Concert Bucket List - done!

goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,548
edited October 2012 in Other Music
During a random drinking-and-talking-crap-about-music night with some mates recently we got onto the question of which bands have been 'with you' since you first started getting seriously into music. In our case, this means any bands that we first heard anywhere between the late-80s to mid 90s that we still listen to regularly.

My list ended up like this:

Pearl Jam
Neil Young
REM
Sonic Youth
The Afghan Whigs
Screaming Trees/Mark Lanegan
Sebadoh
You Am I
Faith No More
Soundgarden
Pavement
Beastie Boys
Smashing Pumpkins
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Black Crowes
Foo Fighters
Blind Melon

I only realised after writing the list down (and this is the real point of this post) that I have now seen all of my all-time favourite bands live. For the longest time, The Afghan Whigs were the one band I thought I'd never see live but I was lucky enough to see them in Sydney a few months ago on their reunion tour.

It doesn't include a lot of my current favourites (Joseph Arthur, Wilco, The Black Keys and Ryan Adams are notable exceptions as they weren't part of my early 90s life) and it doesn't include the bands that I used to love but hardly listen to anymore (eg The Beatles and The Stones).

So, with that ramble in mind, what's your concert 'bucket list'? If you were to write down the bands that you have always loved, how many of them have you seen live and how many are still to be crossed off the list?
“Do not postpone happiness”
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
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  • foodboyfoodboy Posts: 988
    bob marley
    the original who
    george harrison
    neil young
    crosby stills nash and young
    the clash
    the pretenders
    the police
    split ends
    bruce springsteen
    rem
    sonic youth
    the original supertramp
    peter gabriel
    pink floyd
    paul mccartney
    the white stripes
    ray lamontagne
    sammy davis jr.
    frank sinatra
    just some of the very many and varied
  • foodboyfoodboy Posts: 988
    forgot a couple
    grateful dead
    frank zappa
    roxy music
    wilco
    oasis
    sex pistols
    pil
    iggy pop
    the specials
    the english beat
    dion
    and many many many more
  • uninnocent-uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    Mine would be:
    • Alice in Chains
    • Nine Inch Nails
    • Soundgarden
    • Pearl Jam
    • Pixies
    • *David Bowie
    • *(original) Blind Melon
    *denotes me still NEEDING to see them.
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