Buddy Guy
James Taylor (with and without Carole King)
Santana
BB King
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
David Gilmour
Damian Marley
Ben Harper
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jerry Douglas Band & Paul Simon
Foo Fighters & Bob Dylan
Gordon Lightfoot
Tenacious D
Gov't Mule
The Pretenders & The Who
Pat Metheny
John Mayer
Billy Joel
Norah Jones & M. Ward
Stephen & Damian Marley
Ryan Adams
Eddie Vedder (with Glen Hansard, also with Liam Finn)
The Police
Neil Young
Tommy Emmanuel
Robert Randolph & Eric Clapton
Radiohead
Phish
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Simon & Garfunkel
Stevie Wonder
CSN
Aretha Franklin
U2
Metallica
Jeff Beck
Monsters of Folk
Richie Havens
The Black Keys
Band of Horses
Roger Waters
Robert Plant & Band of Joy
Fleet Foxes
I'm a bit of a concert whore I guess
'05 - TO, '06 - TO 1, '08 - NYC 1 & 2, '09 - TO, Chi 1 & 2, '10 - Buffalo, NYC 1 & 2, '11 - TO 1 & 2, Hamilton, '13 - Buffalo, Brooklyn 1 & 2, '15 - Global Citizen, '16 - TO 1 & 2, Chi 2
EV
Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
Buddy Guy
James Taylor (with and without Carole King)
Santana
BB King
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
David Gilmour
Damian Marley
Ben Harper
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jerry Douglas Band & Paul Simon
Foo Fighters & Bob Dylan
Gordon Lightfoot
Tenacious D
Gov't Mule
The Pretenders & The Who
Pat Metheny
John Mayer
Billy Joel
Norah Jones & M. Ward
Stephen & Damian Marley
Ryan Adams
Eddie Vedder (with Glen Hansard, also with Liam Finn)
The Police
Neil Young
Tommy Emmanuel
Robert Randolph & Eric Clapton
Radiohead
Phish
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Simon & Garfunkel
Stevie Wonder
CSN
Aretha Franklin
U2
Metallica
Jeff Beck
Monsters of Folk
Richie Havens
The Black Keys
Band of Horses
Roger Waters
Robert Plant & Band of Joy
Fleet Foxes
I'm a bit of a concert whore I guess
yeah, that's a great list. Gordon Lightfoot and James Taylor...I'm jealous!
The Ramones
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Buffalo Springfield
Metallica
Jeff Beck
David Byrne
Iron Maiden
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band
Dr. John & the Original Meters
Stevie Wonder
Pantera
Neil Young x 2
Pearl Jam x 4
Led Zeppelin
U2 x 3
Rolling Stones
Queens of the Stone Age
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chili Peppers x 2
Roger Waters
Paul McCartney
Guns N Roses (total shitfest)
Metallica
Ben Harper
Alice In Chains
Mastodon
Moby
Kaiser Chiefs
And hoping to add Bruce Springsteen and Radiohead to the list this year.
Pretty sure theres a few i cant think of. Old age is affecting my memory i guess
"...though my problems are meaningless....that don't make them go away...."
Pink Floyd
Paul McCartney
The Who
Bob Dylan
James Brown
Solomon Burke
Rush
Yes
Robert Plant
Roger Waters
BB King
Rolling Stones
White Stripes
Smashing Pumpkins (Gish era)
The Stone Roses
The Smiths
“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”
Aerosmith/Skid Row
Motley Crue/Tesla
Iron Maiden/Anthrax (met the band)
Metallica
GNR
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
KISS
U2
Burton Cummings
Buffy St Marie
The Doors of the 21st Century
NIN
CSNY
The Who
Heaven N Hell
Eric Clapton
Roger Waters (Dark Side of the Moon)
Oasis
Tool
Eddie Vedder
Jerry Seinfeld
Black Crowes
STP
The Cult
Smashing Pumpkins
Tragically Hip
White Stripes
SG/Cornell solo
and a whole host of others, depending what your criteria for legendary is.
