b.b. KIng
Buddy Guy
Phil Collins
Men at work
Maynard Ferguson
Buddy Rich
Kate Campbell
Wycliff Gordon

Don't feel bad, I've only seen TSO and that was just a couple Christmases ago.

-Steve

As a kid I saw:
Elvis @ Ed Sullivan Show, NYC, 1957
Leonard Bernstein, (Young Peoples Concert) Newark NJ ~1960

Later:
Nipsy Russel (some hotel in the Catskills) ~1966, 68?
Blues Traveler (Allentown Pa) ~2000

The New Christy Minstrels with Barry McGuire was my first concert.
The Beatles in '65 was second.

Two I didn't particularly care for, but keeping a girl happy.... Elton John and John Denver.
I used to like Judy Collins, but left her concert early. Most boring show I've seen.

Johnny Cash and June Carter w/ Carl Perkins opening.
Gordon Lightfoot
Rolling Stones
Leo Kottke
Leon Redbone
John Sebastian
Amboy Dukes
Chuck Berry
Jerry Lee Lewis
Small Faces w/Rod Stewart
Deep Purple
Matthew's Sothern Comfort
Chambers Brothers
Linda Ronstadt
Jackson Browne
Christopher Parkening
Sharon Isbin
Carlos Montoya
Louis Armstrong
Peter Tosh
Castaways
Sha Na Na
James Taylor
Ten Years After
Albert Collins
Fabulous Thunderbirds (Jimmie Vaughan era)
Willie Murphy
Koerner, Ray and Glover (various solo and combos)
Middle Spunk Creek Boys
Dakota Dave Hull and Peter Ostroushko
New Vaudeville Band (Bo De Oh Doh)


I vaguely remember Buffy Sainte-Marie and Brownsville Station from my first big festival at Stevens Point, Wisc. in 1970 Unfortunately I was introduced to acid that day and after five tabs was on an astral plane. I might have seen Iggy Pop. It was groovy watching some bike gangs have a shootout and the crowd swarming over their Harleys, smashing them up and setting them on fire.

A great series of summer concerts were staged on an old riverboat in the Mississippi at the U of M. We camped on the banks. They would start Friday evening and go until Sunday afternoon. Mostly coffeehouse circuit folkies.

The absolute best was in a tiny basement room of William's Pub called the Banjo Room about 1980. The promotion was screwed up and the audience consisted of my brother and I, a young couple and two drunk guys arguing loudly. The great Steve Young (Seven Bridges Road, Rock Salt and Nails) was alone on a stool. After we threw the drunks out, Steve played and talked with us for about three hours.

My you have led a sheltered life. With all those RCAs you had, you probably didn't feel the need to see these artists in person.

Wow, I'm amazed at all the concerts you guys have seen. This thread is bringing out folks who don't normally post in the Phonographs Forum.

Now I see why...mods have moved it to the Clubhouse.

I have attended concerts by:

Kim Sarena
Kim Yun Cha
Cho Mi Mi
Min Hae Kyong
Molly Hatcher
And many others I can’t recall offhand. If you haven’t seen the first four, you don’t know what you’re missing.

I don't care for the crowds and high prices anymore either, but here are some that I remember:

Jimi Hendrix
The First Edition (with Kenny Rogers)
The Bob Seger System (before the Silver Bullet Band)
Danny and the Juniors
Sha Na Na
Kiss
38 Special
The Who
The Rolling Stones
Black Sabbath (x2: once with Ozzie and once with Ronnie)
Ted Nugent
The Platters
Mitch Ryder
Paul Revere and the Raiders

I've seen:

Leo Kotke
Jackson Browne
Vonda Shepard
Madonna
The Indigo Girls
Liza Minelli (she was horrible)
Peter, Paul and Mary
The Fifth Dimension
A bunch of peope at Woodstock '94 (most were awful)
Tim Paxton
Steve Forbert

BB King
Arlo Guthrie
Bob Dylan x3
CSN
Moody Blues
Santana 1970 and later in the 80's
Van Morrison
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Sha na na
Eric Clpaton
Beach Boys
Almand Bros
Richie Havens
The Chicago Transit Authority ca 1970
Melanie
Judy Collins
Bruce Springsteen
Gerry Garcia Band
Tom Petty
Yanni
Art Porter
Neville Bros

Ella Fitzgerald
Stan Kenton
Aaron Copland
Bruce Springsteen
Cheap Trick
Linda Rondstadt
Maynard Ferguson (got to meet him)
Bob Hope
Jimmy Buffet
Doc Severensin
Boyz II Men (not in concert, marched behind them in the 1991 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade)

I forgot to mention that I was Peter Nero last year-he was good.

