Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Who have you seen live in concert???

Here's mine:

Metallica x3
G'n'R' x3
Megadeth x2
Skid Row x4
Bon Jovi x3
Santana
Bauhaus
Extreme
Manic Street Preachers
Rush x3
Billy Idol
ZZ Top
Gary Moore

Most of these were in England. Best gig on the list was probably Megadeth at Hammersmith Odeon on the 'Countdown to Extinction' Tour. Most recent was ZZ Top/Gary Moore at the Olympic village in Munich, Germany.

Kiss/Ted Nugent
Kiss/Lita Ford/Bonham
Kiss/Queensryche/WASP
Kiss/Slaughter/Faster Pussycat
Motley Crue
Ratt/Bon Jovi
Ratt/Kix/Brittany Fox
Ratt (small local venue)
Monsters of Rock - too many bands to list - those around in the 80's know

Best Concert:
Kiss/WASP/Queensryche All three bands put on a great show. Had great seats. Everybody was unusually cool. Partied with some hotties during and after the concert. What a night. Ahh..the old days.

Worst Concert:
Motley Crue They sounded horrible. Surrounded by morons in the crowd. Several fights over the course of the show. Guy behind me kept falling forward on me in a drunken stupor. Eventually he barfed and some of it got on my pant leg; which in turn caused me to barf. During drive home, smell from pant leg caused me to gag/barf twice before I finally took pants off and threw out the car window. Just a really bad night all the way around.

In reply to:

---

Just a really bad night all the way around.

---

At least you have a good/gross story to share!

I actually left a couple out from my list:

Incubus, Puddle Of Mudd and Somebody else all played at my school 2 years ago one day. It was fun I suppose...

The memory grows thin as the head grows thick, but here goes:

The Who (twice before anyone died)
Little Feat (twice before Lowell George's death and three or four times after that)
Jimi Hendrix (once before he died and none afterwards)
The James Gang
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Quicksilver
Ten Years After
David Bowie
The Band
Bob Dylan
Procol Harum
John Prine (at least three times)
Jesse Winchester (three or four times)
James Talley
Guy Clark
Jerry Jeff Walker
The Lost Gonzo Band
Asleep at the Wheel
McKendree Spring (I know, these guys are right up there with Lothar and the Hand People)
The Allman Brothers
Jackson Browne
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Jesse Colin Young
Poco
Bruce Springsteen (three times -- once in an audience of about two hundred before his succesful third album)
Dixie Dregs
The Moody Blues
Amazing Rhythm Aces
New Grass Revival
Tom Petty
Steve Young
Jimmy Buffet
Continental Drifters
Rolling Stones
Tina Turner
Pure Prairie League
Booker T and the MGs
The Meters
Mavis Staples
B.B. King
Earl King
Chris Thomas King (and also under his real name Chris Thomas when he was in his teens)
Tabby Thomas
Larry Garner (many times -- this the best least known contemporary blues songwriter)
Raful Neal
Kenny Neal
Guitar Kelly
Johnny Adams
Clifton Chenier
John Campbell
Rockie Charles
Booker T. "Slopjar" Lowry
John Lee Hooker (twice)
Luther Allison (maybe the greatest guitar player and performer I ever saw -- gone too soon)
Ma Rainey II
Memphis Slim
James "Son" Thomas
Charles Brown
Buddy Guy
Allen Toussaint
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The New Orleans Nightcrawlers
Rebirth Brass Band
Little Rascals Brass Band
Muddy Waters
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Silas Hogan
Furry Lewis (saw several times, usually as a benefit to help him recover from a fire to his house or to get his guitar out of the pawn shop.)
Mississippi John Hurt
R. L. Burnside
Junior Kimbrough
Shemekia Copeland
Dr. John
Coco Robicheaux
Danny Barker
Galactic
Snooks Eaglin
Beausoleil
D.L. Menard
Eric Clapton
Irma Thomas
Sonny Landreth
John Hiatt (avec the Goners)
David Lindley
Steve Winwood
Steve Miller
Ry Cooder
Randy Newman
Oliver Mtukudzi
Femi Kuti
Tabou Combo
Hugh Masakela
Taj Mahal
Olu Dara
Keb Mo
James Cotton
Robert Cray
The Fieldstones
Zachary Richard
Eddie Lejeune
Marc Savoy and Ann Savoy
Balfa Toujours
Henry Butler
Eddie Bo
The Bluerunners
Buckwheat Zydeco
Rocking Dopsie and the Zydeco Twisters
Beau Jocques
Boozoo Chavis
Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas
Etta James
Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias
Sammy and Sandra Sandoval
Corey Harris
Albert Collins
Hubert Sumlin
Eddie Kirkland
Rufus Thomas
Ernie K-doe
Paul "Wine" Jones
Son Seals
Lonnie Brooks
Gatemouth Brown
Koko Taylor
Katie Webster
Henry Gray
Ronnie Earl
Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets (with Sam Myers)
John Mooney
Bobbie Rush
The Neville Brothers
Roy Orbison
Cassandra Wilson
Dianne Reeves
Max Roach
Charlie Byrd
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonius Monk
Anyone named Marsalis
Marcus Roberts
Irvin Mayfield
Los Hombres Calientes
Mark Whitfield
Steve Masakowski
Terence Blanchard
Nicholas Payton
Abby Lincoln
Hadda Brooks
Stephane Grappelli (avec the Martin Thomas Trio)
Leo Kottke
Earl Scruggs Revue
Paul Simon
Delbert McClinton
Johnny Clegg
Majek Fashek
The Radiators
Warren Zevon
Doc Watson
Richard Thompson
Lyle Lovett
Daniel Lanois
Van Morrison
Lou Reed
Funkadelic
Fats Domino

