What bands have you seen live?

[Thrillho]

Vinnie Paul, drummer for HellYeah was founding member/drummer of the legendary Pantera!!!

Oh, I know And Chad Grey from Mudvayne (an otherwise unremarkable metal band). INCREDIBLE live energy.  Really, Avenged was all but disappointing after that. 

[Valerius]

As i used to be in a band I have seen more live show's than I can remember mostly being local acts in nature, I have also seen many national acts a few of them are listed below:

The Foo Fighters - Live at the all-state arena hands down best show I've ever been to. 

The Mighty Mighty bosstones

Less Than Jake

A Day To Remember

Flogging Molly

Ludo

Alkaline Trio

Bayside

Motion City Soundtrack

Weezer

Rise against

Bad Religion

American English

Beat Union

Danger is my middle name ( a friend of mine's band played at the warped tour)

Weird Al Yankovic (second best show I've ever seen, Seen him twice!)

So many more shows.... my brain can't remember all of them... sad day.

[Oramac]

How did I miss this thread!?!  Got some great musical taste here.

 

I tend to go to a lot of festival style concerts with 20-30 bands playing, but I don't count all of them usually.  

 

I've seen (in no particular order):

 

In This Moment (twice)

Breaking Benjamin

Halestorm

Stone Temple Pilots

Shinedown (3 times)

Saliva

10 Years

311

The Urge

Sevendust (twice)

3 Days Grace

Chevelle

Nickelback (ex-gf wanted to go; they put on a surprisingly good show)

Buckcherry

Seether

Crossfade

Theory of a Deadman

Saving Abel

Trapt

Staind

 

And probably some others I forgot.

 

Bands I want to see:

 

Metallica (good luck)

Killswitch Engage

All That Remains

Zoso (Led Zepplin Tribute band)

Atreyu

 

And a ton more I can't think of right now.  

[insanity]

Only band I've seen live is Trans-Siberian Orchestra.... was pretty badass...

[SevenofSeven]

Tina Turner was the first live artist I saw, she was brilliant, I was 14 and totally loving going to my first concert.

Pink Floyd I was 16 and entering the pot smoking age! OMG it was life changing!

INXS with Michael and without.

Wolf Mother

Cold Chisel even though I hate Jimmy Barnes

The Angels

These are the major bands, but have seen heaps of pub bands the best was The Zepp Boys, twice.

I miss live music.

[SevenofSeven]

Got a fairly eclectic mix:

 

U2

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Great Big Sea

Beach Boys

Fall Out Boy (where I was asked by a group of ppl if I was the lead singer of FOB)

Panic! At the Disco

Coheed and Cambira (twice <3)

The Platters

Big & Rich

Travis Tritt

Gord Bamford

Brad Paisley

Clint Black

Paul Brandt

Corb Lund

Jamie Cullum (intimate Maida Vale session gig)

The Format

The Honorary Title

Killswitch Engage

The Used

Funeral for a Friend

Ozzy Osbourne

Rise Against

Gym Class Heroes

Story of the Year

Jimmy Eat World

Biffy Clyro

Foo Fighters (with Seasick Steve & John Paul Jones)

 

I think I've missed a few, but there ya go.

That last one, OMG, OMG! John Paul Jones and Grohl! OMG!

[Bearded_Dragon]

That last one, OMG, OMG! John Paul Jones and Grohl! OMG!

 

Correct! It was even more amazing than you can possibly imagine (maybe)

[Thrillho]

We go see Corb Lund next week.  He's my wife's secret boyfriend  

 

[DDRoonieRoo]

Oh man.....  Lemme see...

