What Bands/Solo Artists have you seen live? :) (1 Viewer)

[Carl Miller]

• The Beatles

The Beatles, The Doors, The Animals...You're killin me Jack.

At least you didn't say Led Zeppelin.

 

[andrew markworthy]

Off the top of my head, in no particular order, and some of them more than once:

Yellow Magic Orchestra
Comsat Angels
Yes
Elton John
Pink Floyd
Durutti Column
Camel
Gordon Giltrap
XTC
Sky
Wishbone Ash
Bread
Peter Skellern
Mike Oldfield
Chris De Burgh
Jean-Michel Jarre
Pet Shop Boys
Tangerine Dream
The Enid
Leo Sayer
Sad Cafe
The Proclaimers
Elvis Costello
Nick Lowe
Marillion
Chicken Shack
Secret Affair
Fruup
Darts
Paul Simon
Simon and Garfunkel
Dire Straits
Notting Hillbillies
Spyro Gyra


There's more, but that's all I can recall at the moment. Looking over the list, it's depressingly middle-of-the road (though in my defence, some of it reflects the tastes of a girlfriend whose execrable taste in music was compensated for in other areas )

 

[ThomasC]

Aimee Mann
Julian Coryell (Opened for Aimee Mann, very nice as well)

 

[LawrenceK]

Bands I have seen live of some note:
The Strokes
The White Stripes (2)
The Faint
Bright Eyes
The Vines
The Flaming Lips
Interpol (2)
The Roots
Ben Kweller

Upcoming:
Television
Radiohead
The Strokes
All Tomorrow's Parties (featuring: Eliott Smith, Spoon, Built to Spill, Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Modest Mouse, Cat Power, The Shins and more..)

 

[Tony-B]

You name the so-called contemporary act of the early '90s, chances are I've seen it.

OK then. Have you seen Nirvana?

 

[Michael Caicedo]

off the top of my head.....

1983 REM - Queens College in NY. 7 bux. Gen Admission (first row). Damm, hat it really been 20 years?
1983 U2 - War Tour, twice that year, Gen. Admission at the Palladium, NYC (front row). Nearly crushed to death finished the concert kneeling on stage.

oh man , too many to list... many brain cells ago...

 

[Al B. C]

In no particular order............

Alice Cooper (School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies & Welcome To My Nightmare tours)
Joe Cocker
Chicago
Frank Zappa
Fleetwood Mac (Rumours tour)
Paul McCartney (Wings tour)
Pink Floyd (Animals tour)
Jethro Tull (twice)
Boston (twice)
Thin Lizzy
Queen
The Tubes
Elvis Costello (twice)
The Ramones
The Clash
Squeeze
B-52's
The Pretenders
Lene Lovich
Blondie
Iggy Pop
David Bowie (Stage, Let's Dance, Glass Spider tours - also played keyboards with Iggy)
The Psychedelic Furs
Elton John (alone)
Bob Dylan
Paul Simon
Donovan
Frank Sinatra
Tony Bennett
Norah Jones (twice)
Diana Krall (at a jazz club)
Buckwheat Zydeco
Ani DiFranco (three times)
Dwight Yoakam (twice)
Bette Midler
Prince
The Plasmatics
Devo (twice)
George Benson
Segovia

 

[Vickie_M]

Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin)

Omigod! You are so lucky!

I've seen hundreds of concerts, but a few highlights (several are pretty obscure, but they mean a lot to me):


First: Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies" tour

Most recent: Natalie MacMaster/Cherish The Ladies and others at Chicago's Celtic Fest this weekend.

Most envied for: Genesis with Peter Gabriel. Twice. (Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tours)

Most: Happy Rhodes (19 shows since 1988)

Traveled longest distance for: Happy again, since we live in Chicago and 18 of those shows were on the east coast (Philly, NYC, Troy and Albany, NY, and New Haven, CT)

Saw before they became big:
Tori Amos (first concert was in a tiny bar with maybe 50 people there)
Jewel (saw her play acoustic in a coffeeshop)
Journey, and Van Halen (unknown, to me anyway, and opening for Ronnie Montrose, the person I went to see)
Milla ("The Divine Comedy" tour. Ok, maybe she's still not "big" but she's not as obscure now)
Happy Rhodes (well, someday)

Biggest legend: David Bowie (Glass Spiders tour)

Most jaw-dropping, breathtakingly, awe-inspiring: (tie) Dead Can Dance, Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares (I think it means The Mysterious Bulgarian Voices)

Most intense and frightening: Diamanda Galas (Plague Mass tour)

Most complex: Kronos Quartet (you REALLY have to pay attention)

Came closest to causing a heart attack when I heard they were coming (because I never thought I'd ever get to see them live): (3-way tie) Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Dave (not that one) Stewart & Barbara Gaskin

