musicians you've seen perform live

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

Temple Gardens [25] 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 [26], 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.

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!

CTRL F + Prine turns up only myself

You're all missing out on a treasure!

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.

The Move?

I saw John Prine at Mariposa at least once.

Very fine singer-songwriter.

Kulu Kulu Garden at the Biltmore. Awesome show with 4 other Japanese bands.

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).

JROOTHAM

i am jealous that you got to see stan rogers.  I still get shivers when i listen to his records.  My parents were big into him back in the day and a few years ago i dug out some of his old records like home in halifax, fogarty's cove, between the breaks from their collection.  That voice!

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. 

Multiple classical musicians though Jeunesse Musicale.

Toronto

Trooper

Crash Test Dummies

Moxy Fruvous

Barenaked Ladies

Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman

Bruce Cockburn

The Rankins

NB Symphony Orchestra with Sally Dibblee

Bourbon Tabernacle Choir

Rick McGhie

James Keeleghan

The Shaggy Dogs ( now Heckman and Downes)

The Leslie Spit Trio

Julia Propellor

Philip Thomson

David Myles

Brent Mason

Frances Helyar

Hot Toddy

Carew, Brees and Wilson

The Pardonbeggars

And many bands in university bars which I can't remember. Memory loss might be related to what was consumed in those locations.

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

Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz festival - 1972, 1973 [45] - Highlights - Charlie Mingus, John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Dr. John)

Festival Express [46] - 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. 

When you saw the Monkees, was Jimi Hendrix still their opening act?

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.

Oh! I saw Anvil play live at a pub in Ottawa a number of years ago. It was a total suprise for me. I didn't even know they were a semi-serious rock band at the time.

I saw the Tragically Hip, Blue Rodeo, and 54-40 at Lansdowne another time.

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.

One I can't believe I forgot, because he's truly unforgettable: Jonathan Richman, a half-dozen times, both with and without various incarnations of the Modern Lovers.

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."

When my daughter was six months old, my wife and I packed her up and went for a picnic at the Lilac Dell near Cootes Paradise, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton. It was a glorious sunny day, but because it was a Monday hardly anyone was around at 11:30 a.m. We walked into a secluded grove of lilacs and met Yo-Yo Ma, who was playing one of the Bach unaccompanied suites for cello. He had a film crew with him and was seated on a trolley that ran along a semi-circular track as he sawed away in time to a recorded background. We sat with the butterfly wrangler, who had a large aluminum photography case packed with coolant slabs. Every once in a while he would lift out a few of the sluggish butterflies, warm them up, then set them loose to flutter winsomely about Mr Ma. We stayed for half an hour, and were amazed by the cellist's stamina. He rewarded my daughter with a wink as we left. I've told her this story till she's sick of it.

Standout concerts I've heard not mentioned here so far:

The Kinks at Massey Hall (far and away the best live show ever); George Thorogood; Van Cliburn; Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen; the great Richard Knechtel; John Sebastian; Leon Redbone; John Cougar Mellencamp (most ear-splitting show ever); George Harrison at MLG; Jacksoul (RIP Haydain); Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir; the Rheostatics; Canned Heat (a travesty, really, since only Fito de la Parra, the second drummer for the group was an "original", but it just felt so good when they launched into Work Together); Magic Slim and the Teardrops: two sets of tedium followed by one of incandescent fury and brilliance; Tamarack; Robert Cray; Ray Davies solo at the Music Hall on the Danforth; Spirit of the West; County Vaudeville, as close as we'll get in these degenerate days to Flanders and Swann;Washington, Whitely, and Scarlett; a deathly pale balding Englishman with a National guitar named Bob Greenwood who sounds nothing like Robert Johnson but made my spine tingle when he sang his songs: the power came over him; wait, maybe the best live show was Vladimir Horowitz at Massey Hall.

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.

Unfortunately no. That would have been something. I think he did open for them in Toronto at another venue. 

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.

He claims he that he didn't know what the songs "Journey To The Center Of Your Mind" & "Down On Phillips Escalator" were about, so I guess he was acting like the Nuge back then (in other words, a moron)

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 heard a rumour that he shot a couple of black guys in Detroit but was never charged.

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.

Ted Nugent - Worst Person in the World

I  liked Ted Nugent when I was 17.  I still listen to "Double Live Gonzo" once in a while.  But I've always considered him a goof and an idiot.

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.

sorry about the new login, couldn't remember my old password and email has changed.  pretty hard to make a complete list

supertramp

goose creek symphony

lighthouse

crowbar

witness

mahgony rush

joe cocker

peter tosh

april wine

george thorogood, loudest #1

stevie ray vaughn and double trouble, loudest #2

johnny winter, loudest #3

jerry jerry and the sons of rythym orchrestra (lots of other from this period that i can't remember )

rodney crowel

vince gill

johnny cash

the judds

blue rodeo

the hip

alanis

dire straights - the best arena show (edmonton, money for nothing) i ever saw

the head pins

bb king

john lee hooker

the mighty sparrow...funny story

michelle schocked

THE SADIES

the arkells

Wilco

micheal bubble

CUFF THE DUKE

luke duccette

there's more but jeez....

top regrets (had the chance but...WTF?)

john prine...like at the regina folkfest this year

steve earle

lucinda williams

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

Hi Catchfire, I am indeed that Chester.  sure that would be great all powerful one, no need for two logins.  but you also need to remind me of exactly what the original login was...Chester the praire shark, chester the prairie shark, not sure.

