saw No Doubt play at University of Houston in 1993-94, hell maybe 92-93., a lunch set at the UC Sattelite (like a student union thing) , helped set up the PA and the soundboard (I was in student prgram board) and sat and klaughed as a chick in a well worn green cheerleader outfit proceeded to try and rock out a gropu of about 80 university students trying to eat their lunch.

it sucked. she was very aloof, but her bandmates were nice and we helped them set up their shit and take down their shit.

thought of some more

parts & labor
Pilot to Gunner
Daniel Johnston
Drums & Tuba
The Wailers
Ignorance Park
etc etc

This.

fuck... i'd be better off listing the names of bands I haven't seen.

jus make a list off the top ofyr head.

neil young
patti smith
radiohead
mogwai
bride of no no
fugazi
rolling stones
bob dylan
my bloody valentine
white stripes
yeah yeah yeahs
queens of the stone age
guns and roses
metallica
babes in toyland
sebadoh
sonic youth (in three different countries)
the hives
versus
polvo
beck
awesome color
coldplay
bjork
helium/mary timony
green day
foo fighters
dungen
sigur ros
turbonegro
and you will know us by the trail of dead
bloc party
pink floyd
blonde redhead
pixies
mike watt
kashmir
melvins
unwound
blur
le tigre
the cardigans
bob hund
the hellacopters
yo la tengo
the cure
rammstein
the chemical brothers
red hot chili peppers
television
primal scream
placebo
tool
daniel johnston
karate
pj harvey
modest mouse
brian jonestown massacre
death from above 1979
the flamming lips
the makeup
guided by voices
the helio sequence
international noise conspiracy
dinosaur jr
jawbox
june of 44
the kills
liars
michael jackson
superchunk

the list goes on...

Were any of those gigs equivalent to 128kbs?

The ultimate show off thread.

But I like showing off so this thread is like porn to me.

Now if the title of the thread was 'name all the bands you've seen that you can remember from t-shirts or ticket stubs in eyeshot' I could say:

Melt Banana
The Fall
Elastica
Blur
Glastonbury festival a few times.

I can also see a ticket stub for a quartet doing Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht, but I can't remember who that was and the quartet name has rubbed itself out.

I also, apparently, saw the Revenger's Tragedy at the Olivier theatre, which I don't remember at all.

Enlightening thread is enlightening.

The one I feel most happy about today: Kraftwerk

I saw Massive Attack for the first time last week, and they were the last on the list of 'band I have to see'. I can die a happy man.

Kraftwerk are awsome live.

66.6% of them were.

I won't be able to list all of them at one sitting so I'll be editing my list quite a few times. I won't list local or regional bands. Some of the acts I saw when I was younger (Nash/Crosby, Ted Nugent) are kind of embarrassing but we all go through a period like that. I will list nationally known/touring opening acts in parens.

In non-chronological order:

Graham Nash/David Crosby (David Blue)
Kenny Rankin
Styx (Sugarloaf)
Jethro Tull (Hammersmith)
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan x3 (Over The Rhine; Kenny Wayne Shepard)
Starcastle (Thom Bishop)
Ted Nugent (Foreigner, Michael Stanley Band)
Heart (The Silencers)
Stan Kenton
The Kingston Trio
Petra (first real "Christian rock" band, touring their first album)
The Band (Roger McGuinn)
Roger McGuinn x3 (as headliner)
Elvis Costello x2 (Squeeze; Talk Talk)
Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart
The Damned x3 (Chivalrous Dogs)
Sonic Youth
Mission Of Burma
Black Flag
Love Tractor
Big Black
The Fall x6 (Magnapop)
Great Plains (Scrawl)
Scrawl (as headliner) x5 (Ass Ponys)
Wussy x2 (Scrawl; The Paranoid Style)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Great Plains)
Half Japanese
Half Japanese with Moe Tucker x2 (American Music Club)
Jad Fair
Mark Eitzel x2 (Jill Sobule, Rebecca Gates; Tim Easton)
firehose (Screaming Trees)
Lou Reed (The Feelies)
Rapeman
The Gun Club
The Pixies (My Dad Is Dead)
Love and Rockets (The Pixies)
The Psychedelic Furs (Our Daughter's Wedding)
The Breeders (Luscious Jackson)
Guided By Voices (The Amps)
J. Geils Band (Southside Johnny and the Ashbury Jukes)
Jackson Browne (Karla Bonoff)
The New Barbarians (2/5ths of The Rolling Stones)
Greg Kihn
Gordon Lightfoot x2
The Replacements
The Outnumbered
Johnny Dowd x2 (The Scooters, Jim Roll)
Los Straitjackets (The Fleshtones)
Jan and Dean
Mark Russell
Webb Wilder x3 (Mic Harrison and the High Score)
Randy Newman
Uncle Earl (Sierra Hull and Highway 111; The Dixie Beeliners)
Jorma Kaukonen
John Sebastian
Jimmy Webb
Todd Rundgren and Utopia
Hall and Oates (Todd Rundgren)
The Guess Who (with Cummings and Bachman) (Joe Cocker)
John Fogerty
Peter Paul and Mary
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Spirit
Joe Ely x2 (Lucette)
Toots and the Maytals
Yellowman
Richie Havens
Gang Green
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (Strapping Fieldhands, Salabon Glitz)
Trans Am
Reverend Horton Heat x2 (Nashville Pussy, Backyard Tire Fire; The Creepshow)
Dead Milkmen
Live Skull
Sam Bush
Jonathan Edwards
Loudon Wainwright III x5 (Raechel Evans; Natalya Zuckerman)
Judy Collins x2
John Denver (my girlfriend bought tickets)
The Buzzcocks
Randy Newman
Al Stewart (Dave Nachmanoff)
Riders In The Sky
Okkervil River
Jane Siberry
Todd Snider (Mary Gauthier)
Steve Katz (ex-Blues Project, Blood Sweat & Tears, American Flyer)
Southern Culture on the Skids
Babe The Blue Ox
X_____X (Obnox)
Leon Redbone
Ralph Stanley
Lilly Hiatt (John's daughter) (Aaron Lee Tasjan)
Scott Miller x2 (Old Salt Union)
The Mountain Goats
We The Kings (a fave of my daughter)x2 (This Century, Crash The Party; AJR, She Is We, Brothers James)
Supersuckers (Skinny Jim and the Number 9 Blacktops)
Daniel Johnston
Hasil Adkins
Twenty One Pilots (Brand New, Shaky Graves, Manchester Orchestra, Reverend Peyton and his Big Damn Band)
Sebadoh (Qui)
Rubblebucket
Shonen Knife (CJ Ramone)
Jon Langford and Skull Orchard (Chuck and Lisa from Wussy)
Bob Log III
Buckwheat Zydeco
Rebirth Brass Band
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Duke Ellington Band (after Duke's death)
Wanda Jackson x3 (Lustre Kings; Frontier Ruckus, Jonny Fritz and the In-Laws)
Steely Dan (Sam Yahel trio)
Greg Abate (jazz sax player)
Lucinda Williams (Patty Griffin)
The Stranglers
Edwyn Collins
Bruce Cockburn
Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds (Corners, Mr. Elevator and the Brain Hotel)
Mayer Hawthorne
The Temptations (The Shirelles, The Vogues, The Coasters, Tommy Roe, Len Barry)
Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche (Ric Hordinski)
Barleyjuice
The Honeymoon Killers
The Beach Boys (free show after a Cincinnati Reds game)
The Cynics
The Bears
Jonathan Richman
Sachal Vasandani (jazz vocalist)
Tom Rush
Camera Obscura
Crystal Bowersox
Olivia Jean (Philip Paul)
The Dickies (The Queers)


