Live acts you have seen.... bands and solo artists

I'll start:

Black Sabbath
Mountain
Chick Corea
Johnny Winters
Rick Derringer
J Guiles Band
Cowsills
ZZ Top (several times)
Blue Oyster Cult (several times)
Marshall Tucker Band
The Outlaws (several times)
Bob Seegar
Deep Purple
George Strait
Patty Loveless
Kenny Chesney
Montgomery Gentry
Faith Hill
Tim McGraw
Poco
Wishbone Ash

and I know there's a few I have forgotten. It was all so hazy back then.

EDIT TO ADD:

Steven Curtis Chapman
Casting Crowns
David Crowder Band
The Isaacs (bluegrass based)
The Easters (Southern gospel)

An eclectic list for this old part:

The Beatles - 1964 Jacksonville Fl
The Rolling Stones 2 times during the 60's
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
Canned Heat
Joe Cocker
Booker T
CCR
Delaney and Bonnie
Santana
Blood, Sweqt and Tears
Everly Brothers
Elvis Presley
Roy Orbison
Benny Goodman
Dave Brubeck
Otis Redding
Marshall Tucker Band
Wet Willie
Johnny Winter
BB King
John Mayall
John Lee Hooker
Allman Brothers
George Jones
Merle Haggard
Dwight Yoakam
Steve Earle
Waylon Jennings
Ricky Skaggs
Clint Black
Jefferson Airplane
Led Zeppelin
Goose Creek Symphony
The Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West.

And more

And about every bluegrass act you can imagine from 30 years of pickin' in BG bands.

Ok, off the top of my head:

Johnny Winter (twice)
Eric Clapton (three times)
ELP
Genesis
Bruce Springsteen
Mark Knoffler
Otis Rush
Lonnie Mack
Roy Buchanan (three times)
B.B. King (twice)
John Mayall (twice)
Robert Cray
Stevie Ray Vaughn (three times)
Jimmie Vaughn
Buddy Guy
Willie Dixon
Joe Louis Walker
J. Geils Band
Fabulous Thunderbirds
George Thorogood
Joe Bonamassa


..... many more in the 70's that I have forgotten.

ok....
this is where i get envious!!

we only get them here in South Africa when they are all virtual geriatrics and most of the band was replaced and the rest of civilization does not want to pay to watch old okies!!

ok....
this is where i get envious!!

we only get them here in South Africa when they are all virtual geriatrics and most of the band was replaced and the rest of civilization does not want to pay to watch old okies!!

smokie
joe dolan
pussycat
chris de burg
cliff richard
eagles
black sabbath
demis roussos

(so now do you see my problem???)

Yeah, Henry, but you guys have TARZAN!!!!

In no particular order:

Chicago
Styx
Michael W. Smith
Third Day
Chris De Burgh
Little River Band
America
Steven Curtis Chapman
Wes King
Nena (remember "99 Red Balloons" - concert was in Germany in German)
Men At Work
Maynard Ferguson (multiple times)
Kenny Loggins
Billy Joel
Paul McCartney
Journey
Heart
Cheap Trick
Gladys Knight and the Pip (singular; only her brother was with her, but man could she sing)
Weird Al Yankovic (surprisingly a very good show)
Newsboys
Burlap to Cashmere
Huey Lewis and the News (disappointing show; they just stood on stage like cardboard cutouts of themselves)
Gatlin Brothers (Farewell Tour, which never is, and then again a couple of years ago)
Chuck Mangione
MercyMe
Casting Crowns
4HIM
Crystal Bowersox (American Idol season 9 runner up - excellent show)
Mark Shultz
National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center(multiple times)
Barry Manilow
TobyMac
Temptations (but only one original member at the time)
Newsong
Zuill Bailey, Jr (my family is good friends with Zuill's family - his dad Zuill Sr. was a high school band director, his mom Lana is a master organist, his sister Allison is a talented concert violinist, and I understand that Zuill Jr. has now been nominated for a Grammy award)

Bud & Janice... wow... Goose Creek Symphony.... those guys were so good and so unique. One early band I was in covered a few of their tunes.

I didn't think anybody would recognize them. I used to see them in a small club in Atlanta called the 12th gate around 1970. My favorite song was "the corn won't grow so rock an roll!"