Most fun: (4-way tie) a Halloween concert with They Might Be Giants and Poi Dog Pondering (defined "rollicking good time"), Nigel Kennedy, Camper Van Beethoven (several shows), k.d. lang, before she became an icon

Funniest: Randy Newman

Moodiest: Marianne Faithful

Loudest (in a very bad way): (tie) Ted Nugent (hey, it was a Summerfest-I didn't go to see him!), Geraldine Fibbers

Biggest (not including football stadium Summerfests): The Who, 1996 Quadrophenia Tour, United Center sellout show

Favorite festival (admittedly, I've only been to a few): WOMAD, Chicago 1993 (mainly because Sheila Chandra was there)

Smallest (rather, "most intimate"): Happy Rhodes, New Haven, CT (a house concert. Even if you've never heard of her, imagine one of your musical gods playing in a living room for you and a handful of other hard-core fans. It was magical.)

Favorite opening act (that I'd never heard of until then): Lisa Germano (opened for Mouth Music)

Thank goddess I saw them before they died: (tie) Jeff Buckley, Kirsty MacColl

Most wanted to see, but they died before I discovered them: (tie) Janis Joplin, Patsy Cline

Most wanted to see, but they broke up, and anyway, I would have wanted to throttle 98% of the audience to shut up their idiotic screaming so I could hear the music: The Beatles

Most want to see in concert before I die: Kate Bush (fat chance, but at least I have met her)

Other highlights (in no order):
Sarah McLachlan (5 or so times)
Jane Siberry (3 times)
Victoria Williams (several times)
Peter Gabriel solo (several times)
Julee Cruise
Katell Keineg
Mary Coughlan

 

[Yee-Ming]

Here's my pathetic list. Pathetic since not all that many acts schlep all the way out here...

1st: Daryl Hall & John Oates (unplugged )

Duran Duran
Diana Krall
Bon Jovi
Take 6

As part of a festival, on the same night:
ABC
Go West
Level 42

In a club, so probably not "live" but on minus-1

Bananarama
Tony Hadley
Richard Darbyshire

 

[Angelo.M]

Too many to count...

But of all the performers I've seen onstage over the years, no one has consistently done it for me like Springsteen.

Saw him again this weekend and, for those that have heard that rock 'n' roll might be dead, the reports have been greatly exaggerated. He opened with Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line"; serious goosebump territory.

 

[MartinTeller]

Yowza. Okay, having been in a band that performed a lot, I've got a big list. But I'll spare you the local bands that you probably wouldn't have heard of if you didn't live here. Here's what I can remember:

Tangerine Dream (my first, 1986)
Steve Winwood
Level 42
The Pretenders
Iggy Pop
Sting
Pink Floyd (x2)
Love Battery
Mecca Normal
Beat Happening
Phish (x4... embarassed to say I was once a fan)
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Spin Doctors
Sun City Girls
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (x3)
Bjork
Aphex Twin
Hazel
Built to Spill (x2)
The Bevis Frond
Will Oldham/Palace
The Sea and Cake
The Bartlebees
Cub (x3)
Mercy Rule (x3)
Santana
The Allman Brothers
Guided by Voices
Superconductor
Slick Rick
Robert Cray
Timbuk 3
Graham Parker
Elvis Costello
Buffalo Tom
Poster Children
Xymox
Moev
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Halo Benders
Kicking Giant (x3 or 4)
7 Seconds
Lois (x2)
Low
S.F. Seals/Barbara Manning
Pulsars
Paul Simon/Ladysmith Black Mambazo/Miriam Makeba/Hugh Masekela
Bob Wiseman

and for you Bright Eyes fans, Conor Oberst opened for my band when he was like 12 years old.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch. I never go to shows anymore. Except for seeing my friends play, the only show I've been to in the past 5 years is Nick Cave.

 

[MartinTeller]

Favorite opening act (that I'd never heard of until then): Lisa Germano (opened for Mouth Music)

Mouth Music, haven't thought about them in ages. I loved that "Batach Brana" (sp?) song.

 

[Leroy]

Rush (7x)
AC/DC
Queensryche
Dixie Chicks (3x)
Van Halen (2x both with Hagar)
Dokken
Scorpions
Winger
Ratt
Accept
Tommy Shaw
ZZ Top
Alabama
Def Leppard (2x)
Bon Jovi (2x)
Monster Magnet
Cheap Trick (2x)
Michele Branch
Boston
Cinderella
Tesla
Metallica
Crystal Gale (sp?)
Pushmonkey
Blue Oyster Cult (2x)
Ozzy
Toadies
Skid Row
Extreme
White Lion
Primus
Corrosion of Conformity
Megadeth
Judas Priest
Kiss
Krokus
Bullet Boys
Kingdom Come
Vixen
Matchbox 20
Jim Belushi's Band
38 Special

Many local bands...

