which cool bands have you seen live ???

[tdw121270]

Hawkwind
Gong
Primal Scream
The Orb
Suede
Teenage Fanclub
Happy Mondays
Petshopboys
Stereo MC's
Rolf Harris
The Verve
Jamiroquai
Galliano
Ozric Tentacles
Whitesnake
The Specials
Lily Allen
Fleet Foxes
Bjorn Again
Kasabian
Spinal Tap
Madness
Status Quo
Easy Star All Stars
Dire Straits
Simple Minds
Sting
Whitney Houston
UB40
Eric Clapton
Stevie Wonder
Eurythmics
George Michael
Erasure
Billy Ocean
Anthrax
Seeing The Austrailan Pink Floyd in Amsterdam in April next year

[CannaSir]

Crass
Monochrome set
the cramps
adam and the ants
theatre of hate
Splodgenessabounds
The Meteors
The Jam
The Clash
Sex Pistols
Ramones
the cure
umpteen thrash metal bands with noname
James Brown (rip)
Randy Crawford
Pink Floyd - 3 times
Jean Michel Jarre @ Docklands
Reggae Sunsplash at Wembley Arena (the last one -awesome weed!)
Misty in Roots twice
The Smiths (!! - it was good at the time! lol
Devo
More Mushrooms Vicar (awesome pub cover band! lol)

[smeetiva]

Too many names but the most important, Bunny Wailer

[Smokeout]

Cypress Hill, Autechre, Plaid, Royksopp, Insane Clown Posse, Thievery Corporation, The Herbaliser, Infected Mushroom, Hallucinogen, Shpongle, probably a lot more I don't remember...

[Grumblefoot]

Going to see Morrisey this Thursday...

[grateful deb]

Beginning in 1970 or so…. (when my dad dragged me when I was 10!!??)
Seen hundreds since then…. Saved quite a few ticket stubs and I filled 2 photo albums.
Good thing, now I can remember visually what my brain forgot…..

Richie Havens – My First! 1970
Sonny and Cher (!!) Second! 1970
Bobby Sherman !!!! - In 5th grade
Crosby, Stills and Nash 1978
Neil Young –lots – Best- Rust Never Sleeps Tour
Aztek 2 Step
Yes - 1978
The Who (at least a dozen) Starting in 1979
Pink Floyd -The Wall Concert
Cheech and Chong
Steve Miller
The Grateful Dead (at least a hundred times) and all their reincarnations, Bob Weir, Furthur, The Dead, Lesh…. Starting in 1977
Garcia (natch) again, lots….
Elton John – 1986
David Bowie
Cool Jazz Festival -2X
Robert Hunter
Jefferson Airplane - 1989
Outlaws
Allman Bros -Lots!
Stones
New Riders
The Cure
Springsteen
Dr. John - 1990
Bonnie Raitt
No Nukes at Madison Sq Garden -1979
Temptations w/ The 4 Tops -1991
Dave Matthews
REM
U2
Dylan (W/The Dead) 1987
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -1986
Sting, The Police
Simon & Garfunkel (Central Park),
Paul Simon- Graceland -1987, One of my top 3 shows!!!!
Peter Tosh
Renaissance- 1979
Jethro Tull - 1988
Dweezil Zappa
Taj Mahal
Santana
Steve Winwood
Emerson, Lake and Palmer -1996
A whole bunch of reggae in Jamaica, mon, at the Reggae Sunsplash in the 1980’s…
Little Feat-1988
Judy Collins- 1979
Moody Blues - 1983
Genesis
Jorma
Suzanne Vega -1987
Eric Clapton -1985
Jimmy Cliff- 1985
Black Uhuru- 1994
Hot Tuna- 1991
The Kinks- 1985
Jackson Browne – 1986
Live Aid-
David Bromberg- way too many times….
Ringo Starr and his all star band (Billy preston…) 1989
Elvis Costello – 1989
Traffic -1994
REO Speedwagon – what was I thinking??!! w/ Fleetwood Mac and Pat Benatar – 1995
B-52’s
Ramones
Warren Haynes
Pearl Jam- 2003

And that’s just some of the stubs I have. Lots more I’ve forgotten…..
Should have put the money I spent into mutual funds….. Oh well….

[Willjay]

Great list of bands, I am envious my dad never took me to see Richie Havens

Beginning in 1970 or so…. (when my dad dragged me when I was 10!!??)
Seen hundreds since then…. Saved quite a few ticket stubs and I filled 2 photo albums.
Good thing, now I can remember visually what my brain forgot…..

