I was talking with coworkers about shows we'd seen. One guy saw The Dead eight times! Here is my list, from 1981 to 2004:

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Genesis
Phil Collins
Robert Plant
Cheap Trick
Rush
Joe Satriani
Peter Schikele (PDQ Bach)
Rush
Weird Al Yankovic
Evanescence

Supertramp and Peter Gabriel,
he is excellent,

ste

The Osmond Brothers (I was 8, OK?!)
Van Halen
Rod Stewart
Hall & Oats
Billy Joel
Aerosmith
Bare Naked Ladies
Marshall Tucker Band
Alabama
Tony Bennet (in Vegas - at the Desert, which is no more)
Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli & Sammy Davis, Jr. (the most incredible show I've ever seen)

Martina McBride
Christopher Cross & Air Supply (stop laughing!)
Karyn White
Kenny Loggins
Gordon Lightfoot
Journey (minus Steve Perry)

dont know if i can recal them all...........ten years after............moody blues.....john mayo........steve miller............grand funk railroad.......howling wolf...........tinna turner.........then probley some i cant recall............the hippy days......plenty of drugs

... hmm ... interesting thread ... these are some of the ones i remember ...

bay city rollers (don't laugh, i was 10)
bob seger
journey
fleetwood mac
acdc
j giles band
yes
john cougar mellencamp
heart
joan jett
zz top
nazareth
van halen
def leppard
bay city rollers 14 years later (... it was one guy from the original band playing in a bar ...)

selene

Please don't laugh. I was a starving singer...I sold myself to sing back-up for...

Barry Manilow....Barely Man-enough we used to call him.

So I saw lots of these concerts...but from behind a microphone!!
Paul

Paul,

I am a secret Barry Manilow fan - no laughing from me - the guy is great!.

Trish

Hmph! Didn't anyone go see the Cockettes in SF? Sheltered lives these people lead.

froggy

I seen a BB King concert, and a George Thorogood concert (whose opening act was Ted Nugent).

Aerosmith
Styx
Journey
Kiss
Robert Plant
Stevie Nicks
Twila Paris
Point of Grace

Rolling Stones
Roy Clark
Buck Owens
Boston
Billy Joel
Jackie Valasquez
Four Him
Acapella

Others but I can't think of them at the moment due to the hour most likely.

Eclectic in my tastes, I know. LOL

John

Back in the day ......

Deep Purple
Led Zep
Ten Years After
Captain Beefheart
Jethro Tull
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones

... difficult to remember so long ago .......

David Cassidy
David Essex
Sweet
Wet Wet Wet

.... more recently ......

Bon Jovi (at every opportunity!)

There are others, but my memory is failing me.
When I was in primary school, I told everyone I'd seen the Monkees. But I hadn't.

SB x

This is fun!

Rolling Stones
Billy Joel
Peter Gabriel
The Who
Chicago
James Taylor (for my wife)
Genesis
Jackson Browne
Emerson Lake and Palmer
The Eagles

What a blast
Thanks

I hope I'm not breaking the rules by going outside the bounds of popular genres. I just don't have that much to list in terms of rock and pop concerts, but I'm a big fan of jazz and classical. Not that I don't like rock and pop, I could just rarely afford the tickets.

Rock/Pop:
America
Styx
Tommy Conwell & The Young Rumblers
Tracy Chapman

Jazz:
Wynton Marsalis
Count Basie Orchestra
Maynard Ferguson
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Dave Brubeck
Buddy Rich and His Big Band
Woody Herman

Classical:
Seattle Symphony
Utah Symphony
NY Philharmonic
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
Vienna Philharmonic
Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra of St. Martin on the Fields
Baroque Ensemble USSR
Yo Yo Ma
Shlomo Mintz
Itzhak Perlman
Isaac Stern
Jascha Heifetz
Riccardo Muti
Anna Sophie Mutter
Westminster Choir College Symphonic Choirs
Vienna Boys Choir
Chanticleer
Wolfgang Sawallisch

Other:
Gilberto Gil (Brazilian)
Wando (Brazilian)
Boston Pops
Buckwheat Zydeco (Zydeco and Funk)

Oh boy - here is my list - note all the hair metal from the 80's:

Elton John 1980 (don't laugh I was only 10.. well, )
Ratt (2x)
Bon Jovi
Billy Squier
Aerosmith
Molly Hatchet
Foreigner
Sammy Hagar
John Cougar Mellencamp 3x
KISS (2x once without makeup - once with)
Dokken 5x (yes, my favorite band)
Def Leppard
Night Ranger
Tesla
Whitesnake
Great White 2x
Ronnie James Dio
Van Halen 4x
ZZ Top
The Who
Stevie Ray Vaughn
U2
Pearl Jam 3x
Depeche Mode 2x
The Smithereens
Drivin' n' Cryin' 2x
Julianna Hatfield
Maria McKee
Evanescense 2x
Seether
Guns N Roses
Soundgarden
Billy Joel
James Taylor
Harry Connick Jr.
Jimmy Buffett
Robert Earl Keen 2x
Lou Graham (of Foreigner)
Eddie Money (last summer - not lookin too good as he played the town carnival stage - attendance about 300)

I know i've left some out. But that is most of them.

