Artists/Bands That You've Seen Live?

So what acts have you seen live? I just got into seeing live music last year, and since then I've seen:

• Elle King
• Atmosphere
• Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nightsweats
• Alabama Shakes
• Walk the Moon
• Twenty One Pilots
• Cage the Elephant
• Band-Maid
• Breaking Benjamin
• Disturbed
• Bob Moses
• St. Lucia
• Father John Misty
• Halsey
• Marshmello
• Melanie Martinez
• G-Eazy
• Tame Impala

All the shows I've seen have been at events and festivals. I've yet to go to a standalone concert, which I plan to change soon. What about you guys?

i've seen boston because i'm poor as shit, this was a free concert, and who the hell would play in southern alabama

edited 4th Sep '16 9:57:14 PM by golgothasArisen

Lately, very few people, but among others:

• Swans—Twice, including their first show post-reformation, ever. Good nights.
• James Blackshaw—Absolutely fucking entrancing. Almost a religious experience.
• Mission Of Burma—Good fun. Seeing them bail on "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" measures before the chorus due to tuning issues only to barrel into "Academy Fight Song" was hilarious.
• Lightning Bolt—What do I even say?
• Danielson—An enjoyable show, the memory of which is marred by the awful migraine I had.
• The Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour—Probably the last chance I'd ever have to see Bill Doss play, sadly. :/ Julian Koster and Scott Spillaine were amazing, as ever; "The White Sky" slayed.
• St Vincent—She told a wonderful story about playing a bondage parlour before a solo rendition of "These Days" and it was just a lovely evening all around.
• Toadies—An unexpectedly fantastic performance from an obscure late grunge outfit with two really meh and loud opening acts. Definitely a highlight of my early high school career.
• Meat Puppets—A good performance once again preceded by lousy openers, alas. (For the record, some of these other concerts had amazing openers.)
• Tether—The most recent performance I attended, by three local noise outfits, the last of which I name because man, did she leave an impression. I bought her tape. :3
• Sonic Youth—One of their last shows on the East Coast, with some really rare performances to boot. Way better than the record they were touring for.
• Pelican / Black Cobra—I mention both because I can't decide whether the latter outclassed the band they were opening for or just matched their intensity.
• They Might Be Giants—A perfectly respectable festival performance but god, was that festival overall not my cup of tea at all.
• Akron/Family—A surprisingly good performance ruined at the time by bad earplugs and my best friend having a psychological episode plus relationship drama with their then-girlfriend. Bluh.
• The SEA Trio—An ambient group we opened for once. Pretty dope.
• My first real concert was a collaboration between Tuvan throat singers and former members of Sun Ra's Arkestra. It was great, but I can't remember the name of either group right now.

edited 5th Sep '16 12:31:53 AM by JHM

Oh boy, working as a part-time music journalist has made this list skyrocket as of late. Here's a small excerpt from everything I've seen this year

• Twenty One Pilots
• Tame Impala
• Radiohead
• Muse
• LCD Soundsystem -
• Rammstein
• PJHarvey
• Everything Everything
• Foals
• Iggy Pop (Post Pop Depression tour, so his band included Josh Homme and Matt Hedlers)
• The Kills
• Editors
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
• Nothing But Thieves
• The National
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Weezer
• The Last Shadow Puppets
• Grimes

If you're really interested in this, my Setlist.Fm has a more complete list, but even that might not be completely accurate

edited 5th Sep '16 7:11:46 AM by Rvdz

Hooooboy...let's see (and this is counting supporting acts along with headliners):

Country: Brooks & Dunn, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Highwaymen, Kathy Mattea, Mark Chesnutt, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Reed, George Strait, The Charlie Daniels Band, Keith Whitley

Rock/Metal: Metallica, Megadeth, tool, Aerosmith, Kenny Wayne Sheperd, Kansas, Jonny Lang, Alice in Chains, Sevendust, Zakk Wylde, Volbeat, Jane's Addiction, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, KISS, Creed, Collective Soul, ZZ Top, KONGOS, Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews Band,

Pop: P!nk, New Kids on the Block (and because of them, Backstreet Boys, Music/{{98 Degrees}}, Boyz II Men), The Monkees, Pentatonix (actually upcoming),

Christian: Steven Curtis Chapman, dcTalk, Newsboys, several others whose names are escaping me right now

edited 6th Sep '16 7:07:37 AM by Willbyr

I've only seen two concerts.

Johnny Angel and the Halos: they played my hometown's river festival in 1999. My cousins Grandma was a fan of them. We got all of theIr autographs.

Levon Helm and the Barn Burners: he played at a bar in Pittsburgh. My mom was a fan of The Band. It was in 2000 My mom is friends with his manager so we got to go meet and talk with him for a whole hour before they let anyone else back. He gave me the drumsticks he used that night and I got my picture taken with him.

I've seen too many country artists to count, my biggest being Jamboree in the Hills in Ohio in 1994. My first was Collin Raye in winter 1991, and my next will be Chris Stapleton on the 11th.

I've also seen Weird Al twice: July 2015 in Traverse City, and almost a year later in Bay City.

A local community college used to host a lot of concerts and other varied performances. The first one I remember is Trout Fishing in America in 1998, and off the top of my head I know they also had Boots Randolph and Nelson at various points.

