What bands have you seen live?

[sheltiechick]

OMG I totally forgot- you reminded me- we went to a Toby Mac concert many many moons ago!!!

There were several names there- but I couldn't tell you who for anything- Jars of Clay?? someone like that. 

I HAVE SEEN JARS OF CLAY LIKE A MILLION TIMES

My favourite story is that I went to see them a few years ago and was standing near the stage.  It was a cheapish outdoor concert and a ton of people were just sitting in lawnchairs, so it was like me and six other hardcore fans standing by the stage.  After the concert they were signing autographs, and when I got up to Steve, he goes "I LOVED YOU IN SPIDERMAN."  I stared at him blankly for a second then was like "...OH!  I get that all the time."  Seriously, I have people chase me down in stores to tell me how much I look like Kirsten Dunst (or "Mary-Jane Watson!")  He says "I was looking at you the whole time thinking 'That's incredible!  Kirsten Dunst came to our concert!!'"  And Dan and Charlie are like "wow she really does look like her!"  And like the complete nerd I am I'm blurting out "I'M SUCH A FAN YOU GUYS I SAW YOU GUYS AT YOUR FIRST EVER CORNERSTONE SHOW.  I'M SHOUTING."

OhGod.

 

 

Anyway, I worked in radio for five years so I got the chance to see a lot of shows gratis.  Let me try to remember everybody I've ever seen starting when I was a little kid.

Boyz II Men

New Kids on the Block

MMC (you know, when Mickey Mouse Club had a band and they were just MMC because that was cooler?)

Jars of Clay about sixty bajillion times

DC Talk

Audio Adrenaline

A handful of other Christian bands - I went to a Christian music festival twice.  I can't remember all of them.  PFR.  And Phillips Craig and Dean maybe?

Dashboard Confessional

MxPx

Brand New

Remedy Session

Switchfoot (and I got a photo with Jon Foreman eeeeee)

The Sleeping

Relient K

Hawthorne Heights

Emery

Plain White T's

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

Cheap Trick

Trace Adkins

Martina McBride

Daughtry... three times.  Once from the third row. <3 <3 <3

SafetySuit

The Hush Sound (some band from Chicago?? I don't know.)

Spill Canvas

Augustana

OneRepublic

AND... NKOTB again as an adult.  Fifth row.

 

I've also seen Bill Cosby but that doesn't really count as a band.

I feel like I'm missing a bunch.  Clearly they didn't make that big of an impression on me...

[Loren Wade]

This is really hard for me. I could probably list somewhere in the range of 100-200 bands. I love music.

[Roughyed]

So far this year -

 

Haim

Ben Harper

Vampire Weekend

Edward Sharpe + Magnetic Zeros

Mumford and sons

Ocean Colour Scene

Of Monsters and Men

 

This weekend should add -

 

Kraftwerk

John Grant

Maccabees

Texas

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Alt-J

Everything Everything

Local Natives

Grizzly Bear

Foals

 

End Of year should have -

 

Warpaint

Jimmy Eat World

Tenacious D

[jaymz]

Muse (Three times)

Green Day (Twice)

Kaiser Chiefs (Worst live band ever)

Maximo Park

OK GO

Kasabian

The Fratellis

Pigeon Detectives

Blur

Foo Fighters

 

Love Muse and OK GO live. Muse are just epic in every way imaginable and OK GO is just one big happy party

[Garth]

This weekend should add -

 

Kraftwerk

John Grant

Maccabees

Texas

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Alt-J

Everything Everything

Local Natives

Grizzly Bear

Foals

 

 

 

Off to Latitude? Have fun, some great bands on the bill. 

 

I feel like I could could just list and list, but I'll just reel off a few of my favourites:

David Byrne

LCD Soundsystem

Daft Punk

QOTSA

Sparks

White Stripes

Mogwai

Be Your Own Pet

NIN

Art Brut

[Waldo]

Gosh, more than I can count or remember.  Been a few years, but I went to a lot when younger.

 

Phish - >30x

Widespread Panic - >10x

Moe - 2x

Disco Bisuits - 3x

Leftover Salmon - 2x

String Cheese Incident - 2x

Ozzy Osborne - 2x

Dave Matthews - 2x

Phil n' Friends

Black Sabbath

Neil Young

Ween

Primus

Ben Harper

Metallica

Bob Dylan

Rush

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Allman Brothers

Carlos Santana

Prince

Ani Difranco

Ted Nugent

George Thorogood

Butthole Surfers

 

Plus a ton of small bands and opening acts.

[Roughyed]

Off to Latitude? Have fun, some great bands on the bill. 

