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Live Music (Bands or Groups that you saw personally)

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I have "Always" had long commutes, so I listened to a lot of music on the radio & lots of tapes/cd's to stay awake;(rotating shift work). I generally don't care for live stuff but, being as I am a "senile" citizen now, I must confess I have seen quite a few bands "Live", over the years. These include but are not limited to the following............................
CCR (live at the garden 5/13/1970). Also - Dio, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Edgar Winter, Kansas, Ozzy Osbourne, Blackfoot, Outlaws, Poco, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Pure Prairie League, Gordon Lightfoot, Renaissance, Mountain, & the Southern Rock Allstars and others I don't recall at the moment. Between loud music & visits to see Drag Racing events with "Funny Cars & Top Fuel Dragsters" I have tinnitus issues. I blame running loud chillers & boilers, etc. for much of the damage. I did use cotton, or ear plugs for some of it but mostly nothing! I guess you could say that I absolutely love music; Lol!
 
AC/DC Sammy Hagar REO Stix Ozzy Billy Squier Blackfoot Billy Idol Judas Priest Ratt Almond Brothers Rush Van Halen Cheap Trick FogHat Scorpions Toby Mac Third Day Jeremy Camp Eric Clapton Dokken Foreigner Pat Benatar.
 
In my teens and early 20s I saw lots of concerts, and even through my 20s I saw a number of shows before my friends got older and lost their enthusiasm to go out much.
A few years ago, a 100 year old beautiful but falling apart movie theater in the village next to mine got restored to a music venue and I’ve been seeing a lot of shows there since. 10 minutes away with free parking, no need to get a group together for an adventure into Chicago like when I was a kid!
In the 3 years it’s been having concerts, I’ve seen Ted Nugent there twice, Foghat, Robert Cray, Blue Oyster Cult, Samantha Fish, Eric Gale, Al Demeola, Dweezil Zappa, and some high level tribute/recreation bands like Musical Box, a Peter Gabriel era Genesis recreation band from Canada. I have tickets for Michael Schenker and Yes this fall. Grand Funk Railroad is there Saturday, if weather isn’t good enough to go to a car cruise, I’ll probably see that show.
It sometimes seems odd though seeing bands like Blue Oyster Cult and Nugent 45 years after I saw them last, we’ve all got a lot older!

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I have seen over 100 major shows and at least as many small ones. Too many to list, so I'll stick with 10 favorite concerts in rough order:

UFO, Foghat+Wishbone Ash, Black Sabbath, The Firm, Warren Zevon, John Lee Hooker, Allman Brothers, Ozzy + Rob Zombie, Clutch+Corrosion of Conformity, and Judas Priest. I have seen Rush maybe a dozen times and Blue Oyster Cult 5..... so they are in there somewhere too, but would take over the list.

The only concert I regretted going to was Santana, who stumped politics between almost every song. It was incredibly annoying. Uncle Ted also got up on his stump too, but he kept in short and humorous and got on with the entertaining.
 
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I have seen over 100 major shows and at least as many small ones. Too many to list, so I'll stick with 10 favorite concerts in rough order:

UFO, Foghat+Wishbone Ash, Black Sabbath, The Firm, Warren Zevon, John Lee Hooker, Allman Brothers, Ozzy + Rob Zombie, Clutch+Corrosion of Conformity, and Judas Priest. I have seen Rush maybe a dozen times and Blue Oyster Cult 5..... so they are in there somewhere too, but would take over the list.

The only concert I regretted going to was Santana, who stumped politics between almost every song. It was incredibly annoying. Uncle Ted also got up on his stump too, but he kept in short and humorous and got on with the entertaining.
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...Bob Seeger, Doors ,Joan Collins, CSNY, ZZ top, Ted Nugent, Kenny Wayne Sheppard ,Dolly Parton, Garth, Oak Ridge Boys, Sigfried & Roy ,Circ Du Soleigh, Joe Bonamassa...maybe more...
 
Grand Funk Railroad. Friend With me had seen most of the top bands rated them number 4 on his list. number 1 Led Zep 2 Stones 3 Emerson Lake and Palmer 4 GFR
My ears rang tor 3 days.
 
