What bands have you seen live?

[z3llin]

Since I live at the ass end of nowhere I rarely get to see decent international bands I take every oppurtinity I can to watch a decent show.

Bands I've intentionally bought tickets for:

Deftones (last week!)

Metallica

Rammstein

Fleshgod Appocalypse (if your a death metal fan and don't know these Italians: shame on you!)

Ensiferium (meh)

Soulfly

BulletBelt (New Zealand Black Metal)

 

 

At one or two festival I was blown away by some performances of music I don't particularly enjoy such as:

Billy Talent

Groove Armada

Manchester Orchestra

C-mon & Kipski

Fatboy Slim

Violent Femmes

[Thrillho]

DEFTONES LAST WEEK I HATE YOU SO MUCH.

[67alecto]

Finally going to be able to cross Iron Maiden off the bucket list. Years passed when something got in the way...I'd be in Europe, they'd be touring the states (and vice versa), for example.

 

A couple of years ago, they only played 1 or 2 concerns in the US (down in Tampa), and I had no vacation time to use.   The following year, I had a ton of vacation, and they didn't play in the US.

This year, I committed.  They are playing 7 dates in the US this year, and I have tickets for the Kansas City show next month.  My wife and son (11) will also be going.

 

Beyond that, I lived in Chicago for 4 years while going to school, so I saw a lot of shows.

 

Smashing Pumpkins (several times including a 500-ticket show a few months before Mellon Collie came out)

Medicine x2

Too Much Joy

Alice in Chains

Screaming Trees x2

Joe Satriani

Live

Big Audio Dynamite

Public Image Ltd.

Blind Melon

The Frogs

The Offspring (backstage passes, too)

Megadeth

Slayer

Eric Johnson x2

Rush

The Cure

Scatterbrain

Bruce Dickinson (one of his solo tours)

REO Speedwagon

Cheap Trick

Ratt

Weird Al (amazing show)

Def Leppard

Poison

Lita Ford

Tommy Castro

Eric Sardinas (x3)

 

Probably several I'm forgetting, plus numerous regional blues artists, indie bands that never went anywhere, etc.

[insideitsraining]

Hmm... Well lets see

 

When I was 12 I was obsessed with Kenny Chesney and saw him 3 times which included Little Big Town, Deirks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Gretchen Wilson, Uncle Kracker, Kid Rock, etc

 

Fast forward to high school and I only listened to Christian music and saw Switchfoot, House of Heroes, Fireflight, Family Force 5 a couple times, oh gosh I can't even count them all. I probably went to 6 or 7 of those festivals.

 

Fast forward again to college-current

RED

Skillet

Three Days Grave

Saving Abel

 

In October I'm seeing Avenged Sevenfold!! And I'm stoked about it!

[insideitsraining]

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!!!

I'm pretty sure we are music soulmates lol jk but I love like 90% of those bands and have seen a few but would love to see them all,

[AlterStephen]

Updated list (separated into individual concerts):

 

October 2009:

Like a Storm

Staind

Creed

 

April 2010:

Cavo

Lifehouse

Daughtry (probably the loudest show I've been to)

 

September 2010:

Airbourne

Hellyeah

Stone Sour

Avenged Sevenfold (also insanely loud)

Disturbed (ditto)

 

April 2011:

Like a Storm (again)

Black Stone Cherry

Alter Bridge (my favorite band)

 

And most recently, August 2013:

Solar Suit (local artist)

Codi Jordan Band (local artist, freaking fantastic)

Family of the Year

Capital Cities (best live band I've ever seen, blew my mind)

The Airborne Toxic Event

Panic! at the Disco

 

I'll add Fictionst and Imagine Dragons, and possibly 30 Seconds to Mars, to this list in October, and hopefully also Relient K (one of my other favorite bands) and Motion City Soundtrack in November. Maybe Trans-Siberian Orchestra in either November or December too.

[cobaltflash]

I have only seen rise against and steel panther live and i loved both of their concerts i hope to be able to see some more bands this winter 

[Roughyed]

Mumford & Sons

Arcade Fire

Pearl Jam

U2

Coldplay

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Foo Fighters

Blur

Stone Roses

Prodigy

Beastie Boys

Rage Against the Machine

Queens of the Stoneage

The Offspring

Weezer

Ice T

Sonic Youth

Chemical Brothers

The Charlatans

Vampire weekend

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

Elbow

James

 

Lots and lots more...

 

I like music!

[67alecto]

add Iron Maiden to the list...saw them last night in KC.  Freaking amazing.

 

[DELETED]

not big on concerts (read crowds) so haven't been to many

 

The Beach Boys

Frankie Vallie

Toby Keith

Rammstein

 

I owe the friend who went with me to Rammstein a concert in return, so at some point, i'll see Drowning Pool live.

[Jamin]

I've seen P.O.D., Three Days Grace, and Shinedown in Lexington last February. My first and only concert as of now. It was pretty sweet except some punk rubbed gum all over my windshield and I had to drive all the way back to Louisville with a funky kaleidoscope looking window.

