Bands you've seen live!

[Illini10]

1990 - Tiffany and REO Speedwagon
1991 - Def Leppard
1997 - War, Mountain, Joe Walsh, Boston, Wallflowers, Collective Soul, Jewel, Paula Cole, Matchbox 20, Counting Crows, Fiona Apple, No Doubt, Foo Fighters
2001 - Cake, Trey Anastasio
2002 - White Stripes, Elvis Costello, Violent Femmes
2003 - White Stripes, Radiohead, Steven Malkmus and the Jicks, Puddle of Mudd
2004 - Prince

[Muttleybass]

Alice Cooper. First concert. $9. Saw him again when he fell off the stage in Vancouver
Summer Sunday '77, '78... they kind of melt together!
Heart
Little River Band
Supertramp (X3 other times)
Sammy Hagar
Ted Nugent
Blue Oyster Cult
Bob Welch
Firefall
Nick Guilder (booed off the stage!)

Queen/Thin Lizzy (Queen X2)
Police (80's)
ZZ Top (3 times. Sturgis with Buck Cherry)
Doobie Brothers (Awful. Mike McDonald had just joined)
Gary Numan (INCREDIBLE show)
April Wine/Foreigner/Chilliwack
Jerry Doucette/Trooper
Joan Jett
Van Halen (80's w/ DLR) with Huey Lewis & The News
Muse (WOW.)/Silversun Pickups
David Bowie (Glass Spiders - Serious Moonlight/Let's Dance etc. video shoot)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sum 41
Nickleback (early days)
Sum 41
Big Wreck
Hole (Boobies!)
Rush
The Who (80's farewell - RIP Ox)
Eric Clapton (boring) with Bonnie Raitt (AMAZING. Big Hair. Bryan Admas & Sarah McLaughlin joined her on stage)
Steve Miller/Pat Benatar
The Knack
Vertical Horizon
Uzeb


Used to see Bryan Adams in the pubs all the time. Won tix to a coliseum show
Used to go see Headpins at The Scottsdale before they hit it big
Saw Loverboy at Fram's just before they broke.
Doug & The Slugs

So many more I can't remember!

[AccolaStudios]

NSYNC
Dave Koz
Jonathan Butler
Nickelback (x2)
Saving Abel
Papa Roach
Metallica
Volbeat
Lamb of God
Three Days Grace (x3)
Flyleaf
Breaking Benjamin
Shinedown
10 Years
Sevendust
Puddle of Mudd
Buckcherry
Soundgarden
Mars Volta
Avenged Sevenfold
Escape The Fate
Bullet for My Valentine
JEFF The Brotherhood
Little Dragon
The Weeknd
Pitbull
Red Hot Chili Peppers (x3)
Thundercat

Not too bad for a 17 year-old!

[Pet Sounds]

Wow, I'm very envious of some of you guys!
A few of mine, mostly redundant to other lists, but still great shows:
Paul McCartney x 3, once with Wings (in '76)
Bob Dylan x 3
Booker T and the MGs with Duck Dunn
Neil Young X 3 = solo, Crazy Horse and CSNY
Jefferson Airplane with Jack Casady
Tedeschi Trucks Band with Oteil Burbridge
James Brown
Aretha Franklin
Chicago
Eddie Floyd
BB King
Levon Helm Band
Taj Mahal
Johnny Winter
The Edgar Winter Group
Big Star
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
The Monkees (!)
Delbert McClinton
Further (Bob Weir and Phil Lesh)

[Jhengsman]

Most have been the headliner and un-billed sideman situation instead of a collection of equals. The exceptions being The Stone City Band behind Rick James. The Commodores, although they did have support plus a second drummer so Clyde could step up front when he sang lead. Earth Wind & Fire

[Disraeli Gears]

I've probably forgotten a few, but here they are:

Phish
Van Halen
Sammy Hagar
Reel Big Fish (x2)
Built to Spill (x2)
Bob Weir and Ratdog
Sonic Youth
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Dragonforce
Cynic
Daath
El Ten Eleven
Awesome Color
Suburban Legends
One Pin Short
Michael Manring
Marcus Eaton
Rush
Trans Siberian Orchestra

[leftiebass]

jimi Hendrix twice. Doors, Janis Joplin, stones, Sly and family Stone, Who, Cream, plenty more in the day...

[Kmonk]

Originally Posted by Muttleybass

Alice Cooper. First concert. $9.

