What bands have you seen live?

[murra_tekal]

Halestorm (numerous times before they were big. I remember sitting in on a concert they did at the local mall, and going to backyard parties they played for.)

Linkin Park

Snoop Dog (hated it)

The Used(hated it)

Ozzy(Ozzfest)

Iron Maiden (Ozzfest)

Evanescense

Matchbox 20

Alanis Morosette

Elton John

Styx

One Night of Queen

Journey

REO Speedwagon

Rascal Flatts

Finger Eleven

VNV Nation

Story of The Year

I would like to see Daft Punk but they dont tour the states.

[AlterStephen]

Got back from Dropkick Murphys tonight. I was legitimately scared I was going to get hurt in the mosh pit a few times but I had a good time. It was awesome.

[Roughyed]

Pixies

Royal Blood

Counting Crows

 

Added to my list!

[Ripple]

Oh man, this list could go on for ages for me. 

 

The Important Ones:

 

Chuck Berry 

Warren Haynes (w/Garcia Symphonic Celebration) 

Black Crowes

Tedechi Trucks Band 

Phish (x5)

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

Furthur (x3)

Ratdog 

Pearl Jam 

The Urge (x10+) 

Incubus 

Sister Hazel( x10+)

Zac Brown Band (x2, before he was a big deal. I don't like country but I always considered him southern rock.)

Butch Walker (x2) 

Pomeroy (x30+) 

 

 

A Bunch of Good (and a few meh) Ones: 

 

The New Mastersounds  

Dark Star Orchestra  (x2) 

Ludo (x10+)

Ours 

John Mellencamp ( I won tickets not knowing what I was winning. Ha!)

Poco

Matt Nathanson 

Better Than Ezra (x2) 

Cowboy Mouth (x5+)   

Emerson Hart  

Gaelic Storm (x2)

Marc Broussard (x3)

2 Skinnee J's (x3)

Dexter Freebish 

Will Hoge (x5+)

Wideawake 

Dopapod

Anything But Joey (x10+)

The Dog & Everything (x10+)

Lucky Boys Confusion (x5+) 

Lojic  (x10+)

Acoustics Anonymous

The Nadas

Anchondo (x5+)

Josh Hoge

Disturbing The Peace/Adair (x5+)

Phil Stendek 

Less Than Jake

Ingram Hill (x2)

Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band 

Cake

Rob Zombie

Bush

Cypress Hill 

Breaking Benjamin (meh.)

Papa Roach (meh.)

Chevelle (meh.) 

 

There are loads more. Bands I'm surely forgetting, opening bands galore, bands I caught at festivals, local bands I've caught at little dive bars, cover bands etc. This is just what I was able to come up with without thinking too hard.

[gatorsong]

Well, I'm not a big concert goer, but here's mine

 

Three Dog Night

Herman's Hermits (when they got back together for some oldies tours)

2001 All Star Band (Ringo, Roger Hodgson, Ian Hunter, Howard Jones, Greg Lake, Sheila E, Mark Rivera)

Volbeat

Nightwish (x2)

Kamelot

 

I'm sure there might be a few others, locals and stuff that I'm not remembering.

[SpecialSundae]

Okay, I suspect I'll forget more than half:

Barenaked Ladies

Loudon Wainwright III

Rufus Wainwright

Martha Wainwright

The Roches

The Pixies

Muse

Oasis

D:Ream

The Saw Doctors

Crowded House

Amy Winehouse

Scissor Sisters

The Darkness

The Libertines

Kings of Leon

Franz Ferdinand

Del Amitri

The Noisettes

The Hoosiers

Biffy Clyro

Royal Crown Revue

Matisyahu

Jamiroquai

Garbage

Runrig

The Mavericks

Texas

I'm pretty sure I'll remember more but I've gone blank for now.

[CrackerWatson]

Here is my attempt to remember:

 

AC/DC

Metallica

Machine Head

Bruce Springsteen

The Answer

Black Stone Cherry

The Union

Aerosmith

Shinedown

Halestorm

Rob Zombie

Marilyn Manson

Million Dollar Reload

Blackberry Smoke

Vintage Trouble

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Clutch

Hayseed Dixie

Runrig

REM

U2

Buckcherry

Disturbed

Papa Roach

Rage Against the Machine

Imelda May

Airbourne

Cage the Gods

Royal Southern Brotherhood

Urban Voodoo Machine

Alabama 3 (A3 stateside I believe)

Black Label Society

Slash

Saxon

Steel Panther

Them Crooked Vultures

Foo Fighters

Nine Inch Nails

Seasick Steve

Wolfmother

Funeral for a Friend

36 Crazy Fists

Megadeath

Iron Maiden

Meatloaf

Lamb of God

Five Finger Death Punch

Thirty Seconds to Mars

Atreyu

Motorhead

Stone Sour

Joe fratelli

The Sword

Goo Goo Dolls

Alice Cooper

Godsized

Gun

Lots of little local bands…Sure there is more that I have forgotten….

