Can You Name Every Band/ Musical Artist You've Seen Perform Live?

[Mithrandir]

KISS - my first show
Beach Boys - my second
Asia
Tom Petty
Pixies 3x
Frank Black 4x
Van Halen
Greatful Dead 2x
Queen
Billy Squire
Husker Du
The Ramones
REM
Social Distortion 3x
They Might Be Giants 4x
U2 - Unforgettable Fire
Bruce Springsteen - River Tour
Micheal Jackson ( 2x as an usher at Municipal Statium)
Pearl Jam
Old 97's 4x
Drive By Truckers
Elvis Costello
Replacements
Robert Lockwood Jr. (played weekly at a local bar in my 20's)
Jimmy Dale Gilmore
Bruce Coburn
Jimmy Buffett
Missing Persons
Black 47
Cake
ZZ Top
Lover Boy
AC/DC
Crosby Stills and Nash

I know I am forgetting a bunch



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Love that Trifecta!

[Erik]

Even with all those musical hipsters I might be the only one who saw
The Clash

Erik?

Nope, too young. I was 8 when London Calling came out, 11 when Combat Rock did.

STILL working on mine -- been busy today with other things.

[Erik]

How do you get an attendance of 670,000, and still lose $12m? That is some serious incompetence!

Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

[revo]

I saw Jimmy Buffett at Great Woods (MA) in '98 and got totally hammered. Well, my roomie who had invited me on this excursion (we lived in NJ) rented a Winnebago and ya, there was no one who was sober enough to drive it back from the arena to the campground. So what idiot raises his hand and says, "Sure, I'll give it a shot!" This guy!

I'm a pretty stable drunk, so why not be a hero to other drunks? Heck, I was hoping to get laid, so I volunteered, and since no other drunk/stoner put up a fight, I took the job despite never having driven an RV, let alone a 30' one. I didn't realize the huge turn radius and almost clipped a few cars in the parking lot, but once I made it out, it was a smooth 10 mile drive. That was an adventure!

[Erik]

OK, here's what I could track down/remember today. National/quasi-national/international artists in bold.

As you can probably tell, my wife likes country music.