Amazing how much ticket prices have changed. The first time I saw KISS I paid $7.50 and was sitting center stage, third row. I bough a t-shirt at the show for $5.00

On New Year's Eve 1983, my band was playing in Newport, RI. The cost to see us was $8. That same night Aerosmith was playing about 60 miles away. The cost to see them was $11.50 and $13.50.

[ntenny]

I saw 42 bands in a week once, at the Sziget Festival in Budapest. It's one of those giant multi-stage festival environments---they take over an entire island in the middle of the Danube---where you just wander from stage to stage as the mood takes you. We saw everything from oddball local bands like Titusz And The Carbonfools (they were quite good) to international megastars like Korn (tight, loud, soulless), from Roma (Gypsy) trad acoustic ensembles to death metal. All in all it was one of the richest musical experiences of my life. The high point was probably Fishbone.

I couldn't begin to list all the bands I've seen, and nobody would read it if I did. I was fortunate to be a college kid in Portland, Oregon in the late 1980s, so a number of the Northwest bands that later made it big in the 1990s grunge scene were just our local five-bucks-on-a-weeknight bands. As usual, many of the brightest lights were the ones that didn't make it big: the Obituaries, Napalm Beach, the Dharma Bums. I suppose that's always true.

-NT

[bigmuff113]

Rush
Dinosaur Jr w/Shearwater
A few local bands

[hrodbert696]

Wow, let's see...

Back in the 80s....
Amy Grant (yes, Amy Grant... not a bad show, actually)
Howard Jones
Hall and Oates
Starship (godawful when they used that name), double-billed with...
Night Ranger (gahhhhhh!)

Pulling a blank on any others in that era... saw very little in the way of national acts in my poverty-stricken, theater-rather-than-music-oriented college and 20-something years...

Then in the last 5 years or so...
Harry Connick Jr
Yes
Asia (touring with Yes)
Cold War Kids
Kasabian
Arctic Monkeys, touring with...
The Black Keys
Bombay Bicycle Club
NeedToBreathe
Rush
Victor Wooten, w/band (most recently)

I feel like I'm still missing a couple, but that's what comes to mind.

[speak2planets]

My very first show I ever saw when I was 13 was Nuclear Assault and Testament in Greensboro, NC back in either 1989 or 1990. There is WAY too many others to list here but two of the most memorable "shows" I have ever seen weren't bands. Luckily, I got to see George Carlin do a show at the Fox in Atlanta before he died. And in either 1993 or 1994 I saw Timothy Leary speak to a crowd of around 75 people at Davidson College in NC. He spoke for like 2 hours and was totally just stream of consciousness craziness.

[jphovercraft]

King Crimson - 5 times
Jimi Hendrix
Cream
Led Zeppelin - just before LZ3 came out
Sly and the Family Stone
Who - Tommy tour
ELP
Edgar Winter
Steppenwolf
The Band
Bob Dylan and the Band
Mahavishnu Orchestra - 2 times
Weather Report - 2 times, before Jaco and with Jaco
Return to Forever - 2 times, back in the day and the last reunion
Grateful Dead - twice, I think
Deep Purple - Machine Head tour
Zappa - 2 times
Soft Machine - with Holdsworth
Muddy Waters
Roy Buchanan
Elvis Costello - 3 times at least, ElMocambo gig the first time
Mink DeVille - 2 times
Rockpile
Procol Harum
Sylvian/Fripp
Jeff Beck - 2 times
BB King
Rassan Roland Kirk
Winter Consort
James Cotton
James Brown
Chicago - opened for Hendrix
Pink FLoyd - 2 times, 1st was DSotM tour
Eric Clapton
David Bowie
Vanilla Fudge
XTC - 2 times
Tower of Power
Paul Rogers
Eric Burdon
Larry Coryell
Jan Hammer Group
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Jethro Tull
Bruce Cockburn
Van Morrison
Charles Mingus
Giants of Jazz (Blakey, Monk, Gillespie, Winding, Stitt, McKibbon)
Skid Row - (yeah, I know ... friend in the band at the time)
Rough Trade


... there's defenitely some I've forgotten. I'm not counting bands I've opened for ...

[Ol'Bass'ead]

Originally Posted by JacoLesFlea

any one seen led zeppelin?

Yep. Last concert they ever did together (if I remember right) in 77 at the Oakland Coliseum.

[Biggbass]

after spending 30 years in major market radio I've seen more than I can remember.
but I'll give it a try starting from the beginning: many of them I've seen several times...

