I'm sure some of us have seen some great shows/bands and even a few we wish we hadn't seen. Let's say we don't include local bands that nobody else has heard of. Could be a cool thread. I'll post my list once I've had time to compile it. Edit to say...maybe it would be fun to include which concert was your best or worst one.
KISS...buncha times including 1977 victoryburlesque in Toronto ,Stones..buncha times twice in bars ,Pink Floyd..twice ,roger waters ,david Gilmour ,Page/Plant ,The Who..bunch of times ,john entwistles ox ,van Morrison twice ,david bowie and the spiders from mars david bowie with stevie ray on guitar ,rod and the faces with ron wood[his last tour with them] ,rod without the faces..the lame hot legs tour ,cheap tric...maybe 6 or 7? times ,steve miler severaltimes ,Yes...at least 4 times withal original members 3 of them, rick wakemen journey to the center of the earth tour ,yes singer on tour...forget hos name ,queen ,supertramp ,emerson lake and palmer ,Kenny rogers ,bob Dylan and the bamd ,bob Dylan without the band ,tom petty 3times..heartbreakers twice ,greg allman ,carlos santanna couple times , ac/dc 3 times/judas priest a few times , motorhead afew times , megadeth, metallica 3 or 4 times, aerosmith at least 4 times.....inxs....the blues brothers...keith Richards concert for the blind....paul McCartney and the wings with linda......billy joel twice...Elton john twice maybe 3...neil young countless times by himself..at least 6 or 7...neil bith Crosby stills nash and young....neil solo on stage...ringo stars all stars....George Harrison twice....every Canadian band...rush...loverboy....payolas...doug and the slugs...gino vanelli....Chilliwack....the tragically hip 4 times....U2 3 times....the monks......the greatful dead, cat stevens, the police, George thourogood, johnny winter at least 4 times...edgar winter....bb king....I cant even roll a joint I keep thinking of more....don Henley....the eagles twice....Steppenwolf...the ramones....teenage head..max Webster...kim mithell without max Webster....zz top...prince..Michael Jackson...janet Jackson....Madonna....ELO...blue oyster cult....doobie brothers couple times....billy idol....heart.....chris deburgh...peter Gabriel both with genesis and without....genesis without Gabriel twice...terrance trent darby....brian adams...corey hart.....tom Cochrane red ryder....billy talent....sum 41.....deep purple...ozzie.....black Sabbath with ozzie.......Aretha franklin...ray manzarak...roy buchannon....new kids on the block..b52s...bob marlee and the whalers....rita marlee and the whalers.....peter tosh....boomtown rats...the kinks twice..... i'm forgetting many so at this point I have to read lists of bands to jar the memory... chuck berry....elvis Costello....bruce Cockburn....bare naked ladies...beach boys....stevie wonder....bruce springsteen...3 or 4 times.....paul simon....tina turner...zappa....Jefferson starship........Fleetwood mac....robin trower....peter Frampton....todd rundgrn....j geils...lou reed....the English beat......van halen 3 maybe 4 times....david lee roth without halen....guns and roses....scorpions.....eric Clapton...3 times....another time as a walk on somewhere....talking heads...bob seger and the silver bullet band......ted nugent couple times.....the pretenders....lynard skynard original lineup...R.E.M....crowded house...men with out hats.....wang chung....rick james....Chicago....john cougar melloncamp.....jeff beck with jan hammer....alice cooper nightmare tour awesome fucking show;;;;;;hall and oates....joel plaskett and the emergency I will add more..i'm tired of typing half of these I worked a spotlight....half i just attended....a couple likely backed up other bands on the list....it is all a bit hazy..... plus I phones a buddy and asked him for some reminders...I asked what concerts we went to together and his answer was ''all of them''
