What concerts have you ever seen?

Whilst hanging out with friends this weekend the topic came up on what all concerts everyone has seen during our lifetimes, good and bad...cool or nerdly. I found it kinda funny when I heard a metal buddy of mine telling me he had seen Julio Iglesias in Vegas once...
So....Here's mine.

Allman Brothers
Korn
Fear
Willie Nelson
Grateful Dead
Def Leopard
Stone Temple Pilots
Foreigner
Boston Pops
Phish
Widespread Panic
The Tragically Hip
L.L. Cool J
Body Count
Whitney Houston
Aerosmith
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Beastie Boys
Pearl Jam
Sound Garden
Col. Bruce and the ARU
Marilyn Manson
K.C. & the Sunshine Band
Quiet Riot
Smashing Pumpkins
Cracker
Dave Matthews
Creed
Bryan Adams
Snoop Dog
and as of tomorrow...Velvet Revolver

Kansas
Charlie Daniels
Black Sabbath (post-Dio, with Iron Maiden)
Ozzy
Robert Plant
Jimmy Page
David Lee Roth (with Poison and Faster Pussycat)
The Itals
Guns n' Roses
Nine Inch nails
Jackyl
Hole
Great White
AC/DC (with Quiet Riot)
Judas Priest (x3)
Prince (x4)
Duran Duran
Haircut 100
Soft Cell
A Flock of Seagulls
Romeo Void
The Suburbs (x2)
Aerosmith
Deep Purple (reunion tour)
Pink Floyd
Ted Nugent
Alice Cooper
Nazareth (with Tesla)
Jethro Tull
Cake (x5) (Once at Unlimited Sunshine feat. several other bands)
B.B. King (with Little Feat)
Tammy Wynette (free concert on military base)
Dread Zeppelin (x2)
Wailing Souls
De la Soul
They Might Be Giants (x2)
Little River Band
Flaming Lips
Kiss (x2, once with "The Nuge", Native American Headress, bow and arrow, et al.)
Crow
Lamont Cranston
The Jayhawks
Whitesnake (front row center, backstage passes, wish it could've been any other band, but hey, they were free)
Cowboy Mouth
Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
Modest Mouse
Roger Waters
Scorpions (was delayed three hours and people were being crushed when they finally opened the doors)
Santana
Joan Jett
Smashmouth (was in a Tower records in Chicago when they just started playing, was very cool because it seemed so spontaneous with us not knowing they were going to be playing there. Very small crowd and a lot of fun.)


There are others but I don't seem to remember them all for some strange reason..... LOL!

Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Nicks

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Kiss (with Rush opening for them) - and they were both new bands - cost $4 for a ticket.
Styx
Kiss
Kiss
Alice Cooper
Queen
Black Sabbath (with Ozzy)/Mohagony Rush/Montrose (with Sammy Hager)
ZZ Top
Fleetwood Mac
Billy Idol
Lillith Fair-numerous performances with the highlight being Sinead O'Conner

To name a few not forgotten from the fog of smoke and Jack...

Frank Sinatra

Slayer
Alice Cooper
Kiss
Scorpions
UFO
Megadeth
Judas Priest
Ozzy
Metallica
Guns n' Roses
Aerosmith
Nazareth
Ted Nugent
AC/DC
Van Halen
David Lee Roth
Deff Lepard
Cheap Trick
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Foreigner
Peter Frampton
Heart
Rolling Stones
Santana
Styx
ZZ Top
Motley Crue
Bon Jovi
Joan Jett
Whitesnake
Ratt
Iron Maiden
Anthrax
Motorhead

Earth Wind and Fire
Parliament - Funkadelic
KC and the Sunshine Band
Rick James
Commodores
Slave
Ohio Players

Alabama
George Strait
Patty Lovelace
The Judds
Charlie Daniels
Kenny Rogers
Hank Williams Jr.
Randy Travis
K.T. Oslin

Juan Gabriel
Vicente Fernandez
Ana Gabriel
Cheyenne
Carlos Vives

Let's see...

Elvis
Chuck Berry
Fats Domino
Brenda Lee
Bing Crosby
Merle Haggard
Anne Murray
Uriah Heap
Alice Cooper
Mannheim Steamroller

in addition to everything already listed by previous posters

there were more.. .but they are lost in the haze of age and fading memory

* = how much I liked it

highschool and before
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John Denver **
Asia ***
Judas Priest **
Ozzy **
Night Ranger **
April Wine *
Ratt **
Rush ****
Triumph ***
Rolling Stones *

college
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Mahavishnu Orchestra *****
Marillion ****
10000 Maniacs ***
Dave Matthews Band ****

Since college
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Barenaked Ladies ****
Tenacious D ****
Fish ****
The Sundays *****
Project Lo with Happy Rhodes ***
Low ****
Chameleons UK ***
King Crimson *****
Joe Jackson (four times) ****
Porcupine Tree *****
Opeth ****
Yes ***
Twinemen (aka Morphine) ****

I'm sure there's lots more that I'm not remembering at the moment.

