door from the this warehouse opened, and out walked Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara Bach. They just strolled down the street. Late '80s. I was five feet away from them.

[Broken_Hero]

39. hmm,

Life of Agony
Type O Negative
Mudvayne
Deftones
Linkin Park
Limp Bizkit
Metallica

[flvegan]

40. The Beastie Boys

They had to be listed first.

AC/DC
Van Halen
Kiss
Kidrock (don't judge me)
Metallica
Guns n Roses
Faith No More
Nine Inch Nails
Garth Brooks
Limp Bizkit
Kevn Kinney
Neil Young
Pearl Jam
Rage Against the Machine
Marilyn Manson
Rise Against
Poison
Ratt
Billy Idol
The Cult

[nirvana555]

42. This is fun...

Bob Seger
Melissa Etheridge
K.D. Lange
Sinead O'Connor
Sarah McLaughlin
Grand Funk Railroad
Elton John
Rolling Stomes
ZZ Top
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Eagles
Bon Jovi
Jackson Brown
The Wallflowers
Sophie B. Hawkins
Lucinda Williams
Los Lobos
Willie Nelson
Heart
Prince
Bucket List
Paul '
McCartney
U2
I'm sure there are more but these are what come to mind
FWIW Prince was the best. He was simply unbelievable!

[erinlough]

41. Some oldies some new

B.B. King
Paul McCartney and Linda and wings
Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Rush
Eric Clapton
The Cranberries
Huey Lewis and the News
Buddy Guy
Keb Mo
Paul Simon (rhythm of the saints era)
CCR
Chicago
The Turtles
The Stones, very early Stones
Blood Sweat and Tears
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
Alice Cooper
John Denver
Kenny Rodgers and Dottie West
Harry Chapin

Geez, I'm old!

[bluesbassman]

43. OK, but some of these may have been a hallucination.

Tower of Power
Slade
Brownsville Station
Montrose
Lynyrd Skynrd
Marshall Tucker Band
Little Feat
Doobie Brothers
Manfred Mann
Aerosmith
Johnny Winter
Link Wray
Yes
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Robin Trower
Deep Purple
Rare Earth
Black Sabbath (with Ozzy and with Dio)
Black Oak Arkansas
Earth, Wind & Fire
Rolling Stones
Living Color
The Who
Foghat
ZZ Top
The Eagles
Robben Ford
Reverand Horton Heat
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
Jerry Garcia
Queensrÿche
Bonnie Raitt
Bruce Hornsby
Alice Cooper
BB King
Tommy Castro
Eric Clapton

[pinboy3niner]

44. The Beatles, We Five, The Mamas & The Papas, The Association, Fogerty, Beach Boys, Shirelles...

...Temps, Four Tops, Peter Noone, Four Seasons, Righteous Brothers, Springsteen, Quincy Jones, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Roger McGuinn, Scott McKenzie, R.E.M., Bright Eyes, Tom Paxton...and many others. Heavy on classic rock and folk/folk rock.

[eppur_se_muova]

45. Maynard Ferguson, Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillespie, John Faddis, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis ...

No, I don't recognize any of the names in your list, either.

[DFW]

46. A few

The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Electric Flag
The Beach Boys
Pearls Before Swine
Country Joe and the Fish
The Allman Brothers
The Grateful Dead
Ravi Shankar (not a group, but WOW!)
Andrés Segovia (same comment as Shankar)
Canned Heat (early lineup: Hite, Vestine, Wilson, Taylor)
The Youngbloods
Junior Wells and the Chicago Blues Band
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Bruce Springsteen (solo gig)
Leo Kottke (solo gig)
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Robert Cray Band
Jimmie Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds
Little Feat (post Lowell George, unfortunately)
Neil Diamond (backed by a local group)
The Moody Blues
Steely Dan
Paul Simon (Graceland tour)
Bob Dylan (with backup group)
Jethro Tull
Fairport Convention
Steeleye Span
Elton John (with backup band)
John Mayall (with Backup band)
Bonnie Rait (with band)
Cat Stevens (with backup guitarist)
Steve Miller Band
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Derek and the Dominoes
Eric Clapton (with backup band)
Mark Knopfler (with current band)
Johnny Winter And
Mungo Jerry
Leonard Cohen and band
Doobie Brothers
The Eagles
Billy Joel (and band)
The Hollies
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Neil Young (and band)
The Rolling Stones
AC/DC
The Left Banke
Ossipov Balalaika Orchestra

probably a few I have forgotten to list

[Scuba]

