musicians you've seen perform live

I don't know that band Boom Boom.

lol

Chris deburgh

Peter Gabriel

Apocolyptica

Pink Floyd

Porcupine Tree

Sarah Mclachlan

Lorenna McKennit

Odetta

Christy Moore

Billy Bragg

B.B. King

Peggy Seeger and Ewan Maccoll

John Cephas and Phil Wiggins

Utah Phillips

Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band

Steve Earle

Taj Mahal

Ganga Giri

Leon Rosselson

Tommy Sands

Jerry Jeff Walker

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Makem and Clancy

Hoyt Axton

(I keep remembering more as the day goes on).

Mitch Ryder Detroit Wheels (very 1st concert)

Edward Bear

Crowbar

David Clayton Thomas

Lighthouse

The Band

Rush

Neil Young x2

Powder Blues x 6  or more

Jerry Douchette

April Wine

Lee Aaron

Bryan Adams

Rush

The Hip

Bachman Turner Overdrive

Doug and the Slugs x2

Dave Gogo x many many

Colin James

John Mayall

Tom Cochrane/RR

Jeff Healey (sat with him snowed in at PG airport)

King Biscuit Boy

54 40

Blue Rodeo

Chilliwack

Wascana

Martha and the Muffins

Payolas

Raffi

Valdy

k.d. lang

Alanis

Alannah Myles

Carole Pope/RT

Kim Mitchell

5 Man Electrical Band

Stampeders

Trooper

Three Dog Night

Edgar Winter

Savoy Brown

GNR

Journey

Nirvana

Moody Blues

fleetwood mac

George Thorogood x2

U2 x 2

Robert Plant

Pink Floyd x3

The Who

Supertramp x2

Pat Benatar

Billy Squire

Queen

Van Morrison

Beach Boys

Jerry Lee Lewis

Cheech and Chong

VSO many times

Harry Belafonte

...am sure I have missed some bigger...oh Terry and Susan Jacks, too.

not even going to go into regional bands and muscians

 ETA: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Ronnie Hawkins, Joni Mitchell, Downchild Blues, Johnny V Mills (in Calgary at the King Eddy)

..i saw sweet honey in the rock when they first came out. the venue was the wpg folk festival. then there was john lee hooker and queen ida at the  commodore in van. saw jean luc ponty, joe cocker and jj cale in wpg as well.

Oh...went to so many, when younger, mr remind being 6'8" worked for a music promotion company as security...so free tickets or special rates abounded. Have not been for a few years now though for larger bands. Early 2000's was last time when we saw Nickleback in PG, oh forgot them.

There is some good regional musicians out of Edmonton and indeed around about here though, these days.... :D

Mammaguroove comes to mind...as do Jesse Dee & Jacquie B, Sasha Lewis, and Earthbound

We used to go to the Yale, and the Commadore a lot, and then there were also the Summer Super Sundays, and other multi band venues..that just do not happen anymore.

Robert Planet was by far the most absolute bestest ever.....

Never heard of it...

Great picture...but still have not.

But I suppose you have never heard of Gloria and Rich Hobson either.... ;)

Hint, there was a short lived  CBC TV series on their lives

Rolling Stones 

The Who (with & without Keith Moon)

David Bowie

Iggy Pop

Lou Reed

Prince

Blondie

The Runaways (at the El Macambo!)

Robert Palmer

The Dead Boys

The Romantics

Richard Hell

The (English) Beat

The Police

Joe Jackson

Billy Bragg

Teenage Head (more times than I can remember, but including some of the best times I can hazily remember)

Crowbar

David Clayton Thomas and BST

Lighthouse

Chicago

The Band

Rush

Neil Young

Powder Blues

Downchild

David Wilcox

Ian Thomas Band

A Foot in Coldwater

April Wine

Mahogany Rush

The Hip (in a bar in Kingston, just before their first album was released)

Bachman Turner Overdrive

Doug and the Slugs

Greaseball Boogie Band/Shooter

Colin James

Jeff Healey

King Biscuit Boy

Blue Rodeo (and their earlier incarnation, The Sharks, which I loved)

Chilliwack

Martha and the Muffins

Bruce Cockburn

Murray McLaughlan

Gordon Lightfoot

Harmonium

Maneige

Cano

Buffy Sainte Marie

Joni Mitchell

Valdy

k.d. lang

Carole Pope/RT

Kim Mitchell/Max Webster

5 Man Electrical Band

Stampeders

Three Dog Night

Edgar Winter (my first 'big' concert, at Maple Leaf Gardens, with Bad Company opening)

Savoy Brown

George Thorogood

Todd Rundgren

Beach Boys (easily the worst, laziest big act I ever saw)

Shania Twain (the next worst, pandering throughout to the sappiest of her fans)

Jerry Lee Lewis

Chuck Berry

Harry Belafonte

Aretha Franklin

Madonna

Janet Jackson

Pointer Sisters

Tina Turner (at the Imperial Room launch of her 'comeback' tour, when 'Private Dancer' was just a curious British import single)

and there's more I can't recall right now....