will add more later...

On edit:

Muddy Waters
Dizzy Gillespie (with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)
Al Hirt
Don McLean

on further edit:

The Necros
Grand Ole Opry: Mark Willis (Del McCoury Band, Bill Anderson, Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys, Riders In The Sky, Kate Arminger, John Conlee, Craig Campbell)
Buckle Up Festival 2014, day 2: Willie Nelson (Old Crow Medicine Show, Alison Kraus & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Drive-By Truckers, Emmylou Harris)

on even further edit:

Jad Fair
Wussy (with Scrawl supporting!)

yet another edit:

The Bears
Jonathan Richman
Sachal Vasandani (jazz vocalist)
Tom Rush

If you can list them all, you are either a zygote or you live in a desert on top of a mountain in the middle of the ocean.

Wrong. I have (1) a rather good memory, and (2) some lists I've kept. My initial post in this thread was off the top of my head. But I would never be able to remember all of the local and regional bands--or at least how many times I've seen them.

Sometimes I find myself unable to remember whether I saw such and such a band or not. For example I can't remember if I saw Arab Strap play at the Union Chapel in London circa the year 2000, or if I'm imagining it. I remember I saw The Ex in 2003 or 2004, but I think I might have seen them another time, but I can't remember. Etc.

I sort of wish I'd kept a list of all the shows I've been to, mainly because I'd like to reread it and be surprised to learn I saw this or that band, or to look at it and have no idea of who this or that band even were.
Also I'd like to remember all the uniquely terrible opening acts that would for short periods become as legendary among me and friends as any of the best performances we saw. Such remorseless turds as Gay Against You, Lely White, Seymour Wright, Wolves of Greece, David Toop, Whole Voyald Infinite Light, Yasunao Tone, etc. However these shows slip my memory after some time.

I have the same problem. I am not even going to try to make a list because I forget how many times I saw bands, I forget who opened, when, where, etc. because I've seen so many shows and the memories just jumble together.

Boxcar Willy - Fryburg Fair 1978
Steve Martin - Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland ME King Tut tour
The Cars - Boston Garden, Boston circa 1980 Panorama tour
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow/Pat Travers Band 1981 Orpheum Boston
The Fall/Bird Songs of the Mezosoic Apr 13, 1983 The Rat Boston
The Police/The Fixx/Flock of Seagulls Aug 10, 1983 Sullivan Stadium Foxboro MA
Grateful Dead - Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland ME autumn 1983
DRI/Zero Mentality/Crow - 1984 Masonic Temple Portsmouth NH

sonic youth
blonde redhead
weezer
the vines
the hives
franz ferdinand
the strokes
the raveonettes
the flaming lips
foo fighters
the mars volta
system of a down
interpol
the kills
yeah yeah yeahs
silverchair
pearl jam
u2
dinosaur jr
klaxons
clinic
ADULT.
chelsea wolfe
body/head
disappears
chelsea light moving
deerhoof
bongeripper
lightning bolt
melt banana
godspeed you black emperor
tv ghost
noveller
times new viking
keiji haino
nazoranai
ohneotrix point never
grimes
man or astroman?
wild flag
boris
ookyung lee
lee ranaldo
swans
cibo matto
kyary pamyu pamyu
thunderbolt pagoda
the residents
white/light
lou reed
iggy and the stooges
dustin wong and takako minekawa
guitar wolf
the knife
OOIOO
st vincent
shonen knife
ty segall
xiu xiu
hong chulki and choi joonyong
kevin drumm
eli keszler
muse
cafe tacuba
buffalo daughter
pixies
daft punk
modest mouse
nine inch nails
bush
soundgarden
the rapture
rage against the machine
the raconteurs
the go! team
gogol bordello
louis XIV
battles
kings of leon
toupee
radiohead
beck


I think that's about most of them?