74. Nice list.

[DFW]

89. My band opened for three of them

For a brief time in 1967, there was a wannabe Fillmore East in Washington, D.C. called the Ambassador Theater. I had a progressive rock band in high school called The Clockwork Orange (3 years before the film came out--we were all fans of the book). A friend of ours did the sound system for the Ambassador, and also did some informal recording of us. We were once all in DC together, and he needed to do a sound check on the Ambassador's system. The part of town was a little raunchy, so he advised us to bring our equipment into the Ambassador while we was working. We did, and he said as long as we were there we should set up and help him with his sound check. Hell yeah! A chance to play at the Ambassador--well sorta! LOL.

But then some guy appears outta nowhere and asks who we are. We tell him, and ask who he is. He says he owns the Ambassador. OOPS. We apologize profusely and explain that we were just helping with the sound check. He said that was OK, and by the way, what were we doing that night? Ummm, well, as of that moment, nothing! We opened for a few local groups, and then the next three weeks, opened for Canned Heat, Junior Wells and the Youngbloods. Heady stuff for a bunch of teenagers!

[Scuba]

102. Very cool. Canned Heat one of my all-time favorites ...

[kentauros]

48. In semi-chronological order...

[font color="green"]Blue Oyster Cult
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
Electric Light Orchestra
Genesis (with Gabriel)
Peter Gabriel
Laurie Anderson
Steve Riech
Devo (five tours)
Oingo Boingo (three tours)
Bill Bruford (two tours)
Fishbone
Negativland
The Legendary Pink Dots
Rage Against the Machine
Caspar Brotzmann
Ray Charles
The Tubes
The Chieftans
The Flying Fish Sailors
Sprawl
Peglegasus
The Presidents[/font]

[bif]

49. Where to begin! I've seen just about everybody!

Pink Floyd
Jefferson Airplane
Grateful Dead
George, Paul & Ringo
Queen
Temptations
The Stones
Traffic
Beach Boys
James Taylor
Aretha Franklin
to name a few of the people I've seen. Then there are all the jazzers I've seen.

[HeiressofBickworth]

51. In my younger years, most "big" concerts were out of my price range

but I managed to see a few:

The Beatles, 1964 Seattle, a date with a guy I am embarrassed to say I don't remember. His parents made him take his younger brother along.
Neil Diamond -- went with my then-husband, young daughter and a woman from the office and her young son
George Michael, Vancouver BC -- with my then-teenaged daughter. I checked, I was indeed the oldest person in the place
INXS -- the new formation of the band.

[vanlassie]

52. Van Morrison x2

Jackson Browne x2
John Hiatt
Boz Scaggs
Cat Stevens
Moody Blues
Steely Dan
Jethro Tull
Rolling Stones
Donovan
Santana
Elton John
BB King
Gillian Welch x2
Steve Earl
ELO
Lyle Lovett
David Lindley
Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Crosby Stills and Nash
Dixie Chicks
Tower of Power
Meatloaf
Supertramp

That I can remember...

[bluedigger]

53. I'll try, more or less in order...

Aerosmith (before they released their first album)
Dan Hicks
Art Garfunkel
Bruce Springsteen (1978, 1984, 2003)
Blue Oyster Cult x2
Dr. John
Bad Company
Foghat
Heart
Ian Hunter
Jethro Tull x2
Marshall Tucker Band
J. Geils Band
ZZ Top
Joe Perry Project
Stray Cats
The Clash
Talking Heads
Jerry Garcia Band x2
Ratdog
Crosby, Stills & Nash x2
Bryan Adams
Tina Turner
BB King
Merle Saunders
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Charley Rich
Procol Harum
Fleetwood Mac
Nine Inch Nails
King Missile
Bare Naked Ladies
Billy Bragg
Bob Dylan
David Bowie
John Prine x2
Hank Williams III
Lucinda Williams
Reverend Horton Heat x2
Charlie Louvin
English Beat
Patti Smith

I'm forgetting some, I'm sure...