Peter Gabriel (the worst sound I've experienced at a major concert)

Maria Muldaur

Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Jerry Jeff Walker

...am I getting boring yet?

Yeppers, boom boom and just like differing countries and their cultural differences, we too have the same, only under one huge umbrella.

The Yale is a great, strictly R&B.

The Commodore, is the best dance place ever, in part because of the bouncey floor...it is the "Fabulous Commodore Ballroom".

Temple Gardens was close for such a smaller city.

Where I now remember I saw Rick and the Ravens.

Too bad Moose Jawians were so short sighted and tore it down and turned it into a spa.

Rich and Gloria Hobson were portrayed in the CBC series Nothing to Good for a Cowboy, from the book  The Rancher Takes a Wife. Gloria was fabulous, and am thankful Rich was dead by the time I met her.

OMG LTJ, I forgot all about  A Foot in Coldwater....your list reads pretty close to mine. ;)

And yes Bad Company did open for Edgar Winter

Ha!

...had to redo it too,  as I lost it once when internet went down.

"make  me do anything you want..." :D

Hear you on the Beach Boys,  I just got a good glow on, so I could ignore them per se...

also Diana Krall, I missed, before she became  such a huge success.

Oh and I'll add that one of my regrets in life is never having gone to a Grateful Dead show when I had the chance. My brother saw them several dozen times...

I saw KISS last year at the blues festival at Lebreton flats, Ottawa. We were close to the stage, and it was loud. I would have traded that opportunity to see Santana this year though. My sister went while I minded the nephews. I saw Aerosmith at Joe Louis arena - their "back in the saddle" tour way back.Saw Tina Turner at Castle Farms, Michigan. Billy Idol another summer.

I really liked Parachute Club's Dancing at the feet of the moon. Haunting song and lyrics they were. It was a fun time for me. Their lead singer reminded me of my gf then.

Sounds like you guys above are real rock and blues fans though and been to more concerts than I have. Rock on!

I have a few Prine albums, but have never seen him perform live. He's a gem. Concerts I had an opportunity to see, but for some reason I was prevented from getting there: Joni Mitchell, Paul Anka, the Beach Boys, Bruce Cockburn, and the McGarrigles.

I saw John Prine at Mariposa at least once.

Very fine singer-songwriter.

I remember seeing ELO. All I can remember of The Move is a poster I keep seeing in my head. I don't remember seeing them perform.

BTW, Yes and Alice Cooper opened for the Black Sabbath second album tour (Masters of Reality?) in Ottawa in 1971. I think that was the loudest concert I ever attended. Oh - and I added Mott The Hoople to my list!

ETA: In those early days of hard rock and metal, some bands were really careful to fulfill concert obligations, while some, for various reasons, couldn't make their scheduled concert dates. Thus, in Ottawa in the late 1960s and early 1970s, we had some weird concert combinations, thrown together at the last minute. I think putting Yes with Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper was one of those blips.  Another was Mott The Hoople - they were supposed to perform with Queen, but Queen got stuck somewhere, I think Montreal - and another band - I forget who - filled in for them. But, basically, it was mostly an all-Hoople show, which was a good thing.

ETA: My brother played bass in an Ottawa band around 1965, can't remember the name, but I got to see them perform at Pineland several times with the Staccatos and other bands. I saw Five Man Electrical Band there later.  The Ottawa Ex had a lot of bands providing free music in the daytime as well as expensive big name concerts in the evenings with the Beach Boys usually headlining. When CTV opened their first station in Ottawa (CJOH) I was there, my brother's band performed at a lot of their dances, as well as dances sponsored by Ottawa rock station CKOY. Heard a lot of small-time bands from all over Ontario in those days (1964 - 1968).

You guys make me jealous.  UB40? The English Beat?  The Mothers of Invention?  I saw Dweezil Zappa last year.  I went to see the Saskatoon Symphony about a year before that.  In 1997 I saw Dave Brubeck and Diana Krall, as well as the Saskatoon Klezmer Band opening for Finjan, a concert I MCd.  I've seen the Robin Nolan Trio quite a few times.  They used to play Manouche jazz, which I really liked, but have since splayed all over the place.

Hmm, I've seen Les Negresses Vertes, Ar Re Yaouank and Tri Yann (X2) in and around Nantes,  where I also saw a string trio busking in the streets.