The ones I can think of right now:

Sonic Youth
Pixies
Big Sexy Noise
Retrovirus
Lydia Lunch
SWANS
Depeche Mode
Loudboy
Skunk Anansie
The Virginmarys
The Soft Moon
Peter Murphy
Clan Of Xymox
Collapsing New People
ASP
Mono Inc.
Carsick Cars
Leftöver Crack
Rob Zombie
Marilyn Manson
Dividing Lines
She Past Away
Martial Canterel
Schwefelgelb
Status Quo
Pharmakon
Christian Death
The Beauty Of Gemina
Diary Of Dreams
The Sisters Of Mercy
Terra Toma
The Bassenger
Primordial Undermind (Go, ATT!)
Outer Vertex (Go, ATT!)
Dim Locator
Harry Howard and the Near Death Experience
Kitty In A Casket
And Also The Trees
Mogwai
32Crash
Hocico
De/Vision
Assemblage 23
VNV Nation
Sanguis Et Cinis
Bal Paré
Killed By 9V Batteries
Earth, Wind & Fire
Lee Ranaldo
The Chemists
Blueblut
Mediengruppe Telekommander
KISS (heard live more accurately, I live close to a place that is used as an open air venue each summer)
Metallica (same thing as with KISS, heard them, didn't care much for it but I was with people I like and it didn't cost me a thing)
Muse (same scheme)
The Prodigy (same scheme)

I list only non-Finnish acts (here´s the ones I remember):
Gary Moore
Los Lobos
Blasters
Dr. Feelgood
Nazareth
Ramones
Alice Cooper
Red Hot Chili Peppers
the Jesus and Mary Chain
the Sugarcubes
Lou Reed
the Cramps
Stray Cats
the House of love
Midnight Oil
Soundgarden
Metallica
Nomeansno
Björk
Vagtazo Halottkemek
D.A.D.
Nirvana
Teenage Fanclub
Faith No More
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Jethro Tull
David Bowie
Motörhead
the Rolling Stones
Fugazi
Fishbone
Mars Volta
the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Procol Harum
Buddy Guy
the Who
Black Sabbath
Soulfly
Hawkwind
Mulatu Astatke
the Stooges
Monster Magnet
the Hellacopters
Sex Pistols
Dead Moon
Dr. John
John Fogerty
Nokie Edwards
Kim Gordon & Ikue Mori
Chelsea Light Moving
Kurt Vile
Mission Of Burma
My Bloody Valentine
Lee Ranaldo and the Dust
ZZ Top

I'm lazy. Just click here: http://www.setlist.fm/concerts/_tunic_
(it's not 100% accurate anymore in 2015 and 2016, because last.fm was so crap after their new site launched)

Added four more to my list: The Bears (probably not one of Adrian Belew's better projects), Jonathan Richman (really, really good), Sachal Vasandani (helping me to overcome my dislike for jazz vocalizing)--three gigs I remember from the past, plus my most recent concert, Tom Rush (exceeded my expectations--fine show).

I happen to maintain an exhaustive list of all the gigs I've been to since I started attending them 10 years ago. it's quite fun seeing how your taste has evolved through years and how many concerts I've completely forgotten ahah. here's the list - I've excluded local openers who no one here knows