[mia]

54. Thanks for the thread. I enjoyed bringing these performers to mind.

Tori Amos
Joshua Bell
Jimmy Buffett
Laurie Anderson
Pat Metheny
Yo Yo Ma
Philip Glass
Patti Smith
Bette Midler
Etta James
Muddy Waters
Bob Marley
Bob Dylan
Bob Seeger
Santana

[chknltl]

55. Starting with Pink Floyd over in Germany back in 1971, ending with a fellow DUers old band:

Pink Floyd (just prior to Umma Gumma's release)
John Mayall
Humble Pie
Golden Earring (in a bar, they were not famous yet and played cover songs including the song Eight Miles High)
Tangerine Dream (did not care for them back in '72, I think they still make music for movies, got known for this).
Joan Baez
Grand Funk Railroad
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Ten Years After
The Who
Jethro Tull (Thick as a Brick pre-release tour this first time and at least twice more in Seattle in the '80s and '90s
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Deep Purple
Rod Stewert and the Faces (they got beat up on stage by an angry audience that day, true story)
Uriah Heep
Elton John (saw him again years later on his Goodby Yellowbrick Road Tour)

all above bands and more were in Berlin Germany from 1970-72

YES (Tales From a Topographic Ocean Tour)
Black Sabbath, (saw them and/or Ozzie at least 4 more times)
Styx with opening act Rush...(yeah, I figured out right there and then I was witnessing greatness in the making)
Supertramp
Procal Harum
Alice Cooper
Heart
Peter Frampton (Frampton Comes Alive tour)
Rush (at least twice more on their own)
Moody Blues
Grateful Dead
Cher
Blue Oyster Cult
Ugly Kid Joe
Joe Cocker with Stevy Ray Vaughn (mere months before he died)
Scorpions
Aerosmith
Van Halen (technically 'Van Hagar' but truth be told I went to the show to see Alice in Chains who opened for them)
Metallica (at least four times but regrettably only after the Black album)
Faith No More
Biohazard
Sepltura (sp?)
Ramstein
Slipknot
Sevendust
KISS (I admitted to Cher earlier, truth is I ended up liking her show, KISS was a waste of time and gas money)
Suicidal Tendencies
String Cheese Incident
Sound Garden
Alice in Chains
Joe Satrianni

and both 'Mr. Grinch' and 'Before Christ'...who dat you ask? Why dat would be a band our fellow DUer Opiate69 played some great guitar for. During the early '90s I took up photographing local bands in Tacoma Wa. later I got to work with a couple of little known national acts but those early days in Tacoma produced some of my absolute most favorite musical memories. You can see by my above list that I was lucky to see a great many very talented musicians over the past 40 years, let me tell you I enjoyed few of them more than the locals I got to work with in Western Washington. Of those local guys n gals, fellow DUer Opiate69's band 'Mr Grinch' brings to me some of my fondest memories. If you see this Rick, I meant every word of it-Thanks Bro

[Coventina]

56. Haha! I actually just put this list together fairly recently. Here it is:

B-52's
B. B. King
Erika Badu
Berlin
Big Audio Dynamite
Billy Idol
Blondie
Bobby McFerrin
Bryan Ferry
Cake
The Call
Camper Van Beethoven
Concrete Blonde
The Cramps
Crowded House
The Cult
The Cure
Cyndi Lauper
David Byrne
Dead Milkmen
Depeche Mode
Divinyls (RIP Christine
Dramarama
Drivin' & Cryin'
Duran Duran
Echo & the Bunnymen
Eurythmics
The Feelies
Flat Duo Jets
Roddy Frame
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Front 242
Gene Loves Jezebel
The Go-Go's
Gogol Bordello
Green Day
Guadalcanal Diary
House of Freaks
Howard Jones
Hoodoo Gurus
Indigo Girls
INXS
Jane Wiedlin
Jane's Addiction
Jesus and Mary Chain
Jesus Jones
Jewel
Laibach
Living Colour
Lone Justice
Love and Rockets
Madonna
Material Issue
Meat Puppets
Ministry
Moby
Morrissey
Mojo Nixon
The Motels
Mumford and Sons
Natalie Merchant
New Order
Nine Inch Nails
No Doubt
Sinead O'Connor
Oingo Boingo
OMD
Pet Shop Boys
Peter Murphy
Pixies
Public Image Ltd.
Pylon
REM
The Ramones
The Replacements
Reverend Horton Heat
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
Sarah McLachlan
The Selector
Simple Minds
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Sisters of Mercy
The Smithereens
The Smiths
Social Distortion
The Specials
Stan Ridgeway
Tegan and Sara
The The
They Might Be Giants
Thompson Twins
Tom Tom Club
Tracy Chapman
U2
Vampire Weekend
Violent Femmes
Weird Al Yankovic

[Avalux]

83. Great list! And thanks for jarring my memory.....

I neglected to put Camper Van Beethoven, Robyn Hitchcock, Violent Femmes, Feelies, and Drivin' and Cryin' and on my list!

