Ok, my list

KISS
Slayer x2
Motorhead x2
Alice Cooper x4
Rob Zombie x3
Thin Lizzy
Black Label Society
Iron Maiden
Alice in Chains
Anthrax x 2
Testament
Lamb of God x2
Velvet Revolver
Behemoth
Judas Priest
GWAR x2
Clutch

Plus a shitload of the more underground metal bands : Overkill, Devildriver,Warbringer, 3 Inches of Blood,Exodus x3, Arch Enemy,Nashville Pussy, Kreator, Goatwhore,Corrosion of Conformity. Obituary. Opeth.

How about you?

Tool - Lateralus Tour
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step Tour
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Tour
Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2004
30 Seconds 2 Mars - Before they got "big" i.e. complete shit
Carbon Leaf - More times than I can remember
Distant Worlds 2011

Bunch of other large multi-festivals
Musikfest
MMRBQ
Feztival

Would have loved to have seen Motorhead with Lemmy. Guess I've missed out on the original STP and Velvet Revolver as well. Anthrax, Priest, and Kreator sound like good shows too.

Went to the first Farm Aid concert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Aid where many of the bands were past their prime but still cool to see (Lou Reed, X). B.B. King gave the most crowd pleasing performance unless you count the first time Sammy Hagar and Eddie Van Halen performed together at the end (which was more ominous than entertaining for many).

Watched Aerosmith perform for about 15 minutes before the singer decided to pick fights with his band mates then trip and fall face first off the stage. There was near riot when the cancellation was announced (later blamed on "the flu" lol), and the whole band went to rehab soon after making it a significant concert to see, I suppose. Ticket stubs were made exchangeable for a "Greatest Hits" LP, but ah... the memories.

Was lucky enough to see Ozzy Osbourne's band perform with Randy Rhoads before his untimely death. He had a bit of an off night shaking his head and smiling on some misses, but still a really impressive high wire act.

Other memorable tour sightings: Scorpions "Blackout", Def Leppard "High 'n' Dry", Iron Maiden "Number of the Beast" (Eddie!), Black Sabbath "Mob Rules" - that was the loudest concert I've been to and Tony Iommi might be the fastest guitarist I've ever seen. Have also seen Blue Oyster Cult and Ted Nugent several times. I think the last concert I've been to is Monster Magnet back in... 2001!? Yikes! That's a while ago, but I'm tempted to go see Mastodon this fall.

Monster Magnet just released a great new album called Mindfucker.

Oh god lets see if I can remember them all...

Ozzfest twice w/ Marilyn Manson, Ozzy, system of a down, linkin park, hatebreed, disturbed, slipknot and a ton of others
Rob Zombie w/ Mudvayne (they were dressed like zombie furries, my dad took me and was not a fan of that one)
stone temple pilots w/ the meat puppets
tool
pussifer
alice in chains (new version)
deftones
SLAYER!!! w/ Marilyn Manson
Santana
Reel Big Fish
River City Rebels
Catch-22
Lacuna Coil
MC Chris
Flogging Molly (most violent mosh pit I have ever seen, my bf wouldn't let me go near the stage, fucking Irish bands)


And not by choice:
Leonard skinnard
Bruce Springsteen
NRBQ

Flogging Molly is on tour with the Dropkick Murphys and I wanna see it sooooo bad.

I like this topic...

Iron Maiden, at the old Monsters of Rock in 1988 when I was a teenager. That means I also saw Kiss, Megadeth, Dave Lee Roth, Guns n Roses and Helloween. That was the time two guys died in a crush at the front. I remember Axl Rose screaming at the crowd to move back, although from what came out later I believe the damage was actually done during Dave Lee Roth's set before GnR even came on.

Freddie Mercury Tribute in 1992, so that was three-quarters of Queen plus everyone else who was there. Therefore includes the only time I ever saw David Bowie, even if it was only for the 10 minutes his guest slot lasted.

Oasis at Knebworth in 1996. To say I was lucky to be there is an understatement, as apparently 10% of the UK population tried to get tickets.

Def Leppard - Seven times to date, and there'll be two more in December.

Garbage - Three so far...

Guns n Roses - Once, on the "Use Your Illusion" tour. Watching TV coverage of the Download festival the other week, and looking at the fat middle-aged man who can barely catch his breath that Axl has turned into, I'm so glad I saw them when I did.

Alice Cooper - Finally, late last year! Well, he's 70 now and as I couldn't be sure he'll ever come back to the UK I made sure I took my chance.

Funeral for a Friend - More of a small warm-up than a proper gig, but still fun.

There are also a few others that aren't rock bands. I've seen Beth Orton and Lucy Rose, who are both British acoustic/folky singer-songwriters, about five times each. Also seen Florence and the Machine five times too. Mind you, given the energy and power of her performances, I've always thought she is rock, just without the guitars...

Wow. Impressed

Bands are too loud.

Motorhead was clocked at 120+decibels, comparable to a jet engine.

That is interesting. I always thought most of the enthusiasm for them was over here. Yes, as far as we were concerned Oasis pretty much ruled the world for a couple of years in the mid-1990s, but did they ever really "crack America" in the way that the Lepps did in the 1980s with Pyromania and Hysteria? I didn't think they did. (I am pretty sure that neither Blur nor Pulp did anything in America, as they were just too quirkily British.)

It's therefore a nice surprise to see you say you wish you'd seen Oasis, as I wasn't expecting you to...