and a bunch of classical performances.

Holy Crap!!

I left one off my list: Tower of Power (it was free)

Ah! Another OLD guy. You mentioned some folks I hadn't thought about in 30 years. McKendree Spring? Nobody remembers McKendree Spring. Amazing. I've got several of their albums.

I'd a killed to go to a Stephane Grappelli concert. Wish I coulda heard Joe Venutti, too. My two favorite Jazz violinists.

Saw Jerry Jeff Walker at a roadhouse somewhere in CT. I don't remember where. In fact, I don't remember much about the 70s . The entire decade is just a Smokey haze.

What a fabulous list. Fun stuff!

I sure can't remember them all, but I was at the very first U.S. show by Led Zeppelin, in Denver on 12/26/68 (I was 14), when they opened (without advance billing) for Spirit and Vanilla Fudge. They were awesome, and we eagerly awaited the release of their first album some weeks later. I just watched the Led Zep dvd on my system, and I recommend it to anyone who was ever a fan.

A few others that come quickly to mind:
Frank Zappa (couple times, including performing Joe's Garage in Berkeley - fantastic show)
Jimi Hendrix (Denver Pop Festival, 1969, last performance of Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Big Brother & Janis Joplin
Moody Blues
Jethro Tull
Johnny Winter
Iron Butterfly
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Joe Cocker
Three Dog Night
Zephyr
The Flock
Persuasions (acapella in a small club - terrific)
Big Head Todd & Monsters
Bela Fleck
Modern Jazz Quartet
Ahmad Jamal
Miles Davis
REM

Lots of others that I don't recall at the moment

what a bunch of old guys...haha
My brain cells won't let me remember all of the concerts I've seen. I posted earlier, and did leave out Zappa, Santana, Vanilla Fudge, Ricky Scaggs, a bunch of 60's bands at Goose Lake Rock Festival in 1970.
I did find some interesting pictures I'll share...
The Who in 1968 or 9 at a small venue in Indiana
Roger:

Pete:


And some of Pink Floyd in 71. These are captured from 8mm flim, so they kinda suck, but I still wanted to share
Floyd:


Roger Waters:

Dave Gilmour:


hope these links work....

So I made the trek to Saskatoon on the weekend to see the Pixies, unbelievable show. Unfortunately they sold out in my backyard in 4 minutes so we had to make the road trip.

Now on a somewhat related topic, the concert was recorded by an outfit called Disclive. CDs of the show were available 10 minutes after the concert ended. I listened to it in the car on the way back yesterday (so no critical listen yet) but the recording seems to be of very high quality. I wish more bands did this (also a great way to avoid the bootlegging issue if it's of concern to them).