Don’t wanna know the best, or you first, or the worst. Just list 'em (yes, I am having a slow day, why do you ask?)
Anyway, here’s what I remember:
5ive Style
Afghan Whigs
Archers of Loaf
Babe the Blue Ox (2x)
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Big Chief
Blues Traveller
The Boredoms
Butthole Surfers (2x)
Codeine
Combustible Edison
The Cure
De La Soul
DJ Shadow
Don Caballero
Failure
The For Carnation
Fugazi (4x)
G Love & Special Sauce
Gomez
The Grassy Knoll
Helmet
Ice Cube
Ice-T
Jane’s Addiction (2x)
Jawbox
Jesus and Mary Chain
Billy Joel (don’t ask)
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Jesus Jones
The Jesus Lizard (4x)
John Wesley Harding
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Letters to Cleo (ugh)
Live
Living Color
Lucy Brown
Lush
Mighty Lemon Drops
Mike Watt
Mindfunk
Ministry
Bob Mould
Mudhoney
Mule
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
The Ocean Blue
Pearl Jam
PJ Harvey (2x)
Polvo (2x)
Poster Children
Primus
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Replacements
Rollins Band (3x)
Rusted Root
The Sea and Cake
Seam
Sebadoh
Shellac (2x)
Siouxie and the Banshees
The Skatellites
The Slackers
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Soul Coughing
Soundgarden
Stuck Mojo
The Swans
They Might be Gianta
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (2x)
Toad the Wet Sproket
Tribe Called Quest
Type O Negative
Unsane
Urban Dance Squad
Versus
White Zombie
Ween (5 or 6x)
Will Oldham / Palace Bros.
Yo La Tengo
My list isn’t nearly as long…
George Michael
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Don Henley (about 5 times)
Susannah Hoffs (opened for Don Henley)
The Eagles
Melissa Etheridge (opened for The Eagles)
Survivor
The Monkees (Davy and Micky only)
BB King, Susan Tedeschi, Buddy Guy
Donna Summer
Hootie & the Blowfish, Glen Frey
Greg Kihn Band (played at a local beer garden)
Harry Connick Jr. (Taste of Chicago)
Tom Jones (Taste of Chicago)
Various blues and jazz artists at Chicago fests
Bruce Springsteen
Cheap Trick
Devo
Talking Heads (x5)
Elvis Costello (x4)
Big Black
Feelies
Thin White Rope
Peter Gabriel
Mother Hips
mouthbreather, I’m in envy of you seeing Archers Of Loaf, Afghan Whigs, Sonic Youth and The Swans. My aversion to crowds keeps me from seeing a lot of shows.
In chronological order:
Kenny Rogers
Erasure
U2 (2x)
10,000 Maniacs
Jimmy Buffett
Common Sense
Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra
and, at the end of the month I can add
Cowboy Junkies
Here’s the list from first seen to who I saw last
ICP
Twizted
Staind
Korn
Papa Roach
3 Doors Down
Bloodhound Gang
Godsmack
Bind
Dent
Galactic
Live
Counting Crows
Kittie
Disturbed
Kottonmouth Kings
Wheatus
Fuel
Green Day
STP
Tony Bennett
Blossom Dearie
Dire Straits
Paul McCartney
Amnesty International (Tracy Chapman, Bruce Springsteen, & Peter Gabriel)
Doesn’t count jazz clubs, classical music halls, or concerts where I worked security (although Phish & Spin Doctors would be included in the latter)
Guess Who
Lili Hayden Band
Paige & Plant
Laidlaw
ZZTop
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hot Tuna
Allman Brothers Band
Slash’s Snakepit
ACDC
Guster
9 Days
Vertical Horizon
Third Eye Blind
Barenaked Ladies
Deep Purple
Ted Nugent
Aerosmith
Journey
Pantera (2X)
Biohazard
Neurosis
Ted Nugent
Alice Cooper
Scorpions
Motley Crue
Hank Williams Jr
The Highwaymen
Willie Nelson
Beach Boys
Three Dog Night
Drain S.T.H.
Type O Negative
Six Feet Under
AC/DC (2X)
Metallica (2X)
Megadeth
Epoch Of Unlight
KISS (in makeup)
Rolling Stones
Bryan Adams
TOMORROW NIGHT!!!
Morbid Angel
Skrape
Static-X
Slayer
Pantera
Not sure if I can remember them all, but here goes …
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon tour, back before they became an arean band
Frank Zappa x I don’t remember how many times but once with Jean Luc Ponty and again with Captain Beefheart
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour; the final tour with Peter Gabriel
Alice Cooper Welcome to my Nightmare
P. D. Q. Bach twice
Wierd Al Yankovic
Jethro Tull twice
Victor Borge
Daniel Amos / Randy Stonehill
The Moody Blues Long Distance Voyager tour
Pink Floyd again, A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour and Roger Waters Radio Kaos tour; there didn’t seem to be too much difference
Billy Joel
Yes in the reconstructed ABWH tour … plus had backstage tickets and got to mee the band!
And the one concert that I missed my a hair, I had tickets to see The Allman Brothers Band right after the Fillmore album came out, but two days before the show, Duane died in the motorcycle accident and the tour was cancelled. Rats
I’m so jealous! Three of my favorite bands are on your list.
Aside from the local bands few outside Hawaii have heard of and the 80s boy bands I’m too embarassed to admit seeing, I’ve seen Lit, The Flys, and Jimmie’s Chicken Shack (all at one show). I’ve also seen Diana Krall. Even with slight cold, she puts on one heck of a show.
