What Concerts Have You Seen?

[sherban]

Hey- I thought this might be a fun topic with the crowd on this forum...and it might bring back some fun memories for many of us...

List out the concerts you've seen over the years, list Artist, location and date...I know I'll have to edit my list about 20 times before I remember all mine.

Let me start...(dates are approx for now)

Jethro Tull Boston Garden Oct 1979
J Geils Band Boston Garden April 1980
Neil Young Phila Spectrum 1981
Eric Clapton Phila Spectrum 1981
Styx Phila Spectrum 1981
The Roundup (Southern Rock...Phil 1981 http://www.geocities.com/scubadog.geo/roundup.html
The Cars Phila Spectrum 1982
Santana MD-Merriweather Post 1982
Genesis Phila JFK Stadium 1982
Foreigner Phila JFK Stadium 1982
The Clash- PENN Campus 1982
Phil Collins Penn State 1982
Rolling Stones (2) Phila JFK Stadium 1981
The Police JFK Stadium 1982
Yes Millersville St College 1982
Joe Jackson Millersville 1982
The Who Phila JFK Stadium 1982
U2 (5 times) Atlanta/Phila
Springsteen Atlanta
Chris Iaasak (several times) Atlanta
Pink Floyd Atlanta
Michael Hedges (several times) Atlanta and Reading PA
Lou Reed @Fox/Atlanta
Sade @Fox/Atlanta
Tears for Fears @Fox in Atlanta
BB King Center stage Atlanta
Stevie Ray Vaughan @UGA in Athens Ga (about 100 people there!)
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Jeff Beck Atlanta
Devo Atlanta
Simply Red Atlanta
The The Atlanta
Lyle Lovett & Bonnie Raitt Atlanta
The Cure Atlanta
Jimmy Buffett Atlanta
Echo & the Bunnymen Atlanta
Bryan Ferry Atlanta
ZZ Top Roanoke VA
Sting Atlanta GA
Psychadelic Furs @Fox/Atlanta
David Bowie- Atlanta
Midnight Oil Atlanta
Pat Methany- Chastain Pk Atlanta
UB-40 Atlanta
Michelle Shocked- Centre Stg Atlanta
Big Audio Dynamite Atlanta
Cowboy Junkies Atlanta
....gotta think some more....

[Anthony]

Styx Phila Spectrum 1981
The Police JFK Stadium 1982

No way - I was at both of these shows I think!

Styx with Bad Company?

The Police - with REM, Madness, Joan Jett - about 1000 degrees out???

I have a little tin box with all my stubs in a storage place in NJ...

[mbw1024]

I am pretty sure my first concert was Neil Sedaka at the Garden State Arts Center circa 1970 some-odd. It only get better from there. List them? Geez....I'm all over the place with this list.

Harry Chapin a gaillion times
Barry Manilow
Genesis
U2
Jackson Browne
James Taylor
Journey (oh that one was ugly!)
CSN
BB King
Yo Yo Ma
Steely Dan
Lyle Lovett
John Hiatt
Carly Simon
Billy Joel
Hall and Oates
Don Henley(but never the Eagles)
Bruce Hornsby
Peter Allen (if anyone even knows who that is!)
Elton John
Bette Midler
Al Green
Paul Mccartney
The Funk Brothers (house band of Motown. Some of the greatest musicians ever)
Elvis Costello
REM
Madonna - how could I forget! Slept on the sidewalk outside the garden to get tickets! LOL

oh and that Springsteen fellow a few times.

This list is off the top of my head. I know there's way more. Multiple venues over the years. I can't even recall.

[Connie]

These were mostly at the spectrum in Phila, but here goes

ELO
Led Zepplin
The Who
Elton John
Bruce Springstein
Jethro Tull
Poison
The Beach Boys
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
four tops (Villanova)
Chicago (Steel Pier)
Davey Jones (Steel Pier)
Hall and Oats
Richard Marx
Peter Cetera
Kenny Chesney
Brooks and Dunn
Sugarland
Aerosmith
Wings
The turtles (I'm dating myself)
Chuck Berry (Steel Pier)
The Eagles
Don Henley (by himself)
The Cowsills )

There's probably plenty more, but boy, does this bring back memeories.

[Nancy_B]

I don't think I could remember years and most of these are in Philadelphia at various forums but some in NJ:

Madonna and Beastie Boys (Like a Virgin Tour)
Bruce Springsteen (Born to Run tour and then when he played at the Linc more recently)
The Hooters with Cindi Lauper (The Mann)
Pat Benatar and the Beach Boys on the Ben Franklin Parkway on the 4th of July
Elton John and Billy Joel, together in Phila
Prince (Purple Rain, Alphabet Street and a couple of years ago)
Foo Fighters (Borgata and Wachovia)
The Bacon Brothers, Tower Theater
Red Hot Chili Peppers and STP in Red Bank, NJ
Fleetwood Mac at Tweeter Center
Jimmy Buffet (Merriweather Post, MD, Tweeter Center and Boardwalk Hall)
Neil Young Bridge School Concert (all acoustic), Mountain View, CA (last 4 years acts included but not limited to CSN&Y, Dave Matthews, Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cuties, Jack Johnson, Brian Wilson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Trent Resner, Norah Jones, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica and more)
Amos Lee, Keswick Theater, PA
David Gray, Tweeter Center
Audioslave, Borgata, AC
Van Morrison, AC
Damien Rice, The Mann
Eric Clapton, Spectrum
The Eagles, Spectrum
Three Doors Down, Borgata, AC

Probably more but that's all I can come up with.

