The Beach Boys and Paul McCartney sounds great. I saw Paul McCartney and Wings in around 1972. That was when Linda was with the band. It was amazing. I saw them a couple more times in subsequent years.
When I was started high school, a new friend asked if I wanted to go see Jimi Hendrix but I declined. I had never been to a concert before and figured that I'd catch him the next time around. A couple months later, Jimi died. One of my greatest regrets is missing that concert.
I didn't get chance to see Cream, Janice Joplin or the Doors, either.
The first concert I ever attended was in 1970 when I was 16. It was Stevie Wonder opening for Sly and the Family Stone.
Shortly after that, the second concert I ever attended was Black Sabbath opening for Grand Funk Railroad. Sabbath blew me away.
After that, I became a concert junky. I was a lead guitarist and vocalist in garage bands back then.
I grew up in Long Beach, near Los Angeles, so there were lots of venues around - clubs, auditoriums, indoor and outdoor stadiums and amphitheaters - from San Diego to Santa Barbara. I went to hundreds of concerts throughout the 1970s and saw the best bands/musicians. I can't even begin to name them all.
I saw Pink Floyd several times, especially in the early days. One of their tours was in quadrophonic sound.
I saw the Who a couple times when Keith Moon was alive.
I saw the Stones a few times.
I saw Santana open for Eric Clapton. After Clapton played, the two bands both came on stage together and Eric and Carlos jammed.
I saw Yes open for Deep Purple and went to every Yes concert after that.
I saw bands like Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Yes, ELP, and Aerosmith every time they came to town.
I saw Queen a couple times.
I went to a concert at UC Santa Barbara football stadium where Heart opened. Their first album was brand new. Then came Lynyrd Skynyrd when they had just come out with Free Bird. And the headliner was the brand new Jefferson Starship. They had all the Jefferson Airplane members on stage with them.
I went to Cal Jam 1.
Years later, I saw Prince open for the Stones.
It goes on and on. Name almost any band or musician who was around in the 70s and I saw them. I've seen stuff that was indescribable; unimaginable.
Damn, been to too many to list.
I would say in terms of performance and quality, I would say the top 3 I saw was
1.) Shinedown (turned into an acoustic show because their drummer was hurt)
2.) Godsmack (Shannon and Sully had a drum off that went for like 10 minutes. That was awesome.
3.) Sevendust (both an acoustic and normal show)
I will/want to see:
1 ) Greta Van Fleet (will see them in March)
2.) Myles Kennedy
3.) Mammoth WVH
4 .) Slash featuring Myles Kennedy
Here are who I have seen.
The Police reunion tour 2007
Van Halen with David Lee Roth
Van Halen with Sammy Hagar
Motley Crüe (many times)
Poison (too many times)
Journey w/o Steve Perry (many times)
Foreigner w/o Lou Gram (several times)
Sammy Hagar (many times)
Blue Oyster Cult
Megadeth
Metallica
Slayer
Amon Amarth
Testament
Cannibal Corpse
Anthrax
Lamb of God
AX7
Kid Rock
Ozzy Osborne
Aerosmith
Kix
Great white
Jack Russell's Great White
Genesis
Gwar
Tripping Daisy
Rush
Whitesnake
Skid Row
Sebastian Bach
Ted Nugent
Kiss
The Sword
AC/DC
Ratt
Alice in Chains (w/o Layne Staley)
Vixen
Firehouse
Sixx AM
Tesla
Dokken
Twisted Sister
Def Leppard
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Fleetwood Mac
Velvet Revolver
Slayer
Scorpions
Paramore
Gwen Stefani
No Doubt
Godsmack
White Zombie
Rob Zombie
In This Moment
Gojira
Suicidal Silence
Mastodon
Behemoth
Motionless in White
Seether
Queensryche
LA Guns
Exodus
Marty Friedman
Immortal GuardianCheap Trick
Cinderella
Tom Keifer
Nickelback
Papa Roach
Drowning Pool
Primus
Danzig
Loverboy
Steven Adler
Faster Pussycat
Lita Ford
Alice Cooper
Sting
Trivium
Lacuna Coil
Meshuggah
Sepultura
The Hu
Mark Morton
Creed
My list is horribly long but here are the majority of them:
21 pilots
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Lizzo
Tom Grennan
Lewis Capaldi
The Courteeners, Nicki Minaj, Juice World, Wilkinson, Dizzy Rascal, The Amazons, Fall out Boy, Kings Of Leon, Diplo, Easy Life, 2 door cinema club, JLS, The Hunnah, bILLIE eilish, AJ Tracey, Foo Fighters, Liam Gallagher, Sigala, DJ fRESH, Mabel, Aitch, DJ fresh, Gerry Cinnamon, Stormzy, Sam Fender, You Me At Six, Machine Gun Kelly, Brockhampton, Mimi Webb, Dave, Kendrick Lamar, Travi Scott, Becky Hill, Tinie Tempah and a lot more!!
