Who've you seen live? I love going to gigs but as I get older I seem to go to fewer each year and there are so many bands I wanna see..

What gigs have you been to but more importantly who would you love to see?

i burnt out on concerts last year, i think. especially general admission concerts. i think from this year on, i'm going to have to REALLY want to see the band in order to drag myself to a show; that, or else it'll have to be something purely social where i don't care about having a good sight line with the stage.

that said, we're roadtripping to ames, iowa this weekend to see leslie & the lys.

Anxiety said:

who are they? never heard of them

xenon said:

they're...complicated.

Anxiety said:

That is So not what I was looking for in this thread, but I love it!

I obviously need to get out more.

2008 was a poor concert year for me, besides the festival I went to in June where I saw Metallica, Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age and Eagles Of Death Metal a.o. in one weekend.....haven't seen a concert since!

Next up: Grace Jones in March!!!!

abierman said:

I wish I was going..

abierman said:

Grace is coming there in March? I am about ready to book my flight there.

I've seen so many people. At this point, I've seen Prince about 10-15 times. Off the top of my head:

NIN/Ting Tings/Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings/Chromeo at Lollapalooza
Average White Band
Buddy Guy
B.B. King
Eric Claption/Cheryl Crow and a bunch others at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival
Gladys Knight
Patti LaBelle
LaBelle
Jill Scott
Isley Brothers/Stephanie Mills
Peabo Bryson/Vesta/Glen Jones
Al Jarreau/Rachelle Ferrell/George Duke
Roy Ayers/Jean Carne/Ronnie Laws/Jon Lucien (RIP)
Fischerspooner/Kenna
!!!
Beck
Fela Kuti
George Clinton
The Truth
MeShell Ndegeocello
Jeffrey Osborne
Anita Baker
Cameo/The Stylistics
The Dells/The Emotions/Enchantment/Bloodstone

My first concert was in 1985: Luther Vandross and DeBarge


I gotta add:

Tricky
Bjork
Tori Amos
Robin Thicke
John Legend
[Edited 1/15/09 7:35am]

Vendetta1 said:

Awesome, that's the sort of list I was really looking for, so many cool artists.

xenon said:

I just saw LaBelle on Saturday and the only show I have line up for this year so far is Big Head Tood and the Monsters.

2008 was a "lean" year for me, too. I only saw Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, and the Experience Hendrix tour. I had to sell my Jill Scott tix because I had surgery.

Over the years, I've seen (in no particular order)
- The Commodores (1st concert ever in 1984! )
- Tears for Fears
- Prince (29 times)
- Santana (5 times)
- Robert Randolph (3 times)
- Erykah Badu/Floetry
- Jill Scott
- Maceo Parker (twice)
- George Clinton
- Cher
- Depeche Mode (twice)
- Stanley Jordan at least (4 times)
- Wynton Marsalis/John Faddis (Battle of the Bands at Lincoln Center)
- Billy Joel
- Reggae SunSplash
- Bela Fleck & the Flecktones (3 times)

I'm sure some are escaping me at the moment...

Oh yeah! i saw Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, too.

I also saw The Roots and BBD, Ready For The World, Troop and Mint Condition.

ok, let's see if i can put together a comprehensive list:

prince (somewhere over a dozen times - i got confused about counting after 7/7/07, lol)

bowie (3 times)
beck (2 times)
deee-lite
pixies (2 times)
NIN (3 times)
hole
eartha kitt
moody blues
patti smith
!!! (2 times)
saint etienne (3 or 4 times)
the cramps
nick cave & the bad seeds
diamanda galas (a bunch of times)
the cure (2 times)
kimya dawson
m83/school of seven bells
the kills
peaches (2 times)
chicks on speed
high llamas
they might be giants
stereolab (2 times)
gorillaz
the time
princess superstar (lots of times)
magnetic fields (2 times)
sonic youth (2 times)
beastie boys
the go! team (2 times)
luscious jackson
the breeders
the kelley deal 6000
radiohead
fischerspooner/kenna
sharon jones & the dap-kings (2 times)
amy winehouse (& the dap-kings!)
chromeo
ting tings
liz phair
of montreal
leslie hall (2 times as of this weekend )
laurie anderson (3 times)
the heads (talking heads minus david byrne plus lots of special guests)
tom tom club
love & rockets
sandra bernhard (2 times, maybe 3...?)
my life with the thrill kill kult
eagles of death metal (2 times)
bauhaus
pj harvey/tricky
bjork
joan jett (2 times)
sting (2 times)
sade
new order
debbie harry


i know there's more but my brain's shorted out just from listing those.

