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
I can’t match y’all, but here goes:
Sonny & Cher
College: John Denver
Doobie Brothers
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Tower of Power
REO Speedwagon
Germany: Elton John
Billy Joel
Johnny Rodriguez (Hahn AB NCO Club)
Texas:
George Strait
Willie Nelson
Spyro Gyra
Poco
Little River Band
Prince
Chuck Mangione
Jimmie Vaughan
Eric Clapton
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
To pump up my numbers, there’s Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas 2019. I was there for the second day, 8 hours of seriously good music. My enduring memory is Clapton playing lead guitar on Los Lobos “Made to Break Your Heart.”
My friend, you have posted a MIGHTY list. I am impressed.
Let me see if I can remember. I’m old, I’ve had a lot of fun, but here goes:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (opening act Tommy Tutone)
The Police
Genesis
Kiss (a billionty times)
Sisters of Mercy
Heart
Ministry
Peter Gabriel
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Bauhaus
Love and Rockets
Peter Murphy
Tom Verlaine
Gene Loves Jezebel
Billy Idol
The Cult
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Nine Inch Nails
Alien Sex Fiend
The Cramps
Sophie B. Hawkins
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Ice T
Janes Addiction
The Misfits
The Damned
Love and Rockets
The Church
Animotion
Bob Dylan w/ Charlie Sexton (the Beats so Lonely Guy)
Men Without Hats
Colin James Hay
Human League
Howard Jones
Television
Stabbing Westward
Flock of Seagulls
The Bangles
Men Without Hats
PIL
Jeff Buckley
RHCP
Jesus and Mary Chain
U2
The Cure
Cocteau Twins
I think there’s more, but I honestly can’t remember. Some were pretty lame shows. I was mostly in the alt/new wave/goth tech scene.
My friend, you have posted a MIGHTY list. I am impressed.
Let me see if I can remember. I’m old, I’ve had a lot of fun, but here goes:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (opening act Tommy Tutone)
The Police
Genesis
Kiss (a billionty times)
Sisters of Mercy
Heart
Ministry
Peter Gabriel
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Bauhaus
Love and Rockets
Peter Murphy
Tom Verlaine
Gene Loves Jezebel
Billy Idol
The Cult
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Nine Inch Nails
Alien Sex Fiend
The Cramps
Sophie B. Hawkins
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Ice T
Janes Addiction
The Misfits
The Damned
Love and Rockets
The Church
Animotion
Bob Dylan w/ Charlie Sexton (the Beats so Lonely Guy)
Men Without Hats
Colin James Hay
Human League
Howard Jones
Television
Stabbing Westward
Flock of Seagulls
The Bangles
Men Without Hats
PIL
Jeff Buckley
RHCP
Jesus and Mary Chain
U2
The Cure
Cocteau Twins
I think there’s more, but I honestly can’t remember. Some were pretty lame shows. I was mostly in the alt/new wave/goth tech scene.
Forgot the Stones and Bryan Adams at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Bridges to Babylon Tour.
Adding:
Elton John
Sting
Jimmy Buffet
In their early days, Zeppelin was molten hot.
The movie looks outstanding.
It must have been something else working with them.
Damn good list.
(With the exception of KISS) 😬
Just listening to Ministry makes my heart palpitate. Live, I’d need a, well, just one fix.
Always liked Bauhaus Peter Murphy. Love hysteria, Deep and Holy Smoke were played a lot. Just listened to indigo Eyes earlier today.
The Cult’s Love album was info one of the best albums of the decade. Saw them at a small club in like I want to say 86?
Ice T solo or with Body Count? Or one of his other iterations?
The most memorable song performed was “Love The One You’re With”, which (correct me if I’m wrong) was released as a Stephen Stills single. Just “Our House”-type snoozers that night.
Jefferson Airplane
The Byrds
Doors
Van Morrison
We Five
Heart
Spanky and Our Gang
Liz Damon & the Orient Express
3Dog night
Johnny Rivers
Don McLean
Paul Butterfield
The Hot Nuts
The Beau Brummels
B.W. Stevenson
Moody Blues (after I was 30 and had a kid :-)
Neil Diamond (twice)
Engelbert Humperdinck
The Monkees (Mike Nesmith couldn’t attend but Davy, Peter, and Micky were there)
Rolling Stones
Dave Matthews Band
The Corrs (opened for the Rolling Stones)
Kansas (twice)
AC/DC (probably the best concert I’ve been to)
Outside of concerts, I’ve also been to a bunch of musicals, symphony concerts, and opera, which are also a lot of fun.
I’ve seen Metheny six times over the years.
I am a Stevie Ray Vaughan devotee. Such a great soul besides, from what I can tell
Never got to see him.
There’s a good recording of him PBS plays here in Texas once in a while. I have a dvd copy.
SRV with Albert King
Perry Como
Dang, I forgot a few:
Dokken
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Cult
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
The Gin Blossoms
The Mavericks
The Rides
Metallica
Def Leppard
Steve Winwood
John Mellencamp
Morrisey
There’s an SRV tribute band, Texas Flood, that plays a number of venues in North Texas. I try to see them when they play at Tolbert’s in Grapevine.
I will be on the lookout for
I’ve always LOL’d at that video. Thanks.
My best friends wife works for a radio station so she does hook us up from time to time. That is in the last 10 years or so, though. She did get tickets to the Eagles the last time they were here in Omaha a little over a year ago. My friend and her were both getting over the flu so she gave the tickets to me. They were floor seats in the last row of the front section. I was curious so I looked on Ticketmaster resale (the show had been sold out for months) and there were seats a row ahead of us that were on resale for $2100 bucks a piece. So I have definitely benefitted from that friendship. Never got any freebies before the last 10 years and I appreciate what I get.
One more to add to the list that I forgot: Garth Brooks 2x
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