...I'm fascinated by how many younger people today are into bands we were into years ago. Young people join in also. Who have you seen?
I've seen some great shows, including;
The Beatles in 1965, and ever since then I've seen on average at least two or three concerts per year!
The Who (4 times)
Led Zeppelin (opened for Vanilla Fudge)
Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Pink Floyd
XTC
Ten Years After
King Crimson
Gentle Giant
Mountain
Dead Kennedy's
Johnny Winter
Blue Oyster Cult
The Band
David Bowie
ELP
Wings
T. Rex
Television
Mott the Hoople
Yes
I could name many more, but I'm curious what big name concerts you've seen?
2007-11-16 15:49:15 · 26 answers · asked by Smiley 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Air Guitar Goddess - I'm from Toronto. Maybe I know your parents (or your grand parents) Ha Ha Ha!
2007-11-16 16:11:48 · update #1
Mopar Muscle Gal - I think I may have seen you at a few of those shows! Were you in attendance at the MC5 concert at the Masonic Temple in Windsor Ontario Canada back in '71? Man, being in close proximity to Detroit back then I saw the best that city had to offer; The Amboy Dukes, SRC , Bob Seger System, and an early embryonic version of Alice Coopers band! Ahhh, if I only had a camcorder!
2007-11-16 16:24:52 · update #2
Hi_Sakura - Great list! I'd love to mention all the bands I saw while living Holland and the UK, but I really hate to hog up space...haaaaa! lol!
2007-11-16 17:07:30 · update #3
Kit Walker - You must be on holidays!
2007-11-16 18:21:39 · update #4
Cymbaline's Journey - I was surprised to see Locomotive GT on your list. I saw them in Holland back in the early 70's. They were a great Hungarian band. I saw Omega with Nektar that same summer!
2007-11-17 13:58:39 · update #5
the who 2x
led zeppelin gee.. 5 or 6x
pink floyd 5 or 6 x
jefferson airplane
jefferson starship (lost count)
hot tuna over 50 x
traffic
phil colins
david gilmore
heart
alice cooper
uriah heep
j giels
fog hat
yes
emerson lake and plamer
kraftwork
locomotive GT
neil diamond
peter frampton
ted nugent
robin trower
koko taylor
moody blues 4 x
jethro tull
midnight oil 2x
dave mason
neil young 3x
steven stills
steve winwood 2x
bonnie raitt
donovan
green day
bush
garbage
beck
cake
goo goo dolls
i know there are more they are just not coming to me at the moment
2007-11-16 16:10:07 · answer #1 · answered by Cymbaline 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Doors
Frank Zappa
Jethro Tull- many many times
Uriah Heap
Flo and Eddie
Rob Zombie- 3 times
Ozzy
Tool
Marilyn Manson
Sonny and Cher
Police - 2 times
Van Halen
Bob Seger - 3 times
Korn
Duran Duran
Beck
Lacuna Coil
The Who
Led Zepplin
David Bowie when he was Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Alice Cooper- 2 times
Aerosmith- 3 times
BTO
ELO-
The Dixie Chicks
Bon Jovi
Alan Jackson
Eric Clapton
Pat Benetar
Fleetwood Mac- before and during Stevie Nicks
Tom Petty
Blondie
Berlin
Queen
Bruce Springsteen
Prince
Madonna
Culture Club
J Geils - 2 times
The Stones- 2 times
Yes
Moody Blues- 2 times
Santana- 2 times
REO Speedwagon 2 times
Boston
Kansas
Def Leopard
ZZ Top
Sha-na-na
Heart
Elvis
Tom Jones
Roy orbison
Styxx- 2 times
Blue Oyster Cult
King Crinsom
AC/DC
Robin Trower
Pink Flloyd
Air Supply
Traffic
Elton John
Iggy Pop
George Thorogood
Credence Clearwater Revival
Jefferson Starship
The Turtles
The Monkees
KD Lang
Paul Revere and the Riders
Ike and Tina Turner
Tina Turner-solo
Little Richard
The Temptations
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Diana Ross
Foghat
Hall and Oates
Dead or Alive
Human League
Genesis
I'm sure theres more, I just cant remember them all
2007-11-17 00:09:31 · answer #2 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
I am only 25 and have only seen four concerts in my life. However, two of those concerts were huge festivals that had a lot of great acts (both new and classic)
The best concert I have ever been to was U2. That was two years ago. I was five feet away from the band and I even made eye contact with Bono.
Four years ago, I was at the SARStock concert at Downsview Park in Toronto. This show was the biggest concert ever held in Canada and it was basically our Woodstock. Over 500,000 rock n roll fans showed up to see great acts like AC/DC, Rush, Guess Who and the Rolling Stones. It was so much fun to be part of the crowd there. AC/DC was especially good. I am not lying, the entire crowd just went nuts to every song AC/DC did. The Stones and Rush were great too, but AC/DC stole the damn show.
I saw Pearl Jam in concert last year. They were pretty good and my friend and I had fun. However, I just wish that I had been old enough to go to one of their concerts back in 1993.
The other big concert I saw was the Virgin Music Festival at Center Island in Toronto. That was about two months ago. The two highlights for me were the Killers and the Smashing Pumpkins. I was seriously getting carpel tunnel from all of the air guitar playing I did to the Pumpkins set. I would have preferred to see them back when James and Darcy were in the band, but whatever. I had a great time.