Rolling...the one you saw that I wish I'd of seen is Van Morrison. Here's the wife and my list, many of them several times, like the Moody Blues was seven times I think. 5th Dimension Amboy Dukes Albert King Allman Brothers Argent Asia Badfinger Baez, Joan Beach Boys Black, Lewis Black Oak Arkansas Black Sabbath Boxtops Buchanan, Roy Burton, Eric & War Burton, Eric & The New Animals Carlin, George Cheech & Chong Clapton, Eric Cooper, Alice Cromwell, T & Young Rumblers Copeland, Ruth Canned Heat C, S, & N C, S, N, & Y Daltry, Roger Daniels, Charlie Davis, Spenser Group Deep Purple Diamond, Neal Doobie Brothers Dylan, Bob Eagles ELP Flash Fogerty, John Foghat Garfunkle, Art Geils, J. Band Guthrie, Arlo Grand Funk RR Green Cards Hall, John Harrison, George Havens, Richie Hendix, Al (Jimi’s father) Hot Tuna Hornsby, Bruce Iron Butterfly James Gang Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Starship Jethro Tull Joel, Billy Kansas 56. Kingston Trio 57. King, Carole 58. Kinks 59. Led Zeppelin 60. Little Feat 61. Marshall Tucker 62. Mason, Dave 63. Melanie Safka 64. Moody Blues 65. Mountain 66. Nazareth 67. Nelson, Willie 68. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 69. Page & Plant 70. Plant, Robert 71. Quicksilver Messenger Service 72. Russell, Leon 73. Rait, Bonnie 74. Rip Cords 75. Ronstadt, Linda 76. Rowan and Martin 77. Rusted Root 78. Sabastian, John 79. Savoy Brown 80. Seeger, Pete 81. Shankar, Ravi 82. Shondells, Tommy James 83. Simon, Paul 84. Smothers Brothers 85. Spirit 86. Stewart, Rod 87. Stone, Sly & The Family 88. Taylor, James 89. The Fix 90. Trowler, Robin 91. Turner, Ike, Tina 92. Turtles/ Flo & Eddie 93. U2 94. UFO 95. Vanilla Fudge 96. Walsh, Joe 97. Wavey Gravey 98. Winter, Edgar 99. Yes 100. Frank Zappa,/Flo & Eddie The first Moody concert was cool. It was in the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh and they were several hours late cause their instruments got hung up in customs crossing from Canada. So they played for about four hours after they showed up. They had the arena's roof open so that was cool. I partied with the James Gang after their concert, this was Feb. 25 1971. They were staying in this flea bag hotel room above the Golden Eagle Bar, so my roommate pounded on their door until they finally let us in. Just the three of them and the two of us. They finally threw us out some time in the early morning. Couldn't stand up for Deep Purple, so never really saw them. Leon Russell got into an argument with the arena cops about something the first time I saw him...I forget what. Same with Roy Bucannon. They pulled his amp plug, all he had was one amp, no back up group, and turned up the lights when he started bitching about them trying to throw some longhair out for smoking weed.. When a riot almost started they let him finish. Everyone in Argent was drunk and they threw beer all over us. Eric Burton was one of the best concerts ever, both of them...powerful really powerful. Crosby refused to sing one time because he got pissed off at the crowd. Melanie and Al Hendrix were at the illegal 25 year Woodstock reunion. I don't really remember seeing some of the groups on the list but the local consensus is that someone who looked a lot like me was at least present in body, if not mind, and there's rumors of others but I can't really establish who in the F they were..some were at the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival (Bull Island) in Indiana in '72. It's been called the Woodstock of the midwest....200 to 300,000 people showed up and it descended into anarchy so I really don't remember much of the music from that one.
5th Dimension Grass Roots Chicago The Carpenters Beach Boys Oakridge Boys Spyrogyra Ray Stevens Neil Diamond Petra Creedance Clearwater Revival Mannheim Steamroller Blue Man Group
Ive seen Slayer in concert about 12 times Last two times they were here, saw them in two cities, then following tour followed.them around the country and saw them in three cities The others, too many to list
Rolling Stones Black Sabbath Aerosmith Santana Allman Brothers Beach Boys Journey Crosby, Stills, and Nash Steve Miller Band Blue Oyster Cult Foghat Pat Travers Doobie Brothers YES U2 Red Hot Chili Peppers Stone Temple Pilots Dave Matthews Band Tool Rage Against the Machine System of a Down Black Label Society Ozzy Osbourne Black Crowes Fuel Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Fischerspooner Audioslave Green Day Afi Social distortion Bad Religion Thrice 30 Seconds to Mars Weezer Korn Papa Roach Puddle of Mud Deftones Linkin Park Glassjaw Lost Prophets Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Killers No Doubt Garbage Distillers Rebelution Matisyahu Portugal the Man Massive Attack Beastie Boys Violent Femmes The Strokes Murs Dialated Peoples Gangstarr Madonna Paul Oakenfold Chemical Brothers Shpongle Bluetech Infected Mushroom Paul Van Dyk Above and Beyond Armin Van Buren Benny Bennassi Uberzone Subfocus Dieselboy DJ Hype Dj Fresh Evol Intent Moby Dj Collette Dj Dan Donald Glaude Dyloot Dj Denise Mark Farina Jon o Callahan W & W Kaskade Ferry Corsten Rabbit in the Moon John Mayer Maroon 5 Fiona Apple Goo Goo Dolls Counting Crows Oasis Seal James Blunt
