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… ;))
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.”
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.
Nope.
Gordon Lightfoot
Battlefield Band
I don’t get out much.
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.
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 ?
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
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
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.
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)
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
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
I’ve seen Aerosmith, Biohazard and the Vienna Boys Choir.
I don’t get out much.
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…
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.