Aldo Nova
Blue Oyster Cult
Rush
The Who
Billy Joel
Elton John
Journey
America
Dead Kennedys
Black Flag
Circle Jerks
7 Seconds
Butthole Surfers
Peter Gabrial
America
Dave Matthews Band
Dar Williams
Depache Mode
Cowboy Junkies
Macy Grey
Fear
Lots more I’m forgetting right now, I’m sure.
The Stones
Boz Scaggs
Joan Baez
Joni Mitchell
Brian Setzer
Janis Ian
Grateful Dead
Steve Miller
Moody Blues
Elton John (back in the mid-70’s)
Anni DeFranco
Little Richard
Elvin Bishop
Gary Union and the Pucket Gap (back in the sixties)
Dave Mason
Robert Cray
Oh, and in Junior High, members of the choir got extra credit for attending an ‘Up With People’ concert. That has to be where REM’s song ‘Shiny Happy People’ came from.
I had to use Anbusol laden QTips for a week to get the saccharin sounds to stop hurting my eardrums.
First was the Beach Boys (when they were washed up).
Others:
Allman Brothers Band (4 times, twice with Duane)
Loudon Wainwright III (twice, over 20 years apart)
Mahavishnu Orchestra (God help me, I saw them twice)
Sha Na Na (twice)
J. Geils Band (twice)
Mountain
Chicago
Dreams
Bruce Springsteen (when he was still playing small gigs)
Edgar Winter Group (with special appearance by Johnny)
Elvin Bishop
Jo Jo Gunne
Pink Floyd (after Meddle was released)
Earl Scruggs Review
Taj Mahal
Mark-Almond (terrible concert, and it started several hours late).
PDQ Bach
Jethro Tull
McKendry Spring (a replacement for Cat Stevens with Tull)
Leo Kottke
Buzzy Linhart (pathetic)
Roland Kirk
Buddy Guy/Junior Wells
Jefferson Airplane
Orleans
Amboy Dukes (maybe with Ted Nugent)
Blotto
Seatrain
Ray Charles
Philadelphia Orchestra
Itzak Perlman
Yo Yo Ma
Sarah Chang
Flying Burrito Brothers
New Riders of the Purple Sage
John Lee Hooker
I’ve certainly forgotten a few.
Finally came to me … the inspiration for the Muppet’s Dr. Teeth ----> Dr. John … twas at the Fox in Atlanta
have also seen Humble Pie
I really need to get out and see more bands live, as i just went to my first concert last year. For some reason, i had no desire to do so before, but you really get a new found respect for bands after seeing them live. In order, the exhuastive list goes…
Jets To Brazil
Dick Dale
Weezer
Superdrag
all four of which i hope to have the change to see again.
The Dixie Chicks
Bryan White
Leann Rimes
All 4 One
Billy Ray Cyrus
John Michael Montgomery
OK, I know I’ll forget a ton, but here it goes:
Metallica (3X)
The Cult
Aerosmith
Black Crowes
Tesla (2X)
Slayer (3X)
Pantera (5X)
Skid Row
Guns N Roses
Soundgarden
Biohazard (2X)
Machine Head
Fear Factory
Napalm Death
Seputura
Nuclear Assualt (2X)
Coroner
White Zombie (5X)
Overkill (3X)
Megadeath
Korn (2X)
Kid Rock
Powerman 5000
System of a Down
Rage Against the Machine
Cypress Hill
7 Year Bitch
Murphy’s Law (4X)
Sick of it All
Mucky Pup (9X)
Damn Yankees
Bad Company
Kiss
Poison (2X)
Warrant
Quiot Riot
Enuff Z Nuff
Cinderella
Dokken
Slaughter
Widowmaker
Ramones (3X)
Hatebreed
Gargantua Soul
Danzig
Marilyn Manson (2X)
Machines of Loving Grace
Christian Death
GWAR (4X)
Bile
Type O Negative
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Moby
Blondie
Kittie
Lords of Acid
Killing Time
Iron Maiden (2X)
Suicidal Tendencies
Queensryche (2X)
Rush
Mr. Big
Broken
Boiling Man
Malachi Crunch
The Business
Springheeled Jack
Judas Priest
Rob Halford
Southside Johnny & The Ashbury Jukes (don’t ask)
Wrathchild America
Anthrax (3X)
Armored Saint
Local H
Melissa Ethridge
Peter Criss
Testament (3X)
Chemlab
Nudeswirl
Brutal Truth
Mercyful Fate
Cathedral
Gravel Pit
Misfits
Clutch (2X)
Flotsom & Jetsom
Spineshank
Genitorturers
Volutuous Horror of Karen Black
Firehouse
Life of Agony
Morbid Angel
Static X
Skrape
Sacred Reich
Mighty Purple
DRI
Deftones
Alice Donut
OK, thats it. There are probably 2-3X more in forgotten and local bands.
