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Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
 
Went to a Jimmy Eat World show last night, and they were really good live. Anyway, was trying to think of who I've been to see live, and who I've yet to see. Here is a partial list (will add to it as I think of them):

Rolling Stones
Metallica
Nine Inch Nails (x2)
Tool
Mudvayne (x2)
Rob Zombie (x2)
Staind (x2)
Foo Fighters
Evanescence
Jimmy Eat World
Our Lady Peace
Korn
Filter
A Perfect Circle
Matchbox 20
Stabbing Westward
Sevendust
Splender
Eve 6
Third Eye Blind
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Cowboy Mouth
Smashmouth
Train
Sponge
Orgy
Violent Femmes
Drowning Pool
Nonpoint
Papa Roach
Puddle of Mudd
P.O.D

Below the line are bands which I didn't remember until I went and checked the band list at some concerts I know I've attended. Mostly these are from the local Syracuse area Krockathon, which I attended annually for several years. There are probably two dozen or so more bands I saw at those shows, but I only included them in this list if I actually remember a song from them without difficulty. Being on my list doesn't mean I actually like the band, of course.

So now you guys share your lists...
 
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
 
You saw the Violent Femmes and didn't know it?

Crazy.
 
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
 
Nickel Creek x 3
Old Blind Dogs x 3
Ulu x 2
Danu
Lunasa x 2
Chris Thile and the How to Grow A Band
Victor Wooten
Yes
Trans-Siberian Orchestra x 2
Moby
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Books
Low Anthem
Flaming Lips
Vampire Weekend
Broken Social Scene

Coming up this year:
Phoenix
Grinderman

[ October 05, 2010, 10:23 AM: Message edited by: The White Whale ]
 
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
 
My list is pretty short.

Disturbed
Killswitch Engage
Thornley
Ashes of Soma
Kim Mitchell
Chimaera
Finger Eleven
Leonard Cohen

Plus an assortment of local acts that nobody would have heard of. I missed out on seeing Scorpions, Rush, Cinderella and some more at this last Bayfest (got sick).
 
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
 
there's no way I'm going to be able to recount them all.

Well, however long my list is, I'm planning on adding Gogol Bordello to it on the 28th, and then Crystal Method on halloween.

Might also see Deadmau5 on the 7th.
 
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
 
quote:
You saw the Violent Femmes and didn't know it?
I'd like to think I knew it at the time, but that was 11 years ago [Smile] . I only really am familiar with "Blister in the Sun", so I probably wouldn't consider myself a fan.
 
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
 
quote:
there's no way I'm going to be able to recount them all.
Even if you can't, might be fun to try. Partial lists are just fine.
 
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
 
oh, I can try to make a partial list, but between music festivals and small shows, I think it would be prohibitive to be comprehensive. Many of these bands I've seen multiple times.

Radiohead
Dave Matthews
Thievery Corporation
Ra Ra Riot
Invert
Widespread Panic
Phish
Stone Temple Pilots
No Doubt
Bare Naked Ladies
Coldplay
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Avett Brothers
Richie Havens
Third Eye Blind
Eve 6
Our Lady Peace
Incubus
Deftones
Janes Addiction
Audioslave
Jurrasic 5
Kings of Leon
The Music
Flaming Lips
String Cheese Incident
Modest Mouse
Ween
Galactic
Flight of the Conchords (they count!)
MMW
LCD Soundsystem
Ben Harper
Gogol Bordello
Gov't Mule
Allman Brothers
Ben Folds
lots more....

I'm seeing Gorillaz this weekend! Super psyched for that show.
 
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Xavier:
quote:
You saw the Violent Femmes and didn't know it?
I'd like to think I knew it at the time, but that was 11 years ago [Smile] . I only really am familiar with "Blister in the Sun", so I probably wouldn't consider myself a fan.
It's a shame that that's the one song everyone knows (not that it's a bad song).
 
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Xavier:
quote:
there's no way I'm going to be able to recount them all.
Even if you can't, might be fun to try. Partial lists are just fine.
jeez. ok. i'll start writing down a list today.
 
Posted by Amanecer (Member # 4068) on :
 
My list is comparatively short:

Bon Jovi
Goo Goo Dolls
Blue October
Snow Patrol
Okay Go
Dream Theater
Dio
Beck
Jack Johnson
Bowling for Soup

Of this group, I'd say Blue October and Bon Jovi put on the best shows. I mean that beyond preference for the music, but good engagement with the audience and all around showmanship.
 
