# Which bands/artists have you seen live? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248 "2004-06-14T05:14:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/21 "2004-06-14T14:32:55Z")
None within the last two decades… The Who Queen The Eagles Fleetwood Mac Heart (Kansas opened for them) Chicago Styx There are more, but damned if I remember… (actually most of the 70’s and early 80’s are a haze… ;)) ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/22 "2004-06-14T14:35:42Z")
OK, I’ll play. Here are the ones I can drag out of my rapidly congealing brain: Jethro Tull (a bunch o’ times) Clouds (opened for Tull on one tour) Fanny (all-girl rock band from about 1970) Sly and the Family Stone (by far the loudest concert I have ever seen, uh, heard) Bonnie Raitt (two of the best shows I’ve ever seen, and two of the more boring) Stevie Ray Vaughn Bruce Hornsby (got to go backstage and meet him, since he & my drummer went to high school together) Albert King Beat Farmers The Jazz Crusaders (zowie) Pete Fountain Crosby, Stills & Nash The Subdudes Chris Daniels and the Kings Crash Test Dummies Damn Yankees (they RAWKED) Bad Company (on the tour w/Damn Yankees—B. C. was boring) Billy Joel Poco (at my college, the week they changed the name from Pogo to Poco) Eric Clapton Blood, Sweat & Tears It’s a Beautiful Day Eric Burdon & War War (the current version—gaaaack) Neil Diamond (my then-girlfriend insisted, OK show but the lights were fantastic) Blue Oyster Cult REO Speedwagon Jefferson Starship (with Ms. Slick singing) Livingston Taylor (James’ brother) Kenny Loggins Jim Messina (we opened for him—I was nervous) Dave Mason & his band (we opened for him too, but I wasn’t as nervous–I wonder why?) Charles Lloyd Don Ellis Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band w/Lew Tabackin The Doors Chris Isaak And a host of never-to-be-remembered local bands, casino bands, opening acts and etc. I’m sure there are others, but the early-onset senile dementia is pretty overpowering this evening. Don’t you young’uns worry, when you’re old and crotchety you’ll have a big, long list like this one. :):)🙂 **RealityChuck** , I don’t think you can count P.D.Q. Bach (altho’ I have seen him/them, too) ‘cause the OP specifically asked for “artists.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/23 "2004-06-14T14:43:18Z")
Bands I have seen live: Sheila Chandra They Might Be Giants Genesis ('86 tour) The Spoons Yes Kraftwerk Dolcxamar Jxomart & Natasha Persone An odd mix between eighties stuff back in the day, electronica, and modern Esperanto-language stuff. I haven’t been to many big-name concerts I keep wanting to say that I’ve seen Rush, but that’s just an impression from listening to them too much in high school… I did meet Nash the Slash once. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/24 "2004-06-14T14:57:42Z")
> [@MinniePurl](#): > > I bet I have the shortest list out there… Nope. Gordon Lightfoot Battlefield Band I don’t get out much. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/25 "2004-06-14T14:58:42Z")
A Perfect Circle A Tribe Called Quest x2 Alice in Chains Alabama The Black Crows x2 Counting Crows The Cure De La Soul Dredg Emerson Hart Failure Guster Ice Cube John Mayer x20 (he started in Atlanta) Kenny Rogers The Melvins Ministry Mudhoney Tool x 3 Pearl Jam x 5 Poster Children Public Enemy Radiohead Red Hot Chili Peppers Rusted Root Seal Sparta Soundgarden Tomahawk U2 The Verve I think that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![dragongirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/26 "2004-06-14T14:58:52Z")
Bon Jovi Cinderella Motley Crue-twice Ozzy Judas Priest Metallica-twice White Lion Warrant Aerosmith Deep Purple Guns & Roses Poison Vince Neil Skid Row Duncan Sheik-6 times How weird does the last one seem ? ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/27 "2004-06-14T15:09:59Z")
I’m sure I’ll forget some, but I’ll do my best Bon Jovi (as an opening act :)) Scorpions J. Geils Band Sidewinder Sugar Creek Chicago Henry Lee Summer Journey (3 times) REO Speedwagon (2 times) Survivor Ugly Kid Joe Def Leppard (6 times) Little Mike and the Tornadoes Sammy Hagar (solo tour) Van Halen (w/Dave 1 time, w/Sammy 4 times including this past Friday) Boston (3 times) Prince Godsmack Metallica KISS (2 times) Aerosmith (3 times) Rolling Stones Pink Floyd Steve Miller Band (2 times) Fleetwood Mac Jimmy Buffet (2 times) Peter Frampton Hootie & the Blowfish Three Doors Down Lynrd Skynrd .38 Special Judas Priest Those are the ones that come to mind at the moment. Jammer ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/28 "2004-06-14T17:18:06Z")