[Coventina]

84. Glad to have helped! When I put mine together my friends and family

kept reminding me of shows I'd forgotten to list!

Drivin' & Cryin' was one of them!!
They were a great band, and I had the t-shirt from the show, back in the day....

Violent Femmes are coming back here in Sept. but they are going to be at one of those all-day festival type events, and I'm just too old for an all-day outdoor show in Phoenix in Sept., where it can still be 110. Plus, it would probably only be a 45 minute set.

[Avalux]

85. Hey if I lived near you I'd go along!

Violent Femmes are a lot of fun live. I'm considering Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin in Nov - three day festival with the likes of Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jr., Modest Mouse, Guided by Voices...not to mention Rocket from the Crypt and Jello Biafra lol. Tons more. Same as you though, short sets and I'm not as young as I used to be!

[Coventina]

86. Wow! Sounds like an awesome fest!!

Would LOVE to see Jello Biafra and some of the others.

Sucks to get old!

I really want to make it to the Glastonbury festival someday, before I need a walker!

[Rhythm]

105. I'm jealous of you getting to see The Sisters...

[Ineeda]

59. My favorite was Billy Joel at the old Boston Garden, great loge seats.

But I saw Jimmy Buffett quite a few times, Huey Lewis and several others, including Aerosmith once. I remember as a young adult, taking my folks to see Anne Murray and Bobby Vinton, and a smooth duo called Sandler and Young back in the seventies, I think.

[Tribalceltic]

60. I have been to one!

Cher

'nuff said

[Jenoch]

61. My list isn't nearly as impressive as many on this thread.

When I was 15 my best buddy and I wanted to go to a concert at an arena about an hour away. My friend's 21 year old brother and his friends were going and we were hoping to hitch a ride with them. Our mothers would not allow it because of the age difference and the drinking they knew was going to happen. I remember my mom telling us, "Don't worry, you'll have many opportunities to go to his concerts when you are older." It was Elvis, June 22, 1977.

[steve2470]

63. Uriah Heep, CSN&Y, Yes, Janet Jackson, Pebbles, Dazz

That's all I can remember.

[GoCubsGo]

64. Not many.

Journey w/ Loverboy (I think Loverboy was the opening act. Wasn't impressed with whoever it was.)
The Who w/ The Clash. Sadly, I don't remember The Clash part of it very well. I guess I didn't appreciate them as much as I do now.
Bob Dylan
Arlo Guthrie (twice)
Willie Nelson (twice)
Bobby Bare (opened for Willie)
Chicago
Pure Prairie League

I met Kiss at a record store signing before they became bigtime.

[First Speaker]

65. Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Jones/Lewis, Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane...

...lots and lots of others. Kenton, Woody Herman, Mel Torme, Count Basie, Buck Clayton, God knows how many others...and the greatest jazz singer I've ever heard, Abby Lincoln...

[magical thyme]

66. The Beatles and the Doors

and some others that I can't remember.

Oh, I just remembered one. In college, Taj Mahal. He invited me to visit in in NYC after.

[Arugula Latte]

80. Hmm, never heard of 'em.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

67. Mine:

As I got older, my taste turned to jazz. Jazz as a whole isn't well-known on a national level but these artists are/were very well-known in the jazz world. i could list many other lesser-known ones from local clubs.