I heard Clifton Joseph doing his dub poetry at Black-a-Rama in Winnipeg,  where I saw Teenage Head and the Boomtown Rats in '81.

I saw Peter Tosh (X2), Jimmy Cliff and Steel Pulse. 

David Lindley, Dread Zeppelin, Deja Voodoo, The Dik Van Dykes, Jerry Jerry and his Sons of Rhythm Orchestra, The Gruesomes (x3), the Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, Chixdiggit, The Forbidden Dimension. 

The Selecter.

Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper.  Elvis is Everywhere!

When the Saskatoon Opera Company performed Carmen a few years back, I saw my distant cousin, Julie Nesrallah, sing the title role.

B.B King, Big Dave Maclean, Ellen McIlwaine, and a concert with J.J. Cale opening for Robert Cray.  I had worked a graveyard shift on a drilling rig  in Alberta the night before and driven to Saskatoon that day.  I kept falling asleep throughout the two acts. 

I saw a couple of guys who played with Muddy Waters, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Calvin Jones, playing in an outfit known as The Legendary Blues Band. I hung around with them between sets at Buds on Broadway and was a wee bit disappointed to hear them talk about making music as a job.  They talked like clock-watchers in a factory, just counting down how many tunes they had to play before quitting time.

In '78 I saw Herman's Hermits at the A-Four.  One snag is that Peter Noone wasn't with them at the time.  Does McLean and McLean count as a musical group?  If not, well F--- ya.

Back when I was on the farm I saw The Canadian Brass and Valdy at the Anne Portnuff Theatre in Yorkton.  Hmmm, Yorkton.  At the Ex I saw Trooper (which was my first rock concert), as well as groups like Toronto and others of that ilk which I disremember.

I saw Al Hirt at Buffalo Days in Regina in '68. 

Like others, I went to lots of concerts and festivals in the "old days", including:

Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz festival - 1972, 1973 - Highlights - Charlie Mingus, John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Dr. John)

Festival Express - 1971 - Highlights - Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, The Band

Mariposa Folk Festival - 2 or 3 times on Toronto Island

Rock Hill Festival

A festival in Madoc, Ontario with local Ontario bands that was more or less broken up by bikers. 

Beggars Banquets (3 full day festivals in Toronto) - Highlights - Edgar Winter, Beach Boys, Sha Na Na

The Monkees

Lighthouse (many times)

Crowbar (many times)

RUSH (highschool auditorium - they went to our school)

Seal

Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, 1972 and their last concert in T.O. about 20 years ago)

Paul McCartney & Wings

The Who

Johnny Winter

Alice Cooper

Jefferson Starship in Berkeley

Mountain

CSNY

Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels (El Mocambo)

The Amboy Dukes

Black Sabbath

Would have loved to have had Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, David Bowie, Bob Marley, The Cream, U2 and Michael Jackson on the list but alas. 

I think I can now confirm that I didn't see The Move perform, but a poster of their concert remains in my memory. I've edited a couple of my posts this morning as my memory gradually returns with regard to some concerts. Dang, living so far away from cities definitely has disadvantages - I'd love to get to some oldies concerts, especially the Stones' last concert tour next year.

In no particular order:

The Fixx
OMD
Nik Kershaw
Power Station
Teenage Head (at my high school!)
King Apparatus
Fishbone
Nine Inch Nails
Sisters of Mercy
The The
The Cranberries
Front 242
The Boredoms
Nirvana
Living Color
The Rolling Stones
Me, Mom & Morgentaler
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
The Cramps
Green Day
Bad Religion
The Sex Pistols
Bauhaus
The Tragically Hip
Holly Cole
Shonen Knife
Sons of Freedom
Meat Beat Manifesto
MC 900 ft. Jesus
Consolidated
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Lush
Babes in Toyland
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Kid Koala
Amon Tobin
Devo
The Dead Milkmen
Ladytron
Special Beat (member of the Specials and The English Beat)
The Skatellites
King Kobb Steelie
Kraftwerk
Ministry
Frank Black
The Ramones
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
The Wonder Stuff

And others that I have forgotten.

I know a guy who drove hours and hours (radio on) over hundreds of miles, forded rivers, climbed mountains and crawled across deserts, just to see a Jonathan Richman concert.  Afterwards he asked Richman for an autograph.  Richman said, "Naw, I don't do that."

I have seen so  many musicians over the years I could never remember or list them all.

Also , I ran a rehersal studio for 8 years. I heard and played in so much music. Fuck, if I could live my life like that forever, it would be like heaven.

And you saw the Amboy Dukes?  Was Ted Nugent acting like the Nuge then, or was he just another guy with a guitar?

DOA is coming here in October.  I'd like to add them to my list.

