aw hell, what can i even remember any more?


The Bodeans. Twice. Second time, Mike Mills from REM was there next to us.
Oh yeah REM Fables of the Reconstruction.
and REM producer Mitch Easter's band, Let's Active
and REM producer Don Dixon, along with his wife Marti Jones
and REM "5th member" Peter Holsapple's band, the dBs
Julian Cope, at the height of his game from the second row. Goosebumps
The The, with Johnny Marr
DEVO ~ so goddamn brilliant
The Church, four times
Modern English
Shriekback
Book of Love wow, right in the student center! that never happens!
The Bears, and also, their little-known guitarist Adrian Belew, solo. But yeah The Bears
Yes of course I've seen Yes. 90ICU812 tour blew me away
...but I was even more blown away by Bill Bruford's Earthworks
...and horrified by Asia (ugh) who were okay on the first tour, but degraded to bad on the second. I think Mr Howe did not want to be there any more
Cars - sadly the worst live band I have ever seen
Thomas Dolby
They Might Be Giants (early on, as a two-piece)
Simple Minds
The Smithereens ~ ha and I shopped at guitarist Jim Babjak's record store. And I met the parents of the original bass player once at the Trump Marina casino. Mr and Mrs Mesaros were very nice.
Rush
Blue Oyster Cult. positively did not have enough cowbell!
Lloyd Cole a few times, once with Jill Sobule
Amos Lee
David Gray
Ben Folds
Poco
Three Dog Night (first concert ever)
Squeeze
Bryan Ferry
10,000 Maniacs
Mighty Lemon Drops
Yo La Tengo
Dire Straits
Chris Isaak (three times, once before big fame; brilliant)
fellow central PA homies Innocence Mission (like 15 times) and The Ocean Blue
China Crisis
NRBQ
General Public
Robyn Hitchcock (& the Egpytians)

i'm sure i have forgotten other important times

I'm amazed that you guys remember... I've been to 100's of concerts, but couldn't begin to list them. I do have a lot of old tickets lying around somewhere. Maybe that would be a good start.

Not many bands came to Maine. I've seen maybe a dozen concerts? Maybe 20? How can you remember them all?

Jazz bassist Gerald Veasely
Jerry Harrison (of Talking Heads fame)
Chris deBurgh ("Don't Pay the Ferryman")
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band

Frank Zappa
Ringo Starr
Willie Nelson
John Lennon
The Who
Kiss
Elvis
Merv Griffin
Johnny Carson
James Brown
Dan Blocker
Bill Clinton
Stevie Wonder
Clint Eastwood
Yul Bryner
Michael Landon
Paul Newman ( filming the Sting)
Mike MacIntyre
Reagan
Big E
The Isley Brothers
Bernie Mac
Phyllis Diller
Glen Fagen
The last name is only famous to me.


tarheel

If we're including comedy, only larger rooms (400+ seats):

Dave Chappelle
Jeff Foxworthy
B*ll C*sby
Emo Philips
Jim Gaffigan
Kathleen Madigan

I'm 100% sure there are others I've forgotten.

~ also ~

Philip Glass
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Paul Winter Consort

1st - Ratt w/The Outlaws, & The Mama's Boys (in Bowling Green, KY)

No particular order:

Ozzy, w/Metallica (w/Cliff Burton on bass, in an arm cast), Nashville

Queensrÿche w/Suicidal Tendencies (ST damn near tore the roof off the Municipal Auditorium) Nashville

Dio w/I don't remember (although rocktourdatabase.com says it was Rough Cutt) Nashville

Marshall Tucker Band, The Outlaws (and some other Southern Rock band, Black Oak Arkansas maybe) If ya brought a Pepsi can ya got in for $5 a carload, late 80's - Nashville, in the early years of Starwood Amphitheater

AC/DC, Fly On The Wall tour, w/Yngwie Malmsteen

Saw Randy Travis, then he was Randy Ray, The Singing Waiter at (I think it was) The Nashville Palace (I was pretty young)

I know my first was Kiss Dynasty tour at the Spectrum. Judah Priest opened for them.

Aerosmith with Ted Nugent was the first one I drove myself to. Had to be 86 or 87.

Saw The Firm, Robert Plant with that Black Velvet chick opening.

And again with Stevie Ray Vaughn

The Stones, Pink Floyd in 88?

Then about 35 Dead Shows. Crosby Stills Nash....

I've seen Dave Matthews 10+ times...

My 30s are a blur...


Jane's Addiction twice recently.

I've come to prefer small venue shows immensely.

Small venue for the win

Tower Theater is great!

yes, yes & yes. I am LOVING the smaller venues.

I think I'm gonna have to retract that statement. That might not have been me. I mean that that might not be my memory, maybe someone's story got misfiled under "My Memories". Or something. Maybe. FIDK.

At any rate, I almost had to be with Mom & Popdigr (I remember it as some event in a dinner club type situation) and they don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

And I'm not sure I do either.:neutral:

Maybe you dreamed it.

Undertoad, you might be the only person I've met since Y2K who knows Jerry Harrison was EVER a solo act!

My roomie at the time was trying to reconstruct her favorite driving mix tape. She was 3 songs short, and having trouble remembering some of the details.
Song #1 was easy--"Fly Me Courageous" by Drivin 'N' Cryin.
Song #2: "Umm, it's not about driving. It's this South American girl with the most amazing voice and she was like fifteen at the time." Me: "Oh, you mean "Twist In My Sobriety" by Tanita Tikaram?" Her: "Holy crap, you know that one?" Me: "Lemme go get the cassette single."
Song #3: "Well, it was by one of the dudes in Talking Heads, but not the singer and it's not a Talking Heads song." Me: "Would that be "Rev It Up" by Jerry Harrison?" Her: "Did you make a deal with Satan when I wasn't looking?" Me: "I have the album, 'Casual Gods.' Lemme go get that for you."

Gravedigr, one of the great disappointments of my earlier concert days was that huge multi-band tour that had Cinderella, Ratt, LA Guns, and a bunch of other hair metal bands, including a splinter group called Arcade (biggest hit was "Cry No More") composed of members of the main groups. I had tickets and TWO STOPS before my town the whole rabble melted down and cancelled the rest of the tour.

I blame Stephen Pearcy. He's a jerk and thus an excellent blame target.