Jimi Hendrix (x3)
Tower Of Power
The Young Rascals
? and The Mysterians
The Soft Machine
The Vanilla Fudge
The Shadows Of Knight
The Seeds
B.B. King
Earth Wind And Fire
Chick Corea and Return To Forever
The Nice
Billy Cobham
George Benson
Joe Pass
Jimmy Raney
Johnny Smith
Barney Kessel
Don Ellis
Shelly Manne
Louie Bellson
Gabor Szabo
Ron Eschete
George Duke
McCoy Tyner
Billy Higgins
Chad Wackerman

[flying rabbit]

69. Hmm...

AC/DC x2
George Thorogood x2
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Roger Waters
Robert Plant
Queen
The Rolling Stones
Living Color
Dio
Niel Young
Eric Clapton
David Lee Roth
Bon Jovi
The Scorpions
Stevie Nicks
Foreigner
Reverend Horton Heat
ZZ top
The B52s
Cinderella
Billy Squier
Santana
Steppenwolf
The Guess Who
Boston
Deep Purple
The Grateful Dead

Probably some more it's kind of hazy

Roger Water's The Wall was the best, with George Thorogood coming in second.

[awoke_in_2003]

70. Jimmy Page

Allman Brothers
Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
Jackson brothers (hides head in shame)
The Who
Alice Cooper

All in Cleveland during the late 80s/early 90's

[LiberalEsto]

71. Grateful Dead

New Riders of the Purple Sage
Allman Brothers
J. Giles Band
Led Zeppelin
Beach Boys
Bruce Springsteen (in 1974, for 75 cents)
Ravi Shankar (1967)
Graham Parker and the Rumor
The Kinks
Arlo Guthrie
Cat Stevens
Dave Van Ronk
Pete Seeger
Doobie Brothers
Neil Diamond
The Drifters
Natalie Cole
The Cars
The Bob Weir Band
Doc & Merle Watson
Hall & Oates
Tom Paxton
Wynton Marsalis


I know there were more -- the NY Dolls, I think, and other musicians whose names I've forgotten. Various folks who sang at protest marches in DC and NYC. I think Judy Collins was one, and Paul Simon another.

[Scuba]

73. From memory, not in order ...

Ramsey Lewis Trio
Tommy James and the Shondels
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Archie Bell and The Drells
Jefferson Starship (twice, once great, once bad)
Earth, Wind & Fire
The Nighthawks (too many times to count)
Savoy Brown
John Prine (too wasted to perform)
The Inkspots
Bonnie Raitt (several times)
Eddie Harris
The Grateful Dead
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Ronnie and the Ronettes (Ronnie Spector)
BB King (several times)
James Cotton Band
Crosby, Still & Nash (too many times to count)
Count Basie Orchestra (twice, both great shows)
Taj Majal
Lamont Cranston Band
Willie Nelson
Jean-Luc Ponty (my ears are still ringing)
Tina Turner
Stevie Goodman
Otis Taylor
Randy Newman
Styx
Little Feat
Steve Miller Band
Dave Mason
Paul Case Band
Otis and The Alligators
Jackson Browne
Tom Morello with Tim McIlrath and Michael McColgin

(On edit: Tom Waits, Muddy Waters, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Siegel-Schwall, Leo Kottke, Boz Scaggs. Should have looked at the other replies first!)

(Second edit: Leon Redbone)

No doubt others I can't remember.

[hobbit709]

76. Just off the top of my head.

Count Basie
B B King
Freddie King
Muddy Waters
Howlin' Wolf
SRV
Janis Joplin
Mance Lipscomb
Johnny winter
ZZ Top
Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane
Hot Tuna
Quicksilver Messenger Service
New Riders Of The Purple Sage
Willie Nelson
Arlo Guthrie
Arthur Brown
Frank Zappa
Buddy Guy
Bob Marley
Bonnie Raitt
Commander Cody
Doug Sahm
Roky Erickson
Jimmie Vaughan
Joe Ely
John Mayall
John Lee Hooker
Papa John Creach
Lightnin' Hopkins
Rolling Stones
Spirit
Taj Mahal
Talking Heads
Ten Years After
Peter Tosh
Willie Dixon
Fleetwood Mac
Eric Burdon
The Meters
The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Professor Longhair

[Scuba]

82. Nice list. Would love to have seen Spirit, New Riders, Hot Tuna and Quicksilver.

[trackfan]

77. That I can remember..

Herb Alpert
Queen
The Blues Brothers
Dan Fogelberg
James Taylor
Carole King
Fleetwood Mac
Christopher Cross
Jack Jones
Mister Mister
Don Henley
Taj Mahal
Sheila E
Boz Scaggs
Tori Amos
Petula Clark
Nancy Sinatra
Sergio Mendes

[IronGate]

79. Let's see,

Joe Walsh
Kiss
Meatloaf
Sammy Hagar
Nazareth
Scorpions
Faster Pussycat
Def Lepperd
Mahagony Rush
Montrose
Dream Theater
Bonnie Raitt
Dire Straits
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Foghat
Savoy Brown
Rod Stewart.

