Knew I’d forget some:
- The Rembrandts
- Donny Osmond
- Jack Blades
- Jude Cole
- The Triplets
Marilyn Manson, Adema, Deftones, ummm… crap.
:smack: Damn my bad memory.
Good thread though. You guys have seen TONS of shows!
Here’s my list as I recall it, in roughly chronological order:
Huey Lewis & the News
Phil Collins
Night Ranger (they sucked back in '87 too)
Bon Jovi
The Doobie Brothers
Journey
The Steve Miller Band
ZZ Top
The Tubes
Van Halen
The Scorpions
Metallica
Europe
Tesla
Def Leppard
Lynyrd Skynyrd
George Thorogood
Yes
Pink Floyd
The Who
The Rolling Stones
Michael Bolton
Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band (version 2)
Sarah Brightman
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
I forgot a few:
Aerosmith
Guns ‘N’ Roses
Chicago
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
I also forgot to answer the second question: Which was my favorite?
I’ll have to say Pink Floyd. It was their “reunion” tour in 1987. We had seats in row 4 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena.
Honorable mentions go to Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chicago, Sarah Brightman, and Yes
Sigh
Dammit…
- Tesla
- Ratt
- Pretty Boy Floyd
Cilibri has the most impressive list, by far!
Me? Been to too many to list here, and most have been named already. But I’ll go with some highlights:
Rolling Stones, the night Axl Rose melted down during the opening act.
Rush, back-to-back shows in LA and San Diego. Both awsome!
Hem. Free show, never heard of them, but they were very good.
Yes, in Vegas. Almost nobody came and it was fabulous.
Neil Young. Half electric, half acoustic. Like going to church.
Pearl Jam. 3 times, all good. 2 shows back-to-back and very different sets.
ZZ Top. Always a party!
The Dead. Was at every show they played at the Silver Bowl in Vegas. They were all very good, especially the one during the thunder storm.
Sting at the Hollywood Bowl on his birthday. Andy Summers guest appeared. I won the trip from Vegas for the bus ride down and I was recovering from a very bad accident. Was a very good show and almost “healing”. Brought my spirits up greatly.
Many, many more, but I’ve been drinking and am too lazy to type more.
Regrets:
Not seeing Stevie Ray at the Greek theater. I figured, “Aw, I’ll go next time he’s in town.” 
Not seeing The Black Crowes, before the first album, at a tiny club in Vegas. Dumb, dumb, dumb!
Getting too drunk while having back stage passes to meet Veruca Salt. All I managed to do was get an autograph and yell, “You guys ROCK!” :rolleyes: Dumbass!
Not seeing STP when I had the chance.
Missing Los Lonely Boys for some stupid livestock emergency. Damn sheep!
Fun thread, but too many to list and it dates us old farts! And Creedence Clearwater Revisited ain’t no tribute band! 
311 (x3)
A Perfect Circle
Tori Amos (x3)
Anthrax
Anti Flag
Bauhaus
Beatmistress
Bratmobile
Cake (x2)
Cirrus
Clutch
Cracker
The Cure (x2)
Danzig
Dead Voices on Air
The Devlins
Neil Diamond
The Donnas
Dropkick Murphys (w/ Lars Frederiksen)
Bob Dylan
Fantomas
Fear Factory
Femi Kuti
Ben Folds
Frontline Assembly
G. Love and Special Sauce
Godhead
Goldfinger
Green Day
GWAR
Iggy Pop
Iron Maiden
The Hackensaw Boys
Jack Off Jill
Jane’s Addiction
Jude
Kid Rock
Korn
L7 (w/ Exene Cervenka @ SXSW) (x3)
Aimee Jane Lane
Less Than Jake
Live (x2, again, unfortunately)
Megadeth
Meg Lee Chin
Metallica
The Melvins
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Ministry
Misfits
Monster Magnet (x2, unfortunately)
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Nashville Pussy
Dave Navarro
Willie Nelson
New Found Glory
(a very little bit of) Nickelback (man, I hate this band)
Nine Inch Nails
No Doubt
Pearl Jam (x4)
Powerman 5000
Primal Scream
Psychotica
Pushmonkey
Puya
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Seven Mary Three
Smashing Pumpkins
Spahn Ranch
Speeddealer
Stone Temple Pilots
Supagroup
Supergrass
Supersuckers (w/ Duff Mckagen!)