I really want to see Arctic monkeys, Labrinth, Khalid, Doja Cat, Jessie Reyez
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Beach Boys
Aerosmith
Styx
Grateful Dead
ZZ Top
Cheap Trick
BB King
Genesis
Chris Isaac
Stevie Nicks
Santana
Bad Company
Billy Squire
Beck
Ozzy Osbourne
Steve Miller Band
Rolling Stones
Josh Groban
Sarah McLaughlin
Noah Cyrus
Danzig
Alanis Morisette
... and more
Angel, Starz, Rush, Kiss, Jethro Tull, Todd Rundgren, Ringo's All-Starr Band, Fishbone, Yes, Primus, Moody Blues, 1999, Blondie, Cheap Trick, King Crimson, Lollapalooza, Super Furry animals, The Fixx, Lollipop Factory, My 3 Scum, Young Lust, Da Shunts, Devo, George Carlin, Dennis Blair, Bobby Slayton, Phyllis Diller, Kozack, The Amazing Jonathan, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Lou Christie, The Monkees, Tommy James & The Shondells, Herman's Hermits, Frank Zappa, Doug Henning, AC/DC, Adrian Belew, Joydrop, Johnny Winter, Three Dog Night, Julian Lennon, The Bevis Frond, Utopia, The Numbers Band, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Tony Levin's World Diary, Kings X, Woodstock Reunion, Blue Oyster Cult, Styx, and probably dozens of others, not including the hundreds of bands that played gigs with my band.
s High five & the wiggles when I was a kid 😂 I also snuck Into a gig when I was 17 with my brother and saw local artists playing on stage.
I’ve never been to a proper concert though, all the concerts I wanted to go to when I was under 18, I wasn’t allowed to go to alone and my parents didn’t like the bands that I wanted to see, so they wouldn’t go with me. And since being 18 and legally able to go by myself, covid has started and cancelled all concerts that I’ve wanted to go to.
Rolling Stones, Beach Boys (Three times), Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Jimmy Buffett, James Taylor (Twice), Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Chicago, Neil Diamond, Jonathan Edwards (Three times) and I have seen this guy twenty times nd hope to see him again before he retires.
Dozens over the years including: Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, Kiss, Cheap Trick, Abba, Stevie Wonder, Police, Eagles, Peter Tosh, Elton John, Men at Work, Peter Frampton, Heart, Bruce Springsteen, Chris DeBurgh, Jimmy Buffet, Beach Boys, John Mellencamp, Mumford & Sons, Natalie Merchant, Reba McEntire, and Dolly Parton.
Ratt
Scorpions
Night Ranger
Foreigner
Journey
Coheed and Cambria
Iron Maiden
Blue Oyster Cult
Kansas
Marshall Tucker Band
Quiet Riot
Alice Cooper
Motley Crue
Foghat
Tesla
REO Speedwagon
Def Leppard
Guess Who
Jason Bohnam's Led Zeppelin Experience
Cheap Trick
Foreigner
Grand Funk Railroad
America
Eddie Money
Tesla
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Styx
The Temperance Movement
Judas Priest
Deep Purple
Dhani Harrison
ELO
Jessie G and Her Band
The Record Company
Lynyrd Skynyrd
38 Special
I'd still love to see Ozzy, Guns n Roses (though it's unlikely because of Axel's antics), Rammstein, System of a Down, Offspring, Lordi and a few non-English bands. I wanted to see Neil Young, foo Fighters and AC/DC back in the day, but not so much anymore.