Gimli 1993
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
I'll post a short list that are the best "legendary" acts I've seen. I was lucky enough to work the performer's gate at SPAC from 1989 through 1992 so I got to see a lot of bands from that era.
#1 Bruce Springsteen and the ESB (about 6 or 7 times in Hartford, SPAC, Albany, MSG, Philly Spectrum)
#2 Pearl Jam (have seen a couple shows from the past tour and that one Lollapalooza stop at Saratoga in 92)
#3 David Bowie (1990 Sound and Vision tour at SPAC -- Warren Zevon opened)
#4 Guns N' Roses (1987 Appetite for Destruction tour and again in 1990 at SPAC) #5 Neil Young (I know the PJ crowd will love this... A few hours before Neil's show in 1992(???) this beat-up, wood-panelled station wagon pulls up to the performers gate at SPAC. The driver is half hanging out of the driver's side window saying "Hey man!!!" as weed smoke is billowing out. There's golf clubs in the passenger seat and a bunch of crap filling up the rest of the car. He starts telling me how he needs to get down there but he has no credentials, so I'm sweating him pretty good. I'm like "dude -- if you don't have any credentials I can't let you backstage!?!" to which he replies "awww... maaaann. really, man??" I'm like "sorry, bro." My boss suddenly comes up behind me and waves the guy through. Boss gets a "thaaaanks man!!!" from the driver and a few seconds later my boos tells me I've been breaking Neil Young's balls for the past several minutes!)
#6 Eric Clapton (1991? at SPAC)
#7 Carlos Santana (around 1991. This driver showed up at the performer's gate without credentials and I nearly turned him around until he showed me Carlos' 24K gold plated Gibson Les Paul, which I watched him play so hard he broke a string later that night. Great show.
#8 Van Halen (1985? Hartford Civic Center... again in 1988? with Hagar. Both bands could shake the rafters. Lotsa boobies on display for David Lee Roth. During the Hagar show Eddie sat on the edge of the stage and played an extended version of Rupture between gulps of Jack Daniels)
#9 Stevie Nicks (saw her take a digger getting off her tour bus behind the amphitheater at SPAC ca. 1992 -- but man, can she sing)
#10 Foo Fighters (just saw their show at MSG -- wow! :shock: )
oops -- should add Alice in Chains, too. Daughter will kill me otherwise!
I starting going to concerts in the late 70s, so ive caught a few good ones over the years.
Rolling Stones (a bunch of times, but '78 and '81 stand out)
The Who - saw them a bunch as well. '79, '82 (Pontiac Silverdome with the Clash) and a couple of shows at MSG on the '00 tour were the best
Led Zeppelin - Best show Ive ever seen
Black Sabbath with Van Halen - MSG '78
Pink Floyd
Springsteen - saw him a bunch. the '78 and '80 tours were the best, especially the '78 Darkness tour - 3 hours in a small hall
Neil Young & Crazy Horse (a bunch of times -- the '86 show was pretty good - 20 min version of Down by the River; 1991 with Sonic Youth and Social Distortion was also memorable)
Ramones - Dr Pepper Music Festival 1981
Queen
David Bowie a bunch of times -his birthday show at MSG 1997 was pretty amazing (Bowie backed by Foo Fighers, Frank Black, Robert Smith, Sonic Youth, others)
Deep Purple '85 and '87
AC/DC - saw them 5 times with Bon Scott '78-79. Best was probably with Cheap Trick opening up.
Radiohead - OK Computer tour 1998
Smashing Pumpkins at the Academy (Warm up club show for the Mellon Collie infinite sadness tour)
Rainbow w/Dio on vocals (AC/DC opened)
Sabbath w/Dio on vocals
Aerosmith when they were good (1978)
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Guns N Roses
The Kinks
Bad Company
Alice Cooper
Clapton
Allman Brothers (including a show where clapton sat in for the second set)
World Series of Rock - Cleveland Stadium 1979: Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Journey, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Scorpions
Grateful Dead 1978 in a small hall
Grateful Dead with Bob Dylan, who had Tom Petty & Heartbreakers as his back up band
The Cure
Talking Heads
Elvis Costello
Rush ('78, '79 and '80; Farewell to Kings in '78 was in a 3000 seat hall. Hemispheres in '79 was probably the best show)
Paul McCartney
U2
The Police
Yes
Comments
Merry "X"-mas!
