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
Seen too many to list. By the time I finished HS I’d seen almost every band that was at Woodstock except Janis( saw Big brother later) and Hendrix.
Impressive list for someone who didn’t seem to get out of the house much.
Here are some of the acts that I have seen live:
The Beach Boys
The Bobbettes
Les Brown & His Band of Renown
The Coasters
The Diamonds
The Drifters
Lesley Gore
The Harptones
Joe Houston
Bullmoose Jackson
Jan & Dean
Don Julian & the Meadowlarks
Peggy Lee
The Marvelettes
The Medallions
The Modernaires
Frank Sinatra
Kate Smith
Tje Spaniels
Waring’s Pennsylvanians
I forgot to include:
Santana
38 Special
Kiss
Rush
ZZ Top
Billy Squire
Def Leppard
The Who
The Clash
The Grateful Dead (2X)
Blue Oyster Cult
The Cure
Zebra
Prince and the Revolution
REM
Depeche Mode
Stevie Ray Vaughan (2X)
Queensryche
Morrissey
Steel Woods
Kenny Rogers
Hendrix, Stones, Spirit, Leon Redbone, Willie Nelson, Leon Russell, and others, some Jethro Tull, I think MC5, there might be more.
“ Patty Smith”
Which one, Patti Smith or Patty Smyth?
John Prine
Jimmy Buffett
Billy Joel
Charlie Pride
Kansas
Huey Lewis / Bruce Hornsby
Allman Brothers / Dave Mason
I saw the Beatles too, but you couldn’t hear anything for the screaming. LOL
When did you see Tom Waits? Older stuff before the chaotic jumbled noise that requires patience? His earlier stuff is just incredible. How can a dude, in his 20s write songs like Martha and Tom Trauberts Blues?
RE: Beethoven.
He saw him roll over onstage.
Like the gimmick of Jimi Hendrix setting fire to a guitar and smashing the amps which I saw.
I forgot about ZZ Top, I was friends with Billy Gibbons.
I saw Tom Waits at a small venue in NY in 1976
Love some John Prine.
Andre Segovia. I actually saw him because a nice elderly librarian said “I can’t use my ticket. Do you want to go? I’m not sure if your love of guitar music extends to him.”
At that time Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, BB King, Mike Bloomfield and others were the ones I usually went to see.
Segovia was very impressive, of course.
When did you see the Allman Bros? Was it with Duane?
Beatles
Stones
Led Zeppelin 1st US tour
Cream
Blind Faith
Jefferson Airplane
CCR
Canned Heat
Santana
MC5
Animals
Doors
Byrds
Iron Butterfly
Later in life:
Jackson Browne
Jimmy Buffet
Willie Nelson
Waylon Jennings
Def Leppard
‘ I saw Tom Waits at a small venue in NY in 1976’
Perfect. The piano was drinkin’
Blue Oyster Cult
Black Sabbath
George Thorogood
Grateful Dead
BB King
Buddy Guy
Rolling Stones
The Who
Kenny Wayne Shepard
Joe Satriani
Eric Johnson
Joe Perry
Charlie Daniels
The Outlaws
James Cotton
Santana
Jeff Beck
Deep Purple
Yes
I know there’s more but, you know.
Oh yeah!. I saw chuck mangione too. Added to list.
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