 

Pearl Jam (7 or 8 times, I forget)

Alice in Chains (all post Layne Staley, 5 times)

Jerry Cantrell solo  (3 times, pre-AIC reunion, plus an in-store appearance when DT 1 came out)

Comes with the Fall (opened for Jerry on the solo tour)

 

Orion Music and More Festival (both nights in Atlantic City)

Metallica 2x

The Sword

Avenged Sevenfold

Eric Church

Sepultura

 

Slayer

Pantera

Soulfly (2x)

Morbid Angel

Nothingface

Megadeth 2x

Motorhead

Volbeat

Slipknot (in 1999, BEFORE 1st record came out. Place was a dump, maybe 200 people, and it was FUCKING INSANE)

Coal Chamber

Machine Head

Walls of Jericho

Stretch Armstrong

H2O

Aerosmith

Kenny Wayne Shepard

Alabama (in the 80s, I was a kid)

Sting (3 or 4 times)

The Police (on the reunion tour)

Tool (3 times?)

Fantomas (2x, both with Tool)

Tomahawk

Dream Theater

Death Cab for Cutie

Velvet Revolver (2x, freaking fantastic band live!)

Chris Cornell solo, before Soundgarden got back together

Porcupine Tree

King's X

Halestorm (1/2 of a show, I couldn't stand the teenie-boppers to make it to the end)

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Kyng

Powerman 5000

Buckcherry

Ray Charles (that was a trip...)

Better than Ezra

Seven Mary Three

Incubus

Boys II Men (8th grade!!)

Brandy (opened up for B2M)

 

That may be it......  I think that's it...

 

Oh man, I wish I had of gotten to see porcupine tree while they were s till doing stuff...maybe there will be a reunion someday. I DID get to see and meet their drummer Gavin Harrison at a drum clinic that he did though! That was cool. I was too star struck to say anything other than clumsily ask for a picture with him though haha.

 

To be totally fair, I did not compile the list.  Ubergeek husband did.  This is what we do.  We go to concerts.  Because we're older and we can now afford to go see ALL. THE. BANDS.  Our tastes are a bit eclectic.  He also neglected to mention that the introduction to live music for the kids included: Star Wars at the Hollywood Bowl; The Legend of Zelda Symphony 2; Final Fantasy Symphony.  We intend to raise GOOD nerds.

 

Sarah McLachlan -- 9 times between solo shows, Lilith and a KROQ event

 

Next, acts I've seen more than three times:

Joe Satriani -- I'm cheating a bit because I've seen /just/ him three times, but I've also seen him at two different tribute events, one Hendrix and one in honor of Les Paul's 90th birthday

Live

They Might Be Giants

Steve Miller Band

 

Bands or performers I have seen thrice:

Natalie Merchant (probably; twice for sure)

Sheryl Crow (again twice for certain)

Rush

Foreigner

Chickenfoot

Peter Gabriel

 

Twice as nice:

A Prairie Home Companion (Garrison twice, Martin Sheen both times, different musical guests)

Billy Joel

Sting

Indigo Girls

Chris Isaak

Emmylou Harris

B.B. King

Dream Theater

Blind Boys of Alabama

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic

Butterfly Boucher

Steve Vai (accidentally)

Slash (also accidentally)

Jethro Tull

Styx

Yes

Kansas

Heart

Def Leppard

The B-52's

The Fixx

Zappa Plays Zappa

Return To Forever

Night Ranger

Brian Setzer Orchestra

Everclear

Ian Anderson

Cheap Trick

Pat Benatar

Seal

Missing Persons

Primus

War

Tower of Power

Leonard Cohen

Only been there once:

The Eagles

The Bangles

Stevie Nicks

Fleetwood Mac

Annie Lennox

Eurythmics

Young Dubliners

Queen + Paul Rodgers

Los Lobos

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Eric Johnson

Edwin McCain

The Alan Parsons LIVE Project

Fish

Frank Black

The Police

Rammstein

KMFDM

Lords of Acid

N.E.R.D.

Black Eyed Peas

U2

Gorillaz

Moby

Madeleine Peyroux

Single Gun Theory

Tori Amos

Poe

Fiona Apple

Sinead O'Connor

Garbage

No Doubt

The Pretenders

Joan Osborne

Tracey Chapman

Ciba Matto

Sixpence None the Richer

Blind Melon

Public Image Limited

Big Audio Dynamite

Jane's Addiction

Nine Inch Nails

Vanilla Ice

Young M.C.