Oh yeah. Bowie. And I saw The Time and The Gap Band.

Anxiety said:

Now I'm really jealous, I totally love Bowie but for some reason I've never seen him live..

xenon said:

if you want jealous, talk to Tron about his bowie concert experiences.

Anxiety said:

in Ames, Iwoa seriously? wow. that's awesome

Vendetta1 said:

Bjork
Tori Amos
Tricky

Lemme see what I can put together.

Paula Abdul (1992)
Janet Jackson (1994, 2008)
Prince (1997, 1998, 2002 celebration + several opening acts, 2004)
Air Supply (free show somewhere)
Bowie (2002, 2003 fanclub show, 2004)
Madonna (2004)
U2 (2004)
Tori Amos (2005 x 2, 2007)
Rolling Stones (2005)
Bjork (2007)
Stevie Wonder (2007, 2008)
Chaka Khan & Angie Stone (2008)
George Michael (2008)
Tina Turner (2008)



missing a few that i can't recall at the moment.

i've missed out on a lot because i generally didn't want to deal with the hassle, didn't have the money, or didn't want to allow myself the fun for some reason.

getting better about it. i'm more willing to do it anyway.

TRON said:

oops, i forgot a couple of those myself.

amended!

Been going to concerts since the 80`s. I seen Prince 25 + times and these concerts I remember going to:

Berlin
Madonna
Janet Jackson
Cyndi Lauper
Paula Abdul
The Time(Orignal members)
Ready for the World
Doug E Fresh
Mc Hammer
Sheila E
Rolling Stones
The Go Go`s
Men at Work
Howard Jones
Sammy Hagar
Judas Priest
Lisa Marie Presley
Motley Crue
Snoop Dogg
Paul McCartney
Gwen Stefani
Black eye Peas
and my last recent one last month was Lady Ga Ga.
I would like to see Van Halen, Def Leppard, George Michael, Billy Idol and Rhianna.

I have this list saved and just copy and paste it every time this thread comes up.

Adult. (2x)
Christina Aguilera
Lily Allen
Tori Amos (18x)
Annie
Fiona Apple (3x)
Aterciopelados (4x)
Nicole Atkins And The Sea (5x)
Bauhaus (4x)
The Bellrays
Belly
The B-52's
Bif Naked (3x)
The Birthday Massacre (2x)
Björk (4x)
Book Of Love
Boss Hog
The Bravery (5x)
John Cale (3x)
Camera Obscura
Cat Power (2x)
Chicks On Speed
Coal Chamber
Nikka Costa (4x)
Cradle Of Filth
Cranes (4x)
The Creatures (8x)
The Cult
Culture Club
The Cure (3x)
Curve (3x)
Terence Trent D'arby
Dead Or Alive
The Distillers (2x)
The Donnas (9x)
Duffy (2x)
Duran Duran
Andrea Echeverri
Elastica (2x)
El Perro Del Mar
Erase Errata
Feist (2x)
Front 242
Full Force
Nelly Furtado (2x)
Diamanda Galás (4x)
Garbage (3x)
Giant Drag
Bebel Gilberto
Gnarls Barkley
Goldfrapp (6x)
Gore Gore Girls (2x)
Ely Guerra
Hole
Horrorpops (4x)
The Horrors (2x)
The Human League
Janet Jackson (6x)
Joan As Police Woman (2x)
Joan Jett
Jewel
Kelis (2x)
Alicia Keys (4x)
Kittie (6x)
Kraftwerk (2x)
Ladytron (5x)
Les Sans Culottes
Le Tigre (3x)
Lykke Li (2x)
The Like (2x)
Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam
Living Colour (3x)
Lollapalooza (1992-1995) (I'm not going to bother listing all the individual artists included here)
The Long Blondes (4x)
Lucky Soul
Lucy Pearl
Lullacry
Lush (2x)
Madonna (3x)
Maxwell (5x)
Nellie McKay (9x)
Daniela Mercury
Mindless Self Indulgence (2x)
Miranda Sex Garden
Moby
Juana Molina
Morningwood (4x)
Peter Murphy (3x)
My Bloody Valentine
My Brightest Diamond (3x)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Kate Nash
Nightwish
Nine Inch Nails
Gary Numan
Orgy
Peaches (3x)
The Pierces (2x)
The Pipettes (5x)
Pizzicato Five
PJ Harvey (5x)
The Pretenders
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Prince (11x)
The Raconteurs
Rancid (3x)
Rasputina (12x)
The Raveonettes (8x)
Raphael Saadiq
Sahara Hotnights (4x)
Saint Etienne
Santogold
Shakira (2x)
She & Him
Sheila E
Siouxsie (2x)
Siouxsie And The Banshees (3x)
The Sisters Of Mercy (5x)
Sleater-Kinney (3x)
Alice Smith (3x)
Sonic Youth
Sons And Daughters
The Sounds (3x)
Regina Spektor (5x)
Spice Girls
theSTART
The Strokes
Suicide Girls (4x)
Tamar
Teenage Fanclub
Tegan And Sara (2x)
The Time (4x)
Type O Negative (4x)
Uh Huh Her
Van Hunt (2x)
Julieta Venegas (4x)
The Virgins
Wendy And Lisa
The White Stripes (2x)
Amy Winehouse (2x)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (5x)