Journey (spur of the moment thing) Dan Fogelberg (three times. what was I thinking?) Moody Blues REM John Mellencamp (see Dan Fogelberg) Matthew Sweet (twice) Soul Asylum parts of Paul Simon/Bob Dylan (it was just too damn hot at Summerfest that year) Train Wilco (twice) Paul Westerberg (thrice) Old 97’s Warren Zevon Lyle Lovett (with large band) Springsteen a bunch of other bands I saw at festivals Shows I had tickets to and didn’t go to: David Byrne - Cancelled because of 9/11 Semisonic - I thought the show was on Thursday but it was on Wednesday Favorite - hard to say between 2004 Westerberg and Old 97’s ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/29 "2004-06-14T17:27:50Z")
Paul McCartney (Skydome 1989 Tour) (Exhibition Stadium 1991 Tour) (Tampa, FL 2002 Tour) Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band The Kinks The Tubes The Guess Who Burton Cummings (4x) Burton Cummings & Randy Bachman The Stampeders (2x) Max Webster (5x) Kim Mitchell Fludd Murray McLauchlan Pat Travers Steel River Leigh Ashford McLean & McLean Larry Gowan Jeff Healy Bill Henderson UHF (Ulrich, Henderson & Forbes) Crowbar Benzene Jag Little Richard Chuck Berry Bo Diddley Chubby Checker The Four Seasons Jerry Lee Lewis Fats Domino Rick Derringer Tom Waits King Crimson The League Of Crafty Guitarists The Turtles The Mamas & The Papas Scott McKenzie Victor Borge Pat Metheny Missed the Rolling Stones riot at the CNE by 5 minutes Heard Pink Floyd from miles away I have this odd feeling that I’ve forgotten to mention somebody. If I remember any more, I’ll write in. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/30 "2004-06-14T17:39:56Z")
I thought I had the shortest list. It surprises me that no one else has seen… Rush AC/DC UFO and the last band was booed off the stage so that Rush could go on- so technically I saw Sue Saad and the Next (for one song) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/31 "2004-06-14T17:45:07Z")
I’ve split these by show so that they’re easier for me to remember. Squirrel Nut Zippers (a free concert, and still one of the best I’ve been to) Joe Bonamasso Jethro Tull Abandoned Pools Garbage Endo Megadeth Odin’s Court (local) Division (local, but well-known) Helloween Evergrey Children of Bodom Iced Earth Brave (local) Lacuna Coil ---
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Spanning ~20 years, in no particular order… Styx Duran Duran Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Depeche Mode Culture Club Rush Matchbox Twenty (x2, plus rehearsals for the Mad Season tour) k. d. lang The Nylons Bonnie Raitt Lyle Lovett Luther Vandross Gaelic Storm Leahy Solas Dervish Sugar Ray Peter Gabriel Bare Naked Ladies Melissa Etheridge Sarah McLachlan Tory Amos Love and Rockets The Cure The Commitments Blue Man Group (The Complex Rock Tour, so it counts…) I’m pretty sure there are others, however, I can’t seem to pluck the names from my addled brain… ---
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God, hundreds. Maybe more than a thousand. Queen Billy Squier Styx Kinks George Thorogood (twice) Sting (twice) Rush (20+ times) MSG Great White Mr Big (twice God help me) Ted Nugent Alcatraz Ozomotli (twice) Cherry Poppin’ Daddies (3 times) Cowboy Mouth (6 times) The Uninvited Mighty Mighty Bosstones (3 times) Cracker (twice) Gin Blossoms (three times) Beck Spin Doctors Vinx Toad the Wet Sprocket Cranberries Sarah McLachlan Fiona Apple Joan Osborne Cardigans Violent Femmes Jimmy’s Chicken Shack (twice) Mary Prankster (infinite) Emmet Swimming (infinite) Alanis Morrisette Dave Mathews Band (twice) Soul Coughing Tina Turner Cyndi Lauper Loud Lucy Tripping Daisy Harvey Danger Sheryl Crow Bloodhound Gang Blondie Tony Bennett Green Day Red Hot Chili Peppers Lush No Doubt Jewel (the infamous ‘frisbee’ incident) Primus (twice) U2 (twice) Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Living Color The Who The Rolling Stones (twice) Scott Weiland Foo Fighters Garbage Afghan Whigs Semisonic Marcy Playground Barenaked Ladies (three times) Blues Traveller Robert Cray Crystal Method Sponge Ben Harper Dead Girls and Other Stories Athenaeum Smartbomb Save Ferris Everclear Sugar Ray Squirrel Nut Zippers Goldfinger Reel Big Fish Joan Jett The Lunachicks Live (twice) Chuck Berry Charles Brown Linwood Taylor Preservation Hall Jazz Band Three Day Wheelie Presidents of the United States of America Social Distortion Lemonheads Misfits Verve Pipe Prodigy Luscious Jackson Kula Shaker Jamiroquai Third Eye Blind Local H Fastball B-52s Fuel Tuscadero Blink 182 Offspring Silverchair Lit And many MANY that I’ve forgotten. I spent a significant portion of the 80s and 90s going to shows. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248/34 "2004-06-14T18:25:19Z")