!!!
13&God
2 Bad Mice
2manydjs
65daysofstatic
Aba Shanti I & Earl Sixteen
Acid Arab
Acre
Action Beat
Action Bronson
Actress
Addison Groove
Debapriya Adhikari
Albalianza Roots System
Aleqs Notal
Tony Allen Review
Amen Allstars (Remarc, Bizzy B & Equinox)
The Analogue Cops
And So I Watch You From Afar
Horace Andy
Anika
Animal Collective
Anne-James Chaton
Antipop Consortium
Die Antwoord
Appleblim
araabMUZIK
Arcade Fire
Archie Bronson Outfit
Architecture in Helsinki
Joseph Arthur
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics
Asusu
Ata Kak
Atari Teenage Riot
Atlas Sound
Au Revoir Simone
Autechre
Author
Awesome Tapes From Africa
BADBADNOTGOOD
Devendra Banhart
Carl Barat
Battles
Baxter Dury
Beak>
Thomas Belhom
Belleruche
The Bellrays
Belly Button
Ben Klock
Ben UFO
Beneath
Benga
The Berg sans Nipple
Adam Beyer
The Bewitched Hands
Bibio
Bilal
The Black Heart Rebellion
Black Milk
Black Mountain
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blackboard Jungle Sound System
James Blake
Blanck Mass
Blawan
Blonde Redhead
Boddika
Bok Bok
Bong-Ra
Bonobo
Gui Boratto
Boredoms
Boys Noize
Carla Bozulich
Charles Bradley
Brain Damage meats Vibrionics
Breakage
Breakestra
Brenmar
Breton
Françoiz Breut
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
BRNS
Brodinski
The Budos Band
The Bug
BunZer0
Bushman
Andy Butler
Cairo Liberation Front
Call Super
Calyx & Teebee
Cornell Campbell
Capillary Action
Caribou
Casey
Casiokids
Cavern of Anti-Matter
Ceephax Acid Crew
Cercueil
Cezaire
The Chain
Chairlift
Kaushiki Chakrabarty
Chali 2na
Chapelier Fou
Charles de Goal
Chase & Status
Chateau Brutal
Jeanne Cherhal
Cheveu
Chinese Man
Chokebore
Chrome Hoof
Chunky
Civil Civic
CJ Fly
Clap! Clap!
Clara Clara
Clark
CocoRosie
Com Truise
Compa
CongopunQ
Cooly G
Max Cooper
Copacabannark
Eric Copeland
Cosmin TRG
Crown City Rockers
Chris Cunningham
Cupp Cave
Cypress Hill
D.K.
Daedelus
Dälek
DâM-FunK
Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka
Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
Dan San
DAT Politics
dd/mm/yyyy
Etienne de Crécy
Dananananaykroyd
Dark Sky
Darkside
Darkstar
dBridge
De La Soul
Dan Deacon
Deakin
DJ Deep
Deerhoof
Demon
Détroit
Marcel Dettmann
Toumani Diabaté & Trio Da Kali
Digital Mystikz
Dilated Peoples
Dimlite
Dinosaur Jr.
Disiz
DMX Krew
Domenique Dumont
Dope D.O.D.
Dorian Concept
Dorian Pimpernel
Dragons of Zynth
Drame
The Drums
Dubkasm
Duchess Says
Dusky
DVS1
Jimmy Edgar
Egoless
Egyptrixx
Electric Electric
Electric Wire Hustle
Emeralds
Enei
Ensemble Intercontemporain
emptyset
Epic45
Errors
Jessie Evans
The Ex
Faith No More
Fake Blood
The Fall
FaltyDL
Fatima & The Eglo Live Band
Faze Miyake
La Féline
The Field
Flagships
The Flaming Lips
Floating Points
Flore
Flume
Flying Lotus
Fool's Gold
Foot Village
Foreign Beggars
Forest Swords
Forsaken
Four Tet
French Fries
Fuck Buttons
Fulgeance
Funkineven
Funkystepz
Future Islands
Gablé
Gamma Sound & Rudy Roots
Laurent Garnier
The Gaslamp Killer
General Elektriks
Gesaffelstein
Ghostpoet
Ruff Ghrys
Gifted & Blessed
Girls
Girls Against Boys
Girls In Hawaii
Glacial Sound
Godblesscomputers
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
GoGo Penguin
Gold Panda
goldFFinch
Gonjasufi
Gorgon Sound
Goth Trad
Great Mountain Fire
Grems
Guerre Froide
Guy Andrews
A Guy Called Gerald
Karen Gwyer
Kyle Hall
Rob Hall
Calvin Harris
Russell Haswell
Hatcha
Helena Hauff
Headwar
HEALTH
High Places
High Tone
The Hives
Hodge
James Holden
Robert Hood
Peter Hook
Hookworms
Hot Chip
hOUSEMEISTER
Hudson Mohawke
The Hundred in the Hands
Zakir Hussain
Huxley
I-Kong
IAM
Ice Cube
Icicle
Icy Demons
Ikonika
Illum Sphere
Invincible
The Invisible
Iration Steppas
Ishan Sound
J.C. Satan
J:Kenzo
Jacco Gardner
Jack Sparrow
Jackie-O Motherfucker
Jackmaster & Oneman
Jackson & His Computer Band
Jah Observer
Jah9
Jam City
Japanther
Joe
Joker
Jon Convex
Jon Rust
Jookabox
Joy Orbison
Julio Bashmore
Jungle
Jungle By Night
Junip
Jurassic 5
K-Branding
K.FLay
Kahn
Fritz Kalkbrenner
Kaly Live Dub
Karenn
Karin Park
Karma
Kasra
Kassem Mosse
DJ Kentaro
Kero Kero Bonito
Killing Joke
King Midas Sound
King Shiloh Soundsystem
KiNK
Klub Des Loosers
Kode9
Konono N°1
Kowton
DJ Koze
KRS-One
DJ Krush
Kursk
Femi Kuti
L-Vis 1990
LA Priest
Lakilaki
Lali Puna
Jessy Lanza
LAS
Le1f
Leaf House
Leif
Len Faki
Liars
Lichens
Chris Liebing
Little Dragon
Livity Sound
LO FI FNK
Locked Groove
Loefah
Logos
Lone
Loop
Lorn
Lotic
Low Jack
Low Leaf
Lucy
Lukid
Lunice
Lye Form
Machinedrum
Mad Professor
Madlib
Magnolia Electric Co.
Mahjongg
Mala
Justin Martin
Martyn
Marvin
Massive Attack
Derrick May
Mayer Hawthorne
Mefjus
Memoryhouse
Meridian Brothers
Mesak
Method Man & Redman
Metronomy
MF DOOM
Mi Ami
Micachu & The Shapes
Mikael
Mo Kolours
Mocky
Moderat
Modeselektor
Mogwai
Moiré
Mondkopf
Monotonix
Moodymann
Moon Duo
Mosca
Motor City Drum Ensemble
Mount Eerie
Mount Kimbie
Mouse on Mars
Mr. Oizo
Ms. Dynamite
Mumdance
Mungo's Hifi
Murcof
Murlo
Nas
Neek
Neptune
Nervous Cabaret
New-York Ska-Jazz Ensemble
Joe Nice
No Age
Nosaj Thing
Nots
The Notwist
Nozinja
Alexander Nut
O.B.F.
Oddateee
Thee Oh Sees
Om
Nora Omran
Oneman
Oneohtrix Point Never
Onra
Oorutaichi
Ought
Owiny Sigoma Band
Pachanga Boys
Panda Bear
Panda Dub
Pangaea
Pantha du Prince
Papier Tigre
Para One
Terence Parker
Parris
Part Chimp
patten
Patrice
Pavan
Pearson Sound / Ramadanman
Pelican
Lee Scratch Perry
Gilles Peterson
Peverelist
The Pharcyde
Phon.O
Pinch
Pivot / PVT
A Place to Bury Strangers
Plaid
Plastician
Poliça
Pomrad
Portishead
Powell
The Present
Princess Chelsea
The Prodigy
The DJ Producer
Proxima
Public Enemy
Puppetmastaz
R. Roo
Rabit
Radio 4
Raekwon
Rainbow Arabia
Randomer
Rangleklods
The Rapture
The Raveonettes
Redshape
Reecha
Resom
Rocé
Rolo Tomassi
Rone
Rubin Steiner
Ruckspin
Russian Circles
S.P.Y.
Saint Acid
Samanwaya Sarkar
SBTRKT
Scratcha DVA
Scuba
Seabear
Sei A
Serena Maneesh
DJ Shabushabu
Shackleton
DJ Shadow
Shadow Child
Shed
Adrian Sherwood
Shifted
Shigeto
Shining
The Shins
Shlohmo
Shy FX
Sigha
Sigur Ros
Simian Mobile Disco
Emilie Simon
Siriusmodeselektor
Sister Iodine
Skream
Slowdive
Slugabed
Snoop Dogg
Socalled
Son Lux
Songhoy Blues
Soom T
Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team
Speedy J
DJ Spinn
Spoon
Squarepusher
Stand High Patrol
Starkey
Steppin Forward Hi Fi
Stubborn Heart
Sun Glitters
Sunn O)))
Surgeon
Swindle
Systema Solar
T. Williams
Tama Sumo
Tang
DJ Taso
Rod Taylor
Tessela
THEESatisfaction
Three Trapped Tigers
Timber Timbre
Amon Tobin
Martina Topley-Bird
Tortoise
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Trans Am
Trevino
Tricky
Erik Truffaz
Truss
U.S. Girls
Ubuntu Soundsystem
Ultraphallus
The Underachievers
Untold
V.I.V.E.K.
Vessel
Von D
Otto Von Schirach
Leon Vynehall
Waajeed
Wankers United
The War On Drugs
Nick Waterhouse
Wax Tailor
Wbeeza
We Have Band
We Insist!
Emily Wells
Wen
White Fence
Why?
Wild Beasts
Wild Boar
Saul Williams
Nicole Willis
Wu-Tang Clan
Xiu Xiu
XXXY
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yisi Mirinda
Young Fathers
Youngsta
Your Old Droog
Zebra Katz
Zeitgeber
Zenzile
Zëro
Zip

