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musicians you've seen perform live
July 28, 2010 - 2:19pm
dreaded first post
I don't know that band Boom Boom.
Some of the concerts that I recall attending 1966-1975; some of these performers I've seen more than once. Many concerts were at Ottawa's Le Hibou, the Ottawa Civic Centre, Toronto's El Mocambo (and other venues), and London's Wonderland - and, finally, at Wayne State University in Detroit. My memory isn't that great - I've left out quite a few bands.
Tim Hardin ("If I were a carpenter")
Jerry Jeff Walker ("Mr. Bojangles" concert)
Kris Kristofferson (performed his first album)
Jesse Winchester ("The Brand New Tennessee Waltz")
Willie Dixon
Rare Earth
Yes
Mott The Hoople
Ten Years After
Donovan ("Catch The Wind")
Black Sabbath (second album concert)
The Doors (after Jim Morrison died)
Dion DiMucci (in his folk music days)
Murray McLauchlin
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Otis Spann Blues Band
James Cotton Blues Band
Muddy Waters Blues Band
Crowbar (with King Biscuit Boy, and without him)
Little Richard ("The Rill Thing" concert)
Detroit with Mitch Ryder
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Jethro Tull ("Thick As A Brick" concert)
Long John Baldry ("Everything Stops For Tea" concert)
John Mayall Blues Band ("Turning Point" concert)
Tom Rush
Tom Paxton
Electric Light Orchestra
Stringband
Cedric Smith with members of Perth County Conspiracy
Emerson Lake and Palmer (including "Lucky Man")
MC5 (worse concert I have ever been to)
Alice Cooper ("Under My Wheels" concert - awesome!)
McKenna Mendelsohn Mainline ("Stink" concert)
Modern Rock Quartet (MRQ) They performed Le Hibou after hours on weekends.
Uriah Heep
Colleen Peterson
Savoy Brown ("Hellbound Train" concert)
Companeros
Fraser & DeBolt
Original Sloth Band
Short Turn
Sneezy Waters And The Excellent Band
the Esquires
the Staccatos
Five Man Electrical Band
The Townsmen
Mandala
Kensington Market
Dr. John The Night Tripper ("Gris-Gris" album)
Mott The Hoople
Sweet River Street Band (from Belleville and Deseronto - did CCR covers)
Sadly, I haven't had opportunity to attends concerts since about 1980.
(revised list)
lol
Chris deburgh
Peter Gabriel
Apocolyptica
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Sarah Mclachlan
Lorenna McKennit
I also saw the band that later became Electric Light Orchestra, but can't remember their name.
ETA: my mistake, I never saw The Move.
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).
I've seen Jerry Jeff Walker a few times, same goes for Jimmy Buffett. My real pride in terms of musical fandom is the simple fact that I've seen John Prine no less than 20 times (I'm in my early 20s). I've seen him play so many times that I've lost track of exactly how many that is.
As for more underground, where I truly dwell, my list would go into the several hundreds. I've seen so many smaller acts that even trying to recall a small portion of them is difficult...and, well, I'm not going to post a lot of that on babble :P
As for larger concerts/festivals the only two I've been to were SARStock in Toronto and Live8 in Barrie. I'm sure that more will come and go as I age. I intend to make it out to the Winnipeg Folk Fest sooner rather than later. Plus, I really, really, really wanna get down to the States to do a good trip of hitting up small bars to catch local acts.
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)
Yehudi Menuhin
Pinchus Zuckerman
Sharon Lois and Bram
The Studs
countless bar bands which amounted to nothing, ( most deserved it)
Canadian Opera Company et al
National Ballet (et al was there too)
There'd be more, but I'll have to ponder a bit longer
..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.
Joni Mitchell, veda hille, indigo girls, kinnie starr, dar williams, ani, cyndi lauper, Angelique Kidjo, Kristin Andreassen, michie mee, Laurence Jalbert and teenage head.
Wouldn't it be interesting if we listed some of those regional bands that are amazing and might not be known elsewhere?