 

 

Yup, and looking like a hot one!  

[chipotle]

So far this year -

...

Mumford and sons

Of Monsters and Men

....

I can only say this: !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Garth]

Yup, and looking like a hot one!  

You'll probably have left for the festival by now, but if you're stuck for something to watch first thing Saturday morning I can recommend Flamingods & Joanna Gruesome who are playing back to back on the Lake Stage. 

[tushfeathers]

I have been to music festivals, and seen soooo many I couldn't tell you them all!

 

I have seen Yellowcard 6 times (my favorite band! who doesn't love a band with a lead singer who has a star wars sleeve and a comic strip sleeve?)

Trapt

Fuel

Story of the Year (badass band live!)

Finger 11

Smile Empty Soul

Breaking Benjamin (4 times, they are awesome)

Godsmack

Skillet (met them three times, they are cool as shit)

30 Seconds to Mars

Silversun Pickups

Go Radio(nice dudes)

Runner, Runner

Halestorm (damn, that drummer can do some stick tricks)

Three Days Grace

A7X

BFMV

Hinder

Rev Theory

Stone Sour

Theory of a Deadman

Adair

Green Day

Jimmy Eat World

Billy Idol

the Offspring

the Transplants

MXPX

My Chemical Romance

Cheap Trick

Journey

Motle Crue

Art of Dying

Seether

Chevelle (broke my finger at their show)

the Used

Stars in Stereo

Dead Sara

Good Charlotte

Blue October

Thirteen Towers (my friends band, DC punk!)

Rehab

 

and I more i cannot think of at the moment.... wish i could get paid to go to shows!!!

[Birdwing]

Linkin Park

Rammstein (3 times)

Combichrist

Hoobastank

POD

Story of the Year

Robert Plant

Soundgarden

KMFDM (met them too )

Kiss

Motley Crue

Garbage

Trans-Siberian Orchestra (3 times)

Coldplay

Chevelle

Cage the Elephant

Sleeper Agent

I'm leaving some out for sure...

[Caution]

I'll just rattle off a few because I probably could fill up 4-5 pages.

 

Killswitch Engage

Slipknot

Mudvayne

Hellyeah

Disturbed

Five Finger Death Punch

Avenged Sevenfold

Godsmack

Papa Roach

Stone Sour

Kid Rock

Bad Company

Ozzy

Black Label Society

Def Leppard

ZZ-Top

Lynyrd Skynyrd

George Throrogood and the Destoyers

Poison

Motley Crue

Judas Priest

Buck Cherry

Sixx AM

Trapt

Billy Talent

Rancid

 

Ok, I'm getting tired of typing. A lot!

[robert da strongman]

Not a big concert person prefer local small stuff in a bar. The few bands I have seen are:

 

Disturbed, 5FDP, Sevendust, Killswitch Engage, Van Halen---the reunion tour with DLR, Taproot

[Jonny2284]

Really need to start going to gigs again. Used to be I was at the local rock bar whenever anybody was playing, these days it's been a good 18 months since I saw anything (I do have a fozzy gig 2 weeks on Wednesday though).

 

I'll spare the names of the local bands and just stick to the big (or recognisable enough to get a wikipedia entry) type bands.

 

Hammerfall

Dream Evil

Alice Cooper

Motorhead

Joan Jett

Blind Guardian

Delain

Grave Digger

Tarot

Within Temptation

Jorn

Edguy

Sonata Arctica

Bal Sagoth

Rush

 

Yes I do tend to lean more towards the power metal side of the spectrum than the other side.

[mom2sjm]

My husband took our 13 year old to his first concert - RUSH! 

[shelbstorm13]

Hawk Nelson

Plain White T's

Panic! At The Disco

Seether

Bullet for My Valentine

Avenged Sevenfold 

Three Days Grace

[Resqtech]

Mostly 80's Hair Metal...since I'm old now my tolerence for concert nonsense seems depleted

 

Heart
Honeymoon Suite
KISS (Multiple times)
Aerosmith (Multiple times)
Guns N Roses
LA Guns
Bon Jovi
Motley Crue
Cinderella
Dokken
Scorpions
Ozzy (Multiple Times)
Kingodm Come
Ted Nugent
Cheap Trick
Journey
Blue Oyster Cult
Ace Frehley (Solo)
Billy Idol
Blue Murder
Bullet Boys
Buzz Poets (Local Band)
Def Leppard
Winger
Donnie Iris (Local)
Extreme
Faster Pussycat
Great White
Kix
Lita Ford
Lords Of Acid
Megadeth
Metallica
Mr Big
Poison
Brett Michaels (Solo)
RATT
White Zombie
Power Man 5000
Stabbing Westward
Sugar Ray
Don Henley
Stevie Nicks
U2
Trans-Siberian-Orchestra (Multiple times)
Pearl Jam
Type O Negative (Multiple times)
Yngwie Malmsteen

[mightykendar]

Some good stuff mentioned in this thread...I've been going to concerts since my late teens, but I don't live in what was previously a big market area for them so I generally had to travel 2-4 hours minimum for most of the shows that I saw prior to the last year or so. Off the top of my head, in mostly no particular order...

