My Full Lifetime Concert List

[Dana5140]

I was just looking at the thread for the top 5 concerts you ever went to, and it got me to thinking about all the concerts I have seen, so I tried to put together a list from memory, and here it is, lacking many, I am sure. Share yours if you can.

Jimi Hendrix Experience- 3x
The Who- 2x
Jefferson Airplane
Grateful Dead
Procul Harum
Steppenwolf
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Teagarden and Van Winkle
Bob Seger System
MC5- 2x
Psychedelic Stooges
Chicago- 2x
Genesis- 2x
Magma- 3x
Alejandro Escovedo= 2x
Greg Brown- 2x
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals- 3x
Keith Jarrett
Charles Mingus
Sonny Rollins
Dizzy Gillespie
Sun Ra- 2x
Art Ensemble of Chicago- 4x
Gary Burton Quintet- 3x
Sam Rivers- 3x
Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine= 3x
Little Feet
Bonnie Raitt- 2x
Siegel Schwall- 2x
Luther Allison- 2x
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells
Koko Taylor- 2x
Mahavishnu Orchestra- 3x
Frank Zappa and the Mothers- 2x
Blue Cheer
The Up
Jagged Edge
Tony Williams Lifetime
Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach
Roscoe Mitchell Quintet
Anthony Braxton
Paupers
Pink Floyd- 2x
The Doors
Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys
Yes
Kansas
Charlie Musslewhite
Pharoah Sanders
McCoy Tyner
Leo Smith and New Dalta Akhri
Miles Davis- 2x
Elton John
Contemporary Jazz Quintet
Mecki Mark Men
Helen Money
Blue Oyster Cult
Flash
Lyle Lovett
Weather Report- 2x
Bobbie Blue Bland
Dr. John
Freddie King
Otis Rush
Hound Dog Taylor
Muddy Waters
Howlin’ Wolf
Might Joe Young
Wynton Marsalis
SRC
The Frost
Amboy Dukes- 2x
Rationals- 2x
Frosty
Wilson Mower Pursuit
Charging Rhinoceros of Soul
Cream
Friend and Lover
Blind Faith
Living End
Green Day
Return to Forever- 2x
Chick Corea and Gary Burton
Shakti
John McLaughlin and the Free Spirit Band
Mose Allison
John Prine
Steve Goodman- 2x
David Bromberg
Anita O'Day
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Doc Watson
Doc and Merle Watson
Oregon
Soft Machine- 2x

Plus we went to the Steve Goodman Tribute show when he died and saw every top folk singer there is, it seemed like. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?l...NLQjZnq7OxYrjE

[moecurlythanu]

My head would explode if I tried to do this.

[Dana5140]

Mine kind of has, because I keep remembering more and more.

[markwoll]

I have a drawer full of ticket stubs, many of which were torn in such a way to have only partial evidence of the band or date.
And back in the day 3/5 bands for 5 bucks shows at 9:30 were a real jumble, no paper trail.

[Mister Triscuits]

Procul Harum

Why is this misspelling so ubiquitous? Drives me nuts.

[Rick L.]

Why is this misspelling so ubiquitous? Drives me nuts.

We're all just fucking with you on purpose.

[Dana5140]

Hey, y'know what'd be cool? Listing your concerts!

[Steve F.]

Hey, y'know what'd be cool? Listing your concerts!

I have an excel file with 1486 concert events I have seen (a 2 day festival is listed as 2 events).

I'm missing some dozens but probably less than 100.

phew.

[Steve983]

I have mine all listed, some of them I don't specifically remember, too many to type up and who would care?

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[Dave (in MA)]

I couldn't begin to attempt to do this even though my list would certainly be a lot shorter than those mentioned so far.

[malgeo]

When I go though my old ticket stubs I'm always surprised by how many concerts I went to that I have absolutely no memory of (e.g., King Crimson '84, Moody Blues '86).

[markwoll]

When I go though my old ticket stubs I'm always surprised by how many concerts I went to that I have absolutely no memory of (e.g., King Crimson '84, Moody Blues '86).

Those 'surprise' concerts can be a head scratcher. Did I really see Tears for Fears? I don't remember the show.

[revelogicPA]

Those 'surprise' concerts can be a head scratcher. Did I really see Tears for Fears? I don't remember the show.

I have one of these as well; found in my ticket stub stack was a Guns N Roses ticket for their Tower Theater show


zero clarity no clue do not remember this at all!

[SteveSly]

There is no way I can remember them all. I figure I have probably averaged around 20 concerts a year since I was 17. I am now 62 so that puts me at around 900-ish concerts in my life as a very rough estimate. Of course, some of those were festivals with multiple acts. I have most of my tickets stubs saved, in the days before mobile tickets, but somehow I lost a whole bunch of them in the 80’s, so am missing a big chunk.

[jefftiger]

Those 'surprise' concerts can be a head scratcher. Did I really see Tears for Fears? I don't remember the show.

