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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 ----------------- 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...
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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
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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).
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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 . I only really am familiar with "Blister in the Sun", so I probably wouldn't consider myself a fan.
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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.
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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 . 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).
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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.
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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 . 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.
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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 %$*&%@ Ticketmaster cancelled our tickets for the makeup date. For no reason!
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This is roughly in chronological order from 1998 or so to this year. Bands I've seen more than once are only listed the first time they appear.
Our Lady Peace (three times) Moist I Mother Earth (twice) Joydrop A Perfect Circle The Catherine Wheel Foo Fighters The Smashing Pumpkins A bunch of other bands at the first two Summersaults Big Sugar Matthew Good Band Oasis Kid Koala Radiohead (twice) Sigur Ros The Philosopher Kings Tool Rush (twice) Bang Camaro The Parlour Mob Gnarles Barkley Holy F&@$ 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).
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I almost forgot to mention a remarkable singer/songwriter I've seen named JT Spangler. How very silly of me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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....
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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.
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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
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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 --------------------- At the MET: Madama Butterfly A Midsummer Night's Dream(Britten) Manon Aida Rigoletto --------------------- 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
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-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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