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Which musical concerts have you attended, to see live music?
This may include anything as simple as a small "house band" in a local pub, to a stadium mega-concert such as The Rolling Stones, or a music festival such as Woodstock or the Victoriaville (QC) Music Festival.
I guess you could even "count" a band hired at a wedding reception or big party, or somebody who played for a high school event, etc.
You shouldn't count anything you've seen on TV/cable, or on a DVD, etc. It has to be music which you saw live and in person, by being there.
Future posts here could also include performances that you attended last night or something...
Also, if it fits, who do you most want to see live - or, perhaps, regret that you failed to see live when the chance existed, but he/they've since disbanded, died, etc.?
My list is massive, and certainly NOT all-inclusive, but I'll try...and probably some will be added as time goes by.
The sequence of listing, IN NO WAY, implies any kind of preference. A number of these performers have died since I saw them.
Rockabilly Fest III in Green Bay WI [2007] - the performers I saw there are too numerous to list. I saw MORE THAN SIXTY performances ranging from the well-known (Jack Scott, Ferlin Husky, Little Richard, The Cadillacs, etc.) to far more obscure artists, to MODERN rockabilly bands.
Jan and Dean (twice)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra (twice - both before and after his stroke)
Simon and Garfunkel [1969, my first "paid" live music ever...I'm not sure if I even saw a bar-band before that]
The Beach Boys
Deerhoof, USA Is A Monster (both at same venue, 2005)
Frank Sinatra
Diamanda Galas [maybe the most extreme music I've ever seen, and Ol' Blue Eyes is no doubt tossing and turning in his grave by having his name next to D.G.]
Einsturzende Neubauten
a live 24-hour nonstop jam of improvised and avant-garde music in Ann Arbor [2007]
Strange Bedfellows (female band in Ypsilanti MI - early 1990's]
Mahler's 8th Symphony ("The Symphony Of a Thousand") featuring The University [of Michigan] Musical Society Choral Union and the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, in 1995 or 1996
Utah Phillips
John McCutcheon
Tom Paxton
Buffy Ste.-Marie
iCubanismo! [twice]
Negativland
The Residents
The Cramps
Laurie Anderson [twice]
Romeo Void [1983 in Massachusetts]
a friend Ralph Strobel doing an oboe recital at Ball State University [1995?]
"Weird" Al Yankovic [1999 in Hamilton, Ontario...my only non-U.S. concert]
"Weird" Al Yankovic (in 1998 ), Throwing Toasters, Heywood Banks, The Great Lukeski, etc. at 1998, 2000 and 2002 "ALCON" or "Dementia" festivals
Pansy Division [came to Macomb mid-nineties]
David Rovics [2002, at the Grassroots Radio Conference in the Catskills NY, a conference for nonprofit & community radio stations]
Pete Seeger [same venue]
Davie Bowie "Space Oddity" tour
Eugene Chadbourne [The Ohio State University, 1991 or 1989]
Kronos Quartet [in Chicago in April, thanks to Jory pointing me to it...]
Mississippi Delta Blues Crew, unpaid and private event, arranged for a documentary on blues music to be broadcast on Belgium TV - in Greenwood MS this past May [most recent live music event for me]
Beatlemania! [early 70s]
The Arrogant Worms [2003]
I'd love to see: Residents again, Diamanda Galas again (actually I guess this is true of many of the above LOL), Merzbow, and actually the list is too numerous to show here
I wish that I had seen: The Beatles (though they were actually touring somewhat before I ever went to ANY concert), Pink Floyd up to the "Dark Side Of the Moon" era but don't care as much after, MC5, Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley, Tangerine Dream, Zoviet France, Controlled Bleeding (and again the list is too long to keep adding to)
I'm sure this list isn't complete, and I'm certain to be missing even a couple of what I consider "major" attendances (let alone numerous bar bands and that sort)...I'll update this NOW before the 20 minutes expires on me...
This may include anything as simple as a small "house band" in a local pub, to a stadium mega-concert such as The Rolling Stones, or a music festival such as Woodstock or the Victoriaville (QC) Music Festival.
I guess you could even "count" a band hired at a wedding reception or big party, or somebody who played for a high school event, etc.
You shouldn't count anything you've seen on TV/cable, or on a DVD, etc. It has to be music which you saw live and in person, by being there.
Future posts here could also include performances that you attended last night or something...
Also, if it fits, who do you most want to see live - or, perhaps, regret that you failed to see live when the chance existed, but he/they've since disbanded, died, etc.?
My list is massive, and certainly NOT all-inclusive, but I'll try...and probably some will be added as time goes by.
The sequence of listing, IN NO WAY, implies any kind of preference. A number of these performers have died since I saw them.
Rockabilly Fest III in Green Bay WI [2007] - the performers I saw there are too numerous to list. I saw MORE THAN SIXTY performances ranging from the well-known (Jack Scott, Ferlin Husky, Little Richard, The Cadillacs, etc.) to far more obscure artists, to MODERN rockabilly bands.
Jan and Dean (twice)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra (twice - both before and after his stroke)
Simon and Garfunkel [1969, my first "paid" live music ever...I'm not sure if I even saw a bar-band before that]
The Beach Boys
Deerhoof, USA Is A Monster (both at same venue, 2005)
Frank Sinatra
Diamanda Galas [maybe the most extreme music I've ever seen, and Ol' Blue Eyes is no doubt tossing and turning in his grave by having his name next to D.G.]
Einsturzende Neubauten
a live 24-hour nonstop jam of improvised and avant-garde music in Ann Arbor [2007]
Strange Bedfellows (female band in Ypsilanti MI - early 1990's]
Mahler's 8th Symphony ("The Symphony Of a Thousand") featuring The University [of Michigan] Musical Society Choral Union and the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, in 1995 or 1996
Utah Phillips
John McCutcheon
Tom Paxton
Buffy Ste.-Marie
iCubanismo! [twice]
Negativland
The Residents
The Cramps
Laurie Anderson [twice]
Romeo Void [1983 in Massachusetts]
a friend Ralph Strobel doing an oboe recital at Ball State University [1995?]
"Weird" Al Yankovic [1999 in Hamilton, Ontario...my only non-U.S. concert]
"Weird" Al Yankovic (in 1998 ), Throwing Toasters, Heywood Banks, The Great Lukeski, etc. at 1998, 2000 and 2002 "ALCON" or "Dementia" festivals
Pansy Division [came to Macomb mid-nineties]
David Rovics [2002, at the Grassroots Radio Conference in the Catskills NY, a conference for nonprofit & community radio stations]
Pete Seeger [same venue]
Davie Bowie "Space Oddity" tour
Eugene Chadbourne [The Ohio State University, 1991 or 1989]
Kronos Quartet [in Chicago in April, thanks to Jory pointing me to it...]
Mississippi Delta Blues Crew, unpaid and private event, arranged for a documentary on blues music to be broadcast on Belgium TV - in Greenwood MS this past May [most recent live music event for me]
Beatlemania! [early 70s]
The Arrogant Worms [2003]
I'd love to see: Residents again, Diamanda Galas again (actually I guess this is true of many of the above LOL), Merzbow, and actually the list is too numerous to show here
I wish that I had seen: The Beatles (though they were actually touring somewhat before I ever went to ANY concert), Pink Floyd up to the "Dark Side Of the Moon" era but don't care as much after, MC5, Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley, Tangerine Dream, Zoviet France, Controlled Bleeding (and again the list is too long to keep adding to)
I'm sure this list isn't complete, and I'm certain to be missing even a couple of what I consider "major" attendances (let alone numerous bar bands and that sort)...I'll update this NOW before the 20 minutes expires on me...