[Rhiannon12866]

81. Yikes! That goes back a little while, LOL.

Blood, Sweat and Tears
Jose Feliciano
Arlo Guthrie
Judy Collins
Bruce Springsteen
Livingston Taylor
Bonnie Raitt
Herman's Hermits
Peter, Paul & Mary
America
Men at Work
Carl Wilson
The Beach Boys (numerous times with my brother)
Barry Manilow (also with my brother, LOL)
The Doobie Brothers

At least that's who I remember, am probably leaving some out.

[geardaddy]

87. Not many

The English Beat
Bow Wow Wow
Bob Dylan
The Beach Boys
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pat Metheney
Spyro Gyra
Patti Smith
The Indigo Girls
The Band
Super Furry Animals
Toots and the Maytals

[clarice]

88. Too many to list...Here are the shows that I thought were the best..

musically, vocally, etc. In No particular order.

1. Stevie Ray Vaughn
2. Led Zep (original members)
3. Yes (original members)
4. Moody Blues with symphony
5. The Who (original members)

[charlie and algernon]

91. Geez, your top 5 might win the whole dame thread

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just because you saw Led Zeppelin and the Who with all their original members.

[clarice]

92. Thanks !!!!! It does date me a bit though. lol

[Tikki]

90. One person's major and all....

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Paul Revere and the Raiders
The Sonics
Marvin Gaye
The Four Tops
Alice Cooper
Foghat
Peter Frampton
The Kinks
RAMONES
X
The Blasters
Los Lobos
The Go Gos
Suburban Lawns
Alley Cats
Cramps
Dead Kennedys
Elvis Costello and the Attraction
Rockpile
The Clash..1979 Santa Monica Civic..
Wall of Voodoo
Los Lonely Boys
Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs

The Stray Cats
Oingo Boingo
Jimmy and the Mustangs
GEARS
The Specials
Meteors..the psychobilly band
The Unclaimed
The Bangs..some here may know who they are now
Rik L Rik
PIL
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Joe Jackson
World Party
Naughty Sweeties
The Pandoras
FEAR
The Dickies
The Dils
Bo Diddley
Chuck Berry
Sir Douglas Quintet
Big Joe Turner
Johnny Otis
Mink Deville
Firehose
New York Dolls
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Boomtown Rats
The Damned
The Tubes
Nazareth
Rick Derringer

The Tikkis

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

93. If I can remember that far back

Vanilla Fudge (ok, so not so major)
Doors
Stones
Springsteen
Leon Russell
Paul Simon
Yes
Stevie Wonder
Dr. John
Dave Mason
Steve Miller
BS&T
Chicago Transit Authority
Led Zepplin

[KamaAina]

94. 13 Dead shows

Neville Brothers
Radiators
Santana (at NOLA Jazz Fest)
Jethro Tull (first concert, in '81)

[KamaAina]

100. Throw Wynton Marsalis in there, too

Another Jazz Fest headliner. His "Southern Crescent" is the single finest jazz performance I have heard.

[fifthoffive]

95. My list seems to be different from most

Steppenwolf (hideous)
Pacific Gas & Electric (who?)
Three Dog Night (OK)
James Taylor (satisfying)
Bette Midler (wonderful)
Wynton Marsalis (exquisite)
Woody Herman (someone should have told him not to sing)
Brian Setzer (trio and orchestra - Not Stray Cats) (entertaining, but over modulated)
Tom Petty (yawn)
Pete Fountain (good, but his guitarist was more interesting)
Maynard Ferguson (way over-rated)

[GReedDiamond]

101. Here are some that I can recall, with a little info for each...

The Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder (in Chicago, International Amphitheater. Stevie opened for the Stones, on the infamous 1972 world tour during which the documentary "Cocksucker Blues" was filmed)

Pink Floyd (Chicago, International Amphitheater. They played "Dark Side of the Moon" before the album was released)

Jethro Tull (Chicago area junior college, early 70s, 3 years in a row, same show each time, which kinda sucked)

Jefferson Starship (with Grace, but before "We Built This City", and again at the International Amphitheater)

Hot Tuna (loudest show ever, at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago)

Frank Zappa (Chicago area junior college, terrible sound, unfortunately)

John Sebastian (Chicago area venue, very early 70s. John was formerly of the Lovin' Spoonful and Woodstock and had not yet written the theme song for "Welcome Back, Kotter&quot

Bloodrock (Chicago area, early 70s, anybody remember them besides me?)

