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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
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