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In the crowd
Driving 32 miles back and forth from work each day gives me lots of time to think...
And so I was thinking about all the bands I've seen in concert during my lifetime. And I'm curious to hear some of the responses from this group, given the diversity of the people here. So, here's my list: Depeche Mode (twice) Ministry Smashing Pumpkins The Reverend Horton Heat (eight times) Barry Manilow (twice) Tony Bennett Aretha Franklin Tom Jones St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (twice) Stabbing Westward Poe Atari Teenage Riot Grant Lee Buffalo The Cows The Mimis Reacharound Face to Face The Nixons Toadies Hank Williams III Dancehall Crashers The Amazing Crowns Mighty Mighty Bosstones H20 Pietasters Pearl Jam The Flaming Lips Stone Temple Pilots Butthole Surfers (twice) The Urge Fragile Porcelain Mice Rage Against the Machine Babes in Toyland Tool A Lighter Shade of Brown Front 242 Dinosaur Jr. Arrested Development Alice in Chains Primus Fishbone Ozomatli Jazzfatnastees Collective Soul Sarah McLachlan The Chieftains Ron Sexsmith There are some other ones I've seen that were openers for the Reverend Horton Heat...but I don't remember...probably b/c I was drunk. Oh, and there was the band I fronted by the name of Sycamore. ![]() |
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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<i>Barry Manilow (twice)</i>
Lessee, you're not a woman so... what IS your excuse? <i>Tom Jones</i> The thing about Tom Jones is that he's one of the coolest guys that's ever lived, and remains cool to today. He goes on talk shows, it's like this aura of cool comes in, out-cools everyone around him, and shimmers out with him when he leaves. <i>Fishbone</i> That MUST have been nuts! My list is just as "late 80s" as yours is "late 90s". Three Dog Night (I was 9) Asia (twice) (no excuse) The Cars Chris DeBurgh ("Don't Pay the Ferryman") Yes Yo La Tengo Devo China Crisis Innocence Mission (15 times) Chris Isaak (twice) (only man cooler than T. Jones) Dire Straits A Flock of Seagulls Modern English Earthworks featuring Bill Bruford Book of Love Squeeze Rush The Church (four times) Lloyd Cole (twice) Jill Sobule REM Bryan Ferry Simple Minds Shriekback BoDeans (twice) Thomas Dolby The The Robyn Hitchcock Adrian Belew (twice) The dBs Let's Active Don Dixon and Marti Jones Julian Cope The Mighty Lemon Drops The Smithereens Jerry Harrison 10,000 Maniacs They Might Be Giants |
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As a child, I loved Barry Manilow. It was the first show I ever saw--March 30, 1981. Granted, I moved away from that in my teenage years. However, having grown up a bit, I can say that Barry Manilow is one of the greatest pop songsters that there is. Not to mention, his ventures into new sounds (such as jazz and swing) have been great. I don't feel so ashamed now...*sniff*. ![]() Quote:
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Interesting side note--a friend of mine went to see them when they were doing a tour with Biohazard in early 1994. The show was apparently phenomenal...and my friend still suffers from permanent hearing damage due to that show. Quote:
That's a great list though...it would make my gf jealous...she's a huge 80s nut. I can remember watching "120 Minutes" in the late 80s as a pre-teen and wondering two things: "What the f**k is this?!" and "Wow! Why isn't this on the radio?" |
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Enemy Combatant/Evildoer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I think I've got a pretty impressive list considering I'm 16
Mighty Might Bosstones Fuel Deftones Warrant Poison Quiet Riot Live BuckCherry The Berlin Project AFN Slick Olde Bishops Distorted Penguin Barenaked Ladies The Flys Dave Matthews Band (upwards of 6 times) Mest New Found Glory Blink 182 Fat Tony Body Jar Stone temple Pilots Orgy Liars Inc (These guys are fuckin' great, whatever happened to them?) Sleeping Giants (If you're ever in the Plum Borough area, go to a place called John Anthony's; Their ex-guitarist plays there, and he is the best in the tri-county area, three years running) The Clarks The Gathering Field Green Day Agnostic Front (there aren't words....) The Offspring Lenny Kravitz Plus countless other local bands, cover bands, and little club shows I don't remember. And syc, you're definitely right about angelo....those guys are on par with Dave Matthews and the Dead as jam bands, and he's definitely the coolest frontman since Lemmy. Last edited by alphageek31337; 08-05-2001 at 02:11 AM. |
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whig
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Damnit you americans are frigging lucky - we get buggar all bands down here i swear - only gone to big day out which gets a few big names and a 'gurge concert, oh wait, and a snog one, and an augie march one......ok not *as* bad
the last two a small melbourne bands that me and my friends think rock, i cna link to a few mp3s if you want. Snog is an anti-corperate band but tehy do all sorts of inductral techno/lyirics stuff its imporrible to explainbut fantastic to lsiten to my fav quote "hey christian god, get outa my face, your ugly ghost is a curse on the human race" But i do go to alot of clubbing events..
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Lecturer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Carmel, Indiana
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I've seen a few...not too many though...