My list of concerts I could have seen is better: No Doubt, Green Day, Fastball, Michael Jackson, Boyz II Men, Blink 182, and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
Forgot one, although it wasn’t really a concert. I used to be a manager for Trans-World Music and at one of our district meetings we had a private short performance with Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin.
Grateful Dead 9x
George Thorogood 3x
Lucinda Williams & Kasey Chambers
Cowboy Junkies
Elvis Costello
Steve Earle
Peter Himmelman x4
Ziggy Marley
Jimmy Buffett x2
Frank Sinatra
Joe Jackson
Jimmy Cliff x3
Third World
Wailing Souls x3
Burning Spear x2
Son Volt
Uncle Tupelo
J Mellencamp
Tom Petty
Neil Diamond
Phish
Dylan
Sting opening for the Dead
Los Lobos
Wild Colonials
Gillian Welch & Ani DeFranco & Greg Brown
REM x4
Violent Femmes
BoDeans (went to HS with them!)
BB King x2
UB 40
Dwight Yoakam x3
Let’s Go Bowling
Specials
English Beat x2
Mary Chapin Carpenter x2
Gregory Isaacs
Beausoleil
Zachary Richard
…and I lost 6 front row, balcony tickets to Peter Gabriel in 1982.
These were all back in the very late 60’s, very early 70’s, (except PPM, they were about 5 yrs. ago), and in no particular order, except first and last, and I bet there are more…
The Association
Steppenwolf
Iron Butterfly
Deep Purple
Credence Clearwater Revival (thanks Euty, I forgot CCR)
Ted Nugent (open for:) ** Bloodrock - remember their one hit?
Jethro Tull Thick as Brick, I think, Aqualung, etc. were in the encore
Allman Bros. Band (after Duane died, but before Barry Oakley, in a very similar motorcycle crash)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon tour, our Coliseum is round, and they had huge speaker stacks at each 90 degree point around the arena, when we left, they had three searchlights ranged around the arena, with their beams intersecting, prism-like, way up in the air
wudda seen Rare Earth, but I got the crappy pukes (my dorm food wasn’t that green…)
Wet Willie
ohhh gawwd, this is embarassing, (I guess memory loss is a problem), anyway, the jazz/blues piano player that the Muppet “Dr. Teeth” is based on ???
Peter, Paul and Mary - outside in the rain
Mrs. PlanMan makes up in ‘wow’ for lower numbers (she may have more, I didn’t know her then):
Beatles - the night after hurricane Dora came thru town, her bro. was a DJ, so they were inside the barrier in front of the stage
Jimi Hendrix (open for:) ** The Monkees** (when they were still on TV)
DOA! The “Reefer Madness” of drug downer songs!
Here are the ones I remember (parenthetical items were separate concerts of solo musicians with backing bands):
The Replacements (x3)
Robyn Hitchcock (& the Egyptians)(x12?)
R.E.M.(x2)
Bob Mould (with band)(x4)
The Smithereens
U2
The Pretenders
The Wedding Present
The Godfathers
Sonic Youth
Pavement
Sugar
Throwing Muses
Shane MacGowan & the Popes
The Soft Boys
Public Image Ltd.
7 Seconds
Social Distortion
Fishbone
X (x2)
The dB’s
Squeeze
Cinerama
The Aislers Set
The Ladybug Transistor
The Lucksmiths
The Cure
Stereolab
Steve Earle
EPMD
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
The Wonderstuff
Elvis Costello
The Milltown Bros.
The Poster Children
The Queers
Chixdiggit!
Pansy Division
The Who
Bruce Springsteen
The La’s
Straitjacket Fits
Midnight Oil (x2)
Psychadelic Furs
Duran Duran
Erasure
George Michael (?)
Depeche Mode
Jets To Brazil
Goo Goo Dolls (in '91, before they were complete shit)
Junk Monkeys
Motorhead (x2)
The Pixies
The Donnas
The Feelies
INXS
Crowded House
Aerosmith - backstage
Baxter Brothers - backstage
Beat Nigs
Doc Watson
Hossam Ramzy
John McEuen
Love & Rockets
Micheal Schenker Group
Sammy Hagar - backstage
Scorpions
Shriekback
Soft White Underbelly (x2) - backstage
Ted Nugent - backstage
Thin White Rope (x3) - backstage
Tubes
Van Halen
Yes
Oops, forgot the following:
Violent Femmes
REM (x2) 1st one the best, 2nd one the worst.
Squeeze
English Beat
Thanks to woodstockbirdybird for reminding me.
Boston: “Don’t Look Back” tour. I was in jr. high. Sue me.
Rush: “Hemispheres”, “Signals”, and “Counterparts”
Jethro Tull: “Catfish Rising” and the joint tour with ELP
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: “Black Moon” tour and again with Tull
Styx: “Killroy Was Here”
Frank Zappa: About 1985 sometime
Donovan: Opened for by Jonathan Richman
**Arlo Guthrie: **About 1987 or so. Got to go backstage and meet him.
Grateful Dead: Soldier Field, '92 and '93
Leo Kottke: 1982
Steve Tibbetts w/ Marc Anderson: Twice. Wow.
Several from my Windham Hill phase:
Liz Story, Alex DiGrassi, Shadowfax, and the Late, Great Michael Hedges: Four times, including once with Pierre Bensusan
