Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine What Concerts have you been to?

Wow, whish I'd seen Morrissey. I've been listening to a lot of Smiths lately for some reason.

As for concerts it's hard to remember. So many years, so many substances abused... I used to work at a music store so I would get into shows for free (which explains why I saw RHCP so many times -I don't even like 'em.) My current job allows me to enjoy the occasional free show as well. Lucky me!

In only an extermely vague oldest-to-recent order

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Journey
Charlie Danies Band (I know,)
The Police
REM (like 3-4 times)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (5 times -yuck)
Meat Puppets
TSOL
Fishbone
Camper Van Beethoven
Chesterfield Kings
Echo & the Bunneymen
New Order
Black Flag
Firehose
Flaming Lips (at least 5 times!and I'll see 'em again)
the Replacements (loudest show ever)
Jane's Addiction
Dwight Yoakam
Los Lobos (twice -much fun!)
Buddy Guy
Etta James
Uncle Tupelo
UB40
Ministry
Nine Inch Nails
Helios Creed
Throwing Muses
k.d. Lang
Beastie Boys ( horrible show they were wasted and they got arrested right after the show, I think they mention it in one of their songs maybe on Paul's Botique)
Fugazi (3 times)
pixies (twice)
Sonic Youth
Bob Mould
Gang of Four
Burning Spear
Richard Buckner
the New York Dolls
John Doe
Phranc (lesbian tupperware!)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Patti Smith (twice)
Liars
Jurassic 5
John Spencer Blues Explosion
Bright Eyes
Magnetic Fields
Built to Spill
the Faint
Ratatat
Rufus Wainwright
Scissor Sisters
Aimee Mann (her X-mas variety show If you ever get a chance to see it, do! it was so much fun!)

I'm sure there are quite a few I'm forgetting. Plus there are numerous local bands, punk shows, blues and reggae shows I saw back in the day too numerous to mention. remember or have much relevance. Haven't been to much recently but I'm hoping to see -X- (original lineup!!) although I'm trying to save for Cirque du Soleil tix ($$!)as well as a new laptop and a nice armchair. Ah well.

Wow, I need to get out more often...I'll get the embarassing ones out of the way first:

Eddie Rabbit
Air Supply (took a girlfriend once, years ago, figuring I could get lucky showing my sensitive side...didn't work!)

I went to a "Day on the Green" concert back in the early 80's, which had:
Santana
Toto
Tubes
Journey
That was freakin' amazing!

Billy Joel

Harry Connick Jr (my wife and I danced to one of his songs at our wedding, so we went to a live performance once for our anniversary)

Huey Lewis and the News
Huey Lewis and the News
Huey Lewis and the News
Huey Lewis and the News (I think I've only seen them 4 times...it might be 5 now, my memory's not what it used to be). Absolute favorite band, just as Legion is my absolute favorite comic.

Van Halen with Roth
Black Crowes
The Who
Lenny Kravitz

John Denver (my first real concert, in the round in Mobile, Al in 1979)
KISS,
Fingers Taylor
Jimmy Buffet 5, or maybe 6 times, including a concert in Boston Commons where it rained on all of us, but the band was dry under the pavilion, so jimmy said :As long as you guys want to hang around, we'll keep playing."
The Beach Boys
Brian Wilson by himself.
Steve Dahl and the Dahl-fins
Steve Dahl and Teenage Radiation
Joe Walsh
Dr. John
Harry Chapin
Steve Goodman
John Prine
Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nancy Griffith, and 2 other dudes whose names I don't remember at a Concert to ban Landmines,
One fourth of July in like 92 I saw Squeeze, Robert Cray, and They Might be Giants, for free in Grant Park at the Taste of Chicago. My wife was there too, but we wouldn't meet for another 8 years.
The Smiths,
The Psychedelic Furs,
'Til Tuesday,
The Wallets, a really cool regional band with an accordion from the 80's from the Twin Cities,
Red Gallegher (also from the Twin Cities, if anyone has ever heard of him... is he still alive?)
87 Men,
Jim Gill- a fun children's performer my son loves,
Koko Taylor,
The Blues Brother's (with Jim, not John),
Buddy Guy,
Elvis Costello,
and pound for pound the best live show I ever saw was in 1995-"Commander Cody, and his Lost Planet Airmen. Those old guys ROCKED the old Las Vegas Blues and Reggae club to the Ground!

