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Following from the 'What band would you want to see' thread, which bands/artists have you seen in concert?

Me, in no particular order:

Jethro Tull (A few times, between 1990-2000)
Pink Floyd (Dvision Bell tour)
Yes (1991, Union tour, a few times since)
Robert Plant (Solo, 2001, with Strange Sensation, 2003ish, with Alison Krauss, 2008)
Plant & Page (1995)
U2 (No Line on the Horizon tour, 2009)
Snow Patrol (opened for U2)
ZZ Top (1992, Recycler tour, 2004, 2008)
Stray Cats (2008)
Black Crowes (Opened for Aerosmith, 1990)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (2007)
Ted Nugent (2003)
Queen w/ Paul Rogers (2007)
The Doors (of the 21st Century, Ian Astbury filling in for Mr. Morrison - 2007)
The Cult (2000, 2002,2009)
Dream Theater (2007,2009)
Nirvana (1991)
Deep Purple (2001)
Emerson Lake & Palmer (1998)
Kansas (1999)
Aerosmith (1990)
Mark Knopfler (2001,2005,2008)
Depeche Mode (2002/3)
Nine Inch Nails (2007)
Bauhaus (2007, opened for NIN)
Blue Oyster Cult (1991,1998,2006)
Bon Jovi (2003)
The Rolling Stones (2006?)
Los Lonely Boys (Opened for Stones)
The Pretenders (2008)
Joan Jett & the Blackhawks (2008)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (2004)
Jackson Browne (Opened for Tom Petty, 2004)
Iron Maiden (1998,1999,2001)
Queensryche (1999)
Rob Halford (1999)
Motorhead (2001)
Dio (2001)
Testament (1992)
Suicidal Tendencies (1992)
D.R.I. (1992)
No Doubt (2004)
Blink-182 (2004)
Naked Raygun (1990)
Joe Satriani (2008)
Fairport Convention (2002)
Velvet Revolver (right before their first album came out)
Tori Amos (2001)
Fleetwood Mac (1999ish)
Stevie Nicks (1998)
R.E.O. Speedwagon (2008)
Nazareth (1991)
Tesla (2005)
Jimmy Buffet (1998)
Mountain (2008)
The Grateful Dead (1991)
Steve Miller Band (1991)
Rush (2008)
Extreme (1991)
Van Morrison (2005)
Violent Femmes (1992)
Stabbing Westward (2004/5)
Uriah Heap (1991)

I probably forgot one or two, and any number of opening bands and smaller acts whose name I don't recall...

Amon Amarth 2006

and Lamb of god in 2005... I think.

Don't remember the years:

Macabre
Cannibal Corpse (x3)
Hate Eternal
Dark Tranquility
Strapping Young Lad
Nile (x3)
Kataklysm (x2)
Darkest Hour
Epica
Into Eternity
Opeth
Nevermore
The Haunted
Krisiun
Behemoth (x2)
Morbid Angel
Napalm Death (x2)
Nachmystium
Goatwhore
Kreator
1349
Keep of Kalessin
Dimmu Borgir

I'm sure I'm leaving some opening acts out...

Can't remember them all (or dates), but off the top of my head....:

Oasis
The Verve
The Bluetones
Ocean Colour Scene
Gomez
The Seahorses
Guns 'n' Roses
Kasabian
Radiohead x3
Queens of The Stone Age x2
Bloc Party
The Magic Numbers
Roni Size Reprazent
Faithless
Keane x3
Foo Fighters x3
Rage Against The Machine
Cypress Hill
Slipknot
Incubus
Deftones
The Strokes x2
Editors
Glasvegas
Fleet Foxes
Dizzee Rascal
Ash
Idlewild x2
The Zutons
Billy Joel (!)
The White Stripes
Andrew WK
Hundred Reasons
Elbow
Coldplay
Muse
Supergrass
Beck x2
Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman of Yes (acoustic)
Green Day

I might remember more later....

Honestly,I've been to more fething concerts and shows than I remember,but a partial list of the bands I've seen live would include.