The person I want to see live the most that I haven't seen yet is Jesse Johnson. The original Time line-up would be hot too.

Whitney Houston
Miles Davis
Stan Getz
Gary Burton
Milt Jackson
Gerry Mulligan
Prince (many times)
Michael Jackson
ZZ-Top
Bryan Adams (was support act. don't shoot me!!)
Ryan Adams (many times)
Paul Weller (many times)
Oasis
Radiohead
Motörhead
David Bowie
Me'Shell Ndégéocello (2 times)
George Clinton (many times)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (when they still were good, back in '92)
Franz Ferdinand
Queens Of The Stone Age
Alanis Morissette
Living Colour
Joe Jackson
Happy Mondays
Lenny Kravitz
Cake (too many times)
Ween
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Dread Zeppelin
Candy Dulfer
Maceo Parker
Metallica
Foo Fighters (2 times)
Lou Reed
Morcheeba
Arcade Fire (one of the worst gigs ever!)
eels (many times)
Thievery Corporation
Moloko
Roisin Murphy
Broken Social Scene
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Death.....
Björk
Pixies
Snow Patrol
Kaiser Chiefs
U2 (2x)
Coldplay (2x, one too many)
dEUS
Beastie Boys
Kings of Leon
Tricky
Massive Attack
Neil Finn
Finn Brothers
Midnight Oil
Supergrass
Supersuckers
Lisa Germano
The Cult
Guns'n Roses
Rage Against The Machine
Primus
Garbage (twice)
Fun Loving Criminals
Beck
GURU & Jazzmatazz
Joss Stone
Sonic Youth


I'm sure there are a whole lot more.....

I'd LOVE to see (in their prime, of course) The Smiths, The Jam, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Guns N Roses (AFD lineup)


I have seen:

The Roots
Depeche Mode x 4
Morrissey x 4
Manic Street Preachers x numerous - possibly 10 times..?
Down - excellent, one of best gigs EVER!
Motorhead x 4
Slayer
OMD
Terrorvision
Green Day
Pink
Offspring
Big Country
The Alarm
Prince x 2 (+ 1 x aftershow at the O2)
Blue Aeroplanes
Albert King w/ Walter Trout
Gary Moore
Catatonia
New Order
Therapy? x 4
Echo & the Bunnymen
Foo Fighters
Thunder
Extreme (oh the shame)
Rush
Supergrass
Super Furry Animals
U2
Simple Minds x 2
Stereophonics
Live 8 - Pink Floyd, The Who, Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, Madonne etc
Download 2004 - Metallica, Machine Head, Soulfly, Slayer, Slipknot etc
Blur
InXS
Madness
Suede w/ Longpigs


more than I have forgotten

so many...

Dead or Alive
The Cure - 3 times
Siouxsie/Creatures - 5 times
Prince - 5 times
Tricky
The Orb
Dead Can Dance - 2 times
Laurie Anderson - 3 times
Chem Bros
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Edie Brickell
Ozomatli
Meat Beat Manifesto
Front line Assembly
808 State
Depeche Mode - 3 times
NIN
Marilyn Manson
Smashing Pumpkins
Bjork
New Order
Erasure - 3 times
Pet Shop Boys - 2 times
Deee-lite
Nitzer Ebb - 4 times
Garbage
Book of Love
Culture Club
Howard Jones - 2 times
Human League
Duran Duran
Goldfrapp
Mika - 2 times
Kraftwerk
Madonna - 2 times
Adam Ant
Luscious Jackson

I am pretty positive I missed a few

And those I want to see...

Wendy and Lisa
Weird Al
Grace Jones

sextonseven said:

Very Impressive!

Damn, I forgot I've seen Wendy and Lisa.

In my top five shows ever.