And tomorrow night I can add Staind and Cold
Dude, thats a great show. I went to opening night of the tour in New Haven, CT. Get there early to see Morbid Angel, we were about a 1/2 hour late and totally missed them.
Lets see if I can remember them all.
AC/DC
Journey-the lineup w/ Steve Perry
Rush
Metallica
Nirvana-EVERY time they played Chicago including the first time
Mr T Experience
Screeching Weasels
Hole
Marilyn Manson
Babes in Toyland
L7
Jane’s Addiction
Porno For Pyros
Perry Farrell-dj gig
Smashing Pumpkins
Tupac
Dr Dre
Snoop Dogg
Eminem
Insane Clown Posse-don’t ask
New Kids on the Block-see above
Madonna
the Police
the Pretenders
Peter Gabriel
Crowded House
U2
Liz Phair
Neil Young
Pearl Jam
Package Tours:
Amnesty International
Every Lollapalooza
Last two Warped
Last three Ozzfests
Local Bands
Rubber
Infinity
Crush
Effigy
Most of these were from my college years, 1988-1993.
Let’s see:
Consolidated x4
Front Line Assembly
Ministry x2
KMFDM x2
Gravity Kills
MC 900 Ft Jesus w/DJ Zero
Split Second
The Hunger x5 (a local band out of Houston)
Front 242
NIN x2
David Bowie
Rolling Stones
Living Color
Rage Against The Machine
The Scorpions
Dread Zeppelin
Prick
Anything Box
Duran Duran
Tricky
Fatboy Slim
CCCP
Thrill Kill Kult
Tool
Bryan Adams (opening act: the Hooters)
Asia
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult (opening act: Zebra)
Boston
Cheap Trick
Damn Yankees (featuring Ted Nugent)
Neil Diamond
Ronnie James Dio (opening act: Dokken)
Kenny G
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
Whitney Houston
Billy Joel
Elton John
Jethro Tull
Eric Johnson
Judas Priest (opening act: Cinderella)
King Crimson (the Fripp/Belew/Levin/Bruford “Beat” lineup)
Greg Lake
Julian Lennon
Moody Blues (opening act: the Fixx)
Roy Orbison
Ozzy Osbourne (opening act: UFO)
Jimmy Page solo
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
Pink Floyd (“Momentary Lapse of Reason” tour)
The Police at Shea Stadium (opening act: Joan Jett)
Queen (opening act: Billy Squier)
Rainbow (opening act: the Scorpions)
Rush
Scorpions (opening acts: Mr. Big & Great White)
The Smithereens
Squeeze (opening act: A Flock of Seagulls)
Paul Simon & Bob Dylan
Simon & Garfunkel at Central Park (along with 499,999 of my closest friends)
Triumph (opening act: Foghat)
U2
Yes
I may be missing a few (and I’ve seen a few of these artists more than once), but those are the big ones.