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Strider:
quote:
Originally posted by Xavier:
quote:
You saw the Violent Femmes and didn't know it?
I'd like to think I knew it at the time, but that was 11 years ago [Smile] . I only really am familiar with "Blister in the Sun", so I probably wouldn't consider myself a fan.
It's a shame that that's the one song everyone knows (not that it's a bad song).
I didn't even know they did that song, but I prefer the Indigo Girls version anyway. [Razz]
 
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
I haven't the foggiest. I spent a couple years in college going to a different concert almost every weekend, so I certainly don't remember now.
 
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
 
It seems to be a common problem. I think just listing concerts you remember is sufficient for this threads' purposes. If none were memorable, then I probably wasn't interested in them anyway [Wink] .
 
Posted by scholarette (Member # 11540) on :
 
U2 (Pop and 360)
Muse/Rage Against the Machine- opened for U2
Goo-goo dolls
Cranberries

So, I think I might be the shortest list. [Smile]
 
Posted by shadowland (Member # 12366) on :
 
Concerts I've attended this year beginning with last night...

Broken Social Scene
Phoenix
The Faint
MGMT
Kate Nash
Jonsi

And tomorrow is Ra Ra Riot. There is no way I can list all of my earlier concerts.
 
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Showboat
Phantom of the Opera
Wicked
Miss Saigon
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Coraline
Chorus Line
Les Miserables
Jekyll and Hyde
Chess
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Lion King

Those are the musicals I've seen on and off Broadway. I'm missing a few, but if I can't remember them, they must not have been fabulous.
 
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
 
None.
 
Posted by scholarette (Member # 11540) on :
 
If we add musicals, I can get a bit longer-
Phantom
Miss Saigon
Les Mis
Joseph
Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Chicago
Rent
I am pretty sure there are more, but that is what I am remembering right now.
 
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
 
Countless Jimmy Buffett concerts (until he stopped playing Merriweather, Nissan/Jiffy Lube Live is TERRIBLE).
Beach Boys
Dave Matthews
Jewel
Sheryl Crow
Great Big Sea (My FAVORITE concert)
Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Joan Osborne
Sugarland
Jo Dee Messina
Blues Traveler
Bob Dylan
Barenaked Ladies
 
Posted by Ecthalion (Member # 8825) on :
 
Metallica
Deftones
Mudvayne
Linkin Park
Sevendust
Puddle of Mudd
Jimmy Buffett
Iced Earth
Children of Bodom
Limp Bizkit
Chevelle
Bullet for my Valentine

I feel like there are others but, cant think of them really...
 
Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Samprimary:
...I'm planning on adding Gogol Bordello to it on the 28th...

Oh yeah! Prepare to danc like a crazy loon.

I can't list all the bands I've seen, it would take too long (not too bost, I just lived next door to the Brixton Academy for many years). This year so far (memorable, as in I can remember them):

Pearl Jam
Faith No More
Gogol Bordello
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
George Benson
Billy Bragg

... and I didn't go to see Joe Bonamassa last night and bitterly regret it...

Not bad for a Dad with two young kids. I have a very understanding wife.
 
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
 
Jimmy Eat World
Blink 182
Green Day
Pepper
Jake Shimabukuro
The John Butler Trio
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Daft Punk
A few different Hawaiian bands that most won't know

My girlfriend and I were were supposed to see Vampire Weekend last month for my birthday last month. They kept us waiting an hour and a half before they cancelled the show. Then %$*&%@ Ticketmaster cancelled our tickets for the makeup date. For no reason! [Wall Bash]
 
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
 
This is roughly in chronological order from 1998 or so to this year. Bands I've seen more than once are only listed the first time they appear.

Our Lady Peace (three times)
Moist
I Mother Earth (twice)
Joydrop
A Perfect Circle
The Catherine Wheel
Foo Fighters
The Smashing Pumpkins
A bunch of other bands at the first two Summersaults
Big Sugar
Matthew Good Band
Oasis
Kid Koala
Radiohead (twice)
Sigur Ros
The Philosopher Kings
Tool
Rush (twice)
Bang Camaro
The Parlour Mob
Gnarles Barkley
Holy F&@$
Explosions in the Sky
Rage Against the Machine
Nine Inch Nails
A bunch of other bands at Lollapalooza 2008
AC/DC
If These Trees Could Talk
Kiss
The Trews
Counting Crows
Stone Temple Pilots

The last one was Rush at this summer's Bayfest, which happens across the street from where I live.

Edit: Strider, you and I need to take in a show somewhere! I've already been to one with X and Val (Tool, which was awesome).
 
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
 
I almost forgot to mention a remarkable singer/songwriter I've seen named JT Spangler. How very silly of me.
 
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
The only big-time concert I’ve formally bought tickets for and gone to is U2’s Zoo TV tour in Minneapolis, opened by the Pixies, back in 1991. I’ve seen other acts, but none as big as that one.
 
Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :
 
Uhhh...

Chicago's blues fest

The Dead.

A couple local ones I can't remember for the life of me.

Wicked.

Hairspray.

Lion king.

Maybe more.
 
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
 
Far from complete but all I could scrounge in my mind at the moment. May amend later:

Jimmy Eat World
James
Against Me!
Boysetsfire
Hot Water Music
Thrice
Reggie and the Full Effect
Bright Eyes
The Folk Implosion
Beastie Boys
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Breeders
George Clinton
The Specials
The Aquabats
The Gadjits
Alkaline Trio
The Hope Conspiracy
Cursive
The Decemberists
Lucero
Straylight Run
Maserati
Mastadon
Blues Traveler
Eve 6
Indigo Girls
The Tragically Hip
The Flaming Lips
Rilo Kiley
Choking Victim
The Toasters
The Cure
Tom Waits
Dashboard Confessional
Elliott
Further Seems Forever
Andrew WK
Saves The Day
Stretch Armstrong
Converge
The Locust
Dillinger Escape Plan
Poison The Well
Ben Folds
Planes Mistaken for Stars
Avail
Bane
Botch
A Static Lullaby
hopesfall
Atreyu
The Blood Brothers
Hatebreed
The Extraordinaires
Guster
Cowboy Mouth
Jets to Brazil
Jump Little Children
The Bouncing Souls
Sense Field
Cave In
Man Man
The Promise Ring
Modest Mouse
The Mountain Goats
Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy)
Ray LaMontagne
The National
Wesley Willis
Built to Spill
Small Brown Bike
They Might Be Giants
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
The Weakerthans
Neil Diamond
Yeasayer
Steve Earl
Steven Lynch
The Hippos
Poison
Ratt
Spin Doctors
M. Ward
Iced Earth
Spoon
Pietasters


I really love music. Godspeed You Black Emperor! show is coming up in March. so very stoked.
 
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
 
twinky, how was Explosions in the Sky?
 
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
 
Awesome. They're way better live than in the studio. The music washes over you in a way that even a great home setup just can't match.
 
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
 
Neil Diamond

...

...Um... That's kind of it.

I'll just mosey on out of this thread now.
 
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by twinky:


Edit: Strider, you and I need to take in a show somewhere! I've already been to one with X and Val (Tool, which was awesome).

I'm very bummed I've never seen Tool. I had the opportunity a few years back and past it up, and for the life of me can't remember why!

Consciousness Geeks Fest 2011?
 
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
 
I'm in. [Cool]
 
Posted by FoolishTook (Member # 5358) on :
 
Gah....think think think...

Snow Patrol
U2
Coldplay
Owl City
Shining Toy Guns (x2)
Bedouin Soundclash
Howard Shore
Tori Amos
Hot Hot Heat
A Story Told
Richard Ashcroft

And some other bands that most people haven't heard of or I can't remember.
 
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
I fell asleep at a Tool concert once. *reminisces*

I haven't listened the music concerts as opposed to musicals because I honestly can't remember. I enjoy the experiences, but it's like listing all the movies I've seen, or every party I have been to in the past year. They aren't stored in my long term memory.
 
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
 
Pretty short list for me:

Ben Folds
The Get Up Kids
Something Corporate
The Ataris
Further Seems Forever
Finch
RX Bandits
The Juliana Theory
Yellowcard

Musicals (at the Fox Theater in Atlanta):
Rent
The Phantom of the Opera
The King and I

Comedians:
Mitch Hedberg
Stephen Lynch
Zach Galifianakis
Patton Oswalt

edited to add musicals and comedians.

[ October 09, 2010, 08:17 PM: Message edited by: rollainm ]
 
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Vadon:
Neil Diamond

...

...Um... That's kind of it.

I'll just mosey on out of this thread now.

Dude, that's actually pretty awesome. I'd love to see Neil Diamond.
 
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
So would I, actually.
 
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Ben:
twinky, how was Explosions in the Sky?

Here is a great example of them playing live. I've never seen them, but sure want to.
 
Posted by Godric 2.0 (Member # 11443) on :
 
Not counting festivals, and I'm probably forgetting a few:

Barry Manilow
Diana Krall
Indigo Girls
Arc Angels
Joan Jett
Rob Thomas
Brandon Flowers
Steve Earle
The Avett Brothers
Dan Bern
Lost Dogs x2
Starflyer 59 x2
Over the Rhine x3
Bill Mallonee x3

[ October 07, 2010, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: Godric 2.0 ]
 
Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
 
AFI (x2)
Blaqk Audio
Avenged Sevenfold
Disturbed, Lacuna Coil, Killswitch Engage, Chimaira (Music as a Weapon tour)
Three Days Grace, Chevelle, Breaking Benjamin, Sum 41, Seether, Flyleaf, Finger Eleven, Sick Puppies,Evans Blue, Fair to Midland (XFest 2008- Dayton)
Trans Siberian Orchestra


That's... very few, given the extent of my music collection.
 