One more I remembered:

Camera Obscura

How the fuck do you guys remember all this shit?

1. I have a pretty good memory, and

2. I've kept some lists.

crosses
palms
ex hex
oi polloi
blaze mob
chronixx
jesse royal
scratch perry
dezarie
u-roy
the grateful dead
gentleman
cocoa tea
tony rebel
richie spice
peter tosh jr
michael rose
queen ifrika
etana
pressure
turbulance

One more I added is Crystal Bowersox, who was one of the contestants on America's Got Talent or The Voice or another one of those corporate pop shows. I saw her by accident. She was scheduled to speak at a conference on Type 1 diabetes. Instead, she decided to do a set because, she said, she sings better than she speaks. Believe me, she isn't all that as a singer, either. But at least I didn't have to pay to see her.

I also amended my list to reflect that I've seen Scott Miller (ex-V-Roys, occasionally still tours with Scott Miller and the Commonwealth) twice as a solo act, most recently being last night.

only mentioning the ones worth mentioning. some of these bands i've seen multiple times, but i'm only noting it if it was a ridiculous amount of times.

sonic youth (about a dozen times) and thurston solo / kim solo
stereolab
tortoise
autechre
nobukazu takemura
philip glass
the microphones
mount eerie (at least a dozen times)
woelv
social junk
papa m
iron and wine
plaid
mira calix
dwayne sodahberk
kid606
dj /rupture
animal collective (a few times)
black dice
ariel pink
panda bear
gang gang dance
sword heaven
raccoo-oo-oon (i left a job to go see them. totally worth it)
matmos
terry riley
double leopards
three legged race
wolf eyes
so percussion
weird al yankovic
zola jesus
oneohtrix point never
the blow
yacht
karl blau
calvin johnson
julie doiron
themselves
the notwist
cat power
laura veirs
mirah
dirty projectors
a grape dope
manitoba
prefuse 73
four tet
phill niblock
white magic
pita
thanksgiving
16 bitch pile-up
6 organs of admittance
alan licht
danielson famile
burning star core
jackie-o motherfucker
xiu xiu
twine
mogwai
bonnie prince billy
magick markers
ryan jewell
d+

Digging out this thread

Additions since the last time I posted:

Einstürzende Neubauten
Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo
The Cure
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Chameleons VOX
Iggy Pop
Material Girls
Katzkab
Dropkick Murphys
Arcade Fire (Part of a festival I wrote an article about)
Explosions In The Sky (same)
Timber Timbre (same)
Steaming Satellites (same)
Get Well Soon (same)
Parade Ground
EA80
The Boiler
Klotzs
The Mission
The Awakening
The Underground Youth
Peter Hook & The Light (Performing Joy Division and New Order material)
The Screaming Dead
Dear Deer
The Wheal
Raskolnikov
Guiguisuisui
Varsovie
Kadeadkas
Laut Fragen
The Pool Of Tears
Masquerade
Virgin In Veil
Gran
Crystal Soda Cream
Nao Katafuchi
Le Prince Harry
Black Nail Cabaret (And tons of other bands at another festival I wrote about - it mostly sucked, BNC were pretty good though)
Conchita Wurst (performed at the opening of "Wiener Festwochen", which I attended because of a friend from Berlin who wanted to see that opening night)
Carosellis
Editors

And I'm going to see Built To Spill next month

My list is rather paltry compared to other lists. Here are a few memorable ones:

James Brown - West Hollywood, CA (my first concert)
Radiohead x2 - Palo Alto, CA and Philadelphia, PA
Fugazi x3 - Wash. D.C. and Chapel Hill, NC
Sonic Youth x2 - Philadelphia, PA
Deerhoof - Tokyo, Japan
Dinosaur Jr x2 - Austin, TX and Portland, ME
Modest Mouse - Philadelphia, PA
Dead Meadow - Austin, TX
The Evens - Portland, ME
Bob Dylan - San Antonio, TX
Wilco - Philadelphia, PA
Nels Cline - New York City, NY