[BopGun]

How did I not find this thread until now?

 

I now live in a very isolated section of rural America, in the upper Midwest. Major touring acts don't come here because there isn't enough money to be made. Almost all of the following acts/artists I saw before moving here.

 

It will also be evident that I am a creature out of my own time; I would have had a much easier time musically were I born in the 1950s as opposed to the late 1970s. Here the major artists that come to mind:

 

George Clinton/P-Funk (if I haven't seen them 10 times, it's close to it)

Bernie Worrell & the Woo Warriors (on a related note)

James Brown (I was lucky enough to see the Godfather back home in Massachusetts in 2005, a year and a half before he died)

Earth, Wind & Fire

The Average White Band

The Neville Brothers (three times, including once at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival)

B.B. King

Jimmy Cliff

Peter Frampton (the guy STILL puts on a killer live show, or at least he did in 2002 when I saw him)

Spin Doctors (a free show when I was in high school)

Finger Eleven

Cypress Hill

OutKast

Erykah Badu

Dwight Yoakam (I don't like country...as if you couldn't tell from the above artists ...but the ticket was a gift and I was VERY impressed by his, and his band's, musicianship)

 

...and the only embarrassing one in the bunch, Vanilla Ice. It was 1990 when he was big, I was a kid and the ticket was once again a gift.

 

My great regrets are being unwilling to pay $60 a pop to see David Bowie or Prince while I was in college and they were coming through Boston. Big mistake. Bowie no longer tours, so I kinda screwed the pooch on ever seeing him, but I still have hope of seeing Prince, the Isley Brothers, Herbie Hancock and George Benson someday.

[Becoming-Bane]

I've seen taking back Sunday, weezer, kaiser chiefs, red jumpsuit apparatus, foo fighters, brand new, and a bunch of local bands. My favorite show was brand new.

[DrVornoff]

I've seen Rush, Streetlight Manifesto, System of a Down, Dragonforce, Ozzy Osbourne, Lacuna Coil, and Ghost.  I was kind of bummed I didn't get to see The Winery Dogs last year when they came to town.

[AlterStephen]

Just saw Neon Trees with Big Data and several local artists the other day. Fantastic show. I also recently saw 311, Rise Against, Panic! at the Disco, the Airborne Toxic Event, and New Politics at a local festival early last month:)

[SomeGuyFromScotland]

I've seen Seether a handful of times, Danzig twice, Rollins Band, 3 Doors Down, Metallica (in 1988, while they were still worth seeing), Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, a ton of other late 80s/early 90s rock and metal, and for my mellow side, Mary Chapin Carpenter five times.

 

Best gig... probably Rollins Band supported by Senser in 1994.

 

Gig I would most like to have been at, but was only 4 at the time - The Who, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, and Streetwalkers all on the same bill in Glasgow in 1976. Three of my favourite bands, all at their absolute peak.

[HailGenocide!]

 So many bands, music is my thing at a guess i'd say I average somewhere in the region of 30-40 gigs a year, from major international bands through to local bands at a pub somewhere in suburbia.

 

 All time favorite would probably be seeing the Devin Townsend Project in October 2013, I love Devin's music and it was a hell of a ride going to all spectrums of how his music makes me feel, hearing him play "Deep Peace" live was mesmerising.

 

 

 Also, I make no secret of my love of the wonderful entity that is GWAR,hell even my username on here is a GWAR reference. I've seen them both times they've played in Sydney. The second time holds special significance for me due to Dave Brockie's death shortly after that tour. The first time was just a fun wacky day, dancing and having a blast while getting covering in stage blood and alien guts, the only footage i've seen of that show is of pretty hideous sound quality, but it gets across how much fun that day was

 

 

 As for others, so many to choose from. Seeing Black Sabbath and watching Tony Iommi play guitar was amazing, getting to see my fave band from when I was kid in Thin Lizzy was awesome, Descendents were great, The Bronx are phenomenal every time, speaking of every time, Every Time I Die make me smile, gah so much!

 

 Music rules!

[Cleatorus]

I have not seen a whole lot of bands live, mostly DnB artists, but I recently went to see RUSH during their R40 tour and that was an AMAZING show. I'm still thinking about it. 

[TheGreyJedi-Ranger]

Rise Against and Neon Trees at the 96x Winter Meltdown

For Today, Devil Wears Prada, Courage My Love, Close Your Eyes, Amberlin, and a few others at Warped Tour 2014

Skillet, BarlowGirl, TobyMac, Jamie Grace, Red, Capital Kings, and others at two different WinterJams

Casting Crowns and Matthew West on Casting Crowns' tour in 2012

Building 421, Hawk Nelson, BarlowGirl(I've seen them like 4 times) and others over the course of 5 or 6 years at the Big God Conference.