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
Concert performances:
Beach Boys
Three Dog Night
Anthrax
Primus
Green Jello (excuse me, now they're Green Jelly)
New Kids on the Block
Def Leppard (multiples)
Poison (twice)
RATT
Motley Crue
Cinderella
Cheap Trick
Styx (after Dennis DeYoung left)
Foreigner
Police (twice)
Elvis Costello
Crosby Stills & Nash
Rush
Michael Crawford
Billy Squier
The Ides of March
and everyone who was at Crossroads 2008 (too many to list)

Theatre:
Phantom of the Opera (twice)
Les Miserables
Little Shop of Horrors
Wicked
Jesus Christ Superstar (twice)
Peter Pan
Sweet Charity
CATS
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Spamalot (twice)
Camelot (gee, funny how that lines up lol)
Rent
Mamma Mia!
Chicago
Chorus Line
Fiddler on the Roof
Young Frankenstein

I don't have all my concert ticket stubs because my idiot ex threw things away without checking with me, so I'm going from memory on anything prior to 2003 and probably missed some bands. I do have all of my theatre stubs, though.
 
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
 
As some of you know from years past on Hatrack, I have very sensitive ears, and so despite being a musicophile, I have attended few popular music concerts (many new music ones but he names mean little to most people).

Dashboard Confessional
Lit
Qurashi
The Strokes
Radiohead
Massive Attack
 
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
 
In no particular order:
Radiohead (x3)
Sigur Rose
***
Tool
Do Make Say Think
The Black Ox Orkestar
U2
Cypress Hill
No Doubt
Korn
Ani DiFranco (x2)
Oysterhead
Ben Folds
Yo la Tango
Stereolab
Norah Jones
Herbie Hancock
Dave Brubeck
Wynton Marsalis
Evgeny Kissin playing Brahms

Hmmm, there are more that I just can't recall at the moment.

In terms of Theatre:
Phantom of The Opera
Chicago
Cats
Cabaret
The Lion King
Wicked
The Sound of Music
Fiddler on the Roof
Oklahoma!

I also feel like that's an incomplete list....
 
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
I've seen too many bands to list, but I must state that I saw The Smashing Pumpkins a few years ago. And rather wish I hadn't. Maybe it would've been better before Billy Corgan was a self-satisfied, smug half-shadow of what he formerly was. But I didn't want to listen to an hour and half long guitar jam accompanied by vocal bird calls. Thank you, Billy Corgan.
 
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
 
Heh, I'm old and haven't been to a concert in years but here are a few I can recall:

Barry Manilow
Dan Fogleberg
James Taylor** (really? No one else?)
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Billy Joel
Journey
David Wilcox
 
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
 
Arlo Guthrie 4X
Pete Seeger 3X
Christine Lavin 4X
Peter Gabriel 4X
Pete Townsend
Joni Mitchell
Lou Reed
Donovan
Harry Belafonte
Salt 'N Pepa
Traffic
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Cypress Hill
Rollins Band
Melissa Etheridge
Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Nine Inch Nails
Metallica
Aerosmith
Allman Brothers Band
Spin Doctors
Porno For Pyros
Bob Dylan
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At the MET:
Madama Butterfly
A Midsummer Night's Dream(Britten)
Manon
Aida
Rigoletto
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Broadway:
Godspell
Pippin
Story Theater
The Magic Show
Children of a Lesser God
Amadeus
Rent
1776
Hair
Pirates of Penzance (D'Oyly Carte)
--------------------
Ballet:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Balanchine)
Petrushka
The Clowns
 
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
 
-Bo Didley
-Warped Tour about 10 years ago (Bad Religion, Mighty Mighty Bosstones...)
-Orange 9mm
-Voodoo Glow Skulls x2
-R.E.M. 3 times (including once with Bill Berry, which was the tour that Radiohead opened for them, but we got Spacehog)
-Radiohead
-They Might Be Giants 3x, including once at the Bowery in NYC
-Man... Or Astro-Man, on December 31st, 1999
-The Magnetic Fields (1 show over 2 nights, they played 69 Love Songs in its entirety, in order... With the encore being Cage's 4'33")
-Camper Van Beethoven twice
-The Who (playing Quadrophenia, with Billy Idol guest starring, among others)
-The Violent Femmes
-Bush
-Goo Goo Dolls (opened for Bush)
 


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