Tone Loc

Biz Markie

Poison

Suzanne Vega

Billy Idol

Living Colour

Elton John

Counting Crows

Michael Franti and Spearhead

Asia

Pearl Jam             (and Chris Cornell for the encore, doing Hunger Strike)

Peter, Bjorn and John

Depeche Mode

Negativland

Opeth

Between the Buried and Me

Scale The Summit

Bigelf

Macy Gray

Collective Soul

Blues Traveler

Queensryche

The Psychedelic Furs

Sweet

Twisted Sister

Devo

Blondie

ZZ Top

REO Speedwagon

The Cult

Modern English

Skid Row

Ratt

Prince

Carole King

James Taylor

Eric Clapton

Steve Winwood

Simon & Garfunkel

Stray Cats

Sugar Ray

Eddie Money

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Jenni Rivera

Paramore

Miranda Lambert

Average White Band

Edgar Winter

Chick Corea

Abe Laboriel Sr.

Alex Acuna

Justo Almario

Victor Wooten

Dave Matthews Band

Butt Trumpet

Philip Glass

Brian Culbertson

Kenny G[h]

Roger Waters

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Zapp

Confunkshun

Cameo

Bow Wow Wow

INXS

Blue Oyster Cult

Marcy Playground

Dramarama

Sir Mix-A-Lot

Berlin

The Human League

Santana

Journey

Ponderosa

The Cure

The Silent Comedy

Fishbone

Final Fantasy: Music from Distant Worlds

Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses

Weird Al Yankovic

Joe Walsh

Toto

MC Hammer

Gin Blossoms

Brynn Marie

Cyndi Lauper

Doobie Brothers

Sponge

Filter

Boothby Graffoe

Guster

Ben Folds Five

Barenaked Ladies

Ian Anderson

 

Holy crap there are some vastly different bands in there. That's awesome!

 

 

I grew up in a smaller town where big bands didn't come very often, and if they did, they came to places that were a few hours away. I've played in local bands for years so I've seen countless awesome "nobodies" though haha. However, now that I live in Toronto, EVERYBODY COMES THROUGH!!!!

 

The big ones:

Slayer and Damage plan

Opeth

Three

Meshuggah

Animals as leaders

Gojira

Devin Townsend

Queens of the stone age

Primus

 

 

And this Saturday I'm going to see Gojira and Mastodon!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! 

[AlterStephen]

Neon Trees just blew my freaking socks off.

[TheFourth]

Nickelback- 2005

Spiderbait- 2008

Airborne- 2011

Nickelback- 2012

Bon Jovi- 2013

[Roughyed]

So far this year-

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Dodgy

Spin Doctors

John Grant

Lissie

Manic Street Preachers

Big Country

Embrace

Not a bad year so far.

[Bearded_Dragon]

Ooo, I'd love to see Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, bet it was a great gig!

[Roughyed]

They are great live. No set list, just go with the mood!

[KillerGriller]

And this Saturday I'm going to see Gojira and Mastodon!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! 

I saw them on the same tour.  I wasn't impressed with Gojira live, but afterward I checked them out on YouTube and enjoyed their stuff.  Mastodon just rocks. period.

[mitch_dee]

In no particular order:

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - 1st concert I went to: 2 hours long, 1 hour encore, 1 hour impromptu set 30 mins after that for about the last 100 of us that were finally leaving

Paramore (before they went pop)

Blink 182

Halfway Jane

Sum 41

Lit - after the Warp tour in a bowling ally - sat on the stage after bowling next to them and sharing pitchers of beer

No Doubt

Martina McBride

Brooks & Dunn

Dropkick Murphys

Mighty Bosstones - best time ever...concert venue had a bar that you could wait in, friends and I were sitting at the bar drinking when Dicky Barrett and Tim Burton sat down next to me.  Bought them both a drink even after they said they drink for free just so I could say I bought them one once.....during the show they made sure security pulled us up front and thanked us for being true fans.....yeah...I still fangurl about that one!

