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You go, girl!

Capn: It's not that I really keep an actual tally. I do have almost every stub from every concert I have been to. Someone asked me last year how many shows I have been to and while counting my stubs I decided to list all of the bands as well.

player8: Really hard to name a favorite out of all of them. But always tops on my list is my first. Iron Maiden on the Powerslave tour in 85. That was an incredible show and quite a show for my first one. Others top on my list are Pink Floyd on the Pulse tour, Metallica on the Justice tour and Disturbed on the Music as a Weapon II tour. Worst band I have ever seen is The Deftones. They sucked in a big way live. And I have seen Kiss three time with and two times w/o make-up. The best performance was on the Animalize tour. But my fave was the 96 reunion tour. That was a blast.

I do hope Linkin Park is better this summer than when the couple of people here saw them. I have tickets for them Korn and Snoop Dogg (ugh) this summer. Also going to check out Fuel and Octane this Saturday night.


A few I need to add to my list now that I remember:

Pearl Jam
Three Doors Down 2x

70's

James Gang w/Joe
ZZ Top x4
Grand Funk Railroad
Suzi Quatro
REO Speedwagon x4
Alice Cooper x2
Ted Nugent x5
Yes
Emerson Lake & Palmer
BTO x2
Kiss
Clapton
Zeppelin
Aerosmith
Blue Oyster Cult x 2
Bad Co
Eagles w/Meisner
Fleetwood Mac x2
Queen
Thin Lizzy
Little Feat
Jethro
Brownsville Station
Derringer
Skynyrd x2
Deep Purple
+
80's
Night Ranger
38 Special
Hank Jr.
Van Zandt
Stevie Ray
Robert Cray
Allman Bros.
+
90's to present
Ian Moore
Dave Matthews x3
Counting Crows
Norah Jones
Delbert McClinton
Little Feat
Melissa Etheridge
Gov't Mule x3
Steve Miller
Pat Benatar
B.B. King
Indigenous x2

Gov't Mule again in 1 week
Clapton in June

+ alot more lost in the smok...er haze.

interesting thread. I think you can tell alot about a person by their taste in music and somebody other than me knows who Todd Snider is.
List? wow too many brain cells destroyed, but I'll try

Led Zepplin 3x
Pink Floyd 3X (dark side of the moon tour was the best)
Emerson Lake Palmer
The Who 2x (once at Indiana Beach...crappy little resort)
Jimmy Buffett...every year
Alice Cooper...way too many times
Steve Earl
Jethro Tull
Jeff Beck
Rod Stewart
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Ten Years After
George Benson
Janet Jackson (no boob shot and I took my daughter..embarrassing to mention)
BB King
Neil Young
Willie Nelson
Arlo Guthrie
Crosby Stills Nash Young
John Sebastian
Dave Mathews
Doobie Brothers
Grand Funk Railroad....damn I am old
The Hollies
Yes
Mott the Hoople
John Prine
oh my the list goes on and on...

I LOVE TODD SNIDER.. i think he is one of, if not THE best songwriter/story tellers out there right now. and his live show is just phenomanial.. the way he interacts with the crowd, and gets everyone involved in his show. definitely, in a category all his own. i have had the pleasure of seeing him live 3 times, and each was better than the last.

bigjohn

I've never attempted a comprehensive list, so I was quite surprised by the length.

Grateful Dead
Aerosmith
Queen
Roxy Music
Santana
Rainbow
Johnny Winter
Edgar Winter
Journey
Moody Blues
Dave Matthews Band
Pretenders
U2
B-52's
Berlin
Thompson Twins
Billy Joel
Ted Nugent
Pink Floyd
Plant & Page
Mahogany Rush
Collective Soul
Les Claypool
Joan Armitrading
Weezer
Crosby Stills & Nash
Lou Reed
Steve Forbert
Hot Tuna
The Who
Ominous Seapods
Little Feat
BB King
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Macio Parker
Joe Pass
Buster Poindexter
Cracker
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Starz
Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, Shawn Colvin, Bruce Hornsby
Commander Cody
Blotto
PJ Harvey
New Riders of the Purple Sage

In reply to:

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U2 (3x - all incredible)
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones (the most fun concert I've been to)
Metallica - nice show, but the new songs paled live
Mudvayne (same concert as Ken - they sucked big time, and it wasn't just the sound system)
Linkin Park - ditto the vaguely ok
Limp Bizkit - I can't believe some of my money went to these guys
Cake - was alright, the singer seemed a little arrogant

And some barefoot Brazilian multi-instrumentalist new age jazz musician who was a little too new-agey (a quote: "you know, we're all like hair, growing in different directions" ). Peter saw her too, but apparently didn't think she counted.

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Oops, I forgot a couple

PJ Harvey - opened for U2 - bad sound system and the audience wasn't that into it, but she's a good performer
No Doubt (2x) - opened for U2 - fun show!

I ask you guys, what's with the opening bands getting crappy sound systems at big concerts? It's really annoying, even if I don't like the band.

That's a good question. Maybe it's a function of how successful or "arrived" the band is. If you've hit mainstream, you get access to better sound, maybe?

Out of the opening bands for Metallica, only Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit had good sound (though it didn't really matter for Limp Bizkit). Not that good sound would've saved Mudvayne or whoever it was (Deftones?) we caught. The singer was terrible - He was wheezing his way through the actual singing so he could get to the screaming.

I wish PJ Harvey had better sound. I could barely understand a word she said and overall it was too muddy, so it was hard to get into it, but I could tell there was some good stuff in there and she was really trying to get through.

Here's my list. I try to save all of my ticket stubs in a small wooden box. I know I'm missing a few, The Rolling Stones, Journey, Aerosmith, and Boston come to mind. I'll update the list if I can find them.

AC/DC (3)
Bad Company (3)
Billy Squire (1)
Bob Seger (1)
Cheap Trick (1)
Cinderella (1)
Crack The Sky (2)
Damn Yankees (2)
David Lee Roth (1)
Deep Purple (1)
Def Leppard (1)
Dream Theater (1)
Eddie Money (1)
Elton John (1)
Fastway (1)
Fire House (1)
Henry Lee Summer (1)
Iron Maiden (4)
Jethro Tull (1)
Jimmy Buffett (1)
Joe Satriani (1)
Judas Priest (4)
Kenny Chesney (1)
Kiss (2)
Kix (5)
Loverboy (1)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (2)
Queensryche (2)
Quiet Riot (1)
Rush (4)
Samantha Fox (1)
Scorpions (1)
Steve Winwood (1)
Styx (1)
Ted Nugent (5)
The Who (2)
Trixter (1)
U2 (1)
Warrant (1)
Yngwie Malmsteen (1)

Hehe... I also found two 15 to 20 year old smoke bombs and a firecracker in there. Ahhh... youth.

Where the hell did I put that damn slingshot?