[designbyroe]

WOW.......dates may not remember.
Can tell you my first show was
STYX when I was in 8th grade at Rutgers in Jersey
I remember going to Shea Stadium for the Who's FINAL tour when I was in High School
I remember being in 10th grade and going to see ACDC and getting on stage.....

I went every summer to the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey (it is now PNC I think) and going to Jones Beach
saw
Billy Joel
James Taylor
Jackson Browne
Rod Stewart
just to name a few over the summers

I also have seen Springsteen.
I saw him first at the Stone Pony in 1980 I think when I was still to young to get in but was snuck in.....he was just doing some acoustic stuff and having fun........that was just amazing.

I have seen the Police and REM and Bon Jovi and U2 all at stadiums..........in Philly and in Jersey.

(if you did not guess was raised in Jersey)

My fav shows thus far have been

James Taylor in the Berkshires
REM at Rutgers (before they were famous)
U2 on their tour they did after Joshua Tree
Springsteen any time but I love his tour he did by himself after 'Devils and Dust' and he played the harpsicord(sp).
I-Threes and I forget where we saw them. They are amazing. I love Judy Mowats's voice
Willie Nelson and Family

It is funny you started this topic as my sis and I would talk about this when she was going thru chemo in Sept, we used to sit out on the deck at night and talk and we always talked about shows we saw.

She was into Echo and the Bunnymen, Paul Young, BananaRama, REO Speedwagon and Tangerine Dream and all these acts that started out on MTV in the early 80's. In fact she was the one I went to see REM with at Rutgers outside on a big field.....
I miss those days.......

Also went to see alot of jazz artists play NYC......that I miss alot

[sherban]

No way - I was at both of these shows I think!

Styx with Bad Company?

The Police - with REM, Madness, Joan Jett - about 1000 degrees..

Anthony- I don't remember Bad Co with Styx....but...er it could have been...
Yeah, the Police were with REM, etc outside in summer....and Hot...
I've got a bunch of my tickets in a picture frame...many were lost...er...somehow..

I knew some of these "hey I was at that show too" things would happen! Cool...

Connie- How was the Zep show??

[Teddy Salad]

Here are the ones I remember, there are others I'm sure:

Henry Gross, Golden Earring, War, Doobie Brothers - Folsom Field, Boulder, May 1975
Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep - McNichols Arena October 1975
Rare Earth, Deep Purple - Denver Auditorium Arena February 1976
Emerson Lake & Palmer - McNichols August 1977
Blue Oyster Cult - McNichols November 1977
Cheap Trick, Kansas - McNichols January 1978
Ambrosia, Jefferson Starship - McNichols March 1978
Eric Clapton - McNichols February 1978
Fleetwood Mac - Folsom Field May 1978
UFO - Denver Rainbow Music Hall May 1979
Yes - McNichols May 1979
Jethro Tull - McNichols 1980?
Jeff Beck - McNichols 1981?
Asia - Red Rocks July 1982
Yes - Red Rocks July 1994
Steve Howe - Boulder's Fox Theater November 1994
Yes - Denver Pavilions July 2002
James Taylor - Red Rocks
Yes - Red Rocks September 2004
Jeff Beck - Denver Convention Center
Dan Fogelberg - Red Rocks numerous times
Loudon Wainwright III several times (big Loudo fan)
The Police - Pepsi Center June 2007 (No more arena shows for me - Pepsi acoustics are terrible)
Doobie Brothers & Chicago - Fiddler's Green June 2008

[loria]

Great post idea!!!!!!
yikes....not sure i can remember dates--or places....all the time

Jethro Tull boston garden 1974?? ( iwas 13...) it cost about 6 bucks.
elton john boston garden 1975
cat stevens music hall late 70's
little feat music hall late 70's
john mclaughlin
stefan grapelli
warren zevon
grateful dead (countless, late seventies thru 90's mainly new england area or MSQ shows)
david grisman (RCMH)
ella fizgerald and tony bennet (RCMH)
errol garner (early 70's in danvers mass)
patti smith
roy ayers
simon and garfunkle (that show in central park)
paul simon/miriam mekabe/ladysmith black mambazo
allman bros (a bnch of times)
new riders
david bowie
pete seeger
arlo guthrie
tom petty
james taylor
sun ra
p funk
king sunny ade
gil scott heron
elvis costello
indigo girls
neal young
most of the band (after the band was no longer the band)
steely dan
buckwheat zydeco
david lindley /el rayo x
avril lavigne
( I have a tween age daughter)
counting crows
midnight oil
guster

i am sure there others....i think........