Too many other bands from festivals that I can;t think of right now

 

Oh and Kenny Rodgers spanked me when I was 5...not a concert but It makes for an interesting story....

[MetalNinja]

Yay for concerts!  I also see a bunch of people who also like metal!

 

The two bands I've seen the most are Children of Bodom and In Flames, I actually don't know how many times I've seen each of them.

 

Other than that:

Metallica (Summer Sanitarium 2003 with Mudvayne, Deftones, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit)

Rammstein (in Berlin! Also in Denver.)

Judas Priest

Ozzy Osbourne

DevilDriver

All That Remains (like three, four times?)

Black Label Society

Trivium (they keep playing with other bands I want to see so I've seen them like three times)

Rob Zombie

Motionless in White

Epica

Alestorm (not to be confused with Halestorm, which I've seen some other people list)

Eluveitie

Killswitch Engage

Amon Amarth

Mastodon

Tyr

Thin Lizzy

Job for a Cowboy

Between the Buried and Me

Black Dahlia Murder

Kreator, with Overkill (won free tickets!)

More that I don't remember because they were openers or something.  Like I went to the Rockstar Mayhem Festival last year and I don't remember who all was there.

 

 

Some non-metal shows:

Cherub

El Ten Eleven

Con Bro Chill (I have hugged two members of this group)

Paul Oakenfold

 

And then a bunch of crap when I was in the concert commission in college:

Taking Back Sunday

Ludacris

Mos Def

Jimmy Eat World

Guster

Kanye West

Snoop Dogg

Reel Big Fish

that guy from Dashboard Confessional who did some acoustic set after Reel Big Fish

They Might Be Giants

 

 

Sooooo yeah I like concerts, hooray!  Still need to see King Diamond, who apparently is coming to Colorado in October but I don't know if I'm going to be here arrrrrggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

[JCDenton]

Too many to list, but some memorable shows include:

 

Megadeth 2001: Saw them in DC about a month after 9/11 attacks. Wierd vibe for the show, they came out and crushed for 90 minutes.

 

Greatful Dead 1995: Went to this show about a month or so before Jerry Garcia passed away. Another weird vibe, but for totally different reasons...

 

Clash of the Titans 1990: Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer. What the hell more do you want, sparky?

 

Children of Bodom 2008: Whatever issues they've allegedly had playing live, they left them at the door for this show. 

 

 

Really looking forward to catching Arch Enemy's new lineup on this tour. A lot of people hating on Alissa, but I think she brings a new element to the vocal department.

[Dleffe]

So many bands... but I can still name the most memorable shows I have seen.

 

-Blind guardian. Twist in the myth tour in 2009 in Belgium, when they sang the bard's song the crowd sang aloud so loudly you could barely hear the music anymore and after about 5 seconds the band gave up on singing and just held out the mike to the crowd.

 

Now since I'm a metal fan the second most memorable show might seem like an odd choice...

 

-Lindsey Stirling. Saw her show last year, the amount of energy and joy she radiated while performing was mindblowing. I could feel myself getting happier just watching her perform. Hopefully her next show this year will be just as epic to watch.

 

-Alestorm. Seen em multiple times at GMM, always a good time. But this year they opened the festival on friday, they asked for a wall of death and within seconds the crowd parted up to the soundtower. Never seen a wall open up that fast or that large.

 

I could keep going for a while more but I'll stick to my top 3.

[Villikissa]

Coming up with a complete lifetime list would be next to impossible, but we'll see what I can do. I'll start with two shorter lists:

 

Concerts I have been to comparatively recently (i.e. in the past year):

• Leaves' Eyes
• Gogol Bordello

I think that might actually be it for the past year... I clearly need to get out more! But this fall is looking good...

