how many bands have you seen live?

Question

Hi, I am 18, a guy. how many concerts have you been to? here's my list
first concert: ZZ Top
second concert: Robert Earl Keen
third concert: The Who
fourth concert: Green Day
fifth concert: Lynyrd Skynyrd
sixth concert: Bob Seger
seventh concert: Queen and Adam Lambert (July 14th, 2019)
eighth concert: Lynyrd Skynyrd with ZZ Top (August 24th, 2019)
ninth concert: The Who (October 9th, 2019). I'd like to see who you've seen!

Answer 1

Can't count them all ...maybe 100?

Answer 2

This old timer has seen a lot of bands and solo artists. My first concert was in 1965 the Kinks! I’ve seen bands just coming up and before or at their prime. So much fun! Cream 3x in 1967 at the SF Fillmore, Yardbirds when beck quit and unknown jimmy page replaced him, Led Zeppelin, Dylan, Stones, logins and Messina, Steve stills, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, etc, etc.

Answer 3

Ive seen 4

Answer 4

I'm sure memory will let me down here and I won't get the order correct, and I may even forget a show or two, but here goes:



Headliners (supporting acts)



Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Ramatam) - This was my first, in 1972.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (James Gang, Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Yes (???)

Yes (Ace, Johnny Winter, J Geils Band, with a special appearance by Gregg Allman - this was just after he married Cher, and it was big news)

Yes (???)

Jethro Tull (Gary Wright)

Incredible String Band

Aerosmith (REO Speedwagon)

Blue Oyster Cult (Angel, Rush)

Rush (AC/DC)

Kansas

Genesis (Brand X)

Three Dog Night (Stanky Brown, Utopia w/Todd Rundgren, who stole the show)

Little River Band (Duke Jupiter)

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (???)

Fleetwood Mac (Boston)

Fleetwood Mac (Pablo Cruise, Bob Welch, Foreigner)

Good Rats - saw these guys four times

Answer 5

Loggins&Messina

Def Leppard Twice

Bon Jovi

The Who

Answer 6

Not that many really but:



Tangerine Dream

The Pogues (twice)

The Waterboys (twice)

Marillion

Judie Tzuke

Peter Gabriel

Genesis

REM

The Breeders

Spearhead

Swans (twice)

Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Xmal Deutschland

The Fall

Chumbawamba

Squeeze

The Shop Assistants

The Battlefield Band



Those are the only ones I can remember for sure, there may have been others. Unfortunately my city is lacking in decent concert venues.

Answer 7

The Who, James Cotton blues band, Frank Zappa in several incarnations of bands, The Grateful Dead several times, Heart, Huey Lewis and the news, Eddie Money, Santana, The Kinks a couple of times, The Beach Boys, Flo and Eddy, Dave Mason, Maria Muldaur, T Bone Walker, Doc Watson, The Band, Jethro Tull, Leslie West and Mountain, Chuck Berry. Many Bluegrass bands at festivals.

Answer 8

My first concert was Led Zeppelin in 1973 at Three Rivers Stadium. I can't even remember all the concerts I saw in the 70s but here are some. Lynyrd Skynyrd twice, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, The Stones, Allman Brothers, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Frank Zappa, Foghat, The Band, Aerosmith, Santana, Canned Heat, King Crimson, Charlie Daniels, Pure Prairie League, Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep, Marshall Tucker Band, Bad Company, Roy Buchanan, and more... My last concert was Paul McCartney in 2010.

Answer 9

Far more then I can list going back to 1973. When I lived in Pittsburgh there were TWO venues 10 minutes walk from my office. A bunch of us would walk down to Three Rivers area after work and see shows every week -every couple weeks. I have a small wooden "table top box" with every ticket stub from ALL the shows. I also write who the girl / girls were I took to the show on the back. I think Pink Floyd "Animals" was the best show I have seen. That was at Three Rivers Stadium.

