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Post by the4thpip on Jun 8, 2014 4:48:57 GMT -5
I figured this would be interesting considering the somewhat older demographic on this board.
I am sure my list is not 100% complete. I know there were some acts at festivals or who were opening for other acts that I have forgotten. I started compiling this list years ago and forgot about it, recently rediscovered it and brought it up to date.
I actually had to google some of the artists on the list, as I had not just forgotten the show, but their very existence!
1. Alicia Keys
2. Angela Brown & Christian Christl
3. Angie Stone (twice)
4. Arrested Development
5. BAP (three times)
6. BB King
7. Bettye Lavette
8. Black Voices
9. Blues Brothers band (Booker T and the MGs without Booker T, but with with Eddie Floyd)
10. Bob Dylan (3 times)
11. Bobby Byrd
12. Bonnie Raitt
13. Bootsy Collins
14. Brand New Heavies (twice)
15. Branford Marsalis (twice, once as Buckshot LeFonque)
16. Brecker Bros. (twice)
17. Bruce Springsteen (3 times)
18. Candy Dulfer (twice)
19. Carmen Electra (opening for Prince)
20. Carleen Anderson
21. Chaka Khan (twice)
22. Charles Bradley
23. Chris Isaak
24. Cunnie Williams
25. Curtis Mayfield
26. Daniel Merriweather
27. David Peaston
28. Dennis Edwards
29. Diana Ross
30. Dianne Reeves (twice)
31. Die Toten Hosen
32. Dr John
33. Elvis Costello
34. Eric Burdon
35. Eric Clapton (with Steve Winwood)
36. Eryka Badu
37. Eurythmics
38. Fred Wesley
39. George Benson
40. Gil Scott-Heron
41. Gladys Knight (5 times)
42. Grace Jones
43. Guru/Jazzmatazz
44. Heather Nova
45. Heinzrudolf Kunze
46. Holly Cole
47. Hugh Masakela (opening for Paul Simon)
48. Incognito (twice)
49. Isaac Hayes
50. James Brown
51. Jamiroquai
52. Jarle Bernhoft
53. Jocelyn B. Smith
54. Jungle Brothers
55. Junior Walker
56. Keith Richards and the Expensive Winos
57. Ladysmith Black Mambazo (opening for Paul Simon)
58. Lalomie Washburn
59. Larry Graham and Graham Central Station
60. Lenny Kravitz
61. Leonard Cohen
62. Lina
63. Lisa Stansfield
64. Lizz Wright
65. Lou Donaldson Quartet (twice)
66. Maceo Parker (6 times or so)
67. Mavis Staples
68. Maxwell
69. Maze
70. MC Solaar
71. McKoy
72. Meters
73. Miriam Makeba (opening for Paul Simon)
74. Moneybrother
75. Neville Brothers
76. Patti Austin (once with WDR Big Band and once with a trio)
77. Paul Simon (twice)
78. Paul Weller
79. Pee Wee Ellis
80. Pizzicato 5
81. Portishead
82. Prince (3 times)
83. Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers
84. Rainbirds
85. Randy Crawford
86. Raphael Saadiq
87. Ray Charles
88. REM (twice)
89. Roisin Murphy
90. Rolling Stones
91. Ron Sexsmith
92. Roy Ayers
93. Rufus Thomas
94. Sade
95. Shakatak (opening for George Benson)
96. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (twice)
97. Simply Red
98. Snowboy
99. Son of Bazerk
100. Soul II Soul
101. Southside Johnny
102. Spearhead (twice)
103. Stereo MCs
104. Steve Winwood (with Eric Clapton)
105. Sting
106. Sweet Honey and the Rock
107. Sweet Vandals
108. Tashan
109. Tina Turner
110. Tito Jackson (opening for Gladys Knight)
111. Tower of Power
112. The Roots
113. Tom Petty
114. U2
115. Urban Species
116. Van Morrison (3 times)
117. Will Downing
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 5:09:13 GMT -5
Not sure I can remember them all...what I can recall:
first concert I attended was a rock & roll revival show and Chuck Berry was the headliner, and only act I remember clearly (I was in 8th grade so circa '82) the rest were a lot of doo-wap acts that blended together for me...
