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
Oh, I forgot to add: Primus!
That couldn’t be the one one you’ve seen…just the one you’ve seen the most?
Not too many for me.
ALso, I think Steppenwolf, when I was just maybe 12 or 13? They were a featured band at the Illinois Jaycees state track meet in Granite City, IL, IIRC.
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Gordon Lightfoot
Fleetwood Mac
Rod Stewart
Doobie Brothers
Alabama
Toby Keith with Trace Adkins
Passed up seeing Harry Chapin around 1977 approx.
I may have forgotten something/someone?
Can anyone here claim to have seen Arthur Lee and LOVE?
We lived in Cbus from 1989 to 2013. Great place. Miss it. Go back every couple of months to visit old friends and/or our son.
Simon and Garfunkle, the Animals, the Loving Spoonfull, Roberta Flack, the Four Tops, the Temptations, John Denver, America, Allison Krause, J Geils Band, Paul Revere and the Raiders, REO Speedwagon, Celine Dion, the Everly Brothers, Sha Na Na, the Moody Blues, Pete Seeger, Jefferson Airplane, the woman who sang If I Could Only Win Your Love.
I’m so jealous.
Emmmy Lou Harris, guh.....
Yes, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles 1967. See my post #208.
The Wildweeds
Lovin’ Spoonful
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Ten Years After
James Taylor
New Riders Of The Purple Sage
Ritchie Havens
Bert Sommer
Tim Hardin
Ravi Shankar
Arlo Guthrie
Joan Baez
Santana
John Sebastian
Keef Hartley Band
Incredible String Band
Mountain
Grateful Dead
CCR
Janis Joplin
Sly &The Family Stone
The Who
The Jefferson Airplane
Joe Cocker
Country Joe and The Fish
Ten Years After
The Band
Johnny Winter
Blood Sweat and Tears
Crosby Stills and Nash
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Sha Na Na
Jimi Hendrix
Flo & Eddie
Beach Boys
Kinks
Doors
Monty Python
Dire Straits
Devo
The Reducers
The Meat Puppets
Ian Hunter
The Ramones
Magazine
Buzzcocks
The Fall
Chet Atkins
King Crimson
R.E.M.
Lou Reed
Ian Gomm
Men Without Hats
The Cure
The Smiths
XTC
League Of Gentleman
The Members
Gang Of 4
The Mekons
OMD
U2
The Moody Blues
The Fixx
New Order
Nik Kershaw
Richard Thompson
P Model
Loudon Wainright
YMO
Jonathan Richman
Pat Martino
The Ventures
Propaganda
The Residents
Mal Waldron
George Shearing
Some seen more than once .
Wall of Voodoo opened. Great lineup.
I saw ABBA on their only North American tour in 79. I was working as a driving instructor back then and one of my students gave me tickets. Something else has jogged my memory. We had the group The Stampeders come and do a show at our high school. They had a hit called Sweet City Woman back then. Our whole school was wowed.
Ice T solo. It was the one Lollapalooza in Florida (were there multiple? I honestly can’t remember.) He and Perry Farrel did the Don’t Call Me N-word, Whitey song. He was great.
His Original Gangster disc was in my car 24/7 when I went to grad school.
I understand about KISS — but they seriously changed my life when I was ten and saw their tv film, Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park. Total crap film, I know — but it set me on my path. I was originally sort of a metal head, but have sort of grown into sort of a Goth/Rivethead over time.
I’m pretty jealous you saw the Cult in a small club. I saw them at the Hollywood Sportatorium opening for Billy Idol. Man, they were amazing. Billy was great, but the Cult was better.
As for Ministry — I saw him after Psalm 69 came out in a hockey rink in Oviedo Florida. The hockey rink no longer exists, and I think the Middle School where I used to work was built on it’s ashes. The terrible thing is — I missed his pretty boy/every day is Halloween incarnation. Instead, I get the methed-out Charles Manson incarnation... even worse, that was when the dorky college jocks discovered mosh pits and began to infiltrate the alt scene.
What a dark time.
Sigh.
Are you a Camper fan?
Elton John—great
Moody Blues—great
The Rippingtons—great
David Sanborn—great
Bobby Caldwell—great
Michael Franks—great
Yes —almost great
Bread—great
Eagles—OK
Jackson Browne—OK
Linda Ronstadt—OK
Steely Dan—terrible
The Cult.
Yeah. Great show. The Divinyls opened.
We walked in. Small club, tables and chairs in the back. Agora ballroom, west Hartford.
Was with a friend. We were both kinda pretty boys at the time. He still is, me not so much.
Show hasn’t started so we’re like let’s sit down and have a couple drinks.
No seats, except, one table with the only black guy in the entire place. Let’s go there, I said. Was funny that table had the only open seats.
We sit down, he was bigger than both of us and I’m 6’1” and back then not as big but still like 180 lbs.
We talk. He’s a social worker in New Haven. Decent guy.
The Divinyls finished, and this was before their biggest hit, I touch myself or something likethat.
The lights dim, The Cult is about to come on.
He said, follow me.
I grab the back of his shirt, my friend grabbed the back of my shirt, and boom! We are right in front of Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy for the entire show. He cleared a path and it was great.
Oh, and Kiss.
When I was 10, my father would always have a radio station playing in the car, Kiss FM. 1977. Easy listening 70’s music, and even worse than say Bread.
I was forbidden from listening to secular music, my eternal soul was at risk.
At school kids were talking about Kiss and blood, makeup etc and I was so confused.
I couldn’t conceive of how those two things related until later when I realized, they both suck, just opposite ends of the suckiness spectrum.
Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman and Stan Kenton orchestras played for our spring formal dances during my college years 1968-1972 I also saw Stan Kenton and his orchestra in concert in 1971 and 1973. In addition I saw Buddy Rich and his band performing at a small club in Sioux Falls, SD in 1972.
I used to go to Leo Kottke’s concerts around Christmas every year in Minneapolis back in the day!
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