saw No Doubt play at University of Houston in 1993-94, hell maybe 92-93., a lunch set at the UC Sattelite (like a student union thing) , helped set up the PA and the soundboard (I was in student prgram board) and sat and klaughed as a chick in a well worn green cheerleader outfit proceeded to try and rock out a gropu of about 80 university students trying to eat their lunch.

it sucked. she was very aloof, but her bandmates were nice and we helped them set up their shit and take down their shit.

thought of some more

parts & labor
Pilot to Gunner
Daniel Johnston
Drums & Tuba
The Wailers
Ignorance Park
etc etc

This.

fuck... i'd be better off listing the names of bands I haven't seen.

jus make a list off the top ofyr head.

neil young
patti smith
radiohead
mogwai
bride of no no
fugazi
rolling stones
bob dylan
my bloody valentine
white stripes
yeah yeah yeahs
queens of the stone age
guns and roses
metallica
babes in toyland
sebadoh
sonic youth (in three different countries)
the hives
versus
polvo
beck
awesome color
coldplay
bjork
helium/mary timony
green day
foo fighters
dungen
sigur ros
turbonegro
and you will know us by the trail of dead
bloc party
pink floyd
blonde redhead
pixies
mike watt
kashmir
melvins
unwound
blur
le tigre
the cardigans
bob hund
the hellacopters
yo la tengo
the cure
rammstein
the chemical brothers
red hot chili peppers
television
primal scream
placebo
tool
daniel johnston
karate
pj harvey
modest mouse
brian jonestown massacre
death from above 1979
the flamming lips
the makeup
guided by voices
the helio sequence
international noise conspiracy
dinosaur jr
jawbox
june of 44
the kills
liars
michael jackson
superchunk

the list goes on...

Were any of those gigs equivalent to 128kbs?

The ultimate show off thread.

But I like showing off so this thread is like porn to me.

Now if the title of the thread was 'name all the bands you've seen that you can remember from t-shirts or ticket stubs in eyeshot' I could say:

Melt Banana
The Fall
Elastica
Blur
Glastonbury festival a few times.

I can also see a ticket stub for a quartet doing Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht, but I can't remember who that was and the quartet name has rubbed itself out.

I also, apparently, saw the Revenger's Tragedy at the Olivier theatre, which I don't remember at all.

Enlightening thread is enlightening.

The one I feel most happy about today: Kraftwerk

I saw Massive Attack for the first time last week, and they were the last on the list of 'band I have to see'. I can die a happy man.

Kraftwerk are awsome live.

66.6% of them were.

I won't be able to list all of them at one sitting so I'll be editing my list quite a few times. I won't list local or regional bands. Some of the acts I saw when I was younger (Nash/Crosby, Ted Nugent) are kind of embarrassing but we all go through a period like that. I will list nationally known/touring opening acts in parens.

In non-chronological order:

