# What concerts have you been to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 12, 2001, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274 "2001-07-12T21:37:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/1 "2001-07-12T21:37:08Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/2 "2001-07-12T21:46:14Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/3 "2001-07-12T21:47:16Z")
Whoops, I forgot U2. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/4 "2001-07-12T21:56:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/5 "2001-07-12T21:57:56Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/6 "2001-07-12T22:18:45Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/7 "2001-07-12T22:57:35Z")
“Weird Al” Yankovic. What, there’s others? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/8 "2001-07-12T23:04:18Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/9 "2001-07-12T23:10:14Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/10 "2001-07-12T23:21:15Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/11 "2001-07-12T23:30:46Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/12 "2001-07-12T23:38:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flymaster \* > \*\*ZZTop > Vertical Horizon > Third Eye Blind > Barenaked Ladies > Aerosmith \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/13 "2001-07-12T23:40:31Z")
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**. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/14 "2001-07-12T23:55:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/15 "2001-07-12T23:55:52Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/16 "2001-07-13T00:03:30Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by PlanMan \* > \*\*\*\* Bloodrock_\* - remember their one hit? > \*\* **DOA**! The “Reefer Madness” of drug downer songs! ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/17 "2001-07-13T00:32:13Z")
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 ---
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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 ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/19 "2001-07-13T01:06:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274/20 "2001-07-13T01:09:02Z")
**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** [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-concerts-have-you-been-to/72274.md?page=2)