There are a few others, but those are the main ones.
Most recent concert I attended was the Foo Fighters concert in Los Angeles last August. I have several tickets for the Journey+Toto concert in Sacramento this April, the Coldplay+HER concert this April plus the Coldplay (alone) concert this May in my hometown county (Santa Clara) and Red Hot Chili Peppers+Beck in SoFi Stadium in July but I'm gonna give 'em up since I will be in the Far East for several months soon.
I went to see the Irish boy band Boyzone just before the first lockdown. I was mortified waited 25yrs for the concert only to walk out 3 songs in. It was terrible they couldn’t even sing properly. Then caught them out lip syncing. Never again 😢😢. If It was physically possible I’d love to have seen the Beatles live, that would be a dream come true.
I didn't see very many concerts. Never had a high desire for such things.
That said, I went to a Rush/Foghat concert with my first girlfriend. I went to a Def Leppard concert which was utter shite. I'd probably like concerts more if the live performance more closely resembled the recorded performances.
Honestly I have been in many concert. By many I really mean it. I have been to Diamond Apple's concerts the most. Diamond apple aka me : ) I will name myself or my band Diamond Apple if I successfully manage to be a pop star lol. Okay now truthfully I haven't been in any concert. I wish to attend Billie Elish, Alan Walker, Yiruma (he will be probably old when I'm old enough to earn to see his concert lol) and K-pop.
I’ve only visited one non religious concert and it was an amazing experience. It was the Jay Chou concert at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto and Jay Chou is a famous Chinese singer, not sure if he writes his own music though. I used to go to church concerts multiple times a year, our church had incredible events every Easter and Christmas. It was a combination of skit acting with opera and choir orchestra and videography and dance too and they had props to make the dances look better.
Liberace
Flock of Sea Gulls and The Fixx
Bob Dylan
Santana outdoors at the Santa Barbara Theater
Tom Petty in Paris
The Wailers after Bob Marley died also in Paris
Rush
San Francisco Symphony
The Police
The Ramones
Bootsy Collins and Catfish Collins at Bogarts in Cincinnati
Adam and The Ants
Bodeco
BB King
John Lee Hooker
Son Seals in Chicago
Buddy Guy in Chicago
James Brown
Billy Joel
I think that's it.
Foreigner and Billy Squier, Van Halen, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Bob Seger (multiple times), Billy Joel (multiple times) Huey Lewis, Journey (multiple times), The Beach boys, Elton John (multiple times), REO, STYX, Air SupplyThat's all that I can think of for now.
I've only been to a couple of concerts. I have seen BTS, Jonas Brothers, Lewis Capaldi, All time Low and 5sos. BTS was the most spectacular one, I liked the music rhe best at the Jonas Brothers concert😊
I saw 21 Pilots... I don't know when... four or five years ago?
You saw Paul McCartney live?
Damn, you are lucky. I love the Beatles.
McCartney is my fav.
Where was it by the way? He doesn't do concerts that much anymore.
I’ve been to lots of concerts. Can you narrow it down by genre?
umm... the praise & worship service at church 👄
but I wouldn't going to a Max Cooper, Nils Frahm, or Olafur Arnalds concert
I've only ever been to one concert which was Reece Mastin. Small concert. My second concert would have been the hella mega tour had covid not come around.
I want to go see Elton John in concert, on Facebook I saw Phil Collins and from what I saw of him he looked really bad so I think his health is declining not sure?
Saw Pink Floyd about 10 years ago - freaking awesome! Saw McCartney too.
The Black Crowes reunion tour was fantastic. Saw Jeff Beck too a few years back, and Robin Trower. Both amazing, but Jeff Beck is the man, with Vinnie Coliutto on drums!!
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