Well, this will be interesting to see how many I can remember…
Hooters (the band, not the restaurant or the mammary gland)
Bon Jovi (I’m ashamed to admit) w/ Cinderella
Aerosmith w/Skid Row (the night with “the bottle incident”)
Faith No More/Metallica/Guns N Roses
Robert Plant w/Alana Miles
Page/Plant
Van Halen w/Alice in Chains
Foghat
Foghat (again)/Mountain/Marshall Tucker/Blue Cheer
Weird Al Yankovic (a bit out of place on this list, maybe)
Living Color
Deep Purple
Phish (so very very very awful)
Ace Frehley
Staind (when they were a cover band)
Kiss
Kiss w/the Nixons
Kiss w/Econoline Crush
Kiss w/Powerman 5000
Kiss w/Skid Row and Ted Nugent
Then, there was the time in the early-mid 90’s when every weekend was “tribute band” time. While I don’t really consider these club bands to be “concerts,” they certainly would extend the list.
Blink182
FenixTx (2x)
Bad Religion (2x)
^Then all three together^
Deftones (3x)
Borne In Hand (2x)
Nullset (2x)
Fear Factory
Godsmack
BladedShaded
Deep Rooted
Ozzy Osbourne (2x)
6GiG
Coventry Highschool Band Recital 
And I just got gyped out of seeing Cold/Staind/Adema at the Expo Center tomorrow night. Bastard hooked me up with free tickets but never contacted me back.
I am sorely pissed off right now.
I would just like to take this moment to profess my love for woodstockbirdybird, based solely on his taste in music. I would have killed to see Crowded House before they broke up. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians? ERASURE? Wooooow.
Neil Finn (of Crowded House)
U2 (2X)
Depeche Mode (6X)
Sting
R.E.M.
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (5X)
KMFDM (featuring Ogre of Skinny Puppy)
Squeeze
Skinny Puppy
Pearl Jam (went along with friends)
Queensryche (was dragged, I’d never heard of them)
Duran Duran (2X)
Men at Work (on the field after a Tampa Bay Mutiny game)
Lords of Acid (opened for TKK)
The The (opened for Depeche Mode)
Stabbing Westward (also for DM, twice)
Third Eye Blind (opened for U2)
The Corrs (yick, also for U2)
Natalie Merchant (opened for Sting)
Nitzer Ebb (opened for DM)
Type O Negative (opened for Queensryche)
And then there were the many many awful concerts I was taken to as a child. I won’t list them here, but here’s a taste: PAT BOONE.
Just like I envy your Big Black and Elvis Costello.
And truthfully, The Archers kinda stunk. OK, they were flat-out awful. But Afghan Whigs (Black Love tour) and SY (Goo tour) were both very good.
Make sure you find out what shitstain was responsible for spamming the boards with SKRAPE links and crap a few months back.
Then kick them in the crotch. Hard.
Ani Difranco
Juliana Hatfield
The Butchies
i wanted ani d to be my first, and had to wait 'til i was 19 and in college. The other two were free 
Well, if you can get $29, you can come up with me. Where will you be coming from?
Coventry. BUt I don’t have any money, so. DAMN!
Santana with Miles Davis at Newport Jazz Festival, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1988.
…and a billion others but nothing touches this…
Very few, actually.
Until a couple of years ago, the only band I had seen live that got any kind of wide-spread exposure was Nuclear Assault, at a smallish metal bar in Deep Ellum. Since then I saw Marilyn Manson and Monster Magnet in concert, my first ‘real’ concert and my last one. I have never been a big Marilyn Manson fan (went there because my friend had just got out of jail and she was a really big fan) but I have to admit he is quite the showman, I really enjoyed him while I didn’t care for Monster Magnet, even though I love their first album.
I’m probably going to see Eerie Ln. at a club in Arlingon, TX later this month, they aren’t exactly famous but they are really cool, sort of a cross between old-school Misfits and modern death-metal. My wife won’t go with me, however.
Damn. That sucks. Staind will be back. They are always around here.