10 Bands I've Seen Live...

[airboy]

Ok I'm game

1. Van Halen
2. Creed
3. Jethro Tull
4. Flogging Molly
5. Our lady peace
6. Hot tuna
7. Rush
8. Erik Steckle
9. Curtis Salgado
10. The Pasadena band

Out of this group I've seen Jethro Tull and Flogging Molly multiple times.  The first time we saw Flogging Molly they opened for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and nobody had ever seen FM.

Considering MMB had all of 7.5 minutes of fame...yeah, FM had to be relative unknowns at that point. Funny they got so much bigger than MMB ever did.

And my one fibber is still unguessed at this point.

Bosstones were one of the best live acts we have ever seen.  Saw them 4 times I think.

[-budd-]

One of the worst shows i saw was Def Leppard, it was later in there career. Elliot's voice was crap, kind of ruined the whole set. Saw Ozzy one time where he wasn't very good. Most of the shows were great, at least what i remember as i was usually shitfaced. RUSH was always great, so technically sound.

Here's a question, what was the ticket price of the first show you went to? Mine was $11, Scorpions Blackout tour in 82. I'm talking big shows here, not club shows. Went to a bunch of those that were cheap.

[MetalDog]

$12.50 for Y&T, Dokken, and Twisted Sister in September of '84.

[bayonetbrant]

One of the worst shows I saw was The Black Crowes.

Odd.  I've seen them three times and they were fantastic every time.  They opened for Aerosmith in OKC in the summer of 1990 and blew Aerosmith off the stage.

Here's a question, what was the ticket price of the first show you went to?

$7.50 for Stray Cats in Williamsburg VA in Spring of '83

[bayonetbrant]

$12.50 for Y&T, Dokken, and Twisted Sister in September of '84.

That wasn't Dio instead of TS?
There was a Dio-Dokken-Y&T tour in '84 that would've been my all-time Grail tour to have seen.

Y&T was just here last week, but I couldn't go.  Still pissed I couldn't

[MetalDog]

It may have been over 30 years ago, but, I would have remembered a detail as important as the headliner.  And I wasn't there to see Y&T OR Dokken, so, no, it wasn't Dio.  As for the Crowes, they were opening for the Dead in a big stadium.  The place was at least half empty and the Crowes, purposely or not, played in a style that copied the Dead rather than the fierce rock n roll outfit they were.  I was majorly disappointed.

[Gusington]

I saw Def Leppard two summers ago and they were excellent.

My first big show was U2 in 1992 at the then Brendan Byrne Arena in NJ (part of the Meadowlands). I think I paid 45.00. A year or two after that I saw the Beastie Boys at Nassau Coliseum for about 50.00, which I thought was pricey at the time.

[BanzaiCat]

Still haven't seen Def Leppard, though they come through town every year.

[Sir Slash]

I saw Molly Hachert back in 1986 I think. I can't really remember anything about the concert except it was outdoors and I got one hell of a sunburn.  ::)

[Staggerwing]

OK, here's my nine & one:

the Ramones
REM
Billy Joel
Todd Rungen
David Bowie
Adrian Belew
Echo & the Bunny Men
the Saints
X
the Plasmatics

[bayonetbrant]

X

[Staggerwing]

X

Saw them at the Agora Ballroom/Stage West in West Hartford, CT.

EDIT: I have to add this- during this show (and a number of shows before) the venue used off-duty cops as bouncers and they were notorious for beating the shit out of any kid who tried to stage dive or otherwise get noticed. After some dumb kid jumped up on stage the bouncers immediently went after him but Exene Cervenka ( X's lead singer) got to him first, put her arms around him, and escorted him to the edge of the stage where his friends formed a buffer and disappeared him into the crowd.

[MetalDog]

I'm going with Echo & the Bunny Men.

[airboy]

I saw Molly Hachert back in 1986 I think. I can't really remember anything about the concert except it was outdoors and I got one hell of a sunburn.  ::)

Saw Molly Hatchet 3 times in High School.

[airboy]

OK, here's my nine & one:

the Ramones
REM
Billy Joel
Todd Rungen
David Bowie
Adrian Belew
Echo & the Bunny Men
the Saints
X
the Plasmatics

Todd Rundgren since you can't spell it.  Unless you were too drunk/stoned at the concert to remember.

Wish I had seen Echo and the Bunny Men.  But out of this group I've seen the Ramones (3 times) and Todd Rundgren of all people.