More than I care to name..but most every famous Classic Rock Group..wish I could have seen Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Elvis and the Beatles.

I have only been to two Concerts in my lifetime (but many, many personal shows though). It was a "Deep Purple" concert which was proceeded by "Joan Jet" no less.... The croud was not into Joan Jet, but Deep Purple insted, and it seemed like she was a little irratated by it too....... It was a blast!!!!!!!!

Almost went to a Pink Floyd concert once, but was too f*cked" up to even get in the car.... Ahhhh the memories...........

Ok - see if I can remember...

Janice Joplin
Frank Zappa
Jethro Tull
James Taylor
Carole King
The Eagles
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (don't ask me why)
Ferron
Sarah Vaughn
Laurie Anderson
Shawn Colvin
Tuck and Patti
Joan Armatrading
Kay Gardner
Holly Near
Cris Williamson
Sweet Honey in the Rock
K.D. Lang
Kate and Anna McGarrigle
The Pretenders
Kronos Quartet

um.. you sound like umm my dad! lol i swear his listing is probably identicle

No way I could make a list of everyone I have seen live. The list of just the bands I remember seeing would take hours to compile. So I will just list a few.

The first concert I went to was 38 Special and Jefferson Starship. The coolest concert was Devo on the "Oh No, Its Devo" tour. Biggest stage show was Pink Floyd. The most amazing raw energy show was, The Boredoms. The best and worst show both go to The Beastie Boys. When I saw them in the 80's on their first big tour, "You gotta fight for your right to party" I was there to see Fishbone warm up and walked out of the Beasties when I saw they werent playing instruments and they were just plain stupid. But I saw them on the "Hello Nasty" tour and I was amazed at the show and how the crowd reacted to them, it was really something to see. Best show this year would have to be David Bowie, he is still amazing after all this time.

Here are some of the ones I can remember.........the ones I can't remember I probably had TOO good of a time at...tee hee.

When I was a kid:
Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and some others I can't remember when my parents took us to the Grand Ole Opry.
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods at Walt Disney World one New Year's Eve a really long time ago.

High School:
Twisted Sister
Otter Creek
Charlie Daniels
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Neil Young
The Grateful Dead
The Marshall Tucker Band

College:
The Grateful Dead more times than I can remember....and also, saw Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir when they came to my school on their own
Bruce Springsteen, several more times..........
America (they came to the college I was going to at the time)
(gee, I can't remember too many more though I know I went to more concerts....I wonder why my memory fails me? )

More Recently:
Garth Brooks in Central Park
Clint Black
Waylon Jennings (about a year before he died)
The Dixie Chicks (took my 10 year old daughter, it was her first concert and it was so worth the nearly 400 bucks it cost between the tickets, food, souveniers and lodging because she kept saying "I can't believe I'm here, pinch me, Mom)
Evanescence, Seether, 3 Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin together last July in Orlando.


My list seems so pathetic compared to others.....but I loved each and every concert I've been to.

I try to see some live music at least once a week so I could go on forever. My taste in music is all over the place but some of my fave shows were:

Reverand Horton Heat
David Allen Coe (the early shows were insane)
George Clinton and the Pfunk allstars
Reverand Billy C Wirtz
The Belmont Playboys
Otmar Leibert
KillBilly
Hank Williams III
Los Lobos
Allison Krauss
Del McCoury and the Boys
Joe Satriani
Steve Morse with the Dixie Dregs
Old Crow Medicine Show
Aquarium Rescue Unit (now the codebreakers or something)
Robert Randolph (steel guitar player, I could't hear for a week after that show)
Keb Moe
Derek Trucks (when he was too young to get into the bars he played)
Sugar Blue
Warren Zevon (right before he passed away...excitable boy best song ever)
The Iguanas
The Backsliders
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (also saw him once with Newgrass Revival)
Causey Way (very funny punk band songs like "Science made me a homo (sapien)"
Skinny Puppy
Chili Peppers
Southern Culture on the Skids
The Stones
Eric Clapton
Long John Hunter
Candy Kane
Nashville Pussy (the only show where I had to get a shirt)
ect....

i have only been to three concerts my whole life
first one was the X fest in may 2001 with a whole bunch of bands, including fuel, our lady peace, collective soul, american hi-fi, and cold. a very nice man from the radio station that sponsored the fest let me backstage (or back field, as it was in a field) when i told him it was my first concert. i got to meet all of american hi-fi, half of cold, and three members of collective soul (THRILL!!) which was cool cause that's who i was there to see. i was front row center the whole fest too- got dirty sweaty and nastay, but it was fun!

second show was last april at the "social aid and pleasure club" here in AVL- the Orange Peel. went to see the Crystal Method, whom i have loved since the beginning. well, me and my HB were front and center the whole show, and bought an album at the thing, thus getting an aftershow meet-& sign with the band. so i got to meet them in the big line, after meeting them when they came out from backstage to chat at the bar.

third show was this fall, at the Orange Peel: D-Fuse, techno DJ from texas. he had two local DJs open for him, which was cool, but when he played there were 15 PEOPLE in the whole place. it was awesome, we all got up and danced on the huge dance floor! it was like a private show! and he gave all of us a promo copy of his single and signed it, and me and HB stuck around and chatted with him after everyone left.

so yeah, i'm spoiled like hell with my concerts, but i've thoroughly enjoyed every one i've been to so far!!