 

Genesis

The Beach Boys (w/Brian Wilson, of course)

Radiohead (x2)

Peter Gabriel (x2)

Phil Collins (last-ever U.S. performance; I'm on the DVD for a brief moment!)

Steve Hackett (x2)

Renaissance (before Michael Dunford passed away)

Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates)

Fleetwood Mac (sans Christine McVie)

The Who (well, the Daltrey and Townshend Show, anyway)

The Promise Ring

Phish

Sloan (x2)

Ben Folds

moe.

David Bowie

Ash

Assembly of Dust

Enter the Haggis

Dropkick Murphys

Depeche Mode

Wilco

Gogol Bordello

Cold War Kids

Franz Ferdinand

The Dan Band

Black 47

Nine Inch Nails

The Strokes

Rustic Overtones (a few times?)

The Brew (American band, not the British one, many times...at least 6 or 7)

The Musical Box (outstanding Genesis tribute band)

Styx

REO Speedwagon

Common Rotation

 

probably loads more that I'm just not thinking of...oh, and I'm volunteering at a music festival this weekend, so I'll likely be seeing some more new-to-me stuff, and I'm planning to catch Dr. Dog (one of the headliners) on Friday night.

 

Oh, and some artists that I would Really Love To See someday, before they (or I, I guess) die...

Gladys Knight (with or without any Pips!)

Blur

Huey Lewis and the News

Crosby, Stills and Nash (with or without Neil Young)

Paul McCartney

Ted Leo

Squeeze (whatever incarnation presently exists)

Crowded House (see above)

The Cure (see above)

[Callaeidae]

 

1) Rollins Band - simple the best live show I have ever seen, his energy on stage is amazing! 

 

I've seen 3 or 4 of Henry Rollins' spoken word type shows and his energy is incredible! He keeps you hanging on every word & then you leave with 10x more energy than you went in with.

[Callaeidae]

 

Mogwai

 

OH MY GOODNESS <3

I can't remember everything I've seen, but here are some:

My Bloody Valentine

Sigur Ros

Sonic Youth

The Cure

PJ Harvey

Bjork

Explosions in the Sky

Beastie Boys

Le Tigre

Sleater-Kinney

The White Stripes

Queens of the Stone Age

Smashing Pumpkins

The Blood Brothers

Gorillaz

MIA

Pixies

Faith No More

Henry Rollins

Florence + the Machine

Interpol

Nouvelle Vague

Cat Power

Feist

Yo La Tengo

 

[mightykendar]

I can't remember everything I've seen, but here are some:

Beastie Boys

 

 

They were on my want-to-see list for many years, but then Adam Yauch passed away...

[Daystar]

Wow, you guys have seen so much!! I've only seen U2 and Bassnectar - but they were both absolutely amazing. I'm saving up some money to go to EDC next year, so hopefully I can make my list something to gawk at.

[KAllen]

Cool, the guy that used to play Opie on "Sons of Anarchy" is playing the biker in that movie.  Big stretch I know, but still good to see Ryan Hurst.

[Callaeidae]

They were on my want-to-see list for many years, but then Adam Yauch passed away...

Yeah, that was really sad!

[Vian]

I haven't seen a lot of bands live, but the ones that I have seen were pretty memorable.

 

First band I ever saw live was Social Distortion. My (then) husband was a huge fan and they were playing downtown just a few days after we got married. He used to be a roadie for Alice in Chains, so he knew how things worked and said we should get there way early for the show. So we showed up at noon. The band was unloading their gear from the bus and we got to meet all of them and got the CD autographed by everyone in the band. 

 

Then a couple years later we went to Warped Tour and had a great time, despite all the emo bands. NOFX was the headline band and it's true...they really do suck live...

 

But another band, Patent Pending, put on an amazing show, there were only like 20 people gathered around a tiny stage, but there was tons of energy and the singer really got the crowd going and even crowd surfed! Then later we went to their booth and chatted with them and got some autographs from them.