Vans Warped Melbourne 2013 (The Offspring, Reel Big Fish, Tonight Alive) NOFX, The Bennies, Switchfoot, Antiskeptic, Frenzal Rhomb, Clowns, Agent 37, Cosmic Kahuna, Sun God Replica, Cosmic Psychos, Batpiss, Good Time Aussie Bogalars, Don Bosco, Pagan, No Anchor

edited 28th Nov '16 5:23:42 AM by BenneB

Mostly tribute bands. The only "real" artists i've seen are Billy Joel and Yes.

I've seen Donny and Marie Osmond, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Mumford and Sons. I'm not really a huge concert person TBH, the latter one especially turned me off to them.

I can now add Pentatonix and Us the Duo to my list, with Home Free (in a coupla weeks) and Twenty One Pilots (next March) on the way.

I only saw Guns And Roses live on their latest Not In This Lifetime tour, because Slash and Duff were back in the band. It was my first real concert. I also saw a southern rock band called driving and crying, but only because they were in a theater that just opened close to where I live, and my dad was a big fan. I wanna go see Metallica and Paul Mc Cartney when they come by this summer though. That would be cool.

I saw Helloween and Gamma Ray live like 3 1/2 years ago on the tour they made together. It was amazing to see them, I still remember it. Even if the next day I would be busy, I have no regrets, because it was f*cking amazing.

I'm not going to try to list all I've seen, but here's a few blue-linked highlights: Tori Amos, The Beach Boys, Jeff Beck, Captain Beefheart, The Clash, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Deep Purple, Electric Light Orchestra, The Grateful Dead, Journey, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Primus, Bob Marley, Rush, Santana, Talking Heads, The Who, Neil Young, and Frank Zappa.

Yeah, I'm old. :)

Gonna see Queen in July.

Weird Al, Alice Cooper, Mental As Anything, Old 55.

...All more than once. Oh, and The Sweet, but that one was only once.

Ghost,, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Anthrax, and Stevie Nicks (My mom was a fan of her when I was a kid), local musicians: country singer Dallas Marks (this one girl I was friends with is a big fan of him), My cousin's heavy metal band Zilch, and 28 North (They play a pretty cool cover of Amy Winehouse's rehab albeit they're guys and they slow down the tempo.)

edited 21st Jul '17 1:58:06 PM by CodyTheHeadlessBoy

Going to see The Duke Spirit for the third time in a couple of weeks, later in the year I'm seeing Little Dragon for the first time, and Fleet Foxes near the end of the year.

In the past I've also seen Flaming Lips, The Raveonettes, Wolfmother, Metric, Muse, and Elbow, maybe some more but I can't remember right now.

edited 21st Jul '17 5:57:05 AM by Ulysses21

Here goes. I may be missing an artist or ten.

Trace Adkins

Jason Aldean

John Anderson

Steve Azar

The Band Perry

Bobby Bare

The Bellamy Brothers

Clint Black

Roy Book Binder

Garth Brooks

Brooks & Dunn

Brother Phelps

T. Graham Brown

Zac Brown Band

Lionel Cartwright

Chubby Checker

Eric Church

Confederate Railroad

Billy Ray Cyrus

Da Yoopers

Linda Davis

Joe Diffie

Emerson Drive

Lee Greenwood

Ricky Lynn Gregg

Merle Haggard

Faith Hill

Randy Houser

Toby Keith

The Kentucky Headhunters

Lady Antebellum

LoCash (also got to interview them)

Lonestar

Lost Trailers

Joel Mabus

Martina McBride

Neal McCoy

Mel McDaniel

Ronnie McDowell

Tim McGraw

Ronnie Milsap

Justin Moore

Craig Morgan

David Nail

Nelson

Nickel Creek

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

The Oak Ridge Boys

Jake Owen

Brad Paisley

Jon Pardi

Lee Roy Parnell

Boots Randolph

Collin Raye

Kenny Rogers

Billy Joe Royal

Sawyer Brown

Bob Seger

Blake Shelton

Shenandoah

Daryle Singletary

Ricky Skaggs

Chris Stapleton

Sugarland

Doug Supernaw

Sylvia

Josh Thompson

Thompson Square

Pam Tillis

Aaron Tippin

Bobby Tomberlin

Trent Tomlinson

Travis Tritt

Trout Fishing in America

Tanya Tucker

Keith Urban

Phil Vassar

Clay Walker

Drake White

Lari White

Lee Ann Womack

Tammy Wynette

Weird Al Yankovic

Trisha Yearwood

I also met Doug Stone, Colt Ford, Flynnville Train, O'Shea, The Roys, Jerrod Niemann, Billy Yates, Marty Raybon (at a time when he was not in Shenandoah), Fast Ryde, Mallary Hope, Brady Seals, Bryan White, Carter's Chord, Ash Bowers, Burns & Poe, James Wesley, Veronica Ballestrini, and Razzy Bailey when I worked at CMA Music Fest in 2010,

There were also a handful of no-name bluegrass acts that would come up and do local concerts, but I don't really remember any of them. Also a few local acts like Three Men and a Tenor, an a cappella group from Lansing that did a lot of shows at my high school.