I have two more concerts coming up too. Should be pretty good ones. I'm going to see Bon Jovi on December 7th, and on New Year's Day my friend and I will be going to see Ozzy Osbourne.
edited to add: No Chunga, you would not know my parents. They are from Newfoundland and despise rock n roll.
2007-11-17 00:00:57 · answer #3 · answered by Air Guitar Goddess 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Naming only the older bands, since I've also seen a lot of newer bands. Some I've seen several times.
Pink Floyd (which almost killed me from the excitement)
The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
Eric Clapton
Blue Oyster Cult (several times, and once again in April 2008)
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Edgar Winter Group
Tom Petty
Santana
War
Aerosmith
Bon Jovi
Motley Crue
Metallica
Slayer
Bruce Springsteen
Dio
Judas Priest
Los Lobos
Deep Purple
Mana
Ozzy Osbourne
2007-11-17 00:23:17 · answer #4 · answered by smeelola 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question and some great answers!
I wish...
I had some time to put together a list for you, even a partial..
- First concert: - My Father, a drummer, took me to see the Beatles and gave me my first guitar just days later. (Mimicking John & George with a tennis racket wasn't gettin it)
- Most recent concert(s) - The Garth shows in KC which ended this past Tuesday.
(I work in the events production industry and average 50 to 70 shows per year)
Speaking of young people!
It sends chills up and down the spine just looking over an audience during the show and noticing young people singing along, knowing every lyric to songs that were released before they were born....."goose bump city"
Edit:
Smiley? Like the tux!
2007-11-17 14:07:43 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm 18. I've been lucky enough to see Bob Dylan twice (he was my first concert!), the Black Crowes twice, Elvis Costello, Rush, Foghat, Percy Sledge, Buddy Guy and a few more. I wanted to see Neil Young, but he's not coming anywhere near me on this tour (I think he's about at the end of it now).
The first time I saw Bob Dylan I was 12. After that, I didn't really go to many more concerts (couldn't afford it). But once I got older and was able to make my own money, I became addicted! I still don't have the money to spare, but I scrape and save to see my favorites. There is nothing like the feeling you get when they first walk out on stage...it's such a rush.
2007-11-17 10:04:15 · answer #6 · answered by Isis 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Reading all these other answers, I am like consumed in a jealous rage right now.
However, through my shaking hands, I can write that I've seen Janet Jackson and Lenny Kravitz togther, (not my cup of tea) and Nine Inch Nails.
The Nine Inch Nails one was at the Verizon Amphiteater, which is in the middle of a forest-type thing. I didn't have a ticket, so I just climbed up a tree and enjoyed the show! I could see and hear prettttyyy well, too.
Y'all are so lucky.!
2007-11-17 06:08:26 · answer #7 · answered by rocket queen 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Is this a "longest list" contest? Or an admission that one has been around a lot longer than one cares to admit?
(Sneaky third-person I'm-not-talking-about-me-of course phrasing here....)
In San Francisco/Oakland: The Who (4 times: Pete Townshend, you owe me a hearing aid), Neil Young (twice), Grateful Dead (4 times), Humble Pie, Aerosmith, The Kinks, Sex Pistols (their disastrous final concert), David Bowie, Talking Heads, The Tubes, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, AC/DC, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
L.A. X, Black Flag, The Stranglers, Henry Rollins Band.
In Seattle: Alice in Chains, Death Cab for Cutie, Pearl Jam (back when they were just a garage band), The Pixies, Meat Puppets.
London: T. Rex, Led Zepplin, Flaming Groovies, Dire Straits, Roxy Music.
Chicago: Bruce Springsteen, Dio, Alice Cooper.
Minneapolis: Boomtown Rats, The Pretenders, The Replacements, Soul Asylum, Prince. (Yeah, it kinda went downhill from there.)
2007-11-17 00:45:56 · answer #8 · answered by hi_sakura 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Neil Young
Cheap Trick
The Eagles
BB King
David Bowie
Elvis Costello
Cracker
Emmylou Harris
Garbage
Smashing Pumpkins
Ray Davies
Tom Petty
Fog Hat
Jethro Tull (it was painful)
Jimmy Buffett
Rolling Stones
Moby
My Morning Jacket
Bob Dylan
The Strokes
now I know there's more....
2007-11-17 00:35:38 · answer #9 · answered by marie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WOW!!!!! Respect! Wish I'd seen those.
I was a teenager in the fifties, so in at the birth of Rock n' Roll. My idols were, of course, Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis,Gene Vincent,Buddy Holly,Chuck Berry, et al.
I saw Cliff Richard (cos I had to take my little sister), Adam Faith, Marty Wilde, Joe Brown, Tommy Steele and in the 60s, Slade, Gary Glitter(oops!), Ravi Shankar,(not rock but very George Harrison.)
In the 80s and 90s I saw The Master, Bob Dylan, twice,Fairport Convention, Chris Rea and Don McLean. I lived in Germany for most of the60s and early 70s, so didn't get to see the U.K. gigs.
Keep on rockin'.
2007-11-17 00:08:37 · answer #10 · answered by freebird 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