I used to like Ted Nugent untill he bought a radio station in Detroit and then was a DJ.. What a right winged opinionaed ass. No when I hear a song of his I think about his crappy personality.

I was in junior high and high school during the days when The Nuge actually SOLD records, and I didn't like him THEN.  He was always the guy the class bullies were into.

Well , in the end I do have to say there are a few songs of his that are pretty good. At least to my taste.

Growing up in Windsor and tuning into Detroit radio I got a chance to listen to a lot of classic rock. I kinda moved on from that.

Hi Chester! I assume you're a prairie shark. Do you want me to reset your old password? I have that power.

Ok, chester. Done. Check your PMs (in Chester...still) for the necessary info.

hey neighbour! I'm going to get skates this winter...for sure.

Yes Witness was a kenny shields vehicle.  It was a pretty big band in the early '70's and they carried a horn section so they could cover steely dan and the like.  I saw shields in clubs a lot in the eighties, he always had a great band.  the guy is a perfect cross between rod stewart, who he looks like, and mick jagger, who he's built like and moves like.

of course us old guys all probably saw max webster and kim mitchell at some point and the Lincons were a great club act in the 80's.

I am not much of a concert-goer, mostly high-school friends' basements and turntables (you know the '70s drill), so to read some of the lists above -- Boom, LTJ, remind -- whew!, you guys live in another cultural world from me, wow, congrats

my modest big-concert list includes a few real standouts, A-No. 1 of which was no doubt The Police at the Big O in Montreal in 1983:

at the peak of their popularity and power they gave a SENSATIONAL show, really tremendous, and encore after encore... bravo Sting, he really rocked -- that much more sensational given that I went to see the Talking Heads, and Police were really second billing for me...

Next biggest date would be the 1988 Amnesty tour, with Springsteen and Sting battling it out  (literally) for top billing, and Peter Gabriel and others rounding out the bill: Springsteen did a cover of Twist and Shout that was great, esp for a volumnious locale like the Big O...

One small-concert note: went for my 18th birthday and first legal beer to a small club on Carlton in Toronto, cannot recall the name to see David Amram, a memorable gig.

 final note: I take it from the above that no babbler claims to have seen the Beatles live.

Just went to the Chick Corea show at Massey Hall in Toronto. Was a good one.

Hey, this is fun. Sort of in order from my first concert back in my high school daze,

Rush

Nazareth

Steppenwolf

The Guess Who

Pink Floyd

The Strawbs

Elvis Costello

Teenage Head

Bachmann Turner Overdrive

King Sunny Ade

The Rolling Stones

Trooper

The Clash

The Ramones

Remmy Ongala

Kanda Bongo Man

Thomas Mapfumo

The Mighty Diamonds

Gregory Issaacs

Culture

Muddy Waters

Siouxshee and the Banshees

Bow Wow Wow

Les Quatres Etoiles

John Cale

The English Beat

Plastique Bertrand

The Undertones

Tabu Ley Rochereau

The Fleshtones

Burning Spear

Eek-a-Mouse

Yellowman

and a bunch more I can't remember. The last concert I saw was the Dresden Symphony Orchestra with a 300 person choir doing Beethoven's Ninth and, yes Dorothy it was MAGNIFICENT!

That's the best list so far.   I'm jealous.

So who was singing when you saw Plastic Bertrand?

right, or Elvis, another resume booster !

Yeah, no kidding. These lists almost make me wish I grew up in a big city down east.

On the other hand, I bet I'm the only one here who saw the Gough brothers play a wedding dance.

I saw The Hot Club of Edmonton a couple of weeks ago. They were OK, but not great - certainly no Jimmy Rosemberg and Sinti.  The group who shared billing with them, Les Imposteurs, were technically good, but aesthetically unlistenable.

Whoa, some pretty comprehensive lists here, eh? Remind, Nirvana AND Cheech and Chong?! Yikes.

I'm heavy into the local never-heard-of-them-before punk scene in Toronto and southern Ontario but some of my "big" shows include...

CSNY

Leonard Cohen

Dylan x2 (once was amazing, once was sad and pathetic)

SNFU

Hanson Bros. (the Nomeansno Hanson bros, not the blonde children)

Propaghandi

J.K. Samson

1755 (vive l'acadie, anyone?)

Harry Manx

Stephen Fearing (2 or 3 times)

Ashley MacIsaac

J.P. Comier

Fred Fortin

Joey Shithead (of DOA, who was just playing accoustic guitar on the street one night, in Toronto)

I saw Spamalot tonight.  It's basically The Holy Grail performed as a parody of Broadway musicals.  It took me a while to get into the Broadway slant, as I expected a more strictly Pythonesque presentation, but once I adapted I liked their adaptation.

- bump - I think this thread needs updating!