Live! Who have you seen in concert?

[the4thpip]

We did this on another board, and I'm curious who people here have seen live. It was kind of asked in the Josh Gracin thread, but I guess nobody clicked that.

Here is my list. I am sure I forgot quite a few, though.

• Angie Stone (twice)
  Arrested Development
  BAP
  BB King
  Black Voices
  Bob Dylan (three times)
  Bobby Byrd
  Bonnie Raitt
  Booker T and the MGs (with Eddie Floyd)
  Bootsy Collins
  Brand New Heavies
  Branford Marsalis
  Brecker Bros.
  Bruce Springsteen (twice)
  Candy Dulfer (twice)
  Carleen Anderson
  Chaka Khan
  Cunnie Williams
  Curtis Mayfield
  Daniel Merriweather
  David Peaston
  Dennis Edwards
  Diana Ross
  Die Toten Hosen
  Dr. John and the WDR Big Band
  Elvis Costello
  Eric Burdon
  Eryka Badu
  Eurythmics
  Fred Wesley
  George Benson
  Gil Scott-Heron
  Gladys Knight (5 times)
  Grace Jones
  Guru/Jazzmatazz (twice)
  Heather Nova
  Heinz Rudolf Kunze
  Hugh Masakela (opening for Paul Simon)
  Incognito
  Isaac Hayes
  James Brown
  Jamiroquai
  Jungle Brothers
  Junior Walker
  Keith Richards
  Ladysmith Black Mbaza (opening for Paul Simon)
  Lalomie Washburn
  Larry Graham
  Lenny Kravitz
  Lina
  Lisa Stansfield
  Lizz Wright
  Lou Donaldson Quartet
  Maceo Parker (5 times or so)
  Mavis Staples
  Maxwell
  Maze
  MC Solaar
  McKoy
  Miriam Makeba (opening for Paul Simon)
  Neville Brothers
  Patti Austin
  Paul Simon
  Paul Weller
  Pee Wee Ellis
  Pizzicato 5
  Portishead
  Prince (3 times)
  Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers
  Ray Charles
  REM (twice)
  Rolling Stones
  Roy Ayers
  Roisyn Murphy
  Rufus Thomas
  Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
  Snowboy
  Soul II Soul
  Southside Johnny
  Spearhead
  Sting
  Sweet Honey and the Rock
  Tab Two
  Tashan
  The Meters
  The Roots
  Tina Turner
  Tom Petty
  Tower of Power
  U2
  Urban Species
  Van Morrison (3 times)
  Will Downing

[Deathstroke]

I believe there's a thread on the Music board all about this topic, do a search it's pretty involved.

[PatrickG]

Ben Folds
Oasis
Remy Zero

And otherwise lots of smaller acts. Friends with bands. Incidental stuff.

Jimmy Buffet performed at my mom's college cafeteria.

I really don't get most people's obsession with rock music though.

I'd probably be more into music if big band was a major cultural phenomena again but I really think I'm one of the few people who wouldn't be crushed if there was never another concert or new album release again. I mean, yeah, I'll groove along to the radio on road trips... But I really don't give a rip what the name of the drummer for some metal band is.

Really, the energy that most people expend on sports and music must be attuned to comics for me.

[TCJohnson]

Peter Gabriel 2 times (he puts on the best concert0
Rush (Mostly for Neil Perts drum solos)
Cruxshadows
Voltaire
George Thoroughgood and the Destroyers
Blues Travelers
Bare Naked Ladies
Paula Cole

....that's all I can remember off the top of my head. Don't go to concerts much.

[GremlinClr]

Bare Naked Ladies

Put on the BEST concert. I saw them as well as Blues Traveler and Robert Bradleys Blackwater Surprise at H.O.R.D.E. festival.

Alanis Morrisette
Tori Amos
Tom Petty
Poison
Slaughter
Kiss
Stone Temple Pilots
Fastball
Sarah Mclaughlen

That's all I can remember right now. I've got a list at home somewhere.

[MacQuarrie]

Harry Chapin
Billy Joel (back when he was good, twice)
Bruce Springsteen (three tours)
Bob Dylan & Tom Petty
Robert Cray
Steve Winwood
Manhattan Transfer
John Mellencamp
Steve Tyrell (Thanks, Punchy!)
Sarah Vaughn
Ella Fitzgerald
George Shearing
The Roto Rooter Goodtime Christmas Band
Weird Al Yankovic

...I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody.

[cactusmaac]

In reverse chronological order

Audioslave
Megadeth
Diamond Head
Velvet Revolver
The Datsuns
Foo Fighters
Cave In
Vex Red
Biffy Clyro
Millionairres
Queens of the Stone Age
Soulfly
Skindred
Ellis
Rammstein
American Head Charge
Raging Speedhorn

[Typo Lad]

K's Choice.

Someone named Emm Gryner who opened for them.

Um... and I am ashamed to say, Shlock Rock.

Hey! I was a kid!

[CaptMagellan]

Let's see, in vaguely chronological order

Kiss (seen multiple times since)
Alice Cooper (seen multiple times since)
Eddy Grant
BB King
Billy Joel
Judas Priest (seen multiple times since)
Iron Maiden (seen multiple times since)
Blue Oyster Cult (seen every chance I get)
Rush (seen multiple times since)
Ozzy
Dio (seen multiple times since)
The Beatfarmers
Poi Dog Pondering (Only live band I couldn't enjoy anything about)
Buddy Guy
The Red Devils
Queensryche
The Who
The Pfunk mob (seen multiple times since)
White Zombie
Fishbone
Bad Brains
Danzig
Bad Religion
NOFX
Tool
Rage Against the Machine
Gipsy Kings
Prong
Faith No More
Primus
Genitorturers
Brian Setzer (seen multiple times since)
Loreena McKennit
Styx
REO Speedwagon
Journey
(those last three were part of a really scary 80s tour together, it was fun, frightening, and embarrasing all at the same time)
Motorhead

[Kahnno6]

Ok, before I can answer this, I have to ask, would you differientiate between a "concert" (large venue, mainstream artist/band) and a "show" (lesser known artists/underground/punk, etc)? Is there really a difference between the two in your eyes?

[Rik]

Elvis. 1975, Lakeland Civic Center.

[angryrican]

Prince (twice)
Radiohead
The Roots (twice)
Cody Chestnutt
Seal
Erasure
Living Colour
The Streets
Dizze Rascal
Krs-1
3rd Bass (don't laugh...it was free)
Beastie Boys
Dido (my girlfriend made me do it)
Gipsy Kings

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

I saw Stephen Lynch at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium last fall. Does that count?

[TCJohnson]

Put on the BEST concert. I saw them as well as Blues Traveler and Robert Bradleys Blackwater Surprise at H.O.R.D.E. festival.

That is where I saw them too, at a HORDE festival.

Best performance I have seen, however, is Peter Gabriel. Very theatrical.

At the end of one of his concerts, he got a large suitcase and put it on the stage...apparently over a trap door. One by one his band stood in the open suit case and were lowered into it. Then after the drummer (last one) stepped into the the suitcase, Peter Gabriel just closed the suitcase, picked it up, waved goodbye to the audience and left the stage.

[kcarroll]

I've seen:

Bruse Springsteen
Steve Miller
Jimmy Buffett
George Thoroughgood
Eric Clapton
the Kinks

and I saw Warren Zevon at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. very cool show, intimate setting.

I'm supposed to go to the Warp Tour with my brothers this summer, but that will be my first non white-bread rock n roll concert.