My list of artists I've seen live according to setlist.fm
It's pretty accurate as far as I can recall, except for acts that aren't listed there (like the excellent Dutch Joy Division cover band)


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A Silver Mt. Zion (6)
The Album Leaf
Alcest
Marc Almond
Tori Amos
Anthrax
Arid (2)
Balmorhea
Beck
Bettie Serveert (7)
The Black-Eyed Snakes
Frank Black
Rory Block
The Bony King of Nowhere
Boris
Carla Bozulich
Glenn Branca (2)
The Breeders
Bill Callahan (3)
Cat Power (8)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (2)
Charmin' Children
Chelsea Light Moving
Vic Chesnutt (3)
Corrosion of Conformity (2)
Elvis Costello
Crosby & Nash
Dans Dans
Dark Dark Dark (3)
Dead Rat Orchestra (3)
Death Vessel (4)
dEUS (2)
Dinosaur Jr. (7)
Dire Straits
Dirty Three (3)
Disappears (7)
Do Make Say Think
Erik Koskinen (3)
Esmerine (2)
The Eye of Time
Fishbone
Flying Horseman (4)
Nils Frahm
Gavin Friday
Ben Frost
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (19)
Hallo Venray (4)
Hauschka
The Jeff Healey Band
Tim Hecker
Helmet
John Hiatt
Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw
Jesu (2)
Jesu / Sun Kil Moon
Joan as Police Woman
K’s Choice
Katerine
B.B. King
Franz Kirmann
Krakow
Lenny Kravitz
Gaelynn Lea (3)
Love Like Birds (5)
Low (30)
Madensuyu
Magnapop (2)
J Mascis
Scott Matthew (2)
Sarah McLachlan
Me & Stupid
Megadeth
Lubomyr Melnyk
Natalie Merchant
Mercury Rev
Metallica
Mogwai (3)
Helen Money (4)
MONO (10)
Moon Zero
Thurston Moore (4)
Mordred
Jessica Moss (2)
Bob Mould
My Bloody Valentine
My Name Is Nobody
Sarah Neufeld
Nisennenmondai
Nits
Mike Noga (2)
Cian Nugent
Oiseaux-Tempête (2)
The Oscillation
Gregory Page
Palio SuperSpeed Donkey
Pallbearer
Mauro Pawlowski
Pearl Jam
Pinback
Pixies (2)
Primus
Prong
Public Service Broadcasting (2)
Jo Quail
R.E.M.
Radar Men from the Moon
De Raggende Manne
Lee Ranaldo (7)
Lee Ranaldo and The Dust
Rape Blossoms
Gemma Ray (2)
Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Retribution Gospel Choir (6)
Les Rita Mitsouko
Rivulets (5)
The Samuel Jackson Five
Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Sebadoh (4)
Dirk Serries
Shonen Knife (3)
Sigur Rós
Skrew
Slaraffenland
Slint
The Smashing Pumpkins (3)
SOAK
Sonic Youth (7)
Soundgarden
Spectrum
Bruce Springsteen
Stereophonics
A Storm of Light
Stray Cats
Styrofoam
Suicidal Tendencies (2)
Suuns
Peter Taylor
Thought Forms
Yann Tiersen
Tanita Tikaram
The Tragically Hip
U2 (2)
Vom Grill
Was (Not Was)
The Wedding Present (5)
Weird Owl
Jonathan Wilson
Wir sind Helden
Chelsea Wolfe
Wooden Shjips
YOB
Neil Young
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Z
Dweezil Zappa


update:
whoops, I recall now two more that were never added, in 2013 on the rooftop of a museum in Cologne:
Scout Nibblet
Body/Head
with both nights support act Mike Donovan

I have several photo albums and shoeboxes of stubs for all the shows I have attended since I started at 15, minus maybe 10-15 stubs. But even for most of the lost ones, or shows I did not get a stub for, I have created replacement stubs for. I have actually been very anal about it. Seriously anal...

I want to take the next step and create a list from them all. I remember thinking I would do it the first time this thread sprung up. This necro of it has sort of inspired me again. Maybe I will get on that this weekend...

UPDATED LIST

* = new or updated entry

In non-chronological order:

Graham Nash/David Crosby (David Blue)
Kenny Rankin
Styx (Sugarloaf)
Jethro Tull (Hammersmith)
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan x3 (Over The Rhine; Kenny Wayne Shepard)
Starcastle (Thom Bishop)
Ted Nugent (Foreigner, Michael Stanley Band)
Heart (The Silencers)
Stan Kenton
The Kingston Trio
Petra (first real "Christian rock" band, touring their first album)
The Band (Roger McGuinn)
Roger McGuinn x3 (as headliner)
Elvis Costello x2 (Squeeze; Talk Talk)
Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart
The Damned x3 (Chivalrous Dogs)
Sonic Youth
Mission Of Burma
Black Flag
Love Tractor
Big Black
The Fall x6 (Magnapop)
Great Plains (Scrawl)
Scrawl (as headliner) x5 (Ass Ponys)
Wussy X2 (Scrawl; The Paranoid Style) *
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Great Plains)
Half Japanese
Half Japanese with Moe Tucker x2 (American Music Club)
Jad Fair
Mark Eitzel x3 (Jill Sobule, Rebecca Gates; Tim Easton) *
firehose (Screaming Trees)
Lou Reed (The Feelies)
Rapeman
The Gun Club
The Pixies (My Dad Is Dead)
Love and Rockets (The Pixies)
The Psychedelic Furs (Our Daughter's Wedding)
The Breeders (Luscious Jackson)
Guided By Voices (The Amps)
J. Geils Band (Southside Johnny and the Ashbury Jukes)
Jackson Browne (Karla Bonoff)
Karla Bonoff (as headliner) *
Karla Bonoff and Livingston Taylor *
The New Barbarians (2/5ths of The Rolling Stones)
Greg Kihn
Gordon Lightfoot x2
The Replacements
The Outnumbered
Johnny Dowd (as headliner) X6 (The Scooters, Jim Roll) *
Pere Ubu (Johnny Dowd) *
Los Straitjackets (The Fleshtones)
Jan and Dean
Mark Russell
Webb Wilder (as headliner) X5 (Mic Harrison and the High Score) *
Randy Newman
Uncle Earl (Sierra Hull and Highway 111; The Dixie Beeliners)
Sierra Hull (as headliner) X2 *
Jorma Kaukonen
John Sebastian
Jimmy Webb
Todd Rundgren and Utopia
Hall and Oates (Todd Rundgren)
The Guess Who (with Cummings and Bachman) (Joe Cocker)
John Fogerty (as headliner) *
Peter Paul and Mary
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Spirit
Joe Ely x2 (Lucette)
Toots and the Maytals
Yellowman
Richie Havens
Gang Green
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (Strapping Fieldhands, Salabon Glitz)
Trans Am
Reverend Horton Heat x2 (Nashville Pussy, Backyard Tire Fire; The Creepshow)
Dead Milkmen
Live Skull
Sam Bush
Jonathan Edwards
Loudon Wainwright III x8 (Raechel Evans; Natalya Zuckerman) *
Judy Collins X2 *
John Denver (my girlfriend bought tickets)
The Buzzcocks
Randy Newman
Al Stewart X2 (Dave Nachmanoff; The Empty Pockets) *
Riders In The Sky (as headliner) *
Okkervil River
Jane Siberry
Todd Snider (Mary Gauthier)
Steve Katz (ex-Blues Project, Blood Sweat & Tears, American Flyer)
Southern Culture on the Skids
Babe The Blue Ox
X_____X (Obnox)
Leon Redbone
Ralph Stanley
Lilly Hiatt (John's daughter) (Aaron Lee Tasjan)
Scott Miller x2 (Old Salt Union)
The Mountain Goats
We The Kings (a fave of my daughter)x2 (This Century, Crash The Party; AJR, She Is We, Brothers James)
Supersuckers X2(Skinny Jim and the Number 9 Blacktops; Drivin' And Cryin')*
Daniel Johnston
Hasil Adkins
Twenty One Pilots (Brand New, Shaky Graves, Manchester Orchestra, Reverend Peyton and his Big Damn Band)
Sebadoh (Qui)
Rubblebucket
Shonen Knife (CJ Ramone)
Jon Langford and Skull Orchard (Chuck and Lisa from Wussy)
Bad Luck Jonathan *
Bob Log III
Buckwheat Zydeco
Rebirth Brass Band X3 *
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Duke Ellington Band (after Duke's death)
Wanda Jackson x3 (Lustre Kings; Frontier Ruckus, Jonny Fritz and the In-Laws)
Steely Dan (Sam Yahel trio)
Greg Abate (jazz sax player)
Lucinda Williams (Patty Griffin)
The Stranglers
Edwyn Collins
Bruce Cockburn
Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds X2 (Corners, Mr. Elevator and the Brain Hotel) *
Mayer Hawthorne
The Temptations (The Shirelles, The Vogues, The Coasters, Tommy Roe, Len Barry)
Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche (Ric Hordinski)
Barleyjuice
The Honeymoon Killers
The Beach Boys (free show after a Cincinnati Reds game)
The Cynics
The Bears
Jonathan Richman X3 *
Sachal Vasandani (jazz vocalist)
Tom Rush
Camera Obscura
Crystal Bowersox X2 *
Olivia Jean X2 (Philip Paul) *
The Dickies (as headliner) (The Queers)
Muddy Waters
Dizzy Gillespie (with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)
Al Hirt
Don McLean
The Necros
Grand Ole Opry: Mark Willis (Del McCoury Band, Bill Anderson, Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys, Riders In The Sky, Kate Arminger, John Conlee, Craig Campbell)
Buckle Up Festival 2014, day 2: Willie Nelson (Old Crow Medicine Show, Alison Kraus & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Drive-By Truckers, Emmylou Harris)
Graham Parker X2 *
Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express *
Calvin Johnson *
The Joy Formidable *
John Lodge *
Brian Wilson (The Zombies) *
Straight No Chaser *
William Matheny *
Jason Ringenburg (of Jason and The Scorchers) *
Kinky Friedman X2
Song Of The Mountains TV taping: Jim Lauderdale (Sherman Holmes; Judy Marshall; Webb Wilder) *
Flamin' Groovies *
VOLK (as headliner)
The Electric Six (VOLK) *
Flor De Toloache (female mariachi band) *
Magic Beans *
Social Punk Invasion Tour: TSOL (The Dickies. Total Chaos) *
Dan Bern *
The Nude Party (Fonteyn) *
Leo Kottke *
Chastity Belt *
2023 Outlaw Music Festival Willie Nelson (John Fogerty, Gov't Mule, Kathleen Edwards, Particle Kid, Myron Elkins) *
John Medeski (solo piano)
The Country Teasers
Buddy Guy (Artur Menezes)
Richard Lloyd
Samantha Fish with Mitch Ryder (Canned Heat with Bernard Allison, Ghalia Volt)
McLain Family Band
Robyn Hitchcock

Updates since April 2019 (holy shit, that's already 5 years ago, stop being such a scary ass motherfucker, time!):


PAWNS
Wrong Body

Lumerians (R.I.P. Luis Vasquez)
The Knutz
Built To Spill
The Sun Ra Arkestra feat. Marshall Allen