Roy Orbison
Beach boys
Paul Revere & the Raiders
Sly & the Family Stone
Blood Rock
Jethro Tull
ZZ Top
Santana
Rare Earth
Doobie Bros
Steely Dan
Dr Hook & the Medicine Show
Leon Russell
Dave Brubeck
Dizzy Gillespie
Manhattan Transfer
Led Zep
Pink Floyd
CSN
Todd Rundgren
Spyro Gyra
Weather Report
Jeff Beck
Gino Vanelli
Leon Redbone
Steve Miller
Steve Winwood
Fleetwood Mac
Aerosmith
Van Halen
Foreigner
Ted Nugent
Little River Band
LA Express
Tower of Power
Tony Bennett
Huey Lewis & the News
Moody Blues
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
James Taylor
Van Morrison
BB King
Muddy Waters
JJ Cale
Prince
David Byrne
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Marsha Ball
Delbert McClinton
Bad Company
Bob Welch
Heart
Allman Bros Band
Aretha Franklin
James Brown
Paul Simon
Lyle Lovett
Billy Joel
Michael Murphy
Robin Trower
Neil Young
Niel Diamond
Bonnie Raitt
Boston
Rolling Stones
Bruce Springsteen
The Cars
David Bowie
Don McClean
Eagles
Jackson Brown
Eric Clapton
Rod Stweart
Rick Springfield
Julio Iglesias
Madonna
Michael Jackson
Tina Turner
Billy Thorpe
Paul McCartney
Wings
HeadEast
James Gang
Joe Cocker
Joe Walsh
Marshall Tucker Band
Kenny Loggins
Journey
Linda Ronstadt
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Little Feat
Martin Mull
Pat Benatar
Peter Frampton
REO Speedwagon
Thin Lizzy
War
The Who
Yes
Chicago
Keb Mo
Bob Dylan
Willie Nelson
Los Lobos
The Blues Brothers
The Yardbirds
Bruce Hornsby
Cheap Trick
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Matchbox 20
Don Henley
John Mellencamp
Michael McDonald
Tom Petty
Janelle Monae


probably left out a few but that's all I can remember right now.

[Casting Thunder]

Rush, Lynyrd Skynyrd and every major Christian artist of the last 15 years.

[Roscoe East]

Originally Posted by TheEndIsNYE

So what bands have you seen live throughout your whole life? I'll start: ...[snip]... I'm only 16 years old

Dude, I'm 52, it's gonna take me a whole lot longer than you to recount every band I've seen live throughout my whole life!

[pica]

I saw U2 in '84 in a 200 seat theater for like $12. I think the t-shirt was more then the concert.

[deste]

A lot, since the 80's. The first rock band i attended to were the Rolling Stones (1982), and I think it's a good start...
Can't forget James Brown, Jaco Pastorius (twice, but the second concert was a mess), Claudio Arrau, Ray Charles, Alban Berg Quartet, Franco Petracchi (my first "Trout"!) in '82-'87, and then Keith Jarrett (standards trio), Michel Petrucciani (w/ Peacock & Haynes), Lee Konitz, Henry Threadgill, AEoC several times... too many to tell!

I think it would be more interesting a list of those you HAVE'NT seen live, even because you weren't born yet. I think I could start with:
Mingus in '64
Duke Ellington (any period, but especially the 1939-40 band)
Coltrane
The Who in their original lineup
The Miles Davis quintet with Shorter, Hancock, Carter and Williams
Hendrix
Joni Mitchell's "Shadows and light" band
SRV
Freddie King
...


No. let's stop it here, there's too many of them...

[hieronymous]

I'd have to break mine up into eras and locations (not complete, but the ones that stuck with me through the years):

Tokyo:
Def Leppard - Pyromania Tour
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith Tour
Night Ranger - before 7 Wishes came out
Deep Purple - Destiny Brought Them Together Again - Perfect Strangers Tour
Yes - Big Generator Tour
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour

New England '88-'96:
Phish many times from '90-'95
Grateful Dead 3 times
Widespread Panic many times from '90-'95
Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit a bunch of times
King's X
Living Colour - once with Urban Dance Squad opening, once with Bad Brains opening (non-HR version)
Rush
The Who (from so far away I hesitate to include it)

In Osaka Japan '02-'06
Magma
Acid Mother's Temple
Acid Mother's Gong
Themselves
Victor Wooten

The past ten years in California:
Damo Suzuki's Network
Malcolm Mooney & the Tenth Planet
King's X
Widespread Panic
Phish
Flyleaf
Victor Wooten
Lee Ritenour
Jack DeJohnette, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea