01. Keith Richards & The Expensive Wino's Meadowlands Arena NJ 12/23/88 1st show

02. The Replacements x2

03. Metallica x5

04. Guns n' Roses

05. Ween

06. The Flaming Lips x2

07. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers x3

08. The Rolling Stones x6

09. James Brown

10. Dave Matthews Band

11. Blues Traveler x8

12. The Steve Miller Band x2

13. Bob Dylan x9

12. Sting x2

12. Rush x2

13. Fiona Apple x3(opened for the Stones @ MSG in '98)

14. Traffic x2

15. Little Feat

16. Warren Zevon x2

17. Phish x82

18. Grateful Dead x15+

19. Phil Lesh and Friends x25+

20. Ratdog x15+

21. Umphreys Mcgee x2

22. The Dead (& Furthur) x16

23. The Other One's x15+

24. Kid Rock x2 (once with Phish & once with Gov't Mule)

25. Dickey Betts and Great Southern

26. Reid Genauer and The Assembly of Dust x6

27. Strangefolk x2

28. Aerosmith x2

29. Trey Anastasio x29

30. .moe

31. Widespread Panic x2

32. Pet Shop Boys

33. George Thorogood x2

34. John Fogerty

35. Paul McCartney x3

36. Duran Duran

37. Solar Circus x8

38. Juggling Suns x10+

39. Good Lovin' Jamband x7

40. Dinosaur Jr.

41. Roger Waters x4

42. From Good Homes x3

43. Marianne Faithful

44. Lou Reed x2

45. The Creatures

46. Robert Plant x3

47. Pearl Jam

48. Strangefolk x2

49. Beastie Boys

50. Dead or Alive

51. Prince

52. Ru Paul x2

53. Elton John x4

54. Billy Joel & Elton John

55. Willie Nelson x3

56. The Who x8

57. The Band

58. Rick Danko (of The Band)

59. Levon Helm (of The Band)

60. A Flock Of Seagulls

61. The Doobie Brothers

62. Aerosmith x2

63. The Black Crowes x2

64. Medeski Martin & Wood x4

65. Amfibian feat. Tom Marshall(lyricist for Phish)

66. Mike Gordon

67. B.B. King

68. Karl Densons Tiny Universe

69. Petrol

70. Zen Tricksters x12

71. Chris Barron(lead singer of The Spin Doctors) x2

72. Beck

73. Gov't Mule x12

74. The Allman Brothers Band x5

75. Oteil & The Peacemakers

76. The Derek Trucks Band x2

77. Mickey Hart Band x2

78. The Jerry Garcia Band x7

79. Zappa Plays Zappa

80. Pearl Jam

81. U2 x3

82. John Cale(of The Velvet Underground)

83. The Steve Miller Band x2

84. The Pat Mcgee Band

85. Dark Star Orchestra x5

86. Sonic Youth

87. Joey Ramone

88. Darlene Love

89. The Indigo Girls

90. The Pretenders

91. Robert Hunter(Grateful Dead Lyricist)

92. Bruce Hornsby

93. The Doors Of The 21st Century

94. Neil Young x4

95. Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band x5

96. The Machine

97. Les Claypools Fearless Flying Frog Brigade

98. Eric Clapton x6

99. Dire Straits

100. The Fabulous Thunderbirds

101. The Cult

102. Primus x3

103. The Wallflowers x2

104. Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals x2

105. Jakob Dylan

106. The New Riders of the Purple Sage x5

107. Dave Matthews & Friends

108. The Arcade Fire

109. Deep Banana Blackout x5

110. Keller Williams

111. Max Creek x5

112. Michael Franti and Spearhead

113. Particle x2

114. Rusted Root x4

115. John Cougar Mellencamp x2

116. Benevento/Russo Duo x8

117. Scarecrow Collection

118. The Breakfast

119. The Radiators

120. Steve Kimock Band x3

121. David Gans x2

122. Jazz Mandolin Project x2

123. Del McCoury Band

124. Rafter Bats

125. Railroad Earth x3

126. RAQ

127. Ryan Montbleau Band x2

128. Buddy Guy

129. Donna Jean & The Tricksters x4

130. Fungus Amungus

131. George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic x2

132. Los Lobos

133. The Wailers x2

134. Tea Leaf Green x2

135. Zero

136. Bill Kreutzmann Trio

137. Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi

138. Jackie Greene Band

139. Porter Batiste & Stoltz

140. Taj Mahal Trio

141. The Neville Brothers

142. Trey Anastasio x29

this list is not complete, I keep remembering more...

What do you guys dig?

Impressive. You probably needed all of the others to wipe the memory of that one Duran Duran show out of your consciousness.

Thats a lot of concerts! Personally I try to avoid crowds and live events of any kind with a passion. I turn down free sporting event tickets all the time. Even refused to go to the World Series when offered free killer seats.

That said I have only been to one music concert and a few comedy concerts.

My one and only music concert was circa 1970 seeing the Temptations with opening act Gladys Knight and the Pips. It was sort of a surreal experience and we were about the only white people there.

DD was a C- show, best song "A View To A Kill" and you know there is some serious sucking going on!

sweet!

Great list!

The best ones I've seen:

Red Hot Chili Peppers x3
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Springsteen
Tom Petty
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
Deftones
Nine Inch Nails
Metallica
Queens of the Stone Age

Most of them were festival sets in the last 7 years.

Don't know how many I've been to, but for several years was going to 1-2 shows per week. Some of the best (usually due to a combination of show and venue):

- Nirvana, 1993 Buffalo
- Grateful Dead, 1994 Giant Stadium
- REM, Madison Square Garden 1995
- Beck, Hammerstein Ballroom 2005
- Outkast, Private Party at Sony Corporate HQ 2005
- Beastie Boys, McCarren Park Pool, 2007
- M. Ward, Town Hall 2009
- U2, Dublin 2009
- Pearl Jam, Berlin 2010
- Paul Simon, Webster Hall 2011

Nirvana - Hawaii
Fishbone - 2x in Hawaii
Smashing Pumpkins - Hawaii
Van Halen - Memphis
Alice in Chains - Hawaii with Layne Memphis W/O
Metallica - Hawaii
Foo Fighters - Memphis
Pearl Jam 2X in Hawaii
Violent Femmes - Hawaii
Green Day - Memphis
Suicidal Tendencies - Hawaii
Several more at years of Memphis in May

JC so many shows in NYC I've been to going back about 20 years...so many bands so many shows...below is just from the Punk Rock scene...but there are others too from other genres

Ramones - circa 95
Sublime - circa 95
NOFX
Pennywise
Rancid
The Misfits (Michael Graves lineup)
Decendents
All
Anti-Flag
Bad Brains
Bad Religion
Casualties
Leftover Crack
The Loved Ones
Blitzkid
Creepshow
Calabrese
Face To Face
Guttermouth
Lagwagon
No Use For A Name
Less Than Jake
Voodoo Glow Skulls
Dropkick Murphys
Green Day
The Bouncing Souls
H2O
Sick Of It All
Madball
The Vandals
Teen Idols
Suicidal Tendencies
The Adicts
The Business
Against Me!
The Loved Ones
Alkaline Trio
Tiger Army
Teenage Bottlerocket
Social Distortion

....just to name a few...scene is not like what it was though...CBGBs gone, Wetlands gone, Coney Island High gone, Continental gone, and so many others...

Jealous of the guys who got to see Nirvana!

Morrissey X 3
Radiohead
Deftones
Rage Against The Machine
Queens Of The Stone Age
Bloc Party
The Killers
Johnny Marr
Arctic Monkeys
Kings Of Leon
The Prodigy
Brand New
We Are Scientists
Serj Tankian
Mindless Self Indulgence

Plus loads more I can't remember.

Nice lists. Im not even going to try. I always forget ****. Ive seen enough concerts that I will hear a
song and go "oh thats right I saw these guys once.

Not even sure I could narrow down a favorite.

The ones that stand out:
Muse
Radiohead
Clapton
Roger Waters performing The Wall

Very very much looking forward to adding Portishead to that list come glastonbury... And the Rolling Stones to a lesser extent.


Very jealous of dire straits (before my time)

Just trying to pick a fav makes me start remembering awesome memories and then its not even necessarily aabout their performance. Right now though the ratm concert and 311, pharcyde, and cypress hill concert are standing out. We partied with cypress hill and 311 in our hotel all night after the show. Santana rocked the **** too.

Reading? Must have been a few of the same years as you.

Ones that stand out:

Willie Nelson
John Denver x22
Grateful Dead x28
Primus/Bungle/Melvins where Mike Patton drank his own urine.
Beastie Boys at a house party in Lake Tahoe
U2 street set filming a music video
Bad Brains
Agent Orange
311

A whole bunch that don't stand out, and some like The Replacements that I wish I could purge from memory.

Duran Duran was an awesome concert, so you shut your classic rock biased mouth right up, Kudzu!

John Denver
Kiss
The Cars x 8
XTC
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers x 3
Heart x 2
The Rolling Stones
Kansas
Van Halen
Berlin
A Flock of Seagulls
Frank Sinatra
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band x 2
John Mellencamp
John Fogerty
REM
Tool x 2
Adam Ant
The Cult
Duran Duran
Blondie
Bad Religion
Social Distortion
Jimmy Buffet x 3
Aimee Mann & Michael Penn
Foo Fighters
Queens of the Stone Age
AC/DC
Elliot Easton
Prince
Bryan Ferry
Built to Spill
Cheap Trick
Chris Isaak
Elton John
Yes
The Hold Steady
Kelly Willis
Low
Metric
Pink Floyd
Roger Waters
Tom Jones x 3
Toto
Veruca Salt


And on Friday, I'm going to see Def Leppard!

Well, sure they were. But you have a soft spot for female artists.

That was the thing about the 'mats. You were either going to get the greatest show you ever saw, or one big turd. Saw them on their own, in a club, in ATL, and it was great. Saw them open for Tom Petty a few years later, and, boy, they sucked. It was toward the end, though.

They haven't worn well, I don't think. I loved them, but just can't get all excited about them anymore.

The only band I haven't seen that I really want to is the Who, and I refuse to see them without Moon and Entwistle. Just seems wrong.

Edit: Rock band, I'm talking. I would have killed to have seen Trane or Dolphy or Mingus.

+1

Dennis DeYoung
Three Dog Night (with, I think, only one original member)
The Eagles

Talking Heads @ Knotts Berry Farm

Split Enz
Crowded House
INXS
Midnight Oilx2
Bob Dylan
Sinead O'Connor
Kris Kristofferson
Kirsty MacColl
The Pogues
Hothouse Flowers
Van Morrison
The Angelsx3
Cyndi Lauper
Mental as Anythingx2
Hunters and Collectorsx2
Spy vs Spy
The Party Boys
Noiseworks
Johnny Dieselx2
Jimmy Barnesx3
Ian Moss
REM
Rolling Stones
Hoodoo Gurusx3
Kate Ceberano
Icehouse
Michael Jackson
Daryl Braithwaite
Pseudo Echo
James Reyne
Paul Kelly
Nick Cave
Yothu Yindu
Australian Crawl
Vika & Linda
Redgum
The Choirboys
Bryan Ferry
Bros- in my defense I only went due to the fact my best friend was obsessed with them and begged me to go with her


I'm sure there are others just cant remember atm.

I love the Replacements and hate to hear about them giving bad concerts. That's a shame. I'm glad I only know the Replacements from their incredible albums.

I will always believe the best of a band is there in their albums.