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
The only live rock and roll concert I ever went to was in 1985 at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium to see the Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Rolling Stones.
Magical.
Chicago Transit Authority
Guess Who
James Gang
Led Zeppelin
Elvis
Jethro Tull (9X)
Jackson Browne (9X)
Ian Anderson (solo)
Bonnie Raitt
Willie Nelson (X #?)
Billy Bob Thornton
Linda Rondstat
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
Rolling Thunder Review
Bob Dylan
George Harrison
Billy Preston
The Carrs
Dire Straits
Mark Knopfler
James Taylor
The Chieftains
Roseanne Cash
U2 (4x)
Patty Smith
Kings of Leon
Jerry Jeff Walker
Steely Dan
Joan Biaz
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Crosby/Stills (@Occupy Wall Street)
Jonie Mitchell
Janis Joplin
ZZ Top (Road with them from ANC to Fairbanks in 1st class)
Paula Nelson
Carolyn Wonderland
Sean Lennon
Jerry Jeff Walker
-Django Walker
Jimmy Buffet
Heart (4X)
Cheap Trick
Journey (2X)
Lou Reed
Cowboy Junkies
Steve Earl
Ray Wiley Hubbard
Paul Thorn
The Rolling Stones (4X)
Kansas
Boston
Beethoven
REM
Van Halen
John Ford Coley
David + David
Leon Russell
Huey Lewis
Lady Smith Black Mombazo
The Wailers
Yes
Huey Lewis
Joe Cocker
John Hiatt
The Pillsbury Dough Boys
Loggins and Messina
Eddie Money
Head East
Ted Nugent
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush
Cheech and Chong
Aerosmith
Steve Miller
Nazareth
Blue Oyster Cult
Flaming Lips
Norah Jones
George Thoroughgood & the Destroyers
Gary P. Nunn
The Outlaws
“Eddie Money
Head East
Ted Nugent
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush
Cheech and Chong
Aerosmith”
Did you go to the 1978 Texxas Jam? All of those were there.
Great list!
Frank Sinatra, Journey, Rush, The Pretenders, The Clash, The Who, The Tubes, The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, Bow-Wow-Wow, Tom Petty, Charlie Musclewhite, Mavericks, Prince, George Thorogood, The Kinks, Huey Lewis, Pat Travers, Roy Buchanan, Doobie Brothers, Chris Isaak, and a few other I’m forgetting...
Great list!
We saw Santana at Winterland in the late 1960s.
Just last year Santana came to a brand new indoor concert site: The Venue at Thunder Valley Casino. The sound was incredible. For about 10 minutes before Santana walked out, there was a mix of music from around the world. Whoever did the mixing deserves a raise. Then, slowly but surely, it morphed into the Woodstock intro into a live Soul Sacrifice. They played 5-6 more songs without stopping.
Woodstock Intro
Soul Sacrifice
Jin-go-lo-ba
Evil Ways
Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen
Oye cómo va
Everybody’s Everything
You reminded me I did see Ladysmith black Mambazo also.
Couple on your list I wish I’d seen
Bob Dylan
Patti Smith
Led Zeppelin
And I’m calling bs on Beethoven cause you ain’t that old.
The only live concerts I ever went to were Count Basie at Governors Island in NYC in 1956 and the Kingston Trio in Newport RI the summer of 1959. Doubt if there has been anything worth seeing since!!!!
Bobby Darin
Bob Dylan
Judy Collins
Andre Segovia
Neil Young
Grateful Dead
That list is incredible! Super Ultra Deluxe.
3 Dog Nite, Poco, Riders of the Purple Sage, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt. Attended California Jam in 1974 and saw Deep Purple, ELP, Eagles with Jackson Browne, EW&F, Seals & Crofts, and Black Sabbath. There may have been more but it was the 60s/70s, ffs.
Nice list—you spent a lot of money...
Bennie Goodman
Artie Shaw
Chicago Transit Authority
Rare Earth
Gordon Lightfoot
Chuck Mangione
Eddie Money
Head East
Ted Nugent
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush
Cheech and Chong
Aerosmith
Heart
Styx
Kansas
Elton John
Billy Joel
Damn Yankees
Van Halen
Kiss
Toby Keith
Rod Stewart
Son Seals
James Brown
John Lee Hooker
Fabulous Thunderbirds
ZZ Top
Ray Charles
Cheap Trick
Just off the top of my head.
I can only add a few. Gli Scott Heron, Queen, Cat Stevens.
All seen in Columbus, Ohio.
No one will guess I’m 78.5 years old but here goes.
Bob Dylan (the acoustic only solo performer, then the very first electric tour with boos).
The Beatles
Cream (first US tour)
Jimi Hendri Experience
Eric Burdon and the Animals
The Who
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Grateful Dead, the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Fifth Dimension, Mothers of Invention, Herman’s Hermits, Mountain, Al Kooper trio, Rare Earth, the Mamas and the Papas, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Tom Rush, BB King, Howlin’ Wolf,
MC 5.
Loggins & Messina
Savoy Brown
Uriah Heep
Yes
Neil Young
Humble Pie
Three Dog Night
Jackson Brown
Seals & Crofts
America
Al Stewart
CSNY
Bob Dylan
Joan Jett
Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic & all his guest performers -
Farm Aid - 2 times - and all the guest performers
That’s what i can recall for now.
That is Quite a list
Rolling Stones
Bonnie Raitt
Talking Heads
James Taylor
B 52s
Grateful Dead
Tom Waits
Jackson Brown
Van Morrison
Rickie Lee Jones
Jefferson Airplane
Elton John
Simon and Garfunkel
Santana
Before my time, but MC5?
Nice! What was that like?
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