Here's my list:
Moby Primus (2x) Ween Goo Goo Dolls (they're not too cool) Barenaked Ladies Josh Wink A large amount of hardcore bands...most names I cannot remember Guns 'N Roses (Vegas this year) Soon to see this summer/fall: Tool Fantomas Deftones Slash's Snakepit |
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Keymaster of Gozer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Patapsco Drainage Basin
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Top Ten List:
The Rolling Stones (twice)
B.B. King (4 times) The Grateful Dead (14 times) George Thorogood and the Destroyers (3 times. I like George, even if he did drop "Delaware" from the name.) Sarah McLachlan (Birthday present for someone else) Van Halen (My first concert. 1980) Chris LeDoux and the Saddle Boogie Band (4 times) Duran Duran Dar Williams The Talking Heads (twice) |
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The Ones That Got Away
Unfortunately, two bands that I always wanted to see (Nirvana and Soundgarden) I will never get to see...unless Soundgarden decides to reform, which seems unlikely at this point. Talking Heads would have been a good one too...and a reunion of those 4 seems extremely unlikely as well.
I would have liked to have seen Area: One, particularly for Moby and Outkast. I hope it is able to pick up where Lollapalooza went wrong. I would love to see Pantera, but I have crowd concerns over that one. I can't think of any other shows I'd like to see in the future at this point, but if Dave rejoins Van Halen, I am SO there! |
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Syndrome of a Down
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Okay, given how rarely I attend concerts AND that most of these were either to chaperone/join someone else or when I was a kid, I'm about to seriously embarrass myself.
But here goes anyway: Kenny Rogers, at least twice (I forget how many times I saw him when I was in single-digit years, attending with my father.) Debbie Gibson (Someone had to chaperone my younger sister. I'll give her this, I hated the music but she was quite the entertainer in her day.) Bricklin (West Chester University, where I saw a lot more comedians than bands over the years.) Beru Ha Ha (Alibi's, in West Chester, which is called something else now. I was too young for Beru Revue.) Moody Blues (My dad's birthday present one year.) Dead Milkmen (solo), a couple of times Mojo Nixon (solo), at least twice Dead Milkmen/Mojo Nixon/Cavedogs triple bill King Missile (All four in Raleigh, NC, in my college years. Nothing quite like watching Mojo's keyboard player simulating sodomy with an inflatable sheep.) Stephen Lynch (In Williamsport, at a local college up there. Great guitar-playing comedian.) John "Dr. Dirty" Valby, four times (Once at the 23 East, once at the Big Kahuna in Wilmington, twice upstate, and why can't anyone book this bastard closer to Philly?) And that's all I can think of, off the top of my head. Pity me. |
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Syndrome of a Down
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Okay, I _almost_ got to see Fishbone.
The Wolfstock festival at NC State had Fishbone as the featured band one year. I couldn't attend for some personal reasons (as that was the ONLY year they had bands that were in the least bit appealing), though I did get roped into trying to interview Dirty Looks for the college paper (the hairy freaks blew me off). I didn't miss much, though. Fishbone blew onto stage with "Freddy's Dead," the mosh pit started, and the campus security immediately stopped the concert and sent everyone home because they felt that the pit endangered the safety of the crowd. Oh, yeah, add: New Potato Caboose, in Raleigh. Great name, ehhh band. Also saw a talented MD band called Last Picture Show on the boardwalk of Ocean City, Maryland once, come to think of it. They were right there on the side of the boardwalk and blowing the crowd away. Good stuff. |
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A few I forgot
I happened to write all these down while I was at work Saturday...and found my original list. I forgot about:
Buju Banton Wailing Souls The Romantics St. Stephen's Blues Celtic Connection Now in the neighborhood of people I could have seen, but either didn't have the money, or was too lazy to go: --Chuck Berry (still performs once a month in St. Louis) --Wayne Newton --Tony Orlando --Roy Clark --Andy Williams (these 4 have theatres in Branson, MO and perform regularly, except for Clark who recently retired) --Buddy Guy (was at his club in Chicago on a couple of occasions I was in Chicago) And to add to the list of people I'd like to see: Prince B.B. King Herbie Hancock Clark Terry |
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Syc
You *need* to see buddy guy. If you're too lazy/broke, fire yourself up with a cup of coffee and sell your kidney. If you appreciate good music (especially if you appreciate good guitar) this man will make your head explode. I've only seen videos, and they were incredible.
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whig
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Blodoy hell i feel very left out *laughz
Anyone else here a clubber?
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Sorry Jag...I was only a semi-clubber in my heyday. I haven't been to a rave since 1993...and that was before it was cool...and before X was overly popular here in the States. I haven't been to a club in about 3 years. Well, actually, I DID see the Reverend at the 930 Club in Washington, which is actually a real club, although not one with pulsing lights, mind-numbing techno, and glowsticks.
![]() Sometimes, I think about it...and I wouldn't mind going to a club again...but then I think about the ones here in Philadelphia (and these are supposedly some of the best in the country...and I'm sure they are), and all I think about is the "meat market." My fiance on the other hand is a self-professed club whore, although this is about 10 years removed now. She hung out at all the clubs in Baltimore and Washington in the late 80s and early 90s, particularly Tracks in DC and the Hippo in Baltimore. |
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Drawn Druid
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Over there
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Billy Joel (x2)
Pink Floyd [Dave Gilmour version] (x2) Roger Waters (x4) Dave Matthews (x2) Alman Bro's Aerosmith (x2) Fuel 3 Doors Down Oleander The Wallflowers Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band (x5) Double Trouble Metallica R.E.M. Collective Soul Bare Jr. (won the tickets on WMMR) Creed (x2) Rage Against the Machine KoRN Page and Plant (x2) Robert Plant (solo) Days of the New (x2) 311 (x2) Santana BB-King Ozzfest (x3?... ) I also have another Aerosmith show coming up in September... -kris Last edited by Kris; 08-07-2001 at 09:17 PM. |
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