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
Most of the blues and folk acts I've seen were at the Le Hibou (Sussex Drive) coffee house in Ottawa before it closed in 1975. I started going there with my brother driving me, then after I got my driver's license. There's a number of musical acts that I did not list because I can't remember them clearly. The heyday of Le Hibou was definitely 1966 - 1972, although it started earlier and closed later. I think my favourite concerts were by Tim Hardin, Dion, and Rare Earth (at the Ottawa Civic Centre).
ETA: I saw the rock opera Godspell performed in Washington DC in 2001.
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.....
Le Hibou was to Ottawa what the Riverboat was to Toronto, I think.
Never heard of it...
Strange, because CBC did a short-lived musical series called Le Hibou based on that coffee house.
Ad in window: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (I saw them perform there several times)
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
I indeed have never heard of Gloria and Rich Hobson or the Yale and the Commadore, sadly. Makes us realize what a big country this is!
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....
For instance, most recently:
Cyndi Lauper (heard more than saw, she was just over an inch high from my vantage point)
Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven
Art Brut
Sloan
K'naan! (Just brilliant.)
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?
this is a great post that is bringing back memories. Here are a select few of the best i've seen
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
RUN DMC
Bane (in a house basement)
Misfits
Sick of it All
Rush
The Roots
Propagandhi (X10, i'm from winnipeg)
I Spy
Bruce Cockburn
Me Mom and Morgentaler
Roy Haynes
Dave Holland
Chris Potter
No Means No
Javier Conde
Small Brown Bike
It's actually really hard to remember all the shows i've been to, having played in a band for so long it's kind of a blur until someone mentions a band, then i'm like "oh yeah! i saw them in..."
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.
Hmm live acts I have seen:
Joan Armatrading (16 times, last one was two years ago - caught her in Calgary one night in the 80s, and drove to Edmonton to see the show again the following evening [oh, are my fanbody tendencies showing?)
Billy Bragg (9 times)
Buffy Sainte Marie (4 times)
UB40
English Beat
Lou Reed
Odetta (couple of times)
Syliva Tyson
Richard Thompson (twice)
Kate and Anna McGarrigle (talk about lazy....)
Act I have most wanted to see and always missed (usually appears in Montreal just before or just after I arrive for a visit):
Pat Metheny
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
I know - so much so that I copied yours to save much typing...
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.
The last show I saw was Jeff Mangum who some may know as the former lead singer of Neutral Milk Hotel, which disabanded over 10 years ago. Mangum has never played since. I love that band with a passion and Mangum played a one night only show in New York City about a month ago. Best concert experience of my life.
Other bands I've seen:
-TV on the Radio
-Radiohead (3 times)
-The Hold Steady (at least 5 times)
-U2
-The Rolling Stones (at that SARS concert)
-Neil Young (twice)
-Pavement
-Sonic Youth (twice)
-Jay-Z
-The Antlers
-The Magnetic Fields
-Sigur Ros (3 times)
-Stereolab
-The Strokes (right before their first album was released and nobody,myself included, had ever heard of them)
-The National
that's all I can think of right now. I sometimes wish I was back in Toronto (or even better: NYC) where bands I like come far more often than my little town in Virginia...even though my town IS an indie rock mecca of sorts (which forgives it for also giving the world the Dave Matthews Band)...
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'm pretty sure I have heard more live music than recorded music. Average about once a week over 30 years.
Not so many big concerts though.
High points?
Pete Seeger, even if all(?!) he did was get Massey Hall scat singing along (part of the FFA concert).
Billy Bragg, Leon Rosselson, Peggy Seeger, Short Turn, Stan Rogers, Ken Bloom, Utah Phillips, Nancy White, the Whitelys, Les Balfa Freres, Gamble Rogers, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Jackie Washington, Taj Mahal, Peter Schickele, Anna Russell, Ladysmith Black Mombazo, The Friends of Fiddlers Green, Eileen MCGann, The McGarrigles, Wade Hemsworth, Ed McCurdy, Ali Akbar Khan, Artisan, Ian Bell, JIIG, Professor Piano and the Canadian Aces with the Honolulu Heartbreakers.
There's more but my memory is getting foggy on names.