Graham Nash/David Crosby (David Blue)
Kenny Rankin
Styx (Sugarloaf)
Jethro Tull (Hammersmith)
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan x3 (Over The Rhine; Kenny Wayne Shepard)
Starcastle (Thom Bishop)
Ted Nugent (Foreigner, Michael Stanley Band)
Heart (The Silencers)
Stan Kenton
The Kingston Trio
Petra (first real "Christian rock" band, touring their first album)
The Band (Roger McGuinn)
Roger McGuinn x3 (as headliner)
Elvis Costello x2 (Squeeze; Talk Talk)
Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart
The Damned x3 (Chivalrous Dogs)
Sonic Youth
Mission Of Burma
Black Flag
Love Tractor
Big Black
The Fall x6 (Magnapop)
Great Plains (Scrawl)
Scrawl (as headliner) x5 (Ass Ponys)
Wussy x2 (Scrawl; The Paranoid Style)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Great Plains)
Half Japanese
Half Japanese with Moe Tucker x2 (American Music Club)
Jad Fair
Mark Eitzel x2 (Jill Sobule, Rebecca Gates; Tim Easton)
firehose (Screaming Trees)
Lou Reed (The Feelies)
Rapeman
The Gun Club
The Pixies (My Dad Is Dead)
Love and Rockets (The Pixies)
The Psychedelic Furs (Our Daughter's Wedding)
The Breeders (Luscious Jackson)
Guided By Voices (The Amps)
J. Geils Band (Southside Johnny and the Ashbury Jukes)
Jackson Browne (Karla Bonoff)
The New Barbarians (2/5ths of The Rolling Stones)
Greg Kihn
Gordon Lightfoot x2
The Replacements
The Outnumbered
Johnny Dowd x2 (The Scooters, Jim Roll)
Los Straitjackets (The Fleshtones)
Jan and Dean
Mark Russell
Webb Wilder x3 (Mic Harrison and the High Score)
Randy Newman
Uncle Earl (Sierra Hull and Highway 111; The Dixie Beeliners)
Jorma Kaukonen
John Sebastian
Jimmy Webb
Todd Rundgren and Utopia
Hall and Oates (Todd Rundgren)
The Guess Who (with Cummings and Bachman) (Joe Cocker)
John Fogerty
Peter Paul and Mary
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Spirit
Joe Ely x2 (Lucette)
Toots and the Maytals
Yellowman
Richie Havens
Gang Green
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (Strapping Fieldhands, Salabon Glitz)
Trans Am
Reverend Horton Heat x2 (Nashville Pussy, Backyard Tire Fire; The Creepshow)
Dead Milkmen
Live Skull
Sam Bush
Jonathan Edwards
Loudon Wainwright III x5 (Raechel Evans; Natalya Zuckerman)
Judy Collins x2
John Denver (my girlfriend bought tickets)
The Buzzcocks
Randy Newman
Al Stewart (Dave Nachmanoff)
Riders In The Sky
Okkervil River
Jane Siberry
Todd Snider (Mary Gauthier)
Steve Katz (ex-Blues Project, Blood Sweat & Tears, American Flyer)
Southern Culture on the Skids
Babe The Blue Ox
X_____X (Obnox)
Leon Redbone
Ralph Stanley
Lilly Hiatt (John's daughter) (Aaron Lee Tasjan)
Scott Miller x2 (Old Salt Union)
The Mountain Goats
We The Kings (a fave of my daughter)x2 (This Century, Crash The Party; AJR, She Is We, Brothers James)
Supersuckers (Skinny Jim and the Number 9 Blacktops)
Daniel Johnston
Hasil Adkins
Twenty One Pilots (Brand New, Shaky Graves, Manchester Orchestra, Reverend Peyton and his Big Damn Band)
Sebadoh (Qui)
Rubblebucket
Shonen Knife (CJ Ramone)
Jon Langford and Skull Orchard (Chuck and Lisa from Wussy)
Bob Log III
Buckwheat Zydeco
Rebirth Brass Band
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Duke Ellington Band (after Duke's death)
Wanda Jackson x3 (Lustre Kings; Frontier Ruckus, Jonny Fritz and the In-Laws)
Steely Dan (Sam Yahel trio)
Greg Abate (jazz sax player)
Lucinda Williams (Patty Griffin)
The Stranglers
Edwyn Collins
Bruce Cockburn
Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds (Corners, Mr. Elevator and the Brain Hotel)
Mayer Hawthorne
The Temptations (The Shirelles, The Vogues, The Coasters, Tommy Roe, Len Barry)
Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche (Ric Hordinski)
Barleyjuice
The Honeymoon Killers
The Beach Boys (free show after a Cincinnati Reds game)
The Cynics
The Bears
Jonathan Richman
Sachal Vasandani (jazz vocalist)
Tom Rush
Camera Obscura
Crystal Bowersox
Olivia Jean (Philip Paul)
The Dickies (The Queers)


will add more later...

On edit:

Muddy Waters
Dizzy Gillespie (with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)
Al Hirt
Don McLean

on further edit:

The Necros
Grand Ole Opry: Mark Willis (Del McCoury Band, Bill Anderson, Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys, Riders In The Sky, Kate Arminger, John Conlee, Craig Campbell)
Buckle Up Festival 2014, day 2: Willie Nelson (Old Crow Medicine Show, Alison Kraus & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Drive-By Truckers, Emmylou Harris)

on even further edit:

Jad Fair
Wussy (with Scrawl supporting!)

yet another edit:

The Bears
Jonathan Richman
Sachal Vasandani (jazz vocalist)
Tom Rush

If you can list them all, you are either a zygote or you live in a desert on top of a mountain in the middle of the ocean.

