jbacardi

I saw where someone else had posted a list like the one I'm about to lay on you, and it intrigued me- I don't think I've ever tried to compile one. I've been to see a fair amount of concerts, although I know many have me beat by miles, but here's my attempt to list every concert, or to be more specific, every musician of note, that I've seen in my so-called life. I've left off shows by local musicians that never really got signed or have never released music on a major label, although one or two might sneak on here before I'm done. To the best of my admittedly hit-or-miss memory, I present to you MY CONCERT LIST:

Alice Cooper
Suzi Quatro
Boston
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Journey
Jethro Tull
The John Miles Band
The Rolling Stones
Eddie Money
Bonnie Raitt
Cheap Trick
Roadmaster
Blue Oyster Cult
Thin Lizzy
The Producers
The Tubes
Heart
Warren Zevon
James Taylor
Culture Club
The Black Crowes
ZZ Top (twice)
Prince (twice)
Sheila E.
Neil Young
The Replacements (twice)
R.E.M.
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
Todd Rundgren
Big Bam Boo
Adrian Belew
Matthew Sweet
Living Colour
Michael Penn
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Paul McCartney
ProjeKCt 2 (Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn)
drivin' n' cryin'
Bob Dylan
The Alarm
The Beach Boys
Aerosmith
White Lion
David Lee Roth
Poison
Dan Fogelberg
Wendy Waldman
Joan Osborne
Jill Sobule (twice)
The Kentucky Headhunters (on several occasions)
Royal Crescent Mob
Too Much Joy
The BoDeans
Webb Wilder
Lloyd Cole and the Negatives (w/Jill Sobule)
Victoria Williams
The Jayhawks
Wilco
Elvis Costello
Tommy Womack
Ned Van Go
Government Cheese
The Williams Brothers ( I wish these guys were still making music)
Foster and Lloyd
The Georgia Satellites (opening for the Replacements under the alias The Famous Unknowns)
The Acoustic Strawbs
The Everly Brothers
John Prine

...and that's all that come to mind. If others occur to me, I'll add them. I started out trying to list them chronologically, but gave up about a quarter of the way through.

The redoubtable Roger Green has once more dipped into the EW Top 100 of the last 25 years list well, this time posting the movie list. Since imitation is the sincerest form of you-know-what, I shall now flatter Mr. Green by doing the same.