Seen them many times - incl as an opener for PJ once in LA. You'll love them!
James Taylor (with and without Carole King)
Santana
BB King
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
David Gilmour
Damian Marley
Ben Harper
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jerry Douglas Band & Paul Simon
Foo Fighters & Bob Dylan
Gordon Lightfoot
Tenacious D
Gov't Mule
The Pretenders & The Who
Pat Metheny
John Mayer
Billy Joel
Norah Jones & M. Ward
Stephen & Damian Marley
Ryan Adams
Eddie Vedder (with Glen Hansard, also with Liam Finn)
The Police
Neil Young
Tommy Emmanuel
Robert Randolph & Eric Clapton
Radiohead
Phish
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Simon & Garfunkel
Stevie Wonder
CSN
Aretha Franklin
U2
Metallica
Jeff Beck
Monsters of Folk
Richie Havens
The Black Keys
Band of Horses
Roger Waters
Robert Plant & Band of Joy
Fleet Foxes
I'm a bit of a concert whore I guess
EV
Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
You're right. You are a monster! You are sick! Get help!
At least, I am not a fuck-up! A lying fuck-up!
Queen
Pink Floyd
The Police
U2
Pearl Jam
Dire Straits
BB King
Santana
Bruce Springsteen
and soon Roger Waters
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Buffalo Springfield
Metallica
Jeff Beck
David Byrne
Iron Maiden
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band
Dr. John & the Original Meters
Stevie Wonder
Pantera
probably more I'm forgetting...
Pearl Jam x 4
Led Zeppelin
U2 x 3
Rolling Stones
Queens of the Stone Age
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chili Peppers x 2
Roger Waters
Paul McCartney
Guns N Roses (total shitfest)
Metallica
Ben Harper
Alice In Chains
Mastodon
Moby
Kaiser Chiefs
And hoping to add Bruce Springsteen and Radiohead to the list this year.
Pretty sure theres a few i cant think of. Old age is affecting my memory i guess
Paul McCartney
The Who
Bob Dylan
James Brown
Solomon Burke
Rush
Yes
Robert Plant
Roger Waters
BB King
Rolling Stones
White Stripes
Smashing Pumpkins (Gish era)
The Stone Roses
The Smiths
Motley Crue/Tesla
Iron Maiden/Anthrax (met the band)
Metallica
GNR
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
KISS
U2
Burton Cummings
Buffy St Marie
The Doors of the 21st Century
NIN
CSNY
The Who
Heaven N Hell
Eric Clapton
Roger Waters (Dark Side of the Moon)
Oasis
Tool
Eddie Vedder
Jerry Seinfeld
Black Crowes
STP
The Cult
Smashing Pumpkins
Tragically Hip
White Stripes
SG/Cornell solo
and a whole host of others, depending what your criteria for legendary is.
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
Mudhoney
PEARL JAM
Page & Plant
Rolling Stones
R.E.M.
Eric Clapton
Mark Lanegan
Ben Harper
Radiohead
It's growing up just like me.