Swingin’ Utters
Switchblade Symphony
The Teen Idols
Tesla
Three Doors Down
Thrill Kill Kult (x2)
Toadies
Tool (x2)
Travis
Tuuli
Two Ton Boa
The Unband
Vallejo
Roger Waters
Ween
Weezer (x2)
Wellwater Conspiracy
Dwight Yoakam
Zeke
Rob Zombie (x2)
Various local bands and opening bands that I’ve forgotten.
Favorites: Pearl Jam, L7, Cake, Ween, The Cure
Oops. Pearl Jam x5. I forgot the most recent one.
Cream (fairwell tour)
The Who (many, 1st time '68 in a place no bigger than a bar, Magic Bus tour)
Led Zeplin (fairwell tour)
Frank Zappa (many, plus fairwell tour)
Canned Heat
Moody Blues (many)
Jethro Tull (many)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (opened for the Who)
Living Colour (opened for the Stones)
Rolling Stones (many)
Grateful Dead (many)
Fleetwood Mac (many)
Dr. John
Willie Nelson (many)
Waylon Jennings (many)
Johnny Cash
Ray Charles
Van Morrison
David Allen Coe
Jimmy Buffett (many)
The Black Crowes (opened for ZZ Top)
ZZ Top
Merle Haggard
George Jones
Frank Sanatra
Eric Burdon
Weird Al
Tommy James
Gordon Lightfoot
John Mellencamp
Bob Dylan
Gary Lewis and the Playboys
The Guess Who
Robin Trower
Mountain
Chubby Checker
Fats Domino
John Lee Hooker
Blue Oyster Cult
Jefferson Starship
Joe Cocker
Commander Cody (many)
kd lang
Leon Russel (many, including this Thursday)
Buddy Guy (many)
Billy Joel
George Thorogood
Jerry Jeff Walker (many)
Charlie Daniels (many)
Cindi Lauper
Elton John
Dalai Lama (Does he count?)
Probably others I was too wasted to remember.
Dave Matthews Band (x21)
Alanis Morrisette
Lemonheads
Rage Against the Machine
Smashing Pumpkins
Cypress Hill
Tori Amos
De La Soul
A Tribe Called Quest
No Doubt
Sponge
Erasure
Dixie Chicks
Duran Duran
New Order
Rusted Root
Poi Dog Pondering
Digable Planets
Sugarcubes
Gabriel & Dresden
Also - am going to see Prince in 2 weeks.
Here are some of the bands I’ve seen…I’m leaving out a bunch, but I suppose a list of about a hundred is good enough for now:
A Midnite Choir
Acid Mothers Temple
Akimbo
Alejandro Escovedo
Anna Oxygen
Arab Strap
Artis the Spoonman
B. B. King
Baby Gramps
Big Business
Bill Frisell
Bill Kirchen
Blonde Redhead
Blue Oyster Cult
Bo Diddley
Bobby Bare Jr.