AJC,

That's a lot of concerts, dude! Sounds like you saw some great ones.

I'm not a big metal fan, but I like many of the bands on your list. I'm jealous.

Thanks!

I have a wide landscape of musical tastes. And I tried to make it to every concert that came thru town to the local college arena. Then living in Dallas gave me plenty of opportunity to see some of those big shows. (U2, The Who, Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffett).

I saw was my third Pearl Jam concert when I drove up to Chicago to see them last May. It was a great concert.

I take new meaning from the song "Alive" when I hear it played now - it was always a favorite, but now more so:

see the video - hear the music - listen to the lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbhsYC4gKy4

I hav'nt seen to many... but enough.

Aussie Nirvana
Aussie Pink Floyd
Muse
Stereophonics
U2
Green Day
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Dave Gilmore
Slipknot
Lost Prophets
coldplay

The rest then would be smaller bands playing in local clubs, the best kind of music i think.

I saw the Butthole Surfers and Stoned Temple Pilots at Val Du Lakes here in MI. (The only one I've gone to in the last 20 years)

What was COOL about this one, was that it was outside, hence, the band was free to have more "liberal expressions" in their music.

For instance, the Surfers lead singer had a SHOTGUN that he fired into the air when reaching certain crescendos in some songs, that was COOL. Also, he had a wide but shallow chinese wok full of burning gasoline that he would splash around while the music was going. It was quite a dazzling display! I wish they kept their double drummers for this tour, but they didn't, oh well. I love acid music.

Going to show my age here, first real concert was The Who in 1967, the night before they recorded 'Live in Leeds' and Keith Moon was wrecking drum kits. Seen them 3 times since.

Page and Plant ( pre Zeppelin ) The Moody Blues, Status Quo, 10CC, and a whole load of others started off by playing the college circuit around here, Page and Plant live close by and still play some bars around here!

I've loved live music for as long as I can remember, The Stones, Cream, and all the great rock bands played at Birmingham which is 30 minutes drive for me.

Highlights?
Billy Idol was amazing, Chris Rea was the loudest bar none!, Keith Richards is a guitar god, but I'll die happy having seen John Lee Hooker perform at an open air concert on Toronto's waterfront.

Dave

Hey Dave,
You just reminded me. I saw the Who and the Clash opened for them at Shea Stadium. What a night! I actually wound up on stage with them because security had to pull me up to bring me back to first aid. Some moron hit me over the head with a bottle (no, I was not the intended victim). Maybe that's why I forgot

I guess I'll get to add another to my list: my wife won us tickets to see Little Richard live this Saturday night!

This is a Great thread! All of you guys combined have seen some EXCELLENT SHOWS!!! I'm jealous of the older guys that got to see the classic rock greats... especially those of who've seen Zeppelin, or Robert Plant solo... (especially you Dave, living so close!!! so jealous)I would have given anything to see john Bonham in his prime jammin Moby Dick. Closest I got to that was seeing Jimmy Page when he toured with the Black Crowes playing Zep tunes... not nearly the same. At least now theres concert DVDs! I'm a live music junky, and theres no way to list EVERY show I've ever seen... but i'm gonna have some fun down memory lane, and in no particular order (and some of them ARE laughable as I look back... so I don't mind!)

Oasis
Bush
veruca salt
everclear
stone temple pilots
green day
the offspring
duran duran
chumbawumba
barenaked ladies (2x)
Dave Matthews Band (at least 10x... yearly tradition for my now fiance and I)
U2
Blues Traveler (2x)
Counting Crows (2x)
Smashing Pumpkins
Zwan
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
Queens of the Stone Age
Jimmy Page with the Black Crowes
The Black Crowes (just them...)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
O.A.R.
Live
Aerosmith
Lenny Kravitz
Rusted Root
Cherry Poppin' Daddies (HAHAHAHA)
Ozomatli
Vision of Disorder
Pantera
Morbid Angel
SoulFly
Tomahawk
Dillinger Escape Plan
ROLLINS BAND (@ the Metro in Chicago when they recorded their live cd !! )
WEEN!!!
Clutch (2x)
System of a Down
Isis
Victor Wooten (with his brothers)
Robert Randolph and the Family Band (2x)
Gipsy Kings (3 or 4x... and i got to meet them, and hang out with them in a chicago hotel lobby while they jammed twice... absolutely incredible down to earth musicians.)
Atmosphere
RJD2
Brother Ali
Sister Hazel
Herbie Hancock
Femi Kuti
Buddy Guy
harry Connick Jr.
...and you will know us by the trail of dead
Brazilian Girls
Chicago
huey lewis and the news
A perfect Circle (2 or 3x)
and TOOL (3x so far, #4 next month, and by far THE BEST live band I've seen, especially being able to see them at Red Rocks Amphitheater in CO, with King Crimson opening...incredible. THE Best and most Beautiful Venue in existence.)

