Sounds like some cool highlights to a job.
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Good call. I had a genuine sample it, loop it, f*ck it, eat it Pepsi tshirt way back when. No idea where it is now.
Late last year I got to see my favorite band playing at the Bluebird. They're pretty popular in the UK, generally playing 5-10k sized venues (they've filled the 70,000 seat Millennium Stadium in Cardiff in their time too). Because they're relatively unknown over here tickets were something like $20. I got to meet a lot of ex-pats who'd driven and flown in from Nevada, New Mexico and Texas just to see them.
Don't be like that and just not tell us who the band is.
I can remember when concert tickets were $5.50-$6.50-$7.50, depending on the seating. Oklahoma State Fairgrounds Arena in OKC. First concert I went to was The Doobie Brothers in '73 or '74.
Aldo Nova at The Rainbow was the first concert I went too.
I have seen Van Halen, Metallica, NIN, Ministry, Bowie, Curve, Def Leppard, Journey, Scorpions, Queensryche, Ratt. Prob missing a couple.
Nowadays you'd have to pay me to go to a show.
Oh yeah, I listen to them all the time.
Of course I haven't heard of them.
I wish I could have attended a Pantera concert:(
jerrymrc: nice list. Particularly jealous of Floyd, Zep, and Parliament.
Apparently my music collection has some overlap with Hoosier's.
First one, early teens I think.... was.... nope, I can't admit it.
And no matter what anyone says, it definitely was NOT Huey Lewis, and my parents and little brother certainly weren't there.
Moving on, no particular order:
Mighty Mighty BossTones - went to school out thar for a year when they were just starting to get known.
Several shows, all small venue... incl. inside one of the campus dining halls!
Ha, I just remembered walking by the Spin Doctors at some multi-school thing in a convention center back then too, there were maybe 20-30 people watching...
Fishbone
Primus (x2?)
Bim Skala Bim
NIN x2 (3?)
PWEI (just cuz they opened for NIN really)
Rush x2
Living Colour x2-3?
Tom Petty x2
CSNY '06 tour
Black Crowes x2
Prince
Tool
Puscifer
Albert Collins
Robert Cray
Almost forgot Nina Simone (here in Denver on her final tour - RIP)
Lots of live blues acts in misc Chicago places
Wow... I feel like I "never go to concerts", and I know there are more.
I might have seen Coolio...?
Oh and let's not forget all the rawkin' wedding bands and dj's out there!! [Ban3]
In no particular order other than when they pop into my head.
Pink Floyd
Alabama
Rick Springfield
Kenny Rodgers
Elton John
KISS
Tim McGraw
Faith Hill
Metallica X 5
Limp Bizcuit
Linkin Park
Trust Co.
Scorpians
Dokken
Foreigner
Styx
Def Leppard X 2
Tesla
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
Bon Jovi X 3
SR 71
Barry Manilow
Joe Walsh
Los Lobos
Queensryche
Van Halen
Candle Box
Ice T
Suicidal Tendencies
Bryan Adams
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Loverboy
Eddie money (the only concert I ever walked out on)
Skid Row
Uncle Ted Nugent
Adema
Grandpa Jones
and a whole bunch more I can't remember right now.
Remembered Pat Benetar. Saw her twice. Once because I really wanted to, and a second time because I bought the wifey two tickets so she could take her sis, but her sis couldn't make it. She's still very good.
Kenny Loggins