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 was thinking the same thing.
“Love some John Prine.”
Yeah, I was turned on to him by my friend’s mom back in about 1973. We all went to see him just about every year for a long time.
Duke Ellington (3 times, got his autograph once)
Louis Armstrong
Lee Konitz
Buddy Rich
Stan Kenton
Sarah Vaughan
(Many others at the Newport Jazz Festival)
David Bromberg
Kiss
The Beach Boys
Phil Collins
Genesis
Manheim Steamroller
The Manhattan Transfer
Yes
The Who
The Moody Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Cyndi Lauper
The Bangles
Elton John
60s Reunion (Three Dog Night, The Turtles, Spanky and our Gang [Elaine McFarlane], et. al.)
Steve Miller
Greg Kihn
Eddie Money
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Huey Lewis and the News
Billy Joel
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The Eagles
Heart
Bob Dylan
The Allman Brothers
Glen Frey
John Fogerty
Carlos Santana
Tony Bennett with Joe Williams
Steve Winwood
Ray Charles
Lynyrd Skynyrd
.38 Special
ZZ Top
Laura Branigan
U2
Pink Floyd
Chicago
Heavy.
You saw GWAR? And stormtroopers of death? I remember they had a 1 second song.
Lol.
Suicidal Tendencies? Just give me a Pepsi and you can’t bring me down! I saw your mommy and your mommy;s dead.
Got their first album at a little indie record store in Providence.
Thanks, just realized I forgot several. Growing up in the 1980s everyone I knew went to shows and they were affordable
The best for me was an out door concert ,in Connecticut in the 80’s. Jeff Beck with the Yan Hammer group. The sound set up was amazing. These guys blew everyone’s head off. Unbelievable talented musicians having a really good time !
It was so sad when he passed a few years ago during the panicdemic.
Me too.
In order:
The Osmonds
Pat Traverse
Foghat
Santana
Marshal Tucker Band
38 Special
Eric Clapton
Van Halen
Robert Palmer
The Kinks
REO Speedwagon
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
ZZ Top (x3)
Moody Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughn (x4)
Supertramp
Neil Young
Ray Charles
The Castaways
Crow (x100)
The Guess Who
Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead
Alvin Lee
Bonnie Raitt
Jeff Healy
Eric Burden Robbie Krieger
Ted Nugent
Johnny Lang
Kenny Wayne Sheppard
Buddy Guy
Trucks Tedeschi Band
**Nice list—you spent a lot of money...**
LOL! I spent my money on nice cars.
Bob Seger
Deep Purple
Neil Young
Santana
Rod Stewart
Uriah Heep
Steppenwolf
Jefferson Airplane
Savoy Brown
ZZ Top
Long John Baldry
Jesse Colin Young
Wishbone Ash
Humble Pie
Blue Oyster Cult
Mothers Finest
Louden Wainright
John Lee Hooker
Moody Blues
The Kinks
BJ Thomas
Davy Jones (post Monkees)
Peter Noone (post Hermans Hermits)
The Platters
Bruce Springstein (w/ E Street band)
David Bowie
The Drifters
Leo Kottke (5 times?)
Chris Smither (twice)
Paul McCartney (twice; one time including Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear, of Nirvana)
Three Dog Night
Paul Simon
My Brightest Diamond
Joanna Newsom and Robin Pecknold
of Montreal
Thom Yorke
Father John Misty
The Residents
Guy van Duser
Jill Stein (in better days, LOL!)
... And probably more I forgot about :)
my favorite one was Steely Dan 1974.
Where in CT?
I lived in the New Haven area for a while. Many shows at Toad’s Place, the Schubert, the grotto, then off to west Hartford and the agora. Saturday concerts on the green in New Haven in the summer.
Used to hang out at a bar called The Anchor on I think Church street. Had the most amazingly crank;y fat waitress named Bee. Old school jukebox, buy 2 drinks, get one free. Humphries East for wings, urges and Elm City beer. And the pizza! Modern, Sally’s, Pepe’s. The bar came around about the time I left.
Cutler’s record shop was great.
thank you for the memory jog! first full blown concert experience was Iron Butterfly at Curtix-Hixson theatre in Tampa, Florida (doesn’t exist anymore), with assigned seating. my dad took me and my brothers to our very first concert experience and I will never forget! very next concert was also in Tampa but it was open seating at the National guard armory,that also no longer exists. Strawberry Alarm Clock headlined, took my girlfriend and a blanket...and did our best to listen to the music. good times.
I went to one of there concerts way back in the day. The stage was crowded with musicians. The same with Santana. Awesome music and ticket prices didn't break the bank..
“Steelheart (Mili is a close buddy)”
Big fan. Those guys really got screwed by the change in trends. Very talented. No place for real singers in an age of grunting.
the biden administration...
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