In high school I saw...
Dire Straits (Brothers in Arms tour)
U2 (early Joshua Tree tour)
Billy Joel (Bridge tour during one of the games of the Sox-Mets World Series, he was giving updates on the score and key moments between songs)
Roger Waters (Radio KAOS tour)
Pink Floyd (Momentary Laspe of Reason tour)
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
During college I saw...
Jay Leno (stand up show on campus)
Billy Joel again (Stormfront tour)
Huey Lewis & the News
Mike & the Mechanics (with Escape club opening)
George Throughgood (Peter Wolf showed up and sat in for a while)
Sting (Soul Cages tour)
Natalie Merchant/10,000 Manaics (again a show on campus)
and lots of local bands in the Boston area scene that I don't rightly remember)
post-college I saw...
King Crimson and various offshoots several times each time they toured New England (Fripp solo at House of Blues, Tony Levin solo, various of the KC ProjeKCts that toured, Bill Bruford's Earthworks, etc.)
Yes on several occasions
Steve Howe solo
a Cinema show (Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood)
Jethro Tull on a couple of occasions
a Martin Barre solo show
Bill Cosby stand up show
Tori Amos with Ben Harper opening for a local radio station Christmas jam show
Lillith Fair (Sarah McLachlan &Sheryl Crow were main draws for the group I went with)
Living Colour at Toad's Place (a legendary New Haven venue) where I got to meet the band in their dressing room afterwards as a friend went to school with Doug Wimbish's nephew and got me in to meet them
California Guitar Trio on a few occasions (a band on Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile label)
John Paul Jones on the Thunderthief tour (he opened for one of the Crimson shows I saw)
Alan Parsons Project (opened for Yes one of the times I saw them)
KC and the Sunshine Band (playing at a resort in Fort Meyers where we stayed on a trip my wife won in a work contest)
plus various and sundry local bands, festivals, etc. and probably a few other mainstream acts IA m forgetting...
-M
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 8, 2014 5:30:19 GMT -5
There's no way just from my memory I can recall all I've seen,but as far as the biggest names they would include
The Beatles-but as individual performers.Lennon I saw at Madison Sq Garden in 1973 for his benefit concert which also included Stevie Wonder,Roberta Flack and Billy Preston
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Eric Clapton
The Moody Blues
Procul Harum
Mountain
Jefferson Airplane
Grateful Dead
Hot Tuna
King Crimson
Paul Simon
Sly and the Family Stone
Bob Dylan
Jackson Brown
Santana
Ten Years After
Sha Na Na
Joe Walsh
Bruce Springsteen
Emerson,Lake and Palmer
Rod Stewart and the Faces
Elton John
Billy Joel
J Geils Band
The Ramones
The NY Dolls
John Sebastian
Traffic
Dave Mason
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Miles Davis
Neil Young
Let me stop for now.Living in NYC gave me plenty of opportunities to see just about anyone
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 8, 2014 5:39:21 GMT -5
I'm wondering now who's gonna be the artist most of us have seen - Springsteen? Dylan? Clapton? Sting? Britney?