Too many to list accurately. I don't remember several. But I know that I'd been there. Got the T shirt.
Grateful Dead audio was atrocious and I can hardly listen to them now. Nugent is crazy. Pink Floyd three times. I remember them intimately! What a show. Fantastic audio wherever you sat. Smoked a pipe w/Patti Smith. REO Speedwagon blew off air raid sirens in Three Rivers Stadium. That was just perverse, our bones actually hurt from the sound pressure. Loudest actual band was probably Blue Oyster Cult. They set up acoustic standing waves in the three venues that I've seen them in. My buddy was a roadie for AC/DC. Now he's a Mennonite. His pendulum swung to the other side!
Best concert? Pink Floyd, each time. Best guitar? I never got to see Zappa, so, I'd probably have to say Junior Brown. Craziest thing I ever saw (onstage) at a concert? Ted Nugent showing off some of his gun collection onstage in Billy Bob's. Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Johnny Winter, John Prine, Jimmy Buffet, Eric Burden, Doobie Brothers, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Scorpions, Rush, Van Halen, Jethro Tull, Joe Cocker, Tina Turner, Frankie Vali (sp?), Charlie Daniels, Aerosmith before they hit the stadium scene, Chris Whitley, the list could go on and on.
It has been a pretty full life.
My mom filled in on the banjo for Pete Seeger but her favorite instrument is the fiddle. She plays mountain music. I've had some very good times watching her play too.

Ike and Tina turner
zappa
john and edgar winter
ten years after
pink floyd
elton john
eric burton
led Zeppelin warm up for ike and tina
rod stewart
emly lou harris
Reba mc intire
Kenny Rodgers
Loretta Lynn
this is all my addled brain can remember at this time

Bob Hope? I've seen him too, but he did a live monologue of jokes at a business event I attended.

Here Come the Mummies earlier this year. Fantastic!! Group of very talented musicians playing together. Gee what a concept? Supposedly they are under contract with other bands so the mummy wraps are a way to be incognito and be within contract. Supposedly several Grammy's amongst them. The meet and greet after the show they stayed in character and talked in a series of grunts, growls and moans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETHvSTT6PA8

Saw The Moody Blues here two weeks ago. Your right, they sounded just like the albums. The 70+ year old drummer did a solo that blew the house away.

Did sound for way too many to list in 70s/80s. (half I don't even remember at this point)
Here's a few:
The Police
David Bromberg
Molly Hatchet
Dixie Dregs
Henry Paul Band
George Thorogood
Gordon Lightfoot
Pat Benatar
Aztec Two-Step
and about 300 or so more.

Seen in concert - way too many to list.

Springsteen (several times over the past 30+ years), Santana, Dylan, Bob Seger, Phil Collins, The Temptations, Four Tops, Joni Mitchell, Bobby Womack, Sly and the Family Stone, Three Dog Night, Air Supply, Dionne Warwick, Lionel Ritchie, The Pointer Sisters, Huey Lewis, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Fifth Dimension, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Gordon Lightfoot, Liza Minelli, Tony Bennett, The Dead, Beach Boys (in their various forms), The Turtles, Eddie Rabbit (good guy who died too young), Reba McIntyre, Sha Na Na, Michael Bolton, Linda Ronstadt, Tina Turner. Plus many more I can't remember.

Wow, some of the folks here have been prolific concert go'ers

I'll double space to make it look bigger

This year:
Various symphonies.

Bill Cosby.

Long ago:
Rolling Stones (thrice IIRC, clouded by bong resin)

Eagles.

U2.

Pink Floyd.

Wings.

Doobie Brothers.

Jimi Hendrix.

And a handful of "B" list venues experienced on LSD.

Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys
Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass
Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys
Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys
Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys
Don Reno and Bill Harrell
The Stoneman Family
The Lewis Family
The Sullivan Family
The McLain Family Band
Betty Fisher and Dixie Bluegrass
Jerry Reed
Ricky Skaggs
The Osborne Brothers
James Monroe
George Jones
Mac Wiseman
Chubby Wise
The Seldom Scene
The Bluegrass Tarheels
Johnny Tillotson

The Dead
Jimi Hendrix
King Crimson
The Who
KD Lang
David Bowie (Great Concert had seats in the last row of the balcony at Radio City)
Joan Baez
Odetta
Heard and saw some bands at Woodstock in 69 don't remember everything that went on those 3 days
Watkins Glen in 70
Went to lots of concerts at the Filmore East
and of course the concerts at the kids school
That's all I can remember off the top of my head