What Concerts Have You Seen?

[Eric in NJ]

I don't know if it will allow this much text but here goes:
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I'm old & can't remember dates and venues. But they range from college gigs to MSG The Fillmore East, Shea Stadium New Orleans Jazz fest and even a 3 day festival in Puerto Rico in 1972. The numbers after are the number of times I saw them.

Duuuude- Impressive list...Ten Years after, Ray Charles, Janis Joplin! Cool!
I also found a couple in there I forgot to put on my list...thanks!

I put this list together starting a few years ago and would add to it as the gray cells allowed

Ten Years After was a fillmore show around 72 Janis was at the Shea stadium gig only a month or so before she died. Brother Ray was at a casino in AC and he put on a pretty short (but good) set for the money I paid. Hey I saw Johnny Winter When Rick Derringer was in the group, Buddy miles and a band named Tin House for 7 bucks at the Fillmore. I saw the greatful dead when they were an opening act for Country Joe and the Fish there too.

[jimg20]

"If you can remember the '60's, you weren't really there." Robin Williams

I know that my list does not compare to some of your lists. I don't remember them all, and of those I do remember the details might be wrong. The Concert for Bangaldesh was the first benefit concert of its kind. It included George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clappton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and countless others. The warm-up act was Ravi Shankar. You may remember him as Norah Jones' father.

There were other memorable events like walking back stage and interviewing Melanie for over an hour.

Here's a partial list:

Jimi Hendrix, Norman, OK 1970
Grand Funk Railroad, Norman, OK 1970 or 71
Concert for Bangladesh (1st show, Madison Sq. Garden) 1971
Three Dog Night, Oklahoma City 1971
Melanie, Oklahoma City 1973 (Back Stage Interview – I worked for a radio station)
John Denver, Fort Worth 1977
Neal Diamond, Dallas 1984?
Peter, Paul & Mary, Dallas 1988?
Reba McIntire, Fayetteville, AR 1994
Mary Chapin Carpenter opening for Vince Gill Fayetteville, AR 1995
Kathy Mattea, Salt Lake City 2000
Diana Krall, Salt Lake City Valentines Day, 2000
James Taylor, Tulsa, OK 2000
James Taylor, Little Rock 2003
The Neville Brothers, Fayetteville, AR 2003
Alison Krauss, Tulsa, OK 1997, 1998, 1999
Alison Krauss, Council Bluffs, IA 2003 (Back Stage Pass)
Lee Ann Womack, Fayetteville, AR 2004
B B King, Fayetteville, AR 2005
Three Dog Night, Fayetteville, AR 2006
Bill Medley, Fayetteville, AR 2007
Emmylou Harris, Fayetteville, AR 2005
Emmylou Harris, Charlottesville, VA 2008
David Crosby & Graham Nash, Ithaca, NY 2008 (last month)

JIM

[Eric in NJ]

The Concert for Bangaldesh was the first benefit concert of its kind. It included George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clappton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and countless others. The warm-up act was Ravi Shankar. You may remember him as Norah Jones' father.



JIM

I never saw any of the Beatles in concert. I would give up allot of the shows I did see to have seen the Bangaldesh show.

[jimg20]

The Concert for Bangaldesh was the first benefit concert of its kind. It included George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clappton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and countless others. The warm-up act was Ravi Shankar. You may remember him as Norah Jones' father.



JIM

I never saw any of the Beatles in concert. I would give up allot of the shows I did see to have seen the Bangaldesh show.

It was quite spectacular. That was the first $6 million band. My kids got me the DVD for Christmas last year. It is not a complete show, but it is very good. When George Harrison began the title song that he wrote for that day, it sent a chill down my back. It still does.

I stood on line for several hours at this new thing called Ticketron to pay the hansome sum of $12 for each ticket. There was a limit of two tickets each.

JIM

[Connie]

Sherban: Connie- How was the Zep show??

Sherban, those were the days of bell bottoms that had 2" zippers, i wasn't even married then and you could smoke pot in the Spectrum

Of course, they were amazing!!

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[liamsaunt]

liamsaunt said: First concert: Huey Lewis and the News. I was 15, and I met my first boyfriend there.

Others (that I remember! There were LOTS more)

Lots more? Boyfriends, or concerts?

Both, of course.

I remembered a couple more concerts last night:

David Bowie
Red Hot Chili Peppers
BB King
Norah Jones
Indigo Girls
Paula Cole
Smashing Pumpkins
Tony Bennett

And, not a concert per se, but my sister and I once worked as guest ushers on the David Letterman show. Marvin Hamlisch was the musical guest, and he was very charming. We also got to meet Paul Shaffer--he was really nice. Dave kept to himself...we only got a wave out of him.

[augie]

First one - Grand Funk and Wet Willie - March 1974 at Tampa Stadium.