Night Gallery

Bragolin
Das Lunsentrio
Thurston Moore Band
Rattle
Holly Golightly

Lucas Lanthier
The Brainmanagerz


And then the post massive waves of pestilence gigs in the 2020s:



Tilly Electronics
Sir Tralala
The Zew
Mahtpa

Black Country, New Road (2x - one time still with Isaac among them in 2021 and one time in their current lineup in 2022)
Ritual Howls
Empathy Test

Rhys Chatham (with David Fenech)
Martin Siewert & Christian Reiner

The Magnetic Fields
Darren Hanlon
Terror Bird
Silent Star

Julie Odell
Werckmeister
Chartreuse
Mdou Moktar
Girls In Synthesis
Sindicato Vertical
Placebo
Deadletter
Ritualz
Talk To Her

Elvis De Sade
Christina Ruf
Patriarchy
The Residents

Im Namen Des Volkes
ManMachine
Vision Video
Shadowhouse
Terminal A
Belgrado
Mala Herba
The Damski
Diavol Strâin
Neon Lies
ACTORS
Radiateur
Melt Downer
Lunacy

Mitra Mitra
Codeine
Kill Your Boyfriend
Skubut
Kondratie
The March Violets
The Bellwether Syndicate
Cataphiles
Yves Tumor
Nation
Nuovo Testamento
Rio Obskur
Dark Venus
Agent Side Grinder
Blind Delon
Touch By Touch
Je T'Aime
The Foreign Resort
Lathe Of Heaven
Kalte Hand
Rolltreppe


And a bunch of artists I had seen play live before, including Lee Ranaldo's brilliant gig at Fluc in 2022.

True, that. It's strange how time seems to go at a glacial pace when you're really young and speed up when you're older.

Just updated my list to include two great acts. One I saw quite some time ago, The Country Teasers, whose shambolic destruction of New Order's Blue Monday is always worth hearing. And the other is Buddy Guy, whose final tour came to my town a few days ago. It's hard to believe he's in his late 80s. He has more energy than most people half his age.

Wow... Drjohnrock saw Hasil Adkins... I wonder what it was like


Alber Jupiter
Anika (2)
Arctic Monkeys
Babes in Toyland
Baby Cool
Courtney Barnett (4)
Bat for Lashes (2)
Battles
Beach Moonsters
Beastie Boys
The Bellrays (4)
Bermud
Big Thief
Big Wool
Billy Nomates
Los Bitchos (2)
black midi (2)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Bodega (2)
Born Idiot
Boss Hog
The Brian Jonestown Massacre (during a festival, I left during the show)
Peter Brotzmann
Bryan's Magic Tears
The Buff Medways
Built to Spill
R.L. Burnside
Les Calamités
Anna Calvi
Carsick Cars
Catfish
Jeanne Cherhal
Cherry Glazerr
Cheveu
Christophe
Cloud Nothings
The Cramps (2)
Crows (2)
The Cure
Etienne Daho
The Dandy Warhols
Davy Jones Locker
Melanie De Biasio
Mac De Marco (3)
Deadletter
Dinosaur Jr (2)
Dream Wife (3)
Dry Cleaning (6)
Dynamite Shakers (6)
Equipe de Foot (4)
EUT
The Ex (2)
Mick Flower & Chris Corsano
Föllakzoid
Fontaines D.C.
Food Fight (2)
Frustration (2)
Jacco Gardner
Rebecca Gates
Gilla Band
Girls Against Boys
Goat
Goat Girl
Gore Gore Girls
The Gories (2)
Klaus Johann Grobe
Guadal Tejaz (2)
Gyasi
Hachiku
Aldous Harding (3)
Richard Hawley
Helado Negro
The Highmarts
The Hives
Hoorsees
HTRK
Michael Hurley
Idles (2)
Inuït (3)
Islands
It It Anita
Tobias Jesso Jr
JFDR
Johnnie Carwash (3)
Johnny Mafia (4)
Calvin Johnson
Alison Jutta
Kikagaku Moyo (3)
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
King Hannah
L.A. Witch
Lambrini Girls (2)
Last Train (3)
Molly Lewis
Lewsberg
Lykke Li
Liars (3)
Library Card
Lime Garden
Lysistrata
Mad Foxes
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks (2)
Megadisq
Mercury Rev
Miët (4)
Mild High Club
Minami Deutsch (2)
Helen Money
Moon Hooch (2)
Thurston Moore Group (2)
The Murlocs
New Candys
New Dad
Nice Biscuit
Night Beats
Nout
Nubiyan Twist
Thee Oh Sees / Osees (11)
Les Olivensteins
Parquet Courts
Adrienne Pauly (5)
Porridge Radio (2)
Portishead
Powersolo
Primal Scream
The Psychotic Monks
Public Image Limited
Purling Hiss
Queens of the Stone Age
Lee Ranaldo (2)
Jay Reatard
Jonathan Richman
SBRBS
Shame (2)
Shannon & the Clams
Shellac
The Shivas
SLIFT
Slowdive
Snail Mail
Dominic Sonic
Sonic Boom
Sonic Youth (12)
Sorry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (7) one of my favorite live bands
Squid (2)
Sun Kil Moon
Supergrass
Sylvie
The Telescopes
Tiny Ruins
Traumahelikopter
Tu Seras Terriblement Gentille (3)
TV Buddhas
Sharon Van Etten
Vicky Veryno (5)
Les Vulves Assassines
Les Wampas (5)
The Warlocks (2)
Warpaint
Wet Leg
Weyes Blood
Whispering Sons (2)
Who Made Who
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

It was bizarre, but a fair amount of what made it so wasn't Hasil's doing. If you really want to know about it, I'll tell you. But as the cliche goes, be careful what you wish for...

Your list is quite impressive. Anyone who's seen Dry Cleaning six times has my respect.