Acid Mothers Temple
Aerosmith
Gary Allan (3)
The Allman Brothers Band (3)
Amandla (2)
Ambrosia
American Analog Set
American Babies
Amfibian (around 10)
Trey Anastasio (4)
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (3)
Apollo Sunshine (2)
Arcade Fire (2)
Atomic Bitchwax (2)
Audioslave
The Avett Brothers
The Beastie Boys
Beck (2)
Jeff Beck
Marco Benevento
Benevento-Russo Duo (3)
Dierks Bentley (for the wife)
A Big Yes and a Small No
The Black Crowes (2)
The Black Keys
Blues Traveler (2)
Bon Jovi (for the wife)
Brand Nubian
The Breeders
Garth Brooks (for the wife)
Brooks & Dunn (for the wife)
Marc Broussard
Bustle In Your Hedgerow (around 5)
BUTTER
Neko Case
Celibate Rifles
Cheap Trick
Chicago
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
Cold War Kids
Paula Cole
The Comas
Corn Mo
Chris Cornell
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello and Alain Toussaint
Crescent Moon (around 5)
David Crosby
Crosby & Nash
Crosby, Stills and Nash (3)
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (3)
Danjaboots (3)
Darediablo (2)
Dean Ween Group (2)
de la Soul (2)
Delicious
Neil Diamond (dragged by parents)
Disposable Heroes of Hiphophrisy
Dr. Dog
Dennis Driscoll
Dryer (6)
Bob Dylan (4)
Kathleen Edwards
Eleven
Esme (around 5)
Eugenius
Eve's Plum
Donald Fagen
Failure (3)
f-hole (around 5)
The Figgs (2)
The Flaming Lips (4)
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Fleetwood Mac
Ben Folds
Gallon Drunk
Garaj Mahal
Genesis (2)
David Gilmour
Govt. Mule (3)
Great Time
Guns N Roses
Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit
Col. Bruce Hampton and the Codetalkers
Chris Harford and the Band of Changes (more than 100)
Harford/Freeman/Melchiondo
PJ Harvey (2)
Hell Is for Children (2)
Hothouse Flowers
Indigo Girls (3)
The Insidious Rays (more than 10)
Instant Death (more than 10)
Jim James
Jawbox
Jesse Harris
Jethro Tull
Jewel (for the wife)
Jimmy Wilson Group
Freedy Johnston
The Judybats (3)
King Missile (3)
K's Choice
Ben Kweller (2)
The Kinks
Vijay Kishore
Lake Trout (3)
Last Tribe
Lazlo (3)
Arthur Lee and Love (2)
Ted Leo
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (5)
The Levellers
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul
Living Colour (2)
Los Lonely Boys
Love Battery (2)
The Lumineers
Matty Love
Low
Magnapop
Yngwie Malmsteen
Mandrill
Ziggy Marley
Mars Volta
Dave Mason
Michael McDonald
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill (2) (not only was this for the wife, I proposed to her at the first show)
Sarah McLachlan (2)
Medicine
The Melomaniacs
Scott Metzger (4)
Scott Metzger & Andrew Southern
Midnight Oil (3)
The Steve Miller Band
Moistboyz (more than 10)
The Moldy Peaches (2)
Hub Moore
Bob Mould (10)
Mudhoney
Mark Mulcahy
My Morning Jacket (more than 10)
Needs Band
New Mastersounds
New Pornographers (4)
Next Tribe (3)
Nickelback (for the wife)
Willie Nile
Nudeswirl
Bill Ogg
Oysterhead
Ozric Tentacles
Brad Paisley (3) (for the wife)
Graham Parker
Pearl Jam (3)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (3)
Phish (47)
Kelly Pickler (for the wife)
Pink Floyd (2)
Pistons Fire at 11
The Police
Pond
Pork Tornado
Poster Children
Praying Mantis
The Pretenders
Primus
Procol Harum
Project/Object
The Raconteurs
Radio 4
Radiohead
Railroad Earth
RANA (more than 100)
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Rarebird
Rascal Flatts (2) (for the wife)
Lou Reed
Rev. B-Ill and the Sinners
The Rolling Stones
Rose Hill Drive (2)
Rumple Stiltskinz (more than 10)
Todd Rundgren
Rush
Salt
Sam Champion (more than 20)
Santana
The Saras (around 5)
School of Rock All-Stars with Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
Screaming Trees (3)
Secret Government (3)
Blake Shelton (for the wife)
Michelle Shocked
The Sixfifteens (around 5)
Skydaddy
Sleater-Kinney
The Slip (3)
The Smashing Pumpkins (2)
John Smiley Band
Sonic Youth (2)
Soul Asylum
Soundgarden (2)
The Sound of Urchin (more than 20)
Sounds of Greg D
Anna Spackman (4)
The Spin Doctors (3)
Spiral Blue
Spirit
SpiTune (more than 20)
The Spores
Squalor (2)
Steely Dan (4)
Stew
Stephen Stills
Street Greek (10)
The Strokes
Sugar
Swervedriver (2)
Taylor Swift (for the wife)
TAD (2)
James Taylor
Teenage Fanclub (3)
Television
Therapy?
This Radiant Boy (around 10)
Richard Thompson
3 Lb. Thrill
Tool
Traffic
Tricky
Trio (Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Brian Blade)
Triumph
Trouble City All-Stars (3)
Matt Trowbridge (around 5)
Tsunami (5)
Twin Limbs
U2 (4)
Umphrey's McGee (more than 10)
Unchained
Uncle Tupelo
The Veldt
Velocity Girl
Velvet Revolver
The Verve
Vida Blue
Vomelette (around 5)
The Walkmen
Walt Mink
War
M. Ward
Jimmy Wayne (for the wife)
Ween (around 15)
Dean Ween and Friends
Gene Ween (around 5)
Paul Weller
G. Calvin Weston's Mad Cow (2)
Whiskey Bottle Astronaut
The White Stripes
The Who
Wilco (around 10)
Ed Wilson (2)
Hank Williams III
Wineskin (3)
Steve Winwood
Wolf!
Wolfmother
Bernie Worrell and the WOO Warriors
Wrong (around 5)
Yes (2)
Yo La Tengo
Neil Young (10)
Paul Young