After that, a lot of it's a blur but here's at least a partial list:

Crosby, Stills,Nash, & Young w/Jesse Colin Young - August 1974

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels, Outlaws - July 74

Marshall Tucker Band (many times)

Atlanta Rythym Section (many times)

Tampa Jam - Atlanta Rythym Section, Pure Prarie League, Kiss, Dr. John, War, Marshall Tucker, ZZ Top, Johnny Winter

Yes and Griffin

Savoy Brown

Foghat

Peter Frampton & Gary Wright

Ten Years After, Leslie West, & Gary Wright

Stones, J. Geils Band, Rufus, & Atlanta Rythym Section

Allman Brothers, Grinderswitch, 38 Special

Bruce Springsteen (in a 400 seat theater for $4!)

Johnny & Edgar Winter together!

Southern Jam - Marshall Tucker, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels Band, Bonnie Raitt, others...

Boston

Rush

John Mayall and Leslie West

Lynyrd Skynyrd, four days before the plane crash - we saw the second night of the Street Survivors Tour, and they only played four

Heart

Led Zeppelin - June of 1977* They played three songs before a monster thunderstorm soaked the stage. It wasn't safe for them to continue, so they said they'd replay it the next night. Idiot fans caused a riot causing the Tampa city council to cancel the replay (and all concerts at Tampa Stadium for a long time). I bought tickets for a show later in the tour that was to be held in the Superdome in New Orleans, confident that weather could not be an issue. Four days before the show lead singer Robert Plant's young son died in England, and the band returned home, cancelling the rest of the tour. I've had Led Zeppelin tickets four different times, but have only seen them play live for that shortened set in Tampa - The Song Remains the Same, Celebration Day, and Nobody's Fault But Mine.

Blue Oyster Cult

Some festival type concert at Peppin Rood Stadium in Tampa - I remember Seals & Croft, Alvin Lee, Joe Cocker, and some other acts I don't remember (including the headliner!)

Aerosmith and Mahogany Rush (they were drunk and/or the sound system sucked - I've never been more disappointed in a show - at least not at a full one!)

Ted Nugent, Golden Earring

Sea Level, Joe Cocker, and others...

Johnny Winter playing "Nuthin' But the Blues"

Frank Zappa

Kansas & Styx

Styx & UFO

Earl Scruggs Revue & Mac Wiseman

Fleetwood Mac

Beach Boys

REO Speedwagon

Head East

Stevie Ray Vaughan - twice at Brassy's - a nightclub in Cocoa Beach

Hank Williams Jr. - also on two different occasions at Brassy's - once with a very traditional country crowd and once with an "Outlaw Country" crowd.

Robin Trower

Pink Floyd - once in Tampa, once in Orlando

U2 & The Alarm (at the Orlando Jai-alai fronton!)

Fabulous Thunderbirds

Nighthawks

The Who, Joan Jett, B-52s

Rolling Stones, Living Colour, Rockets (1989 Steel Wheels tour)

Eric Clapton

BB King

Buddy Guy

Lee Ritenour - several times - the best was in a little club in Seattle called Jazz Alley, and Eric Marienthal was playing sax with the band that night!

Spyro Gyra

Yellowjackets

Bob Seger, Molly Hatchet, Rockets

ZZ Top, Rossington-Collins Band, Pat Travers Band, 38 Special

Peter Frampton, Kansas, Derringer

Florrida World Music Festival - Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Brownsville, Blackfoot, Mahogany Rush (this time Aerosmith - whether sober or just motivated because Nugent got top billing, ROCKED! Now I could see what the hype about seeing them live was all about)

The Who "Farewell" Tour

Stevie Winwood

Neil Young - saw him and Crazy Horse play at the Costa Mesa Ampitheatre in Orange County, CA, - and with the International Harvesters in Gainesville, Fl, a one man show on the "Trans" tour in the brand new Sun Dome on the USF campus in Tampa, then back with Crazy Horse (the 3rd best garage band in the world) in Daytona!

R.E.M.

Springsteen on the "Born In The USA" tour with 80,000 of my closest friends in the Orange Bowl in Miami on a weeknight - there's a great story about that trip that I can laugh about - now!

Styx and Kansas - this was a kind of reunion tour. Both bands had their original casts, but boy did they show their age. Leslie & I had seen the tour they were on together in 1978 - but I saw them in Lakeland, Fl and she saw them in Rochester, NY - and it was 10 years before we'd met. So we had a good time seeing them together while reminiscing seperately!

Paul McCartney - sort of! I got to go to the Super Bowl where he performed at halftime!

I'm sure that there are a lot more that I can't remember right now. Some of the more notable bands I have never seen live that I should have:

Jimmy Buffet - I can't believe this one
Eagles
Tom Petty

What a fun thread!