Heart, Little River Band was their back up. Fleetwood Mac, Doobie Brothers, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Tom Petty. Paul Carrick (Squeeze), The Pointer Sisters opened for Lionel Richie. Had tickets to Boston twice and couldn't make it to either concert. :BangHead: :BangHead:
 
The Beach Boys, Santana, Jonathan Richman, Ween, Parliament/Funkadelic, Milt Jackson, and a few others. I like to have an actual seat at concerts since I’m getting older.
 
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The Beach Boys, Santana, Jonathan Richman, Ween, Parliament/Funkadelic, Milt Jackson, and a few others. I like to have an actual seat at concerts since I’m getting older.
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I’m with you there! I’ve got messed up feet and a few of the shows I’ve been to in recent years everyone insisted on standing the whole show and it got real uncomfortable for me, I’d have to sit and stare at the person in front of me’s butt from time to time.
I can remember going to stadium concerts 45 years ago where we’d not only stand, but we’d climb up onto our seats and stand on them the whole show. One time we had great seats for an REO Speedwagon show, 5th or 6th row center.
Shortly after they took the stage, some girls worked there way up close and asked me and my friends if they could join us standing on our chairs. So I stood on my chair for the 1-1/2 hour show with a girl standing on my chair the whole time rubbing against me.
Oh to be 17 again….
 
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KISS, every time they come to Australia since 1980, their last show in 2024 .
Iron Maiden,every time they come to Australia since 1982 last show in 2024. They played at my venue 1982
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Def Leppard when they come to Australia since 1984
George Thorogood and the Destroyers , they have been at work 3 times
Alice Cooper since 1984
Rose Tattoo
Motorhead
The Angels since 1978
 
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Beach Boys, Shania Twain(!!!). Stayed at a Holiday Inn, AND worked with a guy that was in jail with David Allen Coe.
 
There’s some great bands listed here and it’s terrific to see that so many like quality music from back when musicians were actually musicians.
I live about 700 miles from the nearest big city that would have concerts so it’s a fairly major undertaking to see a band when you live here. However, in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s I was footloose and fancy free and had the opportunity to see over 40 major concerts and several dozen smaller bands. I won’t bore you with all of them but here are some highlights. All bands listed were seen at their height of popularity, not a reunion or oldies concert in the list.
Van Halen x 2. George Thorogood. Bowie with Peter Frampton on guitar. The Stones. Ted Nugent. Foreigner.(they sucked, BTW) Rush. Warren Zevon. Ian Hunter with Mick Ronson on guitar. Stevie Ray Vaughn. Men at Work x 2. Brian Adams. Heart x 2. Blue Oyster Cult. ZZ Top. Iron Maiden. Avenged Sevenfold. Metallica. Sting.
One of the best shows ever was by a band nobody here has probably heard of: City Boy. There were from Birmingham, England and were the warmup for a Canadian icon, Prism. They gave an incredible performance such that when they were done several people remarked that we may as well just go home because Prism could not compare, and Prism was a good band.
Living Colour was warmup for the Stones. Vernon Reid on guitar was totally killer.
There were Canadian bands that I saw that never really caught on in the ‘States, and that was a shame. Streetheart, Loverboy. Prism, Goddo, Headpins, Chilliwack, The Spoons, Harlequin and others gave terrific shows, slugging it out on the Canadian circuit. They would draw ten to thirty thousand here yet never got the traction of a Rush or BTO.
I probably won’t get to anymore shows, but if the opportunity presented itself I would go to Judas Priest, Ghost, or Rammstein.
 
alice cooper, j. giles band .pink Floyd . rod stewart. rolling stones. meatloaf. roxy music, sensational alex harvey band. blue oyster cult. thin lizzy. southside johnny and the ashbury dukes. hawkwind. ian hunter and mick ronson. Rush
 
I've seen a few over the years, mostly in the 70's, Foreigner, ZZ Top, REO Speedwagon, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, Slade, Dr Hook, Foghat, Ted Nugent, Grand Funk Railroad, BTO, Moody Blues, Emerson Lake and Palmer, The Who, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Fleetwood Mac, A St. Louis band known as Mama’s Pride. and some I can't remember and most the opening bands.
 
I already posted on a different forum, in a slightly different theme-

What "best guitarists" have you personally seen and what was the first year you saw them?

My list doesn't include seeing them multiple times.

You may have to guess or google to figure the bands.