And then there are those I would be a bit embarrassed to list, like the Go-Go's at Red Rocks in the early 80s or Barry Manilow in the mid-70s.

[Mister Triscuits]

And then there are those I would be a bit embarrassed to list, like the Go-Go's at Red Rocks in the early 80s or Barry Manilow in the mid-70s.

Nothin’ wrong with the Go-Go’s. I saw them in ‘84 and they were a lot of fun. They could definitely get the job done live.

[Steve F.]

There is no way I can remember them all.

If I could remember them all, I wouldn’t need an xls file!!

[Dana5140]

Little did Know that in creating this thread I would create such angst!

[Lebofsky]

It's funny I don't have an excel spreadsheet for concerts I've been to, but I do suffer from a form of hypergraphia, and as such I have somewhat comprehensive daily journals since 1989 (totaling about 20,000 pages). But I don't feel like parsing those now to generate such a list of bands I've seen live.

However, I do have an XML file containing all my gigs since 1995 (there's a whole bunch of bands and whatnot I did before then) and I can thus open a terminal and write a command line to quickly parse out a sorted list of gigs I've performed (and thus should be in my "concert list"):

$ for i in "Secret Chiefs 3" "Mumble & Peg" "Casino Royale" "Species Being" "The Fuxedos" "Research & Development" "JOB" "miRthkon" "Three Piece Combo" "Herb" "Dreamland" "Faun Fables" "Midline Errors" "Fuzzy Cousins" "Dropsy"; do echo -n $i": "; grep '<with>' gigs.xml | grep -c "$i"; done | sort -nr -t ":" -k2

Secret Chiefs 3: 236
Mumble & Peg: 87
Casino Royale: 74
miRthkon: 45
The Fuxedos: 42
Species Being: 40
Research & Development: 35
Three Piece Combo: 29
Faun Fables: 29
JOB: 27
Fuzzy Cousins: 27
Midline Errors: 20
Herb: 20
Dreamland: 19
Dropsy: 7

That totals about 730 but these are hardly all the bands/acts/whatever but the ones where I at least played 7 gigs with after 1995. So.. yeah.

- Matt

[Mr.Krautman]

And then there are those I would be a bit embarrassed to list, like the Go-Go's at Red Rocks in the early 80s or Barry Manilow in the mid-70s.

I think TFF is already embarrasing enough...
I remember I've seen them live in their heydays (80ies) and saying that I was "less than impressed" is an understatement.
A very forgettable event... (and I quickly forgot it !)
In the "embarrasing" dept. I've also attended a Nick Kershaw concert in the mid 80ies, but at least he was a fairly good guitarist and not supported by tons of sequencers and pre-recorded backing tapes.
I also remember about Howard Jones opening for no less than PETER GABRIEL ! This was before he (H.J) changed his hairstyle and musical style to be conform with the 80ies MTV-compatible dull synthetic danceable poppy songs. A big loss since he seemed very talented and a good keyboardist.
For the "less embarrassing" ones I should dig deeper in my big box of concert tickets I collected (going back to 1973 !), but there are hundreds of them to explore...I'm not sure I want to go through this painful ordeal, though.

[Jacob]

[QUOTE=Jacob;1245298]Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Genesis
Yes
Sea Level
Steeleye Span (×2)
Leo Kottke
Strawbs
Weather Report
Frank Zappa
Return To Forever
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Hawkwind
Jefferson Starship
Nektar
Uriah Heep
Focus
Mostly Autumn
U.K.
Al Dimeloa
Heart
Slade
Jo Jo Gunn
Brownsville Station
Humble Pie
Spooky Tooth
Frampton's Camel
Ten Years After
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Deep Purple
Climax Blues Band
Procol Harum
Robin Trower
Blue Oyster Cult
Wishbone Ash
PFM
Steve Hackett
Rush
Abbey Road Tour- Ann Wilson/Todd Rundgren/Alan Parsons/John Entwistle and others
Ringo's Allstar Band- Greg Lake/Ian Hunter/ and others
Rory Gallagher ( x3)
Bad Company
Edgar Winter Group
Johnny Winter

[moecurlythanu]

I have most of my tickets stubs saved, in the days before mobile tickets, but somehow I lost a whole bunch of them in the 80’s, so am missing a big chunk.

I got rid of all my early stubs around 1984 during my religious period, which I still kick myself for. When I try to locate those shows on setlist.fm, some of those acts came round more than once in the same year, and figuring out which show I was at is next to impossible.

[SteveSly]

If I could remember them all, I wouldn’t need an xls file!!

[SteveSly]

I got rid of all my early stubs around 1984 during my religious period, which I still kick myself for. When I try to locate those shows on setlist.fm, some of those acts came round more than once in the same year, and figuring out which show I was at is next to impossible.

I have no clue what happened to a chunk of mine. I have them in ticket stub books, but one of the books went completely missing at some point and I have no idea where.

[mnprogger2023]

I've done it.
https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com...e-history.html