Fifty Concerts

[YLGuy]

Test your memory and your love of live music by listing 50 artists or bands (or as many as you can remember) you've seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. An act you saw at a festival and opening acts count, but only if you can't think of 50 other artists. Oh, and list the first concert you ever saw.

1. Kiss
2. The Grateful Dead
3. Jerry Garcia Band
4. Rat Dog
5. Hot Tuna
6. The Rolling Stones
7. The Who
8. Santana
9. Ray Charles
10. Van Halen (David Lee Roth)
11. The Eagles
12. Yes
13. The Doobie Brothers
14. The Allman Brothers
15. Foghat
16. The Outlaws
17. Eric Clapton
18. Ted Nugent
19. Neil Young
20. Aerosmith
21. Chicago
22. Robin Trower
23. Bob Dylan
24. Pink Floyd
25. Jethro Tull
26. Edgar Winter
27. The Beach Boys
28. Little Feat
29. Ziggy Marley
30. Paul McCartney
31. David Bowie
32. Elvis Costello
33. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
34. Nils Lofgrin
35. Billy Idol
36. CSN & Y
37. New Riders of the Purple Sage
38. Tracy Chapman
39. Joe Satriani
40. Joan Baez
41. Jackson Browne
42. Journey
43. Phil Collins
44. Tracy Chapman
45. String Cheese Incident
46. John Fogerty
47. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
48. The Dirty Dozen Band
49. The Funk Brothers
50. Robert Hunter

[willowtreewren]

I am such a nerd.

I have been to a Judy Collins Concert (my first concert), Peter Paul and Mary, Diana Krall and Joshua Bell.

Besides those, I have been to untold ballets, (used to be the president of the Appalachian Ballet Company), numerous operas (too many to count), and many, many symphonies.

Aleta

[kitkatz]

I am even more of a nerd....

The Oak Ridge Boys
Reba McEntire (twice)
Toby Keith
Kenny Chesney
Alabama
George Strait

[Darthvadar]

Oh dear....

My memory's not up to fifty, but here's an attempt!... Do multiples count?.... 

1. Ronan Tynan (Eight times!)...
2. The Irish Tenors...
3. The Dubliners...
4. The Stylistics...
5. Nial Diamond...
6. Roger Whittaker...
7. The Band of An Garda Siochana (About 25 times!)...
8. Brendan Grace...
9. The Ferryman
10. Elton John...
11. Leonard Cohen...
12. The Priests...
13. U2...
14. Tom Jones...
15. And last night... Chris De Burgh...

[harley08]

Besides 90% of the bands that YLGUY has listed, I can think of a few others I have seen...

Quicksilver
Zepplin
T-Rex
Boz Scaggs
Steely Dan
Van Morrison
ELO

There are so many I can't remember the names, when I was high school (California - West Covina High) on the weekends in Pasadena (where they would store the floats for the New Year Parade) the would have concerts in there every friday night and for years my friends and I would never miss one. It was great and I am definetly giving my age away.......

[pklipe57]

I can't compete -

1st Concert (Senior in High School)     John Denver (Opening Act - Starland Vocal Band 
                                                      their only hit was Afternoon Delight)
Oakridge Boys
 
and I think that's it..........................

[twirl]

you go to lots of concerts -

college --- several but I was too stoned to remember --

N'sync - my girls wanted to go and we made Allen and my husband go 
Toby Keith
Brooks and Dunn
Little Texas
John ( something ) Montgomery -    I remember now, John Micheal Montgomery

[cariad]

Fifty concerts? I think I could do much better at this with Broadway/West End shows, but I will try to list the acts I've seen live. Not much of a concert goer, but as I read through these, I remembered a few more I've seen.

First concert - uh, I think Harry Connick Jr, but not sure. Actually saw him twice.