I also didn't list people I didn't think were "best" guitarists like Jerry Garcia, Johnny Ramone, Lee Ving, or Pete Townsend (I've seen them all).

There's also some considerable gaps where I'm drawing a blank, or have no stubs.

Glen Tipton / KK Downing 1982
Dave Murry / Adrian Smith 1982

George Lynch 1984
Fernando Von Arb 1984
Wolf Hoffman 1984
Dave Davies 1984
Nancy Wilson / Howard Leese 1985
Warren DeMartini 1985
Vivian Campbell 1985
Fast Eddie Clark 1985
Tony Iommi 1986
Criss Oliva 1987
David T Chastain 1987
Adrian Vandenberg 1987
Ric Emmet 1987
Mathias Jabs 1988
Kirk Hammett 1988
Eddie Van Halen 1988
Angus Young 1988
Johnny Winter 1989

Dave Navarro 1991
Vernon Reid 1991
George Thorogood 1992
Slash 1992
Al Jourgensen 1992
Billy Corgan 1993
Horton Heat 1994
Neal Schon 1995
James Young 1996
Dave Peverett / Rod Price 1997

Alex Lifeson 2002

Jerry Cantrell 2006

Scott Gorham 2011
Rick Miller 2011
Ritchie Faulkner 2011
Daron Malakian 2012
Synister Gates 2013
Nita Strauss 2013
Adam Jones 2014

Brian May 2017
Mike Campbell 2017
Joe Walsh 2017

Samantha Fish 2021

Joe Satriani 2024

Two that I regret not seeing while I had the chance-

Gary Moore
Darrel "Dimebag" Abbott
 
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My first was Creedence Clearwater Revival at MSG NYC in May 1970. ( Opening act by Booker T & MG's ). Many others after that until now.
 
Many that I'm probably missing;
UFO, Foghat, Yes, Triumph, Ozzy, The Cars, Genesis, Van Halen x 2, Ted Nugent, AC/DC x 4, Judas Priest x 4, Slayer, Queensryche, Metallica, Motley Crue x 2, Aerosmith x 2, Billy Idol, Michael Schenker, Tesla, Def Leppard, Styx, Alice 'n Chains, Kix, Robert Plant, Page & Plant, Eric Clapton, Whitesnake, George Thorogood, Alice Cooper, Korn, Thousand Foot Crutch
 
I don't know how many were at "Day on the Green's" ?
at Oakland Coliseum, several times...
Nugent, Frampton, Heart, Creedence & Lynyrd Skynyrd the year most of them died,
those were my favorites...

Or Sticks playing in Candlestick Park, for free like 1979-ish
included in ticket price, they were trying anything to get a crowd
right after the Bears & 49ers played for last place in the NFC,
deemed 'the Toilet bowl'
IIRC the loser got the 1st overall draft pick, next season

or Hall & Oats, Twisted Sister or John Mellencamp at the Concord Pavillion
or any of the many, many C&W stars played there, especially in the 90's
Shinia, Faith, Rodney Carrington (does that count), The Judds, Travis Trit, George Straight
couldn't even begin to name them all
countless times, just a few miles from my house, like one a month, for 10+ years
I could stay home, sit out on my deck & here them great too,
but wasn't the same...

A bunch of live bands/Country at 'Saddle Rack' in San Jose
at least once a month in the summers, early 80's

Tesla, in Sacramento, before that when they were City Kid,
don't know how many times
the younger brother of a friend back in HS, Jeff Keith was the lead singer

A crapload of Rock Bands at the Cow Palace in SF,
3 Dog Night, Meatloaf was a great show
or at the Filmore in SF
(We, my construction co. did the demolition in there, some years later,
got a crapload of memorabilia, I mostly just gave away, wish I'd have kept some)

Kiss, at one of the stadiums in the Bay Area, don't remember which, 1977
they are way better indoors, at the Cow Palace than an open stadiums

Beach Boys, I don't know how many times, within a 100 miles I'd go
AC/DC, Angus was the show, ZZ Top a bunch of times
Bob Seger, Rush, Eric Clapton, Journey a bunch of times
Aerosmith & Van Halen (not Van Hagar),
I did see Sammy in concert too, not with VanHalen, 'I Can't drive 55 era'

Man I grew up in a great rock & roll era, looking back on it

I don't really like going now too loud hurts my ears now,
I hate big crowds now too
 
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