Jackson Browne multiple times

Fleetwood Mac multiple and both Cleveland and Pittsburgh shows

Alice Cooper

Frampton

J.Giels

Bob Seager

Santana

Aerosmith

John Kay & Steppenwolf

ELO

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Moody Blues

Quick Silver Messenger Service

I was at this show. Pittsburgh is a very special place. A PARTY city for sure if there ever was one. I think the girls had fun playing for us here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLdmxgRdMAM

Answer 10

Queen with Freddie twice. David Bowie, The Who, Richie Blackmore, Van Halen, Ronnie Montrose, Sammy Hagar, Headeast, Alice Cooper, Billy Squire, REO, Cheap Trick, ZZ Top, Journey, Ted Nugent, Damn Yankees, Styx, Grand Funk RR, Iron Butterfly, UFO, AC/DC with Bon then Brian, Areosmith (never finished either concert), Joe Perry Project, Motley Crue (Vince was so wasted he couldn't remember the words) Quiet Riot, White Snake, Poison, Skid Row, Guns and Roses.

Many more.

Best shows Queen, Rush, Styx. Music was spot on.

Worst: Areosmith, until last 3 songs Journey, Motely Crue.

Answer 11

Cough, cough .... ahem ... I quit counting after 200. My first was KISS in 1976 just when they were exploding big and most recent was Motorhead before Lemmy died, and Black Sabbath's The End Tour. Oh and Slayer's farewell tour with Lamb of God, Anthrax, Testament and Napalm Death was AWESOME !!! Seen Judas Priest about 8 times and Tool about 7 times etc. etc.

Answer 12

I saw My Chemical Romance all the way back in 2007. While I may not like that type of music anymore, it still gave me a good childhood with awesome memories

Answer 13

2008 Chinese group: 12 girls band, D'Sound & the beautiful Renee Olstead

2009 Brian Simpson, Chieli Minucci & Special EFX, Chuck Loeb, Eric Darius, Eliane Elias & the great Laura Fygi

2011 Carlos Santana & Fourplay

2012 Herbie Hancock

2013 Cradle of Filth

Answer 14

Well over a hundred

Answer 15

Hundreds at this point. I stopped counting such things long ago. The only one on your list I'd pay money to see at this point is Bob Seger, the others weren't worth seeing 20 years ago when I saw them.



Your list just makes me sad for you. You're 18 and just seeing old man bands well past their primes.



Don't you ever want to see someone who hasn't yet been stamped with the old man band stamp of approval? Something which isn't just ticking off a little box of classic rock?



I regret most of the bands I saw in identical basketball arenas and even a lot of the outdoor stadiums. I regret every tribute band. I can't say that about the ones I saw in ballrooms or clubs for which I paid a fourth of the ticket price. I don't regret the big festivals, because I didn't just see one headliner, but a wide variety of bands, some of whom brought it and some of whom did not.



You're young. Take a chance. Go see something new.

Answer 16

A whole lot, but I've got you by a couple of decades and I'm lucky enough to have lived my life about an hour outside of L.A. so there are lots of opportunities. I'll just list some favorites and ones that feel historically noteworthy off the top of my head.

My first show was a Jefferson Airplane reunion, but I barely remember it. I was around 6 or 7. Second was The Thompson Twins.

Pavement (x7), Frank Black (x4), Elliott Smith (x3), Paul Simon (x3), Bob Dylan (x2, cool box to check and all, but they were not good shows), Springsteen, McCartney, Elvis Costello (x4), Sebadoh (x2), Folk Implosion, Beck (x2), the Shins (x2, before they stopped being good), Built to Spill (x2), Elastica, Sonic Youth (x3) Lollapalooza w/ AiC, Primus Rage Against the Machine, many more, the Pixies, the Breeders (x2), Radiohead. Tom Waits, Fiona Apple, Wilco, the National, Sufjan Stevens, Dave Matthews (bad show, left early), Beastie Boys (terrible show, left early), RHCP (even worse, definitely left early), Porno for Pyros (worst show I've ever seen, including more than a couple local bands that weren't ready for the stage, for some reason stayed til they were done), plus many, many more.



Some of my favorites that won't mean much to many Dr. Dog, Delta Spirit, Franklin for Short (roughly 1,000 times), the Spires, Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos w/ Dinosaur Feathers, Tapes n Tapes, the Black Heart Procession, Tall Tales and the Silver Lining, Jeremy Enigk/Imaad Wassif, the Silver Jews