Brendan Perry (solo)
Carla Torgerson (solo)
Carolyn Mark
Cheap Trick
Chrome
Circus Contraption
Crooked Fingers
Damien Jurado
Death Cab for Cutie
Devil Doll
Diamond-Fist Werny
Dick Dale
Eartha Kitt
Farflung
Fred Eaglesmith
Harvey Danger
Hatebreed
Heather Duby
Helios Creed
Huun-Huur-Tu
IQU
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter
Jethro Tull
Jo Miller and Her Burly Roughnecks
Joan Jett
Johnny Dowd
Kinski
Kultur Shock
Laura Veirs
Laurie Anderson
Mary Lou Lord
Modest Mouse
Motorhead
Mum
Neko Case
Nick Cave
Nik Turner
Northern State
Pressurehed
Procol Harum
Purty Mouth
Rush
Ryan Adams
Sky Cries Mary
Sleater-Kinney
Sleep
Southern Culture on the Skids
SPIDeRBITeS
Spiral Realms
Stellastarr*
Steve Howe (solo)
Suicide Jack
Tanya Donelly
Terry Lee Hale
The Anubian Lights
The Baptist Generals
The Battlefield Band
The Beach Boys
The Blood Brothers
The Damnations
The Damo Suzuki Network
The Dirty Three
The Divorce
The Dusty 45s
The Kitchen Syncopators
The Long Winters
The Minus 5
The New Pornographers
The Paperboys
The Presidents of the United States of America
The Raveonettes
The Residents
The Reverend Horton Heat
The Secret Machines
The Shins
The Standard
The Supersuckers
The Trachtenberg Family Slide Show Players
The Transmissionary Six
The Walkabouts
The Yes Yes Boys
Tuatara
United State of Electronica
Visqueen
Voyager One
Wayne “The Train” Hancock
X
Yes
I just started going so the list is small compared to …ummmmm…everyone, but here it is in order:
Jeffrey Osbourne
Ted Nugent :rolleyes:
Brian Setzer/Bob Dylan
Elton John
Cheap Trick/Aerosmith
Wierd Al
Yeah. 
The Beatles.
Oh, yeah! Thanks for reminding me! I saw them open for The Tragically Hip in Latham, NY. The best live show of my life and I almost forgot who opened.
There’s one more I should be ashamed that I forgot: Tori Amos - Darien Lake, NY - 1999 or 2000 w/ Alanis Morrisette (aka Big Mouth, per my sis-in-law) opening.
More than I can possibly begin to name or remember. Ah, the joys of having a parent working for a record company…
Anyway, the one I wanted to post about was a performance by R.E.M. sometime after the release of Up for BBC Radio 1 in a tiny little hall in one of the Radio 1 buildings. 100 people from the UK fanclub, 25-30 people from the record company, me, and one hell of an atmosphere. Trust me when I say small, passionate audiences are much better than big ones.
Plus, I got to talk to Michael Stipe about Indian food afterwards…
I don’t go to concerts much, being a small person I usually only see people’s backs when everyone inevitably stands up. And I am always cursed with a bad singer sitting behind me who must sing along with every song.
Andy Gibb (I was a teenager, shut up!)
I have seen John Denver twice.
Billy Joel
Jimmy Buffet
and
Paul McCartney and Wings
I’m sure there is no way I could remember all of the bands I’ve seen, so I’ll just try to hit a few of the highlights and lowlights.
White Zombie - Spending the entire show in the mosh pit other than beer and restroom breaks. There was so much energy being expended. Truly insane and memorable. I was sore for days afterward.
Warrant - Free show in Dallas Alley (an alley in Dallas, TX with no traffic allowed, just shops and restaurants) that got concerts banned from Dallas Alley for several years. Very fun. There were people climbing street lights, etc.
Van Halen - Also a free show in Dallas Alley. This was one of the first shows the city allowed again after Warrant. VH was doing a makeup for a show a few years prior when Sammy’s voice gave out due to illness. They promised to come back and play for free. They did. This was absolutely nuts. There were probably 4x as many people as the Warrant show that got concerts banned in the first place.
Ronnie James Dio - This was the last show of their tour. The roadies were having fun at the expense of all of the bands. This was the funniest concert that I have ever seen. RJD generally has a scowl and seems ticked off with everyone. He looked like he wanted to be mad at first, but even he had to laugh when several naked roadies rowing in a tub materialized out of the fog coming from the cave in the center stage.
Metallica - One of their first shows of the tour for the black album. They were enthused and having fun. Awesome show. I saw them later on the same tour and they weren’t nearly as good. They were just going through the motions at that point.
Kiss - I’ve seen them at least 4 times. The one that stands out is a night where it wasn’t a sell out. In fact, the stage was set up only using half of the auditorium. This made it feel packed, but very intimate at the same time. All of the band members were into it. Hell, Paul Stanley was even remembering to play guitar most of the night. Excellent!