Bud

My list is very short:

"Weird Al" Yankovic - a gift from a son

Olivia Newton John - because the original Grease movie ran parallel to our story, i.e. I had the leather jacket and was a greaser (Danny) and my wife was the goodie-goodie cheerleader - true story

The Rochester NY Philharmonic Orchestra - cause I like classical music

The Beatles (Pittsburgh 1964)
The Rolling Stones w/Brian Jones. Later w/Mick Taylor
Electric Light Orchestra
Eric Clapton
Kiss
Hall & Oates
Small Faces
Faces w/Rod Stewart
Humble Pie
BB King
Wishbone Ash
The Who
Todd Rundgren
Bob Dylan
John Mayall and Blues Breakers (1971 version)
Elton John (in 1974 and again in 2016)
The Bee Gees
Bad Company
Allison Krause
Toby Keith
The Beach Boys
Fleetwood Mac (the original band w/ Peter Green and the final band in 1976)
Willie Nelson
Lindsey Buckingham
Clint Black
Jefferson Airplane
Big Brother and the Holding Company
The Band
Bruce Springsteen
West, Bruce, and Laing
Just about anyone you can think of from the Bluegrass Festivals
Merle Haggard
Waylon Jennings
Sonny and Cher
Credence Clearwater Revival
Ringo Starr
Canned Heat
The Brooklyn Bridge
Simon and Garfunkel
War with Eric Burden
Lady GaGa
Santana
Rush
Alice Cooper
Lou Reed
Steppenwolf
Ten Years After
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Lovin Spoonful
Buddy Guy
The Doors
Bill Emerson and the US Navy Band (The Country Current Bluegrass Ensemble)

Great list, Keith!

I would have loved to have seen Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, also would have loved to have seen Paul Butterfield. Was Mike Bloomfield on guitar when you saw Butterfield?

Unfortunately, no.

I'm a fan of some very "off the radar" groups. I think I still might have the 8 track tape of GCS.... but I doubt it will play on any of my 8 track players. The drive belts are too old.

Petra
Joe Jackson
U2
Phil Collins
Oleta Adams
Detroit Symphony Orchestra (many times)
Buggs Beddow
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai (twice. Awful both times)
Yngwie Malmsteem (sp?)
Tommy Emmanuel
Andy McKee
Allison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas
Sparklehorse
R.E.M.
Brian Regan
Jim Gaffigan
Steven Wright
Jars of Clay
Thousand Foot Krutch
O.C. Supertones
Trace Bundy
Robben Ford
The Choir
Chris Casello (one of my favorite shows)
Matt Schofield
Sonny Landreth
Josh Garrels
Alexander Zonjic
Doc Powell
A Boy And His Kite
Jared Anderson

How do you guys ever remember these? You must keep the tickets!

My wife reminded me last night while discussing something else that we had also been to see David Allen Coe. It was a 2 hr ride one way to the club..... $10 each to get in..... I was sick.... running a temperature..... we stayed about 45 minutes because he wasn't really all that good, and left after the first set. The band was loud...too loud for the club, and he was drunk from the start.

... Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison ...

Lots of pop, rock and country. Not very many jazz fans here (yet). My Partial List:

Chick Corea
Herbie Hancock
Charlie Haden
Michael Brecker
Al Jarreau
Earth, Wind and Fire
Arturo Sandoval
Steve Wilson
Victor Wooten
Bela Fleck
Freddie Cole

Here's a few of mine (the more notable ones for me):

Maynard Ferguson (at least half a dozen times, probably more)
Doc Severinsen (many times;there's a pic somewhere of me on his lap when I was a young)
Chase
Jean Luc-Ponty (maybe 4 times or so)
King Crimson
Smashing Pumpkins (including when they were local competition)
The Cure
Bruford
Allan Holdsworth
Mark Colby
Mongo Santamaria
Tower of Power
Victor Borge


I'm sure there's more .. been a while since I've seen anyone worth mentioning though. What happened to good live music with real musicians?

As a side note after a few Maynard shows, all the Severinsen shows and a couple of the others I had backstage access .. I like to think I was born lucky (mainly due to my parents).
Walking around at various times with Doc, Maynard, Steve Gadd, Allen Zavod, Bill Chase, Mark Colby (among others) .. this thread brings back some pretty cool memories; thanks!
/I've been told I saw Bill Chase twice, the first time when he was featured as Maynard's protege, but I was too young to really recall that one now. <grin>

RHarv -

Never saw them, but I'm a big Chase fan. Have all three albums on vinyl (and in multiple iterations - I even have a quadrophonic version of the first album, but nothing to properly play it on) and it was so sad that we lost this talent.

I have always found it interesting that the first song on the first album was "Open Up Wide" and the last song on the last album was "Close Up Tight".

Kinda weird.

Yes, there were many unique/interesting things about Bill Chase and his career.
I often wonder about Survivor

Jim Peterik got involved with the band late and avoided that fateful flight .. was that the foundation for the band name?

FWIW I also have one of the Jet-Tone Chase mouthpieces from back in the day.
Also have a David Stahl one.. and a couple Maynard ones.
After reading about their mouthpieces years ago I had Schilke make a 'rharv' mouthpiece .. I think it was 6b4a if I recall .. if that means anything <grin>.