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

Welcome back, Chester. 

We really do have to get a shinny game going this winter.

Is that "Witness" band you saw the same outfit as Kenny Shields and Streetheart?  I had a Streetheart poster from a high school dance that had "formerly 'Witness'" scrawled on it with a magic marker.

Another of those bands, Cambridge (lotsa Nazareth covers), went on to extreme lameness as the Queen City Kids.  The Headpins was another band I saw at the Yorkton Ex.

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.

Musicians I've seen live (there are lots more I can't remember off the top of my head, as most of these performances were more than 20 years ago, and some more than 35 years ago):

Beach Boys

Bee Gees

Michael Bolton

Styx

Heart

Supertramp

Mandala

Five Man Electrical Band

Boston

Eagles

Gary Puckett

Liz Story

Huey Lewis and the News

Barenaked Ladies

Jody Raffoul

I also saw the bands below, but couldn't remember until seeing their names in other peoples' lists!

Three Dog Night

Chicago

Amboy Dukes

(had tickets to see Michael Jackson at a private function - for Apple Computer retailer store owners - but it got cancelled when he burned his hair.  Huey Lewis was a last-minute replacement)

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.

How big was the club with Amram?  There was a tiny one on the north side near Parliament that did folk.

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

It was tiny, all right, but I recall it -- way back -- being closer to the Ryerson/ Jarvis areas, so farther west than the club you refer to ...

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!

I guess that means none of us were trying to pad our resumes!

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

So who was singing when you saw Plastic Bertrand?

From What I can remember right now

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The Stranglers

The Jam

Athletico Spizz 80

The Dickies

U.K Subs

Angelic Upstarts

The Fall

The Buzzcocks

The Clash

Black Uhuru

Killing Joke

The Cramps

Billy Bragg

Echo and the Bunnymen

The Specials

The Beat

UB40

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet

Sturmgroup

Kinetic Ideals

Dinosaur Jr.

Cheetah Chrome

John Otway and Wild Willy Barret

Iggy Pop

Gang of Four

Heimlich Maneuver

King Cobb Steelie

Maggot Fodder

Bauhaus

No Means No

Sly and Robbie

Sinead O’Connor

Sly and Robbie w Sinead O’connor

Johnny Cash

Len Cohen

Mad Professor

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Soul Asylum

Henry Rollins Band

Sonic Youth

Nick Cave and the Bad Seed

Stereo Lab

Primus

Radio Head

Royal City

Sex Pistols (reunion-yawnnn)

The Pogues

Shane Magowan and the Popes

The Dubliners

PJ Harvey

Interpol

Gallon Drunk

L7

Guided by Voices

Mercury Rev

Femi Kuti

King Sunny Ade

Broken Social Scene

right, or Elvis, another resume booster !

I blush! N.R.Kissed's list looks pretty rockin' to me. I didn't realize there was a controversy around Ca Plane Pour Moi till your remark but wiki confirms that it would have been Plastic Bertrand and not that other fella who'd originally recorded the song. PB had a gig - straining to remember, here - at the El Mocambo I think, or some even tinier venue around Spadina and College, way back in the day. I remember it as good fun, he was this slightly portly, sandy-haired fella in a suitably silly metallic costume vigorously jumping up and down as he blasted through the set.

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.

Bobby Gimby. We sang Oh Canada with him in 1971. I was in kindergarten or grade one, one or the other.

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.

OK, they ain't musicians, and they ain't the Bolshoi (we were in Nimes a couple of years ago - the Bolshoi was going to perform at the Roman ampitheatre there, but we didn't go because our nine-year old didn't want to...D'OH!), but I saw the Moscow Ballet perform this earlier this week.

The Little Swans

This is about how the place looked when I was there.  It's great, but how cool would it have been to see a performance of the Bolshoi there?

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)

Yep, in settings that were worlds apart, saw C&C in Regina at the Centre of the Arts, and Nirvana in a bar in Seattle. Was fortunate that my partner worked security for a music promotions company, got to see lots that would never have otherwise. Though some I wish I had opted out of. Alanna Myles comes to mind.

We were, and I suppose still are, like that with R&B and folk blues, always over at the Yale, or at Nanaimo's 2 good blues spots, when great local artists were playing. Too many bands to even remember a short list. There is a smallish, but great music festival, here everyyear that we get to partake of, that satisfys our need for live music.

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.

I'm going to test my memory and see if I can remember the musicians I've seen perform (excluding those probably less know). In order of appearance more or less:

April Wine

Valdy

10 CC

Queen

David Bowie

Supertramp

George Thoroughgood

Bob Marley

Bruce Springsteen

Murray Head

Robert Palmer

Peter Tosh

Peter Gabriel

YES

Genesis

Scott Merritt

Clash

Who

UB40

Suzanne Vega

Jane Siberry

Buckwheat Zydeco

Iggy Pop

Grateful Dead

Neville Brothers

U2

Gill Scott Heron

Pearl Jam

James Brown

New Order

Steve Millar Band

Dave Mathews Band

Cocteau Twins

Brand Van 2000

Tony Bennett

Prince

Calexico

Billy Bragg

Burning Spear

Stars

- bump - I think this thread needs updating!