Boomers. What Big-Name Bands ( or semi-big name) have you seen live?

[maveric]

The 70's was a great time for live rock shows. I grew up in that era and attended as many as I could.
Who'd ya see?
Me:
Led Zep (2)
Rollings Stones
Jethro Tull
Deep Purple
The Who
Neil Young & Crazy Horse (5)
CSNY
Johhny Winter
Edgar Winter Group
Bob Segar
Heart (2)
Uriah Heep (oh cut me some slack on this one)
Foghat (6)
Blue Oyster Cult (7)
Aerosmith (8+)
ZZ Top (3)
Allman Brothers Band (2)
Eagles (2)
Lynrd Syknard (2)
Bob Marley
Marshall Tucker Band (3)
David Bromberg (2)
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Montrose (3)
J Geils Band (5+)
Boston (2)
Richie Havens (2)
ELO (2)
John Mc Glauthlin <sp> and The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Grateful Dead (2)


Thats all I can remember. After all it was to 70's.

[grannylib]

1. Oh golly...might have to dig out the ticket stubs...

Zeppelin (2)
Jethro Tull (2)
Neil Young (2)
Fleetwood Mac (4)
Santana (1)
The Who (1)
Grateful Dead (1)
Jeff Beck (2)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (the original) (1)
Queen (1)
Aerosmith (3)
Kansas (1)
Frampton (3)
Johnny Winter (1)
Edgar Winter (1)
Heart (2)
Foghat - more times than I can count; they were at EVERY little festival for about a decade
Lots of others at those multi-act fests...

[tinfoil tiaras]

2. Edit. Dayumm. I'm not a boomer.

I wish I was though. I hate my generation.

[deutsey]

3. BOC x 7? You must really like cowbell...

:evilgrin:

[momophile]

4. oops-not a boomer: mostly from the late 80s or early 90s

the ones that I'm proud of saying:
Depeche Mode
The Cure (2)
Morrissey
Grateful Dead
Dead Milkmen (3)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nine Inch Nails

and the ones that embarrass me:
AC/DC
Metallica
Guns 'n Roses
Aerosmith
Motley Crue
Pearl Jam

and then the ones since then:
Indigo Girls (2)
Melissa Etheridge
Gipsy Kings

I am sure there are others but I can't remember them now.

[Dervill Crow]

5. This is in high contrast to the bands you listed.

The Monkees
The Grassroots
Paul Revere and the Raiders

Then when I got a little older and the music got better, I was grounded pretty much all the time.

[DancingBear]

6. Don't get us started

Cream
Pink Floyd
Hendrix
The Doors
The Who
Rolling Stones (in '65 and '68)
Blue Cheer
Donovan
Jopin/Big Brother
Free
Fleetwood Mac (the REAL ones, not the Buckingham/Nicks crap)
Uriah Heep
Mountain
J.Geils
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Edgar Winter's White Trash
Blue Oyster Cult
Bad Company
Steely Dan (W/The Beach Boys!)
Jefferson Airplane (W/Chuck Berry!)
Woodstock
Yes
Jethro Tull
The Eagles
Mott The Hoople

and I'm sure a thousand others on both the "A" and B" list that I forgot... :)

[martymar64]

7. My List

Grateful Dead - 25
Aerosmith
AC/DC w/ Bon Scott (My first band - opened for Aerosmith)
Boston
Sammy Hagar - 3
Styx
Van Halen
Blue Oyster Cult - 2
Blackfoot - 2
Nazareth
Foreigner
Foghat
Loverboy
Molly Hatchet
Eric Clapton
Muddy Waters
Judas Priest
Great White
Iron Maiden
ZZ Top
Deep Purple
The Who
Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd
Guns & Roses
Living Color
Blues Traveler
Sting
X
Rush
The Kinks
The Blasters
Dead Milkmen
Jeff Healey Band