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 8, 2014 7:16:09 GMT -5
I won't bother with the whole list, but the special ones, the acts I saw that I was most personally invested in, were:
1. Roxy Music (2001 reunion tour...also saw a Bryan Ferry solo show).
2. Sex Pistols (1978 America tour!)
3. Cocteau Twins
4. The Who (twice, both with John Entwistle but none with Keith Moon)
5. Talking Heads (the amazing "Stop Making Sense" tour...also saw a David Byrne solo show).
6. The Ramones (twice)
7. Blondie
8. Elton John (once a big favorite of mine in high school days)
9. Ten Thousand Maniacs
10. Elvis Costello
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 8, 2014 7:19:20 GMT -5
My favorites:
Rush (twice)
Clapton (twice)
Billy Joel (three times, once with Elton John)
Dylan (with Tom Petty... my first one)
Rolling Stones (twice... my dads a big fan)
U2
Metallica (one of the big tour show...also included Kid Rock, Godsmack, and Likin Park)
Soul Asylum
Genesis
Toad the Wet Sprocket (in a small college club before they hit it big)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 7:55:38 GMT -5
Wildfire's mention of Soul Asylum reminded me I saw the Alternative Nation tour which was Spin Doctors, Soul Asylum and Screaming Trees circa '92 or '93.
-M
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Post by shaxper on Jun 8, 2014 8:09:58 GMT -5
I was ready with my list of comic artists I'd met. Oops.
I honestly haven't been to many concerts. I cared most about music while in high school, but I was forbidden from going to concerts in high school. Later in life, when I was more inundated with work, less up on music, and had less cash in my pockets for concerts, I actually got around to seeing a disappointing few:
- Liza Mineli (against my will. My mother dragged me to this when I was 9. Worse yet, Liza had lost her voice but decided to perform anyway)
- Tori Amos (From the Choir Girl Hotel tour)
- Ritchie Havens (twice. Greatest concerts of my life. Wish I could have seen him 20 more times before he died)
- Paul McCartney (Driving Rain tour)
- The Cure (Bloodflowers tour)
- Iron and Wine (really disappointing)
- Radiohead (Amnesiac tour)
- Def Lepard/Poison (last year. Went for Poison, became a Def Lepard fan instead)
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 8, 2014 8:19:13 GMT -5
I haven't been to a lot of concerts so this shouldn't be too hard. In no particular order:
Paul McCartney & Wings
Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band (which included Joe Walsh, Nils Lofgren, Tod Rundgren, Eagles bassist Timothy B. Schmidt and the Guess Who's Burton Cummins)
The Beach Boys w/ Cecilio & Kapono
Billy Joel
Manhattan Transfer (best show I ever went to musically speaking)
Art Garfunkel w/ Dan Hill
The Doobie Brothers (twice, once w/Ambrosia, once w/ Curtis Delgado & The Stilletos)
Heart (twice, once as part of a 5-act all-day music festival, once w/ Mister Mister
Al Stewart (can't remember the opening act)
Foreigner
Tower of Power
Steven Bishop (these last three were all part of that festival; can't remember the opening act)
Amy Grant
Mary-Chapin Carpenter
Bruce Springsteen
Smokey Robinson
and in high school, at an assembly, the ever-so-icky Up with People
I've also been to several comedy concerts:
George Carlin (shared a pipe with him and about a dozen other concertgoers)
Stephen Wright
Harry Anderson
The Smothers Brothers
None of these were bad shows, although the sound system at the Amy Grant show was so bad you couldn't understand what she was saying. Also, both Ambrosia and Mister Mister sucked (studio bands shouldn't tour).
Cei-U!
Wonders where his collection of ticket stubs went!?
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Post by shaxper on Jun 8, 2014 8:25:18 GMT -5
None of these were bad shows, although the sound system at the Amy Grant show was so bad you couldn't understand what she was saying. I would count that as a plus  |
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Post by DubipR on Jun 8, 2014 8:57:35 GMT -5
Listing them would be futile, but I'll list highlights:
1. Robert Palmer (1986): First concert I ever went to; I was 11. What made it great was he had the ladies dancing the background.