Billy Joel (twice, once with Elton John and once solo)
Elton John (twice, same as above) By the way, I cannot stand either Billy Joel or Elton John anymore. 
Paul Simon
U2
The Manic Street Preachers (twice)
The Beautiful South
R.E.M.
Blondie
Blues Travellers
Courtney Love (She was terrible, but it was part of a music festival)
Elvis Costello
Billy Bragg and Wilco
Ray Charles (only a few songs)
Kidd Rock (not on purpose)
Tim McGraw (definitely not on purpose)
Susan Werner (at least 3 times - had a good friend who was obsessed with her. I am not exaggerrating.)

Two close friends write music, and I have CDs from both of them. I have seen both perform live, too.

My former brother-in-law was in a band that I saw perform a few times. Can't remember the name, though. 
OK, I looked it up. They were called 10Speed. My former brother-in-law is the singer, and many have remarked on his likeness to the late lead of T-Rex.
Enjoy - the heavily made-up woman is my sister: http://www.veoh.com/collection/10-Speed-Music-Videos/watch/v165894524zjXBxYE#

Almost saw Ian Dury but he was too ill to make the gig; poor thing died of cancer within a year.

Some fun imposters I remember watching at music festivals:
Bjorn Again (a faux ABBA band)
The Rolling Clones (Fake Stones band, of course)

Last but not least, TOM JONES. Required viewing when you have a Welsh person in the house. He happened to be touring in Chicago on my husband's fortieth. I don't expect to ever see so many pairs of underwear fly through the air simultaneously again.

[Jean]

How do you like this one???
I have NEVER been to a concert, unless you count the Radio City Rockettes.

[Hanify]

1. KD Lang (best concert ever I think)
2. Rod Stewart
3. The Police
4. Billy Joel (3 times)
5. Cliff Richard
6. Elton John (twice)
7. War of the Worlds (does that count)
8. Carol King
9. Huey Lewis and the News
10. B52's
11. Fleetwood Mac
12. The Silvers
13. Hughes Corporation (my first concert in 1975)
14. The Committments
15. Aaron Neville
16. Vika and Linda

I'm sure there are others but I can't remember now.

[texasstyle]

I don't know how to post these vertically lol, but here goes: Van Halen (first one), Delbert McClinton, Robert Cray, Etta James, Susan Tedeschi, KokoTaylor, BB King, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy, Shemika Copeland, Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Rhodes, Keb Mo, Derek Trucks, Katie Webster, Johnny Lang, and on & on & on

[Poppylicious]

I thought I'd seen a fair few bands, but now realise I am really lacking in the concert stakes.  *sigh*

1. Manic Street Preachers (first concert, and a total of five times)
2. REM (twice)
3. Kylie
4. The Killers
5. Razorlight
6. Chumbawumba
7. Terrorvision
8. Bjorn Again
9. The Damned
10. Editors
11. Busted
12. McFly
13. Louis XIV
14. Scouting for Girls

... I have a long way to go before I hit fifty! 

[YLGuy]

I have seen the Grateful Dead over times alone.  I never really considered myself a Deadhead because I always had a full time job.  I just went to the Greek Theater in Los Angeles this weekend to see one of their members' bands: Rat Dog.

[glitter]

Apparently I need to get out more....lol



1. Helen Reddy & The Mormon Tabernacle Choir  I was 7 yrs. old

2. Johnny Cash ( I got to shake his hand, and got an autograph) I was 10 yrs. old

3. Kansas

4. Toy story on ICE (does that even count?)

[monrein]

Been to about 15 Dead shows I estimate and my husband's license plate is Dead Hd.  I had a full time job too Marc...I taught French at Acadia University at the time.   I preferred the outdoor concerts to the indoor ones.  We have what seems like trillions of tapes.

[YLGuy]

I just read my post.  The number dropped out.  It is over One Hundred Dead Shows.  I believe the number is 114.

[tyefly]

    hey what about  Deep Purple   in Vegas  when Fleetwood Mac opened for them........   we even had a riot  cause Purple didnt play....