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

[DMT]

Does anyone else update their lists? In the past year, I've added:

Big Boy
Les Claypool
Depeche Mode
Polyphonic Spree
Tim Kasher (frontman for Cursive, we went to the same high school, 2 years ahead of me...real cool dude and puts on a great show)
Devo
Howard Jones

[Erik]

I just updated mine, though I haven't been to much since my son was born. The only new artists added since early 2012: The Avett Brothers, Dr. Dog, Dean Ween and Friends.

However, it was nice to be able to scan that list to come up with more ideas for the 80s-90s album draft.

[Igor]

I only have added Neil Young with Crazy Horse and The Hives (who put on a great show).

[virgonomic]

Some of you have some impressive lists. I did mine in chronological order. I saw several bands at the same concert on a few occasions.

Tom Cochrane 1991
Pearl Jam / Soundgarden / Neil Young 1992
The Tea Party 1993
Tragically Hip 1994
Junkhouse 1994
Weird Al Yankovic 1999
Fishbone / Stone Temple Pilots / Red Hot Chili Peppers 2000
Barenaked Ladies 1994/1996/2000/2001
Backstreet Boys 2001
Danko Jones 2001
The Salads / Out of Your Mouth / Bif Naked 2004
Pearl Jam 2005
Chilliwack 2005
Bob Dylan 2005
Billy Idol / Weezer / Dashboard Confessional (Lollapalooza 2005 - there were others)
Guns N' Roses (X2) 2006, 2010
Slash ft. Miles Kennedy 2012

[johnnya24]

From this last year added: Stone Roses and Florence and the Machine.

Been a lean few years

[Friarfan]

Jealous!

Ditto!

[Friarfan]

I know I'm missing a few (mostly from my drunken, weed days of the early to mid-90's. Broken down in to categories (some might not fit in the exact "category, but anyways)...

"80's" New Wave-ish Bands (Which I mostly grew up on and saw some in my teen years but most on the Retro/Nostalgia circuit)
ABC
Adam Ant
Alarm, The (multiple times - Mike Peters solo quite a few times as well)
Bad Religion
B-52s
Bangles, The
Berlin
Big Country (fronted by Mike Peters)
Blondie
Bow Wow Wow
Buzzcocks, The
Cult, The
Cure,The
Cutting Crew
Depeche Mode
Devo
Dramarama
Echo & The Bunnymen (the last time I saw them was with an orchestra doing the entire Ocean Rain album - AMAZING)
Elvis Costello
Fishbone
Fixx, The (Still a great show - Cy Curnin is a great showman)
Flock of Seagulls (seems like they are at the New Wave bar in LA every other week - yes, there is a bar that is ALL 80's/New Wave. I call it Nirvana)
Gene Loves Jezebel (both versions - the Aston twins hate each other and have their own GLJ)
Go-Gos
Happy Mondays
Heaven 17
Hoodoo Gurus
INXS
Jello Biafra (but never Dead Kennedys) sad face
Joe Jackson
Misfits
Missing Persons
Morrissey (last time I saw him, the wanker literally played a venue right down the street from my house and only played 10 songs)
Naked Eyes
New Order
Oingo Boingo (fondest of memories seeing them many times. Recently saw Johnny Vatos' band he does with other former members of OB (Johnny Avila, Carl Graves, Sluggo and sometimes Steve Bartek joins them)
OMD
Paul Weller (but never The Jam) major sadface
Peter Murphy (but never Bauhaus) sad face
Plimsouls, The (one of the more underrated bands in history, IMO)
Police, the
Psychedelic Furs
Public Image Ltd.
Ramones, The
Squeeze
Stray Cats
Tears for Fears
They Might Be Giants
U2
Ub40
Wall of Voodoo
Wang Chung
When in Rome (They actually threw out Napoleon Dynamite bobblehead dolls when they did "The Promise")
X

My Hard Rock Phase
Aerosmith
Alice Cooper
Anthrax
Arcade (Stephen Pearcy's band after RATT)
Asphalt Ballet
Body Count (Ice T)
Candlebox (don't judge me - it was part of the Metallica "Summer Shit" tour)
Cheap Trick
Danzig
Faith no More
Guns n Roses
I Mother Earth (one of the best sows I've ever seen in a small club by a band with a minor hit on modern rock radio - Still listen to their album from time to time. Good stuff)
Infectious Grooves
KISS
Korn (in a small bar in San Diego before they hit big. Thought they sucked then, but it was crazy seeing a band playing metal with a frontman in a kilt playing bagpipes)
Metallica
Motley Crue
Ozzy
Pantera
Pink Floyd
Poison
Queensryche
Rob Halford (never Judas Preist, though) sadface
Sammy Hagar
Slaughter
Suicidal Tendencies
Tesla
Type O Negative
Van Halen
Warrant
White Zombie

Grunge/90's Alternative
Cake
Collective Soul
Counting Crows
Gin Blossoms
Jane's Addiction
Meat Puppets
Melvins, the
Ministry
Mudhoney
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
No Doubt
NOFX
Offspring
Pearl Jam
Rage Against the Machine
Rancid
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rocket From the Crypt
Screaming Trees
Smashing Pumpkins
Soundgarden
Sponge
Stone Temple Pilots
Weezer

Swing Revival/Rockabilly
Brian Setzer Orchestra
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Cherry Poppin' Daddy's
Royal Crown Revue
Lavay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

Ska/Reggae
Aggrolites
Bad Manners
Chris Murray
English Beat (duh)
Hepcat
Madness
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Reel Big Fish
Sublime (ick)
the Slackers
The Specials
Toots and the Maytals

Misc.
Citizen Cope
Gogol Bordello
Michael Franti and Spearhead
Old 97's
Reverend Horton Heat
Swell Season - Glenn Hansard and Marketa Irglova from the movie 'Once'
Jake Bugg - (Young kid whose got kind of a Dylan meets Oasis vibe. Saw him last month - great show!)

Does not include a plethora of local SD/LA bands from the early to mid 90's when I was "in the scene"

[Erik]

And why aren't you in the '80s-90s album draft again, Mr. New Wave?

[Friarfan]

And why aren't you in the '80s-90s album draft again, Mr. New Wave?

Didn't see the invite or the thread until too late. Other than today, I wouldn't have much time to participate and follow it anyway.

[johnnya24]

You need to get out more FF. Just sayin'

[Friarfan]

You need to get out more FF. Just sayin'

No, I really DO need to get out more...now...post wife and kid...

[Erik]

DMT's comment in the Post-79 album draft thread reminded me that I was once dragged to an Acid Mothers Temple show in Baltimore and fell asleep.

[DMT]

DMT's comment in the Post-79 album draft thread reminded me that I was once dragged to an Acid Mothers Temple show in Baltimore and fell asleep.

I didn't have them on my list either, guess I was being overly generous calling their live show 'awesome'. I was there with a friend's husband who'd traveled from SD just to see them and he's one of those guys who's overflowing with enthusiasm.

[Erik]

Now, chances are I was one or more of these three things: 1) stoned 2) sick 3) exhausted. Weed makes me tired. I had to have been in Baltimore for other reasons because I wouldn't have traveled there from NJ just to see them. Now that I think about it, it was probably a business trip. I met up with a friend from the Phish scene and AMT was already in his plans.

[senorsheep]

So, my daughter posted this on Facebook, begging for a concert date...



That's a pretty good lineup. In 1994.

There are actually a lot of bands on there that I missed in their heyday, but the idea of spending three entire days with a mass of stinking, stupid humanity... guh. I can't do it.