Richie Havens – My First! 1970
Sonny and Cher (!!) Second! 1970
Bobby Sherman !!!! - In 5th grade
Crosby, Stills and Nash 1978
Neil Young –lots – Best- Rust Never Sleeps Tour
Aztek 2 Step
Yes - 1978
The Who (at least a dozen) Starting in 1979
Pink Floyd -The Wall Concert
Cheech and Chong
Steve Miller
The Grateful Dead (at least a hundred times) and all their reincarnations, Bob Weir, Furthur, The Dead, Lesh…. Starting in 1977
Garcia (natch) again, lots….
Elton John – 1986
David Bowie
Cool Jazz Festival -2X
Robert Hunter
Jefferson Airplane - 1989
Outlaws
Allman Bros -Lots!
Stones
New Riders
The Cure
Springsteen
Dr. John - 1990
Bonnie Raitt
No Nukes at Madison Sq Garden -1979
Temptations w/ The 4 Tops -1991
Dave Matthews
REM
U2
Dylan (W/The Dead) 1987
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -1986
Sting, The Police
Simon & Garfunkel (Central Park),
Paul Simon- Graceland -1987, One of my top 3 shows!!!!
Peter Tosh
Renaissance- 1979
Jethro Tull - 1988
Dweezil Zappa
Taj Mahal
Santana
Steve Winwood
Emerson, Lake and Palmer -1996
A whole bunch of reggae in Jamaica, mon, at the Reggae Sunsplash in the 1980’s…
Little Feat-1988
Judy Collins- 1979
Moody Blues - 1983
Genesis
Jorma
Suzanne Vega -1987
Eric Clapton -1985
Jimmy Cliff- 1985
Black Uhuru- 1994
Hot Tuna- 1991
The Kinks- 1985
Jackson Browne – 1986
Live Aid-
David Bromberg- way too many times….
Ringo Starr and his all star band (Billy preston…) 1989
Elvis Costello – 1989
Traffic -1994
REO Speedwagon – what was I thinking??!! w/ Fleetwood Mac and Pat Benatar – 1995
B-52’s
Ramones
Warren Haynes
Pearl Jam- 2003

And that’s just some of the stubs I have. Lots more I’ve forgotten…..
Should have put the money I spent into mutual funds….. Oh well….

[grateful deb]

Willjay, my father was a maniac! He was always listening to music way too loud, (he loves jazz, R & R, avant garde stuff) We had to tell him to turn it down, we're trying to do our homework. He used to drag my mom to concerts till she said that all the pot smoke in the venue made her tired and sleepy!

He is going to be 85 next week and has definitely slowed down. The music (Floyd, Yes, Vangelis, Moody Blues....) is a bit lower now but he is still playing and singing! He still hates the Grateful Dead, though....(except Terrapin Station). Calls them the Graceless Dead.... Party on Dad!!!!

[verticalSquare]

Loads of them

One of the best was

James Brown in 99'

Really glad I got to see him before he passed.

[Strawberries]

With the emphasis on cool.

The Cramps - Lux was the best frontman ever. RIP. Ivy the sexiest guitarist.
The Fall - unrelenting, leftfield, always a surprise, always the same.
Theatre of Hate - nothing like em before or since, dark, epic, intelligent.
Carter USM - early gigs plain mayhem, so much pun.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Slim picking in Belfast, but here goes it:

The Editors
Snow Patrol (First gig back in Belfast in 10 years..They were on a high )
50 cent
Arctic Monkeys
The Prodigy

Aint much of a concert goer, went through abit of a trance stage so ill bring the DJs in

Pete Tong
Eddie Halliwell
Paul Van Dyk
Judge Jules
John Digweed
Paul Oakenfold
Carl Cox

[DanFromUk]

Embrace
Kanye west in amsterdam
Natasha bedingfield ( won a comp and got to meet her as well- she's proper fit)
T-rex

And the usuall.

Homelands (carl cox is a ledge!)
Gatecrasher
Party in the park

[ed the head]

To the best of my beautifully porus memory:

Led Zeppelin
Kansas (maybe not so cool)
The Grateful Dead (3x)
Hot Tuna (5x)
Leo Koetke
Stanley Clarke
Alvin Lee
Roy Buchanan
Neil Young
Squeeze
The Allman Brothers
Buddy Guy
Joe Satriani
Stevie Ray Vaugn
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Dave Matthews Band
The Shins
Sunvolt
Wilco (3x)
Nick Cave
Alex Cuba
Jim Bianco
Dengue Fever
Gogol Bordello (3x)
KT Tunstall

[ed the head]

Metallica with The Cult and another time with Queensryche
Grateful Dead. Once I saw these guys open for the Dead…
...Violent Femmes, twice.
Sonic Youth
HR (from Bad Brains) as well as Bad Brains w/out HR
Antibalas
Bob Dylan opening for…
…Santana. Also opening for...
...Phil and Friends
Fantomas
Prong
The Skatelites
Steve Winwood
Neil Young
10,000 Maniacs
Steely Dan
Sigur Ros.
Groove Armada
Faze Action
Moby
David Bowie
St. Germain
Michael Hedges
Ozomotli
The Roots
Buckethead
TV On The Radio
Radiohead
Kraftwerk
The Pixies
Bauhaus
Joan Baez
Jefferson Starship or maybe they billed it as Starship. At a kayak festival in Salida, CO.
Tower of Power
Ween
Trilok Gurtu
John Mclaughlin as a Trio and as Shakti
Cibo Matto
Man or Astroman
Zen Guerilla
Frankie goes to Hollywood @ Emos in Austin.
King Crimson
Blackalicious
Fishbone
Massive Attack
Saul Williams
Thievery Corporation
Karl Denson
Jesus Lizard
Interpol

Lots of great bands! How was Michael Hedges live?

[geoffk]

Lots of great bands! How was Michael Hedges live?

Excellent, he was such a great guitarist. There was a group of us shrooming in front of the stage acting all goofy and dancing, Hedges was digging it.