(I'm sure there are more... I'm old)

Oh! Lilith Fair in Portland oregon in 1999, but we weren't there very long and I'm not even sure who was playing there while we were there.

Wow, I don't get out much.

In college;

Joan Jet (she had just 'come back' with I Hate Myself for Loving You, a song I loved at the time! She was hot for someone who was like, a hundred and fifty or something...)

Many years later;

Queensryche (I heard that they weren't planning on playing all of Operation: Mindcrime after that tour, and I *HAD* to see it! Easily one of my favorite bands of all time.)

Last month

Nine Inch Nails (wow, as someone who hasn't been to a concert in over a decade, I'm still reeling from the electronic lightshows and everyone waving their cellphones instead of lighters. The world done gone and changed on me again!)

Regarding Nine Inch Nails, there are few things in this world more fun than being in a room for several thousand strangers screaming, 'I want to **** you like an animal!' at the top of your lungs. It's kind of inhibition-shattering / liberating.

I forgot UB40 and k.d. lang, and I saw Phranc open for the Smith's at Great Woods back in '86 or '87.

I would have loved to have seen the New York Dolls!

Barry White
INXS
Duran Duran
Culture Club
Ratt
Posion
Bon Jovi
Chuck Berry
Salt & Peppa
R. Kelly
Metallica
Guns-n-Roses
belinda carlyle
Skid Row
Scorpions
Paul Simon at Central park
Fleetwood Mac
Ozzy Osborne
Dio
Deep Purple
Areosmith
Living Colour
KISS
Britney Fox
Lita Ford
Vixen
Van Halen w/Roth and w/Hagar
Billy Joel @ Yankee Stadium
Public Enemy
Rick Springfield
Weezer
AC/DC
Cindarella
John Mellencamp
the Beach Boys
New Edition
Debbie Gibson
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
U2
the Rolling Stones @ Shea stadium
that's about all i can remember for now.

The Who
The Romantics
The Ramones
Chuck Berry
X
U2
Black Flag
Strike Under
The Effigies
Naked Raygun
The Circle Jerks
The Clash
The Cramps
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
PIL
David Johansson
Los Lobos
The Psychedelic Furs
The Replacements
Hüsker Dü
Loud Fast Rules/Soul Asylum

My last concert:

Was (Not Was) in June. Money has been tight lately, but oh do I love those guys. They were great !

8)

Just saw Metallica back on Dec 7th...It was an awesome show, We got front row on the floor. I have quite a few great pics and some video too.

Saw the Ting Tings last night. My wife & daughter are big fans. Left my daughter at home since the concert was at a small bar/club. They were really good.

The opening act Hot Tubs (i think) was interesting. Three slightly chubby half naked girls rapping and thrashing violently. They sounded very good though like early Beastie Boys.

Haven't been to any concerts in a long time. I do see some of the local/regional bands though at various bars and hang-outs I go to. Some of them are pretty well-known in the Northeast.

Last big names I saw were:

(1) Flogging Molly – Irish punk band who is probably my favorite band of my entire 20’s. They rocked like no one’s business. But that was a few years ago.

(2) Method Man & Redman – I saw Meth and Red at a famous bar in New Haven called “Toad’s Place”. Its like 30 years old and the Rolling Stones, U2 and so many other great bands have played there. Its right next to Yale’s campus. Method Man and Redman were simply awesome, and the show was freaking crazy. It’s a big place for a bar but pretty small for a concert, which made it even cooler.

I used to travel all over to go see Metallica concerts in my late teens. They, Led Zeppelin, Green Day, the Clash and now Flogging Molly are my all time favorite bands. But its almost 10 years since I’ve seen them.

Best concert I ever went to was a Foo Fighters / Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert. The crowd (and bands) partied like it was Woodstock. And they just jammed and did whatever songs they felt like playing. They even joined each other on stage. That was probably in 2000 or even 2001.