 

Concerts I expect to be going to within the next few months:

• Eluveitie (yay! They're amazing live)
• Within Temptation (for the third time)
• Delain + Xandria

Now, let's see how many other artists I can recall that I've seen at some point in my life... (I think I'm going to go for alphabetical order, because chronological would be too hard):

• Emilie Autumn (3 times)
• The Boomtown Rats (waaaayyy back when...)
• David Bowie (twice, I think)
• The Chainsaw Kittens
• Jayne County
• The Cramps
• Dead Can Dance
• Delhi 2 Dublin
• Einsturzende Neubauten
• Eluveitie
• Faith & the Muse
• Front 242 and/or Front Line Assembly (I'm always mixing those two up...)
• Diamanda Galas
• Nina Hagen (twice)
• Iggy Pop (twice)
• PJ Harvey
• KMFDM
• Laibach
• Lene Lovich
• MDC
• Ministry
• My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
• L7
• Living Color
• Legendary Pink Dots
• The Levellers
• MIDIval PunditZ
• New Model Army
• Nine Inch Nails (3 times)
• Nitzer Ebb
• Pigface
• Poisongirls
• Professor Elemental
• Sinead O'Connor
• The Ramones (at least twice)
• The Residents
• Tom Robinson
• Sigur Ros
• Siouxsie & the Banshees (3 times, I think?)
• Skinny Puppy
• Soundgarden
• The Swans (twice)
• The Talking Heads
• Test Department
• They Might Be Giants
• Voivod
• Wintersun
• The Young Gods

Some of those I'm a little unsure of, because in some cases we're going back a really long time - at risk of dating myself, to around 1980 or so. And there are undoubtedly others that I'm just not thinking of at the moment. But that's probably at least a fair proportion of them...

[thinmints]

The Freelance Whales and Arcade Fire. I'm really slacking in the live music part of my life.

 

I'm so jealous that someone saw LCD Soundsystem, and that y'all have seen Vampire Weekend!

[Killer]

As they say I may be old but i got to see all the cool bands. This may not be an exhaustive list because 1970s.

 

In no particular order:

 

Kiss (1977)
Styx
Pink Floyd 2x once from 3rd row with my Dad who had a religious experience
Rush (Spirit Of Radio, Moving Pictures and one other)
Fog Hat
Billy Joel
BB King
Jeff Healey
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double trouble
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Stray Cats
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Victor Wooten
Dave Matthews
John Melencamp 3x (local boy)
Tubes 2x
Utopia
Alan Parsons Project
Kansas
Van Halen (Women and Children First tour)
David Lee Roth (Billy Sheehan played Eruption on the bass--Epic)
AC/DC (Back In Black tour)
Supertramp
Metallica (at the Grammys Awards Show)
REM (Tales of the Reconstruction tour)
Richie Havens
Huey Lewis and the News
Foreigner
Rick Springfield (hangs head in shame, my GF made me do it.)
Emerson Lake and Powell
Elton John
Michael Hedges
Bare Naked Ladys
Steely Dan
38 Special
Blue Oyster Cult
Little Feat
ZZ Top 2x
Max Webster
Molly Hatchet
Michael Stanley Band
Melissa Ethridge
Pat Benatar
Dolly Parton
Sons of the Pioneers
Roy Clark
Weird Al
Randy Newman
 

[AmandaM]

Billy Talent, Rise Against and Judas Priest.  I'd love to go to more concerts and have been keeping my eye out for upcoming acts coming to town.  Most bands come to Vancouver, though, and I can't afford to travel for everything I want to see

[Roughyed]

Pearl Jam last week, 36 songs, 3.5 hours.... immense!

[mzmtg]

What I can recall:

Clutch

Split Lip Rayfield

Helmet

Marilyn Manson

KMFDM

Lords of Acid

Praga Khan

Switchblade Symphony

Spahn Ranch

Front Line Assembly

Kid Rock

Crystal Method

Rob Zombie

The Prodigy

Meat Beat Manifesto

VAST

12 Rounds

Jimmy Buffett

Atari Teenage Riot

Rage Against The Machine

Wu Tang

Gary Numan

Monster Magnet

Photek

Luxt

My Bloody Valentine

Genitortures

 

I'm sure there are a few that I'm forgetting...that must have just been forgettable.