They Might Be Giants - I saw them in a theater in Dallas. This was the kind of place that normally put on things like Phantom of the Opera. It was funny seeing all of the wild hair, clothes, and piercings along with the very formal employees in tuxes. TMBG was a very fun band too!
Damn Yankees - Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw, and Uncle Ted can all front a band. When you put all three of them on the same stage, it’s a fun time. On this night they were very “on”. They had the crowd eating from the palms of their hands. I have never seen the crowd at that venue more into a band. Ted then said he had a new song, a sexy little song. They started into Cat Scratch Fever (probably 20 years old at the time). lol! The crowd was so into it and trying to get at the stage that they tore down the barricade in front of the stage. The band was hustled out and not allowed to come back (they went to the next act).
There are so many, many more…
I’m sure to forget some, but among the acts I’ve seen…
Asia
Black Sabbath (Ronnie James Dio on vocals)
Blue Oyster Cult
Boston
Cheap Trick
Damn Yankees
Neil Diamond
Dio with opening act Dokken
Bob Dylan with opening act Paul Simon (Simon was fine, Dylan sucked big time)
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Peter Gabriel
Genesis (Abacab tour)
Don Henley with opening act Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
Bruce Hornsby & the Range
Whitney Houston
Iron Maiden with opening act Saxon
Jethro Tull with opening act Saga
Billy Joel
Elton John
Judas Priest with opening act Cinderella
King Crimson (Fripp/Belew/Levin/Bruford lineup)
Greg Lake
Julian Lennon
Roger McGuinn
Mike & the Mechanics
Moody Blues with opening act the Fixx
Roy Orbison
Ozzy Osbourne with opening act UFO
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
Itzakh Perlman (change of pace, there!)
Pink Floyd (post-Roger Waters, on the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour)
The Police at Shea Stadium, with opening act Joan Jett (I missed the first act, REM)
Queen with opening act Billy Squier
Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow with opening act the Scorpions
Rush with opening act Tommy (Styx) Shaw
Scorpions with opening act Great White
Simon & Garfunkel at Central Park (me at 499,999 of my closest friends)
Squeeze with opening act A Flock of Seagulls
Squeeze with opening act the Hooters
Triumph with opening act Foghat
U2
Yes (Trevor Rabin era)
Alan Parsons (Live) Project
Rush (every tour since Presto in '89)
Pink Floyd
Jethro Tull
Peter Gabriel (Us and Growing Up tours)
Men at Work
Huey Lewis and the News
Cruciform Injection
Billy Joel
Yes (sort of–they were playing with Alan Parsons but we were hanging out backstage with AP and the band (along with the rest of the local fan club members) so we just heard Yes)
Weird Al Yankovic
I think that’s it…
In no particular order…
(* indicates I liked the show…if 2x and **, it means I liked both shows, etc.)
U2 (2x)**
Sting (2x)*
Peter Gabriel*
REM (2x)*
Billy Bragg*
Ted Nugent*
Blue Oyster Cult*
Grateful Dead
Stevie Ray Vaughan*
Moody Blues
Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders*
Martin Sexton*
Suzanne Vega (2x)**
Shonan Knife*
Morphine (3x)*** big time
Mighty Mighty Bosstones (2x)**
Fugazi*
The Cure
INXS
The Ramones (2x)**
AC/DC (2x)**
Van Hagar
Kiss*
Kitchens of Distinction
Paula Cole
Elvis Costello*
Nick Lowe
Bruce Cocburn*
Jim Infantino/Jim’s Big Ego (3x)***
The Indigo Girls
Pink Floyd (post-Waters)
Roger Waters
House of Love
Catharine Wheel*
Randy Newman*
Ritchie Havens
Micheal Hedges*
Crosby Stills and Nash
Niel Young*
Spin Doctors
Blues Traveler
There are most certainly more, but I can’t remember now…maybe I’ll update in a bit.