I've seen:

Spirit of the West
Pursuit of Happiness
54-40
Hu Noo
Barney Bental and the Legendary Hearts
Odds
Tragically Hip (4 times)
Tea Party
Econoline Crush
They Might Be Giants
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
The White Stripes
Leonard Cohen
Summersault Festival (Sum41/Perfect Circle/Catherine Wheel/Foo Fighters/Our Lady Peace/Smashing Pumpkins)

Let's add U2 to that list. Holy Cow! They played last night to 100,000 people in Moncton (with a population barely larger than that) in the last show of their 2 year 360 tour. Needless to say they blew the roof off (and we were already outdoors).

I stopped paying attention to music when ABBA broke up, so I don't think I have ever been to a concert.

Given my well known love for metal, the beginning of this list may seem strange....
Anyways, all the shows I've been to more or less in order.

Platnium Blonde
Madonna
Platnium Blonde again
Samantha Fox
Alice Cooper
Bonham
The Cult
Ugly Kid Joe
Meatloaf
Def Leppard
Bryan Adams
Sven Gali
ACDC
The Fables
Great Big Sea
Radiohead
Lamb of God
Metallica
Turisis
Daniel Lioneye
Nachtmystium
Cradle of Filth

-Rolling Stones (once with Nash the Slash, and another time with, believe it or not, The Go-go's)
-Genesis (3 times)
-Peter Gabriel (unbelieveable and I still remember it like it was yesterday)
-Aerosmith
-Rush
-Max Webster
-Gordon Lightfoot (meh!)
-U2

... then bands started to suck so I stopped going!

Ooh, a fourth concert for my short, short list.

The girls wanted to go to a Breaking Benjamin/Three Days Grace/Flyleaf concert, and couldn't find another adult to go with them, so I volunteered to drive them. It helped that I love Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace.

(A friend at work told me that he had to take his daughter to a Hannah Montana show, so I feel blessed, by comparison!)

Awesome show. TDG even played the song that Adam Gautier did with Apocalyptica.

Last year, they toured with Lacuna Coil, in place of Flyleaf, and I wish we'd seen that one instead, since I like Lacuna Coil a lot better...

In 100 hours (can you tell I'm stoked?) I'm seeing one of my top "bucket list" concerts:

Morrissey!

(Of course, I'm wishing I had seen him like 20 years ago, but still... Morrissey!)

Ooooo. I like this one. Hmmmmm... let's see.

NIN
Matchbox 20
No Doubt
Harry Connick Jr
Aerosmith
James Taylor
Hole
Red Hot Chili Peppers
HIM
The Flaming Lips
Cake
Michael Buble'
Perfect Circle
Smashing Pumpkins
Backstreet Boys

I think that's it. I may think of more later. Actually really enjoyed the BSB concert. Didn't think I would.

Have fun at the Morrissey show, Ex. Not only is he so much fun to watch, but his fans are really cool people to hang out with.

Revised list:

Spirit of the West
Pursuit of Happiness
54-40
Hu Noo
Barney Bental and the Legendary Hearts
Odds
Tragically Hip (7 times)
Tea Party
Econoline Crush
They Might Be Giants (X2)
The Catherine Wheel
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
The White Stripes
Leonard Cohen
Summersault Festival (Sum41/Perfect Circle/Catherine Wheel/Foo Fighters/Our Lady Peace/Smashing Pumpkins)
U2 (with Arcade Fire)
Hewey Lewis and the News
Gord Downie
The Pixies
Sloan
The Arkells

Oops, I guess I didn't actually post my list, so:

- Jethro Tull
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Eric Clapton (twice)
- Robert Cray
- Violent Femmes
- INXS/Soup Dragons
- They Might Be Giants
- Digable Planets
- Sheryl Crow (not really a concert, per se, but a TV show taping)
- Toad the Wet Sprocket/Hootie and the Blowfish
- Ben Folds Five
- Peter Frampton
- Simone White (twice)
- Bruce Springsteen
- The Pixies
- Moogfest (Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Jonsi, Mountain Man, School of Seven Bells)
- U2/Interpol
- Bonnaroo (Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Santigold, Colin Hay, Alabama Shakes, Sharon Jones, The Roots, Blind Pilot, Feist, Skrillex)
- Sigur Ros
- Madonna
- and, in about 60 hours, Morrissey.

Boz Scaggs (conned into it)
Yes
Duke Tomato and the All-Star Frogs.
BB King

and

Up With People

I haven't really done the concert thing much.

Ex, did you get to see Morrisssey? I read online that he is in the hospital and has had to cancel a few shows.