The Rolling Stones
The Who
Van Hallen
ZZ Top
KIZZ
Prince
Stray Cats
James Brown
Parliment Funkadelic
Primus
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Soundgarden
Guns&Roses
Ozzy(sadly after Randy Rhodes died)
Judas Priest
Dio
Iron Maiden
W.A.S.P.
Twisted Sister
Motorhead
Night Ranger (shut up,I went with a girl who wanted to see them)
Lamb of God
Hatebreed
Black Flag
Hennry Rollins
Dead Kennedys
The Ramones
GWAR
Rancid
Green Day
Slayer
Metalica
Dimmu Borgir
Suicidal Tendinces
Killing Joke
G.G. Allin
FEAR
The Exploited
G.B.H
Nick Cave
Social Distortion
Dropkick Murphys
Danzig
The Misfits
Samhain
Ministry
Nine Inch Nails
White Zombie
Maryilyn Manson
David Bowie
The Clash

And hundreds of "local,unknown" bands as well as lots I've forgoten.

These are the ones i can remember and either liked or feel a need to mcomment on. There have been others but I am drawing a blank.

A Perfect Circle
Black Sabbith
Brujeria
Coal Chamber
Depeche Mode
Dust For Life
Everlast
Eye Hate God (I really want that 30 minutes of my life back)
Filter
Gwar
Juliana Hatfield
Kid Rock
Lacuna Coil
Limp Bizkit
Marilyn Manson
MC Chris
MC Frontalot
MC Lars
Monster Magnet
Nine Inch Nails
Offspring
Optimus Rhymes
Orgy
Primus
Public Enemy
Red Man/ Method Man (turned this into a beer break)
Rob Zombie
Slayer
SlipKnot
Sloppy Seconds
Space Hog
Stained
Static X
System of a Down
Train ( Beer break band)
U2
Union Underground
White Zombie

Totally forgot in my first post...

Butthole Surfers (someone is so getting a PM if This Doesn't go through)
Linkin Park

Ye gods! You chaps have fine memories indeed to pull those names out of your heads. Unless you were just quoting off the cheap T-shirts you bought at festivals

I have spent a few years working as a caterer for touring bands and can list the following:

The Charlatans
Muse (World tour baby!)
Cake
Razorlight (nice guys, awful music)
Suicidal Tendecies
Bad Religion (bit of a dream that one)
R.E.M (only did the european dates, but they were one of my favourite bands when i was small)
Little Boots (annoying blonde singer)
Pixies (One date in Manchester: I will never get over sharing a cigar with Frank Black)
Elbow (The biggest bunch of pissheads i have ever met)

Other than that....
Mansun x many
Radiiohead x many
The Violent Femmes
U2
Blondie (4 the lulz)
The Damned (Minus the captain :( )
Innumerable bands from when i ran a club in Manchester who were mostly rubbish with the odd bright exceptions.

Black Oak Arkansas (1978)
Ted Nugent/Scorpions/Def Leppard (1980)
Ozzy/Motley Crue (1983)
Ozzy/Metallica (1984)
Bon Jovi (1986/1988)
Megadeth/Anthrax/Slayer (1990)
Slayer (1999/2004)
Arch Enemy/Hatebreed (2005)
Dimmu Borgir (2009)

Those are the ones where I'm mostly sure about the dates. Mostly. There are others where I was so F***ked up that I'm not sure about anything.

quite a few country singers (i got taken to shows a number of times when i was young)

other then that, last show i can remember seeing was the misfits a couple years back

I'm not even going to list them all, so I'll just say the most recent one (in the past month) was The Cult.