sorry this turned into such a long post... thing is, those are the ones i can remember right now, and I know there are a lot more... I just started havin a lot of fun with good memories flooding back. I know I'm fortunate to be near a big city, and to have been able to have these experiences... I'm thankful for each and every one. thanks for startin this thread... music was and is my biggest release, and there is no other match for live music...

thanks for lettin me share.
peace,
cpt.

God, I used to live for big rock concerts. I remember seeing the Four Tops, the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas in high school. Then I really got into it and probably the best concerts I ever hear were by the Who, Led Zeppelin and the Stones. The best vocalist had to be Janis Joplin!! Male vocalist? That's dead easy as well - Son House. Even in his old age...wow!

Much love,
Larry

And for those of you who can get on the member's side, there's a picture of Larry when he was a yung'in with long hair at a rock concert. I forget which one, but it's there in the Images, Art, and Poetry forum archive some place.

Seems Larry got his likeness captured by an outfit shooting film of the concert. As I recall EGL, aka Eddie had the video of the concert and captured the picture of Larry with his computer and posted it!

Happy Hunting!

John

i worked at a summer camp.........in my 20s..........thier was a chap there from england.....clive was his name..........he went to school with eric clapton......he told me how they both got guitars at the same time.........eric was a natural....clive couldnt get it..............it was cool to talk to clive....about england and the music scene..............steve

I saw (in order):

The Beach Boys - Branson, Missouri
Smash Mouth - Warrensburg, Missouri
Keltic Reign - St. Louis, Missouri
Some strange Irish band in a bar - St. Louis, Missouri
Doogie (my gf's mom's church friend) - St. Charles (? might have been somewhere else), Missouri

Yep - in the pic you can find me by looking for the BCGs (I loved Buddy Holly), and right next to me is my best friend Stevie. This was a big LZ concert at Madison Square Garden. We were right up front and afterwards I couldn't hear anything for days.

That was a wild week. I went with some friends to see Led Zeppelin, and the concert was so fantastic that we drove hundreds of miles a few days later to catch them a second time. Soooo stoned, of course. Five of us piled into this guy's Beetle and the whole car was filled with smoke - the police must have just pitied us and let us continue on our way.

Much rocking,
Larry

LOL that's a funny story Larry.

My mother has a similar story of seeing Chicago in concert and swearing up and down that it was snowing (in the middle of summer btw) and that there were monkeys dancing on the stage...hmmm...I'm really not sure what she was on to see that...but whatever.

This thread is cool enough to revive.
For me:

Ratt
Willie Nelson
R.E.M
U2
Drivin' N Cryin'
Sting
Tom Petty
Greatful Dead
Allman Brothers
Bob Dylan
James Taylor
Tracy Chapman
Def Leppard
R.E.O Speedwagon
Dave Matthews Band
The Samples
The Dandy Warhols
Widespread Panic
B-52s
Alice In Chains
Guns n Roses
Wilco
They Might Be Giants
Matthew Sweet
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Eric Clapton
Pearl Jam
Allison Krauss / Robert Plant
Yo Yo Ma

what a great thread

i have seen many, some amazing some just freaking loud. just took my son to see
Journay/ loverboy - i saw loverboy b4 their first big concert when mike reno was still able to fit into leather pants

this ages me:

T-rex
blue oyster cult
yes
emerson lake and palmer
queen x 2
supertramp 2x
acdc
aerowsmith
heart
nazareth
beach boys
angel city
boston
the cars
donovan
bto
foreigner
the moody blues
the kingston trio
the babies
the kinks
the who x2
dire staights
bruce springsteen
paul macartney and wings over america
elton john
bette middler
the pogues
the original Wall concert - pink floyd
the indigo girls
kd lang
april wine
billy idol
U2
chris isaac
bedouin sound clash
styx
sammy hagar
INXS
Little river band
goyte
city and colour

and i just scored tickets to fleetwood mac coming to town.

you are never too old