I’ll make a list but I know there will be many that I have forgotten, especially from bigger rockfest type deals - I’ve been to a lot of those. Van Halen (David Lee Roth - 3 times) AC/DC Alice Cooper Guns N Roses Pearl Jam REO Motley Crue Bon Jovi Ratt (and many other 80’s hair bands - I don’t remember all those bands names, but I saw a lot of them) Big Head Todd and the Monsters (3 times) The Tragically Hip (many times, lost count) Fleetwood Mac The Rolling Stones The Beach Boys Rod Stewart John Cougar Mellencamp I have a bad memory, I know there are more. ---
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ARGH! I forgot the HUMAN RIGHTS NOW!!! show! Bruce Springsteen Tracey Chapman Peter Gabriel Joan Baez Youssou N’Dour Not to mention The Grateful Dead Bob Dylan Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers God, I could go on forever. ---
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Queen Billy Joel Sting Boston Jonny Quest The Who The Rolling Stones Steve Miller Jimmy Buffet Jewel The Breakfast Club Vertical Horizon Melissa Etheridge Foo Fighters Red Hot Chili Peppers Simon & Garfunkel And a buch more college bands from the early ninties whose names escape me. Queen is still my favorite eighteen years later. ---
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Many, many many many many. Highlights: 1st concert - Paul Simon, ‘There Goes Rhymin’ Simon’ tour. I was seven. I fell asleep about halfway through. 1st concert, my choice - AC/DC, ‘For Those About to Rock…’ tour. One of the nicest things my dad ever did for me was take me to this show when I was about 12. It was LOUD LOUD LOUD! Especially when they fired those cannons! It was an indoor arena and my ears were still ringing the next morning. 🙂 Others of note: Warren Zevon’s ‘Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School’ tour. Great fun. The Who’s first ‘Farewell’ tour in ‘82. The Clash opened for them and sounded not so good. The Who, on the other hand, sounded friggin’ AWESOME! They were my favorite band at the time, and I was happy I got a chance to see them live before they ‘disbanded’. Talking Heads ‘Stop Making Sense’ tour. I was not a fan of this band going in, but coming out, I was converted into what my friends and I liked to call a ‘Heads head’. Pink Floyd’s ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ tour, first leg. The best of the three Floyd shows I ever saw (I was not fortunate enough to see The Wall live). Santana, about 1989. One of the greatest shows I had seen up to that point. I enjoyed The Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over reunion tour of 1994 and Steely Dan’s reunion tour of 1995 immensely. The Steely Dan experience was enhanced by having some great seats. Brue Willis and Demi Moore were two rows ahead of us. I could have yanked Ms. Moore’s ponytail without much effort at all. The first Phish concert I ever saw also happened to be the first Dave Matthews Band concert I ever saw. They were both very good. My favorite band, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, played a free concert at the Santa Monica Pier that ranks as one of the greatest gigs I ever saw. Another great BF and F show I saw was with the Dave Grisman Quartet opening for them. I saw the Dead and Bob Dylan play together at a massive outdoor venue in the early 90’s, and though it wasn’t technically a great show, it was pretty cool as far as historical occurrences (for people born too late to enjoy the 60’s) go. Although there are literally hundreds of concerts I wish I could have seen, I think back now and see that I really haven’t done too badly for myself… ---
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I’ve seen Aerosmith, Biohazard and the Vienna Boys Choir. I don’t get out much. ---
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Whoa - off the top of my head: Clan of Xymox Bauhaus Alien Sex Fiend Peter Murphy Christian Death Ministry (twice) Front 242 Body Count Gun’s N Roses Metallica Skinny Puppy The Pogues (w/Shane) Reverend Horton Heat (around six times) Southern Culture on the Skids (three times) The Pixies (THEY SUCKED) WEEN (twice) Ani DiFranco (five times?) Charlie Hunter (six times?) Galactic Prong Vinyl Gypsy Kings (snuck in) Butthole Surfers Neurosis Nine Inch Nails Cocteau Twins many more local bands and festival-situations, but that’s what I came up with for now… ---
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Some of the major older ones: Jimi Hendrix (3 times) Janis Joplin (twice, the first time with Big Brother and the Holding Company opening for Hendrix) The Doors, with Jim Morrison The Who (opening for The Doors) George Harrison and Ringo Starr (Concert for Bangladesh) Grateful Dead Rolling Stones The Band Stevie Ray Vaughn The Chambers Brothers and anyone who played at Woodstock (1969) plus lots of others too numerous to mention. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-bands-artists-have-you-seen-live/250248.md?page=3)