I have seen so many, the Dead, the Band, Marley, Allman Bros., Pink Floyd, Dylan, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Miles, Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, and many more. I would have loved to see Coltrane, Heifetz, Lester Young, Richter, Rostropovich to name a few.
Rostropovich was fantastic! My college roommate and I, all dressed up, after intermission moved to empty front row seats. Rostropovich grinned at us as he played. It was the best! Pittsburgh symphony, mid 1960’s
I'm so sorry to hear you're missing out on live music. If only I could turn back time, I'd love to attend a Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin concert. Their energy and talent would've been electrifying to witness in person.
Two friends of mine (they are a couple) were her neighbors in northern Ca where she still lives today. Every year they had a “dog party” for their dogs and Joan would always come with hers. They say she is SUPER nice and real down to earth and would just mingle with everyone and their dogs.
🔵Gil Scott-Heron
🔵Talking Heads
🔵Amy Winehouse
I'd always thought live shows were out of my reach and now I'm a regular...big and small artists and venues...makes my ADHD brain incredibly happy to be in a room full of people there for a shared purpose☺️
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I had a chance to see them at Red Rocks in Colorado but passed on it cause the tickets were too expensive and "I'll get to see them again." Later that year, we had lost Tom Petty.
I met Stevie after a Fleetwood Mac gig in my hometown. My sister says Stevie was under the influence of drugs at the time. I didn’t notice: she was so nice!
He was! I grew up in a little town called Sorrento, FL which is about an hour south of UF and got into Petty because they always played him on the local rock stations.
1/ Who I’ve seen in person
Yes multiple times
Aerosmith
ZZ Top
The Temps
The four tops
Isaac Hayes many times (I had a family member in his band)
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Prince
Peter Paul and Mary
George Duke / Billy Cobham
Prince
Black Sabbath
Pete Seeger
Stephane Grapelli
Jean Luc Ponte
2/ The Beach Boys
Fleetwood Mac multiple times
Livingston Taylor
Deep Purple
Stanley Clarke
Rare Earth
Earth Wind and Fire
Seals and crofts
The Eagles
Jackson Browne
Black Oak Arkansas
Totally jelly!.
Use to see bands like Midnight Oil, Divinyls and Hunters and Collectors in pubs in Melbourne..was a great era for live music but missed INXS.
Clearly Fellow Aussie. Saw INXS 7 times, Midnight Oil, Hoodos etc along with many of our other brilliant homegrown musos and Hunters in London. Nirvana, Violent Femmes etc on the Spit back in 92
So while we are into name-dropping..
1978..Thin Lizzy.and David Bowie (Melbourne)
One of the best shows..Talking Heads ..Stop making sense tour (Melbourne too)
1992..Jame Brown, BTO, Melissa Etheridge in LA
Grateful Dead with Jerry G in Las Vegus
At that stage all INXS had released was Just Keep Walking & 1st vers of The Loved One. It was literally a school night @ Norwood Town Hall in Adelaide & was packed. Sadly didn’t get to see Hunters til their farewell tour, but blown away by The Divinyls & Oils way back. Also loved The Sunnyboys live!
Unfortunately never saw Jimmy or the Boys! But I’m not like everybody else…
Did get to see the Angels at my high school when I was 13 as they were doing warm up shows prior to releasing Face to Face. INCREDIBLE!!
Heard them on the early 2000s on WFMU and fell in love. Followed all the side projects, socials and kickstarters knowing the chances of crossing paths were nigh on zero. They split a few years ago after the drummer lost his battle to cancer.
I was too young to see the Beatles when they came to Toronto in 1964 but was honoured to have received tickets to his concert. He gives out pairs of tickets to this with vision loss and that is how I received mine. Couldn’t really see him but heard the music
took my nieces to see the Eagles (Hell Freezes Over - reunion tour) in '94, Sam Boyd Stadium, Vegas. 👍 Never understood why the Big Lebowski didn't like them?
Prince. So sad I didn’t. Actually over the past couple of years I’ve made an effort to see lots of live music just in case the musicians die before I get the chance to see them! A bit morbid perhaps, but in a sensible way 😂
Gutted to not have seen Queen or Tina Turner live, that would've been amazing. I was really hoping to go and see Kylie this year (complete genre change, I know) but the ticket prices were way too high imo 😢
At a show at a New Jersey senior community hall, the promoter was a crook so nobody got paid.
Most of the artists and musicians bailed, but Mel played for the elderly audience for free with just a small combo, paying several musicians out of his own pocket.
The saints. Bowie. Classic radio birdman with Klondike, inxs. They did some shows with terence Trent Darby. Wish I'd seen that. James Brown, flames era.
Jimi hendrix, my older friend went to Woodstock and saw all the classic rock bands, he recently passed but I never got tired of his stories even if they were reruns RIP iguana Bob
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Revolving stage, bogus sound, no stage monitors…
…didn’t matter — Janis crushed it!
Duke Ellington
Early 1960s Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis
The Beatles in Frankfurt or the Cavern Club
Billie Holiday
Linda Ronstadt
I think I have more dead people in my playlists than live.
🔵Talking Heads
🔵Amy Winehouse
I'd always thought live shows were out of my reach and now I'm a regular...big and small artists and venues...makes my ADHD brain incredibly happy to be in a room full of people there for a shared purpose☺️
Mudcrutch, a local band when I was at University of Florida 1971-75. They played at Big Daddy’s near my apartment all the time
Most everyone else I’ve seen.
Yes multiple times
Aerosmith
ZZ Top
The Temps
The four tops
Isaac Hayes many times (I had a family member in his band)
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Prince
Peter Paul and Mary
George Duke / Billy Cobham
Prince
Black Sabbath
Pete Seeger
Stephane Grapelli
Jean Luc Ponte
Fleetwood Mac multiple times
Livingston Taylor
Deep Purple
Stanley Clarke
Rare Earth
Earth Wind and Fire
Seals and crofts
The Eagles
Jackson Browne
Black Oak Arkansas
Steely Dan
And they re right for it.
I would too, but I was lucky enough to see him live 💜 The bond he had with his audience was on another level.
Chaka is still missing on my list, wish I would have experienced James Brown, Tina Turner and Artur Rubinstein.
Use to see bands like Midnight Oil, Divinyls and Hunters and Collectors in pubs in Melbourne..was a great era for live music but missed INXS.
1978..Thin Lizzy.and David Bowie (Melbourne)
One of the best shows..Talking Heads ..Stop making sense tour (Melbourne too)
1992..Jame Brown, BTO, Melissa Etheridge in LA
Grateful Dead with Jerry G in Las Vegus
Did get to see the Angels at my high school when I was 13 as they were doing warm up shows prior to releasing Face to Face. INCREDIBLE!!
Little Richard
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Cramps
The Ramones
Laura Nyro
and quite a few others that don’t immediately come to mind
I still could, but the bass player died.
Heard them on the early 2000s on WFMU and fell in love. Followed all the side projects, socials and kickstarters knowing the chances of crossing paths were nigh on zero. They split a few years ago after the drummer lost his battle to cancer.
Still wanna see Nick Cave, too
The Who
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Prince
Johnny Cash
Merle Haggard
Nirvana
Sinatra
Beatles
Elvis
Doors
Michael Jackson
Pink Floyd
ELP
Barbra Streisand
Cream
And Joy Division. The closest I got to that was New Order.
Franz Liszt
Erik Satie
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Queen
I should've gone to see them while I had the chance.
Most of the artists and musicians bailed, but Mel played for the elderly audience for free with just a small combo, paying several musicians out of his own pocket.
Such a nice man! Such a talent!
RIP!
It was like a bomb going off!