2. Rolling Stones & Guns N' Roses (1989): LA Coliseum. This is Appetite for Destruction GnR; at their apex. GnR opened and played for 2 hours. Stones cleaned up for 3. Best outdoor show I've seen
3. Lollapalooza 1996: Metallica, Soundgarden, The Ramones, Rancid, Soul Coughing, Rage Against the Machine, Cheap Trick, WuTang Clan, Devo, and Waylon Jennings amongst the acts
4. Lollapalooza 1997: Snoop Dogg, Korn, Tool, The Prodigy, Beck, Eels, Devo, Orbital, and Tricky were the standouts
5. PJ Harvey (Sept 28, 2001 @the Palladium): This is probably the best and most emotional show I've been to. In the aftermath of 9/11, America moved on and Polly Jean made us all cry. Lights go down and the American flag unfurls from the rafters. Single spotlight and PJ comes out and belts out the Star Spangled Banner to start it off. The crowd is cheering and cry, it was... I still get goosebumps thinking about it. Then 2 1/2 hours of amazeballs concert.
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 8, 2014 9:03:23 GMT -5
I was ready with my list of comic artists I'd met. Oops. I honestly haven't been to many concerts. I cared most about music while in high school, but I was forbidden from going to concerts in high school. Later in life, when I was more inundated with work, less up on music, and had less cash in my pockets for concerts, I actually got around to seeing a disappointing few: - Liza Mineli (against my will. My mother dragged me to this when I was 9. Worse yet, Liza had lost her voice but decided to perform anyway) - Tori Amos (From the Choir Girl Hotel tour) - Ritchie Havens (twice. Greatest concerts of my life. Wish I could have seen him 20 more times before he died) - Paul McCartney (Driving Rain tour) - The Cure (Bloodflowers tour) - Iron and Wine (really disappointing) - Radiohead (Amnesiac tour) - Def Lepard/Poison (last year. Went for Poison, became a Def Lepard fan instead) Totally jealous of the Richie Havens experience. |
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Post by DubipR on Jun 8, 2014 9:13:04 GMT -5
Listing them would be futile, but I'll list highlights: 1. Robert Palmer (1986): First concert I ever went to; I was 11. What made it great was he had the ladies dancing the background. 2. Rolling Stones & Guns N' Roses (1989): LA Coliseum. This is Appetite for Destruction GnR; at their apex. GnR opened and played for 2 hours. Stones cleaned up for 3. Best outdoor show I've seen 3. Lollapalooza 1996: Metallica, Soundgarden, The Ramones, Rancid, Soul Coughing, Rage Against the Machine, Cheap Trick, WuTang Clan, Devo, and Waylon Jennings amongst the acts 4. Lollapalooza 1997: Snoop Dogg, Korn, Tool, The Prodigy, Beck, Eels, Devo, Orbital, and Tricky were the standouts 5. PJ Harvey (Sept 28, 2001 @the Palladium): This is probably the best and most emotional show I've been to. In the aftermath of 9/11, America moved on and Polly Jean made us all cry. Lights go down and the American flag unfurls from the rafters. Single spotlight and PJ comes out and belts out the Star Spangled Banner to start it off. The crowd is cheering and cry, it was... I still get goosebumps thinking about it. Then 2 1/2 hours of amazeballs concert. EDIT: Some artist I've seen: George Harrison Ringo Starr All Stars Hawkwind Marillion Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys Reverend Horton Heat Foxy Shazam Chick Corea Stanley Jordan BB King (actually he admitted during the show, he wasn't playing up to snuff) |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 8, 2014 9:29:52 GMT -5
None of these were bad shows, although the sound system at the Amy Grant show was so bad you couldn't understand what she was saying. I would count that as a plus This was in her pre-mainstream days. I got dragged to it by a well-meaning friend who, I guess, thought I was going to convert the moment Amy started singing. Cei-U! I summon the very mistaken notion! |
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 8, 2014 9:33:03 GMT -5
I would count that as a plus This was in her pre-mainstream days. I got dragged to it by a well-meaning friend who, I guess, thought I was going to convert the moment Amy started singing. Cei-U! I summon the very mistaken notion! I liked her better as a demonic vampire:  |
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