[cowboy dan]

High On Fire, Despise You, Infest, Integrity, Ringworm, Left For Dead, Converge, Lewd Acts, Rise and Fall, Full of Hell, Sunn O))), Dead In The Dirt, ACxDC, Coke Bust, Weekend Nachoes, Suicide File, American Nightmare, The Hope Conspiracy, Terror, Trial, Verse, Envy, Loma Prieta, Comadre, Punch, Sabertooth Zombie, Trapped Under Ice, Ceremony, Hoax, Minority Unit, Rotting Out, Descendants, DI, The Germs, GBH, TSOL, Angry Samoans, Dr, Know, Sick of it All, Underdog, Bold, Gorilla Biscuits, Youth Of Today, Kid Dynamite, Title Fight, Whirr, Fucked Up, The Men, Desaparecidos, Algernon Cadwallader, Joyce Manor, Summer Vacation, Bomb The Music Industry!, RVIVR, Big Eyes, Tenement, Dog Party, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Modest Mouse, Saves the Day, Say Antyhing, Rise Against, Andrew WK, Katy Perry, OFWGKTA, Die Antwoord, Owl City, Lights, Alan Jackson

[KAllen]

 

add Iron Maiden to the list...saw them last night in KC.  Freaking amazing.

 

Jealous!!!

[mightykendar]

Algernon Cadwallader

 

Some great bands in that list, but this one sticks out! Wish I'd gotten a chance to see them before they split.

[Donar]

Probably dating myself a bit.....lol

 

Front 242

And One

Ministry

Covenant

My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult

Nine Inch Nails

KMFDM

Velvet Acid Christ

Sisters of Mercy

Fields of the Nephilim

Nitzer Ebb

DJ Micro

Spacegirl

Lords of Acid

Tiesto

Paul Oakenfold

DJ Dan

.......the list of techno/house DJs is long....lol

Smashing Pumpkins

Nirvana

Soundgarden

REM

Stone Temple Pilots

Bush

Fugazi

 

 

and I am forgetting some from the college days....heh

[JBReclaim]

I couldn't even begin to remember all the shows I've been to. The shows I enjoyed the most were from:

 

Circa Survive

Alkaline Trio

Iron Maiden

Nekromantix

Tiger Army

Bad Religion

Bayside

Horrorpops

Mad Caddies

Bouncing Souls

 

I know I'm missing a lot, including a ton of local bands. I used to go to a bunch of local shows.

[Vega]

In no particular order:

 

Dream Theater

Rush

Children Of Bodom

Amon Amarth

Trivium

 

Not many, but I can still remember them all clearly, and thats worth something to me.

[matty_mcfly]

Cage the Elephant

We Are Scientist

Weezer

Panic @ the Disco

Adele

Arctic Monkeys

Neon Trees

My Chemical Romance

30 Seconds

Kanye

[Batgirl]

I love going to concerts!  I'm probably forgetting a lot.

 

They Might Be Giants - I've seen them something like 7 times and I've got tickets to see them again next month.  They're my favorite band to see live.  Fun Fact: My husband proposed after a TMBG concert 18 years ago.

Huey Lewis & the News - recently, I'm old but I'm not that old.

Ludo - I've seen them 3 times and they're completely awesome.  They're my other favorite band to see live.

Ben Folds - twice

Flogging Molly - twice.  Fun Fact: They play Tempe Arizona every year on St. Patrick's Day

Blink 182

New Found Glory

Yellowcard - saw them for free behind QualComm Stadium in San Diego

Dropkick Murphy - worst show ever.  Not the band's fault, the sound in the venue was horrid.  It sounded better outside.

Fountains of Wayne

Getaway Car - don't think they exist anymore but they were awesome

Aerosmith - twice, almost 20 years apart.  They were better the first time.

Motley Crue

Poison

Porno for Pyros

Alice Cooper

Skid Row - right after their first album came out, it was my first concert when I was in high school

[Ghostthruster]

i have honestly seen too many to remember...

 

Some stand out shows would be

 

Bloc Party

Chemical Brothers

Tool

A Perfect Circle

Fatboy Slim

Queens Of The Stone Age

Muse

Mudvayne

Interpol

Enter Shikari

Editors

 

I have also been to so many festivals over the years and seen about a thousand bands at them... i guess the stand out festival in Australia would be the big day out

 

I have been every year since 2000 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Day_Out_lineups_by_year

 

Next year will be my 15th year... some years i have been twice.

 

Im seeing Porter Robinson in a month and also going to Soundwave festival in 2014, which has AFI, Korn, Green Day, Alice In Chains, PLacebo to name a few

[AlterStephen]

I'm going to a Switchfoot concert tonight. It will be the first time I've been to a concert by myself, so I'm looking forward to this.

[Tanuki]

My first concert was going to see Savage Garden in my teens No regrets! I'm in the mood to listen to them again now, thinking about it.

 

I've seen Andrew Bird twice and Iron and Wine three, maybe four times. Fleet Foxes once. Laura Marling twice.

[Thrillho]

Last week... Hellyeah and Avenged Sevenfold.  Hellyeah was f***ing phenomenal, Avenged Sevenfold was... the band after Hellyeah. 

[KAllen]

Last week... Hellyeah and Avenged Sevenfold.  Hellyeah was f***ing phenomenal, Avenged Sevenfold was... the band after Hellyeah.

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

[Bearded_Dragon]

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.