Which big-name artists/bands have you seen live in concert?

i have to add that I saw Sammy Davis, Jr. as a kid. i forgot that.

 

The Candyman??!! You are the true BBS renaissance man here, Max!

 

I forgot to list that I saw Elvis at the Rodeo when I was a kid.

Don't remember too much about it. Must have been all the drugs I did back then!

 

I think I saw Elvis at the prison rodeo in Huntsville, or was that Ricky Nelson?
Anybody else that old to know?

 

Also I think it was summer of 1968 in the Coliseum I saw the Byrds and a bunch of rednecks threw cans at them.

 

LMAO - that scenario is one that does not surprise me.

 

I forgot to add that I saw:

Souxie and The Banshees
Ice Tea
Violent Femmes
Butthole Surfers
Henry Rawlins
Jane's Addiction
Reverend Horton Heat
Clint Black

 

Nope this was the big rodeo in the Dome. Late 60s-early 70s sometime. I was around 8 or 9 years old.

 

In semi-chronological order starting at about age 13-

Gratefule Dead (yawner)

Fab. T-Birds
ZZ Top
Rolling Stones

David Bowie
U2
Robert Plant
Bruce Springstein
Santana
The Cure
Ziggy Marley
Yellowman
Melissa Etheridge (one of the best shows ever)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tom Tom Club
Little Feat
Wild Seeds (Their final show. Anyone else ever see this incredible Austin band.)
Bonnie Raitt
Timbuk3
Robert Cray
Sade
Kelly Willis
Burning Spear

Many, many smaller shows and probably a few big ones I can't remember.

 

I saw her too. I wasn't really that hyped to go see her, I just went with a friend that had an extra ticket. She really put on an energetic show and then she switched to acoustic and was even better.

 

With a relatively strict definition of "big-name" (no Yo La Tengo or John Hartford), and in rough chronological order from around 1983 (when I was 11) to 1991 (when I realized that I really didn't enjoy concerts):

Culture Club (my sister wanted to go)
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Willie Nelson (my parents wanted to go)
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Don Henley
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Bo Diddley
Bob Dylan

 

No wonder you do not enjoy concerts

 

Win,

Have I ever told you that you are the coolest person on this board? I have got to meet you some day and buy you a beer!

 

Thanks Manny, but I'm pretty sure UT weezer and most everyone else here is cooler than me.

BTW, if you were here in San Diego tonight, we could go see the New York Dolls (or whats left of them - Johansen and Sylvain) at the House of Blues and have that beer

 

One day you need to tell me where you are and I'll get a plane ticket to meet you. I have a feeling we could spend HOURS talking about music. Hell, it is the least I could do (get on a plane and buy you a beer) after you introduced me to Roxy Music.

Right now I have gotten back on an Indie kick and am listening to Interpol's 2nd album (highly underrated) and will follow that with "Funeral" by Arcade Fire.

 

my father sang with a big band. i grew up on sinatra and the rat pack from my father.

 

Just this year:

Lenny Kravitz
Widespread Panic
Allman Bros
Robert Plant
Wilco (blew, god their new album is crap)
The Killers
Modest Mouse
Velvet Revolver
Oasis
U2
The Pixies
Black Crowes
Ratdog and Bruce Hornsby (thurs)
Coldplay (well, next tues)

Other shows that I can recall:

Journey
The Police
Duran Duran
Lionel Richie & Tina Turner
Chicago
Genesis
Night Ranger
Motley Crue
Depeche Mode
The Cure
Pink Floyd
Jane's Addiction
Ministry
The Cars
The Church
The Sugarcubes
Billy Joel
Midnight Oil
The Information Society
The Fixx
Oingo Boingo
Talking Heads
B52s
REM
U2
Def Leppard
Guns n Roses
Metallica
The Grateful Dead
Widespread Panic
Blues Traveller
Phish
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
Sarah McLaughlin
Melissa Etheridge
Dave Matthews Band
Soundgarden
Smashing Pumpkins
Pearl Jam
Beastie Boys
Creed (please dont kill me, free tickets)
Counting Crowes
Sheryl Crow
Weezer
Cracker
Veruca Salt
Hole
NIN
Willie Nelson
Tony Bennett
Bob Dylan
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Ryan Adams
Whiskeytown
Rev Horton Heat
G Love and Special Sauce
John Meyer
Sting
ZZTop
Audioslave
Foo Fighters
Queens of the Stone Age
Tom Petty
Rush
Crosby Stills and Nash
Elvis Costello
Paul Simon
Elton John
Little Feat
Steve Miller Band
BB King
Neville Brothers
Junior Brown
Eric Clapton
.....and I am too tired to think of all the others.