In High School :

- Chicago
- Crosby, Stills, and Nash
- Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
- Led Zepellin (42 people got arrested at this show, mostly for smoking dope, so after this my parents told me no more concerts)

College years

- Rolling Stones (18th birthday / Tower of Power warm-up was HOT, HOT, HOT)
- Santana
- Eric Clapton
- Bob Dylan
- Fleetwood Mac
- Frank Zappa
- Grateful Dead
- Talking Heads
- Clash (awesome show... Red Rocks Ampitheater in CO)
- Police
- Prince
- Psychedelic Furs
- Pretenders
- Elvis Costello
- Bob Marley (camped out for tix... 5th row center... Bob says, "put out your cigarettes and light up your spliffs, its gonna be a Rasta night in Kansas, man"

Too many club shows to name them all, but notables were : Iggy Pop, Muddy Waters, Gatemouth Brown, John Lee Hooker, Boomtown Rats, REM (300 people), XTC, X, Black Flag, Asleep at the Wheel, Devo, Toots & The Maytals, Burning Spear

Since college :

David Bowie
Public Image Ltd.
Chris Isaak
Public Enemy
Ani DiFranco
Lucinda Williams

Again, too many club shows to list them all, but notables were : Yellowman, Butthole Surfers (on a bellyful of mushrooms... was a life altering experience), Violent Femmes, Hot Tuna, BR5-49, Ramones (with Joe Strummer), Pogues

These days, I rarely go to concerts. I just can't be bothered to hassle with all the parking and the people and the cost, just to see a band from a gazillion miles away. Give me a hot band in an intimate club any night of the week.

- Ace

I love the Orange Peel!!! You're talking about Asheville right? Excellent venue and the little novelty shop is one of the best places to shop for gifts. Ashville is one of my personal favorite getaways...eat at Salsas, go to the Orange Peel and then there is that great little coffee house with the amazing deserts.

Quite a few gigs over the years, including too many to list at pubs, folk and blues clubs for minor (but great) bands, but some of the 'bigger' acts that I can recall, in rough chronological order from the '80's through to now....

Iron Maiden
Festival : Whitesnake/Meatloaf/ZZ Top/Dio/Twisted Sister/Diamond Head
Status Quo
Gary Moore
Robert Plant
UFO
Bad News
Gary Glitter
Robert Cray ( twice )
Steve Marriot
The Shadows
AC/DC
Dio
The Long Ryders
The Travelling Riverside Blues Band ( followed them around heh )
Jethro Tull ( three times )
Def Leppard
All About Eve ( twice)
Eric Clapton ( twice )
T'Pau ( twice )
Bryan Adams
Deep Purple
Blur
My Bloody Valentine
Jesus and Mary Chain
Dinosaur Jr
OMD
Chumbawumba
The Levellers
Del Amitri
The Albion Band
Oyster Band ( twice )
Toyah
Jon Otway
Richard Thompson
Harvey Andrews ( twice )
Equation ( three times )
The Hamsters
Blue Horses ( three times )
Jan Ackermann
Lindisfarne
Fairport Convention ( four times )
Karnataka

Some great nights, and days, but hmmmm....some of the earlier stuff is just plain embarrassing now

Artists I'm wanting to go see : Tori Amos, Green Day, Evanescence, Liz Phair, Richard Thompson (again)

Hmmm

I really haven't seen THAT many bands, most I saw at Reading Festival one year, when I was around 15 OH THE FUN!

Well here's as many as I can remember

Green Day
Hole
Counting Crows
Cake
Smashing Pumpkins
Bjork
Neil Young
Gene
Menswear
Marion
Shed Seven
Echobelly
60ft Dolls
Ash
Bluetones
Cast
Foo Fighters
Soundgarden
Mudhoney
Tricky
Prodigy
The Offspring
Garbage
Sonic Youth
Rage Against The Machine
Stone Roses
Suede
Underworld
Placebo

and I THINK... they are the main ones I can remember o.O

Alice in Chains
All
Bardo Pond
Bim Skala Bim
Frank Black
The Breeders (2x)
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Crop Circle (5x)
Cub
Cypress Hill
Dance Hall Crashers
Front 242
Half Japanese
Hole
The Hooters (my first concert!)
Kicked in the Head
Lets Go Bowling
Luscious Jackson
Marine Research
Mighty Mighty Bosstones (3x)
Mr. T Experience
Nirvana
Pavement
Primus
The Queers
Radiohead
The Ramones
R.E.M.
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Spiritualized
Space
Squirrel Nut Zippers
The Toasters (2x)
Velocity Girl

I'm especially grateful for getting to see Nirvana and the Ramones.