I've probably seen hundreds of bands, I go to major festivals a couple of times a year and sometimes do band crewing on top. But these are the more notable acts I've seen down the years.

Iron Maiden
Motorhead
Slayer
Skid Row
Within Temptation
Nightwish
Gary Numan
Inkubus Sukkubus
WASP
The Eagles
Blue Oyster Cult
Chris de Burgh
T'pau
The Sisters Of Mercy
The Mission
Fields Of The Nephilim
New Model Army
Blutengel
Bryan Adams
AC/DC
VNV Nation
And One
Marylin Manson
Project Pitchfork
Funker Vogt
The Cruxshadows
Bruce Dickenson (Iron Maiden vocalist on his first solo tour in the 90s)
The Eden House
Rob Zombie
In Extremo
Paradise Lost
Van Halen
Def Leppard
Simple Minds
Clan Of Xymox
Hammerfall

HAHAHA, that's hilarious.

STP WITH the Meat Puppets, wow that had to be a show. Some no namers opened when I saw them.

How is the new Alice in Chains? I haven't been paying much attention to "old bands" anymore.


I was never a big Oasis fan but, I'd have love to have seen that just to see Liam beat his brother with a chair or whatever it was and then have Noel continue the show without him.

Queen 4x with Freddie once with Paul Rodgers not the same but good, I wont go see them with Adam Lambert.

AC/DC with Bon Scott not many can say that.

The original line ups of Boston and Styx love pomp rock.

Def Leppard

Now its gets messy The Beat, Kylie x 4 love her, Simple Minds x 3 Keane Kaiser Chiefs Kiss Oasis Kasabian Rush Alice Cooper Rod Stewart Status Quo Joe Cocker Heart Joan Jett Florence and the Machine Robbie Williams.

Loads more but will add when my memory wakes up

Never seen any live sadly. A lot of the bands I would want to see live either have a lot of the original members gone or disbanded long ago

Actually some really good taste in music here.

My list...only been to one festival and it was a pretty weak line up. You guys generally have a few years on me and i'm super jealous about it.

Metallica
Guns n roses
Foo fighters
Disturbed
Breaking benjamin
Stone sour
Bullet for my valentine
Rob zombie
Three days grace
Red hot chili peppers
Jimmy eat world
Incubus
Anberlin
Papa roach
Skillet
Avenged sevenfold
Slipknot
Asking alexandria
Black keys
Kings of leon

Showing my age here

Queen
Mott the Hoople
David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars
The Who
Rolling Stones
Herman's Hermits
Rick Wakeman
ELP
ELO
Wings
10 CC
Supertramp
ACDC
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin
FOCUS
Air Supply


Worst concert where I got dragged into going by an ex girlfriend = The Bay City Rollers

That was at a festival. They followed GWAR with an acoustic set.

I've only seen them at a festival. I'm much more into their stuff once Steven Wilson was involved.

Let me see:

Sparks
The Veronicas
Paul McCartney
The Sex Pistols
Blur
Morrissey
Celine Dion
Violent Soho
Six Ft Hick
Shifting Sands
HITS
The Busymen
Whiskey & Speed
Flangipanis
Blowhard
Regurgitator
Demonfire
Take That


Just some that come to mind anyway.

You guys are so young....

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
The Yardbirds
The Nice
can I stop typing "The " please?
Dusty Springfield
Steppenwolf
King Crimson
Free
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Deep Purple
Cream
Blind Faith

Then the 60s ended...

Can
Yes
ELP

Then I came to my senses...

Traffic
Little Feat
Doobie Bros
Captain Beefheart
Weather Report
Robin Trower

So much for the 70s...
Jazz after that

Xx

That is the least of the comparisons. Do wammers only listen to hard rock/ metal? How interesting. Must go, I'm off to press some wild flowers.

Only started going in the last 2 years or so. Seen mostly Indy or experimental music been a blast everytime.


Parklife Festival- Saw Justice, Liam Gallagher, Lorde, The XX and a bunch of techno DJ's
Fat White Family- my favourite modern day band, twice
The Moonlandingz
Depeche Mode
The Black Keys
The Prodigy
The Enemy
Public Enemy
Kasabian- twice
The Stone Roses
Insecure Men
Foo Fighters
Queens of the stone age
Warmduscher

Well, I wish I'd seen the Stone Roses. Warmduscher? is that a real band? They sound, er kind of messy...

BTW I love the fact that the OP is titled "Just for fun...."

Because everything else here is soooo serious....?

Damn, I forgot Steely Dan, '75

Ha they are pretty messy like. The musics either spoken word and psych or fast guitarsa and near screaming which is what I love. I saw them at a pub in Manchester and me and my mate took too much ketamine and me and his girlfriend had to carry him out the front and get him into a taxi he could barley speak lol. So yeah all around pretty messy. Also I think the roses will eventually do another little tour when they want a bit more money again which is fine since they were great.

First concert was a family outing to see Manhattan Transfer.

In no particular order:
Alice Cooper
The Cure
Bob Dylan w/ Willie Nelson
Radiohead (Chicago, Japan, and Korea)
Modest Mouse
Maroon 5 (because I dragged my then gf to see Radiohead)
Kings Of Convenience
Slayer
Harry Connick Jr.
A.J. Croce
James Cotton

Jameriquoi (spelling?)

Then the county fair bands like...Cheap Trick or Creedence Clearwater...Revisited.

I'm sure there are more but all I can think of right now.

You'd be surprised at some of the threads and flame wars that used to dominate around here. Pepperidge Farms remembers...