REO Speedwagon (College of DuPage, Glen Ellen, IL. I hated REO, worst show ever! Styx, a local band, was supposed to perform, but they "got lost" on the way to the venue.)

Hawkwind (also at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, a really great venue in the early 70s)

Grateful Dead, (many times, in the Chicago area, Des Moines IA, and several venues in CA)

Robert Hunter, Bob Weir (separate shows on different dates, at a nice small venue called The Golden Bear, in Huntington Beach, CA , approx 1977)

The Who (about a year before Keith died, Grateful Dead also performed, Oakland CA)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (unbelievable show, I recorded it on a stereo tape deck inside a Cheerios box, Whiskey on Sunset Strip, Los Angeles)

John Cale (The Troubador, Los Angeles. He was the bassist in The Velvet Underground)

Talking Heads (free outdoor show at UCLA, right after the release of their debut album, "77&quot

Germs (with Darby, not the 21st Century incarnation)

Black Flag (with Henry Rollins on lead vocals. My band played on the same bill, July 3-4, 1983, California Marijuana Initiative "smoke-in", outside the Federal Building on Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles)

The Minutemen (my band played on the same bill, "Rock Against Reagan" tour, October 30, 1983, outside the Federal Building on Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles)

Dokken (they opened for a band I was in, at Gazzari's, Sunset Strip, Los Angeles. I had never heard of them, didn't care for what they were doing)

X (all around L.A., one of the greatest bands ever, IMO)

Bangles (I painted four backdrops/banners for them, they were playing at a bowling alley in Los Angeles, right after their debut LP was released)

Wall of Voodoo ( I know Stan. Who doesn't love "Mexican Radio"?)

The Runaways (somebody called "Joan Jett" was in that band, Troubadour, Los Angeles)

Nick Gilder (who? Oh yeah, "Hot Child in the City" - also at the Troubadour, Los Angeles)

Oingo Boingo (Sax player "Sluggo" played on one of my records from 1982, along with Don Preston of the Mothers of Invention)

The Residents (they performed mostly as cast shadows behind giant partitions, until they put on their giant eyeball suits, Pasadena CA...I forget the year)

Chuck Berry (at the Roxy on Sunset Strip. He had a local pick-up band, as always, but they were pretty good 'cause Los Angeles has a lot of good players in it)

Madonna (so, I was working on costume graphics for her upcoming 2001 world tour, and she was doing rehearsals with her band - including full dress rehearsals - at the "Fabulous" Forum in Inglewood CA. I would go down there every day for around five days, and airbrush the costume graphics as Madonna performed in the background, it's the only time I ever really heard her music. Needless to say, her band was incredible. Unfortunately, the graphics were cut from the show. She had one costume which was a kimono with GIGANTIC sleeves, something like 20 feet long and as tall as Madonna, held up by guys with big poles attached to the ends of the sleeves. The giant sleeves had cherry blossoms airbrushed on them, but in the dress rehearsals, the graphics overpowered the small physical presence of Madonna, so the costume designer decided to leave the sleeves blank. The graphic designer was overwhelmed with grief, she was crying...I was just the airbrush guy, and I got paid well, so I was happy either way)

Jackson Browne (w/Slash, at an anti-war protest, downtown Los Angeles, 2003)

Rage Against The Machine (outside of the Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, 2000. My band also played at a different outdoor venue outside the Convention, a couple of hours before RATM)

WAR (original lineup after Eric Burden, somewhere around 1978, Los Angeles, at Far Out Productions on Sunset Strip, their rehearsal facility. I was in a band also rehearsing there)

WAR (with original member Lonnie Jordan and appearances by Cheech & Chong, Greek Theater, Los Angeles, a couple of months ago or so, 2nd row center seats!)