As you can see much of my concert going was in the 80's/early 90's! These days only Rush will definatley get me to a live concert, or when I finally score tix to Jimmy Buffet (they always sell out so fast!).

 

[Ralph Summa]

First was NRBQ in 1985
The Band 1985
John Cougar Mellencamp 1985
George Thorogood 1986
Chuck Berry 1987
Boston 1987
Crosby, Stills and Nash 1987
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble 1988
David Bowie 1988
Robert Palmer 1988
AC/DC 1988
Steve Winwood (Twice) 1988, 1991
Eric Clapton 1988
White Snake/Motley Crue 1988
David Lee Roth (3 times)1988 2X (LOUDEST), 1991
Andrew Dice Clay (He did sing one song) 1989
Lynyrd Skynyrd 1990
Tom Petty 1990
Don Henley 1990
Warren Zevon 1991
Blackfoot 1991
Poison (Twice - Not By Choice!)
Rod Stewart 1991
The Black Crowes 1993 (MOST ENJOYABLE)
Phish 1994
Nine Inch Nails w/ David Bowie 1995
Allman Brothers (3 times)1996, 1997, 1998
U2 1997 (MOST EXPENSIVE)
Rolling Stones 1999

I think that's all of them. Because I haven't been to a concert since 1999 it says three things:

1) I don't care for newer music

2) I no longer care to pay top-dollar to see bands/singers who are way past their prime.

3) I have a 3 year-old

Ralph

 

[Chet_F]

WOW......well here's go's nothing:

Big Head Todd & The Monsters - 4 times
Black Crowes
Eric Clapton - twice
Soul Asylum - 3 times (Once on the front lawn of the Basilica of Saint Mary were they ripped into a rocking version of Summer Of Drugs - it was priceless )
Goo Goo Dolls - twice
Gin Blossoms
Staind
Stone Temple Pilots
Green Day
Def Leppard
Everclear - twice
Soul Coughing - Twice
Powerman 5000
Incubus
Sister Hazel - twice
The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies
Mettalica - twice
Guns N' Roses - twice, once with just Axl, the tour that lasted three gigs.
Faith No More
Lenny Kravitz
Sarah Mclachlan - twice
Jewel - twice
Indigo Girls
Merideth Brooks
Hole
Ozzy Osbourne
Slaughter
Bare Naked Ladies
Cowboy Mouth
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Corey Stevens - twice
Eric Johnson
Joe Satriani - three times
Blues Traveler
Johnny Johnson - snuck into his trailer and talked with THE BEST blues pianist on the PLANET while he was eating his chicken.....now THAT was cool.

And many more that I just can't remember at work.

On a related note does anyone else stick their ticket stubs in the coresponding CD? I've been doing this for years. My friends will be crusing through my collection and say "Hey wow you saw thes guys back in '93!!!"

Now that it's posted it's a rather large list.

 

[Mike Broadman]

On a related note does anyone else stick their ticket stubs in the coresponding CD?

No, but I will now.

 

[Jack Briggs]

A couple I left out: The Who (when the band really was The Who, Keith Moon and all) and Jimi Hendrix (twice).

Recent stuff, again too many to mention right now. PJ Harvey (a few times, the first one being in the Whiskey, where I first met Timothy Leary), The Walkabouts, Nirvana (just before they "made it"), Courtney Love in various incarnations in Hollywood (often at Raji's), etc., etc.

 

[Tony-B]

Jack, you are lucky to have seen Nirvana. It would have been better to see them just after Nevermind came out, IMHO, but seeing them earlier is better than not seeing them at all.

 

[John K Carter]

In no order:
Todd Rundgren (Staying at the same hotel before the show, checked in at the same time, chatted during check in & rode the elevator together. One super nice guy.)
Humble Pie
ZZ Top
Yes
Angel
Mother's Finest
Genesis
Marshall Tucker
Peter Frampton
Kiss
Tina Turner
Royston Langston (Spacehog, Mr. Liv Tyler)
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
B.B. King
Little Feat
Dr. John
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Alanis Morissette
Judas Preist
Animal Logic (Stuart Copeland & Stanley Clarke)
The Outlaws
Atlanta Rhythm Section

 

[Jack Briggs]

Oh, and some others here have reminded me. The Allman Brothers (last time, officially), The Black Crowes, and quite a few others mentioned in posts above. I'm not counting most of the current and near-current acts. Nine Inch Nails. Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Really, of the current stuff (as of the early to mid 1990s) I've seen so much of it that it all runs together (largely because I rarely saw them "just for fun"; I was worried about deadlines).

The Black Crowes, while not "daring" in any way, sure knew how to put on a good show. The atmosphere in The Greek Theatre near Hollywood had, oh, a certain aroma to it.