 

What a mix 0.o

[TheOtherScott]

I'm including festival shows here, but only counting the bands I saw on purpose.

- Rush (2x)

- Muse

- Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals

- Incubus

- Justin Timberlake

- Blindside

- Finger Eleven (3x somehow)

- Sevendust

- P.O.D.

- Red Hot Chili Peppers

- Queens of the Stone Age

- The Mars Volta

- The Decemberists

- I Mother Earth

- Broken Social Scene

- Jerry Cantrell

- The Tea Party

- Sam Roberts Band

- Switchfoot

- AC/DC

- The Rolling Stones

[HailGenocide!]

 I'm so envious of you being able to see Rush! One of the few bands on my bucket list.

[TheOtherScott]

 I'm so envious of you being able to see Rush! One of the few bands on my bucket list.

 

I saw them in 2004, but if you can snag tickets to one of their remaining shows on the R40 tour, do it.  Their live shows will become exceedingly rare once this tour ends.

[EveningEmma]

My very first gig was Hatebreed when I was 16. Since then I've seen:

Dream Theater

Symphony X

Sonata Arctica

Dragon Force

Within Temptation

Iron Maiden

Mastodon

Gojira

Random Hand

Funeral for a Friend

I haven't been to a gig since I left uni, which is quite a while ago now.

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[Bullroarer Took]

Ozzy, black sabbath, Primus, System of a Down, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Dope, Slaves on Dope, Pantera, ALice Cooper, Kitty, Drowning Pool, puddle of Mudd, slipknot, Linkin Park... many many more but it was back in my hard partying days and I don't remember the vast majority of it.

[jfreaksho]

Soul Asylum

Areosmith

Bloodhound Gang (The Hippos opened for them, and someone else hilarious that I just can't remember now and famous enough that I should)

The Gufs

The Violent Femmes

The Offspring

Rise Against

Skillet

38th Parallel

Benjamin Gate

Nine Inch Nails

Alice In Chains (never with Layne Staley, though)

Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains (he did a solo tour playing AiC songs)

Audioslave

Seether

30 Seconds to Mars

Amanda Palmer (with Neil Gaiman!!!)

Brad Paisley (I think Carrie Underwood opened for him, but I'm not sure.  There was some other guy as an opener as well, but I forgot who it was)

The Cranberries

Cracker

Henry Rollins (okay, it was spoken word, but I say it counts)

Tonic

Oleander

Better Than Ezra

The Danglers (Rock band with a violinist instead of a lead guitar.  Produced by the drummer from Violent Femmes)

Gravity Kills (at Taste of Madison)

Mumford and Sons/Apache Relay/Haim/a bunch of other bands on the Gentlemen of the Road tour.  Not Dropkick Murphys, though.

Victoria Vox

Cage the Elephant

 

 

A bunch of these bands were at Milwaukee's SummerFest over the years I lived there.  There are quite a few bands I've seen there and at Taste of Madison too.  My wife and I tend to buy each other tickets as birthday presents, which ups the count a bit too. 

 

I'm certain there are more that I've forgotten.

[metakiiro]

From 1AM memory, sure I forgot some.

 

• 3 Doors Down
• Matchbox Twenty
• Disturbed
• Slayer
• Slipknot
• Mushroomhead
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Gwar
• Mindless Self Indulgence
• Ozzfest, 3 years
• Marilyn Manson
• Warped Tour, 4 years
• Dropkick Murphys
• System of a Down
• Horrorpops
• AFI
• The Faint
• The 69 Eyes
• Tons of Low Budget Local Basement Shows
• Lots of other stuff I can't remember right now

[Eedad]

I couldn't even tell them all. Every hardcore/ metal concert that came to town from the age of 14-21. I'd venture a guess at well over 1000. We had a great music scene here during that time. I was also in a band and got to play out at some of the places I'd frequent.

[PinkNinja]

Blackstone Cherry & Theory of a Deadman, same show.

That's all since I've become an adult and could go see music that wasn't my parents' choice.

 

Oh, they did make me go see Charley Pride, and I loved it.

[Eedad]

My very first gig was Hatebreed when I was 16. Since then I've seen:

Dream Theater

Symphony X

Sonata Arctica

Dragon Force

Within Temptation

Iron Maiden

Mastodon

Gojira

Random Hand

Funeral for a Friend

I haven't been to a gig since I left uni, which is quite a while ago now.

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I remember a many a time around the age of 15-16 hatebreed would be coming to town, then the show would get cancelled. I've seen them 12 times over the years. Last time was for the perseverance 10 year tour. Was awesome, but weird seeing them at the house of blues. When I first started seeing them they were playing shitty bars that held 150-200 people.