There are others I know I'm leaving out...such as Bob Dylan, Patti Smith and Alice Cooper, who, on edit, are worth mentioning I suppose.

[otohara]

103. Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Nine Inch Nails w/ David Bowie

I wanted to go to Red Rocks when I was 11 to see The Beatles with my sister, but my mom wouldn't let me.

60's - The Monkees, Hermans Hermits, The Monkees, Cream

70's - Joni Mitchell many times, Poco, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Boz Scaggs, Cheap Trick, Dire Straits, EWF, Rod Stewart, Grateful Dead at a Be In at City Park, Tina Turner, Jackson 5, Jethro Tull, Jackson Browne, Joe Jackson, Journey, Kinks, The Police, Poucette Dart Band, Santana, Thompson Twins, Tom Petty

There were all the 80's new wave bands like , The English Beat, Squeeze, Split Enz, Crowded House and The Finn Bros. Elvis Costello, Prince, Bowie again, Los Lobos. My soon to be hubby wanted to see Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers and Huey Lewis and Billy Ocean, so there's them.

Then I had a baby and stayed home, but then I started working for KBCO and

90's Dave Matthews, Wolfgang Press, Peter Gabriel, Sinead O'Connor,

2000's - getting old but still getting out to a concert once in a while, went to the Sonic Bloom festival to see my son's band Papadosio and again last year at Red Rock when they played up-top at The World Dance Festival, and they are opening up on the main stage in September for Lotus. Saw FUN because they remind me of Queen.

Saw Grammy Nominated for Alternative from Perth Australia
My favorite new band Tame Impala [link:http://

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[Rhythm]

104. One certain band, 4-dozen times. And no, not Phish or The Dead

Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
The Osmonds
Alice Cooper
KISS
Charlie Daniels Band
KC & The Sunshine Band
Hank Williams Jr.
Mickey Gilley
Cyndi Lauper
Toto
A Flock of Seagulls
Judas Priest
Black Flag
The Exploited
Black Sabbath
The Replacements
Danzig (50+)
White Zombie (20+)
Type O Negative (4)
Marilyn Manson (5)
Rollins Band (2)
Nine Inch Nails (3)
David Bowie
Living Colour
Body Count
Morrissey
Soundgarden (2)
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ministry
Green Day
Garth Brooks

Edited to include:
REM
The GoGo's
The Bangles
Metallica (3)
Queensryche (3)
Suicidal Tendencies (3)
Faith No More
The Cult
Lenny Kravitz

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

106. Not a lot. I moved more towards smaller venues later on.

Billy Joel (twice)
Journey
Peter Frampton
John Waite
The Eagles
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Spencer McGillicutty (You've probably never heard of them)
Meat Puppets
Retribution Gospel Choir
The Hold Steady
Ivy Levan
Saints of Valory
Fitz and the Tantrums

[1Jesus15]

107. Quite a few...

Mine:
Head East
Nazareth ("Hair Of The Dog" tour)
Deep Purple (Machine Head)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
King Crimson
The Clash (Loudest)
Peter Gabriel
Genesis (Seconds Out tour)
Van Halen (Original line-up, and 2nd loudest!)
The Tubes (twice)
UK. (Danger Money tour)
Horslips (Saw twice. Once at Spectrum, and in Ireland)
Aerosmith (Rocks tour, twice!)
Styx (Grand Illusion, twice!)
Bad Company
Black Sabbath (w/Ozzy!)
Ted Nugent (twice)
KISS (Three times & once without make-up!)
Angel
The Police
Santana
Johnny Winter (three times)
The Pretenders (Original line-up & awesome show!)
Magazine
Chicago
Cheap Trick
Quarterflash
Red Speedwagon
Elton John
Rush (2112 tour, first) Twice
The Hooters (three times)
Huey Lewis & The News
Loverboy
Tommy James & The Shondells (1968?)
Liberace (Las Vegas Hilton - 1980)
Jackson Browne
Jackson Five (Reunion Tour)
Foreigner
Rolling Stones
The Four Tops
Boston
Foghat
Lynard Skynard (Original lineup!)
J.Geil's Band
Jethro Tull
Blue Oyster Cult
Muddy Waters (three times)
.... Probably left several concerts out, but this list covers most of them.