Posted on 03/08/2025 2:36:11 PM PST by Fuzz
Was compiling a list.
U2
Peter Gabriel
Tom Petty
The alarm
Squeeze
Miles Davis
Aretha Franklin
Hothouse flowers
The Ramones
Rush
Carlos Santana
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Roberta Flack
Primus
Georgia Satellites
Tito Puente
Screaming Blue messiahs
Rem
The Mighty Lemon Drops
Smashing Pumpkins Jeff Healey
10,000 maniacs
Primus
Little Richard
Ray Charles
Echo and the Bunny men
Miracle Legion
Bruce Cockburn
New Order
Sting
Public Image Limited
Joe Jackson
The Replacements
Paul Westerberg
The Cult
The Divynals
Spyro Gyra
Bella Fleck
Bo Diddley
Buddy Guy
Pat Metheny
Hiroshima
David Brubeck
Grover Washington Jr
BB King
Pat Metheny
Tower of Power
The Sundays
Lionel Hampton
Herbie Hancock
Mel Torme
David Sanborn
Natalie Cole
Hooters
Wilson Pickett
Branford Marsalis
The Temptations
Dizzy Gillespie
Kenny G
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Bonnie Raitt
Winton Marsalis
The Smitherines
James Taylor
lol.
We would listen to that album and some Moody Blues in a friend’s hot tub while drinking adult type beverages and smoke some what were illegal substances at the time. Good times. Even better when the foreign exchange students from Denmark and Sweden sponsored by a friends coworker arrived.
Even though that album was released before we were born.
Most excellent images...
The Who, Patti LaBell, Simon& Garfunkle, Paul Simon solo, Elton John,The Beach Boys, Jethro Tull, Led Zeplin, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Gordon Lightfoot,Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney with Artie Shaw, Lena Horn, Barry Manalow, Chicago, Kenny Rankin, Al Jarreau, Paul McCartney, Chaka Khan, The Dobbie Brothers,
Springsteen, Carley Simon & James Taylor, Gato Barbari, Bette Midler, Sting, Steely Dan, Michael McDonald, Linda Ronstadt, Jean Luc Ponte, Anita Baker, Michael Feinstein, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., Jimmy Webb,Take 5, Tom Jones, Peter Allen, Chris Botti and others I’ll remember tomorrow.
Peter Gabrielle
Genesis
Nine Inch Nails
The Offspring
Aerosmith (front row seats!)
Journey
White Zombie
Ozzy Ozbourne
Foreigner
Renaissance
Styx
Rush (2112 tour!)
REO Speedwagon
Chemical Brothers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars (very fun!)
lots others I just don’t remember
Sorry forgot a few
BB King
Little Feat
Dr John
Aerosmith
Jonny Lang
Gary Clark Jr
Im just getting over the ‘vid so my apologies for the bad memory
It was a blast.
To be sure, some of the acts were sub-par. Patti LaBell was ponderous. George Thorogood was meh, as was the Dylan trio. And Led Zeppelin was so terrible they refused to let their performance be released officially.
But the overwhelming majority were killer. And in retrospect, in one day I saw some of the greatest rockers ever, even if I would never pay to see them individually, I.e., Neil Young or Madonna (she was actually pretty good).
That’s sad about Led Zeppelin!! If you get the chance, try to go see Get The Led Out. I helped produce their PBS special. They are amazing, and super nice guys
Jeff Healey Band, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Larry Carlton, Chick Corea, Spyrogyra, Jackson Browne, Duke Robillard, Savoy Brown, Jorma Kaukonen, Selwin Birchwood, Roomful of Blues, Billy Joel, Leslie West. (All but a few when I and they were much younger. My first date with my wife was to see Spyrogyra in 1980. We saw Roomful at a New Year’s Eve celebration about 6 years ago. One original member still alive and in the band. Best time EVER.)
Mine are too dorky, so I’ll pass. 😁
I could list a bunch of stuff from Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash twice, Elton John, Smokey Robinson, U2, Fleetwood Mac, Cher and still be forgetting a ton but none came close to two appearances months apart at the El Mocambo in 1979 of The Ramones. At that point they had released 4 albums and had 5 years experience doing shows and had replaced their drummer. Regardless the place was packed and the energy of those shows in a small club setting was off the charts. They were IMHO at their peak. The crowd knew and loved all the songs and the place rocked like there was no tomorrow. Thanks guys it was a blast.
‘ Mine are too dorky, so I’ll pass. 😁’
Up With People?
Captain & Tennille
😬
Blue Oyster Cult, Pat Travers Band, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The B-52s, Arlo Guthrie, Toto, The Red Hot Chili 🌶 Peppers (original line-up) Guadalcanal Diary, The Violent Femmes, Camper Van Beethoven, Phantom Tollbooth, The Grateful Dead 💀 , Bob Dylan, Husker Du...
I heard Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Eugene’s Cutthbert Amphitheater was open-air and I got tuned up, and rode my bike around the trails, “backstage”...Good times....
Blue Oyster Cult
Black Sabbath
Donovan
Grateful Dead
Edgar or Johnny Winter
The Who
Moody Blues
Simon & Garfunkel
Rusted Root
Pete Seeger, (but just a private one song concert for a friend and I)
Father Tom, singing priest (did a musical review)
Can’t think of more...
Engelbert Humperdinck
Kenny Rogers
Gaithers
Four Seasons
Beach Boys
Told ya: Dorky.
NEVER “Up With People”!
Well, let’s see...
Blue Oyster Cult
Cheap Trick
Pat Travers
Some sucky French band called Shakin’ Street
(These four were all seen together at one of those “Day On The Green” type shenanigans - the French band opened and got booed off the stage)
The Who (after Keith left us)
The Babys with John Waite (opened for Styx)
Styx
Joan Armatrading (accidentally - I realized something was up when I noticed the audience was mostly women with short hair)
Jean-Luc Ponty
The Yellowjackets (opened for JLP)
Peter Gabriel
King Crimson (1984 Three of a Perfect Pair tour - the opening act was juggler Ray Jason)
Rush (3 times)
Tangerine Dream (back in the 80s when Edgar Froese was still around)
Robin Trower (right here in Boise back in 2011)
My concert outings tapered off in the 80s, and I didn’t do much after I got married.
We did catch an English dude named Adrian Legg at a show here in town at a local restaurant several years ago, too.
I have hearing loss from a Ramones concert and it’s more than 40 years later.
I was standing on the edge of the mosh pit and picking people up, throwing them back in.
A dude runs into me and I pick him up by the lapels on his jacket, go to throw him back in and realize I work with him, at a bank.
I was like Brian? Fuzz!
We became fast friends after that night.
Was in my wedding. We met our future wives the same weekend a few years later. He died in 2001.
I had forgotten a few from when I lived in Alaska:
Jimmy Buffett
Huey Lewis & The News (They opened for someone, IIRC)
ELO
I saw Camper Van Beethoven two or three times. Different guys, I think.
Forgot some more big ones:
Genesis
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Pat Benatar
AC/DC 2x
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Foghat
Blue Oyster Cult
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