[BuckyBuckner]

From Erik's list I'll add these:
Comas
Figgs
Low
Magnapop
Tsunami

[Erik]

When/where did you see Tsunami? They were great.

For me:

#1: Opening for PJ Harvey at the TLA in Philly, 1993
#2: At the Khyber Pass Pub, essentially Philly's equivalent of CBGB, 1993
#3: Opening for Jawbox at City Gardens in Trenton, 1994
#4: Opening for Velocity Girl at the Trocadero in Philly, 1994
#5: At the Khyber, 1995-ish

[Lucky]

That's a great list, Erik. I didn't know you were a Gov't Mule fan. I've got a great copy of their show from a couple of years ago in Little Rock if you're interest.

Oh, and I forgot one of the most kick-ass shows I've ever seen...Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, who were touring with the Mule for a while. She was absolutely amazing.

[DMT]

Oh, and I forgot one of the most kick-ass shows I've ever seen...Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, who were touring with the Mule for a while. She was absolutely amazing.

I was looking forward to seeing her at SXSW (she's listed on the website as one of the announced artists) but apparently she cancelled.

[DMT]

The most disappointing shows I've been to are:

Joni Mitchell - she was touring with Dylan (94 or 95) and decided to sing all her classics in this annoying jazz style that she'd adopted in her most recent album. And she cut off one of her songs right in the middle. And her sound technicians managed to create an aggravating echo effect in the stadium.

Tori Amos (2003 or 2004) - I've seen her 3 times but the last time she was touring with Ben Folds and I actually fell asleep during her set. Strangely enough, I met someone a couple months ago who was at that same show who claimed she nearly fell asleep too.

Thievery Corporation (2001) - Their sound was terrible and rather than integrate the various singers continuously throughout their songs, they trotted each one out separately and it completely ruined it for me. My friend felt the same which led to some interesting discussions between he and his partner, who was out of town but had raved about them being the best live act he'd ever seen.

[DMT]

Added a bunch of jam bands I had seen but forgotten due to the fact I was drunk and stoned at most of them.

[johnnya24]

The most disappointing shows I've been to are:

I really liked Ben Harper's early stuff, and we went to see him in the early 2000's ... sadly it wasn't a very good show. We put it down to a one off bad show. So we arranged to go see him again a few years later, and we were so bored we left early. Apart from some shows at jazz venues that run until the early AM (meaning we'd miss our train), this was the only show I've ever left early, and the only one I've walked out off because it sucked.

[TS Garp]

Operation Ivy

Jealous!

[TS Garp]

Hard to remember all of the shows, and I have a feeling that a lot of them are bands that no one (except maybe Bucky) has heard of, so I won't bother listing all of them, but here are some of the more mainstream ones:

Billy Joel
Hall and Oates
Paul Simon (2x)
The Alarm
The Fixx
Living Color
Primus
Oingo Boingo
James
The Church
Big Audio Dynamite
PIL
Guns n' Roses (3x)
Soundgarden
Metallica
INXS
Weezer (3x)
Green Day (15-20x, pre-1996 or so)
The Get Up Kids
The Decemberists

[Fresno Bob]

Jealous!

Gilman St, the 80s punk venue in the bay area, i need to add the dead kennedys and seven seconds because i saw them there too