[nothintolose]

One similar to SJfromNJ's, we had bought my parents tickets and their two best friends tickets to go with us to the John Denver concert here.

We got down to the venue, and no one was there. We had no idea what had happened. We found out later his plane crashed the day before.

I think my parents' still have their tickets. If I do, I have no clue where they are.

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[California Girl]

I think my parents' still have their tickets. If I do, I have no clue where they are.

I hate to sound like a morbid capitalist, but I bet those tickets would fetch a pretty good price on eBay. I found out that concert ticket stubs (and you have the whole ticket!) are a hot item when I sold my Beatles ticket stubs for $350 and my Stones ticket stubs for $300!

Of course, those were milestone concerts, but so would this "never happened" John Denver concert be.

[msgcolleen]

I'll try to name them all in order as I drink my 3rd glass of Cabernet~~~

Parents took me to see Chuck Berry 82
Journey 83
Prince 84
had tickets to Van Halen but got in trouble and Mom made me sell them.
Cure (at least 5X)
Producers
B52's
Big Audio Dynamite
Alarm
Julian Lennon
U2 (Hubby got kicked out for chunking a beer at a security guard)
World Party
Debbie Harry
Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians (local band made big) many,many times
ABC
Pet Shop Boys (had front row ticket but went to a church function instead}

New Order
Depeche Mode 3X (boring??)
Paul McCartney (1990~Texas Stadium)
Pearl Jam
Jazz Fest~2003
Concert for New York City at Madison Square Garden (paid mega bucks to fly to New York right after 9/11 to experience this concert of a lifetime!! All NYC firefighter & police families were there along with THE WHO,PAUL MCCARTNEY,BILLY JOEL, ELTON JOHN,DAVID BOWIE,BON JOVI, GOO GOO DOLLS, I COULD GO ON & ON!!! The concert ended at 2 a.m. & was the best ever!!}
The Strokes
Beck unplugged
Paul McCartney-11th row floor-2002
Polyphonic Spree
Crossroads Guitar Festival at the Cotton Bowl 2006
Eric Clapton, BB King, Santana, ZZ Top, John Mayer, Buddy Guy, ect., ect.,
Red Hot Chili Peppers-AA Center 2007
Van Halen- AA Center 2008

That's all I can remember for now!!

AC/DC is coming next!! Jan. 2009

Cheers~

[Lex]

This was a lot of fun to think back on. Some were seen many times. No chance of recalling the dates. Of people still alive that I haven't seen but would like to, Tom Waits is at the top of the list.

Dead
Riders
JGB
Phil & Friends
Van
Airplane
Traffic
Janis
Led Zep
Byrds
Canned Heat
Dylan
The Band
Butterfield
Who
Grand Funk
Johnny Winter
BB King
Chambers Brothers
Sam & Dave
Santana
Ten Years After
Bruce
CSNY
Cat Stevens
James Gang
J Geils
Bonnie Raitt
John Koerner
Kweskin
Simon & Garfunkel
Joan Baez
Arlo
Willie
Tom Rush
Odetta
Dave Van Ronk
John Hammond
David Bromberg
Burning Spear
Judy Mowatt
Toots
King Sunny Ade
Thomas Mapfumo
Lucky Dube
Vieux Farka Toure
Ladysmith
Toumani Diabate
Salif Keita
Miriam Makeba
Hugh Masakela
Olatunji
Malathini
Youssou N'Dour
Sweet Honey
Miles
Cassandra Wilson
Keith Jarrett
Dave Holland
Charlie Haden
Bobby McFerrin
Midnightt Oil
Pogues
Chieftans
Solas
Richard Thompson
Chris Smither
Bill Frissell
John Prine
My Morning Jacket
Decemberists
Pink Floyd
Roger Waters
Nevilles
Patti Smith
Steve Earle
Michelle Shocked
U2
Police
Roches
Tracy Chapman
Dar Williams
Eddie Vedder
Bruce Cockburn
Dave Mattthews
David Byrne
Laurie Anderson

[FlaGeorge]

Last week we saw Cheap Trick – they did the Beatles 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the landmark album. It was killer. Robin Zander, the lead singer of Cheap Trick - lives in a sub-division across the street from where I live. No, we didn’t get free tickets, but I thought it was pretty cool that they performed for the “Home Town Folks”. The place was sold out.

[sherban]

This has been alot of fun, I appreciate everyone sharing their lists and little snippets of stories. Music tells alot about a person (I think)...

I figured some interesting lists would come out of this crowd...ya'll listed so many concerts I wished I'd seen...Hendrix, Beatles, Zep, Janis, Alice Cooper...etc. The collective musical experience listed here is phenomenal! People who saw artists >40 times...how cool is that. I'm seeing ven diagrams of musical genre when I read ya'll posts...cool, thanks for sharing!