[Kathyzhere]

Great idea Sherban...way to really get
my ol' brain into overdrive trying to
remember

I definately won't try to remember places
and dates; although the 70's shows were mostly
at the Cape Cod Coliseum in So. Yarmouth...anyone
ever go there?? Most on my list were seen at
various venues in Mass.

so here goes:

3 Dog Night (very 1st show)
Elton John
KISS
WAR
Tom Petty
Blue Oyster Cult
Orleans
Marshall Tucker
J Geils
Saw Doctors
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Van Halen
Stevie Ray
Hootie
John Lee Hooker
Elvis Costello
Beach Boys
Molly Hatchett
Foghat
ZZ Top
Black Crowes
The Cars
Joe Satriani
Chrissy Hynde
Sarah Mclachlin
Cheryl
REM
MOE.
The Who
Robert Plant
Maxi Priest
Ziggy Marley
Damien Marley
Stephen Marley
Rolling Stones
U2
Sting
Collective Soul
Eric Clapton (my last one; so far)

oh and hubs' bar band- R~N~D
They played most of the Cape Cod
local bars back in the 80's.

I'm pretty sure I'm missing a few
I was a child of the 60's & 70's so forgive my
"brain skip"!!!

Enjoy,
Kathy

[flip-flop]

I can't believe you guys remember all of yours in order and the year. I am not that good.

First Concert EVER - Air Supply at Busch Gardens (I blame my mother I was probably 8 or so)

Since...

-Eric Clapton (probably about 8 times various venues)
-Ringo Starr and Friends at Meriweather Post in MD (during high school - I remember Dr. John was there)
-Dire Straits
-Mili Vinili (I have no one but myself to blame for this one - pre-lip syncing scandal)
-Janet Jackson
-James Taylor (mulitiple times)
-Dave Matthews Band (multiple times)
-The Eagles (DC show with the Dixie Chicks??? and Va Beach in the early 00s)
-Neil Diamond (twice - he's GREAT live!)
-Bob Seger
-Amos Lee (2008 - Richmond and Charlottesville)
-Tina Turner at the Richmond Fairgrounds
-Jack Johnson at Meriweather Post
-Sheryl Crow & Train and other at the Jeep Festival in MD
-Norah Jones (9:30 Club and Wolftrap)
-3 Doors Down (9:30 Club)
-Sarah McLachlan (mulitiple times including Lillith Fair a couple of times)

I am sure there are more ... that's all I can remember for now.

[loria]

KathyZ- i used to live on the cape (in yarmouth mostly) in teh 80's--saw several shows at the colliseum (in fact lived very close to there for a bit)--you didn;t know any of the Howes family did you?

[cass]

I'm jealous of all of you so far! I'm too cheap to buy concert tickets! Here are the ones I can remember though (not an impressive list):

The "concerts" my family dragged me to when I was little:
Statler Brothers
Charlie Daniels
George Jones
Mandrell Sisters (Barbara Mandrell)
Ronnie Milsap

My teen years:
Rick Springfield
The Beach Boys
Alabama
Kenney Rogers
John Cougar Mellencamp

Adult years:
Some "Hair Metal Band" (don't remember who but I'm pretty sure I had a good time)
Air Supply
Tracey Lawrence
The Beach Boys
George Jones (again, and again)
Van Halen (Van Hagar)
Tom Petty
Kenny Chesney (2 nights in a row)

That's all I can remember for now!

[California Girl]

I will NEVER remember all the concerts I've been to, but here are the most significant:

Rolling Stones - Long Beach Auditorium, 1964 (1st U.S. Tour)
Beatles - Hollywood Bowl, 1964 & 1965
Jefferson Airplane, Blues McGoos & Moby Grape - Shrine Auditorium, 1967
ZZ Top & Arrowsmith - The Forum, sometime in the 70's
ZZ Top - about 5 concerts, sometime else in the 70's
Procol Harum - Hollywood Bowl, God only knows when!
Pink Floyd - L.A. Sports Arena, 1975
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Universal Amphitheatre, sometime in the 80's
Crowded House - The Coach House, sometime in the 80's
Sting - Universal Amphitheatre, sometime in the 90's
Sting (40th Birthday Tour) - San Diego Arena, 1991
Tangerine Dream - The Coach House, 90's
Chris Isaak - The Coach House, 90's
Hootie & The Blowfish w/ Cowboy Mouth - San Diego State University, 1994 (?)

Edited to add:
Paul McCartney - Arrowhead Pond, 2005
The Doobie Brothers, with into act ZZ Top - Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, 70's
Wang Chung - Coach House, 80's
Spyrogyra - several times
Keiko Matsui - Thornton Winery, late 90's/early 2000's
Ottmar Leibert - (twice) Coach House & Sun Theatre, late 90's
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Coach House, 2006 (?)
The Pointer Sisters - Universal Amphitheatre, '80's
INXS - Universal Amphitheatre, 80's.
Jerry Lee Lewis & Bo Diddley - Long Beach Arena, 1970's (disappointing!)
Men At Work - Pacific Amphitheatre, '80's
Oingo Boingo - Halloween show, Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, 80's (most excellent!!)
Steely Dan - Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, 2000

[loria]

oh wow Caligirl--you saw the beatles TWICE you win. i am SO jealous.