Wrong. I have (1) a rather good memory, and (2) some lists I've kept. My initial post in this thread was off the top of my head. But I would never be able to remember all of the local and regional bands--or at least how many times I've seen them.

Sometimes I find myself unable to remember whether I saw such and such a band or not. For example I can't remember if I saw Arab Strap play at the Union Chapel in London circa the year 2000, or if I'm imagining it. I remember I saw The Ex in 2003 or 2004, but I think I might have seen them another time, but I can't remember. Etc.

I sort of wish I'd kept a list of all the shows I've been to, mainly because I'd like to reread it and be surprised to learn I saw this or that band, or to look at it and have no idea of who this or that band even were.
Also I'd like to remember all the uniquely terrible opening acts that would for short periods become as legendary among me and friends as any of the best performances we saw. Such remorseless turds as Gay Against You, Lely White, Seymour Wright, Wolves of Greece, David Toop, Whole Voyald Infinite Light, Yasunao Tone, etc. However these shows slip my memory after some time.

I have the same problem. I am not even going to try to make a list because I forget how many times I saw bands, I forget who opened, when, where, etc. because I've seen so many shows and the memories just jumble together.

Boxcar Willy - Fryburg Fair 1978
Steve Martin - Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland ME King Tut tour
The Cars - Boston Garden, Boston circa 1980 Panorama tour
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow/Pat Travers Band 1981 Orpheum Boston
The Fall/Bird Songs of the Mezosoic Apr 13, 1983 The Rat Boston
The Police/The Fixx/Flock of Seagulls Aug 10, 1983 Sullivan Stadium Foxboro MA
Grateful Dead - Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland ME autumn 1983
DRI/Zero Mentality/Crow - 1984 Masonic Temple Portsmouth NH

sonic youth
blonde redhead
weezer
the vines
the hives
franz ferdinand
the strokes
the raveonettes
the flaming lips
foo fighters
the mars volta
system of a down
interpol
the kills
yeah yeah yeahs
silverchair
pearl jam
u2
dinosaur jr
klaxons
clinic
ADULT.
chelsea wolfe
body/head
disappears
chelsea light moving
deerhoof
bongeripper
lightning bolt
melt banana
godspeed you black emperor
tv ghost
noveller
times new viking
keiji haino
nazoranai
ohneotrix point never
grimes
man or astroman?
wild flag
boris
ookyung lee
lee ranaldo
swans
cibo matto
kyary pamyu pamyu
thunderbolt pagoda
the residents
white/light
lou reed
iggy and the stooges
dustin wong and takako minekawa
guitar wolf
the knife
OOIOO
st vincent
shonen knife
ty segall
xiu xiu
hong chulki and choi joonyong
kevin drumm
eli keszler
muse
cafe tacuba
buffalo daughter
pixies
daft punk
modest mouse
nine inch nails
bush
soundgarden
the rapture
rage against the machine
the raconteurs
the go! team
gogol bordello
louis XIV
battles
kings of leon
toupee
radiohead
beck


I think that's about most of them?

The ones I can think of right now:

Sonic Youth
Pixies
Big Sexy Noise
Retrovirus
Lydia Lunch
SWANS
Depeche Mode
Loudboy
Skunk Anansie
The Virginmarys
The Soft Moon
Peter Murphy
Clan Of Xymox
Collapsing New People
ASP
Mono Inc.
Carsick Cars
Leftöver Crack
Rob Zombie
Marilyn Manson
Dividing Lines
She Past Away
Martial Canterel
Schwefelgelb
Status Quo
Pharmakon
Christian Death
The Beauty Of Gemina
Diary Of Dreams
The Sisters Of Mercy
Terra Toma
The Bassenger
Primordial Undermind (Go, ATT!)
Outer Vertex (Go, ATT!)
Dim Locator
Harry Howard and the Near Death Experience
Kitty In A Casket
And Also The Trees
Mogwai
32Crash
Hocico
De/Vision
Assemblage 23
VNV Nation
Sanguis Et Cinis
Bal Paré
Killed By 9V Batteries
Earth, Wind & Fire
Lee Ranaldo
The Chemists
Blueblut
Mediengruppe Telekommander
KISS (heard live more accurately, I live close to a place that is used as an open air venue each summer)
Metallica (same thing as with KISS, heard them, didn't care much for it but I was with people I like and it didn't cost me a thing)
Muse (same scheme)
The Prodigy (same scheme)