ZZ Top
Stray Cats
Black Crowes
Queen w/ Freddy Mercury
The Cult (1987, 1995 - twice)
Aerosmith
Depeche Mode
Blue Oyster Cult
Bon Jovi
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Jackson Browne
Iron Maiden
Queensryche
Judas Priest
Dio
No Doubt
Stuart Hamm
Joe Satriani (4 times)
Steve Vai (twice)
Yngwie Malmsteen
Velvet Revolver
Tori Amos
Stevie Nicks
Tesla
Extreme
Alice Cooper
Sisters of Mercy
Siouxsie and the Banshees
David Bowie
Generation X
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Leningrad Cowboys
Warlock
Ministry
Rammstein
The Damned
Wierd Al Yankovic


That's not counting some local bands which you outsiders may never have heard of, like Baby Animals (lead singer went and married Nuno Betancourt from Extreme and also punched out one of the brothers from Black Crowes).

I really haven't been to many bands in 25 years.

@Chromedog - Yeah, but you've seen Queen W/Freddy Mercury, you swine! I'm so unbelievably jealous, you have no idea...

Lots! I dare say I couldn't remember them all even though it wasn't as much as some of the others posted.

I will say the best live band I remember seeing (and I was NOT a fan when I saw them, I was dragged by a friend with an extra ticket) was...

Oingo Boingo in '94

The energy and live showmanship of Danny and the boys was amazing!

Also I have had more fun at several local, little punk shows than I have had at bigger concerts.

It was the Projeckt Revolution Tour in Atlanta back in 2005 I think.

Korn
Linkin Park
Less than Jake
The Used
Snoop Dogg [I used this time to go and grab some grub.]

I've been to a fair few -


Guns N' Roses
Metallica
Megadeth
Marilyn Manson
Nirvana
Ozzy Osborne
Aersomith
Slayer
Pantera
Cannibal Corpse
Ozzy
3 Colours Red
Machine Head
Iron maiden
Slipknot
Fear Factory
Sepultura
Terrorvision
Deicide
Dinosaur Junior
Primus
Oasis
Siousie and the Banshees
Rage against the Machine
Pulp
Primal Scream
Stabbing Westwood
White Zombie
Mud Honey

warpcrafter wrote:Black Oak Arkansas (1978)
Ted Nugent/Scorpions/Def Leppard (1980)
Those are the ones where I'm mostly sure about the dates. Mostly. There are others where I was so F***ked up that I'm not sure about anything.

See me bowing down? Well, I am.

I'll just list the odd one:

The Monkees

Depeche Mode and Tom Jones, not necessarily at the same time.

Albatross wrote:@Chromedog - Yeah, but you've seen Queen W/Freddy Mercury, you swine! I'm so unbelievably jealous, you have no idea...

Not too hard. Queen didn't do that many tours here with Freddy. The man was a showman. No-one else comes close.

I've also got Danny Elfman to autograph an Oingo boingo LP (Dead man's party) when he was out here doing promo work for Batman.
His reaction was priceless. All the other fanboys had the Batman OST.
"Where did you find this?" followed by "How much do you want for it?" (I should also note this is years before ebay).

I always feel like I don't have enough because of how many I miss due to scheduling with work issues.

Marilyn Manson (twice)
Slayer
Bleeding Through
Trapt
Hoobastank
Saving Abel



I can't even count the number of bands I missed due to not being able to afford to take time off work, problems with my debit card, or being days away from a paycheck and not being able to secure tickets. Missed something like 24 bands I wanted to see.

Before I read this thread I thought I had seen a lot of bands. I pretty much stopped going to shows after High School, so that explains why I am lagging so far behind!

I have seen:

AC/DC (Flick of the Switch and Who Made Who)
Judas Priest (Defenders of the Faith and Turbo Lover)
Bon Jovi (1st Tour and Slippery When Wet)
Monsters of Rock (Dokken, Scorion, Metallica, Van Halen etc)
Ratt (4 times)
Poison (4 times)
Twisted Sister (3 times)
Dokken (A lot - headlining and backing up)
Fastway
Faster Pussycat
Iron maiden (Powerslave, Somewhere in Time)
Motley Crue (Girls Girls Girls, Dr FeelGood)
Great White
Tesla (Twice)
Cinderella (Night Songs and Long Cold Winter)
Debbie Gibson
Kenny Chesney w/Brooks and Dunn and the young Blonde Chick
Aerosmith twice
David Lee Roth (Eat Em and Smile and Skyscraper)

I took my wife to see Debbie Gibson, but she went with me to a couple Ratt/Poison shows.