#1 Bruce Springsteen and the ESB (about 6 or 7 times in Hartford, SPAC, Albany, MSG, Philly Spectrum)
#2 Pearl Jam (have seen a couple shows from the past tour and that one Lollapalooza stop at Saratoga in 92)
#3 David Bowie (1990 Sound and Vision tour at SPAC -- Warren Zevon opened)
#4 Guns N' Roses (1987 Appetite for Destruction tour and again in 1990 at SPAC)
#5 Neil Young (I know the PJ crowd will love this... A few hours before Neil's show in 1992(???) this beat-up, wood-panelled station wagon pulls up to the performers gate at SPAC. The driver is half hanging out of the driver's side window saying "Hey man!!!" as weed smoke is billowing out. There's golf clubs in the passenger seat and a bunch of crap filling up the rest of the car. He starts telling me how he needs to get down there but he has no credentials, so I'm sweating him pretty good. I'm like "dude -- if you don't have any credentials I can't let you backstage!?!" to which he replies "awww... maaaann. really, man??" I'm like "sorry, bro." My boss suddenly comes up behind me and waves the guy through. Boss gets a "thaaaanks man!!!" from the driver and a few seconds later my boos tells me I've been breaking Neil Young's balls for the past several minutes!)
#6 Eric Clapton (1991? at SPAC)
#7 Carlos Santana (around 1991. This driver showed up at the performer's gate without credentials and I nearly turned him around until he showed me Carlos' 24K gold plated Gibson Les Paul, which I watched him play so hard he broke a string later that night. Great show.
#8 Van Halen (1985? Hartford Civic Center... again in 1988? with Hagar. Both bands could shake the rafters. Lotsa boobies on display for David Lee Roth. During the Hagar show Eddie sat on the edge of the stage and played an extended version of Rupture between gulps of Jack Daniels)
#9 Stevie Nicks (saw her take a digger getting off her tour bus behind the amphitheater at SPAC ca. 1992 -- but man, can she sing)
#10 Foo Fighters (just saw their show at MSG -- wow! :shock: )
oops -- should add Alice in Chains, too. Daughter will kill me otherwise!
Rolling Stones (a bunch of times, but '78 and '81 stand out)
The Who - saw them a bunch as well. '79, '82 (Pontiac Silverdome with the Clash) and a couple of shows at MSG on the '00 tour were the best
Led Zeppelin - Best show Ive ever seen
Black Sabbath with Van Halen - MSG '78
Pink Floyd
Springsteen - saw him a bunch. the '78 and '80 tours were the best, especially the '78 Darkness tour - 3 hours in a small hall
Neil Young & Crazy Horse (a bunch of times -- the '86 show was pretty good - 20 min version of Down by the River; 1991 with Sonic Youth and Social Distortion was also memorable)
Ramones - Dr Pepper Music Festival 1981
Queen
David Bowie a bunch of times -his birthday show at MSG 1997 was pretty amazing (Bowie backed by Foo Fighers, Frank Black, Robert Smith, Sonic Youth, others)
Deep Purple '85 and '87
AC/DC - saw them 5 times with Bon Scott '78-79. Best was probably with Cheap Trick opening up.
Radiohead - OK Computer tour 1998
Smashing Pumpkins at the Academy (Warm up club show for the Mellon Collie infinite sadness tour)
Rainbow w/Dio on vocals (AC/DC opened)
Sabbath w/Dio on vocals
Aerosmith when they were good (1978)
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Guns N Roses
The Kinks
Bad Company
Alice Cooper
Clapton
Allman Brothers (including a show where clapton sat in for the second set)
World Series of Rock - Cleveland Stadium 1979: Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Journey, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Scorpions
Grateful Dead 1978 in a small hall
Grateful Dead with Bob Dylan, who had Tom Petty & Heartbreakers as his back up band
The Cure
Talking Heads
Elvis Costello
Rush ('78, '79 and '80; Farewell to Kings in '78 was in a 3000 seat hall. Hemispheres in '79 was probably the best show)
Paul McCartney
U2
The Police
Yes
6/24/08 (MSG1)
6/25/08 (MSG2)
7/1/08 (Beacon Theater -NYC)
10/30/09 (Philly3)
5/18/10 (Newark, NJ)
5/20/10 (MSG1)
5/21/10 (MSG2)
10/18/13 (Brooklyn 1)
10/19/13 (Brooklyn 2)
5/1/16 (MSG 1)
5/2/16 (MSG 2)
3/30/20 (MSG)