Lol I am the same ! I remember Bob Marley, Zeppelin , The Who , Bowie , Uriah Heep , Roxy music , Pink Floyd , The small faces, The Kinks , Sabbath , Fleetwood mac .Dylan , Black oak Arkansas , Lynyrd Skynyed ,The Groundhogs ,Styx ! there must be hundreds more but they keep popping in and out me ead There you go Springstein ,SAHB ,Streetwalkers , Bloodstone ,REM , Neil young , Sarah Mclocklan , Alanis Morrisette ,Edwin star ,
you guys are reminding me of many ,ore...I forgot argent lol....chili peoppers...black oak Arkansas...styx the viletones...beasties...pat travers....mahogany rush...jeff healey...triumph....foreigner....manhattan transfer....bachman turner overdrive...the guess who.....burton cummings solo tour....amy grant
I am sure I will miss a few Phish Widespread Panic The Disco Biscuits Electron Conspirator "Grateful Dead" shows played without Jerry Garcia with someone else filling his spot. Further Dark Star Orcestra G-Nome Project Infected Mushroom Scpongle Hallucinogen Dick Trevor Kaskade Armin van Burin Paul Oakenfold Paul Van Dyke RJD2 Cradle of Filth Slipknot Lamb of God Chimera Kill Switch Engage Arch Enemy Senses Fail The Bouncing Souls Rise Against GWAR
Grateful Dead 113 times.. I demand a refund... I couldnt really recall everything... I know a few people that worked arenas and seen more than anyone. I also worked for a security firm and seen many shows but not actually seeing them. Id count them but not count them.. Like Genesis and Billy Joel those were on the outside the venue pretty much... most recent..
I haven't forgot about posting my own list. I could post a bunch from memory but I have a ticket stub collection that must be in the basement since I moved. I haven't found it yet. I'm sure we wouldn't have thrown it away. Nice lists though, everyone!
I watched Mark Farina recently, for the first time, and it was a sick show. It was so refreshing to actually watch someone spin the real way, without a laptop.
2007- cobra starship, fall out boy, framing hanley, flyleaf, paramore, okGo, atreyu, flogging molly, avenged sevenfold 2008-framing hanley, ludo, cage the elephant, thirty seconds to mars, rise against, the used 2009-shinedown, three days grace, breaking benjamin 2014-black dahlia murder, chiodos, echosmith, young London, mayday parade Theres more, coz two of those years were Whole Day concerts, and the last was Warped Tour
Here is my list. I've italicized the shows that were exceptionally special to me. Alanis Morrisette Alice Cooper Ashlee Simpson Avril Lavigne ben harper beyonce beats antique bif Naked blue Rodeo x2 black Eyed Peas bush Caravan Palace Charles Bradley Cher Cindi Lauper Clean bandit Counting Crows Ed Sheeran x 2 Eminem Goo Goo Dolls Green Day Hanson - THE WORST CONCERT I'VE EVER BEEN TO. Jacks Mannequinn/Andrew McMahon x 5 Joe Satriani x 3 Jann Arden Kiesza Lady Gaga x 2 Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett Lady Starlight Lenny Kravitz Lily Allen Linkin Park Madeon Matthew Good band Mark Farina Mother Mother x 5 Nickelback x 3 Norah Jones Our Lady Peace Offspring Pearl Jam Reverend Horton Heat Roger Waters Seether Sigur Ross Sloan Sum 41 Swollen Members Taylor Swift x 3 Temper Tramp The backstreet boys x 2 The boomtang boys The Foo Fighters x 3 The Moffatts x 2 U2 Vance Joy Weezer Xavier Rudd
Grateful Dead Cover Band (don't remember their name but I think they opened with One More Saturday Night), Pearl Jam, Crosby Stills and Nash, some emo bands, and a pantheon of EDM artists at raves and clubs. I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting to mention here.
ZZ Top, Steppenwolf, Fleetwood Mac, Arlo Guthrie, John Prine, Rush, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tina Turner, Steve Miller and that's all I can remember at the moment.
Cold Chisel Rose Tattoo Chain Iron Maiden Deep Purple Crosby Stills & Nash Alanis Morrisette Iggy Pop Black Stone Cherry Jimmy Barnes Manic Street Preachers Ozric Tentacles Arthur Smith They're the main stream artists/bands,seen hundreds of local/festival bands in my time.