I got to meet AC/DC, Iron maiden and Poison and they were all cool guy.

David lee Roth was by FAR the best (both times). That man could put on a show!

I know I am leaving a few out, but that is most of them.

Some of you have pretty impressive lists!

From my hazy memory.

Lots of local bands wherever I was at the time.

Killdozer (late 80s)
Soul Asylum (late 80s)
Nirvana Bleached tour
Primus Suck on This tour
Melvins/Primus Pork Soda tour
Skinny Puppy Vivasect and Rabies tours
Leeway/Bad Brains Quickness tour
Sonic Youth Confusion is Next and Sister tours
Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking, Ritual de la Habitual and most recent "reunion" tours
Urban Dance Squad/Living COlour Time's Up tour
Controlled Bleeding
Crash Worship
Word of Mouth tour (Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, Supernatural and The Beat Junkies -- DJ Shortkut, Rhettmatic and Babu)
Xecutioners (twice, don't recall which tours)
Gary Numan (2005? tour)
Replacements Don't Tell a Soul and Pleased to Meet Me tours
Circle of Dust
L7/Beastie Boys Check Your Head tour
Doomtree
Atmosphere Sean Likes Ugly Girls tour
Mad Professor
Lee Scratch Perry
Alice Donut
Unsane
MDC
Charged GBH
Flaming Lips
Nice Strong Arm
Melt Banana
Rob Swift
Blackalicious
Talib Kweli
Thievery Corporation Cosmic Game tour
Herbaliser Same as it Never Was tour
The Cult/Metallica Master of Puppets tour
Pixies Doolittle tour
Helmet Betty tour
P-Funk All Stars 1991 tour
Amon Tobin Out From Out Where tour
Koko Taylor
Lonnie Brooks
BB King (2008)
DJ Krush two tours

Muse
Metallica
Guster
Jack Johnson
Why?
Margot and the Nuclear So & So's
Wilco
Pavement
Matt Pond PA
Everything Now!
BB King
Eric Clapton
Flaming Lips
Joker
Haste the Day
Emarosa
Sky Eats Airplane
Denison Witmer
Sufjan Stevens
Mastodon
MxPx
Social Distortion

These are all of the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Most of these were headliners, so I don't recall a lot of the opening acts etc.

@Dal'yth - Nirvana on the 'Bleached' tour? That's quality.

Off the top of my head, and this includes some opening bands and local bands too, some of which are great and some of which I don't particularly care for. This should be roughly in order too.


Weird Al
Darwin's Waiting Room
Puddle of Mudd
Deftones (x2)
Godsmack
Soil
Soulfly (x2)
Static-X
E-Town Concrete
Sworn Enemy
A Perfect Circle
Chimaera
Fear Factory
Slipknot (x2)
Primus (x2)
Les Claypool (x2)
Dead Will Rise
U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors
Chris Cornell
Limp Bizkit
Staind
Korn
Papa Roach (I could only stand to watch like one song though)
Juliette Lewis
Marilyn Manson
Killswitch Engage
Sevendust
Flogging Molly (x2)
The Prodigy

Willie Nelson

There's probably more that I can't remember off the top of my head though, and more local bands that I can't remember.

Lord
Nightwish
Iron Maiden
Behind Crimson Eyes (Not out of choice. They opened for Iron Maiden. They got one cheer, when they announced that "This is our last song")
Winds of Plague
Suffocation
Arch ENemy

HAH! im the only one that has seen THIS band live!!!!!!11!!!!lol!
!
Tenacious D!

also

Lunatic Calm
Mastodon
MSI
Disturbed

Albatross wrote:@Dal'yth - Nirvana on the 'Bleached' tour? That's quality.

Yep. They opened for a local act IIRC. Gabe's Oasis in Iowa City.

Boston Pops.

I got in for free, since my parents were working security.