Grateful Dead (more times than I can count)
Bruce Springsteen ( I dunno…20 maybe)
Jimmy Buffett ( another I dunno…20?)
Neil Young (5)
Judy Collins (3)
Elton John (3)
Fleetwood Mac and/or Stevie Nicks (5)
Jethro Tull
Blotto – 4-5 times (They were on MTV, so they’re not just a local band).
Allman Brothers Band – 4 times (twice with Duane).
J. Geils Band – twice (once with the Allman Brothers)
Loudon Wainwright III – twice (30 years apart)
Livingston Taylor – twice (also 30 years apart)
Otis Taylor - twice (no relation)
I plan to see the Roches later this summer, so I will have seen 2/3rds of them twice.
The Grateful Dead +/- 85
Phish about 8
Leftover Salmon +20
String Cheese 5 or so
Willie Nelson 5 or so
RatDog +20
Rolling Stones 3
Bruce Hornsby +5
Bob Dylan +10
los Lobos 5 or so
Jakes Leg 150++ (local Dead cover band for past 30 yrs)
many others but these are the big ticket items…
Tull - 8 or 10. I think. '88 to '93 are still kind of vague.
Nazareth - 4 (the fifth time they didn’t play, as Darrel Sweet was in the process of dying from a heart attack) First time I was 13, last I was 31.
Seger - 2
Might have seen Ozzy a couple times.
Peter Gabriel (3)
They Might Be Giants (3? 4?)
Echolyn (Philly-area 90s prog band - 2)
The Musical Box (2)
The Blind Boys of Alabama (2 … just saw them last week!)
Let’s see if I can remember them all:
Opeth - 7
Nevermore - 4 or 5
Amorphis - 2
Symphony X - 2
Into Eternity - 3
Evergrey - 2
Lacuna Coil - 4
In Flames - 2
Moonspell - 2
God Forbid - 2
Shadows Fall - 2
Eh, my total list is much much longer (hey, many of the bands I like, if they DO tour, only tour the US every several years).
There’s a whole bunch I’ve seen at festivals and I can’t remember most of them, but:
Sev (eh…) - 2
PM5K (double eh…) - 2
…don’t remember any more (probably because I didn’t like most of them), but I know there were plenty more.
How about bands I will be seeing for the second time in the next few months (Therion and Katatonia), do they count?
Do local bands count? Cause I wasn’t going to see them–most of them were good though–but if so:
Brave - 4
Odin’s Court - 2
Division - 3
Todesbonden - 2
Tapping the Vein - 2
Peter Hammill/Van der Graaf Generator - 12 (probably)
Mark Eitzel/American Music Club - 10 (probably)
Pere Ubu/David Thomas - 7 (I think)
Michelle Shocked - 5
Faust - 4
Mutton Birds - 3
Gil Scott Heron - 3
Barclay James Harvest - 2
Hall & Oates - 2
Dr. John - 2
Les Negreses Verte - 2
Culture - 2
Sly & Robbie - 2
Kinks/Ray Davies - 2
King Crimson/Robert Fripp - 2
Porcupine Tree - 2
Def Leppard. I’m up to 20 shows as of the one I went to this weekend, and am going to see them in Canada and Michigan next week. I wouldn’t be going if I hadn’t been invited to a friend’s house and the concert tix were an early Xmas present. I was too young to see them on their tour for PYROMANIA and was sick the night they came thru WV on the HYSTERIA tour, so I’m making up for that now.
Ozzy Osbourne
Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead/Phil Lesh and Friends/Rat Dog
Fugazi
Toots and the Maytalls
The Toasters
Chris Smither
BB King
Richard Thompson
AC/DC
Willie Nelson
Aimee Mann
Indigo Girls
Ani Difranco
Steve Earle
Robert Earl Keen
David Byrne
Subdudes
Allman Brothers
Eddie From Ohio
Greg Brown
Henry Rollins
Liz Phair
Allison Krauss and Union Station
Doc Watson
Screeching Weasel
Richie Havens
Del McCoury Band
Mike Cross
Roger Manning
Sam Bush
The Silos
David Grisman Quintet
John Gorka
Bela Fleck
Cowboy Junkies
Dar Williams
Social Distortion
Violent Femmes
Zappa - 3 (including final '88 tour)
ELP - 2 (including first show of orchestral tour)
Genesis - 2 (never with PG, though I’ve caught The Musical Box once…)
Yes - 3
Jean-Luc Ponty - 3
Mike Keneally - 3
King Crimson - 5
Moody Blues - 2
Jethro Tull - 3
Jimmy Buffet - 2
Bruce Hornsby - 2 (we Denverites like to think we got him started…)
California Guitar Trio - 2
Bela Fleck - 3
Level 42 - 2 (both times as opening act for someone I actually wanted to see)
There are a few more than this, mostly various Lollapalooza/Woodstock 94 artists, but these are the big ones:
Ramones (20+)
Tom Jones (10+)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones (10+)
Duran Duran (5)
Metallica (2)
Rolling Stones (2)
Son Volt (2)
Grateful Dead (2, though I went to 5+ shows, I didn’t always actually go inside the arena.)